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(CNSNews.com) - ABC News White House Correspondent John Cochran denied a report in Thursday's USA Today that said he is hosting a "dinner party" tonight for Vice President Gore and his wife at the reporter's home and added that he is not "friends" with the couple. Cochran told CNSNews.com, "It is not a party for them. It is a 'working dinner' with them. There was a report that I am a friend of the Gore's. I am not a friend of the Gore's, never have been. I have not seen the Gores in a social setting since some time last ...

PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — The Boy Scouts have rejected a troop that was to have been sponsored by a church, and the pastor says it's because the proposed scout master advocates an end to scouting's ban on gays. In a letter to the United Church of Christ in Petaluma, officials from the Boy Scouts' Redwood Empire Council in Santa Rosa said the Scouts were "not prepared to charter a troop led by Scott Cozza or adult leadership recruited by him.'' The letter did not elaborate on the reason. A call to the council Wednesday night was not immediately returned. Cozza ...

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In his classic study of British soccer violence, Among the Thugs, Bill Buford in one passage describes a group of one supporters being chased by another — and the moment when the rioting begins. It provides some insight into what "protestors" may have been thinking and feeling yesterday in Seattle. It goes on. I was convinced that, having looped around, the momentum would carry us straight into the violence, but it doesn’t. It is a chase, and the chase continues, pressing against this barrier, this threshold, the act of transgression moments away, but no one prepared to undertake it: on ...

A young boy watches TV in his family room. He quickly flips the channel when on one station he hears moans and sees outlines of naked bodies. “What are you watching?” his mother calls out. Even the best parents cannot stop Playboy from invading their home and showing porn to their children. This family doesn’t subscribe to the Playboy channel or anything like it. Yet, Playboy is broadcasting an uninvited sexually explicit or indecent program via signal “bleed” (bleeding is a fuzzy picture with clear sounds). The Supreme Court of the United States will decide this term whether Playboy can ...

Clinton and a bunch of NWO types gathered at Boeing field to sign this treaty. Long speach about ending the horror of child labor from Xlinton.

The True American Way The True American Wayby Thomas John Clark "Of all the things that can be forced upon men; freedom cannot; this each man must take for himself. Freedom being the most precious of commodities; it is not obtained at bargain prices; it is costly; and by Heaven rightfully so. Honor, courage, sacrifice, and vigilance are the coin by which freedom is obtained. A day gone without payment rendered – is a day without freedom." The True American Way, 1st edtion, 4th revision Copyright at common law, 1996 Thomas J. Clark All rights reserved The True American WayTable ...

The commander of China's air force, Lt. Gen. Liu Shunyao, and the nation’s president, Jiang Zemin, have both said this month that the air service will change from a relatively immobile, short-range force, dedicated to defending the air space around its major bases, to a modern military arm capable of projecting power across borders and oceans. This kind of announcement has been made on a predictable basis since 1996, when Liu took command of the air force and the first U.S.-made F-16s were delivered to Taiwan. But in 1999, the well-worn rhetoric was assigned a more sinister meaning by some ...

When Patricia Biernacki-Purvis served in the Persian Gulf, she was 20, healthy, not married, no children - "and invincible to all things." That was back when she was a young woman who loved the outdoors, who hiked, played golf and swam all the time. That was before the joint pains. And the stomach spasms. Thyroid troubles. Rashes. Migraines. Those problems, she believes, are the result of her six months in the gulf in the first half of 1991; then a corpsman in the Navy Reserves, she served at a fleet hospital in Bahrain. It was service that was sometimes ...

You may have thought Dick Morris was finished in U.S. politics. After all, he supposedly allowed a toe-sucking prostitute to listen in on the telephone as he gave advice to President Clinton.      Well, he finally found a new client. Problem is, he’s giving advice in the funny papers.      A tuxedo-clad likeness of the $25,000-a-month consultant is now advising an underachieving, lightly regarded superhero known as “Captain Ribman” — an unlikely cross between Batman and Homer Simpson.     The Ribman comic strip appears in the Kansas City Star and is syndicated online by Tribune Media Services. Strip creators Rich Davis ...

