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Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #6 – Des Moines, Iowa 12/13/99 - Official Discussion Thread This is your official commentary page on this sixth nationally broadcasted Republican debate/forum. WHEN: Monday - December 13, 1999 8:00pm EST/7:00pm CST/6:00pm MST/5:00pm PST/etc. TIME: 90 minutes TELEVISED: locally - WHO-TV (Des Moines, IA) nationally - MSNBC cable network. MODERATORS: Tom Brokaw (NBC News) John Bachman (anchorman, WHO-TV, NBC affiliate in Des Moines) FORMAT: Will include up to five segments, including questions from moderators John Bachman and NBC's Tom Brokaw, as well as pre-selected questions from Iowans. Plus candidates will be allowed to question one another. ...

"A generation ago, along with Ronald Reagan, I opposed Jimmy Carter's surrender of the Panama Canal. We insisted that the Canal was U.S. property, its retention vital to U.S. security, and its transfer an unacceptable risk. History proved us right. To secure the Canal from a potential threat, a decade ago, President Bush invaded. "Tuesday's transfer of all U.S. bases in the former Canal Zone, as well as the Big Ditch itself, now leaves this strategic asset in indifferent, and perhaps even hostile, hands. "The U.S. bases from which we monitored drug flights out of Colombia are gone. Critical U.S. ...

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The Iowa Republican debate will be carried in its entirety by MSNBC tonight beginning a 8:00 P.M. EST. Click here for details. Scrap the VLWC! Scrap the Code! Scrap the IRS!

Today Pat Buchanan released the following statement: "A generation ago, along with Ronald Reagan, I opposed Jimmy Carter's surrender of the Panama Canal. We insisted that the Canal was U.S. property, its retention vital to U.S. security, and its transfer an unacceptable risk. History proved us right. To secure the Canal from a potential threat, a decade ago, President Bush invaded. "Tuesday's transfer of all U.S. bases in the former Canal Zone, as well as the Big Ditch itself, now leaves this strategic asset in indifferent, and perhaps even hostile, hands. "The U.S. bases from which we monitored drug flights ...

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Russo-Sino Summit Marks Ascendance of China December 10, 1999 SUMMARY Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin met Dec. 9 for a hasty and informal summit. While the Russian government and media focused on the two countries’ strategic partnership and on China’s backing for Russian actions in Chechnya, the Chinese state media highlighted the border agreements inked at the meeting. The differing media coverage reflects the fundamental difference in emphasis both nations place on the meeting. Russia appears desperate for China’s support, to demonstrate to the United States that it is still a great power. China, while maintaining ...

Steve Forbes, Republican presidential candidate, will take his campaign to the great state of Tennessee, visiting Knoxville and Chattanooga on Tuesday, December 14th. 12:00 PM FORBES 2000 RECRUITMENT EVENT Hilton Airport Knoxville 2001 Alcoa Highway Alcoa, TN 5:00 PM FORBES 2000 RECRUITMENT EVENT Hawthorn Suites 6710 Ringgold Road Chattanooga, TN

November 11, 1999  McCain for President?  Foreign Policy Western Style...Through the Barrel of a Gun.  By William Dorich  ''This system makes good men do bad things.''  Senator John McCain  Is there any doubt why Washington has become a cesspool of corruption with this kind of warped thinking?  In 1887 Lord Acton wrote in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton: ''Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'' McCain is a classic example of such depraved virtue. He is unfit to be president.  It is not the ''system,'' Senator McCain, that makes men lie to the American public. It ...

Bush Says 'Character Counts' — Does His? Richard Miniter December 13, 1999 Small blunders by candidates are often magnified until they become shorthand for the candidates themselves. So Dan Quayle became "the man who couldn't spell potato," Michael Dukakis "the man who rode ridiculously in a tank," and Ed Muskie "the man who cried." GOP front-runner George W. Bush may now face such a defining moment. The Texas governor signed a bill naming the portion of a highway that runs through Houston after a notorious abortion doctor, as I first reported in the December 2nd Manchester Union Leader. This revelation ...

