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After recent interviews by Dan Rather and Wolfie "Puffball" Blitzer of President Clinton, most intelligent observers sang a quiet dirge in memory of the inquisitorial reporter. You know the kind, the slouch-hatted, cigarette-smoking, Joe Pyne sort of guy who got in the subject's face and asked the embarrassing question, and hung in there like a bulldog on a T-bone steak (or a Woodward&Bernstein on a Nixon). Heck, the news shows sold out long ago to "Happy-Happy Joy-Joy" interviews, the kind where Madeline Albright ducks under a question like a greased-pig slips through the hands of a drunk carnivalgoer. The kind ...

Believe it or not, there are now over 5 million school kids in America on psychotropic drugs, most of which are prescribed and administered by the schools themselves. That's the report we get from Kelly O'Meara, writing in Insight magazine on June 28. In addition, according to Teacher Magazine of December 1996, there are four million kids on Ritalin alone, one of the most powerful of the drugs now being given routinely to children in American schools. What is most disturbing, however, is the growing awareness that the increased violence among school children may have more to do with the ...

June 30 - July 6, 1999 by jason vest Balkans Beachhead 'Global Loan Sharks' Will Make A Killing On Kosovo Reconstruction Washington— It was late in the day when the industrial contractor called. "We're ready to do business in Kosovo," he told the senior administration official on the other end of the line. "Who do we talk to?" The official paused. "I haven't the faintest idea," he said. "My advice: call Brussels." That was not the counsel the official had expected to give, but, he said, unlike the situation at the end of the Gulf War, it doesn't seem ...

This Saturday nite we will be honoring the great state of Texas in the Freeperville chat room. We plan to honor indivdual states on a regular basis as a way of getting everyone better aquainted with their local freepers. If you are from Texas, and want to meet some of your fellow Texans , Saturday nite in Freeperville is the place to be. We've got a special chat room set aside just for Texans! It includes links from all over the web that might be of interest to anyone planning a trip to, researching, or just plain interested in Texas!We've ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Texas Gov. George W. Bush saluted an Air Force pilot shot down over Bosnia in 1995 and asked him Wednesday to spread the word "there's a new commander-in-chief on the way.'' Bush also spoke to a crowd of about 300 after meeting with governors of six western states. Earlier, he met Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady, who spent several days behind enemy lines while badly injured and without food and water after being shot down. Bush's own military record was called into question last week when reports surfaced he might have received preferential treatment ...

Representative David McIntosh announced today that he will be retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives to run for governor of Indiana. He is the odds on favorite to get the Republican nomination and will probably face popular Democratic governpor Frank O'Bannon in 2000.

NBC set an all-time ratings low in prime-time, while competitors managed to avert dubious records during a holiday week when television viewers appeared to get their fireworks elsewhere.CBS won the week's Nielsen Media Research crown with a 6.1 rating and 13 share, even though it tied for the second-lowest weekly rating the network has ever seen.NBC's 5.5 rating and 11 share was the network's lowest weekly rating ever, but was good enough for second place last week.Newsmagazines, led by ABC's ``20/20'' last Wednesday, accounted for nine of the week's 20 top-rated shows.The low network ratings were inevitable, said David Poltrack, ...

Radar Shows 'Getaway Boat' Fleeing Flight 800 Crash by Philip Weiss The third anniversary of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 is July 17, so it's a good time to look into what even the Government reluctantly concedes is a mystery about the crash: "the 30-knot track." The 30-knot track is the radar trail of a boat that was the closest vessel to the 747 when it exploded and that then headed out to sea on a beeline from right under the burning wreckage. "That boat is extremely suspect," said William S. Donaldson, a retired Navy commander ...

Editorial: DeLay explains the world by apportioning blame St. Louis Post-Dispatch Tom DeLay, de facto speaker of the House, is a deep thinker on school violence. He sees past obvious things -- like guns -- to root causes that may have escaped the notice of many Americans -- evolution, day care, contraception and moral relativism. For those who haven't heard much about him, DeLay, R-Texas, is a former exterminator who got so fed up with government regulation of his pest control business in Houston that he went into politics. DeLay's title is House Majority Whip, but under the limp leadership ...

The most publicity a politician ever had from one event in New York was when Mayor John Lindsay switched from a Republican to a Democrat in the summer of 1972. The evening news took eight and nine minutes to tell of a political move that supposedly was of unparalleled magnitude. Everyone proclaimed that Lindsay would run for president in the Democratic primaries and then against Richard Nixon and enthrall the nation. With all the publicity you ever saw, he went out and got 40 votes in one Democratic primary, 20 in another and was gone forever. Today, this Hillary Clinton ...