For nearly a decade, a search for answers has consumed the more than 100,000 Persian Gulf War veterans who have reported symptoms tied to the mysterious mixture of ailments that have come to be known as gulf war illness. Tuesday's news that researchers had found signs of brain damage in ailing gulf war veterans is the latest chapter in a medical mystery that first saw the illness largely dismissed as the result of stress. In October, a study concluded a drug used to ward off the toxic effects of nerve gas could be a cause of gulf war illness. ...

Could the mysterious gulf war syndrome afflicting tens of thousands of veterans be contagious? Garth Nicolson believes the answer is yes. Nicolson is a biochemist at the nonprofit Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach, Calif., which he founded to investigate gulf war illness and other chronic conditions. He believes one cause of gulf war illnesses is mycoplasma, an infectious agent he has detected in about 45 percent of the ailing veterans he has tested. "There is a lot of evidence," he said, that this group of veterans is contagious. For example, of 1,200 families of gulf war veterans ...

Pentagon backs an unusual sale in which an ally gets better planes than US pilots fly. WASHINGTON -- In one of the biggest US arms exports since the end of the cold war, a small sheikdom in the Persian Gulf is expected to receive 80 fighter jets with more-advanced technology than in those flown by American pilots. The deal between Lockheed Martin Corp. and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is expected to be final soon, comes as the US government has been loosening export controls to boost a defense industry hurt by a drop in military orders, analysts say. ...

Units Won't Count Resignations Until The Pilots Are Out The Door A New York congressman tells a congressional subcommittee more than two dozen Air National Guard pilots from his state's 105th Airlift Wing have resigned rather than receive anthrax vaccinations. A spokeswoman for the wing says nobody resigned over the shots. Who's telling the truth? Both are -- depending on how you interpret the available information. And such interpretations are sources of many headaches for people on both sides of the military's anthrax controversy. For example, a pilot for the 105th at Stewart Air National Guard Base said that at ...

The approach of Y2K has resulted in some people making changes in their personal and financial lives. (Read the story.) What impact do you think Y2K will have on the US stock market? The market will head sharply lower. The market will be somewhat lower. The market won't change much at all. The market will be somewhat higher. The market will be sharply higher. Not certain. Take the poll here.

Four Congressmen Sought Further Research Of The Controversial Vaccine, But An FDA Spokesman Said It Cannot Be Tested As An Experimental Drug Because It Is Already Licensed. Federal health authorities are refusing a request by four congressmen, including Connecticut Republican Christopher Shays, that they further study the anthrax vaccine as an experimental drug. The congressmen said there is simply not enough scientific data to show the vaccine is safe and effective in protecting humans from biological warfare, or that six doses being used for each service person are required. They said they were also concerned that despite a mandated schedule ...

‘Stop the world, we want to get off!" That could have been the rallying cry of the thousands of protesters who have descended upon Seattle to disrupt the World Trade Organization meeting. As the millennium turns, the Luddites have returned. The Luddite revolt occurred in 1811, an action -- led, so the story goes, by one Ned Ludd -- against the English textile factories that had displaced craftsmen in favor of machines. The Luddites destroyed machines in the hope that, with machines gone, businesses would have no choice but to go back to the old ways. But the machines ...

I am posting excerpts..... SUMMER RERUN POSSIBLE Repeat of unrest with GOP in Philly? The tens of thoudands of demonstrators marching in the streets of Seattle this week represent a fromiddable new protest movement likely to make itsel felt at the Republican National Convention here next summer. The protestors, representing a diverse array of groups from right wing protectionists to centrist trade unions to left-leaning environmentalists, have thrown the World Trade organization meeting in the normally laid-back city into turmoil and forced officials to call in state troopers and the National Guard. In tear gas scenes reminiscent of the historisc ...

ARLINGTON, Va. - In a large windowless room of a nondescript office building a few miles from the Pentagon, the war of the future is being waged. The field of battle is several dozen flat-screen computer monitors that show Department of Defense communications. Six screens display selected computer traffic, though one during a recent visit was tuned to the Weather Channel. If fears of a concerted cyber attack on the U.S. military are realized - what Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre has called an "electronic Pearl Harbor" - this room, the Global Network Operations and Security Center, is where ...