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Let the voucher wars begin There’s a reason why the teachers unions plan to spend $20 million fighting Proposition 38, the ballot initiative that would bring educational vouchers to California. They’re scared to death. Decades of ill-conceived educational experimenting and intransigence from the education establishment have ruined what was once a great public school system. Despite slightly better results on the latest round of Stanford 9 test scores, the state remains in the academic basement nationwide. Backers of Proposition 38, led by Silicon Valley millionaire and state Board of Education member Timothy Draper, argue that competition would change all that. ...

Portrait of America http://www.portraitofamerica.com July 26, 2000 Presidential Tracking Poll In the race for the White House, George Bush leads Gore in the popular vote 45.0% to 34.3%. Nader has 3.9%, Buchanan has 1.5%, Browne 1.1%, and Phillips .1%. These results from a nightly Portrait of America Presidential Tracking Poll reflect interviews conducted July 23, 24, and 25. Click here for an explanation of the differences between results in the various presidential polls. Click here for an analysis of Ralph Nader's position in the Presidential race by Scott Rasmussen. Presidential Tracking Poll Candidate % Today(7-25)* % Last week(7-18) % ...

Dear Subscriber, Lots of different polls have been issued on the Presidential race in recent weeks. All show George W. Bush leading Al Gore, but the margins very dramatically. Portrait of America polls have shown Bush with a double digit lead occasionally and a 4 point lead a couple of times. Mostly, however, for the past month, our polls have shown the GOP candidate with a 5 to 9 point margin. The vast majority of other polls confirm that general tone. But, occasionally, we have a poll that challenges the trend like a recent Gallup poll showing the race to ...

Portrait of America http://www.portraitofamerica.com July 17, 2000 Presidential Tracking Poll In the race for the White House, George Bush leads Gore in the popular vote 41.7% to 33.1%. Nader has 5.5%, Buchanan has 2.5%, Browne 1.4%, and Phillips .1%. These results from a nightly Portrait of America Presidential Tracking Poll reflect interviews conducted July 13, 15, and 16. The Portrait of America Presidential Tracking Survey has been updated to include six Presidential candidates including George W. Bush, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips. Earlier surveys had simply asked about “some other candidate.” This change ...

Kids on a binge in Tijuana Kids on a binge in Tijuana By Scott Farwell and Rocky Salmon The Press-Enterprise TIJUANA, Mexico An 18-year-old girl in a halter dress is doubled over with dry heaves. Her spasms come every few seconds, roiling upward and outward, ending with a retching sound, and spit. Steps away, a young man with a silver stud in his nose buys a hot dog wrapped in bacon. A few hours earlier, two men bled on this street after a bar fight. Another man was arrested for urinating on it. Welcome to Avenida Revolucion, Tijuana's legendary ...

Sunday, July 2, 2000 Al Gore of today likely to be All Gone tomorrow It’s the nature of politics that presidential candidates remake themselves once or twice during an election cycle, in large part out of the realization that personalities, not issues, win presidential campaigns. What is uncommon, however, is for a candidate to be so uncomfortable inhis own skin that he changes himself at the drop of a hat. This phenomenonis being exhibited by Vice President Al Gore, who has changed so many times during Campaign 2000 that America’s voting public has to be confused. What follows is a ...

Sunday, July 16, 2000 Gore campaign suffers from old thinking Asked by a Philadelphia reporter what qualities he would like to change about himself, Al Gore skipped the opportunity to reflect on his campaign’s weaknesses, and instead went for the predictable self-deprecating gag. "I think I would like to be a better dancer," he answered. Four years ago, when Gore turned the Macarena craze into a running joke about his wooden reputation, that punch line might have cracked a few smiles. Today, it’s stale and canned. It’s a sad reminder of why Gore, who should be putting the finishing touches ...

Public Nuisances New Labour's Lost London -- Poof! Is it possible that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government is about to go up in vapor? The government that came to power in 1997 with the most lavish parliamentary majority in modern times (179 seats) is of a sudden battling high seas. That is what British commentators both left and right are saying these days. Frankly, upon landing here the other morning I was doubtful. In fact, I remain in doubt after days listening to conservatives chortle. Last night I even listened to a Labourite, who during the Blair government's early ...

alt.politics.economics:79265 alt.politics.libertarian:217900 alt.politics.usa.newt-gingrich:108533 alt.politics.usa.republican:353749 talk.politics.misc:397676 talk.politics.libertarian:162730 alt.fan.newt-gingrich:52416 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:397460 alt.fan.noam-chomsky:21962 THREE KINDS OF LIBERALS DEFINED There are, of course, three major types of liberals, the loser/dependants, the touchy/feelies, and the scammers. The loser/dependants are the objects of the liberal's agenda, and strangely, it is their own total lack of an agenda that makes them what they are. These are people that can not or will not compete in the capitalistic society. Unlike the other two groups, who are liberal by genetic makeup, these unfortunates are simply the result of brainwashing by the other two liberal groups. For the most part, they ...

