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Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Prays Amidst KLA Rampaging Terror One of the tragically ironic aspects of what has, and is, occuring in Kosovo, has been a wholesale ignoring of minority rights, which are supposed to be the hallmark of the Clinton-Gore administration. To hear them describe themselves, liberals believe that the rights of minorities ought to be defended. Apparently, however, there are glaring exceptions - such as the minorities who live in Kosovo - Serbs, Gypsies, Montenegrins. Ignoring the conditions of the Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo was part and parcel of Communist dictator Tito's Kosovo policy - a ...

I hope that you appreciate this. I had to call San Francisco and speak to one of these freaks. Here is the schedule: Friday, July 2nd. Hip Hop for Mumia call 215-476-8812 for time and location ( voice mail full ) Saturday July 3rd Noon - Liberty Bell : Civil Disobedience for Mumia!! ( I wish I could be there to pass out deodorant and scissors to these freaks.) Sunday July 4th 9 am : Liberty Bell. International Liberty For Mumia March ( A guy from Canada will be there )

What Surplus??? Today while Bill Clinton was extoling the new ways he wanted to "invest" (read that spend) the surplus, the national debt went from $5,610,097,983,425.59 at 15:23:35 on 6/29/99 (Bill starts his speech) to $5,610,100,324,177.07 at 15:43:19 on 6/29/99 (Bill finishes) The Debt Keeps going UP! n How can that be if we are in a surplus? Anybody wanna buya bridge?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dan Quayle, who was lampooned for verbal mistakes, said Monday Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush is getting off relatively light for his stumbles. Quayle said if he had made the missteps recently committed by Bush -- like referring to ``Kosovars as ``Kosovarians,'' and confusing Slovakia and Slovenia -- he would have been hammered. ``Use your wildest imagination and multiple it by a factor of three and then you'd come close to what would be happening to me if I had made similar gaffes,'' Quayle told Reuters in an interview. Smiling, Quayle said, ``What ...

Shiite Leader Rejects US Aid to Topple Saddam DUBAI (Agencies) -- An Iraqi Shiite OPPOSITION leader has turned down a US offer of financial and military help to overthrow President Saddam Hussein, an Arab newspaper reported on Thursday. "We will not accept US aid for a change in Iraq," Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), told the London-based daily Al-Hayat. The Tehran-based leader criticized US policy on Iraq, saying it did not take into account that "the real party responsible for change is the Iraqi people, including the real opposition ...

Hillary Loves You New York PR Offensive Hillary Clinton's appearance alongside her husband in the Balkans refugee camps last week ought to ingratiate her with the estimated 200,000 Albanians in New York City. And now right-wingers are worried that the First Lady might be using White House pressure to ingratiate herself with New York's huge Puerto Rican community. Capitol Hill conservatives are muttering that the White House ordered the Defense Department to declare a moratorium on bombing runs at the Navy's Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility on Vieques island in Puerto Rico. This spring, Vieques became the center of ...

The Fourth of July is more than a day for fireworks and cook-outs. It was on that day, in 1776, that the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, one of the greatest documents in the long struggle of mankind for freedom from oppressive government. The Declaration contained these words that made it far more than just another political document: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, ...

(Washington D.C., June 29, 1999)... Tonight and tommorrow, ...Advertisements on "Crier Report" to Explain Why Judicial Watch is So Necessary to Protect Public from Government Corruption==================================================================================================== Judicial Watch will air be advertising on Fox News' "Crier Report" (10-11pm EDT) to discuss the death of the Independent Counsel Law and what it means for the American People to allow politicians and government officials a "free hand' without accountability, to abuse the American Trust... "The Independent Counsel Law is set to expire tomorrow, June 30, 1999 and politicians from both parties couldn't be happier to get the 'monkey off their backs," stated ...

U.S. Backs Down from Evaluation of Kosovo Victory 1854 GMT, 990629 In an address to the Council on Foreign Relations on June 28, U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright said NATO’s air strikes in Kosovo should not be used as a precedent for intervention in other conflicts. "Every circumstance is unique," said Albright. With regards to NATO intervention in future conflicts, Albright added, "I would caution against any such sweeping conclusions." She called NATO a European and Atlantic alliance and expressed the hope that NATO intervention in Yugoslavia would deter future conflicts. Albright’s comments reflect an evolving analysis, in ...

LONDON, Ohio (CWNews.com) - The Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday it had filed a federal lawsuit against a public school district over an athletics coach who often leads his student athletes in prayer before games and practices. The lawsuit named the London School District, individual board of education members, school administrators, and three London High School coaches, including football coach David Daubenmire, as defendants. Ohio ACLU Legal Director Raymond Vasvari said he will present evidence that the coaches deliver sermons to students, coordinate student prayer, pressure students to join a particular local church, ...

