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GOPUSA Bringing the conservative message to the Internet GOPUSA Eagle - November 19, 2001 ======================================================================== Inside this issue... * Jack Rains... Lone Star Shoot out; High Noon in Houston * A Look at the Headlines * State News Briefs * Bush Update * GOPUSA News... Wheaton group says AT&T Broadband Ignoring Demand for Fox News Channel * Alan Keyes... Teaching the Truth * Carol Devine-Molin... Bush Superbly Cleans Up Clinton's Mess * Dorothy Anne Seese... Vladmir Putin: Formidable Man, Friend or Foe * Gregg Bish... Farewell to Arms * Doug Patton... The Laughing Sheiks of Saudi Arabia * Star Parker... Inner City 101 in Israel's Defense * SARTRE... New World Disorder Psychology * Kevin Tuma Cartoon... Osama Think -- Don't just sit there mulling it over... subscribe to The Eagle today! http://gopusa.com/eagle/subscribe.shtml ======================================================================== Lone Star Shoot out; High Noon in Houston By Jack Rains Former Texas Secretary of State Campaign Chairman, Orlando Sanchez for Mayor On December 1, history will be made in Houston. A hotly contested run off in Houston's Mayoral election pits a fiscal conservative Republican Orlando Sanchez against a two-term incumbent, liberal Democrat, Lee Brown, former Drug Czar to President Bill Clinton. The challenger, Sanchez, has a slight lead in the race, and Democrats all over the country are rallying to try and save Brown. Houston, America's fourth largest city, and the southeast Texas region it dominates, accounts for roughly one third of the Texas vote total and is a rich area for political contributions. Houston accounts for over a third of all the political money raised in Texas in both parties. In a strong Mayor form of government, such as Houston has, the mayor with a $1.5 Billon annual budget, and controlling half as much again through appointments to Boards and Commissions, exercises great influence over the business community, and their political activity. Read more at http://gopusa.com/opinion/jr_111901.shtml Editor's Note: Please do whatever you can to help Orlando Sanchez in this race. I have known Orlando for over six years and worked on his first city council race. He is a solid conservative and someone who will represent Houston with honor. We need to get rid of Lee Brown now! You saw what he did as drug czar under Bill Clinton (absolutely nothing), and that's exactly what he's done for Houston. Please contribute what you can to help elect a conservative as the next Mayor of Houston. ======================================================================== And now... a word from our sponsor... ORLANDO SANCHEZ FOR MAYOR A Houstonian since 1962, Houston City Council Member Orlando Sanchez has a long track record of public service to Houston and his country. Please support Orlando Sanchez in his runoff election against liberal Democrat Lee Brown on December 1. Click here to find our more --< http://gopusa.com/ads/sanchez.html ======================================================================== A Look at the Headlines The front page of the GOPUSA web site is constantly being updated to provide you with the latest news and information. Here are your Monday headlines: GOPUSA Top Story -- Work Begins on New Afghan Government The Washington Times * War on terrorism gets OK from liberal Amherst * Foreign aid bill snags on population fund * Powell: Peace talks don't require new plan CNSNews.com * Left-Wing Groups Aided by 9-11 Funds; Critics Charge 'Abuse' * End of Year Tax Decisions Spotlight Mutual Fund Tax Problem * Vietnam To Fight Sex-Selective Abortions NewsMax.com * Muslim Moderate Kabbani Firm on Terrorist Nuclear Threat * Taliban Claims bin Laden Fled * CIA Plays Key Role Fox News * Powell Plans to Elaborate on Proposal for a Palestinian State * Poison Manual Found in Safe House * Two American Sailors Among Missing After Iraqi Tanker Sinks USA Today * More U.S. bombing as diplomatic efforts intensify * Jet's wreckage may indicate prior damage * Phillips and Conoco sign $35 billion deal to merge Human Events Online * Newspaper Recount Didn't Count All Votes * The Big No Show: U.S. Immigration Court * Watts Sees National Security Issue as GOP Boon These headlines and more can be found at http://gopusa.com ======================================================================== State News Briefs In addition to national news, GOPUSA also brings you the latest news from your state. Click on one of the links below to read the latest state headlines. If your state is not listed, perhaps you'd like to help GOPUSA by being a state editor. To find out more the role of a volunteer state editor, please click here --< http://gopusa.com/editors.shtml Alaska - Appeals court decision could mean more rural trials http://gopusa.com/alaska Arizona - Liberals fiscal policies based on twisted history http://gopusa.com/arizona California - Challenge Revives SAT Test Debate http://gopusa.com/california Florida - Red pickup reveals Reno's 'other side' http://gopusa.com/florida Georgia - Head Democrat looks for more election gains http://gopusa.com/georgia Idaho - Idaho lawmakers caught off guard by security proposals http://gopusa.com/idaho Illinois - Ryan to remain in race http://gopusa.com/illinois Michigan - Posthumus to Toronto: "Michigan Doesn't Want Your Trash" http://gopusa.com/michigan New York - Rudy's Favorite Borough http://gopusa.com/newyork North Carolina - Plan gives 12th a bigger chunk of Forsyth http://gopusa.com/northcarolina Oklahoma - Republicans say they'll need runoff for 1st District race http://gopusa.com/oklahoma Pennsylvania - Fleeced Again - New ways to pay for failing public education http://gopusa.com/pennsylvania South Carolina - Wilson Wins Second Congressional District Primary http://gopusa.com/southcarolina Tennessee - TennCare overhaul proposal is sent to legislators http://gopusa.com/tennessee Texas - Central Texas thunderstorms seem bittersweet http://gopusa.com/texas Wisconsin - Chvala sought donations, lobbyists say http://gopusa.com/wisconsin ======================================================================== And now... a word from our sponsor... CONSERVATIVE BOOK CLUB http://www.conservativebookclub.com From Barbara Olson's "The Final Days" to Bill O'Reilly's "No Spin Zone" to Peter Bergen's "Holy War, Inc.", the Conservative Book Club works tirelessly to find its members the right books at the right time. Unite with the Right today and take your 3 books for just $1 each, plus get a 4th for just $7.95! Click here to find our more information. --< http://gopusa.com/ads/cbc.html ======================================================================== Bush Update Weekly Radio Address Delivered by First Lady Laura Bush Laura Bush: Good morning. I'm Laura Bush, and I'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a world-wide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children by the al-Qaida terrorist network and the regime it supports in Afghanistan, the Tablian. That regime is now in retreat across much of the country, and the people of Afghanistan - especially women - are rejoicing. Afghan women know, through hard experience, what the rest of the world is discovering: The brutal oppression of women is a central goal of the terrorists. Long before the current war began, the Taliban and its terrorist allies were making the lives of children and women in Afghanistan miserable. Seventy percent of the Afghan people are malnourished. One in every four children won't live past the age of five because health care is not available. Women have been denied access to doctors when they're sick. Life under the Taliban is so hard and repressive, even small displays of joy are outlawed - children aren't allowed to fly kites; their mothers face beatings for laughing out loud. Women cannot work outside the home, or even leave their homes by themselves. Read more at http://gopusa.com/bush/radio43.shtml ======================================================================== Wheaton group says AT&T Broadband Ignoring Demand for Fox News Channel By Dan Zanoza, GOPUSA News Contributor Chicago, IL (GOPUSA) -- Since the Fox News Channel (FNC) went on the air in 1996, viewer demand for the cable news service, with popular hosts like Bill O'Reilly, has increased dramatically. The latest ratings show O'Reilly defeating the Cable News Network's (CNN) popular television host Larry King. O'Reilly's success in the ratings is especially significant because FNC is available in far fewer households than CNN. For example, AT&T Broadband, the nation's largest cable company, with nearly 14.4 million subscribers and 94 percent of the Chicagoland market, does not carry FNC for about 50 percent of the Chicagoland households the company serves, including those in Wood Dale, Palos Park and Wheaton. Dave Diersen, spokesman for a group called "Wheaton for FNC" told GOPUSA thousands of AT&T Broadband's current and former subscribers, in municipalities where the company does not carry FNC, have asked for the channel, but the company continues to ignore their requests. It has been reported a number of elected officials, including Illinois Senate President Pate Philip, Wood Dale; state Senator and gubernatorial candidate Patrick O'Malley, Palos Park; Senator Peter Roskam and Representative Randall Hultgren, Wheaton, have joined the call for AT&T Broadband to include FNC to its cable lineup in the aforementioned areas. The company recently replaced its Chairman & CEO and announced that it would increase its cable prices by 5.5 percent on January 1, 2002. Its parent, AT&T, is attempting to sell the company. Read more at http://gopusa.com/news/011119_diersen.shtml ======================================================================== Teaching the Truth By Alan Keyes The burgeoning movement to restore to our school children an understanding of America's historic heritage, our founding documents and the principles that underlie our way of life, has come just in time. Nothing is more important than restoring clarity in the minds of our young people about the crucial role that each and every citizen plays in the life of this Republic. Throughout human history, self-government by the people has been almost non-existent. Ours is the first great nation to sustain an experiment in this kind of self-government over the course of centuries. Our founders understood that the effort to establish a government based on the consent of the governed was exceptional and difficult. Because of the success of the experiment, we have had a tendency to take it for granted. But to live under a regime that respects the rights and dignity of all, where we each have some share of participation in the decisions that shape the destiny of our community and our future, is a blessing ? an extraordinary blessing. It will be a fatal mistake if we continue to take it for granted. Read more at http://gopusa.com/alankeyes/ak_111901.shtml ======================================================================== Bush Superbly Cleans Up Clinton's Mess By Carol Devine-Molin As of this writing, the Taliban forces are in full retreat, as critical cities, Mazar-e-Sharif, and the capital Kabul, are now firmly under the control of the American-backed insurgents from the Northern Alliance. The cities of Kandahar and Jalalabad are about to topple, with the Taliban fleeing to the mountains in an attempt to re-group and launch guerrilla style attacks upon their enemies. Contemporaneously, US Special Operations troops are in keen pursuit and zeroing in on Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network. And the worst fears of the civilized world were confirmed upon the discovery of a nuclear