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As you most FReepers know, Clear Channel Radio -- headquartered here in San Antonio -- is a "heavy-hitter" in the media world. Clear Channel owns radio stations, TV stations, and billboards. Its "flagship" radio station, also located here in San Antonio, and known as WOAI, 1200Am, is a 50K-Watt "Blow Torch" reaching as far away as Canada on some cold nights. Clear Channel has recently done a shake-up in its daily 4:00-7:00 PM radio lineup -- moving longtime voice Charley Parker to the morning slot and bringing Chuck Booms from its Cleveland affiliate to join San Antonio native Chris Duel...

Day 11. Evening Prayer. Psalm 59. Eripe me de inimicis DELIVER me from mine enemies, O God : defend me from them that rise up against me. 2. O deliver me from the wicked doers : and save me from the blood-thirsty men. 3. For lo, they lie waiting for my soul : the mighty men are gathered against me, without any offence or fault of me, O Lord. 4. They run and prepare themselves without my fault : arise thou therefore to help me, and behold. 5. Stand up, O Lord God of hosts, thou God of Israel, to...

WHEN SHEILA JACKSON LEE first came to Washington in January 1995, the Texas Democrat railed against the Capitol's silk-stockinged elite. "The American people want reform, not phony but real reform," she said in her debut House speech. "They want to know that the days of free meals and free trips and special privileges are over. . . . As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain." How times change. It's about 200 paces from the awning of Jackson Lee's Capitol Hill apartment to the marbled steps of the Cannon House Office Building, where her ...

Time to shine the spotlight of truth on a little-known, but highly-influential, national organization headquartered in the San Francisco area, but with local chapters nationwide. The organization? The Japanese American Citizens League, or, as it is usually called JACL. This organization occupies, in a sense, for many Asian-Americans in general, and for Japanese-American citizens in particular, a respected place in their hearts - not unlike the NAACP does for blacks or the JDL does for Jews. The JACL has done some wonderful things in the past, including honoring the outstanding efforts of Japanese-Americans who fought gallantly for the US forces ...

<p>Maybe we're too hard on our frightened congressmen. If they also serve who stand and wait, maybe it's possible for others to serve by getting out of the way.</p> <p>Certain members of the House of Representatives — they know who they are — no doubt send their wives and daughters downstairs to investigate strange noises at 3 o'clock in the morning, so they're not likely to be much help in fighting off either crazed Arabs brandishing raised scimitars or Bacillus anthracis — arriving in plain brown envelopes. Perhaps we should excuse them for other duties, like stroking the cat or arranging flowers.</p>

A quick vanity: Anyone NOW clamoring to say we don't need the Vieques bombing range? While I fault W. for forfeiting the Vieques range in a moment of vote-pandering weakness, I further fault the leftists who so vociferously went out on a limb on this virtual non-issue -- non-issue to just about everyone EXCEPT the Pentagon. Funny how the liberal, anti-defense cockroaches have crawled underneath various rocks on this particular issue -- now that the whole world can see that the US has enemies (yes: REAL enemies). Now we need Senator Gramm, in his closing months in office to introduce ...

My apologies for calling for the court martial of top Air Force generals for last week's tragedies. My fellow FReepers duly put me in my place. I accept their pointed criticism. I was wrong. I humbly ask for forgiveness for falling into the "blame game," as Arkinsaw put it.

Oh, great. I just heard an FAA official on the radio saying, "no more knifes in airports." That is: no more knives of any kind ANYWHERE in an airport. Uh, would somebody please explain to the FAA geniuses that the very ABSENCE of knives, let alone guns, on the part of the passengers and crews yesterday cost VERY MANY people their very lives. The planes were "easy pickens" because both passengers and crews were UNARMED. I see the FedGov is up to its usual tricks of bait and switch. The problem is over there, so they (unConstitutionally) restrict my rights ...

A leading candidate for mayor of Los Angeles clammed up when asked if he supports carving a new nation out of the Southwestern United States. When Antonio Villaraigosa, a former speaker of the California Assembly and candidate for mayor of Los Angeles was asked point blank by Los Angeles Radio KNX reporter Frank Mottek if he favored a separate Latino republic in the Southwest, Villaraigosa refused to answer the question. Instead he gave a rambling reply having nothing to do with the subject of Aztlan, a nation radical Chicanos want to create out of parts of several Southwestern US ...

The League of the South's goal is good government for the Southern people. We believe secession is the best way to restore good government to the South. Since 1861 the republican system of government established by the Founders has been steadily eroded. Today that government has become the cruel master rather than the obedient servant of the citizens of the several states. We see no way of reforming the corruption within the present system; therefore, The League of the South shall seek to spread acceptance of the idea of secession among the people of the South. We believe in ...

