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"On December 10, the U.S. Supreme Court unamminously decided to allow police to make America safer. It decided that the homes of people on probation could be searched by police investigating new crimes. The court reversed a lower court's decision that found theat police violated the Constitution when they searched without a warrant the home of a man sentenced to probation for and unrelated crime.(Emphasis added) Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that the government's "interest in apprehending violators of the criminal law, thereby protecting potential victims of criminal enterprise, may therefore justifiably focus on probationers in a way that it ...

This should fix 'em

Remember when? A diversion from your busy day... take a walk down memory lane Close your eyes.....And go back in time.... Before the Internet or the MAC, Before semi-automatics and crack Before SEGA or Super Nintendo... Way back...I'm talking about hide and seek at dusk. The Good Humor man - Red light, green light. The corner store. Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball. Mother May I? The corner store--Red Rover and Roly Poly Hula Hoops ---Running through the sprinkler The smell of the sun and licking salty lips.... Wax lips and mustaches--An ice cream cone on a warm summer night-- ...

Palm Beach County Workers and Volunteers “Recreated” Ballots Damaged By Machine Counting Process Other Problems Uncovered by Partial Audit of Disputed Ballots Judicial Watch To Continue Ballot Inspections – Seeks To Intervene in Tallahassee Court Case (Miami, FL) Judicial Watch discovered numerous problems in its examination of disputed ballots in Palm Beach County yesterday. Judicial Watch was granted access to the ballots under Florida law and pursuant to a court order. Johnson Lambert & Co., a public accounting firm with expertise both in counting ballots and in detecting fraud, is helping oversee the Judicial Watch effort. Judicial Watch uncovered that ...

April 17, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time To Get Serious With Big Government International Institutions Must Be Curtailed This week protesters came to Washington, DC, to make known their opposition to the policies of international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Many of these people were also present at the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization. I have two general problems with these protests. The first is that the violence and lawlessness to which such demonstrations often degenerate simply goes overboard and is just plain wrong. In short, it tends to do more harm to the ...

From CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" of March 19, 2000 Commentary by Andy Rooney (Speaking directly to the camera with no accompanying video; elapsed time, 140 seconds.) "Sometimes it seems as if the democratic process doesn't work. The Primary elections are just about over now, and I don't want to sound like a sore loser, but there's something seriously wrong. What I'm thinking is the possibility that we're going to come up with the wrong person as president ~ it's happened before. "The big idea of democracy is that there's some collective wisdom that arrives at the right answer when a lot ...