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Bob Smith stands tall -- in more ways than just the obvious Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 17, 1999. Some time ago James Carville, the meanest of Bill Clinton's junkyard dogs, said of Sen. Bob Smith, R-New Hampshire, who's running for president, that, though Carville disagreed with Smith's positions, the senator deserved credit for the sincerity of his beliefs. Because that was the only time I've heard Carville speak positively of any Republican except his wife, I took the time to watch Smith give a speech and answer questions at the National Press Club on C-Span. It was ...

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A pastor's wife stabbed him to death in the groin with a butcher knife early today in an argument over his infidelity, police said. Carrie Rousonelos, 35, was charged with murder in the slaying of Anthony Rousonelos, the 42-year-old pastor of Faith Assembly of God Church in St. Petersburg. ``From my understanding, he admitted to the infidelity and the argument ensued from there and the rest, as they say, is history,'' said police spokesman Mac Williams. The couple had three children — twin 10-year-old boys and a 13-year old girl. Two were visiting an aunt, ...

Is it in the genes? Or perhaps the water? As he prepared for his first campaign swing outside of Texas, Gov. George W. Bush tied himself into the same no-new-taxes knot that politically strangled his father. It wasn't necessary, and it wasn't wise. He promised to "oppose and veto any increase in individual or corporate marginal income tax rates or corporate income tax hikes." Unless he has adopted President Clinton's style of splitting legal hairs, this seems to rule out taxes that are often paraded as something else, such as user fees, gasoline taxes and tobacco fines. Why did Bush ...

Brownback slams Clinton for hitching Indo-US ties to CTBT WASHINGTON: Senator Sam Brownback, who authored the amendments to relax sanctions against India and Pakistan, has lashed out at the Clinton administration for alleged footdragging on removal of the embargoes on New Delhi and holding the Indo-American relationship hostage to the CTBT issue. Addressing the US-India Business Council's annual meeting here on Wednesday, Brownback, like several other members of Congress, expressed understanding for the reasons why India went nuclear and accused the administration of favouring Beijing over New Delhi. ``The US must encourage a broad, stable and improved relationship between ...

17 Jun 11:54 NTUF Study: League of Women Voters' 'Neutral' Public Image Masks $870 Billion Legislative Agenda To: National Desk Contact: Pete Sepp or Jared Adams, 703-486-2913, both of the National Taxpayers Union Foundation; Web site: http://www.ntu.org ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As debate rages on the Hill this week over whether to discharge Campaign Finance Reform and schedule it for immediate consideration, a study by the nonpartisan National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) reveals that one of reform's biggest advocates, the League of Women Voters (LWV), has legislative interests that would swell the federal budget by $870 billion ...

DEBATE OVER CONTRAILS INTENSIFIES by Dana Davis, The Asheville Tribune 828-254-1311 or ashevilletribune@interpath.com Copyright 1999, The Asheville Tribune, Inc. - "Air Quality" series, Part II of IV part one here just press your mouse icon Everyone from NASA to 'Joe Citizen' to the core of the United States' national defense seems to have their own opinion about contrails and their effects on humans and our environment. Each opinion has its own take and each side, brimming with conviction, is convinced that their theories are the superior syllogism in this debate. Contrails are the white/silver cloud-like wake that follows behind an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) --The Clinton administration has decided to remove the bald eagle from the Endangered Species list, concluding that the national bird has fully recovered, Interior department officials said Thursday. The eagle was near extinction in the 1960s and began its recovery after the banning of the pesticide DDT in 1972. The chemical had been a primary source of eagle mortality. "We're going to take the bird off. The eagle is at a point where it's made a full recovery," Interior spokesman John Wright said. Administration sources, who spoke on condition of not being further identified, said there are plans ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: THE STORY OF A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE SUBSECTION: ALL Revised 6/17/99 CONVICTIONS INDICTMENTS AND TARGETS OTHER CRIMINAL/TERRORIST ASSOCIATES TAINTED BLOOD SCANDAL JUDICIAL WATCH LAWSUITS WHITEWATER DRUGS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FUND (CDFI) BANK OF CREDIT AND COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL (BCCI) ---Background ---Abu Nidal ---Stephens and Riady   CONVICTIONS Webster Hubbell Jim McDougal Susan McDougal Gov. Jim Guy Tucker Stephen Smith David Hale Eugene Fitzhugh Charles Matthews Robert W. Palmer Chris Wade Neal T. Ainley Larry Kuca William J. Marks, Sr. John Latham John Haley Michael Brown (Ron Brown's son) ...

