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Stopping crime in the new millennium might have a Clintonesque solution: Hire only gorgeous women as cops. This is working in Meatropolis, Captain RibMan's home town: Stopping Crime In The New Millennium

When we refuse to buy the 'otherly-challenged' excuse JewishWorldReview.com -- THREE STATES have figured out a way to increase college admissions for minorities without depending on what has become traditional affirmative action. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has proposed that the top 20 percent of high school graduates be automatically admitted to public colleges and universities, no matter what their SAT scores. In California, the top 4 percent of each high school's graduating class will now automatically get into the University of California system. In Texas, the top-ranking 10 percent of every graduating class are being admitted to any of ...

THE CHRISTMAS TREE STORY Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said, "Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver and precious gems. I could be decorated with intricate carving and everyone would see the beauty." Then the second tree said, "Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world. Everyone will feel safe in me because of the strength of my hull." ...

All Jews are liberals, huh? Welcome to the Jewish GOP pow-wow By Michael Shapiro (JTA) WASHINGTON --- A day before they were to square off in a New Hampshire debate, the six Republican candidates jostling for their party's presidential nomination intensified their courtship of Jewish voters. During Wednesday's daylong event marking the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the candidates delivered speeches to Jewish GOP activists and took some questions from the crowd. After politely listening to the five candidates trailing Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the polls, a standing-room-only crowd of several hundred Jewish ...

Hillary's knee jerks for the homeless http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- A FEW WEEKS AGO, Gov. George W. Bush was tarred and feathered for not knowing the name of the leader of Chechnya -- as if anyone outside the media actually cares. When it comes to the headaches the homeless have caused urban dwellers, Hillary Rodham Clinton is clueless about a real issue. After a woman in midtown Manhattan was hit in the head by a panhandler wielding a 6-pound paving stone -- requiring brain surgery to save her life -- New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Hillary's likely opponent next year) ordered ...

The most interesting soap opera of our time took another twist last week with leaks that, yes, Bill and Hill are really going to divorce. After all the detailed examples piled up by friend and foe alike of a love affair that surpasses all (mis)understanding, the rumour mill now is saying they'll split as soon as their White House years are over. Yesterday, Washington lawyer Jan Schneider, a friend of Hillary's from her days at Yale Law School, confirmed the couple have been living separate lives since the beginning of the Lewinsky scandal. "The White House has 52 rooms. ...

Hillary thumps her Bible http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- NOW, AT LONG LAST, Hillary Clinton has really jumped into the Senate race in New York. Her entrance became official not when she donned that baseball cap, nor when she boasted about knowing where Oneonta is, but when she slammed Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his homeless policy. Speaking to a group of mostly black ministers, Mrs. Clinton dusted off some golden oldies from liberal crusades past. Noting that the mayor has promised to arrest homeless people who decline to take refuge in a shelter or elsewhere, Mrs. Clinton invoked the spirit of the ...

The Clinton administration deserves much of the blame for the collapse of last week's World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Seattle. The ministers' failure to reach an agreement on a new round of trade negotiations represents a tremendous missed opportunity to reform trade-distorting policies. And President Clinton passed up a chance to rebut WTO critics in an increasingly important public-relations battle. The administration failed to get agreement on a preliminary agenda before the meeting. When the preministerial outlook looked grim, U.S. officials scrambled to enlist the attendance of higher-ranking officials from other nations, but it was too little, too late. ...

Why are we so obsessed with 'spin'? http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- TWO MONTHS FROM NOW, New Hampshire voters once again get first pick of the presidential candidates. The rest of us will be asked to watch what happens Feb. 1, then wait our lowly turns when that same batch of fussed-over suits arrives at our local Filene's Basement. The problem with this system is that not all the candidates get marked-down — or marked-up — fairly. Our favorite wins in New Hampshire only to have it intoned by the media that he "failed to meet expectations." By the time our primary ...

The three-month sprint to the Republican presidential nomination began Thursday and continues with another debate tonight. Judging by the opening round, voters don't lack for choices. Our early impression is that the battle is going to be a useful shakedown cruise for whoever earns the prize. Certainly Texas Gov. George W. Bush knows by now he faces a contest and not a coronation. His lead in money and organization still makes him the heavy favorite. But his competitors are serving a purpose by challenging him on both the issues and his record. If he can't run this gantlet, he certainly ...

