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The FBI and other U.S. government police agencies are stepping up the warnings against "domestic terrorism" surrounding Y2K -- now just a little more than two weeks away. I have a feeling that if anything goes wrong on Jan. 1, the government has a ready-made scapegoat in these "domestic terrorists" -- militias, religious groups, preparedness activists and just about anyone else who doesn't put their faith in Washington. The government-media propaganda machine is laying it on pretty thick, with Saturday's front-page Los Angeles Times screamer just the latest example. But today I want to bring your attention to a ...

Improving U.S. public education was a top policy priority in 1999 with governors and legislators working on setting standards, raising accountability, dealing with teacher quality, and equalizing school funding. Landmark legislation passed in two states. In California, lawmakers approved the first-ever-statewide teacher peer review program, and Florida’s legislature passed the first statewide voucher program. The issue of school violence also became a major part of the policy agenda after two gun-toting youths went on a murderous rampage in their Colorado high school. While studies show that violence occurs less frequently now than in the early '90s the Littleton massacre sparked ...

                                         December 13, 1999                      The Gun Windmills                    After seven years in office, the Clinton Administration last                    week unveiled its program to improve the lot of people living in the nation's                    public-housing projects: Sue the nation's gun manufacturers.                    The Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Andrew Cuomo,                    announced the threat of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 3,200 public                    housing authorities around the country. We've come along way since the                    days when Jack Kemp was trying to free the residents of these                    public-housing plantations by making them property owners.                    ...

SECOND DRAFT COPY of our proposed text for our "About Free Republic Institute" page. About Free Republic Institute Who are we? Free Republic Institute is a grassroots gathering of independent, patriotic citizens who are dedicated to the cause of preserving human liberty and unalienable rights as proclaimed by our Founders in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Our objective is to preserve, protect, and defend the ...

Ancient Jewish custom - age counted from conception, not birth? Date of Christmas, December 25? Abortion, Kings Killing Children? Bible Codes-Last Christmas? The Romans are Comming? Lots of Controversial Stuff to Incite Rage, Laughter, Flames, Thought and Boredom "It was the custom in ancient Israel to count the years of one's age from the date of conception; therefore Herod actually killed the children one year old and under according to the way age is calculated today." comment in a post by freeper "Life of Brian" in a post about how old was Jesus at the time of the visit ...

GEORGE W. Bush and John McCain are putting one of my political axioms to a severe test. Over the years, I have come to believe that politicians are very good judges of other politicians; that if you want to know the worthiness of candidates seeking higher office, ask the people who have served with them. That is why it was so impressive last winter to see all those Republican governors move early to anoint the governor of Texas as their choice for the presidency in 2000. They owed Bush nothing. Many other options were available -- including sitting tight ...

Ending a century of control, the US hands the canal over to Panama tomorrow. PANAMA CITY Two events - standing like unmatched bookends at two ends of the American century - symbolize how the US and the world have changed. In 1904, US engineers began blasting and drafting a complex system of locks that lifts ships 64 feet and sails them from the Atlantic to the Pacific through a 51-mile-long cut in the mountains. Tomorrow, former President Jimmy Carter will ceremonially hand over US control to Panama of that very system completed in 1914. (US Secretary of State Madeleine ...

Hackers Raid Tass Agency Website In Chechen Protest MOSCOW, Dec 13, 1999 -- (Reuters) Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said on Sunday its Internet site had been hacked into by "computer terrorists" demanding that Russia halt its military campaign in Chechnya. "They called themselves 'princes of darkness' and 'angels of freedom' and demanded that Russia stop the war in Chechnya," a spokesman for the agency said by telephone. Tass said the site raiders had sent an e-mail protesting over the "murder of peaceful Chechens". It added that the identity of the hackers was unknown and that it was working to repair ...

LOS ANGELES - Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is making a holiday shopping list consisting entirely of ornaments - spectacular but threatened places that decorate the vast landscape of the American West. Before urban sprawl engulfs them, Babbitt wants to give these 2 million acres to future Americans for centuries of contemplation. Delivering an ultimatum to Congress, Babbitt has made it clear that, unless the lawmakers act first, he will sign off on a "preliminary" list this month of at least seven environmentally delicate Western sites. He'll then ask President Clinton to sign executive orders designating them as national monuments, ...

Frist thing I do is see how many are on the key board this is the lowest I have seen whats up?

Another Russian Ultimatum Signals Quick End To Cease-Fire MOSCOW, Dec 13, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) The Russian army has given the population of Shali, the only Chechen town outside the capital Grozny still in rebel hands, until midday Monday to oust rebel fighters prior to "cleansing" the village, private television NTV cited Russian military forces as saying. Shali, 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Grozny, has been completely blockaded by Russian forces since Friday "If there are any fighters left (in Shali), they will be exterminated. We don't want any bloodshed but war is war," said General Gennady Troshev, ...

