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A confidential Justice Department report on the mysterious 1995 death of a federal inmate concludes the FBI's Oklahoma City field office mishandled physical evidence and recommends that four Justice Department employees be prosecuted for lying, a small Arkansas newspaper reported. The report on Kenneth Michael Trentadue's death, prepared by the Justice Department's inspector general's office, allegedly contains grand jury material and is considered so confidential the local FBI office was denied a copy. Nevertheless, the Arkansas Chronicle, a small Arkansas publication that caters to that state's Latino community, reports it got a copy Nov. 19. The Chronicle contends the ...

For those interested in returning the power of the people to control their own money instead of relying on the 'graciousness' of Washington to allow them to keep a portion of it, I have the following recommendations: 1) vote for Alan Keyes for president. In my opinion, he seems to be the only candidate who has bothered reading the Constitution, knows of our country's history and is willing to follow the examples. 2) There are two online petitions at e-thepeople.com that call for the repeal of the 16th amendment and the end of the income tax. I recommend that anyone ...

For those interested in returning the power of the people to control their own money instead of relying on the 'graciousness' of Washington to allow them to keep a portion of it, I have the following recommendations: 1) vote for Alan Keyes for president. In my opinion, he seems to be the only candidate who has bothered reading the Constitution, knows of our country's history and is willing to follow the examples. 2) There are two online petitions at e-thepeople.com that call for the repeal of the 16th amendment and the end of the income tax. I recommend that anyone ...

Legislation signed Monday by President Clinton means the Oklahoma City National Memorial is just $3.2 million away from its $29.1 million goal for construction and operational costs. The memorial group benefited from $5 million set aside to help pay for an anti-terrorism institute and research center as part of the national monument honoring victims of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. The attack resulted in 168 deaths. The legislation also includes $10 million to fund research programs and symposiums. Also included is $866,000 for memorial operations between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30 -- the end of the federal ...

Twas the day after debates and all through FR all the trolls came a-running from a-near and a-far Keyes whipped all the others So the mission was clear Slime the man and his message We can't wait till next year So they fired up their keyboards Spewing words vile and crass A new crop of posters With their heads up their ass On Eschoir the amphibian! And dumb massa bush! On Yanni! On Chocise! With brains full of mush! They posted and ranted But nobody was fooled By the end of the day Alan Keyes, he still ruled So go ...

WASHINGTON- Waking up to the sunlight was difficult for Patrick Kennedy this morning after he spent the night in a Washington D.C. jail cell. Young Kennedy was incarcerated and charged with indecent exposure after he took off his shirt during a touch football game at a local park. The police report indicates that some women in the vicinity became ill while children who were playing nearby were frightened and ran away. Bailing the congressman out of jail was his boss, Dick Gephardt. "I just hope Pat has learned his lesson," Gephardt said." Some people should never take their shirts ...

President Clinton and Communist China insist it's merely for weather forecasts. Critics say the incredibly faster supercomputer may also be used to target nuclear warheads. What they are talking about is the latest, top-of-the-line high-speed computer, IBM's fastest, one of the world's finest. ABCNEWS.com is reporting the Clinton administration has just approved "an unprecedented proposal" that would permit China to import that IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer. It is capable of flashing through 30 billion operations in a single second, 1.8 trillion in a minute. That's a quantum leap beyond the capacity of most high-speed computers previously exported to China - ...

No Signal Yet From Mars Lander PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Radio signals confirming the Polar Lander's touchdown on Mars did not immediately reach Earth as hoped today. Engineers said the $165 million NASA probe was in excellent shape after its 11-month journey and was on course to land on the planet's frigid plains only a few miles west of the absolute target point. The problem could be as simple as a mispointed antenna or as serious as a catastrophic failure during the descent. Scientists hope to learn about Mars' climate by studying layers of dust and possibly ice during the ...

Police detain alleged members of American doomsday cult 4.06 p.m. ET (2118 GMT) December 3, 1999 By Elena Becatoros, Associated Press RAFINA, Greece (AP) — Special security forces rounded up at least 16 suspected members of an alleged American doomsday cult Friday, as part of a larger crackdown on the group before the turn of the millennium. The suspected members of the Concerned Christians — 11 adults and five children — were taken into custody in and around the seaside town of Rafina, 15 miles east of Athens. All those detained were U.S. citizens with expired resident permits, police said. ...

Why we are fighting in Chechnya There is probably not a political leader in the world who has not taken an interest in the events unfolding in Northern Ireland in recent months. In Moscow we were hoping that Senator Mitchell's efforts would produce a permanent resolution to a conflict which has plagued Britain and Ireland for the past 30 years. The people of Northern Ireland now appear to have a way forward. The Russian people, myself included, hope that their political leaders will turn the dream of a lasting peace into reality. There are those who would say, given ...

