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Ottawa and the provinces have finally unveiled their long-promised compensation package for hepatitis C victims. It appears fair to the 6,000 to 10,000 Canadians who will share in the $1.2 billion settlement. But it excludes thousands of equally sick people who contracted the potentially fatal virus through Canada's blood system. Anyone infected before 1986 or after 1990 is not eligible. It is a well-designed package. It provides the most money to those who are the sickest. But it comes too late for the dozens of hepatitis C sufferers who died in the 15 months that politicians and lawyers spent haggling ...

KOSOVO, June 16 - We've told you the Kosovo "peace process" would turn into a "piss process," and it has. And worse... It is now turning into a combination of Serb "ethnic cleansing" and a shooting gallery with live Serbs being used as targets. The "peace process" has uprooted over 30,000 Serbs. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) rebels has fanned out across the province, killing and kidnapping scores of Serbs fleeing the province, and burning their homes and churches in the last three days. In just the last 24 hours, at least six Serbs were executed by KLA in ...

The House rebuffed the governor, 76-13, Wednesday and refused again to provide money for the defense of Terry Nichols in a state trial after he was already convicted in federal court of conspiracy and sentenced to life in the Oklahoma City bombing. Lawmakers asked Wednesday how much it might cost. Rep. Bill Settle, appropriations chairman, drew laughter when he gave an ambiguous answer - anywhere from the low to high millions. Some have estimated as much as $20 million. James Bednar, head of the states Indigent Defense System, estimated that it would take at least $3 million just to ...

Company Denies Cloning Human Embryos In the latest twist to the broiling controversy over the use of human embryos for scientific research, the Geron Corporation, sponsor of the leading research on primordial human cells, denied allegations Monday that it is trying to clone human embryos. The company does confirm that it's conducting research on discarded human embryos, in search of clues how ordinary cells can be converted into stem cells that may one day be used for repairing tissues in patients, the New York Times reports Tuesday. But according to Dr. Thomas Okarma, vice president of research at Geron, a ...

WHAT HAS got into Jay Dickey and Asa Hutchinson, the state's two Republican congressmen? A bad case of clinton phobia, we suspect, or maybe just that old-time American isolationism. For whatever bad reason, both of them voted last week to cut off funds for American troops in Kosovo by October 1st. Yes, there is a certain kind of Republican that just can't stand the thought that the United States might prove a reliable ally abroad. The species bears a distinct resemblance to the kind of Democrat who entertained much the same fear during the prolonged unpleasantness in Vietnam. Left ...

IS OUR CONSTITUTION UNDER SYSTEMATIC ATTACK? IF, SO, WHO IS BEHIND THIS ATTACK? From April 19th, the date of the "Shot Heard Around The World", until today, the founding authorities have been held in reverence. But since the Woodrow Wilson administration, we have seen a growing attack upon Liberties, now culminating in an all out effort by the left wing to remove the citizen's ultimate defense against tyranny -- the unregistered home defensive weapon. Who are the people behind this concerted attack to disarm American's and make our families totally vulnerable to "control from the top"? If our children are ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and a state agency that monitors schools are considering whether to take up the case of a Fairdale High School administrator who says he was disciplined for criticizing school-district policies in a letter to the editor. Daniel Clemons, head of the school's Youth Services Center, received two written warnings for including his school and job title in a letter published April 8 in The Courier-Journal, and a district official said Clemons could be fired if he did something similar again. Clemons said the warnings, which were placed in his personnel file, violate ...

Is it still legal to buy, sell guns? Y2K expo threatened with shutdown over plan By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com A Y2K expo operator charges government officials used intimidation to stop him from buying unwanted guns and redistributing them to those who wanted guns for protection. The effort, he points out, was in direct competition with a Milwaukee-area police buyback program designed to destroy guns. The Waukesha County Voluntary Gun Disposal Program did not sit well with Chuck Ball, organizer of the recent Milwaukee Y2K Family Preparedness Expo. The county program offered $50 gift certificates to be used ...

"[Hillary Rodham Clinton] is, I have said, a Protestant nun, and she's closer to Evita [Peron] than anything else....She thinks she speaks for the common people. That woman should not be anywhere near our government, OK? - because look at the guys she surrounds herself with - those geeks, those eunuch geek men".... "Oh my God, look at them all! Sidney Blumenthal, Ira Magaziner, Harold Ickes - they all look alike. They are all weird Ichabod Crane men, all high IQ men who have no natural virility, OK? It's really weird. She loves to have her little cabals with them. ...

