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In a message dated 1/3/01 10:55:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, sfromm@carrollwhite.com writes: The Kennebunkport Hillbilly! (sung to the tune of The Beverly Hillbillies Theme Song) Come and listen to my story 'bout a boy name Bush. His IQ was zero and his head was up his tush. He drank like a fish while he drove all about. But that didn't matter 'cuz his daddy bailed him out. DUI, that is. Criminal record. Cover-up. Well, the first thing you know little Georgie goes to Yale. He can't spell his name but they never let him fail. He spends all his time ...

TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 18 -- A call was placed from the cell phone of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris to George W. Bush's mansion in Austin at 11:50 p.m. on election night, records show. Click Here for Story

Dear Friends: My name is Clare Dowdy, and this holiday season I would like to remind you of all the less fortunate around the world who really need our help. I am not asking for money, nor do I want any, but what I am asking is for your moral support, and a little bit of internet networking to possibly make life better for a very special man who is being unjustly held in a deplorable Cuban jail. This man if you don't know him already is called Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet. Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet was born of humble ...

an anyone but commentators in the media be under the illusion any longer that what is preciously called "the Florida supreme court" is in fact a college of jurists, and that they haven't made up their minds already? Does anyone really imagine that Barry Richards or Michael Carvin, going in to argue for the Bush team on Monday, is involved in anything more than a futile gesture? If the intention of the court was to preserve the status quo, as it announced in its statement on Friday, then the order should have been to stop the progress of the ...

Math Against Tyranny by Will Hively, Discover magazine, November, 1996 When you cast your vote this month, you're not directly electing the president--you're electing members of the electoral college. They elect the president. An archaic, unnecessary system? Mathematics shows, says one concerned American, that by giving your vote to another, you're ensuring the future of our democracy. "One morning at two o’clock," Alan Natapoff recalls, "I realized that I was the only person willing to see this problem through to the end." The morning in question was back in the late 1970s. Then as now, Natapoff, a physicist, was spending ...

If Hillary Clinton starts sounding a bit different to you, it's because she's been taking dialect lessons to sound more like a New Yorker. She wants to appeal to her New York voters so she's minimizing her Midwestern twang and Arkansas drawl. Hillary's taking private classes with a top voice coach while she campaigns.