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Jean Chretien prime minister of Canada will be leaving soon. His legacy is not nice.

This is a Canadian poem about the legacy of Ottawa politicians.

I Have a Dream Inc: is King's estate cashing in on his legacy? By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 28 August 2003 The words remain as powerful and inspirational today as they were to the people who heard them on that hot summer evening 40 years ago. "I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice," the Rev Martin Luther King told 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on 28 August 1963. "I have...

"Barf Bag Ready? Reviewing the Gray Davis Legacy" Posted by the ChronWatch Founder, Jim SparkmanTuesday, August 19, 2003       No matter how many times you read about the ins and outs of the Davis budget deficit, it makes you sick.  But what is really disturbing is the rack up of special favors Davis granted to his contributors.  Larry Elder, writing in the Jewish World Review, produces an excellent catalogue of these excesses.  He concludes--as has ChronWatch--that the recall is really a rejection of the cost of liberal special interest politics.  (Bolding of key points by ChronWatch.)        In search of the ever-elusive free...

The Starr-O'Connor legacy Posted: August 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Sometimes Republicans do more harm to America than Democrats ever could by themselves. Kenneth Starr and Sandra Day O'Connor are two prime examples. Starr is best known as the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton's crimes as president. As such, he set himself up as a foil for Democrats – a kind of pit bull who would stop at nothing to bring Clinton to justice. The truth? He was either the most incompetent prosecutor in the history of the country or complicit in the cover-up of those...

Mon Jul 28, 1:00 PM ET An advance copy of a Bill Clinton (news - web sites) trading card, the seventh in the series, is shown Monday, July 28, 2003, in Little Rock, Ark., and is scheduled to be printed Tuesday, July 29, in Little Rock. The photo of President Clinton (news - web sites) and his dog Buddy used on the card was made on the White House lawn in Washington on April 6, 1999. (AP Photo/Hot Springs Advertising and Promotion Commission)

<p>Radio and TV outlets began playing Bob Hope's theme song early yesterday, as soon as news of his death became known. "Thanks for the Memories" is undoubtedly the headline of choice today for tributes to Hope, who was born in England and who died the most honored American entertainer in modern history. Still, it's worth remembering that Bob Hope's legacy is about a lot more than memories -- at least the kind suggested in those innocently romantic lyrics about lazy afternoons and the way we danced together.</p>

A former Pentagon director on trial for extorting bribes from government contractors skirted normal procedures on behalf of a few favored companies and accepted gifts that included prostitutes, a co-worker testified Tuesday. Robert Lee Neal Jr., 50, of Bowie, Md., and his top assistant, Francis Delano Jones Jr., 41, of Fort Washington, Md., are facing trial on charges of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, making false statements and obstruction of justice.

<p>His real name wasn't even George Orwell, but he left the world with an adjective -- Orwellian -- that has been used, misused and overused to the point that it may stand forever as a warning about the danger of totalitarianism, whether in the darkness of "1984" (his inversion of 1948, a bleak time in early postwar England) or in the deceptively benign order that some fear may evolve into "friendly fascism." Orwell -- real name Eric Blair -- made an indelible mark on a century and a world he understood and described so well.</p>

Bill Clinton is at it again. Now he is going around the country and being paid to tell his audience how President Bush is un-doing his legacy. My response is that it can not happen soon enough. Yes, Bush is working to reverse the damage the Clintons did to our national defense, the inroads they allowed terrorists to make when they attacked us on 9-11, the botched middle east peace by kissing up to Arafat, and the stock market bubble and resulting recession. All these items are are being fixed by Bush. Giuliani will get take care of Hillary and...

Its out!! Come one and all to the book signing to see the media blitzes and the fawning over New York’s Sen...Ur uh Junior Senator and her newest book. Wait, you say that you do not like her and want her and her husband to go away? But the book is near record sales, how does this happen together? Hillary, love her or absolutely despise her, is not stupid on this book issue. She loves the fact that so many of her detractors are calling attention to her ghost written book. I am sure that there are already a thousand...

