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As the inventor of the internet, you would expect Al Gore's website to be excellent. Well,it is that and more. He recently updated the site, hired two new staff members, and included a terrific biography.Drop in for a visit at:"Al 2000"-That's Me!

INDIAN JETS POUND ISLAMIC MILITANTSDRAS, India (AP) -- Indian fighter jets pounded Islamic guerrillas entrenched on Himalayan mountaintops today, and ground troops inched toward a strategic peak near the Pakistan border. The round-the-clock airstrikes accompanied the fiercest fighting in seven weeks between Indian soldiers and secessionist Islamic fighters in Indian-held Kashmir. India says the opposing fighters include Pakistani soldiers who crossed the 1972 cease-fire line that divides Kashmir between the two neighbors. Pakistan has said its troops are engaged only in retaliatory shelling and have not crossed the Line of Control. India and Pakistan both claim all of Kashmir, which ...

Affirmative Action Response from Gov. Bush: Indicate the principles you support (if any) concerning affirmative action. State government agencies should take race and sex into account in the following sectors: a) College and university admissions [ ] Yes [ X ] NO [ ] Undecided b) Public employment [ ] Yes [ X ] NO [ ] Undecided c) State contracting [ ] Yes [ X ] NO [ ] Undecided d) Other [ X ] YES [ ] No [ ] Undecided "Assuming by "into account," the question means preferences and/or quotas. Governor Bush opposes quotas, but supports affirmative ...

Justice Dept. to probe how immigration officials handled railway killer case WASHINGTON -- The Immigration and Naturalization Service detained and released serial killer suspect Rafael Resendez- Ramirez in June, even though the INS had been told by Texas police last year he was wanted on murder and burglary charges, Justice Department officials said Thursday. The new details were revealed one day after INS Commissioner Doris Meissner requested her own agency be investigated by the Justice Department's top watchdog. Meissner said the agency's failure to identify the 38-year- old drifter charged in two murders and linked to six other slayings, "has ...

not for commercial purposes - for information & discussion onlyDespite inflation being held in check, the price of a politician is going up. The upcoming elections will be the most costly in American history. You can't even buy a sheriff today for what you bought a senator in the past.Dr. Paul Z. DuBois, an expert on election economics, said, "Everything has gone up -- television ads, consultants, collecting crowds, and the price of chicken a la king. The candidate has to spend 25 percent of his time campaigning and 75 percent raising money for it."DuBois continued, "It's not just dinners ...

Clinton Gives Palestinians Support By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pledging new peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, President Clinton offered broad support to Palestinians' aspirations Thursday and said they should be free to live ``wherever they like.'' Using a visit by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as a springboard, Clinton began to lay out U.S. positions on a string of touchy issues bound to confront Israel and the Arabs if they resumed negotiations. ``We now have a real chance to move the peace process forward in the Middle East,'' Clinton told reporters after he and Mubarak ...

To: William Jefferson Clinton President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. March 23, 1999 Dear Mr. President, Again I write to you as a Christian and as an American. Sir, we are poised on the brink of disaster, a disaster that is manifold in its dimensions and character. As I expressed to you in my previous letter this imminent and unprovoked attack against Yugoslavia is immoral. Even the trepidation alone that we have instilled in the people of Yugoslavia is a horror. The fact that this is exactly one of our intentions is offensive. Legally ...

You'd never know Rep. Pete King is a conservative Republican by the Democratic turnout he got at the book party for his new novel on Monday in D.C. There to toast the Long Island congressman on his book "Terrible Beauty" were Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, national security adviser Jim Steinberg, communications operative Sidney Blumenthal, spokesman Joe Lockhart, Hillary Rodham Clinton chief of staff Melanne Verveer and such Democratic stalwarts as Sen. Patrick Leahy and AFL-CIO prez John Sweeney. King's spokesman says most of his invited GOP colleagues had "scheduling issues." Or maybe they'd seen President Clinton coming back ...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday punished his Orange County political opponents — and their constituents — by deleting millions of dollars in projects sponsored by Republican legislators who voted against the $81.3 billion spending plan he signed into law. Davis cut $3.3 million in Orange County items from the budget bill while approving about $10 million supported by local legislators who voted for his plan. "I wasn't holding my breath," said Assemblyman Ken Maddox, R-Garden Grove, who voted against the budget and saw nearly all of the 12 items he championed deleted by Davis. "I know the ...

