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Bauer promises fewer regulations, says feds treat state like 'colony' By PAUL QUEARY The Associated Press Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer began a four-day campaign swing through Alaska on Friday by promising to reduce the federal government's influence over the state. Adopting a theme popular with Alaska Republicans, the conservative activist promised to push for oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, rein in the U.S. Forest Service's recent reductions on logging in national forests and lessen federal restrictions on recreational land uses. "Alaska is a state, but it's being treated as a colony," said Bauer. "Washington treats you ...

With a new campaign season coming upon us rapidly I have an idea. I apologize if this idea has been putforth before or is already in action. Im sure with the many many Freepers out there that several, if not many are running for office. I think that we should have a section on FreeRepublic that lists Freepers running for office, what they are running for, where, and so on. Links to their campaign websites and how to donate to their campaigns could be provided. As we all know it costs a lot to run for office. We as Freepers ...

Summertime edition, 2 cents worth. Keep in cool, dry place and discard at first sign of mold: The good old days for a schoolteacher were when her main concern was students chewing gum in class. Anglo leaders have proved capable of many mistakes but none so foolish as to consider themselves wiser than Asians. It is fortunate for our egos that we don't know what zoo animals are thinking. Every time Henry Kissinger appears on television, I find myself wishing he would take something for that sour stomach. I can understand President George Bush's urge to parachute - every ...

President Clinton suggests the Yugoslav people rethink whether they want Slobodan Milosevic to remain in power in view of atrocities in Kosovo, but he insists a $5 million reward for the arrest of the Serb leader and associates on war-crimes charges is not an invitation to assassination. At his news conference Friday, Clinton also said Belgrade will get no aid to repair NATO bomb damage if Milosevic's fellow Serbs continue to endorse his effort to drive the ethnic Albanian majority out of Kosovo, a province of Serbia. ``I wouldn't give them one red cent for reconstruction,'' he declared. The ...

Here's my first installment of a version of what happened to get the US involved in WWI: Understand that I know you will more than likely have another version of the sinking of the Lusitania. Griffin is not unaware that there was an official version that became the historical account. He has made the effort to get what he thinks is a truer version; he is a great researcher and author, so allow me to try to represent what he has said through his sources. Early on he quotes George Sylvester Viereck, author of The Strangest Friendship in History: ...

TALLAHASSEE -- California businessman Ward Connerly said Thursday that his anti-affirmative action campaign is gaining steam and likely will have enough ballot signatures for Supreme Court review this summer. Petition gatherers are well on their way to having at least 45,000 signatures by fall -- allowing justices to decide whether the measures are constitutional for next year's ballot. "In short, the campaign is going well," Connerly said. Connerly spoke Thursday in Tallahassee, racing through a state that he has targeted as the third in the nation to test his theory that minority-preference programs are out of control. Similar affirmative-action ...

News highlights through June 25 . . . QUAYLE RAMPING UP IOWA STAFF; SAYS KOSOVO IS "NOT A VICTORY" IOWA RAMP UP . . . "Former Vice President Dan Quayle says he's doubling the number of staffers on his Iowa campaign and plans to increase the amount of time he will devote to the state. In a memo to 'interested parties' that was to be distributed today, Quayle campaign chairman Kyle McSlarrow described 'major expansions in our operation in Iowa' . . . Quayle has five Iowa campaign trips planned through the state by mid-August . . . 'We're ramping ...

One day it was peace, the next war. Ehud Barak, the new Israeli prime minister, had promised the first to Lebanon and Syria. Benjamin Netanyahu, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, delivered the second. And by last night, Thursday's ruthless Nato-style Israeli attack on Lebanon's power stations and bridges - costing nine lives, five of them firemen - had left both the Israelis and Hizbollah guerrillas threatening further mutual retaliation. The decision to bombard Lebanon appears to have been Netanyahu's; his government is still technically ruling Israel. Israelis were informed that Mr Barak, who had been speaking warmly of a ...

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 ...

SOURCE: Republican National CommitteeNicholson Statement in Response to President Clinton's News Conference'Instead of Solving America's Problems, President Clinton is Back on the Campaign Trail.' WASHINGTON, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson issued the following statement in response to President Clinton's news conference today:``Today, President Clinton chose to campaign rather than govern. Today, President Clinton passed up an historic opportunity to work for real, bipartisan solutions to America's problems.``He chose instead to create issues for the election campaign of Al Gore and other Democrats.``That's disappointing but hardly surprising. In fact, we predicted it months ago when President ...

