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Hillary Clinton: I'm No Marie Antoinette 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Monday that people who compare her to Marie Antoinette - the famous French royal who was beheaded, according to folklore, after telling her subjects, "Let them eat cake" - have got it all wrong. "Poor old Marie Antoinette lost her head, which is kind of a scary prospect," Clinton told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Responding to a question from the paper's editorial board about a recent column by Richard Cohen - who defended Clinton against the Antoinette comparison - the former first lady insisted that her predecessor...

Americans waking up this morning are finding their flag poles with Mexican national flags replacing the stars and strips The Stars and Stripes have been replaced by the Mexican flag at Chasewood North, and residents of the condominium community off Central Boulevard are puzzled as to who made the switch. "I woke up Sunday morning and looked up from my patio and then realized that the American flag wasn't on the flagpole," said Sue Miller a Chasewood North board member. "What captured my attention were the colors — at first I thought it was an Italian flag, but one of...

Pointing to increased competition from the European Union and rising economic powers such as India and China in the eleven years since NAFTA took effect, co-chair Pedro C. Aspe, former Finance Minister of Mexico, said, "We need a vision for North America to address the new challenges." The Task Force establishes a blueprint for a powerhouse North American trading area that allows for the seamless movement of goods, increased labor mobility, and energy security.Task Force Urges Measures to Strengthen North American Competitiveness, Expand Trade, Ensure Border Security May 17, 2005 Council on Foreign Relations May 17, 2005--North America is vulnerable...

Based on the email I received, I think that many of you were deceived by the latest sham created by the Associated press. This story was forwarded to me by several people. The headline itself is a venom- infested lie, which reads " FEC Won't Regulate Internet Politics." This headline is a horrendous falsehood, as we see from the very first line of the story. The text of the article reads that "The Federal Election Commission decided Monday that the nation's new campaign finance law will not apply to most political activity on the Internet." That's the vicious lie of...

After partying peacefully all night with young people he'd met at a nearby rave, the heavyset man left an east Capitol Hill home around 7 a.m. He returned minutes later, draped in ammunition belts and armed with a 12-gauge shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol. His first victim was gunned down on the front steps, the second on the porch. Pandemonium broke out as partygoers dived out windows while others tried to hold the front door shut in the face of a fusillade of shotgun blasts. He killed six young people Saturday morning before turning the shotgun on himself as a...

STONY BROOK, N.Y. AP) _ Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech on women and equal pay was interrupted twice Thursday by anti-war protesters at a Long Island university. The 26 protesters _ in an audience of about 300 _ shouted out "Stop the war" and "Troops out now" as the Democratic senator from New York spoke at Stony Brook University. They said Clinton supported President Bush and the war in Iraq. Clinton did not respond to the shouts, but university President Shirley Strum Kenny stood up and told the demonstrators that everyone has the right to listen to the senator and...

<p>John McCain, you treasonous bastard, I challenge you or any of your traitorous cohorts to find even one thread, one post, one paragraph, one sentence or even one lousy word posted to this web site that is not fully protected by the First Amendment!</p>

<p>Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for 30 days. No non government approved electioneering messages may be transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election.</p> <p>That is all.</p>

"WASHINGTON – Islamic websites yesterday posted a "last warning" warning by Rakan Ben Williams, who describes himself as an "al-Qaida undercover soldier" in the U.S., threatening two major operations designed to bring Americans "to your knees." " "The threat suggests the attack will be far greater in magnitude than Sept. 11, 2001, because following this one, "there will be no one to analyze and investigate, because the mind and the heart will be unable to comprehend it. ... This will not be a single operation, but two; one bigger than the other, but we will begin with the big one...

Editor, the Tribune: The Feb. 28 headline on Page 12A reads "Critic packs den of dissent."Really? The Missouri Theatre a den of dissent? Would you have called it this if the event had been a Mozart concert or if Noam Chomsky had stuck to talking about linguistics? And such choice wording. Is a "den of dissent" anything like a den of wolves or an opium den? Chomsky is in many ways the living successor to Bertrand Russell. Russell, now revered as the genius he was, was reviled while alive. Russell is not the only example. Thinkers such as Copernicus and...

