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Jewish World ReviewJuly 2, 1999 /18 Tamuz, 5759 Thomas Sowell The Fourth of July http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THE FOURTH OF JULY is more than the commemoration of America's independence. It commemorates the beginning not only of a new country, but of a new kind of society, in which the common man achieved a degree of freedom and opportunity undreamed of in any other country before. That is why the emergence of America attracted international attention and the war which led to American independence was begun with what was aptly called "the shot heard round the world." The echoes of that shot ...

The sex really sizzles in this man's Navy Richard Danzig, the man Bill Clinton appointed to preside over the dismantling of the Navy as we've known it for 223 years, seems to think sex is the only sizzle that sells. Duty, honor, country is for old (white) coots. "Semper Fidelis" is for the birds. Reforming attitudes and eliminating obstacles in the way of making combat safe for Moms is No. 1 on Mr. Danzig's agenda as secretary of the Navy. He wants to assign women to assuage the loneliness of the long-distance submariner. And when he suggested the other day ...

    NEW OUTLET FOR FRUSTRATION They are giving vent to their feelings, notably political frustrations, in cyberspace websites that have been dubbed modern-day "big-character posters'. CHOO LI MENG of The Straits Times Foreign Desk checks out some sites ACCESS a China-based website on the Internet these days and you are likely to find fiery anti-American lashings and bold criticisms of the Chinese leadership. With limited outlets for expressing their enmity, more people in China are turning to the Internet, which has become the country's modern-day da zi bao, or "big-character posters", according to recent media reports. Such posters were a ...

Shane Carpenter is cruising the radio dial from his Sacramento home. First, he listens to some country tunes from KFAT in Gilroy. Then it's Celtic music being broadcast from Ireland. Now it's back to KMUD in Humboldt County. Although these stations' signals don't reach Sacramento, Carpenter fills his ears with this audio cornucopia thanks to a booming trend in the radio industry: audio broadcasting on the Internet. Thousands of radio stations in the United States and across the world have begun to send out their music, news, interviews and talk shows via the World Wide Web, allowing people like ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)-- Chinese and Indian immigrants, coming to this country with top notch technical skills and a desire to take big chances, are finding great success in the Silicon Valley. ``We were immigrants because we were risk takers. We left our safe land behind and came to this place looking for something bigger and better,'' said Vinita Gupta, board chairman of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Digital Link Corp., one of the top companies linking businesses on the Internet. A new study from the San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California shows that highly skilled Asian immigrants are now senior executives ...

India detains N. Korean ship over suspected arms for Pakistan BOMBAY, July 2 (AFP) - Indian customs have detained a North Korean ship in the western port of Kandla on suspicion of carrying arms for arch-rival Pakistan, officials said Friday.Officials at the Kandla Port Trust told AFP the ship, Ku Wol Sun, was detained on Wednesday and was currently being searched by teams from the Customs and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence."A team of defence experts are also expected today to search the ship," the official said.The ship reportedly took on 148 boxes of water refining and filtering equipment ...

ARLINGTON, Va. - On the eve of the Fourth of July weekend, a new nationwide opinion poll shows a sharp erosion of public support for press freedom and an unchanged level of enthusiasm for outlawing desecration of the American flag. The poll, set for release Friday by the Freedom Forum, a pro-First Amendment foundation, indicates that 53% of respondents think the press has too much freedom in this country, up from 38% in 1997. Seventy-four percent of respondents think people should not be allowed to burn the American flag, but only 51% think the Constitution should be amended to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A longtime benefactor of Vice President Al Gore was cleared of all charges Thursday in a political money case involving about $100,000 in contributions to Gore, President Clinton and other politicians. Franklin L. Haney was accused of using straw donors to mask his own political donations, and lying about it in filings to federal regulators. Lawyers for the Tennessee developer admitted he gave the money, but argued that Haney misinterpreted a confusing set of rules on how to raise and record political donations. ''I am deeply gratified with today's verdict,'' Haney said in a statement. ''We ...

Stomping Victim Pledges to Press Case by Dave Racher Daily News Staff Writer Don Adams came out fighting after two Teamsters pleaded guilty to beating and stomping him during a protest rally against President Clinton outside of City Hall last Oct. 2. "It's not over yet," said Adams, 38, of Cheltenham, yesterday. Adams is hoping Common Pleas Judge Peter Rogers today will approve his private criminal complaint against John P. Morris, president of the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters. Adams says Morris instigated his beating. Morris denied the accusation and claims Adams started a fight with the pro-Clinton Teamsters. District ...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE - President Clinton challenged Congress Thursday to agree on a Medicare overhaul by the end of summer and said he would call congressional leaders to the White House to launch the process. In an interview with USA TODAY, Clinton signaled his willingness to strike a deal in the fall that would give Republicans some of the tax cuts they want if he could win "the right kind of Medicare reform." That would include a prescription drug benefit and increased HMO competition. "If we can get agreement on the fundamentals of this then I think there ...