UPI Header (NOTE: adv weekend June 26-27 or thereafter) Backstairs at the White House By HELEN THOMAS UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON A reporter was writing a story about a book called ''Two Hundred Years,'' about the nation's capital, by Jeanne Fogle. When he wrote the review, he found he had written ''Two Hundred Tears.'' It may have been a reflection on a new book by reporter-author Bob Woodward titled, ''Shadow Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate. '' The chapters on the Clinton administration are poignant and painful for mistakes made and many regrets, for reputations lost and ...

Starr ordered to turn over Tripp recordings to Maryland prosecutors 10.32 a.m. ET (1432 GMT) June 26, 1999 BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Ken Starr to give Maryland prosecutors tape recordings Linda Tripp made of conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, removing a roadblock to possible prosecution of Tripp for breaking state wiretap laws. The recent order followed a request for the tapes by State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, The (Baltimore) Sun reported Saturday. Tripp is being investigated over whether she broke state wiretapping laws by making the tapes, which played prominently in the impeachment trial ...

KOSOVO SUGGESTS that in the Age of Clinton, victory ain't what it used to be. During the Vietnam War, we used to laugh and wonder why Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon didn't just declare victory and bring the troops home. We knew the answer, of course. If the stated objective of the war wasn't achieved, then one couldn't claim victory. And this meant up until the very end. I have a bumper sticker on my car that says, referring to Vietnam, "I don't know what happened! When I left we were winning." Of course, we didn't win, and my ...

The following is the results as of 10:15 on the morning of the 26th of June 1999. The poll is asking if people think there would be a positive reaction to the Ten Commandments by kids as relates to violence if schools put them up. The wourd that followed Yes but... and No but... were "...it violates Separation of Church and State" ------- Total Votes Cast: 4558

After three months of a massive propaganda campaign to portray the KLA as "victims" of Serb aggression, it’s beginning to dawn on many in the major newspapers and the networks that America, under the able auspices of the White House spin machine, has clutched a viper to its bosom in making an ally and client out of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Remember the well publicized and very sudden and timely indictment of Slobodan Milosevic for 340 deaths in Kosovo? Two of the so-called "massacres" involved sites in the vicinity of Djakovica, a town in a sector of Kosovo under the ...

Salon.com recently did a snail track slimey cheap shot piece on Ann Coulter. I refuse to post the article. To say it is in poor taste is putting it mildly. If you insist on reading trash you can go Here. The author of the garbage is one Thor Hesla. Here’s a little bit of information on the dirtball. “Thor D. Hesla has worked on winning campaigns all across the globe. He began his political organizing career at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. He has managed three Congressional races and two state legislative races, as well as serving as finance ...

In Newsweek last week Tony Blair described the "new moral crusade" that is to follow NATO's attack on Yugoslavia. "We now have a chance to build a new internationalism based on values and the rule of law," he wrote. George Robertson was more blunt. The "Rubicon has been crossed", he said, paving the way for the end of the UN charter that protects the sovereignty of nations. Robin Cook chimed in, making threats towards "governments using aggression against their own people". The warning did not apply to the government of Turkey, a NATO member, whose aggression against its own people ...

As piglets cavorted in the vegetable patch of an abandoned Serbian farmhouse, a group of weather-beaten men loaded planks into an empty trailer - Albanian looters in action. No doubt they too were responsible for the clouds of grey smoke surging from a nearby cottage, its roof tiles blazing and beams crashing down. "My whole house was burnt down and 10 of my relatives killed, two of them were burnt also," said one man, who then paused. "I recognise you," he exclaimed, "You interviewed me when we found the last body." And then it dawned: Ymer Delija, father and husband, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton said today he's not surprised that ethnic Albanian 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. ``NATO is not letting it happen,'' the president said at his first news conference since March. ``We're doing what we can to stop it.'' Despite NATO's appeals, ethnic Albanians torched Serb houses in western Kosovo Thursday and looted Serb-owned shops in the capital of Pristina. Tens of thousands of returning refugees are exceeding NATO expectations. Asked about the lawlessness, ...

Paris, Saturday, June 26, 1999EU Ministers Agree on Stricter Labeling of Biotech CropsBy Barry James International Herald TribuneBRUSSELS - European Union environment ministers agreed Friday to impose stricter labeling and monitoring of gene-altered crops and seeds in response to rising public concern across the EU about biotechnology. For the second time in six months, they rejected calls for a moratorium on genetically modified organisms. France and Britain clashed over the issue. The French environment minister, Dominique Voynet, a member of the Green party, had sought a moratorium until the newly elected European Parliament approved regulations for genetically modified organisms, a ...