Untitled Normal Page   Powerless Pipsqueaks and the Myth of Local Control BY ALAN EHRENHALT The West has always believed in states’ rights. Out beyond the Rockies, more than 2,000 miles from the seat of government power in Washington, it is an article of faith that political power and decision making should be concentrated close to home, where the elected officials are familiar and approachable folks who understand ordinary citizens and their needs. If there is one freedom Western lawmakers are willing to die for, it’s freedom from interference by a meddling central government far away. At least that’s ...

NASHVILLE'S TV5 (down the page, on the left) Right now, 32.3% Say Gore will be win in 2000, 67.7% Say Gore will have to find another job. (2300 votes)

VAN NUYS, Calif. How do you know when a computer system has failed a Y2K test? When it caused 4 million gallons of raw sewage to spill into the streets. CBS 2 News reports crews armed with vacuum trucks worked through the night to clean up the mess that seeped out of the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation plant. The sewage started coming out of a utility hole near the plant on Woodley Avenue south of Victory Boulevard about midnight, plant manager Bob Birk told reporters. The spill flowed about 500 feet onto Woodley Avenue and into a brushy ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on last Sunday's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLYBe sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. What does Hillary Clinton's chief political aide Harold Ickes have in common with disgraced former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson? One sure sign that the First Lady is serious about running for a New York Senate seat is the presence of Ickes, who coordinated the suspect 1996 White House fundraising operation. He has a reputation as a fierce political infighter and is now busy lining up support for Mrs. Clinton around the Empire State. Team Clinton had wanted to make Ickes chief of staff ...

This bit of information was emailed to me from a friend. He typed the entire form so it could easily be transmitted via email. Email begins: My Doctor gave me a form to fill out. If not filled out, the Doctor does not get paid. This means the insurance is cancelled, if my guesstimation is correct. The unidentified form reads as follows: Do you wear seat belts? ................................If no, why not? Do you wear a bike helmet? Do you smoke ?.....................How many packs? Do you drink alcoholic beverages?...................How much per week? Do you drink coffee?.................How many cups per day? Do ...

(This is an unedited, uncorrected transcript.) TED KOPPEL This neighborhood behind me, Kosovo Polje, has always been a Serb stronghold. But this is departure day and the military has been moving out all afternoon. Some of these tankers have been if not celebrating, at least drinking for much of the morning. (VO) Until today, these men had not exactly been available for comment on American television. Now, after two and a half months of fierce pounding by NATO air power, they have been ordered to withdraw, pull back, retreat. Theirs is a defeated army, although you would be hard ...

Yeltsin says Russia insists on its own Kosovo zone Reuters MOSCOW -- President Boris Yeltsin told Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev on Thursday that Russia must insist on having its own peacekeeping zone in Kosovo in talks in Helsinki with U.S. officials, Interfax news agency said. ``I warned Sergeyev...that the president categorically rejects the non-allocation of a sector (to Russia) and will seek ways of overcoming this,'' Interfax quoted Yeltsin as saying. Sergeyev and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov arrived in Helsinki on Wednesday for talks with U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Russia's role ...

So Hillary Rodham Clinton is now a Yankees fan. I don't know why everyone's so surprised at the senator-designate's sudden and unprecedented interest in professional sports. For in her own way Mrs. Clinton is the political equivalent of the modern big-time sporting franchise -- ruthless and rootless, willing to fly whatever flag of convenience offers the best deal. To snipe that the newest New Yorker is really an Illinoisian is as pointless as complaining that a Coloradan Avalanchian should really be back in Quebec City: It makes no difference whether she plays for the Illinois Hillinois, the Arkansas Hillarybillies ...

Are You Laughing ? I think one should cultivate cheerfulness so far as possible. Laughter is the best response an individual can have to much of the nonsense that passes for enlightened government these days. It’s best to chuckle when one considers, for example, how the Clinton Administration and it’s British lackey, Tony Blair, have stumbled into a resurrection of the Cold War in their blinding desire to teach Slobodan Milosevic a thing or two. The prize these geniuses have won is that they can keep troops in Kosovo for a few generations at a cost of billions of dollars ...