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I have read many remarks here & elsewhere lately regarding the 'anointment' of George W. Bush. Many people are concerned about the front-runner status, the popularity & wide-spread acceptance of GW Bush. I have heard it expressed that Bush is being foisted upon us, that we have no real choice in this matter, etc. Many people believe that the only effective way to fight off this juggernaut is to support a third party, or not vote.I'd like to bring up an alternate hypothesis to our concerns regarding Mr. Bush. In the years of Clinton, we have seen how Democrats & ...

The war in the Balkans has been bad for a lot of people: the Serbs, the Kosovars, the Chinese diplomats killed in their Belgrade embassy, the NATO alliance, the American soldiers called upon to fight it, and especially the American taxpayers. It's even been bad for Bill Clinton, who would probably admit (if questioned privately and under the influence of a powerful truth serum) that the war hasn't exactly been the slam dunk he might have hoped for in reviving his presidency post-impeachment. But for a chosen few--the military contractors and special interests who benefited from a bloated $15 billion ...

E D I T O R I A L S The IRS Hit Squad Date: 7/1/99 Just how sinister is the Internal Revenue Service? Thanks to the latest twist in the Landmark Legal Foundation's lawsuit against the agency, we have a better understanding of how bad things are there. Political corruption is just the beginning. According to a new filing, Landmark Legal Foundation has uncovered deeply troubling evidence that the IRS may have deliberately sought to cover up and destroy evidence of third-person requests to target, audit and threaten private groups and citizens -most of whom were conservative or critics ...

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 ...

I Samuel 8: 10 - 20...(with commentary)So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who had asked of Him a king. He said, "This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and place them for himself in chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots..." (into Bosnia, and Kosovo, and Haiti, and Iraq, and Somalia, and Sudan, and Afghanistan, etc., etc., etc.,)He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his ...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday will begin a four-day tour of New York's Leatherstocking region, a broad swath of New York state situated east of the Finger Lakes, south of the Adirondacks and west of the Capital-Saratoga region. The area owes its name to The Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper set near Lake Otsego and featuring frontiersman Natty Bumpo. Clinton has been a kind of Natty Bumpo character herself in the past months, charting new territory as the first first lady to mount a campaign for Senate. Billed by her office as ...

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 home or buried in mass graves dug by their executioners" as ...

Wow! My girlfriend just caled me to watch the Roseanne Barr Show. She and guest Genifer (sp) Flowers were talking about clinton's incessant lying. Neither could uinderstand how you could concentrate on the presidency when you spent so much time covering up past lies. At one point Roseanne suggested that most men who cheat end up going to prostitutes and getting spanked. Genifer coyly smiled and agreed that she used to spank our commander in chief. The best part was that Roseanne said she would probably be taken off of the air for this. SHE WAS! NBC interrupted her interview ...

DreamWorks kills plans for studio Friday, 2 July 1999 15:25 (GMT) (UPI Spotlight) DreamWorks kills plans for studio LOS ANGELES, July 2 (UPI) - DreamWorks SKG cites financial problems as the reason it has scrapped its plans to build a $250 million studio lot at Playa Vista. The Wetlands Action Network hailed the action (Friday), saying the pullout from the project will protect sensitive Ballona (buh-LOH-nuh) wetlands.

