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June 18, 1999 Compassionate Conservatives Memo To: Dan Quayle From: Jude Wanniski Re: Good For You Now that Texas Governor George W. Bush has decided officially to proclaim himself a "compassionate conservative," I’m finding myself somewhat surprised that the idea is spreading. Other Republicans want to be compassionate too. As far as I can tell, you are the only candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000 who has barred the use of the term "compassionate conservative" in association with your campaign. Good for you. This kind of mush is exactly what one expects from the third and fourth generation ...

Friends: The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Wednesday, June 23, on a bill that would dramatically reform civil asset-forfeiture laws, which allow the government to confiscate the property of innocent Americans without even charging them with a crime. We are asking everyone who receives this message to *immediately* contact your House representative and ask him or her to vote YES on HR 1658, The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 1999, sponsored by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-IL. BACKGROUND: Congress began enacting asset forfeiture laws in 1970 to permit the government to seize the property of the ...

Good news for Bob Dole. Chinese rebuild sex organs with muscle grafts Chinese doctors are claiming a breakthrough in prosthetic surgery after successfully rebuilding male sex organs using muscle from elsewhere in their bodies. The two patients involved have gone on to marry and father children, and the doctors claim even the newly linked nerves are working well enough for the new organ to respond to sexual thoughts and desires. One of the men, a worker from eastern Shandong province, had his penis removed because of a malignant tumour. The other, a Pakistani citizen, lost his in a work ...

LONDON (Reuters) - New Age travelers invaded Stonehenge Monday, spoiling Summer Solstice celebrations before British riot police moved in to clear the ancient stone circle and arrested 22 people. Under cover of darkness, hundreds of travelers stormed through the fence surrounding the prehistoric monument and police in riot gear, backed by dogs and horses, responded by evicting some 1,000 people from the site. ``They literally trampled down the fence and ran into the stones, jumping over them, sitting on top, hurling all sorts of objects at police,'' said a spokeswoman for Wiltshire police in southwest England. ``They were throwing ...

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MA wrestles with idea of doctor's labor union CHICAGO - The frustration of doctors under managed care companies peaked Sunday at the American Medical Association's annual meeting, when hundreds of physicians gathered to debate the merits and risks of forming a labor union. "American physicians are angry, frustrated and exhausted over the intrusions of third-party payers into the day-to-day practice of medicine," said Dr. William G. Gamel, a delegate from Austin, Texas, and director of that state's Medicaid program. "And they are looking to us, their representatives at the local, state, specialty and national levels, to help them find a ...

As the new field of sociobiology has emerged during the past quarter century, it has met with firm and unrelenting opposition from prominent liberal critics. Sociobiology—also known as evolutionary psychology or neo-Darwinian theory—holds that many patterns of human behavior have a basis in evolution. Because this approach often suggests biological explanations of gender roles, it affronts many feminists. It has also drawn opposition from a group of biologists on the left who have raised general scientific and philosophical objections and have had great influence in shaping liberal opinion. The scientific critics have included highly respected figures in biology: Ruth ...

DEMS SEE GUN CONTROL AS POTENT POLL WEAPON By DEBORAH ORIN Democrats yesterday predicted that they'll score big and knock off some Republicans if they can turn the 2000 elections into a shootout over gun control. They spoke after the House, led by Democrats, killed the latest gun-control bill because it would weaken existing laws on background checks at gun shows - although it also had some tough new measures like safety locks. "When you look at polling data and when you see the resonance this issue has all over the country ... I think this is going to be ...

For education & discussion only. The First Lady no one knows. I CONFESS I've always had a soft spot for Hillary Rodham Clinton. But then, asked to name my favorite Marx Brother, I usually cite Margaret Dumont. In A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca, she was the haughty, imperious grande dame standing on her dignity while Groucho prowled around, waggling his cigar at every other woman in sight. The rock, the anchor of every great double-act is always the straight man, and the best straight man-or woman-is one who never really gets the joke in ...

For education & discussion only. The First Lady no one knows. I CONFESS I've always had a soft spot for Hillary Rodham Clinton. But then, asked to name my favorite Marx Brother, I usually cite Margaret Dumont. In A Night at the Opera and A Night in Casablanca, she was the haughty, imperious grande dame standing on her dignity while Groucho prowled around, waggling his cigar at every other woman in sight. The rock, the anchor of every great double-act is always the straight man, and the best straight man-or woman-is one who never really gets the joke in ...

