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(CNSNews.com) - Conservative GOP presidential hopefuls Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes urged Republican frontrunner George W Bush, Sunday, to take a strong pro-life stand on the issue of abortion, and warned the Texas governor to expect pointed questions on the matter at their next debate.Appearing on ABC's This Week, Bauer said that he was giving Bush "36 hours advance notice" prior to Monday night's televised GOP presidential debates in Iowa, where the former head of the Family Research Council said he will ask Bush "a very fundamental question - was Roe v Wade wrongly decided or correctly decided?"Bauer said ...

(CNSNews.com) - The Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) Monday filed a complaint with the Arkansas Supreme Court in an effort to jump-start disciplinary proceedings against President Bill Clinton for lying under oath in the Paula Jones case. The case involves Clinton's job as an attorney, and it could affect his ability to practice law once he leaves the White House. In legal terms, the SLF Monday filed something called a writ mandamus, which in this case urges the Arkansas Supreme Court's Committee on Professional Conduct (the state's legal ethics panel) to act on the SLF's original complaint - the one filed ...

O.K., so for the sake of argument, let's be optimistic and assume that Y2K will be a relatively minor thing within the United States. But, even if this is true, it may be a disaster in much of the rest of the world, and so, my question is this: Even if we're O.K. (a vast assumption), how might a disastrous situation in the rest of the world affect us? .

PRESIDENT CLINTON Planned fund-raising trip to Houston, Texas, has been canceled due to Mr. Clinton’s illness.

I was mulling over in my mind the comments of a liberal law professor concerning the 2nd amendment recently.  This law professor (who has ignored the 2nd amendment in the past) has reluctantly come out in support of it as being a guaranteed constitutional right. But somehow, his comments bothered me.  A constitutional right?  What's that?  If the constitution can grant rights, it can also take them away. As a governmental foundation document, the constitution is unique in known history, as it assumes that there are inalienable rights, god-given rights, rights of nature, etc. which are automatic merely because one ...

The entire liberal political philosophy rests on the assumption that all humans are born with a blank mind, a "tabla rasa", and that therefore all personality is controlled by the environment. Re-engineer the society, so the theory goes, and one could re-engineer the human psyche, to design out racism, hate, etc. etc. On this theoretical foundation rests the entire liberal justification to interfere with the most minute aspects of our lives, most typified by attempts within the public schools to "feminize" boys and "masculinize" girls, which has resulted in a school population more than ever ready to open fire ...

Clean Water Solution Enters Israel BAKERSFIELD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1999-- Spectrum-Arabieh Inc. (OTCBB:SPUM - news) will aggressively bring its revolutionary water treatment technology to the desert lands of Israel. An agreement has been finalized making trade experts, Tokito Ltd., sales agents for Spectrum's PIMA Desalination technology. Tokito Ltd. of Tel Aviv, Israel, will present Spectrum's clean water solution to government agencies, investment groups, private parties and companies within the state of Israel. This leading import/export trade group will seek contracts, joint ventures and any other appropriate arrangements that assist the rapid commercialization of Spectrum's breakthrough water treatment technology. Tokito Ltd. ...

Monday December 13, 10:04 AM Feds Hit Johnny Chung with New Restrictions, Fine Key Chinagate witness Johnny Chung has been ordered to notify US government authorities of any plans he has for speeches, interviews, public appearances or other activities where he might discuss his role in the White House's campaign fundraising scandal and its links to the Communist Chinese Peoples Liberation Army. The new restrictions stipulate that Chung must also apprise a designated government contact about the anticipated media presence at venues where he plans to speak. The onetime White House regular revealed the shocking new government demands late ...

Maybe they flipped a dime. TIME Magazine editors have chosen Franklin Delano Roosevelt as their Person of the Century. According to the Drudge Report, TIME editors believe that "FDR was the giant who created big government -- in a time of big need." Bill Clinton agrees. "If I had to pick one person, I would pick him," he said at a news conference. Because "in this century our greatest peril was in the Depression and World War II" and Roosevelt led us through them. Americans picking an American -- and a Dead White Male at that! But that's the ...

GENTRY COUNTY, Mo. -- The highpowered rifle gleaming dully between them, father and daughter sit side by side near some woods, talking in whispers and waiting for their quarry. Sarah Kelly is six years old, and this is her first deer hunt. The sound of gunfire punctuates the late-afternoon stillness: Distant shots that sound like pops, closer shots that boom and reverberate. In her orange safety cap and matching vest, Sarah is the picture of innocence. But while she won't pull the trigger this day -- she's too young for that -- she is well aware of the realities of ...

