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President Clinton is adept at not just breaking some laws, but also adept at just not enforcing others. Look at the administration's ordering the Coast Guard this week to allow Cubans illegally slipping into this country to stay and receive their green cards. Never mind that this is against current law! Anyone trying to slip into this country illegally must be deported. Period. Since Clinton keeps flouting various laws, Congress should summon the gumption to carefully target those agencies doing Clinton's dirty work. Example: Clinton appointee Bill Lann Lee is serving illegally as head of the Justice Department's Civil ...

The Independent Counsel law lapsed last night at midnight. And Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr said the law should not be re-authorized. Obviously Starr believes that because his own investigation was a waste of tens of millions of dollars and that the Independent Counsel law should be trashed. The truth is that the Independent Counsel law is a good law. When corruption has been rooted out in places like France and Italy, it has usually been the result of an independent magistrate—their version of our Independent Counsel. We also know that when Independent Counsel's did their jobs, like Donald Schmalz and ...

Figures were best available, Pentagon says The figures used by the Clinton administration and NATO officials to bring the public's attention to the Balkan crisis now appear greatly exaggerated. The 100,000 ethnic Albanian men feared murdered by Serbs has dropped to an estimated 10,000. The 600,000 ethnic Albanians were not "trapped within Kosovo itself lacking shelter, short of food, afraid to go home or buried in mass graves dug by their executioners" as President Clinton told a veterans group in May. Though thousands hid in Kosovo, they are healthy. Moreover, livestock and crops were not slaughtered and torched as reported. ...

ELA CRKVA, Kosovo -- The body of Haxhi Gegollaj's son is not really buried. Rocks and dirt are piled up over his body at a spot a hard, 45-minute hike up a ridge outside the town of Lubizhde. His black jacket pokes out from under the stones. That is how Gegollaj knows that Nexhat, 22 years old when he died, is there. "This is my son," he said. Gegollaj would like to bury him properly. Thousands of survivors of the massacres in Kosovo, people killed by Serbian forces, want to do the same. But nearly all are waiting for the ...

NEW YORK, Jun 29 (Reuters Health) -- Almost 40% of physicians say they have exaggerated a patient's condition to an insurance company to make sure the patient has coverage for needed treatment or time in the hospital, according to a survey conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA). The national sample of physicians showed that ``physician deception of third party payers is prevalent and may be rising,'' AMA investigators announced at the annual meeting of the Association for Health Services Research in Chicago, Illinois. The forms of ``deception'' included exaggeration of severity of the patient's condition in order to avoid ...

Once there was a television show called "To Tell the Truth." Three people identified themselves by the same name, and contestants asked questions to determine which one was telling the truth. We might play that game with President Clinton. He claims that he has found another $1 trillion, after discovering a previous trillion dollars, following a miscalculation of a much lower surplus that has yet to materialize and is only a projection based on a supposition that current growth will continue for 15 years. How do we know this president isn't lying to us the way he has about ...

WASHINGTON--As top House Republicans begin pushing a massive tax cut that could approach $1 trillion over 10 years, some GOP moderates and most Democrats are searching for a less dramatic alternative that might pass muster with President Clinton. As budget surplus projections keep rising, fewer members of either party are seriously suggesting there should be no tax cut at all. The argument is increasingly becoming how large and who stands to benefit most. "There's money for more things," said Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. The chairman of the House Ways ...

A picture of Gen. Robert E. Lee belongs on Richmond's floodwall, says a committee formed to study the gallery of images along the Canal Walk. But the group has revised the set of murals and wants people to have their say about the images. The picture of Lee, which shows him at his house on Franklin Street in Richmond, is one of nine new images selected by the committee for the gallery. It is not the same image City Councilman Sa'ad El-Amin declared offensive to blacks. "It's a revised image of Lee -- a different image, a famous one taken ...

More than two out of three Americans want new restrictions on gun ownership in the United States, and some even want private gun ownership banned outright, according to a new poll. Support for a total ban is stronger among blacks, according to the USA Weekend magazine poll, which found 30 percent of black respondents favoring an outright ban, compared with only 17 percent of white respondents. Women would support a ban more than men, by a ratio of nearly 2-to-1, 25 percent to 13 percent, Agence France Presse reports. The survey of 1,005 adults was conducted in mid-May, less ...

Review & Outlook Watching the Watchdog When the Independent Counsel statute washed over the falls yesterday, it took an awful lot of high dudgeon with it. The statute was born in the Nixon years on a wave of tut-tutting over the need to create some Olympian public figure, a prosecutor purified of base motive, who would operate "independently" of a Justice Department in thrall to a politically indiscriminate President. We said then it was a bad idea. We thought that the system of checks and balances put in place by the Founders was still the appropriate place to seek ...

