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Based on his courageous act of self-defense Monday, we'd say that criminals have more to fear from grocery store owner Thomas Shim than he should have fear of them. Shim, who shot to death an armed robber who threatened his life, says his 1478 Wrightsboro Road market is in a bad neighborhood and he's fearful of returning. One can understand that killing a person -- even one like career criminal Anthony Boyd -- can be a traumatizing experience. But it would be sad if Shim let that fact chase him out of business. It would almost be like a ...

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 . . .' -- best captured ...

Commentary: A GOP president from this crop could turn the court on abortion SAN FRANCISCO -- So far as you can see down the line of Republican candidates for president, you find no one willing to trust women with their own reproductive systems. Not Mr. Compassionate Conservative Moneybags, George W. Bush. Not the Vietnam War hero, John McCain. Not the great female hope, Elizabeth Dole. Not Steve Forbes. Not Dan Quayle. Not Orrin Hatch. Not John Kasich. And certainly not Pat Buchanan. Every person who has even an outside chance at the GOP nomination -- and thus a shot at ...

WASHINGTON (July 8, 1999 1:11 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has agreed to a Republican proposal to consolidate nuclear weapons programs under a semiautonomous agency under the Energy umbrella, a department official said Wednesday. The agency, which would remain under his control, would run the department's complex of nuclear weapons laboratories and other facilities that assemble and maintain the weapons stockpile, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Until this week, Richardson had been strongly opposed to such an agency, arguing it would create a new and powerful "fiefdom" within the department beyond his control. ...

"Not for commercial use. Posted for the purpose of discussion only" Carty slugs it out with Compromisin' Sam © 1999 Claire Wolfe This is embarrassing, and you probably won't believe it anyway. But our little mid-nowhere town of Hardyville has one political throwback. This guy actually thinks that the way to get smaller government is to vote for bigger government. That's right: He thinks you get smaller government by voting, year after year, for bigger, more powerful government. I know. It sounds too crazy for anyone to credit, but there it is. He calls it "compromise." And we call him ...

Yeltsin to award Gen Zavarzin who led troops to Kosovo. MOSCOW, July 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin said it was time for General Viktor Zavarzin, who led the Russian paratroopers surprise march from Bosnia to Kosovo in June, to be put in for a state of award. In the hand-shaking opening of a meeting with Russian top commanders in the Kremlin on Thursday, the President warmly thanked General Zavarzin "for Kosovo" and instructed the defence minister to do so without delay. On June 12, directly after the convoy of Russian peacekeepers entered Pristina, Boris Yeltsin promoted Viktor Zavarzin ...

AMONG the most devastating of disabilities are spinal injuries that sever communication between the brain and the limbs. The nerve cells in the brain devoted to controlling limb movement remain, but cannot communicate with the limb muscles. It takes a long time for the brain to adjust to this harsh reality. Until it does, the injured person often experiences "phantom" limbs -- the cells in the brain have not yet come to terms with the fact that the muscles will not respond. Recent amputees suffer the same disconcerting period of adjustment. Many researchers have tried to find a way to ...

Scenerio-later this year: After a noble try by Al Gore, the polls still show "W" with a commanding lead over all Democrats. Before the winner take all California primary, Hillary throws her hat into the ring as a candidate for President. President Clinton says "Gee, now we don't have to move. Dick Morris: "This was planned all along, why didn't I see this."

WASHINGTON - If President Clinton's extra $1 trillion in the Federal budget shows up as surplus tax revenues this writer will eat his hat. That so-called surplus will, according to White house economists, "flood the Treasury over the ten years." However, there is rain on this parade! Independent analysts say that Mr. Clinton is relying on highly dubious assumptions. Amitai Etzioni, the noted ethicist at George Washington University told reporters this week that the poor performance of economists in recent years has led to decreasing use of their data in banks, investment companies. He said "...few major economic institutions ...

House Republicans said Wednesday that they would seek to cut the top tax rate on long-term capital gains to 15 percent from 20 percent as part of the big tax-cutting bill they will take up next week in the face of opposition from President Clinton. If enacted, the cut in the capital gains tax rate, which applies to profits on the sale of stock and other assets held for more than a year, would give a break to the growing legions of individual investors. And it could further fuel the long bull market on Wall Street, where stock prices hit ...

The Natural By Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor of The Wall Street Journal and author of "Simply Speaking" (HarperCollins, 1998). Hand it to her. Hillary Clinton had a spectacular day yesterday as she stood on the edge of a rolling field on Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's upstate farm and announced that she may announce. It was as deft and clever a political presentation as I've seen, a marvel of spin and more. She was poised, articulate, both cool and warm and--a first for her--modest. She was in fact a natural. I watched all morning rapt as CNN and MSNBC went ...