Mondo Washington by james ridgeway Al Gore's Dilemma Caught Between the Clintons No wonder Al Gore is beside himself. He's going down. The ego-driven first couple is going to make sure of that. Try as he might, Gore can't lose the Clintons. Even as his handlers try to separate the snoozy veep, the administration strikes back, as in the story leaked to The New York Times over the weekend about how furious the president was over the ingrate Gore's statements about him. Bill and Hillary just won't go. After doing his Napoleon IV bit in the Balkans, Clinton taunted ...

The U.S. government and the United Nations said yesterday they have no plans to investigate the Kosovo Liberation Army for possible war crimes, arguing that a wave of revenge against Serbs in the province does not appear to be coordinated by the KLA leadership.     "Clearly, there is no organized KLA effort to retaliate against the Serbs," said a Clinton administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.     And while the killing of Serbs continues at the rate of a few dozen per week, a spokesman for the United Nation's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia may not consider the new ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Officials of a conservative group that has repeatedly taken the Clinton camp to court said Tuesday they are preparing a lawsuit challenging taxpayer financing of Hillary Rodham Clinton's trips to New York. Meanwhile, aides to the prospective Senate candidate put the finishing touches on plans for her 13th trip to New York this year even as one of her possible Republican Senate opponents, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, set off to visit her childhood backyard -- Chicago. Larry Klayman, chairman and general counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch Inc., said that in the next ...

You should be forgiven for any sneaking suspicions you may have that the nine elders in black dresses who have the final word on matters legal in the U.S. don't spend much time driving. After all, the Supreme Court can't seem to get enough of stripping Fourth Amendment protections from Americans' favorite mode of transportation. Any more decisions like Maryland v. Dyson and we may be forced to drive vehicles as transparent as Wonder Woman's invisible airplane. In the recent case the justices addressed the concerns of Kevin Darnell Dyson, a "known" drug dealer in St. Mary's County, Maryland. County ...

Decrypting anonymity in opium den journalism Believe it or not, The New York Times was once regarded as a serious, reliable news source, as in "I saw it in The Times." Yesterday, it took yet another giant step in shaking the sand of decades of accumulated believability from its sandals. To understand how to read today's New York Times one needs a crash course — Disinformation 101, offered in the hallowed halls of Langley U. — on decrypting anonymous sourcing in a den filled with opium smoke. The first trick is to start off with a verisimilitude of veracity in ...

Worshipping in granges and school cafeterias was supposed to be temporary when the Community of Hope Lutheran Church sprang to life seven years ago in Wilsonville. The church bought 15 acres of farmland in a rural corner of the community. As the congregation grew, so would the money needed to build a real church. Then a problem arose. In 1994, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development issued a strict new set of zoning rules that put prime farm acreage off-limits to church construction. The new rules also targeted schools, golf courses and other "nonfarm" uses. Churches, the agency ...

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton came to the Big Apple yesterday - but opted to go house-hunting for her Senate race and snubbed a fat-cat fund-raiser where she was slated to co-star with her husband. "She took the opportunity to go look at some houses," Marsha Berry, a spokeswoman for the First Lady, said. "She looked at some in the city and some in the environs." Mrs. Clinton's surprise absence from the joint event with her husband came as political circles buzzed over talk the president wants to run for Senate just like his wife - but from Arkansas - ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs needs to do a better job of protecting veterans who participate in VA research programs. That's according to two House subcommittee chairmen, after hearing three hours of testimony on abuses at two Los Angeles VA medical facilities--including rresearch being conducted without veteran's consent.The joint hearing was held in late April to review the suspension of more than a thousand research projects at the two medical facilities, and to see if similar problems exist elsewhere. Chairman Terry Everett, R-Ala., of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., of the Subcommittee on Health, were ...

Borrowing a successful tactic from the states, President Clinton wants the US government to sue tobacco companies to recover Medicare costs stemming from smoking-related illnesses. He's already announced that the Justice Department will file suit, and in his latest budget request he's asked Congress for $20 million to pursue the case. But the president may have suffered a setback last week, when a key Senate committee, in a little-noticed move, banned the expenditure of federal money for lawsuits against Big Tobacco. Critics are lambasting the action as an unprecedented attempt to tell the Justice Department which cases it can or ...

The political season is under way, and the fun and games have begun. Those who follow politics as a hobby or as a bad habit will soon be immersed in discussions of the pros and cons of old issues cross-dressed as new ones, including but not limited to abortion, education, school vouchers, social security, national defense, taxes, budgets, welfare, immigration, affirmative action, campaign reform, the environment, crime, violence and morality. A few new questions will be intermingled with unresolved old ones. Is our country headed in the right direction? Do polls need to be regulated? What is the right ...