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THE GUN POINTED @ AOL Three former Utah-based employees of America Online have sued their ex-employer for firing them. The issue this time, however, is not one of sexual harassment, age discrimination, or some other cause dear to the hearts of statists everywhere. No, this trio of angry men received their pink slips after daring to carry — and leave — pistols and rifles in the vehicles they had driven to work and parked in a lot leased by AOL. Ron Kramer — one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, Luke Hansen, Jason Melling, and Paul Carlson — is not ...

The Future of the Kyoto Protocol: Two ViewsFebruary 8, 2001, 9:30 am - National Press Club Washington, DCParticipants: Dr. Alan Keyes and Rt Hon John Gummer MP Dr.From Freedom 21: With the collapse of the Kyoto negotiations at the Hague last November, and the failure of subsequent discussions in Ottawa, the future of the Kyoto Protocol is, at best, uncertain. These two men have very different views about where the process should go from here. The new Administration and the new Congress will be looking for answers. The views and ideas expressed by these two men can be vitally important ...

As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter, you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress' bureaucratic stooges bullying us. [CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law, new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all ...

Although I think the RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act is unconstitutional, I’d have to say that the abortion industry meets its definition of an ‘ongoing criminal enterprise’…For all of the focus upon the occasional act of violence by abortion opponents, there is far more violence carried out by abortion supporters. But in the aftermath of the Clinton-Reno era, the Justice Department has become almost a private police force for the abortion industry, so there’s little official interest in addressing the realities of the issue.—Mark Crutcher, Life DynamicsThere seems to be very little media interest in the fact that ‘safe ...

Superior Lumber fire: Earth Liberation Front takes responsibility for blaze at Glendale wood plantGLENDALE – Calling Superior Lumber Company "a typical earth raper contributing to the destruction of the Northwest," the Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for the fire that destroyed offices at the mill here.The Jan. 2 fire caused at least $400,000 in damage to the Glendale [Oregon] mill, but those estimates could rise as high as $800,000, said Steve Swanson, president of Superior Lumber Co. He was meeting with insurance agents this morning. The fire did not close down operations.In a statement released Monday by ELF spokesman ...

The abortion industry is riddled with violence, corruption, and crime and is guilty of committing vile deeds outside as well as inside abortion clinics.Two human beings died as a result of a December 1996 abortion performed by Bruce Steir: The 20-week-old unborn child carried by 27-year-old Sharon Hamptlon, and the mother herself. "I think I've pulled bowel," Steir informed an attending nurse during the abortion—a comment indicating that Steir had punctured the uterine wall. Under establishment medical procedures, Steir should have sent Hamptlon to a hospital. But Steir—a notoriously inept practitioner who had mangled several women in Washington and Florida ...

MONUMENTAL PROPOSALFederal agency considers national monument status for Diamond Lake, Mount BaileyBY JOHN SOWELL The News-Review December 1, 2000LINK TO ARTICLE Diamond Lake and Mount Bailey could become a national monument if a proposal under consideration by the US Department of Agriculture is approved.Umpqua National Forest officials received a request Wednesday from the office of Undersecretary Jim Lyons in Washington, DC, asking for an overview of the Diamond Lake Ranger District and a description of logging and recreational uses that take place there."This one came out of nowhere. It caught us by surprise," said forest spokeswoman Cheryl Walters at the ...

Although Utah Senator Orrin Hatch wears a cloak of conservatism, his true colors are shown when he consistently undermines the Constitution by championing liberal causes.On May 6, 2000, the Utah Republican Party held its convention to nominate candidates for statewide and local offices. The gathering turned out to be anything but the usual political lovefest. Four-term Senator Orrin Hatch, thought by most outsiders to be the darling of Utah's GOPers, found himself greeted by a loud chorus of heckling from many among the 3,500 delegates and 1,500 observers. Governor Mike Leavitt, similarly viewed as a GOP favorite, fared even worse. ...

The press today has abandoned its ability to view and report on events from the perspective of an experience-jaundiced common man with common sense, and has adopted the distorted intellectual prism of the ruling class.The skepticism about everything and everybody in general, and toward pronouncements from on high in particular, that characterized the zesty newsrooms of bygone days has gone missing, disappeared with hardly a trace.The denizens of those old-time newsrooms were a scruffy lot who had nothing but disdain for their “betters” – those who held and wielded power by reason of their positions. And it mattered not a ...

RU-486, the abortion pill, is a dangerous drug that not only kills the unborn infant, but endangers the mother's life and health as well.On September 28th, the Clinton administration launched its chemical warfare attack on unborn Americans with the announcement that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved RU-486, also known as the "abortion pill," for marketing and prescription in the United States.Predictably, abortion advocates hailed the announcement as a great triumph. The FDA approval is a "total victory for US women," Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, declared. "At long last, science trumps anti-abortion politics." Gloria ...

