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June 29, 1999 The Clinton Library Every modern President, beginning with Herbert Hoover, has established a separate library in his home state to house his papers. These facilities are built with private money, and Bill Clinton, who wants to see a $125 million library, museum and public policy center in Little Rock, Ark., is already working on his. While Mr. Clinton is not directly soliciting contributions, he seems to be engaged in what might be called the softening-up process. During a visit to New York City, he scheduled a private dinner yesterday with about 40 potential donors. News accounts suggested ...

This weekend on FOX News Channel's The Beltway Boys, commentator Fred Barnes made a comment that the sport of golf is not a sport for liberals. I agree. Golf is not a sport for liberals because... Golf is a game of honor. When you play, you are on your honor to be truthful with your score. At the professional level, golf is an honorable sport, played by men and women of honor. Golf is played by individuals. The only real opponent is yourself. Golfers do not unionize. A game of golf can last indefinitely. There can always be another hole ...

June 29, 1999 G.O.P.'s Right Talks of Bolting Faithless Party By RICHARD L. BERKE LACONIA, N.H. -- Many politically active conservatives say they are increasingly frustrated and distressed by the early dominance of George W. Bush in the Republican Presidential race. They accuse their party of sacrificing principle in the name of pragmatism, prompting some to talk of mounting a third-party campaign. In early battleground states like New Hampshire and Iowa, and elsewhere in the country, these conservatives said in interviews that they had never felt so alienated from their own party. They asserted that Bush was not sufficiently conservative ...

All you guys on the west coast, you must watch Politically Incorrect tonight: Charlton Heston, Ted Nugent, G. Gordon Liddy and Elaine Boosler - GREAT discussion re: gun control. It was on while my computer was doing a maintenance, so I couldn't get it all down here, but it is GREAT!!!!

June 29, 1999 Looking for Money and a Home, the Clintons Pay a Visit By ADAM NAGOURNEY President Clinton came to New York City Monday to raise more than $1 million for Democratic candidates running for Congress next year. But one of the better-known of those potential Democratic candidates -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- skipped the event, spending the day looking for houses in New York City and Westchester. "Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States," the announcer said as Clinton took his eighth-row aisle seat, unexpectedly alone, at a special afternoon performance of "The Iceman Cometh." For ...

NEWS ANALYSIS Surplus a Salve for Clinton and Congress By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM WASHINGTON -- In the aftermath of the battle over impeachment last winter, the friction between President Clinton and the Republicans who control Congress was so intense that the gears of Government seemed likely to be paralyzed for the next two years. But an extra half-trillion dollars can buy an awful lot of lubrication. No one in either party was willing to predict confidently today that the budget windfall -- $25 billion next year, $179 billion over the next 5 years and $517 billion over the next 10, ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Castro warns that NATO could be a threat to Latin America RIO DE JANEIRO, June 28 (AFP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro Monday warned his Latin American counterparts that NATO could one day bomb their countries as it did Yugoslavia, a participant at the Rio summit reported.Brazilian Senator Eduardo Suplicy said Castro made the remarks in a speech during the summit of European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders.Castro warned that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) could bomb "our countries" just as it did Yugoslavia during the Kosovo crisis, said Suplicy, who attended the ...

The Chinese parliament yesterday announced that it was overruling Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal. This announcement has been greeted with alarm in the ex-colony, where the legal community fears the entire system of the rule of law has been put into question. When Britain and China talked about having a Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong to replace the House of Lords, it was believed that the court could not be overruled by a political body in Peking. But yesterday the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC) overruled the court and criticised it for not ...

Hubbell Reported to Agree to Plea on Starr Charges By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON -- Kenneth W. Starr, the Whitewater prosecutor, has reached a plea agreement with Webster L. Hubbell, political and legal sources said on Monday, in which Hubbell will plead guilty to a felony charge of lying about the role he and Hillary Rodham Clinton played in a questionable Arkansas land deal. The plea agreement will avert a trial that was scheduled to begin in August. In all likelihood, the trial would have explored Mrs. Clinton's conduct as a lawyer in the land deal which Federal regulators characterized ...

