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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Friends of President Clinton believe he will run for the Senate from Arkansas in 2002, The New Yorker reported Sunday. Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the ``Talk of the Town'' section of the magazine due out Monday, said that ``over the past several weeks, some old friends of the first family have been talking'' about another Senate race besides first lady Hillary Clinton's widely expected campaign to succeed New York Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan when he retires next year. ``These people believe that Bill Clinton will run for the United States Senate from Arkansas in ...

Melinda Henneberger, interviewing Bill Bradley for an article that appeared in yesterday's New Yorker magazine, asked the Democratic presidential hopeful whether he had read Al Gore's book Earth in the Balance. The former senator from New Jersey replied, "I only have time to read good books."

Washington, D.C. (April 15, 1999) – U.S. Reps. James A. Traficant, Jr. (D–OH) and Billy Tauzin (R–LA) today introduced legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and federal income tax, replacing them with a 15 percent national retail sales tax. At a press conference and rally held on Capitol Hill this afternoon Traficant issued the following statement: "First of all, I want to thank former Congressman Dan Schaefer of Colorado who spearheaded this effort in the last Congress with Billy Tauzin. I am honored to follow in his footsteps. I'm also thrilled and excited to be working with my good ...

Spa City native earns top post in Marine Corps JENNIFER A. DLOUHYARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Sgt. Maj. Alford L. McMichael, a Hot Springs native who today will be elevated to the highest post an enlisted Marine can attain, has always cherished the love and support of his nine brothers and sisters.    During a ceremony in Washington, D.C., McMichael will take over the position of the 14th sergeant major of the Marine Corps, a post in which he plans to put his family values to good use.    "I just believe you can lead people with inspiration and inspire them to things ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on today's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLY Be sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page and the other updates. Following is an excerpt from the updated "An Outsider's View" titled "...And Victory for All": So, this was the war to define future wars. How to "win" has been demonstrated by none other than an impeached, draft-dodging, flower-power hippie and leaders of an alliance that are either a collection of his clones or weaker, NATO enriched cheerleaders. Commander-in-Chief William Jefferson Clinton has rewritten military ...

BELA CRKVA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Those who survived the late March slaughter on the banks of the Belas River that cuts through fields in western Kosovo say the river ran red for two hours after the Serb police left. On Sunday, British forensic experts prepared to exhume the bodies of more than 60 men buried along the grassy riverbank next to the stone railroad bridge where they were reportedly shot March 25. Isuf Zhuniqi, 39, remembers how it happened. He was one of five or six people who survived. At 3 a.m., the Serbs came into Bela Crkva, and ...

Deconstructing Alec's Bazooka-brain ALEC Baldwin has thrown down the gauntlet. The under-employed former movie star attacked this newspaper during an appearance Tuesday on the Rosie O'Donnell show, declaring us "the worst newspaper that was ever created in the history of journalism." The portly political wannabe thundered, "You could probably find more legitimate news in a Bazooka comic than you can find in the New York Post." It is almost too easy to respond to the increasingly pathetic Baldwin, who among other odd recent pronouncements urged fellow Democrats to physically stone Rep. Henry Hyde. The hairy-chested husband of Kim Basinger might ...

President outlines new tenet on when to intervene abroad, but critics say it's fuzzy. WASHINGTON -- For a president to get the word "doctrine" attached to his name, he's got to do something big, something lasting, in the area of foreign affairs. Remember the Truman Doctrine? That was the cold war strategy to contain communism. The Monroe Doctrine? That was the 1823 policy to keep Europe out of the Americas, a guideline that influenced presidents into this century. Now, in the aftermath of Kosovo, there's the "Clinton doctrine." As recently explained by the president, the international community should stop ethnic ...

B ILL Clinton is gearing up for another Western land grab, with plans to ban most public uses on 5 million acres of federal land in six states. The Washington Times reports that Clinton's Interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, wants to use regulatory authority to prohibit mining, grazing, logging and oil and gas exploration on lands in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Utah. The paper says in many cases all recreational uses would be banned except walking and meditating. Babbitt also may ask Clinton to declare some of the land a national monument, a reprise of his 1996 election-year strategy ...

They lied. It was all a fraud. Someone better than I can attach the Page One NYT article from today's paper saying that 89 days of bombing brought no, repeat, no appreciable damage to the Serb military. Bottom Line: Allbright, Berger, Cohen and Shelton used Ronald Reagan's Air Force to kill civilians. How long before some dreadful document rolls out of the White House saying Clinton's War was nothing more than a cynical effort to recover his reputation after impeachment?

