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President Clinton is angered and hurt by Vice President Gore's efforts to distance himself from Clinton's behavior in the Monica Lewinsky mess, "presidential aides and advisers" tell Saturday's NEW YORK TIMES...MORE... "This is the most tense their relationship has ever been," one close Clinton adviser tells the paper's Broder and Van Natta... Developing late...

  REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS Gaston Hall Georgetown University Georgetown, Washington. D.C. 10:58 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you very much. Danielle, you did a fine job. Didn't she do a good job? I thought she was great. Thank you. (Applause.) I'd also like to thank my good friend, Father O'Donovan, for allowing me to come back to my alma mater to make this speech and to be with you. And Bruce Reed, for the superb use he has made of the Presidential Scholarship he got -- he does a wonderful job in our office. I ...

The Government Has Our Numbers by Lori Patel 4:00am 3.Jul.98.PDT Your banker has it. Your employer has it. Your insurer, the IRS, and, frankly, you can't remember who else has it. So what difference does it make if the US Department of Transportation joins the crowd asking to see your Social Security number? Recently, the department published its intention to require all states to verify Social Security numbers before issuing or renewing drivers' licenses. Depending on who one asks, the significance of this decision can swell or shrink like a top-notch special effect. "Fear of crime and terrorism has ...

He leads the pack by breaking the mold By Jon Pepper / The Detroit News It's not terribly unusual that the early leader in the presidential campaign for the year 2000 launched his Michigan effort in a modest park in southwest Detroit. Nor was it surprising that the audience was composed largely of Hispanic business leaders and families, that the picnic fare was lemonade and tamales, and that the introductions were made in Spanish. The truly extraordinary part was this: The candidate was a Republican. That sort of unorthodox outreach to constituents well outside the traditional Republican party strength, however, ...

Your Driver License, For Sale? by Declan McCullagh 2:00 p.m. 25.Jun.99.PDT WASHINGTON -- Direct marketing firms are trying to head off federal legislation that would stop state governments from selling drivers license information and photos. A transportation funding bill that the Senate could vote on next week says that state motor vehicle agencies may no longer continue to offer their drivers license databases for sale to the highest bidder. Industry groups, including the Direct Marketing Association, Equifax, and some insurance companies oppose the measure. DMA lobbyists have been trying to sway their Capitol Hill adversaries by arguing that the ...

Subject: Very disconcerting information by Dr. Willke LIFE ISSUES INSTITUTE, INC. SERVING THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE PROLIFE MOVEMENT JOHN C. WILLKE, M.D. President BRADLEY MATTES Executive Director Dear Pro-Life Friend: . A batch of eyes going out by UPS. . A shipment of 30 livers by Federal Express. I can't believe this is happening - and routinely. These are real baby parts, often from live born babies who had been delivered by Partial-Birth abortion. I think it would be an understatement to say that I'm shell-shocked. I've been at the forefront of the pro-life battle for decades. Not much ...

While the Other Networks Air Almost Nothing, FNC's Carl Cameron is Developing Chinagate Scoops There's No One But Fox to Follow Up Cox Fox News Channel airs the slogan "We report, you decide." On the Chinese spy scandal, FNC has been doing the reporting, while the other networks have offered almost nothing to help people make a decision. FNC's Carl Cameron is all alone on the TV China beat. June 3: Testing a Second Missile. Cameron reported: "This has caught U.S. military and intelligence officials off guard. China now plans to move up its development timetable and later this year ...

June 25 1999 UNITED STATES Starr the inquisitor puts heat on Hillary FROM BEN MACINTYRE IN WASHINGTON KENNETH STARR, the independent prosecutor, has named Hillary Clinton on the witness list for the trial of her former legal partner in a move that is certain to cast a pall over her plans to run for the New York Senate seat. The First Lady is one of 63 potential witnesses cited by Mr Starr for the fraud trial of Webster Hubbell, a former Associate Attorney-General in the Clinton Administration, on allegations that he concealed the work he and Mrs Clinton carried out ...

(Of Hillary's healthcare adventure) It is fortunate for the Clintons that this populist appeal was unsuccessful. Had the masses risen up against the insurance companies, they would have discoveed that the four largest of them___ Aetna, Prudential, Met Life and Cigna___ had helped and financed the "managed-competition" scheme which the Clintons and their Jackson Hole Group had put forward in the first place. These corporations and the Clintons, had also decided to exclude from consideration, any "single payer", or Canadian-style solution. A group of of doctors at the Harvard Medical School, better known as Physicians for National Health program, ...

As FOXNEWS first reported last week the FBI and CIA are planning to restructure counter intelligence operations in the wake of the China spying scandal. Tonight FOX NEWS has learned the FBI plans to propose a new division solely for rooting out spies, part of an agency wide overhaul of spy catching operations. FBI sources say the breadth of the shakeup is "huge." Source say FBI director, Louis Freeh has already recieved approval from Attny Gen Janet Reno and the request has been forwarded to the White House. The FBI national security division would be split into two divisions, ...