Market Rap with Bill Fleckenstein Stocks finish higher after choppy day [edited] Some interesting news last night came from a friend of mine, Jim Bianco. An article from the Australian Financial Review, written by Peter Hartcher, focused on Mr. Yen, a.k.a. Eisuke Sakakibara. It has to do with why he decided to retire. Mr. Yen sees Bubble.com... "He told an acquaintance that he decided not to press for another year in the post because he expected that Wall Street would crash during that time and he did not want to try to be around to try to deal with the ...

(JWR) ---- (http://www.jewishworldreview.com) "JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE" is the biblical admonition that adorns the offices of many Jewish lawyers. Indeed, the Jewish legal tradition in America has a long-honored history, with role models such as Louis Marshall, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo and Felix Frankfurter. All these giants of American law were deeply influenced by both their religious roots and their commitment to American jurisprudence. Principles of universal justice and equality coursed through their veins. It is their shoulders this generation of Jews stands upon in working for justice and equality. Alan Dershowitz, one of America's most high-profile attorneys and ...

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, July 7—NATO is reviewing an "awkward" decision to assign Russian peacekeeping troops to a Kosovo town where Dutch forces believe they have cornered some suspected Serbian war criminals, alliance officials said today. Several thousand ethnic Albanian residents of Orahovac, in western Kosovo, gathered in the streets today to protest NATO's announcement that it would send newly arrived Russian troops to replace the Dutch. The ethnic Albanians say that at least two war crime suspects are among 3,000 Serbs battened down in an isolated neighborhood that has been guarded for weeks by Dutch troops and tanks. Dutch officers ...

WASHINGTON - So she's in. Hillary Clinton yesterday filed the papers that allow her to raise money for a run for the New York state Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Then Mrs. Clinton hopped on a U.S.-taxpayer provided plane and jetted to the little Catskills village, where the senator spends the summer, to receive the great man's blessing. It was a lovely moment, full of that cheerful unreality that makes politics so consistently entertaining. Sen. Moynihan and the first lady have cordially disliked each other since their battles over Hillary-care in 1993 and 1994. She ...

We've heard in the past week a fair amount of affectionate reminiscing about the old days when people cooled off with wet sheets, icy baths, by sleeping on front porches and roofs and whiling away hot summer nights chatting with the neighbors. True, many good things were lost with the end of the good old days, but we're here to say--as we and many others around the country have had reason to appreciate all over again the past few days--that summers without air conditioning aren't among the losses we mourn. The past few days brought home again--as happens nearly ...

'Issues of organ donation will never be helped by sensationalist attempts to play the race card. Matters of life and death are not so black and white' Would you let a black man have your dead daughter's kidney? Of course you would. That is why we shook our heads at reports that the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield had allegedly accepted one donor's organs, on condition that they would not be transplanted to "coloured people". To hear of such crude racism being not just privately expressed but publicly indulged, "seems completely out of tune with Britain in the 1990s", as ...

`Filegate' ready to swing open July 8, 1999 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Afiling petition to a federal judge last week raised the possibility that the FBI files case, one of the capital's great all-time mysteries, might yet be broken open--with political implications for Hillary Rodham Clinton. It requests the deposition of a former Clinton White House aide's ex-wife, who claims she observed her husband transferring FBI files into his laptop computer. The June 29 filing by the conservative Judicial Watch asked U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington to authorize the sworn testimony of Leslie Gail Kennedy, who ...

The Homosexual Agenda in The Schools The Homosexual Agenda in The Schools Back to Information Page Ted Crooks Voted to add "Sexual Orientation"  to existing policy When the Grossmont Union High School District board recently voted 3 to 2 to add "sexual orientation" to its anti-discrimination policies as it relates to hiring, programming, and multicultural education, the main argument of the proponents appears to be that homosexuals need to be protected from harassment and acts of violence. But the policy adopted has nothing to do with protecting students from harassment, intimidation or acts of violence. Indeed, it didn’t have ...

It could be argued that Bill Clinton's foreign policy is designed around intervention into lost causes, thereby garnering good press for "just doing something," with no expectations of success. The Kosovo campaign is an example, with little gained after nearly three months of bombing, except to refocus the ethnic hatred in the region, and place U.S. troops in the role of "peacekeepers" in an area where retribution supersedes peace. In Northern Ireland, the policy is even more pronounced. Clinton has convinced his British counterpart, Prime Minister Tony Blair, that he must do something, even though the likelihood of success is ...