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THE ENORMOUS amount of money that Texas Gov. George W. Bush was able to raise for his presidential campaign in the first six months of this year -- more than $36 million -- is said to be a sign of his political prowess. No doubt that's so, but that isn't all the vast sum signifies. The wide-open fund-raising that characterized the 1996 presidential campaign was universally regarded as scandalous. The Bush receipts are a further indication that the 1996 results will be dwarfed this time around. The prevailing wisdom has the Republican presidential nomination already locked up. If so, ...

Something to read this weekend. (My comments follow) THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE In Congress, July 4, 1776, THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We ...

ONLINE EXTRA FROM SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 – Ward Connerly, the architect of California's anti-affirmative action Proposition 209, said tonight that he has decided to endorse Texas Gov. George W. Bush for president after becoming convinced that Bush shares his views on race and racial preferences. "I told him tonight I'm on board," Connerly said on his way into a Bush fund-raiser here. Bush has consistently refused to answer directly whether he would have supported Prop. 209 and has kept his distance from Connerly. But on Tuesday, Bush told reporters he supported "the spirit of no quotas and no ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA - Alicia Crabtree, who has taught the 2nd grade for 37 years at John Conyers Elementary, unleashed a storm of controversy last week that lead to her termination and the expulsion of 3 of her students. The center of the tempest revolved around Crabtree's decision to allow some of her students to make ash trays during play dough craft time. School authorities were alerted to the ash trays when one of Crabtree's students attempted to bring a finished ash tray home to her foster father. Before the ash tray could be delivered, a perceptive social worker spotted ...

As rebel soldiers begin to disarm, actor Lirak Qelaj looks forward to casting aside his fatigues Jonathan Steele in Pristina Wednesday June 30, 1999 His first love is acting, and he can hardly wait to throw off his camouflage fatigues in three weeks, when the Kosovo Liberation Army's demobilisation is supposed to be complete, and get back on stage after six months in one of the toughest regions of the war. At 26, Lirak Qelaj is one of the few young Pristina professionals who took up the gun. Yesterday, with the KLA in the process of handing over its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration is threatening to veto a $12.7 billion foreign aid package that slashes many international programs, including the Peace Corps, while providing unrequested funds for a Kosovo security force. Before passing the overall spending bill late Wednesday, the Senate rejected, 55-43, a proposal that would have eased restrictions on American citizens who want to travel to Cuba. Sponsors said nearly 40 years of sanctions have failed to produce much impact on the policies of Cuba's Fidel Castro. But opponents argued that it would undermine long-standing U.S. policy. "This is not the time for lifting any ...

Brief report: Teamsters Kevin McNulty and Marc Nardone have plead GUILTY to all counts stemming from the beatings of anti-Clinton protestors Don and Teri Adams on October 2nd at City Hall in Philadelphia. Sentencing is to take place on August 13th, at which point we will learn how well justice has been served. I will post a longer write-up of today's court proceedings later on today. I just wanted to get this out now.

Today was the first day of the rest of my life. I realized that I am going to miss Bill Clinton when he is gone. I think I will even miss Hillary and Carville and Blumenthal and Ickes and the whole host of nauseous little toadies who surround them. You see, today was the day that I realized Bill Clinton has pulled off that rarest of miracles, that most difficult of transformations. He, and his presidency have become so "bad" that they have become "good". I call this the "Ed Wood Transcension". Ed Wood was a cheapie movie director who ...

Russia May Send Arms to Yugoslavia MOSCOW (AP) -- Moscow may try to get around a U.N. arms embargo and supply weapons to Yugoslavia, Russia's ambassador to Belgrade said in an interview published Thursday. Yugoslavia's air defenses were no match for NATO planes during the alliance's 78-day bombing campaign, which damaged much of the country's infrastructure. Russia, a Yugoslav ally which opposed the NATO airstrikes, has been a major arms supplier to Belgrade in the past. But Russian officials say Moscow hasn't broken the U.N. arms embargo on Yugoslavia that was imposed more than a year ago and still remains ...

THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY Watergate Office Building 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-mail: ggetz@CompuServe.com For information about the party: (800) ELECT-US House may vote Thursday, 1 July, on measure to kill "Know Your Customer" rule * Immediate action required! Please telephone your Representative We've just been informed that the U.S. House may vote Thursday, July 1,on an amendment that would kill all "Know Your Customer" rules and regulations permanently. The measure is called the Paul-Barr-Campbell Financial Privacy Amendment to HR 10. The amendment would accomplish all of the goals of the Know ...

Christopher Ruddy July 1, 1999 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, 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 Counsels like Donald Schmalz ...

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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 NATO member, also scrambled jets to meet two other TU-140 Blackjack bombers that flew down the Norwegian coastline, but ...

Ailing Foreigners Add to Burdens of Emergency Rooms Nationwide They look like any of the anxious patients who walk into the city's polyglot emergency rooms. But there are telltale signs. Sometimes they arrive with luggage and with tourist visas in their pockets. Often they have crumpled notes from doctors back home in China or Africa. One man from the Dominican Republic flew into La Guardia Airport weak with fever, asked for an ambulance and presented himself at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he announced that he had leukemia and needed help. Along with his suitcase, he carried his own intravenous ...

Thursday July 1, 1999 Sale of Arkansas prisoners' bad blood Documents show for the first time Canadians knew about risk of using Arkansas prison blood supply purchased from Gov. Bill Clinton in 1981. Amy Williams, Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The Canadian government has for the first time acknowledged that U.S. prison blood sold to Canada in the early 1980s Arkansas Governor, William Jefferson Clinton directly led to more Canadians being infected with hepatitus C infections. The BulldogNews.Net at Fresno State University was the first U. S. newspaper to break this story on Sunday November 15, 1998. The statement is in ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A group of Polish politicians have a new campaign: renaming Warsaw's central Constitution Square to honor Ronald Reagan. A newly formed group called the Committee to Commemorate President Ronald Reagan's Merits announced Thursday it plans to ask the Warsaw city government to change the name of the square. The large plaza at the intersection of Marszalkowska, Warynskiego and Piekna streets now honors the 1952 communist constitution. Most Poles link the square to the decades of Soviet-dominated communist rule that ended in 1989. "We decided to honor Ronald Reagan, the winner of the Cold War, the man ...

Clues in Search for Financier Lead to Europe Federal investigators hunting for Martin Frankel, the Connecticut money manager wanted in a huge insurance fraud, believe that they have traced him to Europe and are actively pursuing leads there, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Details of the hunt for Frankel were among several revelations in the fast-moving scandal Wednesday, as a Connecticut criminal lawyer disclosed that he has been authorized to represent the financier and Mississippi regulators said that they had filed orders to liquidate three insurance companies in his crumbling corporate empire. Frankel has been missing since May 5, when ...

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 ...

Isn't 24 years of Bushes and Doles enough? Vote 3rd Party. 1976 = FORD/DOLE1980 = REAGAN/BUSH1984 = REAGAN/BUSH1988 = BUSH/QUAYLE1992 = BUSH/QUAYLE1996 = DOLE/KEMP 2000 = BUSH/DOLE?

Did anyone think he would go gentle into that good night? That is not Bill Clinton's style. He is already experiencing acute pangs of withdrawal from power. His wife is walking out on him to run a race in New York for the Senate. His partner, the vice president, has turned on him, as the polls tell him he must do if he is to fight free of the Clinton drag. All that lies ahead is an endless panorama of other people in the spotlight. There will be daily reports from Hillary's slugfest with Rudy Giuliani. Al Gore will ...