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Looking back, I'm glad that I was too young to realize that his man had his "finger on the button".

Bethlehem's legacy Posted: December 25, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Bethlehem is a sacred city to both Jews and Christians. It is sacred to the Jews because its greatest King, David, was born there. It is sacred to Christians because Jesus, the Messiah, was born there, as was predicted some 700 years before: But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be numbered among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.– Micah 5:2, NASB Ironically, the real legacy...

By Franklin Fisher, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Tuesday, December 23, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. soldiers in Iraq voiced pride and satisfaction on the news that Time magazine has named “the American soldier” its 2003 Person of the Year.Time’s latest issue features a cover photo of three 1st Armored Division soldiers in Iraq, and wrote: “They swept across Iraq and conquered it in 21 days. They stand guard on streets pot-holed with skepticism and rancor. They caught Saddam Hussein. They are the face of America, its might and good will, in a region unused to democracy. The U.S. G.I. is...

The news from Moscow on Tuesday was not good — Russia, a senior official said, had decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. Combined with President Bush's decision two years ago to abandon the pact, Russia's rejection would have effectively killed it. Then yesterday came word that it might have been a false alarm, a negotiating tactic to strengthen Moscow's leverage in economic talks with the European Union, and that Russia was indeed "moving toward" ratification. Let us hope this is the case. The 1997 protocol has many flaws. It is, however, the only international response to...

America has heard Democrats say things such as "No blood for oil" or "George Bush is a miserable failure". While Democrats are entitled to their opinions, the Democratic party needs to realize they are writing their "legacy". Exactly what does that mean? Regardless of past successes, the modern day democrat has changed. Since September 11, 2001 (Americas most tragic day) democrats have focused more on "slamming' President Bush, rather than turning to more important issues, such as National Security. What happened?

WORSHIPPING JFK Sat Nov 22, 8:01 PM ET Add Op/Ed - William F. Buckley to My Yahoo! By William F. Buckley Jr.I was asked by a television network to comment on the career of President Kennedy. I agreed to do so and do not know how many other views were solicited, or when the program was aired. I have to assume that it went out because the 40th anniversary of the assassination seemed to wipe out all unrelated television fare with the exception of Michael Jackson, who got if not equal time, very nearly that. William F. Buckley   Curiosity...

<p>The Pilgrims were brave Christians who risked everything to gain religious freedom in the New World. Or they were fanatical European interlopers, guilty of "genocide" against American Indians. Multiculturalism has taken its toll on the reputation of the small band of Protestant separatists who landed at Plymouth Rock in November 1620.</p>

New Delhi, Nov 21 -- The boyish grin is still there and so is his capacity to charm - all of which was in abundance Friday when former U.S. president Bill Clinton met girl students from a rural institution as he kicked off his two-day India visit. "It is wonderful to be back in Delhi. I have slept little last night. But I am always wide awake in this country," the man credited with lifting Indo-U.S. relations to a new plane of engagements told the girls at the Maurya Sheraton hotel, his favourite stop in the Indian capital. "Hello, sir",...

Monica Lewinsky says her White House liaison is a liability on the dating scene. The intern infamous for her affair with US President Bill Clinton told GQ magazine that she goes on dates occasionally but her romantic relationships have been short-lived. Ms Lewinsky, 30, said in the interview she sympathised with the men she meets, saying she, too, would be intimidated by the tales of her past. "If I were a guy and I'd heard all those things about a girl, I don't know that I'd want to take her out," Ms Lewinsky told the magazine. But she also...

Despair not though Clintoon Liebrary is up, we Americans atill have the Counter Library. Spread the word!

Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years by Rich Lowry • —from the publisher's websiteBill and Hillary Clinton don't want you to read this book. Bill has spent his days since the presidency aggressively defending his legacy, and Hillary plans to run for president on it, and now, unfortunately for them, Rich Lowry uses sound fact and shocking detail to dispel the myth of the Clinton legacy once and for all. Showing how a politician with grandiose ambitions became a cautious, poll-driven placeholder and how a president who yearned to confront a great international crisis cringed and still...

