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A gun show promoter in the Columbus, Ohio area has an interesting answer to the "problem" of criminals purchasing firearms at gun shows.His reasoning goes along these lines...The government "creates" convicted felons - in that when a person is convicted of a felony, the government knows about it.Take that information that is readily available in the databases and put a special infrared mark on a person's driver's license or state I.D.Entrance to the gun show would be denied if the mark shows up. Gun show promoters or local police officers could administer the test.Voila. Criminals can't buy guns in the ...

Mayor Popular Outside San Francisco By DAVID KLIGMAN .c The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - To outsiders, the charismatic and impeccably dressed Mayor Willie Brown exudes as much panache as San Francisco itself. ``As the mayor, I can proclaim anything I want,'' he announced in a recent appearance with a flip of a flowing red robe, a gleaming crown on his head. The performance, in a skit to celebrate the city's longest-running musical, worked as real-life political theater: There's little doubt who rules San Francisco. But locals may have had enough of the polished politician whose re-election campaign slogan ...

If a professional wrestler can become governor of a sensible, not to say humorless, state like Minnesota, I could be a politician, too. Whatever his other merits, Jesse Ventura has made professional politicians nervous about regular citizens running for office. Well, make that slightly irregular citizens." Frankly, I'd prefer a bit part in professional wrestling to a bit part in the United States Congress, but the point is, it's plausible. I realized this after I spent several weeeks stamping out rumors about my nonexistent plans to run for the Senate. I don't return phone calls from reporters asking me about ...

BORDERS DON'T MATTER TO ROYAL BUSH FAMILY AND THE OTHER ARISTOCRATS OF AMERICA by H. Millard (c) 1999 Many ordinary U.S. citizens long ago concluded that the Bush family thinks it is above ordinary European-American citizens in this nation and, as a family, seems to practice the types of snobbery and duplictiousness we've witnessed in various royal families over the centuries. This snobbery contains ample doses of noblesse oblige and the Bushs go to great pains to pander to "new immigrants," the way ancient Lords and Ladies would throw crumbs to serfs to keep them on their side in ...

Bush Faces Criticism From Democrats By PEGGY FIKAC .c The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush sounds broad themes on the presidential campaign trail, but when he signs state legislation he has sketched in the details of his stands on such hot-button issues as limiting cities' lawsuits against gun manufacturers. Filling in the blanks may leave him vulnerable to criticism, analysts say, but his actions may also appeal to conservatives and help address criticism that the perceived Republican presidential front-runner doesn't have the experience needed to lead the nation. ``Already, the Democrats are attacking him ...

The NATO air strikes against the Republic of Yugoslavia have suddenly precipitated us 60 years back. We find ourselves faced with events which strangely resemble the aggression directed by Germany, first against Czechoslovakia, then, with the aid of the Soviet Union, against Poland. It was striking to hear President Clinton compare his "essentially humanitarian" action in Yugoslavia to the solitary resistance of Winston Churchill and Great Britain to the conjoined alliance of Nazi and communist totalitarianism. In fact, today we are dealing with aggression on the part of the United States and their allies against a sovereign nation which, while ...

IRS SHOWDOWN RELOCATED TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB IN WASHINGTON, D.C. The We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education has been advised by people in the national media to consider moving the symposium (on the constitutionality of the federal income and social security taxes and related codes and regulations), to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. We have decided to make the move for the following reasons: The symposium will be closer to the headquarters of the IRS and other executive offices, to the Congress and to the Supreme Court, thereby facilitating and maximizing the potential of their exposure ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Proposed legislation detailed Monday to restrict sales of pepper spray and Mace to anyone under 18 would be difficult to enforce, according to the owner of a local police uniform and supply store. "Kids score it through catalogs," said Ray Skundrich, owner of Petrocelli's Uniform in Bridgeville. "They just check the little box that says, `Yes, I'm 18.' People who want this stuff are going to get it." At a news conference in Bethel Park, state Rep. Ralph Kaiser outlined legislation he introduced in Harrisburg last week that would prohibit anyone ...

... all you need to do is promise to say "gee Rush ... you've lost so much weight". Can anyone now disagree that Rush has become a marginal figure (no pun intended)?

