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Offbeat Person, Mainstream Policy: As Ventura Redefines Minnesota Governorship, Most Like It By Terry M. Neal Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 7, 1999; Page A01 ST. PAUL, Minn.—Six months into Gov. Jesse Ventura's quixotic, sometimes bizarre tenure as governor of the Land of 10,000 Lakes, a few things are becoming apparent: It is possible to be an unscripted, politically incorrect politician and still be popular. It is possible to party with the Rolling Stones, promise to reform politics, sell action figures of yourself and donate the money to charity, and still govern like a mainstream politician. In fact, when ...

First Lady Forms Exploratory Committee Prospective Senate Candidate Begins 'Listening Tour' in Upstate New York Today By Michael Grunwald Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 7, 1999; Page A04 Hillary Rodham Clinton made it official yesterday: She is considering the race for Senate in New York. "This morning we filed a statement of organization with the Federal Election Commission to establish the Hillary Rodham Clinton for U.S. Senate Exploratory Committee," said Clinton's committee spokesman, Howard Wolfson. The committee has been in operation for almost a week, but now she can officially start the exploring, which she will do today, when ...

Thread 3 was getting too long...come join us on Thread 4. I'd really like to know from our Texas FReepers what they are hearing from their fellow Texans about Governor Bush. Also, what are the democrats saying?

A Key Panel Asks: Why Only One Spy Probe? By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 7, 1999; Page A17 Back Channels The Intelligence Community After months of leaks and partisan rhetoric about Chinese espionage at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board has finally spoken, trying to inject some semblance of balance into the superheated debate. "Opinions expressed in the media and elsewhere have ranged from one extreme to the other," the little known but heavy-hitting panel said in its recent report on Department of Energy weapons labs, "Science at Its Best, Security at ...

NEW DELHI, July 6 (AFP) - India on Tuesday said a preliminary probe on a seized North Korean ship confirmed New Delhi's "worst apprehensions" following media reports that she was carrying missile components to Pakistan.A foreign ministry spokesman told reporters initial investigations had been concluded into the Ku Wol San, which docked in the western Indian port of Kandla on June 25 and unloaded sugar carried from Bangkok.Media reports said Indian officials who boarded the ship found precision machinery tools used in missile production and machines to produce missile nozzle cones and body structures.The foreign ministry spokesman said "detailed investigations" ...

Country Gone Astray Every Which Way-WHAT HAPPENED? Let's see.... I think it started when Madalyn Murray O'Hair complained that she didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said, you had better not read the Bible in school - - the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK. Dr. Benjamin Spock said that we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. And we said, an expert should know ...

Widow Of Chicago Shooting Victim: America Has A 'Heart Problem' Ricky Byrdsong lauded as man devoted to family and faith July 5, 1999 Web posted at: 1:48 a.m. EDT (0548 GMT) CHICAGO (CNN) -- The widow of former Northwestern University basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong said Sunday the drive-by shooting that took his life was "yet another clarion call to our nation." Byrdsong was gunned down in front of his suburban Chicago home Friday night while walking with his son and one of his daughters. His slaying has been linked by police to a string of shootings in Illinois and ...

E D I T O R I A L S Who's Irresponsible? Date: 7/7/99 House Republicans last week proposed to cut taxes by $1 trillion over 10 years. Democrats responded with their usual bombast: House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt called the tax cut ''irresponsible.'' Well, we have a message for Gephardt and those who think like him. Letting people keep more of what's rightfully theirs isn't irresponsible. What we find irresponsible is Congress' money addiction. Our lawmakers think they can spend nearly $2 trillion a year of other people's money. Most members of Congress, with few exceptions, believe they have ...

The earliest American gun control laws were passed in the Southern States that later became the Confederacy. These laws explicitly denied the right to keep and bear arms to free blacks as well as slaves. According to legal scholar Clayton E Cramer, this was due to "the desire to keep blacks controlled." Later, these laws were refined and expanded. Cramer explains in his 1994 book, For the Defense of Themselves and the State: "At the end of the Civil War, the newly restored Southern legislators adopted a series of laws known as the Black Codes;the purpose of these laws was ...

Ex-official denies blood-product charges Mainichi Daily News Page 14; DOMESTIC July 4, 1999, Sunday A former Health and Welfare Ministry bureaucrat, accused of failing to issue an order to recall blood products contaminated with HIV to reduce the risk of infection in the mid-1980s, pleaded not Prosecutors charge that Matsumura failed to issue an order of recall even though safe, heat-treated products were available. guilty to negligence late last week. "We were not able to stop the marketing and production of those unheated blood products at a time when the side effects of heated products were pointed out," said ...

