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Judging from these two threads What happened to the website for the American Spectator? Curious George (about the new American Spectator) the American Spectator has ceased to exist, at least as we knew it. What became of James Bowman and his movie reviews? I used to check him and Mr. Cranky for their takes on the latest garbage from LALA land. Also: Have we seen the last of Ask Ben Stein? This is the new, Gilderized site: http://www.gilder.com/amspec/index.html

Wednesday August 1 10:32 PM ET Hacker's Supporters Ask Adobe to Aid in Defense Hacker's Supporters Ask Adobe to Aid in Defense By Elinor Mills AbreuSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Supporters of a jailed Russian software programmer called for Adobe Systems Inc. (NasdaqNM:ADBE - news) on Wednesday to contribute to a legal defense fund.``Adobe made the mess so they should help clean it up,'' said Don Marti, an organizer for the Coalition to Free Dmitry.``I think it would be an opportunity for Adobe to put their money where their mouth is,'' said Robin Gross, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ...

Dinosaurs finally get their noses in frontBy Roger Highfield (Filed: 03/08/2001) DINOSAURS will never look the same again: an anatomist has discovered that generations of palaeontologists have been putting the great beasts' noses in the wrong place.  Click to enlarge Nostrils drawn on the top of their heads should in fact be perched far forward, just above the mouth. Dinosaurs had what anatomists call "rostral nostrils," giving them a whole new look. Depictions by museums, books and Hollywood films will have to be updated. But the impact of today's announcement is more than skin-deep: new insights will also emerge on ...

  "the first Freeper Cookbook.--What a gem that would be!!" #3b..ha! What an idea, A Freeper Cookbook, complete with dynamite recipes, peppered with conservative and wacko left views, as only you folks can produce! A living FLAME THROWER tribute to this wonderful, Jim Robinson creation, and a method of fund raising that could, I repeat Could, rival them all! This has to be a joint venture, with everyone needed to contribute something! I've written a Cookbook, and it's not as easy as it looks! This post is a trial balloon, to see if the idea has any merit, meaning ...

US denounces seizure of equipment by Belarus government By Associated Press, 8/3/2001 15:24 WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department on Friday denounced Belarus authorities for seizing U.S.-supplied equipment designed to assist the country's democratic opposition ahead of Sept. 9 presidential elections. Spokesman Richard Boucher demanded the immediate return of the equipment. On July 12, Boucher said, militia officers in the town of Krichev seized equipment owned by the U.S. government and leased to the independent newspaper Volny Grad. Militia officers also seized computer equipment leased by the U.S. Embassy Democracy Commission to a pro-democracy center, Boucher said. He noted that the ...

Watching the drama in the Middle East conveyed to the world in print, televised images and commentary, we find ourselves feeling a certain sympathy for the predicament in which President Bush finds himself. Here is a President who took office just as Israel handed power to a man, in Ariel Sharon, with a remarkably similar set of tough and pragmatic instincts. It seemed to us then that Mr. Bush had arrived at the sensible conclusion that it was time to let Mr. Sharon and the Israelis deal with an obviously intractable Palestinian opposition according to their own best judgement about ...

Behind the Headlines by Justin Raimondo Antiwar.com August 3, 2001 IS ZIONISM RACISM? Yes, but not inherently On August 31, the UN will convene a conference on racism that has already caused a storm of controversy here in the United States and abroad. We have only to invoke its formal name, the "World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance," to get some idea of the bogus nature of this fabulous convocation. No doubt the alleged "rights" of each and every aggrieved "minority" on earth will be trotted out and their loss ascribed to the evil machinations of ...

Mary Jo White Out: Will Trumka Be Brought to Justice? P.R.Newswire, 8/3/2001 15:12 Union Corruption Watchdog Praises Bush Move to Replace White WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Today National Legal and Policy Center Chairman Ken Boehm issued the following statement regarding President Bush's decision to replace U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Mary Jo White: "Mary Jo White's impending exit may be very bad news for the AFL-CIO's Richard Trumka. By all accounts Trumka should have been indicted long ago for his role in the money-laundering scandal that brought down former Teamsters boss Ron Carey and his ...

The Old Cause by Joseph R. Stromberg Antiwar.com August 3, 2001 Eugen Richter on War and Empire AN ECHT LIBERAL IN BISMARCKIAN GERMANY Somehow, in my last column I wandered into 19th-century Germany. I wish to dwell there long enough to say something about perhaps the most echt ("genuine") of all late 19th-century German liberals, Eugen Richter. Anyone who has suffered through a standard course on the history of that period will have learned that, after the failure of the 1848 Revolution, most German liberals became National Liberals. As such, they were quite happy to support the efforts of Prussia ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LOS ANGELES (AP) - The last fish cannery on Terminal Island is closing, ending the industry's era in Los Angeles Harbor. Chicken of the Sea International's 45-year-old cannery will shut down in October and 250 people will lose their jobs, the company said Wednesday. The firm's California Packing plant processes 100 tons of tuna and salmon each day. Company president Dennis Mussell said it wasn't feasible to operate the cannery because of world competition and decreased tuna supplies available there. Four months ago, Heinz Pet Food closed its 52-year-old Terminal Island ...

