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DAYTON, Ohio, June 22 (UPI) - A federal magistrate in Dayton, Ohio, has ruled the Sons of God Motorcycle Club Ministry, and not the Chosen Sons of God Motorcycle Club Ministries, own the Sons of God Christ-head logo. The Sons of God's lawyer says (Tuesday) the Chosen's leader, Mountain Bill Hodge, is welcome to return to the Sons if he repents.

-- Hashim Thaqi, now mildly referred to in media like the Washington Post as the leader of the provisional Kosovo government, is a 29-year-old precocious KLA warlord known in the field as "Snake." Putting him in charge of the reconstruction of Kosovo is a bit like having let General Patton run the Marshall Plan or having a Contra leader coordinate post-hurricane aid to Central America. -- Thaqi, a radical university student who helped to organize the KLA, rose to the top in early March by liquidating the more democratic and moderate government-in-exile of the moderate reconciliationist, Ibrahim Rugova. Rugova had ...

Law: Sen. Thompson wants Congress to oversee the attorney general's plans to investigate high officials. WASHINGTON--With the much-maligned independent counsel law now near death, one of the attorney general's most strident critics on Capitol Hill proposed an alternate plan Monday giving the Justice Department "unbridled discretion" to decide how top-ranking officials are investigated. But there is a caveat: the plan from Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), the powerful head of the Senate Government Affairs Committee, gives Congress the power to approve--or reject--the investigative procedure beforehand. And that oversight role could prove troublesome to Justice Department officials. Law Set to Expire ...

Ernst & Young LLP reported in a study released Monday that an increase in online sales and services had minimal effect on the collection of sales and use taxes in 1998, with the total uncollected taxes on the Internet representing a negligible fraction of total tax revenue. The study found that uncollected sales and use taxes in 1998 rounded out to a mere $170 million, or one tenth of one percent of the total state and local taxes. Ernst & Young's conclusions are significant because spiked e-commerce usage has raised policy concerns from both sides. Many state and local officials ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A defendant in a terrorism case stemming from last summer's bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa leaped from his courtroom seat today and charged at the judge before U.S. marshals tackled him. Wadih El Hage, his eyes fixed on U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Sand, was within eight to 10 feet of the judge when he was tackled and subdued by several marshals during a pretrial hearing. El Hage, a U.S. citizen from Arlington, Texas, who prosecutors say once served as personal secretary to alleged mastermind Osama bin Laden, was led from the courtroom ...

Two British soldiers were killed by an explosion yesterday while clearing ordnance - possibly dropped by Nato - around a village school in Kosovo, making them the first Nato casualties of the 12-day old peacekeeping mission. The soldiers, from 69 Gurkha Field Squadron serving with the Royal Engineers based in Maidstone, Kent, were killed in the village of Negrovce, about 16 miles west of Kosovo's main city, Pristina. The K-For peacekeeping force said at least two civilians were also killed in the blast, and another civilian was reported to be wounded but in a stable condition in a field hospital. ...

WASHINGTON -- Ever type in a book or music order on Amazon.com? Or click on EddieBauer.com's weekly specials? If the answer's yes, you might want to pay attention to what's on the minds of 19 people who are about to meet this week in Williamsburg, Virginia. The group's recommendations will influence future decisions the US government makes about taxing Internet purchases. At stake are tens of billions of dollars in expected e-commerce orders that experts believe will mushroom as more and more consumers abandon in-person purchases and begin to place orders online. The prospect worries local and state authorities, who ...

The facts about the Kosovo "Liberation" Army have been well-documented by Antiwar.com. The KLA is gang of murderous neo-Maoist thugs, who are killing, raping, and looting their way through "liberated" Kosovo in brazen defiance of NATO – or, some say, with NATO's full complicity. Now Senator McConnell (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, is pushing an amendment (S846) to the defense budget that would make this complicity official: if adopted, the McConnell amendment would provide $20 million to arm the KLA. Last week, the committee quietly passed the amendment unanimously. This pernicious amendment would also declare ...

WHERE WE ARE Federal supervision of education, as embodied in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, is a many-tentacled thing. Adopted as the centerpiece of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, the ESEA had the noble objective of closing the achievement gap between privileged and underprivileged children. It was going to do that by directing billions of federal dollars in a dazzling array of special programs focused especially on the children of poverty. With a budget now approaching $14 billion a year, the ESEA supports no fewer than five dozen major programs extending into virtually every area of ...

