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DES MOINES, Iowa — 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 Gore on all those issues, and I disagree ...

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Supreme Court today temporarily blocked the dismantling of a special public school district for disabled children in a New York community of ultra-Orthodox Jews.The justices, granting an emergency request by state officials, postponed the effect of a ruling in which New York's highest court said creation of the school district violated the constitutionally required seperation of government and religion.The court had been told its help was "the only apparent means of preventing nearly 220 handicapped students served by the Kiryas Joel Union Free School District from being locked out of their school."The school district will be allowed ...

HOUSTON — A train-hopping Mexican drifter suspected of being a serial killer was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list Monday after Illinois police charged him with two murders. FBI special agent-in-charge Don Clark said Rafael Resendez Ramirez, 39, was wanted for questioning in at least eight killings, all of which have taken place near railroad tracks. "This is a real dangerous, extremely violent person. We want him off the streets,'' Clark told reporters. Resendez, a native of Puebla, Mexico, was charged Monday in the slayings of George Morber, 80, and his daughter, Carolyn Frederick, 52. Their bodies ...

JOHN MCCAIN has introduced his bill, entitled PROTECT ACT, an acronym for "Promote Reliable on Line Transactions to Encourage Commerce and Trade" "PROTECT" is supposed to provide for exports to "responsible entities and governments of OECD, NATO, and ASEAN goverments" PROTECT would allow exporters to ship "non-defense" cryptography of over 64 bits, currently forbidden, except to "selected" countries. One of the anomalies in the bill is that many of the OECD countries currently restricted to 56 bits allowed by Clinton since September of 1998, would now be able to obtain 64 bits if McCain's bill is passed. WHAT IT MEANS: ...

New Trade Center Bomb Trial Nixed By LARRY NEUMEISTER .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A judge has rejected a bid for a new trial by the first four men convicted in the World Trade Center bombing, rejecting claims that new evidence had surfaced and saying the men were well represented. In a 165-page ruling released Monday, U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy turned aside every argument raised by lawyers handling the appeals of Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmoud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj. A federal appeals court had denied the men's appeals last year, saying they got a fair ...

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 ...