(McDermott declares that policy views informed by religious beliefs are not allowed. How unAmerican.) "Congressman McDermott is out of line," Donahue said. "He is acting like a bully instead of a statesman. The pope, representing the Catholic Church, has every right to voice his position on any issue he wants. Rep. McDermott is free to disagree, but he is not morally free to disabuse his office by engaging in Catholic baiting. "If Rep. McDermott wants to debate the scientific merits of stem cell research or cloning, I will be happy to do so. But he?ll first have to learn how ...

Muhammad Nuwayhi (1917-1980), professor of Arabic literature at Cairo University, who studied at the school of Oriental and African Studies, London University, asks: "[How is it] that [the Islamic] movement, which at the beginning was revolutionary, progressive, and modern, could be turned into an agent of intellectual petrifaction and social stagnation?" He attributes this decadence to "two factors which were not present in Islam originally, but which appeared together during the ages of the decline of Islamic civilization and became so firmly rooted that the people imagined them to be among the fundamental principles of the Islamic religion." The first ...

Rodong Sinmun Refutes U.S. Rumor About "Missile Threat" Rodong Sinmun of DPRK Thursday says in a siged article that the United States is groundlessly raising a hue and cry over "missile threat" from the DPRK and it is nothing but sophism to cover up its dominationist intention. It further says: The DPRK is a peace-loving state and the Korean people love and value peace. They are now exerting great efforts for increasing the defense capability of the country to cope with the U.S. ever more frantic war moves. Its missile development is one of such self-defensive measures against the moves ...

Aside from being one of the most dedicated, hard-working news correspondents on TV, our own Rita Cosby has been crucial to keeping the Chandra Levy case open. In this exclusive Balance Sheet commentary, Rita reveals what life has been like for her on the Chandra beat. Rita Reports: "Covering the Chandra Levy investigation has been an emotional roller coaster. When I started covering this story, it intrigued me that a 24-year-old woman could simply vanish in Washington without a trace. Her bags were half-packed, her wallet left on the table, and few, if any leads as to who may ...

So Far, Bush is Only Play-Acting as President Lance Morrow looks at the Man in the White House and finds, at least through the first few months, there's no there there. The entire article can be read at: http://www.time.com/time/columnist/morrow/article/0,9565,169869,00.html

Here’s this summer’s trend in politics: Spanish lessons. Republican Rick Perry, George W. Bush’s successor as governor of Texas, could barely sound-bite his way through a tamale at Cinco de Mayo. So he enrolled in two weeks of total-immersion Spanish at a hacienda in the mountains of central Mexico. Not to be outdone by a GOP desperate to woo Latino votes, the entire lobbying department of the AFL-CIO starts lessons in Washington this week. They were inspired by a festive, Latin-style labor conference in L.A. featuring an address by the effortlessly bilingual foreign minister of Mexico. “It will be fun ...

Welcome to BaseCamp In the world of mountaineering, BaseCamp is where a climb begins. It's where the big tents get set up; where the food and fuel are stored. It's the fallback point in case of bad weather - the place everyone agrees to gather. So it is at FreeRepublic. Thanks to JR, we immigrants from TOS have been blessed with this space to launch our individual summit bids on the Mt. Everest of the world's political websites. If you run into a storm on the Forum, fall back to BaseCamp ! Stock up on nourishment, advice, or asbestos ...

I just know this. Do American gun-controllers that talk about Israel talk about gun control of Israeli citizens that face attacks from Palestinians?

Bush highlights first six months in Rose Garden address, promises to return from vacation with fresh ideas By Sandra Sobieraj, Associated Press, 8/3/2001 15:06 WASHINGTON (AP) Summarizing his first six months in under six minutes, President Bush declared on Friday an end to Washington's ''deadlock and drift'' and promised to return from his monthlong August vacation with new policy ideas. ''Our nation has needs that will not wait,'' Bush said in a 5½-minute Rose Garden address meant to celebrate the accomplishments of his first half-year in office and sketch an agenda for the remaining half. ''Within a limited budget, we ...

How I Learned I Was a Racist Yellow Journalism at the Waikato Times by Jim Peron I’ve never had much tolerance for racists or racism. And that is why I was so shocked to pick up the Waikato Times, a newspaper from Hamilton, New Zealand and discover that I was a racist. My experience with racists tells me that I’m usually either dealing with total morons or people who are really quite scary. Beyond the run of the mill racists which we encounter in day to day life I’ve really only spent any time with hard core racists on two ...