If all goes according to plan, President Clinton is expected to speak shortly before Midnight on New Year's Eve at the Lincoln Memorial, and at the stroke of midnight, "something magical" will light up the sky. The official theme for the official White House millennium celebration is "Honor the past, imagine the future," Ann Lewis, counselor to the president, told reporters on Tuesday. Lewis, thrilled to finally be doing work that is unrelated to scandal damage control, is deep into the planning stages of New Year's Eve 1999. The festivities include the world premiere of a short by director Steven ...

The Rapist is visiting South Phoenix tomorrow to hand out your money to buy votes from the poor Hispanics in Guadalupe.According to a caller to KFYI talk radio, No protesting, no signs, no dissent will be permitted by the police.Welcome to Amerika !

Hillary Clinton's Yale thesis was purportedly a glowing valentine to her hero, "radical" Saul Alinsky. I would beseech all New York voters to read this, an excerpt from one of Alinsky's books, Reveille for Radicals... Please note: The various racial slurs and insults contained herein are Alinsky's words, not mine or anyone else's on Free Republic. MERE TOLERANCE IS NOT ENOUGH Excerpts from Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless ...

No. 125, 28 June - 4 July 1999 Readers keep pleading with me to tell them more while others, though not hostile, are somewhat suspicious, if not about me, at least about my sources. Once again I shall try and explain my situation. I am not on any government payroll and I do not have direct access to any intelligence agency. As I have tried to make clear on several occasions I am a listener. I don't pry, I don't question and I don't send or receive coded messages. But people are people, wherever they are and as such share ...

Dear Friends, 89 year-old Doris Haddock (Granny D) will reach her halfway point, Dallas, late this coming week. Catch her tonight (Saturday, July 4) on ABC's World News Tonight, and LIVE from the road on tomorrow morning's ABC Good Morning America. Also, why not talk a moment to look at Doris's website and send a letter to your Senator or Representative in Congress. This coming week, John McCain will put his reform bill back on the Senate floor, and it would be a good time for Granny's supporters to make some noise. Consider sending an old shoe to one of ...

http://www.hillary2000.org will come out of password protection early Wednesday morning and will open to viewers worldwide. Hillary Clinton's first official campaign website will contain official press releases, schedules and reportedly a toll-free number and PO Box address to phone in donations to her candidacy.

The ancient Romans said if you want peace, prepare for war. Somehow this is also the downside of the better-known saying that history always repeats itself. Why? Because it is not that history repeats itself at all, it's just that people tend to repeat their mistakes. The great mistake America is repeating is to forget that wise Roman saying. Under Clinton America has been preparing for defeat. Peace comes through strength. In a pacific world the need for military might would not exist. But we live, as we have done since time immemorial, in a dangerous and uncertain world. A ...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF HAWAII JOHN DOE, ) CIVIL NO. 87-8232 ) PLAINTIFF, ) AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS DREES ) vs. ) ) CUTTER BIOLOGICAL, a division ) Of Miles Laboratories, Inc., ) et. al., ) ) Defendants. ) ) ________________________________________________) AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS DREES STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) ss. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) Comes now Thomas Drees, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and says as follows: He has been retained as an expert witness in the case of John Doe v. Cutter, et. al. He is an expert in ...

$5,639,285,572,317.50 By the time you read the number above...and yes, that's TRILLIONS...it will be too late. Because it will have gone up, as it does every minute of every day. That's our national debt as of Friday afternoon, July 2. It represents a debt of $20,692.03 for every man, woman and child in the United States. And it increases an average of $249 million every day. That's the bad news. The good news? The President and members of Congress would have you believe that it's our $1 trillion budget surplus. They've spent the last week talking about how to divvy ...

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to keep producing her syndicated newspaper column while she campaigns to become a U.S. Senator, it has been learned. "He column will keep running," a spokeswoman for CREATORS SYNDICATE told the DRUDGE REPORT late Tuesday in Los Angeles. Other CREATORS writers, like presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan, have lost their columns while they actively pursued elected office. "The first lady's weekly column is not about politics, there is no conflict," a White House source explained. But recent columns by Hillary Clinton have covered such hot topics as NATO's of Kosovo and affirmative action.