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SHE'S THE WORST LADY FOR MOST UPSTATERS By GERSH KUNTZMAN BINGHAMTON. THE only problem with Hillary Rodham Clinton's much-hyped "listening tour" is that she's not listening to guys like Tom Holland. "She knows nothing about New York and we don't want her here," said Holland, summarizing the prevailing sentiment of people upstate - as captured by the huge "Go Home Hillary" banner hanging from a semi-trailer across the street from the airport here. Holland's company, Gagne, Inc., makes photographic equipment and has expanded 1,000 percent over the past decade. That makes him a happy Republican. No wonder Hillary will ...

SHE'D BE NOTHING BUT AN EMPTY CARPETBAG By DEBORAH ORIN WHAT'S in it for New York if Hillary Clinton becomes the Empire State's next senator? Most likely, nothing but tsuris. Which, for visiting Arkansans who don't know Yiddish, means a whole lot of trouble. Democrats have a Rosy Scenario in which Veep Al Gore becomes the next president and Democrats sweep into control of the Senate and House - with Hillary Clinton into a superstar who can really deliver. Don't bet on it. Polls say the most likely next president will be a Republican named George W. Bush who ...

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 was filed. Plaintiffs also ...

The mother of an Arlington teenager will never forget the phone call she received from Williamsburg Middle School, where her daughter was in the eighth grade. "I'd like to invite you to a meeting about girls at risk," said Latanja Thomas, the eighth-grade school counselor. "What risk?" the mother asked. "Eating disorders?" "No." "Drugs?" "No." "Well, what is it?" "Oral sex." "I about dropped the phone," the mother recalled. "I was stunned." So were other parents of girls at Williamsburg who took similar calls that evening and showed up for a meeting in the school library a few nights later. ...

Veterans secretary reportedly resigning AP News Service WASHINGTON (AP) _ Veterans Affairs Secretary Togo West has told the White House he plans to resign in the face of criticism from veterans groups, The Washington Post reported in its Thursday editions. Citing sources at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the White House, the newspaper said members of Congress were told by the White House last week that West would leaving the job, but that the timing was uncertain. It quoted Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., as saying that the department's inspector general was investigating West's use of travel funds. A veterans ...

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Chinese intelligence officers were more significantly involved than previously suspected in efforts to monitor Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung's cooperation with the FBI's campaign finance probe, relaying instructions to a middleman on a near-daily basis. The Beijing-directed operation is described in FBI transcripts of 20 telephone conversations and meetings, along with 22 intercepted fax messages, over four months in 1998 involving Chung and Robert Luu, a Chinese-American who made subtle threats if Chung did not keep silent and offered hush money for his defense if he did. The transcripts, copies of which were obtained by The Washington Times, show that Mr. ...

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 ...

Terry Reed was the guest this afternoon on Ray Briem's afternoon talk radio show on KIEV in Glendale, CA. Reed announced that he has struck a deal with Steven Segal who will produce and star in a movie based on his book, COMPROMISED: CLINTON, BUSH AND THE CIA. Segal broke with Warner a few years ago and now independently produces films. I had the chance to talk to Terry on the phone today and he believes that he will have reasonable creative control over the project and expects it to be done right. He is expecting the project to be ...

If Edgar Mora had any intents and purposes on March 12 of last year as he went on his violent odyssey through San Francisco, they were rudimentary in the extreme: He was out-of-his-tree drunk, angrier than most people have a right to be, and he wanted to fight. His was not a particularly sophisticated intent, and surely not a very unusual one. The world is full of angry drunks. Mora’s rage was not applied with much specificity. He smashed bus shelter panes. He hit passing cars. He hit a homeless man. He hit a cyclist. He kept telling his girlfriend, ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Turncoat     "Under the new Clinton Doctrine, if people are being mistreated, they essentially get to call an international 911 number for help, so we might begin bombing London soon until the British agree to treat their Northern Ireland wards more humanely."-- David A. Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union.      John McCaslin can be reached at 202/636-3284 or e-mail him at Mccasl@twtmail.com.

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Shared sex     In his new book, "Cliches of Liberalism: Governing Through Insult, Confusion and Sound Bites," author David C. Wilcox has included photographs of several famous persons, among them four presidents: Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.     To locate photos of each, he conducted a search on the Internet, and without difficulty retrieved suitable images of presidents Coolidge, Eisenhower and Reagan.     Thinking President Clinton's image from Jan. 27, 1998 -- the day he wagged his finger to a national television audience and uttered the immortal line, 'I did not have sex . . ...

