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I AM the daughter of legal immigrants from the Philippines who proudly chose to become Americans. They stood in line, aced their citizenship tests, filed tons of paperwork, and - speaking in English -- swore allegiance to the United States. The 206-year-old oath my parents took declares, in part: "I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty…I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic...I will bear arms on behalf of the United States…I take this obligation ...

#TL05T: THOMAS SZASZ AND SLAVESPEAK Compiled and edited by Frederick Mann © Copyright 1998 Terra Libra Holdings ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Notice: This report contains copyrighted material. This information is free for personal use only. No part of these materials may be reproduced in any form - except for personal use - without permission from the copyright holder. "The excess of the passion for liberty, inflamed by the successful issue of the war [of independence], produced, in many people, opinions and conduct, which could not be removed by reason nor restrained by government... The extensive influence which these opinions had ...

With reference to Rep. Tom Tancredo's 5 Sep 2001 Special Orders speech, isn't the real question concerning what to do about the illegal aliens who are invading this nation in ever increasing numbers about whether the United States should maintain its borders or not?Rather than the U.S. Congress spend hours, days, & weeks discussing the pros & cons of 'guest workers' or amnesty or whatever, why don't they just vote if this country's borders are to be abolished or not?If this nation is to have borders then this nation has a right to defend them to keep people from entering ...

Well the USS Greeneville has made it back into the nightly news. I had hoped that perhaps some of the mighty news men in the major media would start asking some serious questions, such as: Just how high up in the chain of command must one be to order the Captain of a US Nuclear Submarine to not only take non defense department related civilians aboard His boat. And how high must one be to order that Captain to turn control of much of his boat over to those civilians.

<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a new round of base closings in the face of certain opposition from the House, where members are wary of the disruption caused when an area loses a base.</p> <p>Working behind closed doors, the committee on Friday completed work on its defense spending bill for fiscal year 2002, which begins Oct. 1. Lawmakers said the bill also reduces missile defense spending by $1.3 billion from President Bush's $8.3 billion request.</p>

PM furious with IDF over buffer zone plan By Aluf Benn and Amos Harel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was furious yesterday over the army's plan to announce parts of the "seam" east of the Green Line between the West Bank and Israel a closed military zone. Sharon ordered the army to postpone the announcement and to cancel a press conference planned for it. According to Sharon, the army should stick to its business and fulfill its missions, and he plans to make sure they do. He believes there has been improvement in the army since he took office, but ...

Friday September 7 4:33 PM ET Condit Office: No Decision on Reelection WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rep. Gary Condit, snared in a summer-long drama stemming from the disappearance of intern Chandra Levy, has made no decision on whether he will seek re-election next year, his chief of staff, Michael Lynch, said on Friday. Lynch denied an NBC News report on Friday that the California Democrat had decided to retire from Congress at the end of his current term. But Lynch declined comment on a report in The Washington Post that quoted unidentified Democrats as saying Condit told them he was leaning ...

This article was brought to my attention by a forum lurker, WM.&nbsp; It's told from a Mexican perspective and gives some instight into President Fox's standing at home. From KENS 5 and the San Antonio Express-News Express-News: Mexico/Latin America Opponents Scoff as Fox Renews Promises By Susana Hayward Express-News Mexico City Bureau Web Posted : 09/02/200 - LINK MEXICO CITY — In his first State of the Union address — which was interrupted several times by jeers from opposition lawmakers — President Vicente Fox said Saturday he knows his government hasn't lived up to all of its mighty promises. ...

White House Hides Clinton Fund-raising Scandal From Congress Friday, Sept. 7, 2001 WASHINGTON - The House Government Reform Committee on Thursday prepared to subpoena the Bush administration for documents relating to Justice Department investigations of the Clinton administration's fund-raising scandal. But the White House said it was prepared to invoke executive privilege to keep the documents secret, shocking congressional investigators. Subpoenas were also planned for another set of documents related to Boston-area organized crime. Two sets of documents involve the Justice Department's decision not to seek an independent counsel after the 1996 campaign fund-raising scandals that hit both parties during ...

September 7, 2001 Boy Charged With Homicide in Death of 4-Year-Old By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS James Estrin/The New York TimesEmanuel Barima, was killed in the hall outside the family apartment when he and his sister, Abigail, 5, took out some trash. Girl, 5, Says Two Boys Killed Her Brother, 4 (September 7, 2001) James Estrin/The New York TimesElizabeth Ghunney and Michael Barima, parents of a 4-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in the Bronx on Wednesday. Filed at 6:14 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- An 8-year-old boy was charged with criminally negligent homicide Friday for allegedly stabbing to death ...

REPRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PERMISSION OF AG COMM For Freedom & Justice Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ForFreedomandJustice Corn Fructose Makers Get Sweet Pass on Price-Fixing Charges Farm and Food File for the week beginning September 9, 2001 By: Alan Guebert Internationally Syndicated Ag Columnist .................................................................................................................................................................................... In a 66-page summary judgment released August 23, U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm dismissed a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit that charged the nation’s four largest high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) makers with price fixing from July 1991 through June 1995. Mihm’s opinion--the only explanatory court document made public in the lengthy case; all others are sealed by ...

Pittsburgh shoe sniffer has accosted four female victims since June PITTSBURGH (AP) Four well-heeled women have complained to police that a middle-aged man accosted them, removed their footwear and sniffed the shoes. One women said the man complimented her footwear as she entered an office elevator on Thursday and asked if he could take a shoe. When she refused, the man bent down and removed it anyway, then sniffed it "like it was a bouquet of flowers." The same day, Patty Cohen, 42, said a man kicked the back of her heel and knocked off her shoe on the street. ...

Carry on.

Salem, Mo. (AP) -- A highway north of Salem remains closed Friday as a standoff involving federal agents enters its second day, at a Dent County home. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and U.S. Customs were called in about 2 p.m. Thursday to serve a federal search warrant at the house. It's about eight miles north of Salem on Missouri 68. When the resident refused to come outside, ATF spokesman Larry Scott says authorities surrounded the home and began a stakeout. Scott has declined to identify the homeowner. He also won't say how many people are ...

Nearly 90% of high school seniors witnessHarassment of gays and lesbians at their schoolHamilton College/MTV poll revealsComments such as "that's so gay," "faggot,""homo," and "dyke" are ever-presentIn American high schools MTV's fight for your rights episode of flipped examining homophobia to premiere at 10:30 pm on monday, september 3rd in conjunction with poll release August 27, 2001 (New York, NY) - A survey of 1000 high school seniors, released today by hamilton college and mtv and conducted by zogby international, found a hostile environment for gays and lesbians in american high schools.&nbsp; 88% of seniors say the phrase "that's ...

Am watching Vicente Fox on the PBS Evening NewsHour. You might want to tune in. Looks like a 20-25 minute interview with some decent questions being asked. Vicente is really slinging the bullsh*t hot and heavy. Fun to watch. Salesman for Coca-Cola Mexico. What an obvious con artist. Obvious to you and me perhaps, but how about the American people? He is on PBS evening news tonight. Very good interview of about 25 minutes. Am watching right now!

Hank: Most people don’t know that back in 1984 for instance, Senator Kennedy tried to pass a law that would have banned all martial arts weapons, including swords, tomahawks, bowie knives, etc. People don’t know that if my friend Bill Adams, (of Atlanta Cutlery) hadn’t jumped in to organize a grass roots lobby campaign against it, probably no one in this country would be allowed to own a decent replica sword today. Bill was able to get the legislation stopped early. But such a thing will come up again, and the sword fraternity needs to be ready for it.

CENTRALIZATION DESTROYS CULTURE (AND LIBERTY) There are many reasons why the establishment of a single, highly centralized world government, combined with the abolition or subordination of all national and more local govermnents, is a terrible idea. Most (if not all) of these reasons center around three obvious, inescapable, and interrelated facts about the human condition. These facts are: (1) the inherent sinfulness, weakness, and corruptibility of human nature; (2) the fact that all governments are necessarily manned and operated by humans; and (3) the fact that governmental power tends to corrupt, and that absolute power tends to corrupt men absolutely. ...

There are many on FreeRepublic who are opposed to a more relaxed, kinder, gentler, &quot;Migration&quot; policy that it is obvious that the president is seeking. That's very mean-spirited! Not compassionate at All.&nbsp; To try to give some balance to this dispute between hardline anti-migrationists and those who need the cheap labor, here's some info regarding Mexico's &quot;migration&quot; policy,&nbsp; like maybe some of our labor going to Mexico for the jobs would encounter.&nbsp; I received this via the Accuracy in Media mailing, so it's likely accurate, but I didn't make any phone calls to verify the details. &quot; It's interesting to ...

Brian Gleason column Discipline will decide 2002 governor duel The expected gubernatorial showdown between Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno will be nasty -- but don't expect the nastiness to come from the candidates themselves. Reno herself tried to set the tone for the campaign at an out-of-state engagement this week after announcing her candidacy. When a questioner bid Reno luck in her run against "that oaf in Florida,'' Reno responded, ''I'm going to have to chide you for that. We've got to get into better descriptions. We can disagree about the issues," according to ...