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Andrea Mitchell Admits Media Successfully Hid the Facts . . . And Is Just Too Cheerful About It! 09/10/2001 How many times have we heard that Gary Condit is a conservative Congressman from a conservative district? Read the highlighted part of that last sentence out loud. See how easily it just rolls off the tongue! On Friday, 09/07/2001, while breaking the story on MSNBC that Rep. Gary Condit, D-CA, will not seek re-election, Andrea Mitchell sounded pleased as punch when she announced, "The good news for the Democrats is that most Americans are not even aware that he is ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A punch-card voting machine complete with a butterfly ballot, its chads neither dimpled nor pregnant, became a museum piece Monday. Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore handed over the portable, suitcase-size Votomatic to Clay Roberts, director of the Florida Division of Elections. It will be part of the new Florida Center for Political History and Governance in the Old Capitol. The machine was the first of several destined for museums as artifacts from the 2000 presidential election. Most of Palm Beach County's 5,000 Votomatics, however, will be sold, probably auctioned via the Internet, to ...

LurkersWho are they? These creatures that lurk at this web site. We have heard there may be hundreds of 1000's here a day. Lurkin! Ever get the feeling Lurkers are watching you? What does a lurker look like?

The way it's typically portrayed in the media, campaign finance reform is a push to stop big companies and other wealthy interests from buying influence by funneling huge "soft-money" contributions to federal candidates through their political parties. And, oh yes, there's something in there about barring the use of corporate and union money to sway elections through "sham issue ads." And something about more disclosure of election-related spending. You would hardly know from most of the coverage that both the Shays-Meehan bill, which self-styled reformers are struggling to bring to a vote in the House, and the Senate-passed McCain-Feingold bill ...

The bully of Belarus: Russia must tell Lukashenko to shape up The Guardian - United Kingdom; Sep 11, 2001 Belarus is Europe's rogue state, what US secretary of state Colin Powell calls its 'lone, remaining outlaw'. Under Alexander Lukashenko's brand of old-school totalitarianism, the former Soviet republic has clung stubbornly to the past. For Belarus's ruler, if not its people, EU and Nato blandishments, to which neighbours have succumbed, hold scant attraction. Free enterprise is a foreign concept in a command economy in which 80% of workers depend on the state. Democratic institutions are another alien idea. Mr Lukashenko has ...

<p>Glad to finally get their day in court, lawyers for the Missouri Republican Party argued Monday that the state's limits on party contributions to candidates were unconstitutional - and too low.</p> <p>"They're invalid because the state can't justify them," said Bruce LaPierre, a Washington University law professor who's acting as the state GOP's chief lawyer in this case.</p>

omewhere there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren: here there are states.A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples.A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the government poised to drain some $12 billion from Social Security surpluses this year, Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday pushed a plan to cut next year's budget to make up for whatever was taken from the pension program this year. The House Budget Committee was slated on Tuesday to take up the bill that would impose across-the-board spending cuts in the next fiscal year starting on Oct. 1 to compensate for whatever Social Security funds are used to get the government through the final days of this fiscal year. House Budget Committee Chairman ...

Democrats are so far out in left field they are no longer a majority party, says a devastating new report - by a Democrat - that most news media are refusing to publicize. Democrats have lost their hold on the people, especially the young and the poor, says a sharply critical study of voter participation in the 2000 elections by voter turnout specialist Curtis Gans, a lifelong Democrat, the Washington Times reported Saturday. His party is "on the minority side of the cultural divide, in part, because of their advocacy of such things as gay rights, a woman's right to ...

JOS, Nigeria, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- More than 160 people were killed in three days of violence between Muslim and Christians in Jos, according to reports Monday from this central Nigerian city. Kano, a city in the north, was also the scene of communal clashes and a church was set ablaze, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. >[? "Our records, at this afternoon, show that 165 bodies have been deposited at various hospitals in Jos," said International Red Cross official Phillip Machram, who warned that the final death toll could be significantly higher. He said more than 900 people were injured ...