DALLAS _ School officials are investigating reports that a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy engaged in oral sex during a science class at Robert T. Hill Middle School. The activity allegedly took place Tuesday in the back of a classroom while the teacher was away at a parent-teacher conference, leaving an adult security monitor in charge, Dallas school district spokesman Donald Claxton said Friday. At least four students said they witnessed the activity and reported it Wednesday when their teacher returned, Claxton said. School officials placed the security monitor, whose name was not released, on paid administrative leave Thursday....

Come On, Alan Clinton one of the presidential greats? Move over George Washington, Lincoln, and FDR! Alan Colmes writes in his new book Red, White & Liberal that Clinton "may, through the lens of history, go down as one of our greatest presidents, ever." I like Alan Colmes, who is a genuinely nice guy and kept his criticism of the Iraq war within legitimate and patriotic bounds during the fighting. But — please. His argument that Clinton achieved presidential greatness has an obligatory feel to it. Indeed, he writes, "My fondness and respect for Clinton continues to cause hypertension among...

In the Washington Post Monday, there was an article about the new restoration plans for Montpelier, the historic Virginia home of James Madison. The Post interviewed the president of the Montpelier Foundation, Michael C. Quinn, and reported, "With no monument on the Mall or currency bearing Madison's image, the man Quinn calls 'chief architect of the American Republic' and author of the Bill of Rights is suffering from a lack of celebrity equal to his contribution to the nation." That sentence brings back to me a poignant memory. One day, my family and I drove down to see Thomas Jefferson's...

<p>When I left Haiti a few weeks ago, news came of the anonymous but unusually precise execution of a thug named Amiet Metayer, leader of the pro- President Aristide gang called the Cannibal Army. One bullet to the heart, one in each eye.</p>

<p>Like it or not, sports fans, the Bill Clinton books are never going to stop coming in your lifetimes. The newest look back at the rude and raunchy era of Bill & Hillary's rule is taken by National Review editor Rich Lowry, whose "Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years" is built around Lowry's forthright, surprising and often critical interviews with about 25 former Clinton administration officials, media spinners and Friends of Bill.</p>

October 14, 2003, 8:32 a.m. When the Spinning StopsEx-Clinton aides on Clinton. Sometimes the spinning stops. That's what I learned in the course of writing Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years. I talked to a couple dozen former Clinton officials. I talked to as many as would talk, in any way that would win their cooperation; I talked to them on-the-record, off-the-record, and on-background with the agreement they could look over any quotes I'd use. I talked to spinners and wonks and speechwriters and friends. And there were flashes of real forthrightness. If you think Clinton is...

<p>When al Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, Bill Clinton shrugged.</p> <p>Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>Before daybreak on Feb. 26, 1993, a yellow Ford 350 Econoline van threaded its way through the Holland Tunnel toward lower Manhattan. At the wheel was Mohammed Salameh, an illegal immigrant with eyesight so poor that he had failed his New Jersey driver's license exam four times.</p>

Speaking in 1970, former UN Secretary-General U Thant praised founding Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin and pointedly claimed that Lenin’s ruling philosophy was "in line with the aims of the UN Charter." One of Lenin’s most important concepts was "democratic centralism," that is, the notion that the ruling Soviet elite embodied the democratic will of its subject population, and thus whatever it did was legitimate. In his Foreign Affairs essay (see story above), Tharoor unconsciously acknowledges the UN’s Leninist legacy. "As the world’s preeminent international organization, the UN embodies world opinion, or at least the world’s legally constituted states," asserts Tharoor....

September 11: Bill Clinton’s Ultimate Legacy by Doug Schmitz 12 September 2003 Clinton was too busy playing golf, chasing skirts and prepping for photo ops to be bothered with defending our nation. What haunted me more than anything else was that [President Clinton] refused to make a decision. Human lives were at stake – the lives of American service members and the lives of our allies who opposed Saddam at our behest and were now under attack. At a time when America’s honor and grander principles were being challenged and the world was watching our every move… the president was...