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When Barbra Streisand finished recording Christmas Memories on Sept. 7, she was satisfied that the album echoed depth and drama that went beyond a cozy celebration of the holiday season. Four days later, those sentiments of love, friendship and selflessness took on an even broader reach. Like U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind, Enya's A Day Without Rain and other uplifting music released before Sept. 11, Christmas Memories attained profound, and even prophetic, shadings in the wake of the terror attacks. Streisand is no psychic, but she long sensed a coming catastrophe, and that apprehension may have cultivated ...

Patriotic Buying "With the United States engaged in a new kind of "war," NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr remembers the privations of wars past and wonders what kind of sacrifices Americans will make this time."For discussion and information only. Not for commercial use

Our April 16, 1999, trip to Denver, Colorado, began with a major snowstorm and ended with the tragic event at Columbine High School on April 20—a tragedy recently repeated at Santana. Columbine’s surroundings were breathtakingly beautiful, with nature itself attesting to design, strength, and power beyond human understanding, evidenced by a tiny flower called the Columbine and a mighty mountain called Pike’s Peak. Yet, there was human tragedy. Like people of faith all over the world, we believed the incident posed questions which have faced humankind from the beginning. After all, wasn’t Cain’s story a question of inner motivation, not ...

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Following the testimony of the first Bush expert witness this morning, FOXNews featured Professor Rothstein as a consultant expert.Early in Boies' cross examination of the Bush statistical expert, he attempted to influence the TV audience's impression of the statistician and damage the statician's credibility with a question as to whether the expert had not used his expertise in another court case to claim that lead paint did not damage children.Although Beck's objection was sustained, the comment was "out there" in the public mind. Boies' claim was open to multiplication by repetition in the media, and he knew it.Almost immediately, during ...

During Brit Hume's report and interview with the reporter covering the Bush Team in Austin, Hume asked if he had names of any Democrats who might be being considered for Bush appointments in an effort to reach across the aisle.The reporter responded that one name was that of the "Governor of North Carolina for Education Secretary."

By every means available, and by every person who can speak or write, Gore should be called on each of the lies he speaks when he opens his mouth, as follows: On every lie, he should be called, repeatedly, and without ceasing! 1. There was no mob intimidation of Miami-Dade CB. The Chairman of the Canvassing Board and Congressman Buyer have stated unequivocally this did not happen. 2. There are no 'uncounted' votes. As in every state and precinct, machine counts discard undervotes and overvotes. 3. He does not care that "every" vote is counted. If he did, he'd call ...

The Farewell Address of President George Washington Sept. 17, 1796 Friends and Fellow-Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprize you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of ...

Freepers, and all others who treasure the Founders' formula for ordered liberty, we should now turn our attention to one fundamental fact: the "contest" for this election is not about Albert Gore. It is not about Gore/Lieberman. It is not about "counting every vote," "fairness," or "legitimacy for the President." This "contest," with its shrill, illogical defenders, is about ideas of Creator-endowed life, rights, liberty and "Creator's law" enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution versus "counterfeit ideas"--ideas that: place the "choice" for or against life in human hands; deny the role of "Divine Providence" and "the Supreme Judge ...

Palm Beach County Judge Burton's call for an extension of the 5 p.m. Sunday deadline under the new law "enacted" by the Florida Supreme Court after the election, and just last week, provides all conservatives a platform from which to address constitutional principles.As a matter of fact, events since November 7 have provided the best opportunity of many decades for a lesson in the fundamental principles underlying our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.If, as Bush/Cheney claims, the Florida Supreme Court acted in violation of the Separation of Powers principle by "making" law (the proper role of the Legislative Branch of ...

May I suggest that we focus much public attention on the underlying constitutional principles being violated here?Not in my lifetime have we had an opportunity like this one to be able to see so clearly a modern-day example of what the Founders were willing to risk their lives to avoid on our behalf. The opportunity may not come again, if we fail, for the government school system, from 1st grade through graduate and law school, has failed to teach the ideas of liberty, and we are seeing the consequences played out before us.1. The "rule of law" concept of the ...

Hearing Jesse Jackson on Saturday appealing for "inclusiveness" and allowing the votes of the "holocaust victims in Palm Beach" to be counted, along with those of our military men and women overseas, caused me to begin thinking about the callousness with which the Left Wing Liberals victimize people over and over again--all for the sake of self aggrandizement and self promotion.Take Al Gore...here he is, a man who has pandered to every conceivable "special interest" group in the country: seniors, minorities, the sick, the rich, the poor, the entertainment industry, the groups trying to clean up entertainment, Jewish citizens, unions, ...

Heard from a relative in NC that a teacher in an elementary school there is using the current Florida situation as background for teaching how presidents are elected.After several days of watching and discussing Mr. Gore's efforts to change the results of Florida's Election Day Vote, one of the children in the class asked, "Mrs. xxxx, does this mean we'll have a crybaby for president?"

Ray Flynn, former Ambassador to the Vatican and long time Democrat, just interviewed on FOXNews called on the Vice President to stop his actions in Florida.Wisely, Flynn stated that Gore is fast approaching the point where his actions will do great damage the country and its people, reminding him that this is not about Gore or the Party, it is about America.

Interview with Beverly Green (sp.?), who said she was a Republican Candidate for the Florida Legislature who lost her election by 11 votes. She stated she asked the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board for a manual recount and was denied the request.She stated that the reasons they gave her were that there was no evidence of fraud and that the machines did not malfunction. Now, she says the same people, Teresa LePore (sp.?) and others are trying to get a manual recount for Al Gore.Among her other statements: "There is no justice in Palm Beach County." When asked if she ...

Along with state, Gore lost his old congressional district Nov. 10, 2000 | 3:29 p.m. By KARIN MILLER Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Not only did Al Gore lose his home state of Tennessee, but he also lost the congressional district he represented for eight years. The 6th Congressional District he represented from 1976 to 1984 doesn't have the same makeup today as it did 16 years ago, but if the votes in the 17 counties it once comprised were added up, George W. Bush would have 166,025 to Gore's 140,992. That is an additional embarrassment to Gore, ...

By this scandalous attack on the electoral process, Gore is continuing the Clinton(s)/Gore Administration's assault on the principles underlying our Constitution's protections of "the People('s)" liberty. Believing Americans won't recognize his attack on liberty, Gore is willing to make America the laughingstock of the world, destroy financial markets and savings of working Americans, and risk the liberty of future generations for temporary power and advancement of the far left agenda. What a cheap trade!

"...it may be concluded that a pure democracy...can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction [dissenting groups]. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party..."Hence it is that such democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who ...

FLORIDA DEPT. OF STATE DIVISIONS Office of the Secretary Division of Elections STATEMENT BY THE DIVISION OF ELECTIONS OF THE FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 8, 2000 CONTACT: Clay Roberts (850) 488-7690 TALLAHASSEE, FL.-- As of 6:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 8, 2000, the Florida election returns in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election were 2,909,135 for Republican candidate George W. Bush and 2,907,351 for Democratic candidate Albert Gore. These returns reflect all precinct ballots cast and all absentee ballots cast in all 67 Florida counties, with the sole exception of outstanding overseas absentee ballots. The difference in ...

Children Will Listen Careful the things you say Children will listen Careful the things you do Children will see and learn Children may not obey But children will listen Children will look to you For which way to turn To learn how to be Careful before you say Listen to me Children will listen Careful the wish you make Wishes are children Careful the path you take Wishes come true Not free Careful the spell you cast And not just on children Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you Careful the tale you ...