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Gov't moves to cut fuel prices Seasonal increase in demand, supply crunch drive up gasoline prices 50 percent in 1 month By VITALY SYCH Post Staff Writer Worried about rising fuel prices on the eve of the harvesting season, the government has moved to drive those prices down artificially by saturating the market with cheap gasoline. In its first effort to force down prices, which have risen by more than 50 percent over the last month, the government on June 23 withdrew plans to increase customs duties on oil products by 2 percent. That measure had been scheduled to come ...

E D I T O R I A L S Richardson: Secretary Of Spin? Date: 7/8/99 Pity Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. He has inherited an agency that has trashed our nuclear weapons program. Now he has to clean up nothing less than a national security disaster area. Or so the story goes. Richardson talks up reform on the TV news shows. But his rhetoric doesn't square with his actions. So far he has demoted and suspended whistle-blowers. He has fired a reform-minded top official. And he has left in place anti-nuclear activists who put security warnings on ice. On May ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — President Clinton had just finished an impassioned call for a sea change in how the government treats American Indians when some in the audience began chanting for a man who hadn't uttered a word: Jesse Jackson. "Speak, Jesse Speak!'' a few people called. "Run, Jesse Run!'' others said. One women just yelled "Reverend Jackson!'' over and over again. This is how it's been since Clinton began his national poverty tour in Appalachia three days ago with Jackson at his side. It started with ringing applause in Hazard, Ky., to Jackson's call to "keep hope ...

The way polls are usually conducted is unsatisfactory in that they ask folks to reveal only their number one choice. We've had a few of these at FR, and what ultimately happens is everyone divides into their respective "favorite's" camp and slugs it out. In other words, it works against finding the strongest consensus candidate that most conservatives and FReepers could unite behind. So here's what I'd like you all to do instead: So far, there are likely to be 11 candidates contending for the GOP nomination. Listed, in alphabetical order, they are: Alexander Bauer Buchanan Bush Dole Forbes Hatch ...

Justices Weigh Privacy Rights Against Best Interests of Children Decide parent cannot be forced into psychological testing Danielle Rodier Pennsylvania Law Weekly July 7, 1999 In considering what one justice called a "landmark" issue involving the privacy rights of parents accused of child abuse, the high court has ruled that a mother cannot be ordered to undergo psychological testing in conjunction with dependency proceedings. A majority of the justices said their decision preserved the constitutional right to privacy but two dissenters claimed the decision could pose a grave danger to dependent children and lowers the duty the state owes ...

Justices Weigh Privacy Rights Against Best Interests of Children Decide parent cannot be forced into psychological testing Danielle Rodier Pennsylvania Law Weekly July 7, 1999 In considering what one justice called a "landmark" issue involving the privacy rights of parents accused of child abuse, the high court has ruled that a mother cannot be ordered to undergo psychological testing in conjunction with dependency proceedings. A majority of the justices said their decision preserved the constitutional right to privacy but two dissenters claimed the decision could pose a grave danger to dependent children and lowers the duty the state owes ...

Hillary will end her "listening tour" this Friday evening in Albany. She will be at a fundraiser for Rep.McNulty at the Omni Hotel, in downtown Albany. The First Lady will arrive at 7:30.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chilling words videotaped by a racial shooting suspect left journalists pondering Wednesday whether broadcasting Benjamin Smith's message would explain his hatred or spread it. NBC's "Today'' show and ABC's "Good Morning America'' aired interviews by the 21-year-old white supremacist, blamed by authorities for a two-state shooting spree that killed two and wounded nine. It ended Sunday with Smith's suicide. In the ABC interview, conducted by a student documentary filmmaker, Smith said a racial holy war was inevitable. "If they violate our constitutional rights and say we can't put out our literature, we have no choice but ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: NATO chief in Europe declares war on militarized formations.BELGRADE, July 7 (Itar-Tass) - NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark has declared an irreconcilable war on all militarized formations in Kosovo. On Tuesday, Clark was in Kosovo on a brief visit. Addressing journalists in the town of Kosovska-Mitrovica Clark said, commenting on the results of his visit to the French KFOR contingent, that servicemen of the international forces would arrest all those who carry unlicensed guns. " There is no room for militarized formations in Kosovo," Clark said. He did not specify whether the ...

Politics 2000 Roundup .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush, catering to a vital source of GOP fund raising and political support, on Wednesday announced a new group of advisers who will guide his high-technology policy. Bush hopes the advisers, all leaders in the computer and information-technology industries, will generate support for his campaign among other industry leaders. The sky-high stock prices of many computer companies have made the checkbooks of industry leaders a key battleground for presidential candidates from both parties. The past few weeks have seen Bush and his Democratic opponents, Vice President ...

