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Testimony Testimony Of James E. Chambers Lieutenant General, USAF (Ret) Executive Director Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers. Institute, Inc. Before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Pending Firearms Legislation and the Administration. s Enforcement Efforts Thursday May 27, 1999   Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers. Institute, or as it is known by its acronym, SAAMI, I want to thank you and the members of this committee for inviting me here to solicit the input of the firearms industry as the House takes up its version of the Juvenile Justice Bill. ...

the Common Conservative: Guest Writer - Tom Matthes The 25th Amendment: Use It or Lose It by Tom Matthes The knives are out for Attorney General Janet Reno. Members of Congress are demanding her resignation or dismissal because of incompetence in the investigation of Chinese espionage. But there are two problems with this allegation. The first is the White House defends her. The second is it's not clear she blew the investigation. Why should the Congress assume her refusal to order a wiretap requested by the FBI was not in accord with presidential wishes? After all, President Clinton has ...

For information and discussion only. Not for commercial use. OPPONENTS OF gun control, such as the National Rifle Association, frequently invoke the Second Amendment to argue that gun control legislation is unconstitutional. But under current constitutional doctrine as propounded by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Second Amendment does not establish an individual's right to bear arms. The Second Amendment is a state's rights provision, guaranteeing a collective, rather than an individual, right. Also, even if the Supreme Court were to hold in the future that the Second Amendment does create an individual's right to bear arms, that right, like ...

Gore, Bush; Bush, Gore; Bore, Gush . . . One believes in "compassionate conservatism," the other in "practical idealism"; or maybe one believes in "practical compassion," the other in "idealistic practicalities". . . . Either way, the battle-lines for the U.S. presidential campaign were drawn last week. "On this ground I will make my stand!" declared George W. Bush, defending himself against those who'd attacked him for his "compassionate conservatism." I don't think anyone has attacked him for his compassionate conservatism: We'd just like to know what it means. So this week "Dubya" -- as they call him back ...

On 6/3/99 the Rogan Camp requested our assistance regarding an erroneous article in the American Spectator. On 6/5/99 the American Spectator printed what they considered a retraction, after a great deal of response from you. Great Job Freepers! We have since been keeping a thread running for Conrgessman Rogan at their request. WIN ROGAN WIN Northern Nevada Chapter of the free Republic has chosen Congressman Rogan as our Adopt-A-Manager. Come to Click on Adopt -a Manager! Rogan's Website ROGAN'S VOTING SCORECARD 1. Voted NO to authorize Peacekeeping Operations in Kosovo - 3/11/99. 2. Voted NO to authorize bombing in Yugoslavia ...

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) - Fashion executive John Badum lived in New York's East Village, filling his fast-paced world with stylish friends and exuberant, over-the-top gestures. He loved costume parties, a good loud laugh, anything flamboyant. If Badum's life was musical theater, his death was pure opera: He was killed with a meat cleaver by his former boyfriend, who then threw himself to his death in front of a minivan. Police said it was a green card dispute that led Badum, 46, from New York's fashion world to his sister's apartment in Batavia, where the May 30 attack occurred. Badum's ...

There is a scattering of what used to be called hard news in Bob Woodward's latest hot Washington book, Shadow, though it is not clear whether anybody-even the author-much notices or cares. For example: Confusion has always surrounded the meaning of President Clinton's violent rage on December 6, 1997, after Secret Service officers at the White House's northwest gate let slip to Monica Lewinsky that her pined-for ex-boyfriend-in-chief was at that very moment meeting privately with another woman, Eleanor Mondale. Critics of the president have theorized that he was at that point already concerned about Lewinsky's potential testimony in the ...

Primary Originally published on Sunday, May 30, 1999. WHEN MISSOURIANS VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, SOMEBODY MIGHT BE WATCHING FOR PARTY SWAPPERS DU JOUR By Jo Mannies If you're a Missouri voter eagerly awaiting your chance to play a role in selecting next year's presidential nominees, be prepared. Someone could well be looking over your shoulder next March 7 to take note of which party ballot you pick. "If there are spies at the polls, they'll be Democratic spies," chortled John Hancock, executive director of the state Republican Party. "We have no plans to station spies at the polls." Not officially, ...

American Investigator: A Television Newsmagazine Show Reporter: Marc Morano Producer: Kent Washburn Phone: 202-543-4787 Fax: 202-543-5978 E-mail: Ai@fcref.org Original Air Date: June 25, 1999 VO: Almost no living creatures on the face of the earth are more universally reviled than cockroaches. For most people, cockroaches are creepy, crawly, disgusting vermin. Exterminators make their living killing them. When director Paul Verhoeven needed an enemy that would receive absolutely no audience sympathy in his movie "Starship Troopers," he created giant cockroach-like bugs. SS Troopers clip It was then quite surprising when the film "Joe’s Apartment" humanized roaches, even having them sing and ...