WASHINGTON (AP)--The mother of a 12-year-old girl who was handcuffed, booked and fingerprinted for eating French fries in a subway station says police went too far."I can't believe there isn't a better way to teach kids a lesson," Tracey Hedgepeth, whose daughter Ansche was arrested. "The police treated her like a criminal."But Metro Transit Police Chief Barry J. McDevitt is unapologetic about Ansche's arrest last month and others like it."We really do believe in zero tolerance," he said.Commuter complaints about unlawful eating on Metro cars and in stations led McDevitt to mount an undercover crackdown on violators. A dozen plainclothes ...

PORTLAND (AP) -- Even though Al Gore leads in the popular vote but could lose the presidency, Oregon's Democratic electors say they are standing by the Electoral College as the best way to pick the chief executive."If it were a true popular vote you wouldn't see (the candidates) outside the six largest states in the country," said elector Judy Sugnet of Salem. "We wouldn't even know the presidential election was going on."Each state gets electoral votes equaling the number of its congressional delegates, in Oregon's case, seven. It's winner-take-all of the electoral votes in each state except Maine and Nebraska.In ...

As this column is written, America still does not know the final results of the 2000 presidential election. After a long and bitter campaign fight, neither party is ready to accept defeat gracefully. The margin of victory for either candidate will be exceedingly narrow, and challenges to the validity of the results surely will follow. Both campaigns may bring legal actions which could take months to resolve. Should Governor Bush prevail despite having lost the popular vote, we may see proposals in Congress to eliminate the electoral college. Angry calls to obey "the will of the people" will be heard ...

A recount, extended polling hours, cigarettes traded for votes and a Clinton invitation urging noncitizens to vote have led to charges of fraud in the presidential election. Even Ann Bancroft’s performance in The Miracle Worker didn’t come close to the level of drama Americans witnessed Election Day when, within hours, presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush both won and lost the state of Florida. Since then the nation has taken a kind of collective inhale as the 2000 presidential bout moved into the 15th round. While vote fraud was being whispered elsewhere, the debacle that unfolded around balloting ...

ELECTION 2000 Did the INS import votes? 'Leave it to Clinton and Gore to desecrate the citizenship process,' says legal group by Jon E. Dougherty   The Immigration and Naturalization Service's Florida district was engaged in a "systematic" program of speeding aliens through the citizenship process in an effort to enhance Democratic voter turnout on election day, according to a legal watchdog organization. Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based public-interest legal group that has launched a number of lawsuits against the Clinton administration, says an INS source told the group's lawyers the program in question "is nearly identical to the now ...

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As the new century begins, the oldest technique of political science gets some new twists.On October 8, the Washington Post broke its long tradition of lying in support of the Democratic Party. It printed an informative article (by staff writers David Von Drehle and Ceci Connolly) about the seemingly pathological lies of Democratic candidate Al Gore.True, the Post was up to its usual tricks when it titled the article "GOP Homes in on Gore's Credibility." The title drags the hapless Republicans into the problem, as if their aggressiveness, instead of Gore's slaphappy way with the truth, was the cause of ...

Vice President Gore continues to assault Gov. George W. Bush's $1.5 trillion tax cut plan on the grounds that it would "spend all the budget surplus." But Gore's own federal spending promises are more costly than Bush's tax cut, by a long shot. Gore's campaign proposals -- for universal federal preschool funding, drug benefits to seniors, the Kyoto global warming treaty, anti-smoking programs, expanded Medicaid health coverage, and on ad infinitum -- would add $1.6 trillion to the federal budget over the next 10 years, and that price tag could double in the following decade. Bush is right: No Democratic ...

DRAFTExtension of Remarks of the Honorable Ron Paul of TexasMr. Speaker: I recently had the pleasure of hearing remarks made by our former House colleague, Bob Bauman of Maryland, at a meeting of the Eris Society in Colorado. Since his talk centered on banking, financial and related privacy issues pending before the Congress, I want to share his view with the House as an informed statement of the threats to financial freedom posed by the Clinton administration's policies.Mr. Bauman, the author of several books on offshore financial topics, serves as legal counsel to The Sovereign Society (http://www.sovereignsociety.com), an international group ...

Congress is considering adding a last-minute amendment to an upcoming appropriations bill, which would allow for the sharing of citizens' confidential information among government agencies. The Congressional Budget Office has requested access to Census records, Social Security data, and IRS information for use in evaluating Medicare and Social Security reform proposals. The following, related “Q and A” sample is from the “FAQs” page of the Census Bureau’s Web site:Q: Are the data [collected through the Bureau’s American Community Survey] confidential? Can the police, the local government, or other regulatory agencies see my answers to the survey? A: Your data are ...