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PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush's money-raising juggernaut roared through Silicon Valley Thursday, drawing support from a stellar list of high-tech industry titans. Bush, the governor of Texas, has smashed all previous records by raising more than $36.3 million in the first half of the year. He began the second half with a fund-raising breakfast that had been expected to bring in an additional $300,000 but seemed likely to far exceed that estimate. ``This is not my first trip to this incredible land called Silicon Valley. This is my first trip as president of the ...

Lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's This Week - Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton and the N.Y. Senate campaign, tax cuts and Medicare. Guests: Former Reps. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y., and Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio. CBS' Face the Nation - Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton and the N.Y. Senate race, politics and campaign finance reform. Guests: Sens. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and John McCain, R-Ariz. NBC's Meet the Press - Topics: Clinton's Medicare proposal, GOP agenda, Hillary Rodham Clinton and the N.Y. Senate race, and presidential politics. Guests: Health ...

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 ...

One of the great stories of modern journalism concerns R.W. ''Johnny'' Apple, the veteran national political correspondent of The New York Times. In his younger days Apple reported on New York State politics and in the process scooped virtually all of his colleagues in the Albany press corps. Back in those days, the Albany press corps used to gather after work to play poker. Every night at the poker game they would talk obsessively about Apple, whose high performance and high octane personality they both admired and despised. After a time they decided that such talk was counter-productive, so ...

*** Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death *** Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775 No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of ...

President Clinton's poor grasp of foreign affairs has been demonstrated once again. Caught off guard - not for the first time - by flattery, the president appeared to give U.S. backing to a suggestion that Palestinian refugees should reclaim their former homes in Israel. A sharp rejoinder from Ehud Barak, Israel's prime minister elect, stating that he took exception to Mr. Clinton's remarks, was followed by reassurance from the Clinton administration that the United States would not become involved in the refugee issue. President Clinton was lured into making his gaffe during a joint news conference Thursday with Egyptian ...

Asia: Torrance businessman testified that general had funneled money to aid Clinton's 1996 campaign. Beijing insists move is not a demotion. BEIJING--The chief of Chinese military intelligence has been reassigned in a move that government officials here insisted was unrelated to his role in the U.S. campaign donations scandal. Gen. Ji Shengde's apparent demotion--from directing intelligence for the vast People's Liberation Army (PLA) to running a department at a military research institute--was characterized as a lateral transfer by a spokesman for the National Defense Ministry. Ji's new assignment, effective in June, came two months after The Times disclosed secret ...

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THANK FIGHTER PILOTS ON THE FOURTH by JD Wetterling July 4, 1999 It's been 30 years since I played with fireworks--the real, devastating kind.  As a fighter pilot in Vietnam I flew 268 combat missions in an F-100, breaking communist assets with awesome visual effects.  Civilian life has been good, but I've never totally adapted to the dearth of airborne adrenaline.  I did my duty and war is a terrible thing, but I miss the camaraderie and patriotism of aviators who willingly challenge the Grim Reaper for God, duty, honor and country. Then, last fall, after addressing a graduating ...

"The Americans who Risked Everything" by Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. "Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor" It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall, bony, redheaded young Virginian found time to buy a new thermometer, for which he paid three pounds, fifteen shillings. He also bought gloves for Martha, his wife, who was ill at home. Thomas Jefferson arrived early at the statehouse. The temperature was 72.5: and the horseflies weren't nearly so bad at that hour. It was a lovely room, very large, with gleaming ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem ...

WASHINGTON - Conservative leader Paul Weyrich endorsed presidential candidate Steve Forbes on Friday, giving the Republican hopeful a boost in his bid to court voters from the party's right wing. Weyrich runs the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. His endorsement gives Forbes' conservative campaign a measure of credibility, though it does not come with a grass-roots political operation that could translate the backing to votes. Weyrich, who coined the phrase ''moral majority,'' helped make social conservatives a force in the Republican Party. He had a hand in creating the Heritage Foundation think tank and the Christian ...

Master's day of reckoning is fast approaching http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THE TALK IN WASHINGTON turns again to legacy, as Bill Clinton gazes out the Oval Office window, musing over what might yet be. Chief executives often do this sort of thing in the autumn of their administrations, when friends turn into acquaintances and employees ponder resumes instead of re-election. It must be a time of melancholy for the president who, for all his luck and virtuosity in office, has received a bum hand. History reveres presidents who confront crises -- wars, depressions and dark nights of the national soul. It has ...

What made our revolution different? http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- After 223 years -- and William J. Clinton notwithstanding -- America is still the most successful experiment going. Among other things, the American revolution demonstrated that majorities are frequently wrong, a fact worth recalling in an age of focus-group worship. Historians tell us that the colonists were evenly divided in favor of, against and ambivalent toward independence. If Gallup had been around in 1776, we'd be driving on the wrong side of the road and obsessing about the royal family. Unlike all men, all revolutions are not created equal. What makes ours ...

GRETNA, La. (AP) - Jeremy Van Camp prefers to keep his back against the wall these days. A tattoo artist commissioned to inscribe Van Camp's first name in Chinese on his back instead inked six Chinese characters whose meaning isn't even close, Van Camp says in a lawsuit. ```Kung Po karate, martial arts expert, and Shaolin fifth.' That's what it says on my back,'' said Van Camp, 23. Shaolin is a form of kung fu. According to the lawsuit filed this week, Van Camp saw a poster at Brad's Westbank Tattoo labeled as the Chinese alphabet. So he decided ...

America's theater of the absurd http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- LAST MONTH, a Michigan court ordered producers of the "Jenny Jones Show" to pay $25 million to the family of a homosexual who was murdered after he revealed his secret crush on a heterosexual man. Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell wants to add a new liability for cigarette manufacturers by suing them for fires caused by careless smoking. Several big- city mayors have brought suits against gun manufacturers to recoup some of the costs stemming from the murder and mayhem in their cities. In the wake of the Littleton, Colo., massacre, the victims' ...

Vision restored: the Supreme Court gets it http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- POLITICAL LABELS in American politics keep shifting over time. Which may be why the latest decision out of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding states' rights will be called conservative. Early in another century, it might have been called liberal, for then it was the Jeffersonians who sought to champion the authority of the states, while the Hamiltonians were trying to bolster a still new federal government. Indeed, Mr. Hamilton's party took the name Federalists. But now the phrase States' Rights is used interchangeably with Federalism, which used to be its ...

The facts about the Kosovo "Liberation" Army have been well-documented by Antiwar.com. The KLA is gang of murderous neo-Maoist thugs, who are killing, raping, and looting their way through "liberated" Kosovo in brazen defiance of NATO – or, some say, with NATO's full complicity. Thursday night the Senate passed a major foreign aid bill. This bill included an amendment by Senator McConnell (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. The amendment would make this complicity official: if adopted, it would provide $20 million to arm "Kosovo security forces" that, supporters admit, would probably include the KLA. The ...

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 continue to be heard around the world to this day. ...