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Welcome, Hillary The New York Republican Party is planning a big welcome for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton tomorrow, the New York Post reports. Mrs. Clinton, who is flying into Binghamton on her way to announcing a Senate-campaign exploratory committee, will be met by Adirondack flies. "We are inviting members of the public to show up at the Binghamton airport in fly costumes so the first lady, who obviously doesn't know much about New York, can get an idea what a good Adirondack fly looks like," state GOP Executive Director Brendan Quinn told the newspaper. "We're going to offer the ...

FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY. President Bill Clinton has told Democratic party leaders privately he doesn’t believe Vice President Al Gore can win the Presidency in the 2000 elections, White House and Democratic sources tell Capitol Hill Blue. Clinton’s warning to the party signals a growing rift between the lame duck President and his VP, a split intensified by Gore’s attempts to distance himself from the scandal-ridden President. “In recent weeks, the President has grown convinced that the Vice President can’t handle the rough-and-tumble politics of a national Presidential run,” said one former White House aide. “He doesn’t ...

Evidence dug up so far by the Landmark Legal Foundation suggests that some members of Congress are using a willing, liberal Internal Revenue Service to harass ordinary citizens and conservative tax-free nonprofit foundations, Mark Levin, foundation president, revealed in an interview with Rush Limbaugh Friday. Levin made known, too, that he now has a "whistle-blower," who, of course, adds an entirely new dimension to the case. And he said that Landmark has learned that "intake notes — tips from Congress — were shredded" by the Clinton IRS. And he also identified for Rush's vast radio talk show audience three Democrats ...

July 2 — That you can do pretty much whatever you damn well please if you have a lot of money is not America’s most charming trait, but it is one of it’s truest. Logical then, that American politics is guided by the golden rule — he who has the gold makes the rules. And right now, in the person of George W. Bush, we are witnessing one of the most compelling demonstrations that money makes the world go around — especially if you aspire to the presidency. EARLIER THIS WEEK, the candidates revealed their assets. There were two surprises: ...

Liberals Go to War The quintessential liberal Eleanor Clift complained the other day about "all this whining about civilians being hurt." You thought there was something about this war you didn't like? Think of it this way. The B-2 is in combat at last--and Eleanor Clift and Hillary Clinton are in the cockpit. Nina Totenberg: "We're going to have to use...a lot more violence, and that means B-52s and ground troops." Jack Germond: "This defiance, of nationalism, the only way you can break it down is to be awfully harsh. Shut off the electricity. You've got to wreck Belgrade, basically." ...

ODDER THAN OZ Copyright 1998 by Mr. Hugh Downs What Do you suppose Alan Greenspan, Judy Garland, and the American Civil war have in common? Give up? They are all connected to turn-of-the-century U.S. monetary policy, of course! Not so obvious? Let me explain. Just before the American Civil War broke out, Americans used dollar bills that had been issued by banks. The government didn't make any money, except coins. When the war began, the government (like all governments at war,) needed a great deal of money fast. President Lincoln decided to print it just like banks did. These ...

Tuesday July 6 6:14 AM ET U.S. Says China Keeps Ban On Warships In Hong Kong HONG KONG (Reuters) - China has turned down requests for U.S. warships to visit Hong Kong in July, a U.S. consulate spokeswoman said Tuesday.The refusal is in line with a ban announced soon after NATO planes bombed China's embassy in Belgrade on May 7 and killed three Chinese journalists.``For late July, there have been two U.S. navy ships that have applied to visit Hong Kong but their applications have been denied,'' the consulate spokeswoman said.China's Foreign Ministry Office in Hong Kong was not immediately ...

HILLARY'S N.Y. TRIP A CASE OF EXPLORATORY 'URGERY' By GREGG BIRNBAUM ALBANY - She's off and running. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton today will officially launch her exploratory committee for a possible U.S. Senate campaign as she prepares to kick off a four-day barnstorming tour of heavily Republican upstate New York. Legal papers creating the committee will be filed with the Federal Election Commission in Washington so that Clinton can begin raising political cash to pay for her trips to New York. The "Hillary Rodham Clinton for U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee" is a formality, but signals the seriousness of the ...

SPRING HILL -- Debris is everywhere. Walls are missing. Ceiling tiles are ripped out. And corridors more accustomed to crowds of students are filled with traffic of another sort -- hauling machines called Bobcats that tote equipment so large it barely fits through the halls. Springstead High School, as it sits now in midsummer, looks more like a wasteland than a place of learning. But school district officials say the destruction at Springstead, and other schools to a much lesser extent, is for a good cause -- energy efficiency. It seems that by replacing outdated air conditioning systems, leaky ...

ONE SENATE. TWO CLINTONS. It is a concept so novel, so alarming, that attention must be paid. Jeffrey Toobin caused a kerfuffle when he wrote in The New Yorker last week that Bill Clinton was interested in running for the Senate from Arkansas in 2002. If Clinton won in his home state and Mrs. Clinton won in somebody else's home state, they would make history as the first connubial Senate team. When the president called the story "crazy," I knew it could be true. As Hal Bruno, formerly of ABC, said of the Clinton crowd: "You're dealing with very unpredictable ...

