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Clinton's Two Triumphs By David S. Broder Wednesday, December 1, 1999 ; A43 When historians write of Bill Clinton's presidency, they may stop with the personal scandal that led to his impeachment. But if they go beyond that, my guess is that they will focus on two years--1993 and 1999--and two topics, taxes and trade. The best claim that can be made for Clinton as a significant, positive force for the nation lies in his willingness to fight the Republicans on taxes and his own party, the Democrats, on trade. On both issues, he has defied the odds and, to ...

PAPER: HILLARY AND BILL PLANNING DIVORCE **Exclusive** White House officials are furious that the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is planning to report that Bill and Hillary Clinton are now actively planning to divorce! Next week [12/14] the tabloid will unleash the report with a brutal front page scream exclusive that quotes "family and legal sources". One senior White House official called the paper earlier this week to express his outrage at the devastating story. But compounding the matter is the fact that Bill Clinton's private attorney, David Kendall, who is overseeing much of the president and first lady's private legal affairs, is ...

Iranians warned of 'unexpected incidents' from millennium bug By Associated Press, 12/01/99 10:20 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) The government is warning Iranians they could face breakdowns in public services at the end of the year because of the Y2K bug. ''It is expected that with the arrival of the year 2000 some unexpected incidents may happen and some public services may be disrupted,'' Mohammad Sepehri-Rad, head of the Supreme Council for Information Technology, said Tuesday. Speaking on television, Sepehri-Rad suggested there could be breakdowns in the oil, electricity, communications, transport and health sectors, saying his team had singled out these industries ...

November 30, 1999 Hillary Clinton Attacks Arrests of Homeless       By JONATHAN P. HICKS illary Rodham Clinton offered the most pointed attack to date on her likely opponent on Tuesday, condemning Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's policy of arresting homeless people who sleep on the streets and refuse help. "Our political leaders must be judged on how they treat everyone, including the least fortunate," Mrs. Clinton told an audience made up of mostly black ministers. "We must ask ourselves: do we solve problems or simply push them away, politicize them and criminalize them?" "Let me be absolutely clear," ...

When you pick up a newspaper and see American cops wading into a riot of American kids, in your gut, which side do you cheer for? You don't know anything more than what the picture shows. Who gets your sympathy? Me, I'm for the cops. It doesn't mean I won't change my mind if I read something in the accompanying article that says the rioters were right. But on first impression, I'm on the side of law and order. Walk around your office, ask your colleagues: "rioters or cops?" The results might be interesting. I think this might be ...

Big companies with an eye on fat profits rather than potential foes are the force behind U.S. plans to develop a Star Wars-style missile defense system, a Russian general said in an interview published on Wednesday. Major-General Vladimir Dvorkin, who heads Russia's strategic missile research institute, also told the military Krasnaya Zvezda that U.S. arguments why Washington should breach the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty simply did not wash. Dvorkin reiterated Russia would respond if the United States deployed a missile defense system against what Washington sees as a threat from so-called rogue states. But he said Moscow believed diplomacy could ...

Are the police in Seattle using excessive and unwarranted force against protestors? Vote!

It has been more than two and a half decades since the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision opened the floodgates to abortion in America. Since then, the abortion industry has developed a number of different methods—chemical and surgical—to destroy a developing child. This paper is designed to serve as a reference, briefly defining and explaining the different methods of abortion used at each point in pregnancy. First-Trimester Abortions Two prominent types of surgical abortion are performed in the first-trimester: suction-aspiration and dilation and curettage (D&C). Suction-aspiration is the most common surgical method used in first-trimester abortions. In a ...

The Times & Free Press on Wednesday, December 1, 1999 12-Step TennCare Reform Plan Unveiled By JOHN COMMINS Nashville Bureau NASHVILLE -- Gov. Don Sundquist on Tuesday unveiled a 12-point plan that he said will put TennCare more in line with commercial insurance plans and disprove critics who say the $4.3 billion program is driving Tennessee's fiscal crisis. TennCare will be closed to everyone but Medicaid-eligible adults and children while state officials verify the status of TennCare's 500,000 uninsured and uninsurable enrollees. "We are going to try to fix TennCare, but it will not produce the savings some people expect," ...

Late on Tuesday evening in Seattle, such a commotion in the street. Someone declared the end of globalism, broke a window, and someone's head got beat. Who cares if CNNMSNBCFOXNEWS and all of the rest of the phony cable news channels did not have the guts to cover the globalism riots in Seattle in real-time. They're yesterday's way. Late-century frauds that will get washed away like a bad nightmare in morning light. [Didn't the same channels go live -- for hours -- to a Seattle shooting episode last month? That story was on message, I suppose. GEMURDOCHTURNER like shootings, don't ...