A most remarkable thing happened in Seattle last week. The chief of police resigned. In the aftermath of riots that disrupted the World Trade Organization, caused millions of dollars in damage, and blackened the reputation of Seattle's police, Chief Norm Stamper did the stand-up thing. He stepped down. The marvel of this resignation is that it was unforced. Stamper was not pushed out; Seattle's mayor says he tried to talk Stamper out of leaving. But the chief understood that it will be easier to repair the police force after the WTO debacle if someone new is at the helm. And ...

I know that many contributors to this site believe that only Bauer and Keyes are the true conservatives in the GOP race. For those of you who believe this, you had better hope that those two candidates do not waste their time trying to destroy Bush. They better damage Steve Forbes. Forbes is clearly the leading alternative to Bush for conservatives in Iowa. Forbes currently has almost three times more support in Iowa as does Bauer and Keyes combined. If Forbes escapes unscathed, tonight, or actually scores social conservative points...Bauer and Keyes may as well fold-up. For, under those circumstances, ...

John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan who spent most of his childhood at the St. Cloud Orphanage in rural Maine, where he grew up under the strong but affectionate care of Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine). Larch has passed along his medical education to Homer, and the young man helps the doctor care for abandoned children and the newborn babies of unwed mothers. However, Homer refuses to assist Larch with the illegal abortions that he performs on the side; Homer ...

Sixty percent of taxpayers questioned said they support taxing goods bought online, contradicting an Iowa study released the day before where the majority of residents preferred to keep the Net tax-free. "Whether shopping online or shopping at Sears, Americans realize that many of their community’s established retailers are unfairly disadvantaged because they are collecting sales taxes while their dazzling cyber competitors are not," said Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who is president of the US Conference of Mayors, in a statement. The two governmental organizations say that for most state and local governments, nearly a third of all revenues come from ...

LONDON--With all of the money spent and hours put into to fixing the problem, some cures for the millennium computer bug might do more harm than good. With just about every big company in the world spending millions of dollars on new equipment to thwart the bug, experts are worrying that Y2K solutions themselves might actually lead to crippling computer crashes. Ironically, companies that are dutifully protecting their businesses from the bug are unwittingly exposing them to problems induced by new systems. It is a truism in the information technology business that new projects are always late and over budget. ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP)---- The former director of a drug task force is to begin serving a 28 month prison sentence next month. Roger Walls, who headed the task force for Grant, Hot Springs, and Saline counties under then Prosecutor Dan Harmon, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Stephen Reasoner to report to prison Jan.3. Walls was sentenced in Jan 1998 on an extortion conviction. He and Harmon, who also was convicted of extortion, racketeering and conspiracy, were accused of taking money and drugs from criminal defendants in exchange for dropped charges.

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Last week's riots in Seattle were very instructive in many important ways, but you won't hear about it in the mainstream media. Time magazine's cheeky cover story, "Rage Against the Machine", alleges to report on the "riots" with an "objective" balance between the views of WTO protestors (all those mentioned were statists of one stripe or another wanting to use the WTO to expand statism in pursuit of their lofty goals) and "free trade" (which is what happens when bureaucrats from a bunch of countries get together and decide what they will allow businesses and whole industries to do). Time's ...

My oldest son just handed me a mag with Clintoon and Hoffa gracing the cover. It's called Making History. Puke alert. I hate him.

Chihuahua Behind Wheel in Taco Bell Crash Fast-Food Fiasco Leaves Dog Shaken CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) -- After his Jeep was rear-ended in the parking lot of a Taco Bell, Tinker Melonuk stepped out to have a word with the driver of the offending Chrysler. In the driver's seat was a Chihuahua named Mr. Chips, one paw on the wheel. The dog had just had a wild ride, with the car careering across five lanes of traffic from a nearby McDonald's. "I said to myself, 'If this dog's mouth moves, I'm getting out of here,"' said Melonuk, a Baptist pastor. Taco ...