SURPRISE, SURPRISE Judicial Watch has been one of the most vocal critics of the Clinton administration ever since Bill and Hillary moved into the White House. And, as you can imagine, Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman and his supporters haven't won themselves a lot of friends. The National Law Journal recently attacked Judicial Watch for its fundraising practices and accused it of shortchanging its financial supporters. What you might not recall is that the editors of the National Law Journal included Hillary Clinton among its list of the 100 most influential lawyers in the country. They did this not ...

Monday December 13 7:15 AM ET Barak Says Syria Peace Offers Israel a Future By Megan Goldin JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Monday >Israel was at a turning point in its history as peace with Syria would guarantee its future stability and change the shape of the Middle East. Barak was speaking to his ministers in the last cabinet meeting before he leaves for Washington to restart peace negotiations with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara after a 45-month freeze. It will be the highest level meeting between the countries in more than half a century of conflict. ...

IF YOU HAVE BEEN appalled by the low test scores of students in our public schools, you should also know that it is not always good news when the test scores go up. Investigators have charged dozens of teachers and principals in New York City with helping students cheat on tests. This was done in order to make their schools look good --- or at least not as bad as they would have looked with honest test results. This is just one of many ways in which our academically failing schools are very successful in doing something other than what ...

The Clinton's are still a team, steamrolling over America. The team is intact, but there is a new captain.

I truely doubt that we could give this fine orator anything that could help, since he's won every debate so far, but let's give it a shot anyway...You may want to offer suggested "talking points" about the abortion issue, taxes, trade, constitution etc. but for anyone that's been a FReeper for a week knows that I'm very much in favor of a National Retail Sales Tax as is Dr. Keyes so I'll tackle that issue.Taxes:I can't imagine why any politician would FORCE American citizens to continue to report their income information to the Gestapo IRS, face penalties, interest, audits, liens, ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rejects School Voucher Appeal By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that a state may not pay the tuition for students to attend a religious school, refusing to be drawn into the voucher issue that has sparked debate in Congress and the presidential campaign. For the third time in little more than a year, the high court passed up an opportunity to consider a case involving school vouchers, an issue that has divided the top presidential candidates along partisan lines. Republican presidential contenders Texas Gov. George W. Bush ...

Last week, a news story broke concerning a jury verdict regarding the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination in 1968. Having heard all the evidence, this jury concluded that King's murder was the culmination of a broad conspriracy involving elements of organized crime and the United States government. In my estimation, this should have been the news story of the century. Evidently, decisions were made within our government 30+ years ago that a major voice of peaceful dissent posed such a threat to the status quo that his assassination was necessary. In other words, at that time, the question of whether ...

By Jon E. Dougherty © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Attorneys for the George W. Bush presidential exploration committee have filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee against a website claiming it may be violating rules governing published political materials. But the site, according to owner Zack Exley, is merely a "lampoon" of Bush's candidacy, and is not designed to be taken seriously, despite claims to the contrary by Bush campaign officials. In May of this year during a press conference, Bush's agitation over the contents of the site became obvious when he labeled the material published there "garbage," adding that ...

Kosovo: what Nato did next Six months to the day after Allied troops moved in, Raymond Whitaker finds a province beset by crime and administrative chaos By Clare Francis 12 December 1999 "The situation here is very bad and getting worse," said Bajram Rexhepi, his breath coming out in clouds. "Tensions here are very great. We are trying to contain violence and protests, but we will lose our credibility if we can't show any kind of success." It was easy to see what Dr Rexhepi, a medical man turned city administrator, was talking about. If the head of Mitrovica's ...

MY HUSBAND and I are finally getting serious about settling down. After seven years as nomadic renters in Los Angeles, Seattle, and D.C., we're scouring southern Maryland for a home to call our own. Our needs are few: a detached single-family dwelling, a yard bigger than a doormat, and a shady place nearby to push a stroller without fear of getting mowed down by downtown traffic. We want what everyone from our parents to the Brady Bunch to the cartoon Simpson family has: a house in the 'burbs, two cars in the garage, and room to grow. Growth, however, is ...