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If the potential ramifications weren't so tragic, it would be almost as farcical as Bill Clinton's pre-presidency assertion that he once tried marijuana but never inhaled. But we're not talking about marijuana. Nor are we debating ``youthful indiscretion'' or even the parsing of everyday words or legal jargon. We're talking about nuclear missile secrets, national security and the very sovereignty of the United States. Considering the gravity of the latest disclosures, we might even being talking of treason. Two incredible developments in recent days expose as wholly fraudulent the repeated claims of the Clinton administration and its apologists that ...

Friends, Yesterday in Houston, a man killed a family with his 18 wheeler. Next to him was a father and his three children driving along when the 18 wheeler jackknifed and overturned on top of their Explorer. They were all burned to death alive while screaming for help. No one could pull them from the very tangled wreckage in time. The driver of the 18 wheeler was blowing a 1.1 on the breathalyzer after the accident. This was a horrible accident. Today, all of Houston is in shock and hurting over this tragedy. However, there is one other bad ...

Our Daily Dose Of Death By William B. Ruger Sr. Thursday, July 1, 1999; Page A29 When was the last time the media portrayed the responsible use of recreational firearms? You wouldn't know it from reading the newspaper or watching television, but according to the National Safety Council, the firearms accident rate has declined 20 percent during the past decade, plummeting to a 90-year low. In 1998, only one percent of accidental deaths were attributable to firearms accidents. There is a subconscious anti-gun bias on the part of major media. Certainly, our society has changed since I founded Sturm, ...

Revolution brewing: Disregard laws that violate conscience Published in The Orlando Sentinel on July 1, 1999. Charley Reese 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 ...

Regarding the Fed's Interest Rate Hike, Deflation, Not Inflation More of a Danger Web posted 6/30/99 at 5:15 p.m. EDT (Alexandria, VA) — Steve Forbes, Republican presidential candidate, today criticized the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates. The following is Mr. Forbes's statement: "The Fed has no business hurting the economy in the name of a theory — the so-called Phillips curve, which posits that there is a correlation between prosperity and rising inflation — that history has proven to be utterly bogus. Prosperity does not cause inflation. "Alan Greenspan's success in reducing inflation in recent years has been the ...

NOTE: I came into the possession of the second draft of a response being prepared by the Inter-Agency Group [IAG] of the National Vaccine Program of the Centers For Disease Control for release sometime late Friday afternoon. The CDC, like all other bureaus of government recognizes that when you need to release negative information, release it on Friday since most Americans ignore the news on the weekends. The concern of the IAG staffer who turned this document over to me was that the CDC was engaging in a coverup that was deliberately attempting to play down the danger of the ...

Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of Megan's Law 8.02 a.m. ET (1202 GMT) July 1, 1999 By Jeffrey Bair   PITTSBURGH — The state Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a major portion of Megan's Law, a measure that forces sexual assault convicts to announce their presence in their chosen community. The court ruled that the law improperly presumes that certain convicts are guilty by classifying them as "sexual predators" for life. The ruling effectively struck down a provision that allowed communities to be notified when those guilty of the most serious sex crimes — the "predators" — move in. ...

When was the last time the media portrayed the responsible use of recreational firearms? You wouldn't know it from reading the newspaper or watching television, but according to the National Safety Council, the firearms accident rate has declined 20 percent during the past decade, plummeting to a 90-year low. In 1998, only one percent of accidental deaths were attributable to firearms accidents. There is a subconscious anti-gun bias on the part of major media. Certainly, our society has changed since I founded Sturm, Ruger & Co, but I can assure you that my reaction to a "gang-banger" on the ...

*** Get your priorities straight, then do the right thing CHRISTOPHER C. GOODFELLOW /writer & editor I don't envy Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard's dilemma. Labor is pretty restless. Nurses, pharmacists, doctors right now. Teachers and public service unions in the fall. It could all get out of control. It seems to me that perhaps instead of the laying down of ultimatums by either side - "pas un cent de plus!" or threatening a crippling general strike that we certainly cannot afford, we ought to take to consider what the real problem is. We might also consider our good fortune ...

Here they are folks, those who have been "honored" after appearing on last Sunday's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLY Be sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoon at the bottom of the page and the other updates. Following is an excerpt from the updated "An Outsider's View" titled "...And Victory for All". The entire article is posted at PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLY: So, this was the war to define future wars. How to "win" has been demonstrated by none other than an impeached, draft-dodging, flower-power hippie and leaders of an alliance that are either a collection of his clones or weaker, NATO ...

