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Report of President Clinton bid for Senate dismissed as 'crazy' June 28, 1999 Web posted at: 11:59 a.m. EDT (1559 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN)-- President Bill Clinton on Monday dismissed speculation that he might run for the U.S. Senate from Arkansas after he leaves the presidency as "crazy," said his press secretary Joe Lockhart. Lockhart said he asked Clinton about an item in the New Yorker speculating on a possible Senate bid. He said Clinton said he had no plans to run for the Senate. Lockhart quoted the president as saying, "that story is crazy, and I don't know where ...

WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- It may be the wave of the future for participating in the electoral process, and the Defense Department is leading the way. DOD's Federal Voting Assistance Program and five states have begun a pilot project for the 2000 presidential election that will allow service members to cast their absentee ballots over the Internet instead of through the mail. The program is primarily aimed at making it easier for service members stationed away from their home states to cast their ballots, according to Polly Brunelli, voting program director. "Our men and women are deployed to combat zones. They're ...

Memo To: Pat Buchanan From: Jude Wanniski Re: The 2000 Campaign Like the boy who looks up and says the emperor has no clothes, you spoke up yesterday on "Meet the Press" about George W. Bush. He is a nice boy. He has had four unremarkable years as governor of Texas. But he has no achievements, no wisdom, no sagacity. For goodness sakes. It was good of you to remind Tim Russert that you were 85 points behind Old Man Bush when you took him on in 1996 for breaking his campaign pledge on taxes. The idea is downright ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States and North Korea appeared headed for a collision regarding Pyongyang's plans to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile that can strike parts of the United States. Japanese officials said Pyongyang has completed preparations for the launch. They said the missile could be fired as early as within the next two weeks. Pyongyang has responded harshly to efforts to stop the missile test. North Korean newspapers have denounced the United States for raising the issue of the missile threat. "The United States has no right to find faults with our self-defensive measures," the [North] Korean Central News ...

We have less than a month to sign on and get this convoy into working order. We have 100's of Freepers and Lurkers already signed up. It is time to join our efforts to inform the millions of Americans who watch the National News media outlets about the TREASON committed by THE President of These United States of America. If you are planning a vacation this summer, why stand in line at amusement parks, teach your family that our Constitution is a living breathing document by exercising your first Amendment rights, Freedom Of Speech.

The Crown Jewels [Describing a meeting between Navy brass and the Senate Intelligence Committee after the Walker and Pelton spy cases became known] "...The Senators were furious. At a closed hearing, they lambasted Navy representatives for withholding the report for three years. William Cohen, a Republican from Maine, was one of the angriest lawmakers in the room. Cohen, who would become secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton, demanded to know who had written the report....Cohen wanted to know why the Navy failed to react to [the]conclusion that the Soviets probably had foreknowledge of the cable tap. He wanted to ...

Tainted Blood Scandal A journalist is seeking the latest information on the police investigations in Arkansas and Canada into the break-ins/firebombing of offices related to the tainted blood scandal.

HILLARY: THE SLEAZE FACTOR WASHINGTON -- Apparently Hillary Clinton really is going to run for the New York Senate seat that will be open when Daniel Patrick Moynihan retires. For a long time I thought the Clintons were advancing the idea as another scandal distraction, and I expected her to announce in due course that she had decided against running. But preparations have gone too far, and a rival Democratic candidate has dropped out of the race to make room for Hillary. She almost has to run now. So far, the New York press, in its voluminous coverage of this ...

Who is Telling us the Truth about the Serbs? Thomas Jefferson, in his later years, spent much of his time, energy and resources building the University of Virginia because he believed that the nation he helped form could not preserve its freedom unless its citizens, its voters, were informed and educated. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." To provide for the continuing education of voters, the founding fathers included freedom of the press in the very first of the Bill of Rights ...