1) CNN's Wolf Blitzer landed an exclusive interview with Bill Clinton, but avoided Chinagate. Instead, he wondered: "When did you learn that the First Lady was a New York Yankees fan?" 2) Nightly News ignored it, but Tim Russert brought Warren Rudman on Meet the Press to discuss his report on nuclear lab security. 3) "I think Bush is in bigger trouble when the suburban moms and women discover" he's an "extreme" pro-lifer, insisted Eleanor Clift. 4) PBS's Liberal Week in Review: "As we all know, one of the biggest mistakes that his father made was to make that ...

I read several editorials this morning (on in the New York Times and the other in the Washington Post) which criticized the state lotteries as a regressive tax which exploits the poor and uneducated. I agree. I believe that all states should abolish their lotteries and that the government should remove itself from the gambling industry. The sad thing is, the government will not do this because it has become as dependent upon the lottery as any other gambling addict. David Mathews David Mathews' Home Page

While Russian diplomat Viktor Chernomyrdin was grabbing headlines with his Kosovo peace missions, top military planners secretly worked on a very different priority in a Stalin-era compound a few blocks from the Kremlin: planning the surprise Russian military incursion into Kosovo. The clandestine operation grew so large -- involving up to 150 military strategists, researchers and intelligence officers -- that more rooms had to be commandeered in the stately yellow mansion that houses the headquarters of Russia's general staff. At first, the task force worked hand-in-hand with Chernomyrdin's peace mission, providing the envoy with military analysis and research. But when ...

Future talks possible on Kosovo independence: Blair WASHINGTON, June 20 (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested Sunday that Kosovar Albanian desires to see their province move beyond autonomy to actual independence from Yugoslavia might be discussed in the future. It was a rare expression of willingness to consider moving beyond the terms listed in the G8 peace plan agreed to by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and later ratified by a UN Security Council Resolution. Speaking on the ABC television program This Week, Blair, in Cologne for the G8 summit, said the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) knew "all the ...

President says he believes China will one day accept embassy .6/21/99 BONN, Germany (AP) - President Clinton said today he believes China ultimately will see the NATO bombing of its Belgrade embassy as ``a truly tragic accident,'' even though the United States failed to convince Beijing of that in its latest diplomatic mission. The president acknowledged that the embassy bombing, which killed three Chinese journalists, had created ``a difficult, painful period'' for the Chinese people and U.S.-Chinese relations. But he said he remains hopeful that the difficulties will be smoothed out, and negotiations could resume soon on bringing China ...

Switzerland: Europe's gun centre where kids don't kill kidsFor education and discussion purposes only By Gerard Jackson No. 124, 21-27 June 1999 The Littleton killings have once again brought into the spotlight America's alleged love affair with guns and its violent nature. Horror story after horror story is wheeled out to demonstrate this 'fact'. Statistic after statistic is faithfully recited to convince people that the horrors would go away if only guns were banned. According to this mantra, guns are the real evil, as if they were some kind of voodoo curse. Because of this malignant force, according to Cameron ...

Untitled Normal Page New York Governor George Pataki issued an executive order requiring an FBI instant check at gun shows on NY property; thus agreeing with the NRA   Pataki's order in effect At Albany gun show, buyers, sellers shrug at background checks By LYNN BREZOSKY Gazette Reporter ALBANY - With a long-armed CNN microphone hovering inches over his head, and a camera nearby jostling for the best angle, James Sabia completed the yellow 4473 background-check form newly required for purchasing guns at New York State gun shows. His dealer, a Greek immigrant from Long Island, dialed into an ...

Just one week after President Clinton explained that he authorized a military attack to enforce ethnic amity in the Balkans, the Senate Appropriations Committee last Thursday quietly and unanimously voted $20 million in start-up money to equip a Kosovo "self-defense force." It definitely will not be in the business of promoting good feelings between Albanian and Serb. The Clinton administration made no objection to the appropriation pressed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). While insisting it was not a continuation of his long crusade to arm the Kosovo Liberation Army, McConnell told me "some of those folks" in the new ...

Despite reservations about our long-term policy in Kosovo and the Balkans, I voted for airstrikes against Serbia because the worst thing that we could have done in the face of Slobodan Milosevic's atrocities would have been nothing. I was troubled during the initial phase of the war when our political objectives -- including prevention of further "ethnic cleansing" by Milosevic and agreement by the Serbs to the Rambouillet accords -- had to be discarded or modified. I felt that I had seen this before in Vietnam, where our servicemen and women paid a high price for the failure of ...