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WASHINGTON (AP) — Content with the peace in Kosovo, President Clinton turned his focus homeward today "with a renewed energy for the domestic agenda.'' He challenged what he cast as a do-nothing Republican Congress to approve his ideas on Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, education, child care and campaign finance. "Congress should pass it and I will sign it,'' was the president's refrain as he ticked down the same list of initiatives he outlined five months ago in his State of the Union address. Rebutting those who would call him a lame-duck president in the final 18 months of his ...

THE old man, unshaven and wearing a flat cap, sat at a table in Kosovo's only Serbian Orthodox seminary and described how he found his wife lying in their blood-filled bedroom only a few hundred yards away in the heart of Prizren's ancient Ottoman quarter. "I went out shopping on Monday afternoon," said Trifa Stamenkovic, 77, "and when I came back I couldn't find Marica. A patrol of German soldiers from K-For was passing, and I asked them to help me look. Two soldiers came into the house with me, and when we came to the door of the bedroom, ...

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Lyrics Copyright 1999, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. Another Saturday night and my wife's in North Salem I've got my cocaine and I want to play I'll stand in front of the gate with some flowers I really need a lay I'll ditch the Secret Service…I need some time to myself, don't you see I'm so darn cool in sunglasses…while eyeing all their *sses Little Willy I must set free Another Saturday night and my wife's in North Salem I've got my cocaine and I want to play I'll stand in front ...

Steve wants answers Copyright:BushLibrary Forbes Notes Bush Proposed 75 Tax Increases Web posted 6/24/99 at 10:10 a.m. EDT (Indianapolis, IN) - Steve Forbes, Republican Presidential candidate, today repeated his challenge to Governor George W. Bush to join a series of debates between now and the end of 1999. Mr. Forbes said the following: "The only way the American people are going to see dramatic tax cuts and tax simplification is if the Republican Party nominates an independent outsider, someone deeply committed to ending politics-as-usual in Washington. "I again challenge Governor Bush to a series of debates between now and the ...

House Government Reform and Oversight Committee June 24, 1999 Prepared Testimony of Congressman Curt Weldon Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I welcome the opportunity to testify today -- not as a Republican looking for a target of opportunity to attack the Administration, but as a Member of Congress concerned about the politicization of national security matters and retribution against government employees who stood up against it.  In fact, it was my efforts to bring bipartisanship to the national missile defense debate that brought me here today. In 1995, the congressional leadership committed to passing legislation that would mandate the timely deployment ...

June 23 - 29, 1999 Nat Hentoff This School Works! P.S. 110's Principal Is Everywhere AJ. Muste was a minister, radical pacifist, labor organizer, and strike leader, an international agitator against violence, and the most astute political analyst I've ever known. He would try to persuade anyone to his views: communists, anarchists, fascists, atheists like me, and beribboned generals. Some of his Christian supporters recoiled when he said, "I would sup with the devil." He once quoted W.H. Auden to me: "Prohibit sharply the rehearsed response." A.J. believed, from extensive experience, that in every person there is a kernel ...

Ex-Mayor of Arlington (suburb of Ft. Worth-Dallas area) Texas is vice president of community relations for the Star-Telegram. HIS TITLE: AND WHOSE VERSION DID YOU GET? By the time the next president is elected, there may be little left of the facts about how The Ballpark in Arlington because a reality. The national media--especially those members with a skewed agenda--are telling and retelling the story in so many different ways that the project is becoming a pawn in the high-stakes, manipulative world of presidential politics. In the process, Arlington's identity is growing well beyond what many thought would happen as ...

Now that the bombs have fallen silent, let us step back and reflect on the larger consequences for U.S. foreign policy and, hence, the world writ large, of the war over Kosovo. Though the full tab -- in both financial and political terms -- will not be delivered for a while, it is not too soon to begin assessing the balance sheet. First, only Bill Clinton could with a straight face declare unabashed victory amid the horrendous mess NATO wrought. Relief, maybe. Costly achievement, perhaps. Victory? No. But the prize of occupying Kosovo for the next decade and spending ...