WASHINGTON -- Andrew Rasiej jingles with new money, and Democrats are reaching into his pockets. As an entrepreneur and founder of a digital-music company, Mr. Rasiej is riding high on the Internet wave. As a political donor, Mr. Rasiej is caught up in a different wave, a drive by the Democratic Party to recruit business support for its push to take back control of the House. Just before Thanksgiving, Mr. Rasiej was host of a luncheon in midtown Manhattan that brought in an estimated $50,000 for House Democrats, most of it from new donors in "Silicon Alley," the city's burgeoning ...

Bradley's homage to a race-baiter http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- BILL BRADLEY LIKES TO TALK about race. He likes to talk about it a lot. He has made it a central theme of his presidential campaign. He describes how his career with the New York Knicks gave him keen insights into racism. He says he became a Democrat because "it was Democrats that stepped forward ... in the Senate and cast their vote for the Civil Rights Act in 1964." (Actually, Republicans voted for the bill en masse while nearly one-third of the Democrats voted against it.) His campaign web site (www.billbradley.com) ...

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WASHINGTON The first rule of trade agreements is that the benefits are widely dispersed, the costs are very concentrated, and the losers are very vocal. Probably no one understands that better than the people who flocked to Seattle last week for the failed start of a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations. Put aside the masked hooligans who trashed downtown Seattle storefronts and the loonies whose placards read "Abolish interest rates." What the WTO, and by extension the Clinton administration, faced were more vested interests than anyone thought imaginable -- all the foes of globalization, and all of them ...

Time.Com Dismisses Dirkhising By L. Brent Bozell III November 15, 1999 The national media made the grisly murder of Matthew Shepard a national issue. With the exception of The Washington Times, the New York Post, and Fox News Channel, they quietly exposed their overwhelming bias in favor of the gay-left agenda by refusing to cover the death of 13- year-old Jesse Dirkhising after he was bound, gagged, and sodomized by two gay men. Now one national media voice has broken the silence. Sadly, what he has to say is a shocking defense of an indefensible double standard. On the Time.com ...

Keyes Goes Kaboom! Have you ever noticed that Alan Keyes and Marvin the Martian sound alike? Those stentorian, pear-shaped, apocalyptic declarations? Marvin is the little alien with the Roman helmet and big tennis shoes in Bugs Bunny cartoons who wants to blow up the earth, kaboom! Mr. Keyes warns of a "howling moral void." Mr. Martian warns of a void. "Brace yourself for immediate disintegration," the alien booms. The wily wabbit always foils Marvin by sneaking off with his Uranium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator. That makes the Martian "very angry, very angry indeed." Candidate Keyes is usually very angry ...

Arrested protesters freed Rally follows release; jail abuse alleged Monday, December 6, 1999By KRISTIN DIZON SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Nearly all the people arrested for protesting the World Trade Organization walked out of jail by late yesterday. They raised fists and shouted "freedom" jubilantly. They cried, hugged friends and strangers, drank water and smiled. And then they spoke.     Ann Donovan, center, listens to a speaker during a vigil last night on Capitol Hill called by residents eager to heal Seattle's wounds. Rick Giase/P-I At a rally in the downtown jail house plaza attended by nearly 200 people, newly released ...

The right to bear arms There's a reason the Founding Fathers considered the right to bear arms fundamental in a free society. A couple of recent unrelated incidents should bring this home to all of us. In Seattle last week, the local government, faced with widespread civil disobedience over the city's hosting of the World Trade Organization conference declared a state of emergency, a curfew and even went so far as to ban the use of gas masks by anyone except police. Now, in case you hadn't considered this before, gas masks are not weapons. They can only be ...

More than 1,000 protesters rallied in Union Square yesterday to denounce Mayor Giuliani's policy toward the homeless, including sweeping them from the streets while insisting they work if they want shelter. "In a word, it's schizophrenic," said Mary Brosnahan, director of the Coalition for the Homeless. "There's no consistency and none of the policies ... are making New York a better place for everyone." But Giuliani insisted his policies would do more to benefit the homeless than anything his opponents have managed. He denied that the city was on a campaign to clear the streets by arresting the homeless. The ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA sounded increasingly gloomy Sunday about the chances of ever contacting the $165 million Mars Global Lander, after mission officials using a different antenna listened in vain for a signal for a third straight day. "Clearly the team is getting more frustrated, certainly, and more tense about all of this," said operations manager Richard Cook. The lander was supposed to have signaled immediately after Friday afternoon's touchdown about 500 miles from the Martian south pole. Instead, several windows of opportunity came and went over the weekend with no sign of life from the unmanned craft. The ever-more ...