Bush Salutes Air Force Pilot By ROBERT GEHRKE .c The Associated Press 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 ...

Gentle Activists, If you live within reach of the Philadelphia area, it is important that you attend the trial of Don Adams if ever you can. It will be held tomorrow morning in room 1003 of the Criminal Justice Center, 1301 Filbert St. in Philadelphia. It is scheduled to begin at 9:00 am, but I expect that the actual trial won't get underway until 9:30. I usually attend all the court actions revolving around Don Adams and the Teamsters who beat him, and post a thorough synopsis to FreeRepublic. I will not be able to do that this time around; ...

J.C. Watts says Texas Gov. George Bush will win race for GOP nomination By Andy Rieger / Transcript Managing Editor / Published 7-7-99 Texas Gov. George Bush must feel like the Chicago Bulls of past years. "Everybody's shooting at him," U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts said Tuesday. "I think it's early but I think the governor's come out of the chute hard," Watts said. "If they (other GOP candidates) don't get some traction by Labor Day, it may be over." Watts has agreed to do some surrogate speaking for Gov. Bush, easily the front-runner among Republican presidential hopefuls. Watts was also ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday he favors a permanent ban on Internet sales taxes, a position that may distinguish him from front-runner George W. Bush and incur anger from governors and mayors. In a speech to about 100 conservatives, McCain said "the ban must be permanent.'' Asked later about the specifics of his proposal, he took a softer stance, saying he liked the idea of exempting Internet sales from state and local taxes but would await the findings of a congressional panel created last year to study the issue. Last week, Bush ...

There has been much discussion of late whether Conservatives should leave the republican party and found or join a fringe party. Before deciding what course to take we must ask ourselves one simple question: what is most likely to work? Advocates of the third party option seem to think that staying with the GOP cannot work because they'll just keep nominating the same type of people. What's wrong with that? The vast majority of Republican congresscritters are conservatives; it is the cowardly leadership and a few traitors in the ranks that we are afflicted with. So, to return to ...

Read story here Wednesday July 7, 7:21 pm Eastern Time Firm predicts Y2K terror surge against U.S. By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - A crisis management firm advised by an ex-chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff predicted on Wednesday an upsurge in guerrilla violence against U.S. targets to mark the dawning of the year 2000. The consulting firm, which includes several big names in the U.S. counterterrorism world, also predicted disruptions from doomsday cults and unstable people subject to a ``millennium madness'' that it says may be coming. ``Whether by bombing a jetliner or attacking crowds ...

I used to awake to the Alan Keyes show in Catholic Family Radio. I love that show. Here in Southern California, it was my daily fix of Conservatism which got me through the hours of 0600-0900 when Rush came on, another channel. Three days this week, some other guy has been on in Alan's place, and I must say, he is dull as dirt. I have tried to learn from the new guy just what he is doing on when Alan should be, unfortunately, I was rendered unconscious while waiting. Anybody know?

SIX HELD FOR JOURNALIST'S RAPE Six teenagers have been arrested for raping a 28-year-old Brazilian journalist in Johannesburg over the weekend. The youths, aged between 17 and 19, are suspected of raping the journalist on Friday, about 14 hours after she arrived in South Africa in transit to another African country. police said they had found what they believed to be her wristwatch on the wrist of one of the suspects. The teenagers are expected to appear in court on Friday. The journalist was attacked and gang-raped when she was walking to her accomodation across a stretch of open ground. ...

ONEONTA, New York (AllPolitics, July 7) -- Sounding a great deal like a Senate candidate, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a "listening tour" Wednesday in upstate New York, kicking off an important phase in her attempt to be the first wife of a sitting president to run for political office. After meeting with retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Wednesday morning, Mrs. Clinton said the issues facing New York are issues that she has been working on all her adult life. "What's new to me is being on this side of the microphone," she told the reporters questioning ...

Enter Stage Right's Conservative Site of the Day for Conservative Site of the Day Enter Stage Right Link Here Brothers to the Rescue Hermanos al Rescate/Brothers to the Rescue We rescue our brothers who flee Castro's communist tyranny in the Straits of Florida; advocate human rights and national solidarity; support the heroic dissidents within the island; and promote the proven strategy of nonviolent National Civic Defiance to bring democracy and sovereignty to Cuba.