June 22, 1999 Protect DOE Whistleblower Against Retaliation Dear Colleague,            I am writing to enlist your support on behalf of Lt. Col. Edward J. McCallum, the dedicated Department of Energy employee who fought for years to improve the safety and security of our nation's nuclear laboratories -- and is now being targeted as a result.  Lt. Col. McCallum has been DOE's Director of Safeguards and Security for ten years, and a Department employee for twenty-five years.  Throughout the past decade, this former Green Beret officer attempted numerous times to alert the Administration to grievous lapses in security which ...

Ex-Mayor of Arlington (suburb of Ft. Worth-Dallas area) Texas is vice president of community relations for the Star-Telegram. HIS TITLE: AND WHOSE VERSION DID YOU GET? By the time the next president is elected, there may be little left of the facts about how The Ballpark in Arlington because a reality. The national media--especially those members with a skewed agenda--are telling and retelling the story in so many different ways that the project is becoming a pawn in the high-stakes, manipulative world of presidential politics. In the process, Arlington's identity is growing well beyond what many thought would happen as ...

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON INTRODUCTION AND TABLE OF CONTENTS Revised 6/17/99   Doug from Upland presents "Hello Dolly" (the FreeRepublic welcoming song) The "Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of President Clinton" is the cyber-notepad of Alamo-Girl, the unofficial, unappointed secretary of what is the most active conservative political forum on the world wide web, the Free Republic. Forum participants refer to the list by its initials, DSL. The DSL is limited to the downside (darkside) of William Jefferson Clinton and includes questionable people, circumstances and events surrounding Bill Clinton i.e., two degrees of separation from the ...

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Published on June 25, 1999 Both sides challenged in suit over religious ad BY LINDA DEUTSCH ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES -- A panel of appeals court judges expressed open skepticism Thursday about a private citizen's right to force a public school to post the Ten Commandments on a ballfield fence where advertising space was sold. Justice Michael Mott of the California 2nd District Court of Appeal noted that with a $400 contribution to the Downey High School baseball program, Edward DiLoreto has trapped the school district into a cycle of litigation that "could cost them a fortune." "It could go ...

The man who makes Clinton look good Image maker focuses on what people will see June 25, 1999 BY JODI ENDA FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF SKOPJE, Macedonia -- The burgundy Kia is hurtling down the road at 88 m.p.h., weaving in and out of cars, tractors and Army trucks, passing through toll booths without stopping. In the back seat, George Caudill tears open a Meal Ready to Eat of pork chow mein and carefully extracts the rectangle that is reputed to be a chocolate-covered oatmeal cookie. He needs energy to deal with the emergency at hand. Rain. Under normal circumstances, ...

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- As NATO struggled to curb revenge attacks against Kosovo's Serbs, ethnic Albanians surged back into the province at a rate almost unprecedented in any refugee crisis in the past quarter-century, a U.N. official said today. About 48,000 ethnic Albanians returned on Thursday alone, said Paula Ghedini, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. That brought to more than 300,000 the number who have flooded back into the southern Serb province from Albania and Macedonia in the past 10 days. "This is one of the largest spontaneous returns that we have ever seen in ...

Meet the bikers who ride for freedom Each year, they invade the Capitol --Insight Freedom Riders By Sean Paige Each Memorial Day, bikers from all U.S. points east and west rumble into Washington to focus national attention on the sacrifices of American veterans. It was all black leather and Purple Hearts at the 12th annual Memorial Day weekend Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally in Washington. An estimated 100,000 bikers, many of them military veterans, rode in to show their true colors -- red, white and blue -- by honoring the dead, demanding an account of the missing, and receiving the belated ...

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that ...

COLOGNE, Germany -- For the first time, the G8 summit of the seven leading industrial countries in the world (plus Russia) took on the air of those 19th century “Concert of Europe” sessions where the great powers met to carve up the world. The destinies of the Balkans, where the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 launched World War I and put an end to that old Concert of Europe, have now been decided on by the new great powers at their annual weekend meeting. Hosted on the banks of the river Rhine by the ...

Government inundated with phony degrees Picking up falsified honors is easier, more profitable than ever William Tiller was hired by the city of Encinitas, just north of San Diego, in 1996, fresh out of the Marine Corps, to coordinate preparations for Y2K at a salary of $97,000 a year. Tiller certainly looked well qualified for the position; he boasted not only a bachelor's and master's degree, but also two doctorate degrees. There was just one problem, city officials later learned. Tiller's resume turned out to be a complete fabrication. Though Tiller has used different resumes, each has proven to be ...