In throwing out the Fibreboard settlement last week, the Supreme Court majority pleaded with Congress once again to clean up the asbestos mess legislatively. That said, the Justices refused to countenance a quick-fix settlement sent up by the lower courts, because the deal seemed to be aimed more at paying off the lawyers and clearing the docket than at procuring justice for each present and future claimant. Justice Breyer, in his dissent, also pleaded with Congress to intervene, but he figured this was no time for fine scruples. He argued that the lower courts need all the leeway they can ...

July 2, 1999 Review & Outlook The Parent Trap Suddenly parents are "in." Probably we have Columbine to thank for it. No sooner had the smoke cleared than the finger-pointing began. "Where were the parents?" asked Time magazine in a cover package titled "The Monsters Next Door." The governor of Colorado suggested that the parents of the two teen killers might be indicted. Even Bill Clinton was making Bill Bennett-like noises. Speaking on NBC's "Today" show, the president told Katie Couric: "I think in the end, you've got to take it back to the fact that we -- we all ...

July 2, 1999 Houses of Worship Pride and Prejudice By BRIAN A. BROWN The cops weren't taking any chances during Sunday's gay pride parade in New York. Judging by the number of police officers and steel barricades, St. Patrick's Cathedral was the point of major concern. As it turned out, the only threat to the pleasant Sunday afternoon was an excess of bad music and exposed flesh. But New York's finest had reason to be worried. Before this year's St. Patrick's Day parade, the bomb squad had been deployed to the church to remove eight suspicious electronic devices. They turned ...

So where is this "Take it to the Alley" chatroom that's supposed to have a link to it on the Latest Posts page? Thanks.

Fla. junk mail brings divorce news ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Some people in Florida are learning about their divorce in a jarring way: via their junk mail. Lawyers seeking new business are sometimes getting their letters to people before courts can serve their spouse's official papers. Since daily divorce filings are public records, some people are copying them down and selling them to divorce lawyers. As a result, the first word people sometimes get about their broken marriage comes to them in a mass mailing that begins: ''Dear Potential Client.'' Florida lawyers are required to wait 30 days to ...

Sir Arthur Reynolds, recently appointed by Mr. Blair to head Her Majesty's's efforts in the world crisis brought on by the discovery of the growing stutter in reality, made a surprise appearance at the ontology conference Friday, for the sole purpose of officially presenting the conference with certified figures on the recent solar activity. Reynolds refused any comment to the press, other than acknowledging the event was indeed the most astounding burst of sunspot activity recorded in the last 400 years. Though the conference is now officially closed to press and public, several members, speaking anonymously, described a scene of ...

July 2, 1999 McCain Is More Convincing Than His Message By PAUL A. GIGOT You have to wonder if John McCain appreciates the irony. On the very same day he decides to make campaign-finance reform his signature presidential issue, rival George W. Bush shows why similar "reforms" have made a McCain presidency unlikely. Granted, the Arizona senator and maverick Republican has a very hard sell. He is making what he calls the "conservative" case for campaign-spending limits otherwise promoted by Common Cause and media liberals. It's a shame that earlier limits promoted by those same liberals are killing Mr. ...

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 ...

For Clinton, scant credit for a foreign policy success WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Bush prevailed in Iraq, his popularity rating soared to 91 percent. By contrast, President Clinton got no such bounce in the polls from the Kosovo campaign, even though his goals were achieved without a single U.S. combat casualty. The American people paid much more attention to the Gulf War and seemed to give scant applause to the outcome of the Clinton-led campaign against Serbian forces clearing Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian population. Two weeks after he led the 78-day NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia to a ...

QUIN HILLYER The Mobile Register 06/30/1999 Page 09A Whistleblower's tale may detail another spy case The hearing began as planned, with four other federal workers telling of being harassed or demoted for trying to warn about national security lapses. But when Mr. Henson's turn arrived, the hearing suddenly became classified. It was moved to a secure room where reporters were disallowed, as were any staff without the highest security clearance. What Mr. Henson had started to say the night before involved yet more security breaches, reportedly by the Chinese and the Russians. The more Bobby Henson talked, the more his ...