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While the Monica Lewinsky affair is long over, the stain remains. But even though Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate for lying about the carnal pleasures he sought and received from a White House intern, this president continues to indict himself with the same kind of parsing that led to his impeachment. In typical Clintonian demeanor - jaw-flexing solemnity - the president this month deplored racial profiling by police as a ``morally indefensible, deeply corrosive practice.'' So seemingly troubled was Clinton by the practice of stopping motorists on the basis of their ethnicity in pursuit of, primarily, drugs, the ...

Warning: do not read on a full stomach. From USA Weekend June 25-27, 1999 Complacency Could Kill Us by Jeffrey Zaslow [snip first part of article; near end of article about Clinton's AIDS Czar, Sandy Thurman, includes the following:] As a White House appointee, she has reconciled the president's sex scandal with her job to preach safe sex. She insists lives are being saved as a result of Clinton's behavior. "It has forced us to open the door to conversations with our children about sexuality and responsible behavior. Children are driving the dialogue. They're asking questions we have to answer." ...

A Republic - Under God A Study of Patriot Samuel Langdon, Encouraged By Ron Culver How far has American society, and government, departed from views held at the birth of this Republic?  As this examination of history attests, the facts are clear - the nation today barely resembles the vision that our forefathers fought for - and spoke, and wrote extensively about.  If we are to "fight the good fight" and keep this Republic, and even move back the cancer, yes the cancer of democracy, we need to know more about the views of our founders.  We can do ...

EPA's CLEAN-AIR RULES ARE NOT JUST A CASE OF EXECUTIVE-BRANCH USURPATION. THEY REFLECT RIGID LEGISLATION AND FLUID SCIENCE. In May,the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia blocked the Clinton administration's air-quality standards for ozone and particulate matter The decision, American Trucking Association vs. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is a victory for democracy over bureaucracy. The court found that EPA's standards amounted to sheer unexplained policy judgments--an expression of bureaucratic willfulness, rather than an application of the Clean-Air Act. EPA thereby ran afoul of the "non-delegation doctrine," which courts use to enforce the constitutional clause giving "all ...

Firestorm of Emotional Blather Confuses Right To Own Guns Marianne Moody Jennings Special for the Republic Listening to our boy president and his court jesters on guns is similar to hearing a teen describe I Know What You Did Last Summer. Guns wander aimlessly on the cul-de-sacs of upper middle class suburbs and mercilessly seize control of the minds of young people faster than Austin Powers. Gun-show guns pack more power for conquering the will and reason than a gun purchased with a waiting period at, say, Kmart. Mrs. Clinton warned children last month that if they visited a friend's ...

To: retyered JR recently responded to a thread that, mercifully died a quick death, but I think his comments probably deserved wider circulation than they got. Want to know how to get your threads pulled? *** To: arcane "So lay off religion already. I, personally, am a very religious person. A fundementalist Christian. But it has very little to do with my political interests. That's two different worlds. As long as people keep insisting on making a person's religion a measure of his value as a human being, no progress on other issues can be made. I've always maintained that ...

NEWS ANALYSIS Backing Gun-Seizure Bill Reflects G.O.P. Governors' Move to the Center New York Times 06-28-99 By MIKE ALLEN HARTFORD -- While other states debate gun-control laws, Connecticut is about to get a gun-seizure law, intended to disarm dangerous people before they fire. By promising to sign the measure, Gov. John G. Rowland, a Republican, is providing one of the starkest illustrations yet of how far some G.O.P. officials are going in an effort to change their party's face. Governor Rowland is part of a class of Republicans, personified most prominently by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, who are ...

LOS ANGELES — The boys were obsessed with the horror movie Scream. They talked about it many times to each other and with friends. One of them said that the slayings depicted were "cool." and, on the way home from one of many viewings, he told a pal: "It was a perfect way to kill somebody." Then the boys, Mario Padilla and Samuel Ramirez, began talking about real killings that would replicate those in the 1996 Wes Craven film, in which teen-agers are slaughtered by killers obsessed with horror movies. A Grim Reaper costume and a voice changer are used ...

Fixing the Independent Counsel Act The Independent Counsel Act will expire on Wednesday, and unfortunately most members of Congress would just as soon see the law fade into history. But that response unwisely assumes that Kenneth Starr's protracted investigation of President Clinton ought to be the measure by which the law is judged. Without an independent counsel law, power to investigate the President and other high officials would revert back to the Attorney General, who cannot credibly oversee inquiries into the highest levels of the administration of which he or she is a part. Instead of rejecting the independent counsel ...

ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE Free Pills for Geezers? Free milk for babies" was the battle cry of social reformers a century ago. Today the bumper sticker of those pressing for inclusion of prescription drugs in Medicare might read "Free Pills for Geezers." (I'll get mail from members of my age cohort whining about geezer as a demographic slur, but it's no more pejorative than "young whippersnapper.") Just as free milk was good for youngsters, free pills will be good for indigent oldsters. Medication, especially in geriatric and psychiatric treatment, is often better and always cheaper than hospitalization. Insurance coverage ...

Personal Character Goes Only So Far By ALAN WOLFE James Madison once wrote that if all men were angels, government would not be necessary. In his family life, Vice President Al Gore, an ideal husband and father, is as close to an angel as a high governmental official can get. Not only that, he has played up his high moral standards by repeatedly calling President Clinton's behavior "inexcusable." Yet despite getting an "A" for personal character, Mr. Gore, at least according to the polls, has not proved to be as popular as the man he would replace. The polls, of ...

President Clinton eyeing Senate bid? Report cites 'old friends' of president who say he's interested in vying for Arkansas seat By Tom Curry MSNBC June 27 — Friends of President Clinton believe he will run for the Senate in 2002, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday. Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the "Talk of the Town" section of the magazine due to hit newsstands Monday, said "some old friends" of the president — whom he did not name — believe that he will run for the Senate from his native Arkansas in 2002, when Sen. Tim Hutchinson, a Republican, will ...

Hatch Faults Administration in China Spying By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON -- Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who last week became the most recent candidate to enter the race for President, on Sunday condemned the Clinton Administration's handling of intelligence affairs, saying, "We're not taking counterterrorism as seriously as we should." Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Hatch offered a blunt response to an article on Sunday in The New York Times describing how senior White House officials were warned as early as 1995 that China might have stolen nuclear secrets from the United States but failed to investigate ...

THE SERBS 9 Wanderers Personify Failure of Milosevic Vision By BLAINE HARDEN KRAGUJEVAC, Yugoslavia, -- Behind a door without a doorknob, in a filthy school basement lighted by a single bare bulb, nine homeless Serbs offered themselves Sunday as human report cards on Slobodan Milosevic's crusade to cut a "Greater Serbia" from the ruins of Yugoslavia. "Nine years in hell. That's my life," explained Radovan Grtic, who came to the basement two days ago, after fleeing Kosovo. Grtic and the eight other Serbs in the room were all born in the former Yugoslav republic of Croatia. That's where Milosevic's nationalist ...

Dinner for a Presidential Library, Contributions Welcome By DON VAN NATTA Jr. WASHINGTON -- Quietly, at a French restaurant on the East Side of midtown Manhattan on Monday evening, President Clinton, the most effective fund-raiser ever to occupy the White House, plans to embark on the most ambitious fund-raising campaign of his long political career. After having dinner with 40 business executives, mostly from the fashion industry, the President is expected to talk about his vision for the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library, a museum and public policy center on the banks of the Arkansas River in Little Rock that ...

China is making final preparations for a flight test of new mobile missile that the CIA says will contain stolen warhead design and missile tech, the WASHINGTON TIMES is reporting on Monday. The Bill Gertz story quotes CIA intelligence...

Stop press! Feminists recant! Few things can be more delightful, in the eyes of the right-wing press, than an erstwhile feminist who has now decided that the time for liberation is over, and the time for backlash has begun. ..Now there is Rosalind Coward, who is publishing a book next week called Sacred Cows, in which she explains how she became "disenchanted with the idea of being a feminist". And the reason that all these women give for their change of heart is the same: men. They cite male suicide, male unemployment, male dissociation from the family and the absence ...

Apologies if this is a normal occurance in your region of the country. Today was the first time I'd ever experienced this.I purchased some tools today at 'Tool King' here in Colorado and wrote out a check as usual. The clerk non-chalantly handed me a carbon slip nearly identical to a credit card authorization slip and asked me to sign it. I asked him what it was and he said it was a new type of checking that "everyone will be using soon" When I refused to sign it, he processed my check as usual and then handed me the ...

The Militia Act of 1792, adopted the year after the Second Amendment was ratified, declared that the Militia of the United States (members of the militia obligated to serve if called upon by the government) included all able-bodied males of age. As the U.S. Supreme Court observed in U.S. v. Miller (1939), "The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the [Constitutional] Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common ...

Damage to Serb Military Less Than Expected By STEVEN LEE MYERS DJAKOVICA, Yugoslavia -- NATO warplanes demolished the Yugoslav Army's World War II-era base here. In what was left of the motor pool, 18 military vehicles, including one armored personnel carrier, were scattered Sunday in charred, twisted heaps. Up close, however, it was clear that most of the destroyed vehicles were old wrecks, many already up on blocks and gathered there by the Serbs for repairs or junking. NATO's warplanes had not destroyed Yugoslavia's front-line fighting vehicles, but rather a junkyard. In Djakovica and all across Kosovo, the devastating results ...