Note: This is an exact replication of National Public Radio(NPR) interview between a female broadcaster, and US Army General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation. Interviewer: "So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base? General Reinwald: "We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting".... Interviewer: "Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it..."? General Reinwald: "I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range"... Interviewer: "Don't you admit that is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children"... ...

U.S. RESTRUCTURING SOCIETY THROUGH EDUCATION The U.S. Department of Education is sponsoring two very significant conferences during November and December 1997. They involve President Clinton's pledge to make education his number one priority for the next four years. All educators have a crucial role to play and the public has a compelling interest in understanding the plan, entitled Goals 2000. This is the program which the President has made his number one priority. Goals 2000 is the "centerpiece of educational reform and restructuring" for the United States. It is called "framework legislation" because it sets the parameters for life in ...

Bush Collects $36 Million For Campaign He reaffirms opposition to abortion, gay marriage Buoyed by a record $36.3 million in contributions to his presidential campaign, Republican George W. Bush began showing off his conservative credentials yesterday as he declared his opposition to abortion and gay marriage. On the second day of his trip to California, Bush appeared amazed at the amount he has raised so far -- nearly 10 times as much as his closest Republican rival and twice as much as Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic front-runner. ``I am humbled by the response,'' said. ``I am amazed ...

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Bob Kerrey of Nebraska will formally endorse Bill Bradley's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the second senator to do so, Bradley aides said Thursday. Kerrey will issue his endorsement at a pancake breakfast Monday morning in Omaha, and the two will then travel to suburban Des Moines to repeat the announcement in the state where precinct caucuses launch the presidential nominating season. That event -- at a private home -- will draw Democratic activists friendly to the campaigns both of Kerrey and Bradley. In the announcement, Kerrey will make it clear he is ...

Numbers were best available, officials say By Steven Komarow, USA TODAY Many of the figures used by the Clinton administration and NATO to describe the wartime plight of Albanians in Kosovo now appear greatly exaggerated as allied forces take control of the province. "Yes, there were atrocities. But no, they don't measure up to the advance billing," says House intelligence chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla. Instead of 100,000 ethnic Albanian men feared murdered by rampaging Serbs, officials now estimate that about 10,000 were killed. 600,000 ethnic Albanians were not "trapped within Kosovo itself lacking shelter, short of food, afraid to go ...

Clinton, Mubarak Meet On Middle East Peace WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were meeting Thursday to discuss hopes of reviving the Middle East peace process as Israel's new government comes to power. The two leaders sat down for a one-on-one meeting and were to be joined by their aides later. They were to hold a joint news conference later in the day. ``The primary agenda item for the president's meeting with President Mubarak will be the Middle East peace process,'' White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said. ``They will discuss their own shared vision for how ...

Previous discussions between Marathon, Uriel1975, and others have explored the conflict between Theists and Materialists over the role of God in the Constitution and our rights. More specifically, the argument has seemed to center around the possibility or impossibility of a free society based around morals not based in or derived from a religious system of values. The objective of my response today is to refocus the debate and show how the determining factor is not only just the presence of God, but also a more complex combination of attitudes on individualism and the basis of moral value. The first ...

COLONIAL CLINTON © (A Historical Speculation) by Norman Liebmann July being the month we celebrate the anniversary of the founding of this nation, it is an appropriate time to put on a decontamination suit, grab the longest stick you can find, poke through debris of the Bill Clinton legacy and wonder how this dip-shit yokel has been allowed to degrade and corrupt this once glorious Republic and convert it to his own vulgarized sovereign state - The United Shambles of America. As usual this Fourth of July, the roman candles will get airborne and we hope their brilliant, but ephemeral, ...

From Belgrade to Beijing Robert Kagan and William Kristol, for the Editors Slobodan Milosevic has lost the war in Kosovo, and his dictatorship of Yugoslavia may be headed (let's hope) for the dustbin of history. Now it's time for the United States to start paying serious attention to a far more dangerous dictatorship several thousand miles to the east, in Beijing. Sound like a geographical stretch? The Chinese obviously don't think so. It turns out that the reason the Chinese were so upset about the accidental bombing of their embassy in Belgrade, and the reason they still refuse to ...

They did it in '92. They did it again in '96. Will the GOP establishment flush yet another Presidential election down the proverbial toilet by going down the same well worn rut to ruin? So far, it sure looks like they're going to try! For those of you with short memories, or who have blocked the pain of it from your conscious mind, I give you: The GOP Establishment's Surefire Formula for Losing a Presidential Campaign(in 11 points): 1) Annoint some RINO loser before the primaries to be the inevitable nominee. 2) Gin up the media machine to stampede the ...