PHILADELPHIA DA IGNORES VIDEO EVIDENCE Many Suspect Campaign Contributions Influence Prosecutions What is it that organizations and PACs get when they contribute money to political campaigns? In Philadelphia, contributions might buy immunity from prosecution, as well as prosecution of your enemies. At least this seems to be the case when it comes to local Teamsters boss John Morris. On October 2, 1998,protestors and Teamsters mingled outside a fundraiser for President Clinton. After being interviewed by several media outlets, including NPR, Clinton protestor Don Adams was approached by Morris and other Teamsters supporting the President’s visit. Mr. Morris placed his own ...

A portrait emerged yesterday of the Midwest Madman, who grew up in the lap of luxury, turned into a tattooed white supremacist in college - and went on a hate-driven rampage before killing himself. Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21 - who called himself August Smith because he thought his given name sounded too Jewish (his ethnic background is unclear) - wore a "Sabbath Breaker" tattoo on his chest and enjoyed an upper-middle class life of privilege and comfort in the ritzy Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill., on Lake Michigan. His mom, Beverly Smith, was elected for two four-year terms as ...

Florida's Constitution contains language from what may have been anti-Catholic legislation. Does that matter now? TALLAHASSEE -- As anti-Catholic bigotry swept the United States more than a century ago, presidential hopeful James G. Blaine tried to get a clause in the U.S. Constitution to draw a sharp line between church and state. He failed, but within a few years Florida and more than a dozen other states passed strict prohibitions on the use of public money for religious institutions. Now, the provision in Florida's Constitution is figuring in the legal fight over Gov. Jeb Bush's voucher plan. It is ...

Survey ranks America's technological and social likes and dislikes By Alan J. Borsuk of the Journal Sentinel staff Radio, yes; telemarketing, no. Civil rights, yes; rap music, no. Gadgets and technology, yes. Morals and the quality of life - there, we've got some problems. Americans are marking the last Fourth of July of the 1900s with a great appreciation for what the economy and science have wrought in their lives, according to a large-scale survey of what we think are the good and bad trends of the 20th century. But the Pew Research Center for the People and the ...

Just run on MSNBC. No kidding. The claim is that the shooting suspect in last weekend's "hate crimes" shot himself three times. Ran as a bottom banner on MSNBC about 9:50 PDT.

The institute for health preservation of Serbia based in Belgrade announced an appeal to the residents of the Republic. It says : according to the synoptical cards obtained by German Meteorology Service it is diagnosed that the emission of ultraviolet sun rays is 9 times bigger than normal over whole Europe but mostly the Central Balkans area-that includes Serbia-due to damaging the atmosphere by NATO airplanes during the attack on Yugoslavia. As these rays may cause cancer, and the weather is clear without any clouds, it is highly recomended not to be disposed to direct sunlight in open air. In ...

A new National Guard RAID unit is being organized and trained to respond to domestic terrorist threats, with a team in every state and territory in time for Y2K. Each team is made up of 22 full-time National Guard members and is prepared to deal with domestic threats from terrorist groups using weapons of mass destruction. As the new year approaches, the National Guard in most states has progressed from weekly to twice-weekly meetings to prepare plans for Y2K contingencies, according to a guard officer who attends the meetings. Each meeting takes place in secure areas, such as the ...

CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — With a helping hand from corporate America, President Clinton is offering a mix of public and private investment to spur economic activity in some of the nation's forgotten communities. "I want everybody in America to know that while our country has been blessed with this economic recovery, not all Americans have been blessed by it,'' Clinton told about 600 people gathered in a sweltering, tin-roofed warehouse of Waterfield Cabinets in Clarksdale. He noted the poverty and unemployment rates in the Mississippi Delta region far exceed the national averages. Clinton was announcing $64 million in community ...

Find ET At Home! One Month-Old SETI Program Is Swamped by Volunteer Alien-Seekers 8.08 a.m. ET (1208 GMT) June 23, 1999 By Amanda Onion NEW YORK — The other day, Ross Schaack's computer detected something unusual. So, while Schaack was away at work, the computer dialed a connection to the Web and reported its data to a main computer in Berkeley, California. Days later, Schaack's user name appeared in a top ten list for detecting one of the most interesting finds of the month. High peaks in SETI's program indicate strong signals while a counter above records long, unusual radio ...

The Church of Malthus Editorial Copyright 1999 Wall Street Journal How fitting that Thomas Malthus was a man of the cloth. For the insight for which he remains best known--that human beings are fated to breed themselves to destruction--has over the centuries hardened into an established orthodoxy, complete with its own high priests and votaries. Just last week they gathered under the auspices of a special session of the United Nations General Assembly to consider how best to get the organization's member governments (especially Uncle Sam) to pony up the cash to keep the message of people reduction alive well ...