Environmentalists stunned by retention of Clinton-era rule WASHINGTON -- The Bush White House says it is retaining strict air-quality standards that were one of the most controversial legacies of the Clinton administration. The decision is arguably the biggest victory for environmentalists since President Bush took office. The standards, announced in 1997, have been on hold while industry groups challenged the government's authority to draw them. In late February, however, the Supreme Court upheld the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to set standards. The court said the timetable for implementing some of them should be reworked, however. The administration ...

http://www.AnotherPundit.com George Bush has finally done something I cannot support. He has unveiled " Project Safe [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05/20010514-2.html]," a new bit of "kindler,gentler" anti-gun policy. Primarily, it's a big government spending program, but since it's spending on new district attorneys and policemen and the like I can for the most part accept that. A lot of it goes to expand the ATF and FBI, too, which doesn't exactly make me Mr. Happy Face either; but, as a law abiding citizen, I can accept that too. I'm a reasonable man. I don't have to like every part of every bill to like ...

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Chinese navy Thursday refused to provide electricity for U.S. engineers evaluating the damage on a crippled U.S. plane in defiance of an agreement between the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the Chinese Foreign Ministry, according to the Pentagon. "We are trying again to clearly explain the technical support we need to do a thorough assessment," said Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. Craig Quigley. Quigley said the U.S. Embassy thought it had arranged for power and other technical support for the team at Lingshui military air base on Hainan. The team's workday was cut short by the ...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- A House committee delivered a series of stinging blows to President Bush Wednesday, voting to reverse the White House policy on reviewing arms sales to Taiwan, abortion and global warming. Bush supporters, however, said the setbacks came only at the committee level and might be eliminated as the bill moves through Congress. The House International Relations Committee Wednesday passed a bill authorizing State Department activities that included language drafted by Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., requiring the administration to resume conducting annual reviews of arms sales to Taiwan -- and reversing President Bush's decision last ...

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has repaid Secretary of State Colin Powell's kind words with venom. Castro, during an unexpected nationwide television appearance, called Powell "the commander in chief of Latin America's lackeys," Radio Havana reported Thursday. What Castro was upset about, according to the broadcast, was the recent United Nations Human Rights Commission resolution condemning Cuba's human rights record. The resolution was narrowly approved. Castro said the most appropriate place for that resolution was "the toilet." He accused several Latin American nations of lacking dignity, a sense of independence and honesty in their vote against Cuba on that U.N. ...

The Bush administration will deny Taiwan U.S.-built naval destroyers equipped with sophisticated Aegis battle management radar in exchange for Beijing's promise to return the 24-member crew of a U.S. reconnaissance plane currently being held hostage on Hainan Island, predicts military expert Col. David Hackworth. "It's a done deal," said that highly decorated combat veteran and former military consultant to CBS News and Newsweek, during an interview Saturday with Judicial Watch Radio's Larry Klayman and Tom Fitton. "What this is all about is not that plane, it's not this crew that's being detained. It's all about Taiwan," Hackworth warned. "And ...

This is not at all an original line of thought. If there is a similar post, then, I apologize. However, if there has never been another post like this, it is needed. As has been noted elsewhere, it is clear that the last (and somewhat dull -- from overuse) arrow in the Liberal quiver is the label of "racist/racism," reserved for his political opponents. This is the Liberal's ultimate trump card. As has been said so often: It is meant to end all argument. After all, how can one effectively defend oneself against such an accusation? It is akin to ...

Dear Reverend Jesse Jackson: I have something to say in response to your not-so-veiled threat to provoke riots if the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't rule to your liking in the matter of the presidential vote count: Grow up, do something constructive with your time, get a life. This game you play -- shaking down the American corporate and political establishment by invoking fear -- is getting old. Your credibility -- if you ever had any -- is threadbare at best. There is a growing consensus in America that you are little more than a joke -- and this kind ...

Psalm 57 1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until this tyranny be over-past. 2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. 3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the ...

"All right, everybody, hands on your heads! Don't nobody move! This is a stick up. Most of you probably recognize us as the band of Florida desperados known as "The Four Scofflaws." We work for the Democrat Marauders. "Now, everybody just hand over their votes right now, their ballot boxes, their elected offices, and also this election, nice and easy like -- and nobody gets hurt." "But one false move out of any of you, and we call Big Jan, and she'll give you the Elian Gonzalez red dot laser treatment. Only this time, the trigger just MIGHT get pulled. ...