Arresting Developments If you think this sounds like B-grade fiction, it isn't. During a recent meeting of high-ranking federal and state gumshoes, DIRT received glowing software reviews. Many cited long lists of arrests thanks to Codex. One police detective said DIRT has become a powerful tool in fighting crime online. It aids criminal investigations and results in about one arrest each month. Most of those arrested were suspected pedophiles, he said. The hardest part of using DIRT, say its users, is getting owners of targeted computers to download the Trojan horse programs. Typically law enforcement tries to entice a targeted ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Newly released documents from Spiro Agnew's FBI file show that both the former vice president and government lawyers investigating him were preoccupied with leaks to the press during the months before he resigned in 1973. Their concerns are detailed in correspondence obtained by an online news service using the Freedom of Information Act. Agnew resigned on Oct. 10, 1973, after pleading no contest to evading $13,500 in his 1967 taxes. As part of the deal, Agnew also admitted accepting thousands of dollars in kickbacks from contractors as Baltimore County executive and governor of Maryland in ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush caught himself expressing overconfidence Thursday, elevating himself into the White House more than a year before the presidential election, before quickly correcting his slip of the tongue. Speaking at a fund-raising event attended by about 500 leaders of California's high-tech industry, the Republican front-runner in the 2000 presidential race said: ``This is not my first trip to this incredible land called Silicon Valley. It's my first trip as president of the United States -- soon to be president of the United States.'' The audience laughed and applauded. ``I was ...

So Sandy Grady thinks it's a shame that no one will give Bill Clinton a parade for his victory in Kosovo (column, June 24). Let's take a closer look at Bill's triumph: By the admission of the Clinton administration, the number of Kosovar Albanians killed in 1997 and 1998 was under 2,000. Between January and the start of the bombing, German courts were unable to find evidence of atrocities against Albanians solely because of ethnicity; any violence was related to the low-grade civil war between federal Yugoslavian forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army. It was falsely reported that Slobodan ...

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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea warned the United Nations Command Friday that ``more serious bloodshed will be inevitable'' unless South Korean warships withdrew from disputed waters on their Cold War frontier. ``More serious bloodshed will be inevitable unless (South Korean) army battleships' intrusion into our side's territorial waters is checked,'' North Korean Lt.-General Ri Chan Bok said at a meeting with generals from the U.S.-led United Nations Command in the U.N. truce village of Panmunjom. In the first naval clash on the Yellow Sea since the 1950-53 Korean War, South Korea said it sank a North Korean torpedo vessel during ...

Untitled Normal Page By LARA JAKES, Capitol bureau First published: Friday, July 2, 1999 Hillary Clinton's travels don't fly with GOP chairman Colonie -- First Lady takes heat for taxpayer-funded trips Pre-empting Hillary Rodham Clinton's quasi-campaign upstate tour next week, the national chairman for the Republican Party embarked on a New York trip of his own Thursday. He took the opportunity to blast the First Lady's taxpayer-funded travels as she contemplates a run for the U.S. Senate from New York. But with the bravado from National GOP Chairman Jim Nicholson also came a bit of disquiet. He acknowledged that ...

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Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name By Trudy Lieberman This spring Fear and Favor in the Newsroom, a documentary about an insidious form of media censorship, tried to play across the country. The film, which forcefully condemns corporate control of the press, was made by two independent filmmakers with money from a handful of small foundations. The Public Broadcasting Service rejected it. Three PBS affiliate stations were approached for production assistance, but only KTEH in San Jose, apparently taking its public broadcasting mandate to heart, helped out and had the guts to put the film on the air. P.O.V., ...

DALLAS (AP) -- A black minister has been convicted of getting three people to file tax returns in which they claimed a ``black tax'' exemption that he said was available to descendants of slaves. Willie Foster, 35, of Fort Worth could get up to 27 months in prison at sentencing Sept. 14. He was convicted on Wednesday. Three people testified that Foster told them the exemption was a government reparation for descendants of slaves freed after the Civil War. No such reparations were ever authorized. One man actually received a $2,300 refund two years ago by making the claim. ``Willie ...

Media Misled By Silence on Fund-Raising George W. Bush's campaign may run into some credibility problems because of this week's fun-raising story. (AP) By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 2, 1999; Page C2 The George W. Bush campaign sold its story twice this week with some political sleight of hand, producing media accounts of a financial juggernaut that somehow grew larger each day. A spokesman for Bush's presidential bid acknowledged yesterday that he deliberately allowed reporters to understate Bush's fund-raising proceeds by $13 million or more "to keep the expectations bar under what we'd eventually come ...