The Outrage SUING GOD The Association of Trial Lawyers of America today announced that its members were collectively filing suit against God. The suit names God as a defendant in a class-action brought on behalf of the human race. Filed in New York District Court, the suit includes the following allegations: - That God did, knowingly and willfully, create an imperfect world, thus subjecting the defendants to virtually unlimited pain and suffering. - That, despite incessant complaints and orders to desist from plaintiffs and their duly authorized representatives, God allowed human suffering to continue up to the time the suit ...

You must go and check out the Hillary 2000 Website. It is quite funny. - You would never know she is First Lady. - The President is refered to as if he were another marble monument in Washington DC. - Hillary worked for an Un-named Law Firm in Little Rock. - Why call it Hillary 2000.....did the President refer to his campaign as Bill & Al 1996? Why not Rodham-Clinton 2000? - The new No. 1 advocate of Adoption is yes Hillary. Not a word about her Pro-coice stance. - Has the nerve to mention the Healthcare Task Force. -She ...

THERE is a name for someone like Hillary. A name exists for a person who routinely cuts corners. Who has no problem appropriating the money or labor or talents of others to achieve personal gratification and glorification. There is a name for someone who exaggerates accomplishments. Who believes her innate superiority entitles her to obfuscate, evade and lie. There is something you could call one who is fundamentally incapable of carrying out any task to completion. A person who continually leaves those who count on her for guidance frustrated and empty. Angry. Unsatisfied. The name could be Bill Clinton. ...

WASHINGTON The good news for Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush is his $36-million-and-growing war chest. The bad news for presidential politics, say campaign reform advocates, is Governor Bush's $36-million-and-growing war chest. The unprecedented millions raised by a politician untested by a national campaign make the Texas governor look more like a hot new stock offering than a first-time presidential contender a year and a half from election day. Swelling bankrolls are buoying the Texas governor early. But campaign experts say the ability to amass such sums does not translate into sound ideas or firm leadership. In fact, they ...

The convention's more than a year away, but the Gore and Bradley camps are already waging a townhouse-to-townhouse fund-raising war in Manhattan. Gore may have the Establishment clout, but Bradley's got the excitement. . . . Say what? There's blood on Park Avenue this summer, shed in an all-out civil war whose front cuts through East Side duplexes, Hamptons mansions, and Wall Street boardrooms. Husbands are arrayed against wives, close business allies find themselves leading opposing armies, and double agents are playing both sides against the middle. Al Gore and Bill Bradley have come to town, both looking for dollars, ...

The convention's more than a year away, but the Gore and Bradley camps are already waging a townhouse-to-townhouse fund-raising war in Manhattan. Gore may have the Establishment clout, but Bradley's got the excitement. . . . Say what? There's blood on Park Avenue this summer, shed in an all-out civil war whose front cuts through East Side duplexes, Hamptons mansions, and Wall Street boardrooms. Husbands are arrayed against wives, close business allies find themselves leading opposing armies, and double agents are playing both sides against the middle. Al Gore and Bill Bradley have come to town, both looking for dollars, ...

Shootings Seen Showing Need For Gun Control By Randy Fabi WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun control advocates went on the offensive Wednesday, saying the weekend shooting spree attributed to white supremacist Benjamin Smith showed the need for stricter firearms legislation. ``These shootings underscore the need to pass real, tough gun safety legislation in Congress,'' Senator Frank Lautenberg told reporters. ``I hope that members in both houses who have been dragging their feet, hoping to avoid taking a stand against gun violence, wake up and recognize that there is an urgent need to address (gun-control),'' said Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat who ...

The frantic clamor for additional gun control legislation is diverting public attention from an essential truth: Socialism kills and in America its victims have been overwhelmingly Black. It is often claimed that easy access to firearms is a primary cause of violence in America. The reality is that it is today more difficult to obtain a firearm than at any other time in the nation's history. Until the 1960s, anyone in American could purchase a gun, either in person or by mail order, without a waiting period or permit. No records were kept of firearms purchases and there were no ...

It's been a couple of weeks now since the Breaking News & Extended News have been available, for the last 3-4 weeks or so all i get is [More...] no display of headlines or anything else. Any idea of when these opitions will be restore?

July 6th 1999 Who Makes or Breaks a Scandal? The Cox Report vs. The Iran-Contra Report      July 6, 1999: On May 25, after months of White House delays over declassification, a special House task force led by Reps. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) and Rep. Norman Dicks (D-Wash.) released its final report on the Chinese government’s theft of nuclear warhead and missile secrets. But it made almost no difference in the calculated indifference to the Chinese espionage story at ABC, CBS, and NBC. NBC Nightly News ultimately aired only two stories on the Cox committee findings, while ABC’s World News ...