A VIEW FROM HERE by deb weiss Guns, Cuisinarts and the Bill of Rights June 24, 1999 As the late Richard Milhous Nixon was fond of saying (actually, I think he only said it once, but once was enough), "Let me make one thing perfectly clear." I am terrified of guns. I mean terrified. Irrationally, intensely, deep-in-the-marrow afraid. The very smell of gunmetal sends chills down my spine. Some years ago, when my cousin, the adorable vegetarian and animal rights activist, who happens also to be an expert markswoman, invited me to wield her rifle (fully assembled, it's taller than ...

FOR AN IMMIGRANT without financial backers, campaign experience, or an established organization to provide support, Laura Onate Palacios of Montebello, California, has been surprisingly successful in her first political venture. Her crusade has caught the attention and ire of talk-radio listeners, and it has made its way into small-town newspapers, the Los Angeles Times, and the AP Wire. In a state that routinely confronts controversial issues—affirmative action, bilingual education, medical marijuana, etc.—via referendum, Mrs. Palacios has found one that cuts even deeper: adultery. A remarried divorcée and real-estate agent, Mrs. Palacios is tired of watching infidelity destroy lives and families. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A figure in the federal campaign fund-raising investigation pleaded guilty Friday to mail fraud, tax evasion and assisting in an illegal $325,000 contribution to the Democratic Party using funds from a foreign national. Appearing in federal court in San Francisco, Yogesh Gandhi, 50, of Walnut Creek, Calif., also admitted that he obtained a corporate American Express card by signing the name of a business associate to the application without his permission. In doing so, Gandhi used the associate's credit rating to obtain a card, the Justice Department said. The mail fraud charge relates to the American Express ...

The SWISS PERSPECTIVE Here is a real world perspective on why having the means to defend oneself is critical to maintaining our freedom now and into the future. ---------------------------------------------------------- The Swiss federal shooting festival, which remains the largest rifle competition in the world, was held in Luzerne in June 1939. Hitler's takeover of Austria and Czechoslovakia was complete, both countries had been surrendered by tiny political elites who guaranteed that there would be no resistance. Swiss President Philipp Etter spoke at the festival, stressing that something far more serious than sport was the purpose of their activity. His comments demonstrated ...

United States Senate United States Senate WASHINGTON, DC 20510   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, Jan. 25, 1999     Statement by U.S. Senators Jon Kyl, Pete Domenici, and Frank Murkowski We are increasingly concerned that bipartison efforts by Congress to implement the recommendations of President Clinton's Foreign intelligence Advisory Board regarding the security and management of our national weapons laboratories are being politicized and resisted by the Department of Energy at the expense of nationa1 security We can find no substantive explanation for the steadfast opposition of the Energy Secretary to these reforms; indeed, such opposition appears to validate ...

DUKE UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN Jay Strader first knew there was something wrong when he returned home after class. Vandals had broken into his dorm room and left an ominous message on his computer monitor—"We’re going to kick your ass." Soon after this jarring event, Strader was shooting pool with a friend in the dorm’s recreation lounge when a dormmate noticed him. "That was a real ass— of a letter you wrote," the young man snarled, referring to a letter Strader had recently written to the Chronicle, Duke’s student-run daily newspaper. The two exchanged words and insults, and the conversation became increasingly ...

—Frightened Serbs flee as their houses blaze after being ransacked by ethnic Albanians. NATO reports unrest throughout most of Kosovo's major cities. There are also reports of Serb paramilitaries terrorizing ethnic Albanian villages. —President Clinton says he's not surprised that ethnic Albanians are engaging in revenge attacks on Serbs "after what they've been through,'' but he said NATO is doing its best to stop the violence as refugees return home. —U.S. Marines come under fire in Gnjilane and kill one person while returning fire, a NATO spokesman says. —Some 300,000 ethnic Albanians have flooded back into the province in ...

The Cox Report is out, and the Media is ignoring it. (like usual) FRee Republic is not going to allow this to go away. With your help Free Republic is going to go where no web site has gone before. We have set our sights on appearing before Congress and give our Testimony on this TREASON that has taken place. We can do this, we can make a difference. We need YOUR help to accomplish everything we need to do to prepare for this historic effort. We are putting out the call for Freepers to step up and be counted. ...

It is becoming harder by the day to justify NATO’s continued collaboration with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). A front page article in the June 25 New York Times cites KLA commanders, former Albanian government officials, and Western diplomats who claim KLA leader Hashim Thaci and two of his lieutenants led purges of the KLA ranks, to root out and kill potential challengers to Thaci’s leadership. No one has come forward to say they witnessed Thaci or his associates, Azem Syla and Xhavit Haliti, personally carrying out the killings, though reports to this effect have circulated for years. Moreover, there ...

The polling organization Harris Black International has kicked off what the firm is billing as the first-ever statistically accurate online presidential poll. With a total database of 20,000 volunteer Web-savvy voters at their disposal, the pollsters conducted the first of a planned monthly series of polls on the 2000 presidential race this week, said Humphrey Taylor, president of Harris Black. The poll of 12,868 U.S. adults showed that if the election were held this week, either Texas Gov. George W. Bush or fellow GOP candidate Elizabeth Dole would easily defeat either Vice President Al Gore or his rival for ...