They lied. It was all a fraud. Someone better than I can attach the Page One NYT article from today's paper saying that 89 days of bombing brought no, repeat, no appreciable damage to the Serb military. Bottom Line: Allbright, Berger, Cohen and Shelton used Ronald Reagan's Air Force to kill civilians. How long before some dreadful document rolls out of the White House saying Clinton's War was nothing more than a cynical effort to recover his reputation after impeachment?

I N a speech before members and guests of the Federalist Society here last Tuesday, Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., shared some impressive statistics. In 1961, according to the American Bar Association, the U.S. had 257,403 lawyers. In 1977, the number was 448,000. By 1996, that had increased to 880,000. Wow. In a provocative review, Silberman argued that although "the legal process ... is essential to democratic capitalism, ... too great an expansion ... actually causes harm to both our economy and our polity." It's hard to quarrel with the good ...

Summaries: 1) Clinton admitted at Friday's press conference that he misspoke in denying knowledge of espionage during his term, but only FNC and NBC cared. Not a syllable on ABC, CBS or CNN Friday night. 2) Clinton as victim. A reporter wondered if he's "ever reflected on why, as Mrs. Clinton I think has sometimes noted, throughout your career you've always seemed to generate such antagonism." 3) The New York Times revealed "White House officials were informed that China might have stolen American nuclear secrets nearly a year earlier" than they admitted. Zilch on Sunday night on CBS or ABC ...

(CNS) -Political analyst Dick Morris told CNSNews.com that the early front runner out of the gate in the White House horse race - George W Bush - reminds him of a trio of successful politicians who were able to put a fresh face on their parties in order to regain power. "Whenever you have a candidate who can redefine his party's message, like Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, or Tony Blair [in the UK], he becomes tremendously attractive to the general electorate," said Morris. Morris, whose clients have run the gamut from Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) to ...

. It's too early to waste time trying to predict the 2000 presidential election or to pay any attention to the polls. Polls reflect what people are thinking at the time they are polled. What will determine the outcome of the 2000 election is what people are thinking in November 2000. There's no way to predict that because what will come to pass between now and then is unpredictable. Will the economy be good or in the tank? Will the United States be at peace or at war or on the brink of war? Will one candidate stumble and another ...

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 ...

Deconstructing Alec's Bazooka-brain ALEC Baldwin has thrown down the gauntlet. The under-employed former movie star attacked this newspaper during an appearance Tuesday on the Rosie O'Donnell show, declaring us "the worst newspaper that was ever created in the history of journalism." The portly political wannabe thundered, "You could probably find more legitimate news in a Bazooka comic than you can find in the New York Post." It is almost too easy to respond to the increasingly pathetic Baldwin, who among other odd recent pronouncements urged fellow Democrats to physically stone Rep. Henry Hyde. The hairy-chested husband of Kim Basinger might ...

BENTON, Ark. - Paula Jones was ticketed early Sunday morning for having a suspended driver license after she was pulled over for a burned out tail light, police said. Mrs. Jones was on Interstate 30, about 25 miles southwest of Little Rock, when she was stopped by state police at about 1:15 a.m., police said. At the side of the highway, the trooper ran Mrs. Jones' California license and learned it was suspended, state police spokesman Bill Sadler said. The National Crime Information Computer check said the suspension was for failure to appear on a misdemeanor charge out of Long ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The presidential campaign of George W. Bush has sent a memo to Washington trade organizations asking them to get their Iowa chapters to turn out members for a crucial straw poll in August. The memo to 52 lobbyists urged them to help Bush win the Aug. 14 straw poll in Ames, Iowa. Bush, son of former President Bush, has styled his campaign as a Washington outsider, and Tuesday, derided Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic front-runner, as "a Washington, D.C., person." The memo asks lobbying organizations to round up as many Iowa members as possible to participate ...

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is not our favorite Republican. But he could earn the eternal gratitude of conservatives everywhere were he to drive a stake through the heart of Hillary Clinton's political aspirations. On the day Mrs. Clinton declares her candidacy for the U.S Senate, Mayor Giuliani will have all the money he'll need for the campaign. Republicans coast to coast instantly will write checks to Giuliani for Senate. Democrats will do the same for Mrs. Clinton, the liberal Xena, much to Al Gore's chagrin. Despite tepid expressions of support for Hillary's ambitions, the Gores cannot be happy ...