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by Andrew Amirault July 2, 1999 BOSTON--On June 17, 1999, a nineteen year old woman was crushed to death at the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden during the set of controversial entertainer Courtney Love's band Hole. However, neither Courtney Love nor her management company made any comment on the death until two weeks later (when the British music journal, New Musical Express (NME) reported "Love is said to be 'very distressed' by the death"). The Hultsfred tragedy was picked up by only two major newspapers, the Los Angeles Times and the Toronto Star, which briefly mentioned the death but made ...

She's come a long way, baby. A long way from those Arkansas days when she used to itemize her tax deductions right down to the last pair of her husband's used BVDs. (Back then, Bill Clinton's underwear wasn't considered evidence.) But those days are long gone. Now it's time for Hillary Rodham to start livin' large. Imelda Marcos style, if you will. As in, eighteen pairs of Bruno Magli shoes on a single Euro shopping spree -- according to recent reports. In fact, even Paris Match took notice when Imelda Rodham availed herself of the local finery during a pit ...

        1999 Texas Legislative Record Governor George W. Bush Abolished Social Promotion in Texas’ Public Schools and Created Reading Academies. Student Success Initiative ends social promotion in schools by intervening in the earliest grades to help students in trouble ($203 million) and provides additional funding ($18 million) for reading academies, schools within schools that provide extra help for students with reading problems. Texas is first state to abolish social promotion. Boost Teacher Pay. $3,000 annual raise for public school teachers, full-time nurses, counselors and librarians. Increased Expectations, Demanded Accountability. Enhanced public school accountability by expanding the ...

July 2, 1999 Plea to go home Kosovo refugees desperate to return By LICIA CORBELLA Calgary Sun Two Kosovo Albanian refugee families living in the Calgary area say they are so desperate to return to their homeland, they will go on a hunger strike in one week if the Canadian government continues to refuse to let them go home. "I will camp out at the airport with my family and refuse to eat and drink until the government gets me home," said an anxious Mehmet Ruhani, 30, who along with nine other members of his family is living in a ...

Saturday, July 3, 1999 Republican urges compensation for embassy raid An influential Republican senator has called for the United States to pay compensation to Beijing for Nato's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. "I just think that's appropriate in this situation," John McCain said. "I wouldn't enjoy it." Washington has already offered compensation to relatives of three Chinese people killed in the attack. Senator McCain, a Republican presidential hopeful, said he also supported Chinese Government compensation for damage to US facilities in China by angry crowds after the bombing. for educational uses only

OUR FAVORITE FOUNDING FATHER http://www.federalist.com "We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient."  --Samuel Adams As we celebrate the 223rd birthday of the United States of America, we honor our country and the ideals of our nation's founding.  Rarely, though, do we give sufficient contemplation to the Founders, who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to declare the united colonies free and independent states, with the separate and equal station of full nationhood among the powers of the earth. Founder Benjamin Rush recalled Independence Day 1776: "Do you recollect the ...

Paul Harvey read this on his show last Wednesday, May 26, 1999: For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns. It couldn't have been because of half our children are being raised in broken homes. It couldn't have been because our children spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day. After all, we give our children quality time. It couldn't ...

FORMER U.S. OFFICIAL CHOSEN TO HEAD WORLD POLICE A former U.S. law enforcement official on Friday was chosen as the lead candidate to head Interpol, the global law enforcement organization. Ron Noble, former Treasury undersecretary for enforcement, was named during an executive session at Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. Noble, 42, best known as the chief investigator of the failed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, is the only person the United States has ever nominated to head Interpol in the 75-year history of the organization. Attorney General Janet Reno personally ...

The Cox Report is out, and the Media is ignoring it. (like usual) FRee Republic is not going to allow this to go away. With your help Free Republic is going to go where no web site has gone before. We have set our sights on appearing before Congress and give our Testimony on this TREASON that has taken place. We can do this, we can make a difference. We need YOUR help to accomplish everything we need to do to prepare for this historic effort. We are putting out the call for Freepers to step up and be counted. ...

April 4, 1841 - Harrison dies of pneumonia July 9, 1850 - Taylor dies of illness April 10, 1865 - Lincoln dies from gunshot wound Spetember 9, 1881 - Garfield dies from gunshot wound September 14, 1901 - McKinley dies from gunshot wound August 2, 1923 - Harding dies of illness April 12, 1945 - Roosevelt dies of cerebral hemorrhage November 22, 1963 - Kennedy dies from gunshot wound March 30, 1981 - Reagan is shot, but lives About every twenty years (after beginning with Harrison), a President has died while in office, with exceptions for Taylor's death and ...

