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Supreme Court Boosts States' Rights By Richard Carelli Associated Press Writer Wednesday, June 23, 1999; 5:42 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dramatically enhanced states' rights today in decisions that exposed an increasingly bitter 5-4 ideological split among the justices over how to balance federal and state powers. Dissenters called the conservative majority's rulings "indefensible." Announced as the court ended its 1998-99 term, the three decisions eroded Congress' power over the states. But the biggest losers may be businesses and individual Americans who think states violated their federally protected rights. The justices killed lawsuits that accused Maine of ...

Y2KNEWSWIRE has confirmed with the California State Attorney General office: certain firearms are now under a confiscation order. This, also posted on a state-run web site. California residents must turn in their SKS rifles by 1/1/2000 -- precisely the Y2K rollover date -- or face criminal prosecution. Recently-enacted legislation mandates this confiscation, calling it a "buyback" program and offering to reimburse gun owners $230 per "relinquished" rifle. Amid cries from gun owners that their Second Amendment rights are being further trampled just in time for Y2K, Y2KNEWSWIRE hit the phones to find out exactly what's going on here. We spoke ...

OK, Flame resistance on, seminar caller.Only this time he's Republican. Guy says he's from Canada and conservative split is why liberals are in power. He sounded like he was reading a script, and Rush went right along extolling the repurcussions of a third party. Does anybody see what this means? We have got the republicans scared! You bet the house on it. We can make a difference, if Pat or Whoever can broker his voters we may win back the party. A proper platform might get the unregistered voters to sign up!

as we will see over the next few weeks Nato's claims are BS.. THE REST OF THE STORY

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will set up a political exploratory committee on July 7 that will be her first formal step toward running for the U.S. Senate from New York, sources close to her said on Wednesday. The sources said Mrs. Clinton will make the announcement at the upstate New York farm of retiring Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whom she hopes to succeed. An exploratory committee allows Mrs. Clinton to raise funds for a race to replace Moynihan but stops short of a formal declaration of her candidacy. Under election laws, an exploratory committee can collect campaign ...

Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 24, 1999. Posted for information and discussion only; not for commercial use. Your risk of being murdered is one in 16,666. Actually, for most Americans, it is much less than that. The majority of American homicides involve one low-life killing another low-life. Thus, if you stay out of the drug business, which most Americans do, and if you don't hang out with low-lifes or foolishly wander into bad neighborhoods, your chances of becoming a homicide victim are very small. In short, the danger of firearms is greatly exaggerated by politicians and press ...

Paris, Thursday, June 24, 1999In Germany, a New Era of Austerity Schroeder Calls on Country to Make Sacrifices as Cabinet Passes CutsCompiled by Our Staff From DispatchesBONN - The cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder approved an ambitious economic reform package Wednesday that included lower corporate taxes and what the government is billing as postwar Germany's biggest spending cuts. ''With this reform package, we have a real chance to support economic growth and thereby the government's central goal: to strengthen our economic power and create jobs,'' Mr. Schroeder said at a news conference after the cabinet met. He urged Germany to ...

First Couple On Broadway - (WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will join President Clinton at a Broadway play next week to raise money for Democrats. The first couple will take in a special performance on Monday of Eugene O'Neill's ``The Iceman Cometh'' at the Brooks Atkinson Theater and later attend a post-show reception at The Supper Club restaurant nearby. The first lady has been trooping to New York regularly since she began earlier this year considering a 2000 Senate run. The one-thousand-dollar-a-ticket event is aimed at raising one-Million for Democratic congressional candidates.

No Party At Brooklyn Navy Yard - (BROOKLYN) -- New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says the Brooklyn Navy Yard is NOT a place to hold a party. So a new weekly magazine... that happens to be putting First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on its first cover... will have to hold its kick-off party someplace else. Movie mogul and now magazine publisher Harvey Weinstein had planned to rent an area of the old Navy Yard... that's now an industrial park... near downtown Brooklyn for the bash. Giuliani says it it's NOT politics. He says he wouldn't rent space at the ...

