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WASHINGTON -- Conventional textbook history teaches that white Europeans created slavery and imposed it on black Africa. This myth is designed to make white Americans feel so guilty that they will give up their own rights in the name of "civil rights." Whites did acquire African slaves and maintained the slave trade. But the institution pre-existed the white man's relations with Africa. In fact, even after slavery had been abolished in white civilization, the European colonial powers had great difficulty in eradicating it in Africa, where it stubbornly persisted among the natives. As in ancient Greece and Rome, slavery was ...

I may have to give up Freerepublic. I found it a year ago. Since then I have been a dedicated lurker. I have spent an hour or two a day reading articles and commentary. Happy that there were so many level-headed conseratives out there. I have never posted anything before, I told myself I didn't know how. I have replyed to articles only occasionaly. Lately I have become very depressed because of the number of you who are upset because of GW Bush. I'm a Texan and I like the Bush family. But the aren't God to me, I won't ...

Berger Defends Handling of Espionage Allegations Before Hill Panel By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 1, 1999; Page A18 National security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger made an unusual two-hour, closed-door appearance before members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday to answer questions about his handling of allegations of Chinese espionage at the nation's nuclear weapons laboratory. "He told his story with no visible impairment to his position," said one source familiar with the meeting. Presidential advisers such as Berger normally do not testify before committees. Committee Chairman Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) had no comment ...

WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Compiled from reports by staff writers Stephen Barr, Helen Dewar, Juliet Eilperin, Bill Miller and Edward Walsh and by the Associated Press. Thursday, July 1, 1999; Page A05 Holbrooke Bid Faces Stall on Floor The long-stalled nomination of Richard C. Holbrooke to be ambassador to the United Nations was unanimously confirmed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, only to run into new problems as it heads for the Senate floor. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) served notice earlier he would hold up action to protest the State Department's transfer of a senior staff member because she told ...

House GOP to Seek Bigger Tax Cut Resistance Expected From Democrats, Moderate Republicans By Juliet Eilperin and Eric Pianin Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, July 1, 1999; Page A04 Anxious to one-up President Clinton after his week of policy initiatives, House GOP leaders are preparing a cornucopia of tax cut proposals totaling as much as $1 trillion. But they face resistance from moderate Republicans as well as Democrats. With the Clinton administration forecasting huge jumps in the surplus beyond the excess payroll taxes in the Social Security trust fund, GOP leaders are contemplating boosting their current $778 billion plan. House ...

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Conflict exposed Nato's military flaws BY CHARLES BREMNER IN BRUSSELS THE Kosovo war stretched Nato close to its limits and exposed the alliance's dependence on the United States and the need for better intelligence, its senior military officer said yesterday. Admiral Guido Venturoni, the new chief of Nato's military committee, said that these were the main lessons from a conflict that also gave the lie to claims that the campaign could not be won from the air alone. Without giving new figures, he also dismissed claims that Nato had destroyed only a handful of Serb tanks in Kosovo. The figure ...

Gore Faces Dual Challenge By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 1, 1999; Page A8 Second-quarter fund-raising reports released yesterday gave Vice President Gore a double dose of bad news: He now faces a serious primary challenge, and if he clears that hurdle, he must confront the long-term prospect of competing with a Republican rival who so far has demonstrated extraordinary fund-raising abilities. Former senator Bill Bradley, already positioned as the only alternative to Gore for the Democratic nomination, collected $7.5 million over the past three months, to Gore's estimated $9 million. That impressive effort puts Bradley on ...

Sometimes something smells so bad everybody wants to do something about it. Imagine, if you can, these political odd couples: Henry Hyde and Barney Frank, Bob Barr and Bill Delahunt. They got together the other day to work on eradicating a really bad stink. The Hyde/Frank/Barr/Delahunt coalition went after the rape of the Constitution that allows the feds to seize the property of the innocent in the name of making war on drugs. They persuaded the House to strip the feds of this power, which the feds have brazenly arrogated unto themselves in defiance of Jefferson and Madison, and the ...

Crimes Against the Constitution Crimes Against the Constitution Executive Orders, Presidential Directives, National Emergencies and Martial Law   A Special Investigative Report By Cliff Kincaid, President, America’s Survival   Published and distributed by America’s Survival www.usasurvival.org ©1999   Executive Summary Crimes against the Constitution didn't end with the alleged conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruct justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair. This special report documents in striking detail how the legislative authority of the Congress has been unconstitutionally delegated to or in some cases usurped by the Clinton-Gore Administration. Using executive orders, presidential directives and other federal actions, the ...

Russian Bombers Make Foray to Iceland By Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 1, 1999; Page A1 Two Russian strategic bombers flew within striking distance of the United States last week as part of Moscow's largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War, astounding U.S. officials and underlining recent Western concerns about the military leadership in Moscow. The TU-95 Bear bombers were intercepted by four U.S. F-15 fighters and a P-3 patrol plane near Iceland early Friday morning and escorted in a clockwise flight around the island, U.S. officials said. Norway, which like Iceland is a ...