This (rumor) is the lead-in to Michael Medved today, he follows Rush, let's see if there's anything to this rumor, if he could get a serious VP things could get interesting. Jesse Ventura, Alan Keys, ect ...

Court Limits Disabilities Law By LAURIE ASSEO .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court today limited the reach of a federal ban on discrimination against the disabled, ruling the law generally does not protect people with poor eyesight or other conditions that can be corrected. Protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act usually are restricted to people whose conditions are not readily corrected with medication or devices such as eyeglasses, the justices said in three rulings. Even before today's decisions, employers had won the vast majority of lawsuits resolved in court under the ADA, a 1990 law ...

Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. The Sabres have been robbed…the judges should be mobbed I will not take it 'cause the Sabres have been robbed The skate was in the crease…they should have called the police I will not take it 'cause the skate was in the crease They just blew the call…the judges have gall I will not take it 'cause they just blew the call The rules have been changed…whole thing's rearranged I will not take it 'cause the rules have been changed Lord Stanley would be ...

Feds Authorize Cuban Wire Transfers .c The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) - The federal government has authorized Western Union to handle wire transfers of money to Cuba, making it easier for exiles to send funds to friends and relatives. The State Department said Monday that Western Union will be able to process the transfers starting July 8. Under new federal rules, anyone in the United States can send up to $300 every three months, but not to senior Cuban government or party officials. Western Union previously had been permitted to handle cash transfers only for emergency expenses or emigration costs. ...

Cisneros' Ex-Mistress Testifies By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The ex-mistress of former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros testified today that she edited ``five or six'' of the 88 tapes of her phone conversations with Cisneros to delete passages in which she threatened him. Linda Jones testified that she edited the tapes - and then falsely represented them to the FBI and Internal Revenue Service as originals - because she feared she would be in legal jeopardy over her threats to publicly expose Cisneros' payments to her. ``The truth was, it was threats that could be termed ...

''It's not the economy stupid'' -- Reuters poll By Alan Elsner, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bill Clinton rode concerns about the economy to the presidency but that issue does not appear to be much on voters' minds 16 months before the next presidential election, a new Reuters poll showed Tuesday. ``It's the economy, stupid'' was the rallying cry of Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992, but seven years later ``It's not the economy, stupid'' seems to apply. The nationwide poll of 1,006 likely voters, conducted for Reuters by Zogby International last Thursday through Saturday, found the economy well down ...

I recently received a call from a Vermont neighbor, Jean, who said, ‘the fourth squirrel is in the freezer. See you Saturday night.” For months I had seen her hunkered down by the chicken coop at the side of the road with a .22 rifle loosely held across her lap. When queried about her objective, she admitted to a keen interest in squirrel hunting, but after she had bagged three fat specimens, the local population had been sufficiently decimated for it to take three months to bag the fourth and final quarry. As I soon found out, all of the ...

Isn't it exciting when Limbaugh details his exploits in something that's even more pointless than a broken pencil?

STENKOVEC CAMP, Macedonia (AP) — Refugees in a tent city embraced President Clinton today as a beloved conquering hero. Speaking within sight of Kosovo, Clinton beseeched the ethnic Albanians not to rush home to the bomb-ravaged province before land mines were cleared. "I don't want any child hurt, I don't want anyone else to lose an arm or a leg or a child because of a land mine,'' the president said. "So be patient with us. ... You are going to be able to go back in safety and security.'' Later, Clinton told about 100 U.S. military troops who will ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, June 22 (UPI) - The boulevards of Paris and cathedrals of Cologne occasionally lured President Clinton out of his motorcade and away from his hectic European trip schedule to revisit the sites he first saw as a 22-year-old college student. "I just wanted to walk around," said Clinton in Paris on Wednesday as he hopped out of his limousine for a stroll through the famed Jardins des Tuileries, a sprawling park near the U.S. Embassy. Crowds of giddy tourists jostled for a chance to shake his hand or take ...

If you get C-Span, turn it on QUICK! As his lead-in, Senator Inhofe just said "I hate to be the skunk at the lawn party and break up this little love-in..." and "I feel Clinton is responsible for these security breaches because..." (He just started talking about how Clinton relaxed all the security safeguards.) He's just beginning to sock it to these enabling boobs in the Senate. Turn it on and watch the fireworks begin!