The National Organization for Women (NOW) clearly is confused about how to respond to the case of Houston mother Andrea Pia Yates, who this fall may stand trial for drowning her five young children in the family bathtub. Apparently convinced that this terrible crime resulted from a mental illness — postpartum depression — NOW momentarily came to Yates’ defense. Then, perhaps because of new information brought to the organization’s attention, the feminist group decided to take another look at the postpartum defense, acknowledging that the killings to which Yates confessed may have been the result of something more obvious. ...

Golden Words, Living Memory Dr. Ferrier Speaks in Dallas August 24th, 2001 Thank you all, thank you very much. First of all I’d like to acknowledge the presence of one other person who came all the way from California no, it’s not my wife and I think I saw him, though it’s hard to pick up in the lights here; he’s over this way: Glynn Custred. Stand up Glynn. Glynn is a co-author of Prop 209 and he’s here representing the National Association of Scholars too, a group that’s done wonderful work in defense of true academic values, academic liberty ...

Indian Express Expressindia Financial Express Screen Web NEWS Top Stories National Network Business International Sports Editorials & Analysis Op-Ed Letters to the Editor Columnists GROUP SITES Expressindia The Financial Express Screen Latest News Kashmir Live Loksatta Express Computer COMMUNITY Instant Messenger SUBSCRIPTIONS Express North American Edition INTERNATIONAL Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Sex slavery alive and kicking in the Holy Land MEGAN GOLDIN NEVE TIRZA PRISON, ISRAEL, SEPTEMBER 10: CHRISTINA, an 18-year-old student from Moldova, has been bought and sold so many times she has lost count. Christina, who declined to give her real name, studied classics and anthropology and ...

Grand Jury Declines Anna Marie Smiths Complaint Stanislaw Grand Jury To Take NO Action on the Obstruction of Justice Complaint that was filed by Anna Marie Smith. This just released by FOX News Channel!. . . Film at 11?

ARMY SPECIALIST MICHAEL NEW SEEKS SUPREME COURT REVIEW (Washington, D.C.) – Attorneys for Army Specialist Michael New submitted a petition to the Supreme Court today, requesting that they hear his case and overrule the lower military courts. Michael New is the American soldier who refused to wear a United Nations uniform in 1995, was court-martialed and subsequently convicted of disobeying an unlawful order. At the heart of his appeal is New’s right to his day in court – to be heard on his claims that the order to don the U.N. uniform pursuant to President Clinton’s deployment of American soldiers ...

A Stanislaus County, Calif., grand jury has dismissed a complaint against California Congressman Gary Condit charging him with suborning perjury and obstruction of justice. James Robinson, the attorney for former Condit girlfriend Anne Marie Smith, read the grand jury's response to the complaint on "Rivera Live" Monday night. "The Stanislaus County civil grand jury received your complaint on August 27, 2001. It is the opinion of this jury that the topic of your complaint is not properly within its jurisdiction. Therefore the panel has voted to take no further action in this matter." Smith had charged that on four separate ...

Commercials Aimed at Kids Denounced By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Sixth- and seventh-graders required to watch TV ads at school. The Teletubbies helping to promote giant burger chains. Advertisers seeking data on how children nag their parents to make a purchase. Those were some of the practices targeted Monday as psychologists and parent activists met for a symposium on exploitive advertising aimed at children - a counterpoint to a conference of children's advertisers at the same time and in the same Manhattan hotel. While the advertising industry celebrated itself with the fourth annual ``Golden Marbles'' ...

DWP Far Exceeded Profit It Reported - Officials deny price gouging.

(CNSNews.com) - A coalition of conservative and libertarian groups has put John Walters, nominated to be the nation's new drug czar, on notice: the war on drugs has degraded people's privacy and civil liberties. The Coalition for Constitutional Liberties sent a letter Monday to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and the committee's ranking Republican Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and urged them to raise privacy and civil liberties issues during their confirmation hearings on Walters."We intend by issuing this letter to signal neither support nor opposition to Mr. Walters' nomination. Rather, we are issuing this letter to urge members of ...

During the Colonial Era, hard apple cider was by far the most popular alcoholic beverage in America. There were many reasons for the immense popularity of apple cider at that time. First of all, apple cider is relatively easy to make. In addition to that, the early English colonists in America brought a great quantity of apple seed with them to plant in the New World resulting in an abundance of apple trees. By as early as 1629 there were already many apple orchards in Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The reason for all this growing of apple trees ...