Frontpage Interview's guest today is Gordon G. Chang, the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Amazon link). FP: Gordon G. Chang, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Chang: Thank you very much. FP: You believe that the Chinese Communist Party will fall from power by the end of this decade. We are talking about just a few years. What do you see here and why? And how is this compatible with the fact that China is getting more prosperous? What will replace the Party? Chang: As China gets more prosperous, it is becoming less stable. Senior Beijing officials now face the...

// NASA is planning to make a huge announcement today, about possible life in our own solar system. Exact details of what we can expect to hear have not been released. We do know that evidence has been found that could point to life relatively close to the earth.... No other information at this time

QX NOTE: Since mentioning the below in a very sparse thread, a well known FREEPER has reported a similar dream. Another FREEPER, who probably knows more than many of the rest of us put togehter, said it was . . . my words . . . compatible with other . . . data. I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW MANY OTHER FREEPERS HAVE HAD SUCH DREAMS AND/OR VISIONS. PLEASE FREEPMAIL THEM OR POST THEM ON THIS THREAD. If you FREEPMAIL them, please let me know if I can post them anonymously on this thread. Blessings, QX --------------------- The AP List...

Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005 (Introduced in House) HR 2679 IH 109th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2679 To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to eliminate the chilling effect on the constitutionally protected expression of religion by State and local officials that results from the threat that potential litigants may seek damages and attorney's fees. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 26, 2005 Mr. HOSTETTLER (for himself, Mr. WAMP, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. JENKINS, Mr. PAUL, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. SODREL, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. PITTS, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina, Mr....

I've Got To Get Some Things Off My Chest Greg Austin! www.gregaustin.org Don't Read This I warned you - I asked you NOT to read this, but here you are anyway . . . . Consider yourself warned! I've gotta say something. It's going to make some good, Emerging Church folks mad and it's going to offend "Ex-Church" friends alike. Some "Institutional Church" people won't like what I'm going to say any better. What I need to say is going to be extremely controversial, and knowing I'm going to stir folks up, I'm going to speak out anyway. Get mad...

A New World--If We Can Take It 07-Aug-2005 I have gotten in two books and interviewed the authors for upcoming Dreamlands that have, frankly, blown my mind. In all the years I’ve been doing this journal, I don’t think that I’ve ever written, specifically about books. But these two have changed the way I think about the world in such deep ways that I feel a need to write about them, in order to explore what they mean to our understanding of who we are and what is going on here. One of the books, Sinister Forces, contains some information...

Congressman Curt Weldon (R - Pennsylvania) gave another exclusive interview to Dom Giordano this evening (Monday) and broke the news that he will be giving a speech on September 8th (next Monday) during which he will present yet another 'Able Danger' witness. This new witness will attest (and will swear under oath when called) that he was "ordered to destroy records" relating to the 'Able Danger' program. This order to destroy the records occurred prior to 9-11-01. Weldon intimated that it happened during the Clinton Administration. The witness, who Weldon did not name, says that he was ordered to destroy...

Surinamese Deepak Kalpoe, 21, arrives to court in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Aruban police arrested Kalpoe and his brother Satish, 18, along with a third person according to government spokesman Ruben Trapenberg, saying he doesn't know if the arrests are connected to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The two brothers had been previously detained and released. (AP Photo/Pedro Famous Diaz) Surinamese Satish Kalpoe, 18, front, gets in a car to go to court in Oranjestad, Aruba, Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. Two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, who had been detained and released in the disappearance of Natalee...

Hillary Clinton usually decries the greed of pharmaceutical companies. But she suspends her distaste for them if they profit off abortifacients and other drugs that liberals happen to like. This week she renewed her attacks on the FDA for delaying approval of Barr pharmaceutical's abortifacient, Plan B. Clinton wanted the FDA to approve sale of the abortifacient for over-the-counter use, meaning that 17-year-olds could pick it up at CVS along with their Snickers bars and Pepsi. Under the Clintons in the 1990s, the FDA would often entangle pharmaceutical companies in bureaucratic tape and delay. FDA Commissioner David Kessler, to the...

It is with heavy heart I write this... I have finally reconnected with my best friend who is a paramedic who was sent from Georgia 2 days ago to Gulf Port, Mississippi before the hurricane hit. He just reached me within the last 10 mins via emergency cell phone to tell me he was alive. Thousands of bodies have been discovered throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland,Hancock County,Bay of St.Louis. They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time. Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore. The stories he...