Jack CashillPray For Steve Rose Last week KC publisher Steve Rose ventured manfully on to our radio show to defend a self-testing mechanism he had designed to ferret out "Right Wing Extremists." 22 Questions in all, listed below. Far Right Extremists believe: 1. Vince Foster was murdered, and Bill Clinton ran a drug-running enterprise in Mena, Ark. 2. Public schools are public enemy number one. 3. The solution to tragedies like Littleton, Colorado, is for teachers to carry concealed weapons. 4. The solution to teen-age delinquency is prayer in school. 5. America was founded as a Christian nation. All ...

Jack CashillPray For Steve Rose Last week KC publisher Steve Rose ventured manfully on to our radio show to defend a self-testing mechanism he had designed to ferret out "Right Wing Extremists." 22 Questions in all, listed below. Far Right Extremists believe: 1. Vince Foster was murdered, and Bill Clinton ran a drug-running enterprise in Mena, Ark. 2. Public schools are public enemy number one. 3. The solution to tragedies like Littleton, Colorado, is for teachers to carry concealed weapons. 4. The solution to teen-age delinquency is prayer in school. 5. America was founded as a Christian nation. All ...

Thirteen Principles for a full Constitutional Restoration 1. We believe that no people can maintain freedom unless their political institutions are founded upon faith in God and belief in the existence of moral law. 2. We believe that God had endowed men with certain unalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property and anything more that this is usurpation and oppression. 3. We believe that the Constitution of the United ...

American Investigator: A Television Newsmagazine Show Reporter: Marc Morano Producer: Kent Washburn Phone: 202-543-4787 Fax: 202-543-5978 E-mail: Ai@fcref.org Original Air Date: June 25, 1999 VO: Almost no living creatures on the face of the earth are more universally reviled than cockroaches. For most people, cockroaches are creepy, crawly, disgusting vermin. Exterminators make their living killing them. When director Paul Verhoeven needed an enemy that would receive absolutely no audience sympathy in his movie "Starship Troopers," he created giant cockroach-like bugs. SS Troopers clip It was then quite surprising when the film "Joe’s Apartment" humanized roaches, even having them sing and ...

American Investigator: A Television Newsmagazine Show Reporter: Marc Morano Producer: Kent Washburn Phone: 202-543-4787 Fax: 202-543-5978 E-mail: Ai@fcref.org Original Air Date: June 25, 1999 VO: Almost no living creatures on the face of the earth are more universally reviled than cockroaches. For most people, cockroaches are creepy, crawly, disgusting vermin. Exterminators make their living killing them. When director Paul Verhoeven needed an enemy that would receive absolutely no audience sympathy in his movie "Starship Troopers," he created giant cockroach-like bugs. SS Troopers clip It was then quite surprising when the film "Joe’s Apartment" humanized roaches, even having them sing and ...

BushJr Originally published on Saturday, June 12, 1999. GOV. BUSH RAISES $500,000 HERE By Mark Schlinkmann Regional Political Correspondent The Associated Press Contributed Information For This Article. * Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton helps Richard Gephardt set a state record, netting $2.1 million for Democratic House campaigns. Texas Gov. George W. Bush stopped here for a few hours Friday to raise money and to make a dry run on his presidential campaign pitch before going public with it today in the key caucus state of Iowa. Bush, the early favorite to win next year's Republican nomination, appeared before more than 500 ...

Commission to begin sorting through tough Internet tax questions FOR STORY ABOVE http://www.cnn.com/US/9906/21/internet.taxes.ap/ COUNTIES LODGE CLASS ACTION SUIT http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/13/taxsuit.idg/index.html

French send paras in helicopters to face down KLA By Christian Curtenelle MITROVICA, June 21 (Reuters) - The head of French forces in Kosovo said on Monday he had so far had to send helicopter- borne troops into the field three times to face down guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army. ``I had to intervene three times by air to act against heavy KLA concentrations,'' Brigadier General Bruno Cuche told reporters. He said the situation had each time been defused without shooting, but that tension was ``very high.'' Aides said the most serious incident was on Sunday when Cuche helicoptered ...

GOP Primary GOP Primary to be Winner-Take-All [Mo.] One day after Texas Gov. George W. Bush held a fund raiser in St Louis, Republicans decided (my note --all of them? or just the monied ones attending?) to make next years primary winner-take-all. That means the Republican candidate who garners the most support March 7 gets all 37 Missouri delegates to the National convention, where the nominee is picked. Those delegates had been split among candidates based on percentage of support. (My comment again --- Makes ya' Proud, huh?)