Two men who admitted corrupting our politics during the Clinton years have copped their guilty pleas and are cheerfully walking free -- without having to implicate any higher-ups. In Webster Hubbell's case, the crony and serial felon the Clintons appointed to run their Justice Department in 1993 triumphed over the Independent Counsel because Ken Starr was sure he could not get a jury to convict Hubbell, and he wants to close up shop as fast as he can. So we will never know if the $100,000 that the Riady family paid Hubbell was, in Thomas Jefferson's phrase, "hush money" -- ...

When the Independent Counsel statute washed over the falls yesterday, it took an awful lot of high dudgeon with it. The statute was born in the Nixon years on a wave of tut-tutting over the need to create some Olympian public figure, a prosecutor purified of base motive, who would operate "independently" of a Justice Department in thrall to a politically indiscriminate President. We said then it was a bad idea. We thought that the system of checks and balances put in place by the Founders was still the appropriate place to seek protection against abuse of power by ...

"We All Supported Kenneth Starr" Brett Kavanaugh, Starr deputy Thursday, July 1, 1999; Page A28 The material in the June 15 front-page story of excerpts from Bob Woodward's new book left the wrong impression about Ken Starr and his investigation. I barely recognized the man for whom I have worked for many years in the Department of Justice, in the office of the independent counsel and in private practice..... http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-07/01/109l-070199-idx.html Could somebody set up the link? I am having trouble doing it since the new format was started.

NATO AFTER ENLARGEMENT: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW MISSIONS, NEW FORCES Edited by Stephen J. Blank September 1998 The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. FOREWORD In 1999 NATO will formally admit three new members and adopt a new strategic concept. In so doing, it will take giant strides towards effecting a revolutionary transformation of European security. On the one hand, it could be said that NATO enlargement closes the immediate post-Cold War period ...

CHAPTER IV How on earth did we end up with so many idiots in government? I’ve asked myself that question many times in these past seven years, and I think I’ve figured it out. It started with those liberal cackle-factories that like to classify themselves as schools of “higher” learning. Eschewing such horrible, nasty, mean-spirited things as grades or oversight or (gasp) discipline, little actually got studied. Cribbing on tests was a widespread if not accepted custom and some actually paid others to take their courses for them while they went their merry, carefree way. The only courses many of ...

BBC News | World | Birth control divides population conference Front Page World UK UK Politics Business Sci/Tech Health Education Sport Entertainment Talking Point In Depth On Air Archive Feedback Low Graphics Help Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Published at 23:48 GMT 00:48 UK World Birth control divides population conference Now there are a billion people of child rearing age Arguments over birth control and contraception are resurfacing at a United Nations conference attempting to find ways of curbing the world's growing population. Roman Catholic and Muslim countries want to reduce the emphasis on family planning and increase parental authority. ...

There may be a revolt brewing in America. It seems to be happening in that part of America so mysterious to the political and news-media elite -- the areas that surround, like interstellar space, the elitist strongholds in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. There was a hint in Utah a year or so ago when audience members at a school event defiantly sang a song that some federal judge had commanded that they could not sing. More recently, on the East Coast, a group of parents and students decided to pray in defiance of a court ...

Richard Holbrooke's marathon nomination to be U.N. ambassador is facing new hurdles, even after winning an unanimous endorsement from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John Czwartacki, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said late Wednesday that more senators had signaled their opposition to block the nomination from coming to a floor vote in the coming days. That is in addition to a ``hold'' put on the nomination by Sen. Charles Grassley over an unrelated civil service dispute. Grassley is protesting a State Department decision to transfer a senior staff member from a U.N. office in New ...

INDIA GAINS CONTROL OF FIVE PEAKS DRAS, India (AP) -- India has gained control of five knife-edge Himalayan peaks in the fiercest fighting of a seven-week battle to oust separatist Islamic guerrillas, military officials said Wednesday. Indian soldiers hauled the bodies of 25 dead comrades down snowy cliffs Wednesday as Indian officers announced their forces had captured a key 16,830-foot peak following a night of shelling and gunbattles. That battle Tuesday claimed at least 65 lives, Indian officials said. The peak was the last of five on a ridge leading to strategic Tiger Hill, which overlooks India's National Highway ...

Good News and Bad News on Capitol Hill -- To preserve the House victory, pick up the phone and keep up the pressure by Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 http://www.gunowners.org "House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. [favors enacting] some gun control, but not so much as to turn off conservative campaign donors next year." --Associated Press, June 19, 1999 HERE'S WHAT TO DO: 1.Illinois Residents. House Speaker Denny Hastert is still committed to passing "some gun control" legislation this year. Tell him you don't want ANY 2nd Amendment restrictions and warn him that ...