DECISION BRIEF 15 June 1999 Clinton Intel Panel Confirms that D.O.E. Security Melt-down, Begat by Hazel O'Leary, Continues Under Bill Richardson (Washington, D.C.): Today, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) released the findings of its 90-day study of security issues at the Department of Energy. Although the report itself was unavailable at this writing, press reports indicate that the PFIAB analysis not only paints a grim picture of past breaches of the most basic procedures for safeguarding classified nuclear weapons data. It also reveals that the gross disregard for elementary physical, information and personnel security -- encouraged by ...

Time To Consider That New Tool Politics: A Woman's View We're Voting for the Constitution here!   Heads Up A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia by: Doug Fiedor Previous Editions at: UHUH and HEADS UP TIME TO CONSIDER THAT NEW TOOL There is a lot of gun news out there lately and, truthfully, most of it is bad. No, it's not people shooting up things, either. One in one-hundred-million gun owners may do that once in a while, just as some may cause havoc with automobiles. There are evil and crazy people around, and that is a ...

PRISTINA, June 17 (Reuters) - British forces on Thursday cordoned off a Serb-run police station in the centre of the Kosovan provincial capital Pristina where they said a torture chamber for the interrogation of prisoners had been found. A British military spokesman said investigators from United Nations war crimes tribunal in the Hague had been called to the site and had taken away documents and instruments used in interrogations.,p> ``We have found what we believe is strong evidence of the systematic torture of prisoners by (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic's police in a cellar,'' the spokesman told reporters. NATO troops have ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. BEIJING - For the World Bank's high-powered experts, the plan to give 58,000 poor farmers a better life by moving them westward seemed like a no-brainer, the kind of project the bank has used to help hundreds of thousands elsewhere in China escape poverty. Through three years of planning, the bank never foresaw the fury that moving Chinese farmers into Tibetan lands would bring. Now, with a bank board vote on the proposal days away, Tibet lobbying groups have likened the plan to ethnic purges. The Dalai Lama has appealed for ...

ArtificialEconomy The Artificial Economy Copyright © 1999 Lance Struthers (may be freely distributed)     What wonderful illusions we have created for our magic show.     Our money is managed, not by we individuals, but by the Glowbullist Federal Reserve System and its member banks, in league with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and subservient other International/Glowbull banks.  Is this really acceptable by American Citizens who worked for their money, or are they just "going along" because it's easier than challenging the arrogant of power?     Pretenses of credit, the invisible electrons of wealth in today's USA, cannot ...

