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Just a message to find out how many of us there are and if any of you are interested in helping to plan a protest of the Florida Supreme Court's decision to back the vice perpetrator's efforts to steal the election. If so answer here or thru personal email.

What Halloween prison costume is complete without an Al gore or Bill Clinton mask? In defiance of the gender gap, that's exactly how our outraged band of soccer moms will be dressing up to energize the base. The REAL Bill and Al will be making surprise campaign visits throughout our community over the next two weeks to remind voters what we have endured over the last 8 years. But we need your help. We have the costumes and the outrage, but so far, no really great ideas for signs for our posters. On the brink of despair, I suddenly remembered ...

Yesterday Conservative News Service published the results of a study which takes a little wind out of the sails of those whose mantra is: "It's the economy, stupid." The study, conducted by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, revealed that much of the the prosperity over the last decade has beens spurred by more family members working, and employees working longer hours. For quite some time, I've been wondering if I'm the only one who isn't any better off these past 8 years. Every time I heard about how rich I was supposed to be, I grumbled. With taxes now ...

Study: Economic Prosperity Equals More Family Workers, Longer Hours By Bob Melvin CNS Evening Editor September 03, 2000 (CNSNews.com) - A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC, indicates that American economic prosperity over the last decade has been spurred by more family members working longer hours and not just rising wages. The union-supported think tank found that an average middle-class family's income rose by 9.2 percent, after inflation, from 1989 to 1998. But the study also found that family members spent 6.8 percent more time at work to reap the income increase. The study concluded that, ...

I wasn't very far into the book before my outrage reached a full boil. One of the senators who went with Trent Lott to meet with the House Managers for the purpose of rigging the Senate trial was my own senator, Rick Santorum. True to his word, Shippers names names in this expose that is as damaging to the Repubs as the Dumbocrats. How bout Trent Lott's despicable remark to Henry Hyde after the House concluded its work: "Henry, you're not going to dump this garbage on us." Shippers said they left the meeting "with a revolution on their hands." ...

Exposing Two Big Lies (The following is a transcriptional excerpt from a news conference with Constitution Party presidential candidate, Howard Phillips held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.) By Howard Phillips Constitution Party Campaign 2000 Presidential Nominee May 11, 2000 One of the legacies that we hope to transmit in this campaign is an understanding on the part of the American people, conservative and Christian Americans especially, that they have been subject to two big lies. One big lie is that "the Republicans are doing everything they can to advance the conservative agenda." This is simply not the ...

Shortly after the horrific school shootings at Columbine, the nation searched for culprits to help explain what was wrong with our society and why backpack bans and bomb threats were suddenly as much a part of school as chalk and blackboards. The usual suspects were lined up and convicted in the court of public opinion: the gun industry, violent movies and electronic games, an increasingly secular culture, and of course, poor parenting. All no doubt, play a role in the recent episodes of school violence---the likes of which we have never seen before. Yet in our haste to crack ...

Dear Freepers: Years ago, when George Bush was president, he was skewered in the press for attempting to clarify the role of government vs. the role of individuals and communities when he coined the phrase, "a thousand points of light." Do any of you freepers in freeperland know where I could locate that speech? I was thinking about Bush's phrase when I read an article in our daily paper following the fatal frathouse fire in my neighboring community of Bloomsburg, PA where 3 young men died. This tragedy followed a previous fire 7 years ago where 5 students perished. The ...

Dear Freepers: I am a busy mom, nurse, wife, and a conservative columnist for a local paper in Northeast PA. I live in a predominantly conservative area, yet most of the population is registered as democrats. I sense an opportunity here. I want to do a column that exposes the real agenda of the democratic party today, yet with the dignity saving inclusion of the history of the Dem. party, which I believe went vastly astray when it embraced liberalism. If you have the time----I don't get much internet time what with kids, scouts and everything else---jot down what you ...

Does anyone know where I can get a transcript (quick) of the David Shipper's interview on O'reilly a few months ago? I think I remember seeing it posted on this site but don't know how to access it. I'm trying to recall the gist of it but would like more details. Is it true Shippers had access to the LaBella Memorandum? I remember him saying that the investigation into campaign finance ultimately implicated both parties---and that has been Klayman's position all along, but would like a little more to go on. If anyone can help me find out where ...

THE HARVEST OF ABORTION Fetal-tissue research: Making the best of a bad situation, or sliding further down the slippery slope? Congress and the Clinton administration's lifting of the fetal-tissue research ban has turned human-remains trafficking into big business By Lynn Vincent Warning: This story contains some graphic detail. As Monday morning sunshine spills across the high plains of Aurora, Colo., and a new work week begins, fresh career challenges await Ms. Ying Bei Wang. On Monday, for example, she might scalpel her way through the brain stem of an aborted 24-week pre-born child, pluck the brain from the baby's ...

I'm posting this for those who wanted to read the original testimony on corporate welfare by Stephen Moore. Read this article. You'll learn who Congress REALLY represents...if you didn't already know. TESTIMONY of Stephen Moore Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Cato Institute Washington, D.C. before the Budget Committee U.S. House of Representatives Corporate Subsidies in the Federal Budget June 30, 1999 Thank you Chairman Kasich for the opportunity to testify before the Budget Committee on the issue of corporate welfare in the federal budget. And thank you for your leadership on this vital issue of fiscal common sense. You and ...

The letter campaign to Congressman Jones prompted me to write again to my own representatives about the Chinagate issue. The problem is remembering all the things I've been outraged about over the past several months. I'm not sure my brain holds that much data. Which is why I'd like your help. How bout if we compile a list of outrages so we can all write and call and make sure we don't forget any of the egregious offenses committed by this cesspool of an administration, with regards to Chinagate. If you can think of any, please add to the list. ...

Work harder, there are millionaires on welfare depending on you. No, that's not a misprint. On June 30th, Stephen Moore, a fiscal policy analyst for the Cato Institute, made this startling suggestion to members of the House Budget Committee: the federal government shouldn't be subsidizing companies or individuals who make over 1 million dollars. Sounds kind of obvious, doesn't it? But, what's obvious to taxpayers, isn't always obvious to those we so generously refer to as our representatives. Thanks to their eternal wisdom, our most costly welfare recipients today are not the poor or disabled. They're not even the elderly ...

NY Times Bombshell Report of KLA Atrocities and Executions By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) June 25, 1999 After three months of a massive propaganda campaign to portray the KLA as "victims" of Serb aggression, it's beginning to dawn on many in the major newspapers and the networks that America, under the able auspices of the White House spin machine, has clutched a viper to its bosom in making an ally and client out of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Remember the well publicized and very sudden and timely indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for 340 deaths in Kosovo? Two of ...