MEDIA ALERT: Larry Klayman on Politically Incorrect Tonite Posted by Bonaparte Ken Starr-- The Clinton's accomplice-- Nolanda Hill's comments a must read! Posted by LibertarianLiz Judicial Activism--Without Original Intent Posted by critter U.S. Congressional Panel OKs China Trade Status Posted by Boner1 Fix blame for China blunder Posted by newsman Gore Backer Acquitted in Money Trial Posted by midmich TEXT: NSC LIST OF POLICY DOCUMENTS FOR 1961-1992 PRESIDENCIES TEXT: PRESIDENTIAL MEMO ON RELEASING DEFENSE ARTICLES TO OSCE 6/30 TEXT: ROTH 7/1 ON U.S. POLICY TOWARD HONG KONG TEXT: COMMERCE DEPT. OFFICIAL ON DEFENSE TRADE TEXT: PRESIDENTIAL INTERAGENCY COUNCIL OFFICIAL ON ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Updated 2:03 PM ET July 2, 1999 SKOPJE, Macedonia, July 2 (UPI) A soldier with the U.S. KFOR peacekeeping force was shot and critically wounded when a machinegun manned by a fellow soldier preparing to go out on patrol accidentally discharged. A KFOR spokesman says the soldier was immediately treated for a shoulder wound and is in stable condition. The incident occurred at midday today at Camp Bondsteel, a location of a task force headquarters for the U.S. military sector in Kosovo. This is the second such accident of the peacekeeping mission. Last month, ...

McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- Forrest Mars Sr., who created M&Ms candies and built one of the biggest fortunes in America as head of the Mars candy empire, has died. He was 95. The reclusive billionaire, one of the richest men in America, died of natural causes Thursday night in Miami, said Sharon Heffelfinger, a spokeswoman for McLean-based Mars Inc. She said no further information would be released. The candy giant began in 1911 with Frank C. Mars' small business in Tacoma, Wash. In 1940, his son, Forrest, devised a candy modeled after a British confection: a circle of chocolate covered ...

Some more thoughts for Independence Day weekend... Anarchism &amp American Traditions by Voltairine de Cleyre, 1886(?) (excerpts from) To the average American of today, the Revolution means the series of battles fought by the patriot army with the armies of England. The millions of school children who attend our public schools are taught to draw maps of the siege of Boston and the siege of Yorktown ... they know that the Declaration of Independence was signed on the Fourth of July, 1776, and the Treaty of Paris in 1783; and then they think they have learned the Revolution--blessed be George ...

A friend sent me this in an email today. Subject: Mr. Gore meets the press Our Vice President speaks ... "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." Al Gore "Democrats understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." -- Vice President Al Gore "Welcome to President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and my fellow astronauts." --Vice President Al Gore "Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, & water. If there is water, that means ...

Counterpoint: Seek justice with mercy in Olson/Soliah case Stuart Borken I felt a need and even a responsibility to arrive at an opinion, difficult though it was, in the Sara Jane Olson/Kathleen Soliah case. What she had done, who she had been, and who she has become presented much for a person to consider in trying to decide what would constitute justice, mercy, punishment and revenge. These are issues usually dealt with in great heroic novels and plays. I needed to come to a conclusion that satisfied my ideals of right and wrong and moral justice. Our justice system ...

Editor's note: The following essay, which was originally published on July 3, 1997, is excerpted from Vin Suprynowicz's new book, "Send in the Waco Killers." # # # What an inconvenient holiday the Fourth of July has become So long as we stick to grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, hauling the kids to the lake or the mountains, and winding up the day watching the fireworks as the Boston Pops plays the "1812" -- written by a subject of the czar to celebrate the defeat of our vital ally the French -- we can usually manage to convince ourselves we ...

Whatever happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence? Whatever happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence? Author unknown Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't just fight the British. Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: State Department Denies Retaliation By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department says it reassigned an employee from its United Nations mission because of an unsatisfactory job performance, denying it retaliated against her for calling attention to alleged U.N. waste and mismanagement. The department's position in the case of Linda Shenwick, a former budget and administrative officer at the U.S. mission to the United Nations, was outlined in a letter to Sen. Charles Grassley, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press Friday. Grassley, R-Iowa, has defended Shenwick, ...

New government computer may decide you're a terrorist next time you fly WASHINGTON, DC -- The FAA wants to let a computer decide if you're a terrorist the next time you travel by plane -- a scheme that could turn flying into a nightmare for thousands of innocent Americans, is probably unconstitutional, and won't make the skies any safer, the Libertarian Party warned today. "Are you ready to fly the paranoid skies -- and let security agents question you, inspect your luggage, and possibly strip-search you if a government computer decides you fit the profile of a dangerous terrorist?" asked ...