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For fair use Bush Begins His March The Beltway Pundits Pout Wouldn’t it be extraordinary if the media elite put their cards on the table and admitted now whom they’ll be advocating in the 2000 presidential election? It’s really no secret. The New York Times, in its news columns and editorials, is for Al Gore (and Hillary Clinton for Senate); The Wall Street Journal favors Steve Forbes; the New York Post will endorse George W. Bush (and Rudy Giuliani); The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun and Boston Globe are Gore dailies, but I’ll bet in the end the Los Angeles Times ...

Why nothing ever gets settled in America By Ed Quillen Denver Post Columnist June 22 - The past couple of months has produced considerable rhetoric about firearms legislation, thus inspiring some of my liberal friends to rant about the National Rifle Association. "Why are they so intransigent?'' I hear. "Nobody's trying to take away any guns from law-abiding citizens. Why can't we have some reasonable regulations? Why does the NRA oppose everything?'' I suspect the NRA opposes everything for the simple reason that there's no such thing as "reasonable regulation'' in America. That's an overstatement. To put this more ...

Summary: Now that Russia and China have demonstrated their willingness to oppose the U.S. and NATO in Kosovo, Baghdad has decided to try to force their hand in Iraq. The Iraqi oil minister has threatened that if Russian and Chinese oil companies do not begin work on developing Iraqi oil fields -- a move that would violate UN sanctions against Iraq -- they will have their contracts revoked. While Iraq may be assuming too much with regard to Russia and China's willingness to deepen their rift with the West at just this moment, it is only the first of ...

I had a conversation with an aide of Tom Daschle. During our verbal exchange I told her "In my opinion Milosovec's smartest move in this war would be to shoot the president. I have observed the opinion of thousands of people on the internet, not just a few token liberals in a CNN Poll and by what I hear and read I don't think they would shed a tear if Clinton were to be shot. But I do think they would be infuriated if Milosevec killed our boys and girls." I then said, "I do not understand your blind loyalty ...

Backtracking on Term Limits George Nethercutt Pledged He'd Serve 3 Terms Now He Says He Needs More Time WASHINGTON Supporters of term limits. CBS In 1994, Republicans swept into Congress on a wave of revolutionary ideas, like limiting their own terms. Back then, George Nethercutt said: "I think I can do good things in six years and then come home and let someone else have a chance." Nethercutt's pledge helped topple powerful House Speaker Tom Foley and made him the darling of the term-limits movement. But now that promise is coming due, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, and Nethercutt ...

A first grade teacher in the Howell school district was dressed in drag when township officers arrested him Sunday night for asking two security guards and a truck driver if he could "dance for them,"police said. Allan S. Tepperman, 39, of Franklin Township, told police he had done this several times before near Georges Road and asked for leniency because he was "three days from getting tenure" as a school teacher. "We honestly don't know what to do at this point," [Howell Superintendent Charles] Kuzminski said. At 9 p.m. Sunday, police got a call from a security guard...who complained that ...

In a decision viewed as one of the most significant of its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 last week to throw out as unconstitutionally vague a Chicago law which allowed police to order any group of people standing around in public to "move along" if the officer believed at least one member of the group belonged to a street gang. Those who disregarded such an order to disperse were subject to arrest on a misdemeanor charge with maximum penalties of $500 in fines and six months in jail. In fact, 45,000 young black and Hispanic men ...

An ex-senator, who was one of the Clintons' harshest critics, reveals who really botched the investigation of the president. By Alfonse D'Amato Now that the memory of the Monica Lewinsky investigation is fading, it's worth remembering that the most important decision of the entire Whitewater case came on an August morning almost five years ago. That was the day a three-judge panel appointed Ken Starr, a former solicitor general and D.C. circuit court judge, to be the new independent counsel, replacing Robert Fiske, the respected criminal prosecutor who had conducted the probe for the previous six months. Although some on ...

WASHINGTON - Police generally do not need a warrant to search a car they have reason to believe is transporting illegal drugs, the Supreme Court said Monday. The court ruled in a Maryland case that a search warrant is not required even if police had plenty of time to get one after receiving a tip that a car would be carrying drugs. The court reinstated Kevin Darnell Dyson's conviction of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. Dyson was arrested early in the morning of July 3, 1996, in St. Mary's County. At 11 a.m. on the previous ...

Have you heard the latest demoncrapt line about guns???? It is no longer "gun control" it is "gun safety"???? Heard on Sunday Morning with Cokey and Sam, stated by gebhard and reinforced by Rush today. The new line will be "Who would be against 'gun safety'????" When they really mean GUN CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't let them get away with it! Stick to your guns!

      It Takes a Democracy How the squeezing fist of big government rings individual's rights out of the fabric of society. By Paul Bendell  for INFOWARS.COM   The Clinton administration and legislators, Republicans and Democrats alike, are calling for tighter gun control measures. According to some polls, as touted in the establishment media, the majority of Americans now believe the passing of legislation to protect against gun violence should take priority over the right of people to keep and bear arms. While this is tragic, it is also easy to understand. The recent school shootings in Colorado ...

