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The Eve of Victory: A Plan for the GOP in California Address by State Senator Tom McClintock to the California Republican Party 2/25/2001[NB: written two years ago] I would like to begin tonight with a candid assessment of where the California Republican Party stands on February 23rd. The party is bitterly divided. · We have a Democratic governor who is riding high in the opinion polls and who has an invincible campaign machine behind him. He absolutely crushed the last Republican we put up against him. · The only constitutional office we hold is the Secretary of State. · Our...

Freedom And Firearms A Speech by Senator Tom McClintockWestern Conservative Conference, Los Angeles, June 9, 2001 There are two modern views of government that begin from entirely different premises.There is the 18th Century American view propounded by our nation’s founders. They believed, and formed a government based upon that belief, that each of us is endowed by our creator with certain rights that cannot be alienated, and that governments are instituted to protect those rights. This view is proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reflected in the American Bill of Rights.The second view is 19th Century German in origin...

Event Details McClintock on ABC's This Week August 10, 2003 at 10:00AM Senator Tom McClintock will be on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Please check your local listings for showing times.

Parents of kidnapped girl thank jurors for convicting, recommending death for neighbor Updated Sept. 17, 2002, 2:08 p.m. ET SAN DIEGO (AP) — The parents of Danielle van Dam on Tuesday thanked the jury that found their neighbor guilty of kidnapping and killing the 7-year-old girl and said they hoped their "angel" would watch over the panel. Speaking for the first time in months, Damon and Brenda van Dam said they were pleased with the outcome of the trial, which ended Monday with the jury's recommendation that David Westerfield be put to death. "We feel that the justice system revealed...

<p>BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- A priest was shot and seriously wounded by a man who had accused him of abuse years ago, authorities said Tuesday.</p> <p>Dontee Stokes, 26, turned himself in Mon day night to police, saying he had shot the Rev. Maurice Blackwell, said police spokeswoman Ragina Averella.</p>

Jefferson Descendants Nix Hemings Kin By MICHAEL BUETTNER Associated Press Writer May 5, 2002, 4:53 PM EDT CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- An organization for descendants of Thomas Jefferson voted Sunday not to extend membership to descendants of one of Jefferson's slaves reputed to have borne several of his children. The Monticello Association in a closed meeting decided to continue to restrict membership to Jefferson's descendants through his daughters Martha and Maria. The group will continue to exclude descendants of Sally Hemings, a slave at Monticello with whom Jefferson has long been rumored to have had a sexual relationship. The group heeded...

Society Prefers to View Violent Women as Victims By Glenn J. Sacks A Miami mother is drowning her six month-old baby in an apartment swimming pool when a maintenance man stops her and rescues the child. A Jacksonville woman asphyxiates her three children with car fumes. A Houston woman drowns her five children in a bathtub. A San Diego toxicologist poisons and kills her husband after he discovers her affair. All of these crimes shocked the nation during the past week. But should we really be so surprised? The truth is, female violence in American families is anything but rare....

<p>CAMBRIDGE -- A man who beat to death another hockey father in front of their children at their youth hockey practice was sentenced to six to 10 years in prison Friday for involuntary manslaughter.</p> <p>Thomas Junta, 44, had asked to be put on supervised probation with community service. He had faced up to 20 years for the July 2000 beating death of Michael Costin, 40.</p>

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

Bye Bye Darwin Many Christians take evolution as a given which can not be challenged and is not worth bothering with. The facile response that God could have worked his ways through evolution or any way he pleased is totally thoughtless. It goes against the core of Christianity, Judaism and even Islam. All religious people who hold the Bible as a sacred book and who follow its precepts know that God is the source of life. Evolution denies this. Some evolutionists will deny that they do not go so far as to say that life started from inanimate matter, but ...

The gunfight at OK Corral - it's not over yet Descendents of the notorious Clanton gang shot dead by Wyatt Earp and his posse at the OK Corral are fighting to clear their family name, writes Simon Davis in Los Angeles._____________________________________________ "If the gunfight at OK Corral happened today, the Earps would be thrown in the slammer for murder," says Terry Clanton, a direct descendent of the cattle-rustling Clanton gang. "Things would be a lot different." More than a century after his predecessors were shot dead by Wyatt Earp and his friends, Terry Clanton, 42, a Wild West historian, ...

Former official faces sex, battery countsMIAMI-- Former Opa-locka state Rep. Willie Logan, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in 2000, was charged with indecent exposure, battery and drug possession after his arrest Saturday at a Haulover Park public restroom. After his release on bail late Saturday, Logan denied all the charges. Miami-Dade Police said a plainclothes officer conducting an undercover operation at a men's restroom in the park at Collins Avenue and 108th Street saw Logan, 44, masturbating in one of the stalls at 1:13 p.m. According to the police arrest affidavit, an officer peeked through a hole in an ...

Teens in Custody in College Murders The Associated PressFeb 19 2001 12:04PM NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) - Two teen-agers wanted in the slaying of two Dartmouth College professors were taken into custody at a truckstop Monday after a sheriff's deputy learned of their whereabouts while monitoring CB radio traffic. Henry County Sheriff's Department Sgt. William Ward heard a trucker say he was carrying two teen-agers who were looking for a ride to California. Ward, who had heard the suspects in the Dartmouth slayings might be headed west, pretended to be a truck driver and said he would pick the boys ...

Serial killer leads police to graves By Graham Tearse in Paris A SELF-CONFESSED serial killer is helping police dig up the bodies of seven of his victims this weekend, knowing that if they are found he can still walk free. Emile Louis, 66, was arrested last week after a private investigation financed by families of female disparues who all went missing in the late 1970s close to Auxerre in northern Burgundy. Louis, a convicted paedophile, was a coach driver for Burgundy social services and all the missing women, who were mentally handicapped, used to stay at hostels in the ...

The Freep continues! Leftist "Scotland on Sunday" poll asks, "Does George Bush deserve to be President?" Let's remove all doubt! Yesterday, with Gore way ahead, Freepers pushed him down into the single digits, but today the commies made a faint rally and brought him back up to 11%. Time to glop on some more Zogby's sauce!

The Freep continues! Leftist "Scotland on Sunday" poll asks, "Does George Bush deserve to be President?" Let's remove all doubt!

This was posted here this morning by Ron C.-- Ok, now is time for all good FReepers to get busy - and fast. Especially those who live in California. Our criminal government is set to use non-citizens to help steal an election - again. First here is the story on what this is about - broke on WND - Clinton has effectively given citizenship to non-citizens - and HIS executive dispensation allowing them to vote. (Another EO?) Read about it here - and read the comments on the same article posted on FR HERE. Then - PICK UP YOUR PHONE ...