(Atlanta, Ga) Queen Hillary should be known as "Slick Hilly". She did it to a worldwide audience again and no one has called her on it. Except me. Mizz Hillary was asked about her non-residence status in New York and why she decided to run for Senate there. You know, the "carpetbagger" question. Please listen to her words very carefully. She crafted her deceptive answer masterfully. Her intention was to leave a false impression while technically speaking the truth. Typical Clinton spin-crap. Here goes. Mizz Hillary resonds to the reporter's question and I paraphrase "Well, you know I have planned ...

Matt Drudge Cuts Radio Deal With ABC Controversial Columnist's Show to Air Here By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 8, 1999; Page C01 Matt Drudge is coming to Washington--and plenty of other cities--over the heated objections of ABC News President David Westin. ABC Radio said yesterday that it has signed the Internet gossip columnist to a syndication deal that will put him on the network-owned stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta and Washington, where Drudge will be heard on WMAL-AM. Drudge, whose Sunday night show is already carried on New York's WABC, ...

ENGLISH ONLY (an article from the DNC) ---------------- Democratic Position The Democratic Party strongly opposes English-only proposals -- like H.R. 123 -- which discriminate against non-English speaking individuals living in the United States. Democratic Accomplishments The Democratic Party stopped the Republican-led 104th U.S. Congress from passing H.R. 123. This legislation would have discriminated against non-English speaking individuals living in the United States by prohibiting the federal government from conducting its official business in any language other than English. Although Republicans claimed that H.R. 123 would have encouraged non-English speaking individuals to learn English, no provision in this legislation would ...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate's Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem held hearings yesterday on community Y2K preparedness with some pretty upset grass-roots activists. Fortunately for the senators, the witnesses' anger was aimed more at the White House and the nation's print and broadcast press. Sen. Robert F. Bennett, R-Utah, chairman of the committee, even embraced the some-of-my-best-friends-are-survivalists mode (not hard to believe, since he's a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a Mormon state) to reveal that "I have already purchased a 55-gallon drum, which I will fill with water well before the ...

Thursday, July 8, 1999   New US blunder over ambassador protocol ASSOCIATED PRESS in Washington President Bill Clinton's nomination of retired admiral Joseph Prueher as the United States' new ambassador to China appears to be in trouble. In an apparent lapse of protocol, the Clinton administration has neglected to tell Beijing about the proposed nomination. A Chinese Embassy official in Washington said yesterday Beijing had yet to be consulted. Still furious about the Belgrade embassy bombing, Chinese officials had registered displeasure at the snub, according to congressional and diplomatic officials. Nor is Beijing enthusiastic about the choice, since Admiral Prueher, ...

I just came home from a Town Hall meeting with Congressman Ed Royce. Strangely enough, we met at Town Hall! He is a good Conservative Republican, and he stressed the importance of the need to release the Labella memo.Please call your Congress Reps and Senators and ask that they demand the release of the memo. Toll free to Capital Hill, 1-877-722-7494.

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Republicans Jab Gore In Convention Web Promo Reuters [OL] Wednesday, July 07, 1999 4:39PM PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) via NewsEdge Corporation - Republican officials lost no time in delivering a verbal jab to Vice President Al Gore Wednesday, while promoting the high-tech features of their 2000 national convention in Philadelphia. For the first time, Republican National Committee (RNC) convention planners named a technology subcommittee, which will oversee the development of a World Wide Web page expected to draw up to 30 million hits a day from Internet users during the July 29 to Aug. 4, 2000 ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Albanian mafia moving into Kosovo on NATO's heels KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, July 8 (AFP) - The feared Albanian mafia has moved into Kosovo on the heels of the deployment of NATO troops and is already running lucrative operations smuggling drugs, cars, petrol and cigarettes, local people say.On the lonely road between Pec in northwest Kosovo and Kosovska Mitrovica in the north, the mobsters' are easy to spot in their glossy black Mercedes with tinted windows and no number-plates, and in the flashy four-wheeled drives registered in Vlora, southern Albania.A short distance from the market ...