MUGGER The Times Unofficially Endorses Gore: Bush Confuses The Media http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- LAST THURSDAY, in an astonishing editorial, The New York Times unofficially endorsed Al Gore over Gov. George W. Bush for president in the 2000 election. The headline read "Al Gore as the Un-Clinton," and the writer reacted favorably to the Vice President’s tepid candidacy announcement in Carthage, TN, last Wednesday, pronouncing that Gore is "particularly expert on foreign relations and the environment, areas where leading Republican candidate, George W. Bush, is weak." This, of course, is absurd. Where was Gore —who, according to the Times has been a ...

Can anyone say Vietnam? Marines under fire U.S. Marines come under fire in Kosovo; gunman killed June 23, 1999 Web posted at: 6:16 p.m. EDT (2216 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A group of armed men shot at U.S. Marines at a checkpoint in southeastern Kosovo on Wednesday. The Marines returned fire, killing one of the attackers and wounding two others, U.S. officials said. One gunman was detained. -SNIP-

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STRATFOR: Global Intelligence Center 2230 GMT, 990623 Panama/U.S. - Panamanian Foreign Minister Jorge Ritter reacted sharply to comments made yesterday by U.S. Southern Command Chief Gen. Charles Wilhelm who warned the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. troops from Panama is creating a security threat to Panama. Wilhelm said the absence of U.S. troops in Panama will leave the nation open to Colombian rebels and drug runners, posing a potential threat to the security of the Panama Canal. Ritter responded by saying that Panama did not need U.S. troops to protect its borders. "Never have the U.S. military forces been here to ...

FROM THE BATTLE FRONT: HEAD HELD HIGH, MIND SANS FEAR [Caption] Soldiers bringing back the body of a fallen comrade in the Batalik sector. Photo: Prakash Singh Having sustained a permanent injury during a training operation and staring at the end of his career as a professional soldier, he was about to leave the Army´s service. Instead, the young Captain, on learning that his unit was fighting infiltrators, volunteered for the job and is now leading his troops in the battle. The captain — who, like all the defence personnel in this report, must remain unidentified — wrote to ...

Here is a link to the live webcam that gives you the view Oswald had from the sixth floor of the school book depository at Dealy Plaza where Kennedy was shot. With all the stories about Yelstin's gift to Clinton of Oswald's KGB files, I thought some of you might be interested. http://www.jfk.org/Web_Cam/dealey_Java.htm

Affirmative Action Losing Ground Editorial Wednesday June 1999 The Southeastern Legal Foundation last week won a federal lawsuit challenging Fulton County's affirmative action program, and it's now threatening a similar suit against Atlanta. City officials promise to fight the suit, but success is far from certain. Over the past few years, the legal ground beneath affirmative action has been steadily eroded by federal court rulings around the country. That trend is in part the work of conservative groups such as the Southeastern Legal Foundation, which is ever quick to defend the civil rights of white Americans downtrodden by decades ...

Bush pledges return of 'ideals' during first D.C. campaign stop -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Sean Scully THE WASHINGTON TIMES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George W. Bush swung through Washington yesterday and took direct aim at President Clinton, vowing to lead by example and lift up American politics by his own honor and integrity. "I will prove that someone who is conservative and compassionate can win without sacrificing principle. I will show that politics after a time of tarnished ideals can be higher and better. I will give our country a fresh start of hope after a season of cynicism," the Republican governor of Texas told ...

..........................................................................................................God...........................................................................................................................The Loyal Opposition....... "We'll bring God back to the Democratic party."(Algore tries triangulation)

The Govenor did not specify which drugs but he said the states drug laws are not being enforced. This was said a meeting of the NM upper level republican eschelon. He stated he used mary jane (my editoring)in college.

ABCNEWS.com P R I S T I N A, Yugoslavia, June 23 — Newly arrived NATO peacekeeping forces are finding out that even though Yugoslav troops have retreated from Kosovo, there is still plenty of danger and the potential for even more. That lesson was brought home strongly today when U.S. Marines manning a checkpoint in Kosovo came under attack and returned fire. One of the assailants was killed immediately, and two were injured, Pentagon officials said. The injured and others who may have been involved in the attack were reportedly in custody. Earlier reports said three attackers had died. ...