BEDFORD, N.H., June 30 – On the day that his leading rival broke the record for early campaign fund-raising, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) set out to convince Republicans that no one except an advocate of sweeping campaign finance reform like himself could really change Washington. McCain came to the home of the first primary to declare that a new president cannot break "special interest" government in Washington without first destroying "a campaign finance system that is nothing less than an influence-peddling scheme in which both parties compete to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder." ...

"Dear citizens, I wish us a happy peace," said President Slobodan Milosevic in his first and only televised address to the nation after NATO stopped bombing Yugoslavia. There was no defeat in his voice, only victory. "We have proved that we have an invincible army, the best army in the world. ... Never before in our recent history was our nation as united as in this war. Now it is time for you to join me in rebuilding our great country." Not once did he mention NATO. Nor the Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo. Nor the fact that there will be ...

It is truly amazing to watch this president frame his every policy initiative in terms of "the children." Take his call Tuesday for a vast expansion of Medicare for senior citizens: "It is the right thing to do for the children of this country," he said. "It is the right thing to do so that when we need it, the burden of our health care does not fall on the children and hurt their ability to raise our grandchildren." Kids, kids, kids. As usual, the president takes cover behind a wall of babies when he's preparing to lunge for ...

June 30, 1999 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) Dear Rex and Heather: Defendants contend, respectfully, that Plaintiffs' discovery responses are insufficient in at least the following respects: [All references to Rules are to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("FRCP").] Response Title(s): Plaintiffs' Response To First Request For Production Propounded By Defendants & Plaintiffs' Response To Second Request For Production Propounded By Defendants Propounding Parties: Defendants FREE REPUBLIC, ...

I'd been waiting for the sniping at the Clinton Presidential Library to take on a national component. Our local grumbling had grown tiresome, as usual. The city of Little Rock has now admitted what we knew all along. It played a shell game with parks and recreation fees to avoid a potentially embarrassing bond election and meet its obligation to buy the land for the library. A city sales tax plan had to be offered in sacrifice, and the voters burned it on the altar. But you had to know that a major federally operated installation having to do ...

Love of this country is the common bond that unites all FReepers....and I love the 4th of July, the flags, the fireworks, the parades, the picnics....and while most times here we focus on the "dark side" of contemporary America, there is still very much to love and cherish about this great country. So, maybe it is time to remind ourselves of all that is good about our native land.. I hope each Freeper would take the time to add their own thoughts and birthday wishes.........and I hope everyone has a happy 4th....

Well, I like the rest of you are sick and fed up with the lies, corruption and murder of this current administration and world political elites. 'What are we going to do about it?' reply posts are something I see frequently when a new nasty article of how we as a people have plummeted yet farther from the original vision of the constitution and a nation. Here is my .02 cents for what it is worth. I have been in advertising and marketing for most of my short 29 years on this earth. If you want your message to be ...

ABC Thinks The UN Should Have a Voice In Setting US Policy ABC’s World News Tonight on Sunday and Monday night ignored a Sunday, June 27 front page New York Times story about how contrary to Clinton administration assertions they learned of Chinese espionage in 1995, not 1996. But Monday night ABC jumped on a story about guns played on the front page of the Monday Washington Post, even getting soundbites from the very same liberal activists quoted in the Post story. Under the heading of "Targeting Guns: Exporters to the U.S.," the June 28 Washington Post headline declared: "Selling ...

WASHINGTON: The Clinton Doctrine is still barely more than a glimmer in a proud papa's eye, born as it was in the usual existential fashion of this White House on June 20, in the moment, on television. ''Mr. President,'' asked CNN's Wolf Blitzer, ''is there, in your mind, a Clinton Doctrine?'' You bet, said legacy-minded he: ''While there may well be a great deal of ethnic and religious conflict in the world ... whether within or beyond the borders of a country, if the world community has the power to stop it, we ought to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing.'' ...

For Educational and Discussion Purposes Only! Were U.S. missiles 'hacked'? Several days ago I wrote an article suggesting that perhaps the recent spate of U.S. Theater Ballistic Missile test failures were the result of some espionage. The theory goes that Chinese agents working at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities may have uploaded viruses into the missiles, causing their failures. I wrote, based on an interview with Ken Russell -- who's an expert in the area of missile/aircraft guidance software -- that it would be arduous if not impossible to locate such viruses. Russell added that even with sophisticated telemetry equipment attached ...