Was it a Freudian slip? Was it a gaffe? Or was it President Clinton finally being honest about something for the first time in his life? I refer to the statement he made yesterday with regard to the Panama Canal transfer to a group of reporters in the Oval Office before leaving for the West Coast. Here it is, folks. Hold on to your hats -- especially all of you people who scoffed when I began telling you three years ago that THE COMMUNIST CHINESE WERE TAKING OVER THE PANAMA CANAL.

The dominant development model of our time is economic globalization, a system fuelled by the belief that a single global economy with universal rules set by global corporations and financial markets is inevitable. Everything is for sale, even those areas of life once considered sacred. Increasingly, these services and resources are controlled by a handful of transnational corporations that shape national and international law to suit their interests. At the heart of this transformation is an all-out assault on virtually every public sphere of life, including the democratic underpinning of our legal systems. The most important tool in this ...

"I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal," Vice President Al Gore told a Bedford, New Hampshire, high school audience on Tuesday. "I had the first hearing on that issue...." Gore was referring to the 1978 discovery that the Buffalo, New York, suburban neighborhood had been poisoned by toxic waste, causing its residents to abandon their homes. The Vice President contended that twenty-one years ago a local high school student had written to him about the problem and, prompted by that letter, Gore took the lead in making Love Canal an environmental cause celebre. There's just ...

Drudge's Nat. Enq. story is that the Clintons will divorce.

Gay Pamphlet Distorts Facts, Family Groups Say (CNSNews.com) - A pamphlet by prominent medical, mental health and educational organizations asserting there is no evidence to suggest homosexuality is abnormal or unhealthy distorts important facts and ignores others, family advocacy groups told CNSNews.com. "I can't think of a better argument for school choice than this pamphlet," Janet Parshall, spokeswoman for the Family Research Council, told CNSNews.com. The Just the Facts Coalition, representing the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Education Association, the American Psychological Association and several other prominent groups, mailed the pamphlet to the heads of 15,000 public school districts ...

The man who steered President Clinton's impeachment hearings said Tuesday the "tragedy" in the situation is that Clinton could have been one of the "great presidents in history." U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde, the Wood Dale Republican who as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee presided over the impeachment hearings, said Clinton was saved from utter disgrace by a "very pro-Clinton media" that failed to give the public all the facts. "The idea wasn't that Clinton was so good he was deserving of our support, but that the religious right would win (if he were impeached)," said Hyde, who talked about ...

HI, Perhaps you can give me some help (no flames, please!) I teach an enviromental engineering class from a mechanical engineering perspective, for the first time, starting this January. I need some Freeper help. Any articles, sites, etc., you can give which debunks much of the nonsense which is out there would be appreciated. As this is a rigorous class, I will need references. Specifically: 1) Old predictions from the 70s gone wrong (The coming Ice Age!) 2) The EPA (or whichever org it was) that fudged the statistics on second hand smoke. 3) The case where PCBs were found ...

Local School District Successfully Offers Bible Studies (CNSNews.com) - Thanks to the individual donations of local community and business leaders, public school students in Chattanooga, Tennessee have the option to study Bible history as a social studies elective. However, the program funded by the independent Public School Bible Study Committee since 1922 has only one real problem - it's so popular that the committee's $750,000 annual budget can't keep up with the demand for the courses throughout the Hamilton County unified school district, which includes Chattanooga. "In 1997, for the first time, we had to turn down five principals who ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Several Supreme Court justices expressed doubts today about whether the Food and Drug Administration can regulate tobacco as a drug and crack down on cigarette sales to minors. Solicitor General Seth Waxman asked the court to let the FDA regulate tobacco because the nicotine it contains is a ``highly addictive'' substance that acts as a stimulant, a sedative, an appetite suppressant and is used to feed smokers' addictions. But tobacco industry lawyer Richard M. Cooper insisted the government's 1996 decision to regulate tobacco was ``lawless'' because cigarettes are not promoted as having effects on health. Justice Sandra ...

The American Civil Liberties Union - representing two homosexual couples - is suing the state of Utah over a new rule that prevents unmarried couples from adopting children. Regardless of sexual orientation, do you think unmarried couples should be able to adopt children? Yes No Not Certain Take the poll here.