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Monday, July 03, 2000 The Difference Between Bill Gates and Larry Ellison By: James K. Glassman, Host, Tech Central Station It's an old joke in Silicon Valley. Q: What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison? A: God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison. This week, we learned the difference between Larry Ellison and civilized society. Don't get me wrong. I don't recall anyone ever accusing Ellison, the CEO of Oracle Corp., of being a class act in the past. And his arrogance is indeed legendary. But his Nixonian smear campaign against critics of the Justice Department was way out of ...

June 21, 2000 ZDTV exclusive interview with George W. Bush Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush sat down with ZDTV to discuss tech topics. The Texas governor was touring Silicon Valley pushing a $2.3 billion education plan to boost math and science scores and bridge the digital divide. During an interview with ZDTV News anchor Danielle Knox, Bush shared his views on regulation of the tech industry and concerns over online privacy. Following is the transcript of the interview. ZDTV: Governor, do you have a computer? Bush: Of course! ZDTV: What do you use it for and how often do ...

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Enemies of MS in plot to burgle supporters. Not By: John Lettice Posted: 19/06/2000 at 12:48 GMT Last week Ted Bridis of the Wall Street Journal broke a notably bizarre story about mysterious people attempting to bribe cleaners to give them the trash from pro-Microsoft lobbying group the Association for Competitive Technology. Today the story became even more bizarre - or possibly, slightly tragic - as the WSJ follows up with claims from a clutch of pro-MS organisations that they too have been targeted. From Bridis' original investigation it does seem likely that some unidentified person or organisation was trying ...

How to convert Windows users... and get them onto LinuxWhat would you say if I were to tell you that you had to move to a different continent, packing nothing but the clothes on your body? I bet your response would be either filled with laughs or with curses. Anyway, you wouldn't even take me serious, let alone consider it. Yet that's exactly what Linux fans want Windows users to do. They want them to leave behind their environment, their programs, their settings and most of their data. All in the name of progress. They never stop to think that ...

Redmond, WA - Microsoft today filed papers in Federal District Court alleging that the United States Government is a monopoly. The papers allege that the current government has stifled competition, and has prevented innovation in government, by using its monopoly power to pass laws prohibiting the formation of another Federal government. "American's don't have a choice in which army will protect them. They have no choice in who will collect their taxes. Less than 50% of the people even bother to vote because they know it won't make any difference." said Steve Ballmer. "It's time that the US Government opened ...

Yearbooks Confiscated For Profanity One Girl Complains When 'Slut' Written Under Her Photo MORENO VALLEY, Calif., Updated 2:43 p.m. PDT June 5, 2000 -- Students in the Val Verde School District will have to wait a little longer to get their yearbooks: Rancho Verde High School officials are blacking out information that they find offensive. Concern arose when a student objected to the word "slut" beneath her candid photo. The photo appeared in a section of the book where students are allowed to purchase their own space. Officials intend to remove the vulgarities, and then review all other information before ...

Posted 05/05/2000 5:07pm by John Lettice Windows DLL Hell needs more fixes, says MS MUG The exquisitely titled Microsoft Manufacturers User Group (MS MUG, oh yes) has sent Microsoft its first feedback report on DLL Hell, and the verdict seems to be that the problem, which is probably the primary source of failure in Windows installations, isn't going to go away in a hurry. MS MUG is a working group including major manufacturing companies and Microsoft, and was set up last year to address issues associated with the application of commercial software technology to manufacturing automation applications. Sure, it sounds ...

ISS Security Advisory April 24, 2000 Backdoor Password in Red Hat Linux Virtual Server Package Synopsis: Internet Security Systems (ISS) X-Force has identified a backdoor password in the Red Hat Linux Piranha product. Piranha is a package distributed by Red Hat, Inc. that contains the Linux Virtual Server (LVS) software, a web-based GUI, and monitoring and fail-over components. A backdoor password exists in the GUI portion of Piranha that may allow remote attackers to execute commands on the server. If an affected version of Piranha is installed and the default backdoor password remains unchanged, any remote as well as local ...

Hackers got Bill Gates' credit card info By Reuters March 26, 2000 8:23 AM PT LONDON, -- A teenager arrested in Wales for allegedly hacking into e-commerce Web sites had obtained the credit card details of Bill Gates, head of Microsoft Corp. and the world's richest man, newspapers said on Sunday. Raphael Gray, 18, was arrested on Saturday for Internet fraud after a joint operation between the FBI and Welsh Police. The FBI said on Saturday that losses connected to the activities of Gray and another unnamed 18-year-old could exceed $3 million. The 'Saint of E-commerce' But Gray, the self-styled ...