Kansas conservatives vs. AP bias By John D. Altevogt Newspapers have been full of plaudits lately for retiring Associated Press correspondent Lew Ferguson. Journalists I respect praise Ferguson for being a fair, knowledgeable reporter, and referred to his Topeka bureau as Lew's Finishing School for Boy and Girl Reporters. Unfortunately, this is not the Lew Ferguson I'm familiar with. The AP Topeka bureau I'm familiar with is widely perceived by conservatives as an integral part of the movement to eliminate social conservatives from Kansas politics. And Ferguson's protege and replacement, John Hanna, sometimes referred to among other reporters as "Little ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: REMEMBERING THE DEAD SUBSECTION: ALL Revised 6/17/99 SUICIDES HOMICIDES ACCIDENTS NATURAL UNKNOWN UNRECORDED HUMAN RIGHTS - UNRECORDED LINE OF DUTY SOMALIA EMBASSY BOMBINGS RON BROWN PLANE CRASH OKLAHOMA CITY WACO RUBY RIDGE (AFTERMATH) COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SOURCES DEATHS - SUICIDES Vincent Foster (Whitehouse Deputy Counsel, Gunshot to mouth, neck wounds) Kathy Ferguson (ex-wife of Clinton co-defendant, Gunshot to head) Bill Shelton (Arkansas state trooper, Kathy Ferguson's fiancee, Gunshot to head) Susan Coleman (Alleged Clinton Girlfriend, 7.5 months pregnant, Gunshot to head) Jon Parnell Walker (RTC Investigator on ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: THE POLITICAL EXITS SUBSECTION: ALL Revised 6/17/99 RESIGNATIONS RETIRED, NOW LOBBYISTS ELECTED REPUBLICANS NOW DEMOCRAT SINCE 1992 ELECTED DEMOCRATS NOW REPUBLICAN SINCE 1992 DEMOCRAT RECRUITMENT FAILURES RESIGNATIONS George Stephanopoulos David Gergen Dee Dee Myers Dick Morris Robert Reich Ira Magaziner Frederico Pena Harold Ickes Mike Espy Roger Altman Les Aspin Leon Panetta Hazel O'Leary Warren Christopher Lanny Davis Franklin Raines Richard Riley (rumored) Robert Rubin (rumored) Mike McCurry Thomas ("Mack") McLarty Louis Freeh (rumored) Abner Mikva Lloyd Cutler Navy Secretary John Dalton Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY: DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: INVESTIGATIONS SUBSECTION: ALL Revised 6/17/99 UNDER INVESTIGATION AGENCIES AND COMMITTEES INVESTIGATING THE ADMINSTRATION DECEMBER 13, 1994 WHITE HOUSE TASK LIST ISSUES:   UNDER INVESTIGATION Perjury Subornation of Perjury Obstruction of Justice Abuse of Power Illegal Campaign Contributions Technology Exports Witness Tampering Bribery Racketeering Fraud - Various Congress Action Newsletter Kim Weissman 8/98 "Just in case anyone has forgotten, the Lewinsky affair is just the very small tip of a very large iceberg of potentially impeachable offenses which must be investigated, which do not even include the additional ...

A Policy Of Engagement-- With Our Children Here's how I understand the liberal of today: If we could just prescribe for our kids more Ritalin and Prozac, have v-chips on TVs, parental screens on the Internet, and safety locks on guns everything would be just fine. Why is it so hard to admit that parents aren't spending enough time with their kids? Why do we keep brain-washing each other that "quality time" is better for families than "quantity time"? Since when has anything been improved with less personal time? Some smart guy (gal?) figured out about twenty-five years ago that ...

I am currently working on my second screenplay parody, the follow-up to my "Citizen Clinton" piece. I hope to finish it sometime next week, and I am looking to post it in five parts. Unfortunately, I am not sure that Free Republic is the place for this sort of stuff anymore. Earlier today, I started a dopey thread titled "Naked Gay Marine Bans NRA’s 10 Commandments in NWO Nod to KLA Contrails during Y2K Test". I thought this was a rather innocuous joke - a comment on today’s various topics. Well, apparently the Free Republic thought police objected and ...

Now that the Kosovo War — or “conflict” as the White House insisted on calling it before it was settled — is over, some killjoys are bound to interrupt the continuous gloat coming from Bill Clinton’s friends and actually count the costs of the operation. It will be harder to calculate the ways our own military has been degraded by the Clinton/Madeleine Albright adventure. The financial costs of depleting our cruise missile stores, stretching an Air Force already scrambling for spare parts and the strain of yet another deployment on the most deployed military in the history of the ...