Who is Telling us the Truth about the Serbs? Thomas Jefferson, in his later years, spent much of his time, energy and resources building the University of Virginia because he believed that the nation he helped form could not preserve its freedom unless its citizens, its voters, were informed and educated. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." To provide for the continuing education of voters, the founding fathers included freedom of the press in the very first of the Bill of Rights ...

Russia’s seizure of Pristina airport was its first armed confrontation with the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. History will record this as the act that signaled the start of the Second Cold War. During the First Cold War, I was staunchly on the side of the West. This time around I will be just as staunchly on the side of Russia. For today it is Russia that is upholding civilized norms, the sanctity of international law and the sovereignty of nations— the ostensible "values" of our side in the Cold War. Now it is the West, led by ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) A new Polaroid ad about the Y2K computer problems is supposed to be funny, but a group of bankers isn't laughing. Saying that the ad fuels fears about the ability of banks to handle Y2K, the American Bankers Association's lobbying group in Washington has demanded that the Cambridge-based company kill it. The ad shows a young man rushing to take a Polaroid picture of his bank account balance at a cash machine just before midnight on New Year's Day 2000. The screen goes blank with New Year's arrival, then comes up with a balance several million dollars ...

Bill Clinton today announced the end to the Federal Deficit. Most Americans are a little puzzled about the whole thing, so I have taken the time to outline a similar plan for the Mr and Mrs America that will operate on the same principles as the Federal Government. Now you too can spend your way into profitibility!   Here's how... Go down to the store and get yourself a lock box, maybe even one that's fireproof. Now, set this box somewhere in the house where you can always keep it, but where it is readily accessable. Let's say you ...

The Zogby Poll, released today shows Hillary ten points behind Rudy among likely voters in New York. Rudy leads Hillary 50 to 40. Her unfavorable rating climbs from 31 to 45. Today's DOW up over a 100 points...lol

NUCLEAR CONTROL INSTITUTE; GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL; NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, January 6, 1995. Hon. Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Hon. Warren Christopher, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC. [Page: S5196] Dear Secretaries O'Leary and Christopher: In view of certain recent determinations by the Department of Energy with respect to the identification of `sensitive nuclear technology' (`SNT') in export transactions, we are writing to urge that it be made crystal clear in any new agreement for cooperation with the European Atomic Energy Community (`EURATOM') that transactions involving reprocessing technology are prohibited. As ...

I was looking for the "Al 2000" website and typed in Right Politics .net instead of rightwing.net and a page of Free Republic's articles appeared. It has been fixed and is back to normal. Someone was having some fun or wires got crossed.

The first thing to tell yourself today, even though you told it to yourself a week ago and a month ago and a decade ago, is that (a) it isn't always easy to figure out how the Founders would have interpreted their own Constitution in the modern world, and (b) even if the constitutional language screams out at you in boldface type its meaning, there is nothing to do about it if five members of the Supreme Court say that some other meaning is really implied. Consider the current turmoil, with the slim (five justices) majority of the court ...

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1999 USA SCIENCE Behind US reliance on foreign scientists In the wake of Chinese espionage scandal, Washington focuses on tighter security. But America's defense edge relies on foreign talent. Alex Salkever Special to The Christian Science Monitor The railyards and skyscrapers of Chicago are a long way from the high desert of New Mexico, but when it comes to science, the two are practically neighbors. At the University of Chicago, researchers are modeling thermonuclear explosions, as are their peers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. At a time when the Los Alamos scientists may soon face ...

LONDON (AP) — President Clinton said Monday that he is prepared to intervene again personally to ensure Northern Ireland's troubled peace accord is salvaged. "The price of failure is far higher than the price of compromise,'' Clinton told the British Broadcasting Corp. on the first day of a concerted bid by the British and Irish prime ministers to resolve differences over decommissioning of weapons. The president said he believes Britain's Tony Blair and Ireland's Bertie Ahern can once again bring the parties to agreement on the terms of a new Protestant-Catholic government for the province, as envisioned in last year's ...