(CNSNews.com) - What's good for heterosexuals is good for homosexuals, too, says a group behind a petition drive to put a same-sex marriage amendment on California's November 2000 ballot. The organizers of the petition drive call themselves "Californians for a Same Sex Marriage." They hope to collect a million signatures in a petition drive that begins Friday, December 3. That million-signature goal is well over the 670,000 signatures required for proposed amendments to the California constitution. Surprisingly, the group expects most of its support to come from heterosexuals and churches. Tom Henning, a co-founder of Californians for Same Sex marriage, ...

Schroeder, Blair Clash Before Summit 2.46 p.m. ET (1958 GMT) December 3, 1999 BERLIN — Britain and Germany went toe to toe on Friday over a proposed European tax, setting up an ill-tempered showdown when European Union leaders meet for a summit in Helsinki in a week's time. Caught in the cross-fire was the already tottering European currency, the euro, which lost ground to the dollar and pound. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told the German parliament Britain was damaging the European Union by stubbornly refusing to impose a tax on investment income at source which Berlin says would help stamp ...

18:12 A group of Albanians stoned four busses on the line Belgrade-Gracanica near the village of Prugovac, Kosovo. All four busses were completely ruined, although no casualties were reported. KFOR officials said that they did not intervene since "it is the drivers' duty to take care of the security of passengers".

That big tax-cut plan unveiled by George W. Bush the other day must be a good one -- everybody hates it. The Clinton-Gore crowd ripped Bush's plan in predictable fashion, deriding it as "risky." To these people, anything that might restrain the government's confiscation of the people's money is a "risky tax scheme." You can understand their alarm, considering their unwavering belief that taxpayers can't be trusted to spend their own money -- that only government is capable of making responsible choices regarding the disposition of citizens' hard-earned dough. And while the liberal tax-and-spenders blasted Bush's plan as too reckless ...

November 16: It's time to take on the BATF! Here's what NAR President Mark Bundick needs you to do to help! Help Us Fight Oppressive Regulation (November 26 addendum:View the full history of our interactions with the BATF to the present.) Mark Bundick         I need your help to win our battle against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Many of you have been extremely interested in helping NAR fight unnecessary regulation of high-power rocketry (HPR). Finally, the time has come that there's a role for you to play. It's not glamorous. It won't take any volunteer effort. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 1999 Contact: Joe Giganti (202) 646-5172 THE JUDICIAL WATCH REPORT SCHEDULED GUESTS INCLUDE WND EDITOR JOSEPH FARAH, COLUMNIST NAT HENTOFF AND AUTHOR & ORTHODOX RABBI DANIEL LAPIN (Washington, D.C.) On this week's broadcast of The Judicial Watch Report, Larry Klayman & Tom Fitton will have as their guests WorldNetDaily.com Editor Joseph Farah, columnist Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice and The Washington Post and Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Author of America's Real War. Every week The Judicial Watch Report presents a fresh, balanced and non-partisan perspective of the goings-on inside the beltway, as it brings ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Media hordes converged on the plush studios of television station WMUR Wednesday night to witness the first debate featuring all six Republican presidential candidates, including (gasp!) front-running Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Before any of us could even catch a glimpse of Bush, however, or even of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has suddenly reached a statistical dead heat with Bush in local polls, or quintillionaire publisher Steve Forbes, who has slowly been unloading a barrage of negative ammo against Bush, a surprise presidential candidate and outspoken pro wrestler (!) suddenly emerged to provide us with ...

PUBLIC INTERESTS / GAIL COLLINS Flash-Frozen G.O.P. MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The Republican presidential debate last night was awesome. George W. Bush chained himself to the podium to protest a rule banning use of consultants on stage, while Steve Forbes, who was dressed up as a giant turtle, attacked Captain Nemo's Fast Food Fish Fry restaurant in downtown Manchester . . . Stopstopstopstop. Sorry, we've gotten the debate mixed up with the far more eventful World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. All that excitement over something that used to be called GATT has given the presidential campaigns new hope. If people ...

[Music - Die Fledermaus] Good afternoon, Kaya Oraaa & welcome to the Politically Incorrect Show on the free speech network, Radio Pacific, for Thursday December 2, proudly sponsored by Neanderton Nicotine Ltd., the show that says bugger the politicians & bureaucrats & all the other bossyboot busybodies who try to run our lives with our money; that stands tall for free enterprise, achievement, profit, & excellence, against the state-worshippers in our midst; that stands above all for the most sacred thing in the universe, the liberty of the human individual. [Music up, music down!] Seldom have so many of ...

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