N. Ireland Peace Accord May Collapse - Blair 9.15 p.m. ET (116 GMT) June 22, 1999 LONDON — British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Northern Ireland's peace accord could collapse as the main Protestant leader effectively demanded the sacking of a government minister and republicans warned events could spiral out of control. Blair, firmly sticking to a June 30 deadline to end a deadlock over last year's Good Friday peace agreement, delivered a take-it-or-leave-it warning Tuesday night to feuding Northern Ireland politicians. He made clear on Northern Ireland television that he was fed up with a long-running dispute between Protestant ...

Clinton says "I am going to provide for senior citizens prescription benefits for the first time, only requiring you to pay a small monthly premium to help cover the cost." ``Some of the poorest people will get help with the premium at the lower end of the scale, but the premium will be fixed so that it's universal,'' he said. "I'm not sure how much the plan will cost or how it will be paid for." ``I'll present a complete plan that finds savings in the current Medicare system that modernizes it by including a prescription drug plan that ...

I've been wondering about the U.S. residency status of the killer in the news now, the "train killer", alleged to be Rafael Resendez-Ramirez. I read the FBI website material and numerous news articles. While reading I looked specifically to see if this alleged killer is a legal resident or was born in our country. Now we know. He was neither born here nor entered legally. From CNN's TalkBack Live, June 22, 1999 - 3:00 p.m. ET -- excerpts: DON CLARK, FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE: This is a very violent individual, an individual that clearly has no mercy for his ...

16 Q. And what is it that you learned about Foster 17 keeping documents in the safe in Nussbuam's office? 18 A. I don't remember -- I don't remember the 19 specifics. I remember that Nussbuam had a safe in his 20 office, and it was the office safe that was used for that 21 suite. Vince Foster's office was in that suite, and I 22 believe that he may have used Nussbuam's safe for some of 17 1 his documents, but I'm not sure. I don't have a clear 2 recollection. 3 Q. And you learned that materials concerning ...

England's: 'BUG-O-RAMA'Police to be given more scope for bugging EXTENSIVE new powers to bug everything from pagers to mobile phones and email correspondence were proposed by the Government yesterday to prevent law enforcement agencies being overtaken by information technology advances.[Uh-huh] Under existing laws, MI5 and the police must obtain a warrant for every phone number or postal address they want to monitor. This will be replaced by a catch-all permission to intercept any communication to and from a specified individual.[Pardon me?] Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, said the capability of law enforcement agencies to combat drug trafficking, terrorism and other ...

Hillary Gets Poll Boost as Child Advocate "First Lady Leads Rudy," blared the Sunday New York Daily News headline, sitting atop the first report in recent memory showing Hillary Clinton pulling ahead of the New York mayor in a poll for the Empire State's U.S. Senate race. The new poll is something of a shocker, since Rudy Giuliani has consistently led Mrs. Clinton in head-to-head match-ups for months. And Hillary's lead is fairly impressive, with 47 percent preferring her, 39 percent for Rudy, among 805 registered New York voters surveyed last week. The Daily News credited one issue above all ...

Cecil Rhodes was the founder not only of the Rhodes scholar program, but of the African nation of Rhodesia. John Flint, probably the most respected of Rhodes'' many biographers, wrote this as one of a series in "The Library of World Biography," of which J.H. Plumb was the general editor. This selection is taken from Mr. Plumb's introductory remarks to Professor Flint's work on Rhodes, pp.xiv-xvii. "There can rarely have been a more unlikely vehicle for greatness than Cecil Rhodes. He was physically weak and prone to sickness. He was not highly intelligent; indeed, the reverse: shrewd, calculating maybe, but ...

WHO'S WATCHING OUR BORDERS? House Wants Military To Help With Border Control Date: 6/23/99 Author: Brian Mitchell It's such a novel idea - using the U.S. military to defend the borders of the U.S. To make it legal, though, it'll take an act of Congress. It seems the president can start, fight and win a foreign war, then occupy the defeated country, without violating the War Powers Clause of the U.S. Constitution. But he doesn't dare deploy military troops on our own borders to stop an invasion by drug smugglers, terrorists or illegal aliens, for fear of a century-old law. ...

LOS ANGELES - Paula Corbin Jones' two young sons will spend the summer with their father, a court commissioner ruled in the divorce case between Jones and her husband, Stephens. Commissioner Robert A Schnider ruled Monday that Stephen Jones will have custody of the couple's two sons, ages 2 and 6, from June 28 until Aug. 15. More hearings will be scheduled to resolve permanent custody. In 1994, Paula Jones sued President Clinton for sexual harassment after accusing him of making a sexual advance to her in a Little Rock hotel room in 1991, when he was Arkansas' sovernor and ...