NEW YORKThe person who has bought into the crackpot notion that next year's Senate race here is some grand national crusade is not Hillary Rodham Clinton. It's Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose second-term egomania continues to obscure his first-term problem-solving to such an extent that he has created a small opening for a potentially serious Republican primary. Giuliani publicly anticipates some magical Ken Starr report that may turn out to be Godot; he screams ''carpetbagger'' to the wind and joins in the ''why is she doing this?'' psychobabble. Little things - education, health care, transportation, and housing - he leaves ...

Tune in - Buchanaan for President, Reform party

June 22, 1999 Having to correct the technical errors of the "editorial director of Ziff-Davis' ZDY2K Web site" (hereinafter called The Author) is an embarrassment that I have already undergone in writing. Unbelievable: Misinformation about The Dreaded Nines. I must turn my attention now to a more recent article by The Author, called Daily Fix: The continuing drama, dated June 1, 1999. First, I present a great deal of The Author's article; following that, I will address an area of agreement between The Author and me, then areas of disagreement. Finally, I will examine The Author's egregious errors, and what ...

With only 17,000 NATO troops now in Kosovo, Gen. Wesley Clark says NATO governments need to send more troops --- faster. Clark also says he could use more than the 55,000 planned, according to reports out of Europe... Developing...

PRISTINA (Reuters) - NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark Tuesday urged a speed-up of the deployment of alliance peacekeeping troops in Kosovo and said the mission might need more soldiers than first planned. In the 12 days since the first units entered Kosovo following an agreement with Belgrade, the alliance has deployed just over 17,000 troops in the province, roughly one third of a total of 55,000 earmarked for the job. Senior NATO military officials said that had been a fair start but it was not enough. ``I am calling on NATO governments to accelerate the arrival of the troops ...

The conservatives who know that this is still gun control will be for "Gun Wrecklessness". Rush stated that democrat focus groups have determined that gun-control tested negatively but gun-safety tested well emotionally, who isn't for gun safety afterall? (Conservatives of course). GUN-SAFETEY WILL BE "THE" ISSUE FOR 2000. Again, changing the language will defeat reason. Are you against gun-safety?

The pope is right. "Man," said John Paul II on his recent visit to his native Poland, "is becoming ever more fearful of the products of his own intelligence and freedom." We see it everywhere. We split the atom, then use the knowledge to build nuclear weapons or hire spies to steal that know-how for rogue nations. We invent glue to hold broken things together, then sniff it to get high. We create the astonishing Internet to transmit knowledge, truth and beauty in nanoseconds, then use it to distribute child pornography. What is wrong with us? The answer is ...

1) NBC noted a panel's conclusion that breast implants are not dangerous "shows how the courtroom is often not the best place to decide complex scientific issues." Neither is the newsroom. 2) Last week ABC and NBC ignored the Rudman Report. CNN previewed how "an unprecedented joint hearing representing more than half the U.S. Senate" will examine the report's recommendations. 3) Tom Brokaw's reaction to Newsweek bringing aboard liberal columnist Anna Quindlen who just endorsed Bill Bradley: "I think it's a great idea. I love hearing her voice again." 4) Last Thursday the CBS Evening News dismissed the House vote ...

Hashim Thaqi, now mildly referred to in media like the Washington Post as the leader of the provisional Kosovo government, is a 29-year-old precocious KLA warlord known in the field as "Snake." Putting him in charge of the reconstruction of Kosovo is a bit like having let General Patton run the Marshall Plan or having a Contra leader coordinate post-hurricane aid to Central America. -- Thaqi, a radical university student who helped to organize the KLA, rose to the top in early March by liquidating the more democratic and moderate government-in-exile of the moderate reconciliationist, Ibrahim Rugova. Rugova had ...

Ex-Governor's Conviction Overturned .c The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court overturned the bank fraud convictions of former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington today, saying the trial judge wrongly dismissed a juror during deliberations. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there was a ``reasonable possibility'' that the juror was removed because she disagreed with other jurors about Symington's guilt, and not because she failed to take part in the deliberations. The ruling entitles Symington to a new trial. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison but has remained free ...

World Bank Postpones Vote on China By HARRY DUNPHY .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid mounting opposition, the World Bank put off until Thursday a vote on a controversial project to resettle 58,000 poor Chinese farmers on land Tibetans say is traditionally theirs. The bank said Tuesday the decision to delay the meeting of the executive board for two days will enable James D. Wolfensohn, the president of the 182-nation organization, to chair the session. He is in Europe. But the postponement, requested by senior board member Andrei Bugrov of Russia, allows more time to find a compromise. ...