device blueprint found at a bombed-out al Qaeda safe house in Kabul. This blueprint, and other documents unearthed at that site, represent a US intelligence bonanza, verifying that bin Laden's organization indeed has access to fissile materials for the construction of nuclear and radiological weaponry. Moreover, in anticipation that suspected terrorists will be apprehended forthwith, President Bush has signed an executive order establishing a military tribunal to try these murderous thugs. Read more at http://gopusa.com/caroldevinemolin/cdm_111901.shtml ======================================================================== Vladmir Putin: Formidable Man, Friend or Foe By Dorothy Anne Seese Who is this man who came out of political nowhere to lead the new Russia? He certainly is not the vodka-sotted puppet that Boris Yeltsin was during his years as so-called president of Russia. Until his appearance as the new Russian president, Putin spent most of his career as a member of the KGB. He doesn't look like a mean man, he doesn't have the evil look of Stalin, Khruschev, or any number of Arab/Islamic leaders. Actually, his face is rather bland, at times almost boyish. Good spies, which is what Putin was for many years, never look like Hollywood's idea of a spy. And not all devastating leaders look like Saddam Hussein or the late Ayatollah Khomeini (who looked like an escapee from an insane ward). Read more at http://gopusa.com/dorothyanneseese_111901.shtml ======================================================================== Farewell to Arms By Gregg Bish Much has changed in the world, much that some find distasteful, and that others find poignant and sweet. Times have changed enough, however, that time has come to re-evaluate the shape of the world. Much good has come to pass. Much more is coming. Our nation was stabbed in the heart with a bitter dagger September 11. The wound was deep. Rather more like a cancer patient hearing of the onset of a dread disease than a victim of a vicious assault, however, America responded. The response surprised many, though often those who were surprised were younger, less informed and less understanding types, whose life experience has been limited to a world shaped in the days following the Viet Nam War. It has seemed uncanny to these types that America, instead of blindly lashing out, or retreating into a forced, brooding isolationism, has been reborn. Read more at http://gopusa.com/greggbish/gb_111901.shtml ======================================================================== The Laughing Sheiks of Saudi Arabia By Doug Patton "The American government... stands by its commitment to a just peace in the Middle East. We are working toward the day when two states - Israel and Palestine - live peacefully together within secure and recognized borders as called for by the Security Council resolutions." George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Nov. 10, 2001 With those few words, President Bush ushered in a new era and a new American attitude toward Israel. No American president has ever used the term "Palestine" to refer to anything other than the area of the Middle East occupied by Great Britain until 1948, at which time that occupied territory became the sovereign state of Israel. Our official position has always been to speak in terms of a prospective "Palestinian state" or a "Palestinian homeland," but never of "Palestine." Read more at http://gopusa.com/dougpatton/dp_111901.shtml ======================================================================== Inner City 101 in Israel's Defense By Star Parker Not again. Will not even the assassination of Israeli Cabinet Member Rehavam Zeevi spark renewed loyalty from America to defend our friends? In looking for the right answer regarding those that President Bush has called our friends, maybe Secretary of State Colin Powell should take a lesson from inner city gang members. "I got your back" is a popular summary as to why these street thugs so willingly go to jail or die for their hommies. The saying means that even when the road gets tough, you can depend on me. Read more at http://gopusa.com/starparker/sp_111901.shtml ======================================================================== New World Disorder Psychology By SARTRE Events since 911 have created a deep seeded dread towards the future in the minds of many Americans. What was attacked on that day was not buildings alone. The deaths that were snuffed out were not the only victims from the act of terror. The feeling of anguish has overtaken much of the public psyche, as the tone of the continuous reporting and reflection has exposed an uncertainty, that few would have admitted, just a short time ago. Control over your environment and circumstances is a goal that most strive to achieve. In the fleeting moments by an act of absurd action and applied depravity, security of our world view was shattered. Read more at http://gopusa.com/sartre/sartre_111901.shtml ======================================================================== Osama Think By Kevin Tuma The latest Kevin Tuma cartoon can be found on the GOPUSA web site by clicking on the following link: http://gopusa.com/cartoons/tuma_111601.shtml Archives of Kevin's cartoons can be found at http://gopusa.com/cartoons We hope you enjoy the cartoon! Look for more in future issues of the GOPUSA Eagle. ======================================================================== SUBSCRIBE TODAY! LET THE EAGLE LAND ON YOUR DESKTOP Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Would you like to subscribe to it yourself or subscribe a friend? If so, simply and fill out the simple form at http://gopusa.com/eagle/subscribe.shtml ======================================================================== Copyright 2000-2001, GOPUSA.com, Inc. http://gopusa.com eagle@gopusa.com
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