As we approach Independence Day, I am reminded what the holiday is really all about. When this fledgling nation of upstart immigrants decided that they had had enough of being an English colony,and decided come hell or high water that they were going to declare their independence from the condescension and burdensome taxes of the English empire. It took a lot of guts for our forefathers to draw up the declaration and sign it,knowing full well that it meant going against one of the world's largest standing armies,with a handful of squirrel guns and Kentucky long rifles. As Thomas Jefferson ...

PLANNING FOR A SURPLUS In Clinton Budget, a Deal Is Possible on G.O.P. Tax By RICHARD W. STEVENSON WASHINGTON -- President Clinton laid out his proposal on Monday to use the fast-growing Federal budget surplus to eliminate the national debt while shoring up Social Security and Medicare, and left open the possibility of a deal with the Republican-led Congress over its demand for big tax cuts. The plan could set the stage for a grand compromise with Republicans encompassing new spending on the military and social programs as well as tax cuts and the fate of the two giant retirement-security ...

The gun commandments Coming soon to America’s public schools ! SO THE House of Representatives has decided it does not want any more gun control. Quite right, too. The proposal on the table was for mandatory background checks on buyers at gun shows. Outrageous. America has only 4,000 of these shows each year, and they are fun family affairs to which children are admitted free. Imagine the distress of these little ones when their father, already happily toting his semi-automatic, is asked to give his Social Security number! Yet this proposal is only the tip of a much bigger issue: ...

The founders of this country elected George Washington, "the man who could not tell a lie." We elected Bill Clinton, "the man who did not inhale." We're not the people who founded this country, and our Bill of Rights should reflect this. Everything has changed in the United States since the Bill of Rights was adopted. We see the original words in the first 10 Amendments but the meaning is vastly different now. And no wonder. We've gone from a country of a few million to a few hundred million. A country that in 1776 needed to band together for ...

Asked by NY Times reporter Richard Berke (live) about reports that grass-roots conservatives (Read: Freepers) were preparing to bolt the GOP for a potential third party, Texas Governor G.W, (Dubya) Bush replied "If Conservatives or Republicans want to walk, this is democracy."

Say Robinson's...can we up the posts to 50 instead of 20? I go through 20 in a second ;) And the 'Next' 20 in a second. Can you change this factor? Freepers whatchya think?

Madeleine Albright didn't know that she was Jewish she also seems not to have known that some of her family’s art including important Old Masters and antiques was allegedly taken by her father, Josef Korbel,from the Prague apartment of a family that collaborated with the Germans. As reported in the New Yorker. Postwar Czechoslovak official Korbel and his family occupied the apartment after it had been officially requisitioned following the Nazi retreat. Korbel may have used the sale of some of the works to finance his family's move to America in 1948. More news on the subject is sure ...

As I was speaking with this guy, I could not believe what he was saying. Imagine making a claim that he could transform abstract thoughts into smart interactive and dynamic navigable and virtual worlds. Sort of like doing a CAT SCAN on the brain except you get images of the content of the thoughts instead of the physiology of the grey matter. We have been comfortable with text since the time of Babylon 1 and this guy was off into Babylon 5. Then he showed me a virtual world of the Code of Federal Regulations. Every page of boring, monotonous ...

June 28, 1999 Unfavorable impression of Hillary rises sharply in New York; Gap between her and Giuliani widens, Zogby poll shows First lady Hillary Clinton's potential bid as New York Senator is losing ground against New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Zogby New York poll shows. The survey, taken June 26-28 of 705 likely New York State voters, shows Rudy's lead widening to 50.4% to Hillary's 40.2%, a significant increase over a Zogby survey taken in May which had Rudy's lead as 49.3% to 43.7%. The survey has a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.8%. The survey also ...

Paris, Tuesday, June 29, 1999While Tensions Ease, Taiwan and China Drift ApartBy Philip Bowring International Herald Tribune.TAIPEI - Relations across the Taiwan Strait are improving, but the two sides are drifting further apart. That paradox may be apparent to Wang Daohan, head of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, who is due this year to become the most senior mainland official to visit here. Political and economic development on both sides have had consequences for prospects of eventual reunification that are different from those imagined when cross-strait commerce began in earnest in the late 1980s. The United ...

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