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I work as an elected government official in my township, and in that capacity I come into contact with scores of residents of my township (as well as residents of nearby townships and cities) every week. I am not a crusader in that I do not perch myself on a soapbox at every opportunity (such behavior, IMHO, is counterproductive, and a turn-off to most average Americans). But, by the same token, during the course of a week, if the conversation allows it, I will bring up the subject of the state of our nation with as many people as ...

Kosovo peace force commander says Serbs returning LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - The commander of the NATO-led peace force in Kosovo, Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Jackson, said on Monday increasing numbers of Serbs were returning to the province. The British general said in a BBC television interview NATO estimated about a third of Kosovo's Serbs had fled from the province as Serb forces pulled out. ``Interestingly enough they're starting to come back. Over the past two to three days, there are increasing numbers who are now coming back -- from which I take some encouragement,'' Jackson said. ``I think it was ...

Clinton Praises Slovenia's Success By SANDRA SOBIERAJ .c The Associated Press LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (June 21) - Painting a bright portrait of what the Balkans could become, President Clinton today celebrated the economic success of Slovenia - the first Yugoslav republic to reject President Slobodan Milosevic. ''I want the trip to spark the imagination of others, both within the Balkans and beyond it, about the kind of future and kind of societies we can build in all those countries if we work at it,'' Clinton said before departing Bonn for the first visit to Slovenia by a U.S. president. A relentless ...

FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Refresh | Top | Last | Latest Posts | Latest Articles | Post | Abuse | Help! ] Out of the Mouths of Whited Sepulchers Culture/Society Opinion (Published) Keywords: CLINTON;GRAVE-ROBBING;SACRILEGE Source: Dallas Morning News Published: June 12? Author: Eugene Kennedy:Prof. Emeritus of Psychology-U of Chicago Posted on 06/21/1999 16:23:26 PDT by wildbill Out of theMouths of Whited Sepulchers The unforgivable sin, the sin against the Spirit,has been revealed at last. Floating through a stream of administrations, this routine plundering of grief as boldly as grave robbers amidst Mediterranean tombs is an art form ...

Dickey 'between a rock, hard place' over I-69, I-49 NOEL E. OMAN ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Geographically, two proposed and long-sought interstate projects -- I-69 and I-49 -- fit easily into south Arkansas.     But fitting the projects into the area, politically, is another matter. Getting squeezed is Rep. Jay Dickey, R-Ark., who has had difficulty promoting both projects in his 4th Congressional District without upsetting their respective partisans at opposite ends of his district.     "Between a rock and a hard place," blared a headline last month in an El Dorado News-Times story in which John Lipton of ...

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Out of theMouths of Whited Sepulchers The unforgivable sin, the sin against the Spirit,has been revealed at last. Floating through a stream of administrations, this routine plundering of grief as boldly as grave robbers amidst Mediterranean tombs is an art form under the current President. “Give me your sorrows, your flooded homes, your shot-up streets and schools,” he might sing, mocking the Statue of Liberty’s inscription, “and I’ll use every last one of your tears for political purposes.” Manipulator One flies in Air Force One from the scene of one disaster to another. President Clinton may look like is GIVING ...

Senate Votes on Longer Lobbying Wait By JONATHAN D. SALANT .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers who become lobbyists would have to wait two years before buttonholing their former colleagues in Congress under legislation passed by the Senate that would double the existing moratorium. As under current law, however, they could still sell advice and counsel to corporate clients and could set up a lobbying shop right away by hiring underlings to make the formal contacts with House and Senate members. They just couldn't call their former colleagues on behalf of a client. It's a career path followed ...

COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ABSTINENCE EFFORTS IN TEXASGovernor Bush has made reducing teenage pregnancy and encouraging youth to choose abstinence top priorities. He supports the efforts of parents, schools, faith-based groups, community organizations and Texas teens themselves that provide abstinence education and encourage teens to remain and/or become abstinent.The Governor meets regularly with community leaders and teens to discuss abstinence.Participants in the "True Love Waits" campaign were among those who met with the Governor. As part of "True Love Waits",teenagers pledge to remain abstinent until marriage for the sake of their future family. Teens across the country are making the pledge, including more ...

Senate Expected To Pass UN Dues Bill By TOM RAUM .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Legislation to pay nearly $1 billion of the country's debt to the United Nations advanced in the Senate on Monday, eased along by a compromise with the Clinton administration on reducing future U.S. payments to the world organization. The bill, expected to win Senate approval on Tuesday, calls for a reduction in the U.S. share of the regular U.N. budget from the present 25 percent to 20 percent; and a drop in the share of peacekeeping operations from 31 percent to 25 percent. ...