The FBI made secret plans to capture and arrest Osama bin Laden five years ago, long before the terror leader's deadliest plan came to fruition. Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABCNEWS consultant, said that federal agents seeking bin Laden had developed a plan to have a plane fly in and attack a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where the terror leader was believed to have been holed up back in 1998 — three years before the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But when the plan went up the chain of command for approval, it was...

In a blistering indictment of his old boss's negligence in fighting the war on terrorism, former FBI Director Louis Freeh charged Tuesday that ex-President Clinton was so unhelpful during his agency's investigation into the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that he had to turn to former President Bush. Writing in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, Freeh described the Clinton White House as "unable or unwilling to help the FBI" gain access to key witnesses in the Khobar case because it feared exposing the role of Hezbollah and its state sponsor, Iran.

On January 21, 1998, President Bill Clinton confided to an advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, that he felt like a character in Darkness at Noon, the Arthur Koestler novel about a former commissar charged with treason by a totalitarian state. Clinton was accused of lying under oath about sex with a White House intern. Koestler's central character, alone in a cell, faced death at the hands of a Stalin-like leader; Clinton, surrounded by an army of lawyers, faced embarrassment and, at worst, the loss of his job as president. But mentioning Darkness at Noon injected the grandeur of history into his squalid...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The federal government should protect parents' rights not to testify against their children, former White House intern and reality TV host Monica Lewinsky wrote in an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times.</p> <p>In the op-ed article printed in Sunday's newspaper, Lewinsky said it seemed appropriate on Mother's Day urge Congress to grant that right.</p>

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having a sense of spiritual well-being -- or an understanding of the meaning and purpose of life, regardless of religion -- appears to help terminally ill people avoid spending their last months of life in despair, according to a report released Thursday. Among people with less than three months to live, U.S. investigators found that those with a strong sense of spiritual well-being were less likely than others to feel hopeless, want to die or consider suicide. Patients who were depressed only tended to want to die if they also had a low sense of...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is urging Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft to prosecute Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas, the notorious mastermind of the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking who was given a defacto exemption from prosecution by her husband because of the Oslo Peace accords. "I am writing to urge that you coordinate with Attorney General John Ashcroft to bring Abbas to the United States for prosecution as soon as possible in New York," Clinton told Rumsfeld, in a letter posted this week to her Web site. "Since Abu Abbas is responsible for the murder of...

**Exclusive** Former Clinton White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is on the eve of unleashing his long awaited get-back shoot-back pay-back book -- a work being billed as "the last feature of the 20th Century." In THE CLINTON WARS [Farrar Straus & Giroux], Blumenthal finally breaks his public silence on the Clinton years, which he witnessed firsthand, up close, in real-time. The memoir may be the first inside account of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton, but print outlets have taken a pass on running excerpts from WARS, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. MORE NEWSWEEK, TIME, VANITY FAIR and others opted...

<p>Ten years ago, the eyes of the nation were focused on President Bill Clinton. Delivering an address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 23, 1993, Clinton pledged to deliver universal health insurance to the country. Under Clinton's proposal, everyone in the United States would carry a card signifying federal government assurance of continuous health insurance coverage.</p>

Pictures from our Stuart, FL, Friday 04/18 rally are online at> http://www.artfightingterror.org/counterprotest.html Next Friday, April 25 will be the final of the planned-for events (anyone can continue to demonstrate as they see fit thereafter). At 6:30 pm, following the rally, a brief ceremony will be held at Stuart's War Memorial Park in honor of the courage and sacrifice of the men and women in the US and Coalition armed services with a special salute to the fallen. A tenative agenda for the service at> http://www.artfightingterror.org/memorial_agenda.html This FReeper thread can also serve for posting comments by all the thousands of folks...