Monday, December 13, 1999 Taiwan missile plan raises arms-race fear AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Taipei could have triggered an arms race with the mainland by indicating it wanted to develop long-range, ground-to-ground missiles to counter its rival, analysts said. Vice-President Lien Chan last Wednesday spelled out for the first time Taiwan's desire to develop strategic weaponry amid reports of a new Chinese arms build-up. "The ongoing political stand-off and an arms race across the Taiwan Strait could be further exacerbated," said Lin Yu-fang, professor of Tamkang University's Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies in Taipei. "As a matter of fact, ...

National Post Online - commentary Saturday, December 11, 1999Beware the world's unelected do-gooders How, exactly, do NGOs derive their mandate to speak for 'the people'? Lorne Gunter National Post Caption shows a man in a suit and glasses holding up a puppet in one hand depicting a hippie protester. The puppet is holding a sign reading "Esperanto now!". MONTREAL - The Seattle World Trade Organization meeting was merely a whistle stop. Since September, the world's jet-setting social reformers and poverty advocates have had barely a moment to catch their breath: Manhattan, Manila, Seoul and now Montreal, with side trips ...

I have a potty mouth. It is because I watch so much television. Robert Lichter, at the conservative Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA), says so in his new study, "The Rude and the Crude: Profanity in Popular Entertainment." According to the study, the 1998-99 television season was a veritable cesspool of verbal filth, with a whopping 2,156 instances of trashy talk. And that didn't even include TV news coverage of "Monica Does the White House." No, Lichter was looking just at fiction series and the top-rated TV movies on all of the broadcast networks as well as two ...

PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO The 40-year gun grab '60s disarmament plan still going strong, say U.N. critics By Stephan Archer and Sarah Foster WorldNetDaily.Com 12/13/99 For nearly 40 years, a few groups on the political right have sounded the alarm over a seemingly absurd scenario -- that gun control legislation was actually a key part of a plan for total national disarmament and the eventual replacement of United States troops by a United Nations army as part of the law enforcement arm of a one-world government. The idea that such an improbable plan could exist, if only on paper ...

Y2K, FEMA and 'domestic terror' WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary By Joseph Farah The FBI and other U.S. government police agencies are stepping up the warnings against "domestic terrorism" surrounding Y2K -- now just a little more than two weeks away. I have a feeling that if anything goes wrong on Jan. 1, the government has a ready-made scapegoat in these "domestic terrorists" -- militias, religious groups, preparedness activists and just about anyone else who doesn't put their faith in Washington. The government-media propaganda machine is laying it on pretty thick, with Saturday's front-page Los Angeles Times screamer just the latest example. ...

I received the following e-mail:Subj: Southeastern Legal Foundation Action Update Date: 12/12/99 2:51:24 PM Mountain Standard Time From: info@southeasternlegal.org (Southeastern Legal Foundation) Dear Sir: On Monday morning, Dec. 13, we will be in Washington, DC to make an important announcement about President Clinton and the future of his status as a licensed attorney in Arkansas. Please take note of the event, and look for news stories throughout the day and Tuesday. Sincerely, Matthew J. Glavin President http://www.southeasternlegal.org

WorldNetDaily Exclusive PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO Will there be light? Power companies say they're 'Y2K ready,' not 'compliant' By Stephan Archer Electric company public relations departments nationwide are sounding confident and upbeat regarding the prospects of uninterrupted power at year's end, but many fears and uncertainties about their ability to deliver electricity remain just beneath the surface. "We're not anticipating any problems," said Gil Francis of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the largest public utility in the country. "We think power will be distributed as it always is." "We anticipate it to be a normal New Year's Eve -- nothing ...

New Evidence of Missile Attack Metal plume seen emerging from side of doomed airliner THE DOWNING OF FLIGHT 800 By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com New evidence from radar data and analysis on the crash of TWA Flight 800 is "as convincing as a fingerprint in a murder case" that a missile, according to an independent investigator brought down the plane. Radar images only recently available and analyzed by Ret. Naval Cmdr. William Donaldson show what he describes as a plume of metal debris coming from the right side of TWA flight 800 at a very high rate of ...

U.S. fears Bin Laden attacks on Y2K SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, December 13, 1999 WASHINGTON -- The United States is concerned that Saudi billionaire fugitive Bin Laden plans to launch a wave attacks on American targets over the next few weeks. U.S. officials said Bin Laden is planning to attack U.S. targets and citizens abroad during the Christmas and New Year holidays. They said the attacks would be in revenge for U.S. efforts to seek Bin Laden's extradition to face charges of masterminding the bombings of U.S. embassies in east Africa last year. Bin Laden is believed being harbored ...