Isn't it amazing how Klinton sycophants seem to catch all the breaks?Rep. Amo Houghton, R-Corning, NY, caught a huge one today. A government funded committee found that silicone gel breast implants, (Houghton's family company, Dow Corning Inc., was once the world's largest maker of silicone gel breast implants), do not cause serious diseases or cancer. This finding could save Dow countless millions in legal fees. Coincidentally, he and Peter King were the only N.Y. Reps. to vote against Klinton's impeachment. SEE LINK HERE Here's a quick glimpse how Amo felt about impeaching Herr Klinton. Houghton says he won't back impeachment ...

Press I had a good interview on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow and Brit Hume, as well as liberal Washington Post reporter Juan Williams. I can't say it was a great way to begin Father's Day, but we got our message out and I was able to join the rest of my family at our 10:00 a.m. church service. I zeroed in on the fact that in a Bauer administration my appointments will be pro-life conservatives. Juan Williams said that was intolerant of me! Apparently the new liberal definition of "tolerance" is that a conservative president must appoint ...

U.S.-Mexico border open to drug trade - Buchanan DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Republican presidential aspirant Pat Buchanan charged Monday that a porous border with Mexico was letting illegal drugs as well as illegal immigrants enter the United States. Buchanan, a vociferous critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement, said the early leaders in the race for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, shared permissive views on border control. ``Governor Bush is for open borders on immigration. He's pro-NAFTA,'' Buchanan said. ``He's a globalist. He agrees with Clinton and ...

Yeltsin Gives Clinton Oswald Files By KAREN GULLO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Documents given by Boris Yeltsin to President Clinton on Sunday could shed light on whether Lee Harvey Oswald schemed to kill President Kennedy while he was an American defector living in the Soviet Union, assassination researchers said. Yeltsin's surprise gift to Clinton - declassified papers containing information gathered by Russian intelligence agencies about Oswald - are a ``monumental breakthrough,'' said historian Kermit Hall, a former member of the Assassination Records Review Board. That federal panel, which went out of business last September, was created to ...

Subject: Only in America...... Only in America...can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance... Only in America...are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink... Only in America...do we award someone $3,000,000 for spilling hot coffee in their own lap... Only in America...do we have labels on baby strollers to remind people to remove the baby before folding up the stroller... Only in America...do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions.... Only in America...do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet ...

National Public Radio reports on the rescue of ethnic Albanians by Orthodox Serbian monks from Decani, near Prizren, Kosovo.Click here for report by John Burnett (RealAudio, about 5 min.) The Serbian Othodox monks transported terrified Albanians to the monastery in minivans and sheltered and fed them till Italian forces arrived. Picture below: Visoki Decani Monastery, built 1327 A.D. Picture at right: Father Sava, said to be called "Cybermonk" by the media, helped organize the rescue. This picture is from Rambouillet, where Fr. Sava tried to persuade Mme. Albright to consider a proposal for cantonization of Kosovo. Here is a website ...

Russia says events vindicate stand on Kosovo MOSCOW, June 21 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that events had vindicated its strong opposition to NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In a statement, the ministry said the alliance's ``armed adventure'' in the Balkans had caused devastation which surpassed even that of World War Two. ``Yugoslavia has been completely devastated, the damage to its national economy and infrastructure exceed all the destruction seen during World War Two. All the peoples of Yugoslavia have been subjected to terrible deprivations and sufferings,'' the statement said. Recent visitors to Yugoslavia say that although ...

WASHINGTON-- The U.S. Customs Service launched a campaign Monday to warn American companies they may be helping Colombian drug barons launder some $5 billion a year in profits back to their country.Customs and Treasury Department officials told a Senate hearing that Colombian cartels are repatriating their earnings from the sale of cocaine and heroine on U.S. streets without having to move any cash across borders.The scheme-- involving a black market currency exchange and contraband goods-- is "one of the most insidious forms of drug money laundering," the Treasury Department's Undersecretary for Enforcement, James Johnson, told the hearing.It works like this: ...

Russian PM, security chiefs mull Chechnya clashes MOSCOW, June 21 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin and senior security officials met on Monday to discuss simmering tensions along Russia's administrative border with its breakaway region of Chechnya. The meeting followed a series of border clashes last week in which at least seven Russian police and interior ministry troops were killed, causing Moscow to close down all but 10 of over 60 border crossing points. Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo, the chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service Vyacheslav Trubnikov and the head of the Armed Services' General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin were among ...

Blair backs minister hit by reports of near arrest LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair backed his International Development Secretary Clare Short on Tuesday in the face of reports that she had been threatened with arrest by police during a late-night altercation in 1997. Britain's Times newspaper said the incident involving Short, who shot to international prominence for her efforts to aid refugees during the Kosovo crisis, occurred during the ruling Labour Party's annual conference in 1997. ``Short was warned by a police officer that she was liable to be arrested for a breach of the ...