Rex S. Heinke, Esq. Heather L. Wayland, Esq. GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER 333 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197 Matter: Los Angeles Times v. Free Republic, et al. U.S.D.C. [Central] Case No. CV-98- 7840 MMM (AJWx) Subject: Meet-and-Confer Re Plaintiffs' Discovery Responses Dear Rex and Heather: In follow up to our conference call today, this letter is a partial list of some of our concerns concerning Plaintiffs' discovery responses. In light of the very short time between the time for the service of Plaintiffs' discovery responses, and the deadline for filing summary judgment motions, in my initial conversation with ...

Crimes Against the Constitution Crimes Against the Constitution Executive Orders, Presidential Directives, National Emergencies and Martial Law   A Special Investigative Report By Cliff Kincaid, President, America’s Survival   Published and distributed by America’s Survival www.usasurvival.org ©1999   Executive Summary Crimes against the Constitution didn't end with the alleged conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruct justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair. This special report documents in striking detail how the legislative authority of the Congress has been unconstitutionally delegated to or in some cases usurped by the Clinton-Gore Administration. Using executive orders, presidential directives and other federal actions, the ...

Crimes Against the Constitution Crimes Against the Constitution Executive Orders, Presidential Directives, National Emergencies and Martial Law   A Special Investigative Report By Cliff Kincaid, President, America’s Survival   Published and distributed by America’s Survival www.usasurvival.org ©1999   Executive Summary Crimes against the Constitution didn't end with the alleged conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruct justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair. This special report documents in striking detail how the legislative authority of the Congress has been unconstitutionally delegated to or in some cases usurped by the Clinton-Gore Administration. Using executive orders, presidential directives and other federal actions, the ...

Crimes Against the Constitution Crimes Against the Constitution Executive Orders, Presidential Directives, National Emergencies and Martial Law   A Special Investigative Report By Cliff Kincaid, President, America’s Survival   Published and distributed by America’s Survival www.usasurvival.org ©1999   Executive Summary Crimes against the Constitution didn't end with the alleged conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruct justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair. This special report documents in striking detail how the legislative authority of the Congress has been unconstitutionally delegated to or in some cases usurped by the Clinton-Gore Administration. Using executive orders, presidential directives and other federal actions, the ...

Crimes Against the Constitution Crimes Against the Constitution Executive Orders, Presidential Directives, National Emergencies and Martial Law   A Special Investigative Report By Cliff Kincaid, President, America’s Survival   Published and distributed by America’s Survival www.usasurvival.org ©1999   Executive Summary Crimes against the Constitution didn't end with the alleged conspiracy to commit perjury and obstruct justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair. This special report documents in striking detail how the legislative authority of the Congress has been unconstitutionally delegated to or in some cases usurped by the Clinton-Gore Administration. Using executive orders, presidential directives and other federal actions, the ...

“If we were creating Medicare today, it would be unthinkable to deny coverage for prescription drugs.” Today, in Chicago, President Clinton met with seniors to discuss the importance of modernizing Medicare to include benefits for prescription drugs and preventive care services. The President heard firsthand from seniors about the difficult choices and financial burdens they face when they do not have prescription drug coverage. Medicare’s Benefits Need to Be Modernized. In order for Medicare to provide high-quality health care to America’s growing number of seniors, its benefits package must be updated to address the following concerns: 1...Nearly 15 millions ...

Conservative Weekly Says US Must Stand Up to China Washington, June 29 (CNA) Now that Slobodan Milosevic has lost the war in Kosovo, it is time for the United States to start paying serious attention to a far more dangerous dictatorship in Beijing, checking mainland China's ambition of intimidating US allies and someday forcing the United States out of Asia, according to the latest issue of The Weekly Standard. The Washington-based conservative magazine wrote in its editorial titled "From Belgrade to Beijing" that most Americans learned the right lesson in the Kosovo conflict: Appeasement of dictators is a disastrous error. ...

It's an ugly little war that most of the world has forgotten. While the west wrung its hands over the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, up to 50,000 people have been killed or wounded in a border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. International relief agencies are warning that hundreds of thousands of refugees are in desperate need of food and water. Driven from their homes, they have been forced to seek shelter in caves or are living out in the open. "Ethiopia's civilian victims of war have been relegated to the shadows," said relief agency Refugees International. Right now, half a ...

Every time I go to a gun show people ask me where I stand on gun control. I stopped by a show last weekend for a quart of milk, a loaf of bread and a six-pack of .45 snub-nosed bullets. The man at the checkout counter asked where I stood on gun control. I told him, "I have no problem dealing with it. I believe that guns do not kill people -- our culture does. People who worry about their kids being killed in school have nothing to fear but fear itself. "I believe that one of the best solutions ...