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The Pornographer Who Didn't Bark By: Mickey Kaus Posted Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1999 So, Newt Gingrich has been having an affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek for six years--since before the Republican Revolution of 1994. Why didn't Larry Flynt tell us about it when it mattered? You remember: Flynt, the pornographer, and his crack team of snoops were going to blast the lid off the hypocritical Republican Congress that was trying to impeach a president over sex, etc. Flynt offered up to $1 million in reward money. Yet here one of Flynt's juiciest potential targets was cheating, and Flynt didn't ...

Thatcher launches attack on Euro army BY PHILIP WEBSTER AND TOM BALDWIN BARONESS THATCHER last night fiercely attacked plans for a European defence structure, saying it would threaten Nato and could help to create a European superstate. Speaking in New York, the former Prime Minister exploited American concerns about a European defence identity and accused Tony Blair of reversing Britain's traditional hostility towards such ventures. Lady Thatcher was leading a carefully co-ordinated assault by Tory politicians and defence experts on the next stage of EU development, to be confirmed at the Helsinki summit this weekend. Taking the unusual step ...

400,000 Americans are already in jail for Nonviolent drug crimes. ( ) Thanks to Bush, Texans are now jailed up to a year for even "trace" amounts of cocaine. --Despite the fact that drug treatment programs are the only proven way to cut down on drug use. While in jail they are unlikely to get drug treatment because Bush has slashed the programs. Their children often become wards of the state. Their futures are marred by a drug conviction and jail time. In Texas prisons they are actually more likely than not to contract Hepatitis B or C, both ...

I've been watching the debates.I have decided who I will vote for in the PRIMARIES,as long as there is No further exciting nominees!Without exposing my decision....May I ask who you are voting for!(PRIMARIES ONLY)

Federal Judges' Disclosure Statements Withheld Unusual Action Blocks Publication on Internet Dec. 6, 1999 By Bob Port NEW YORK (APBnews.com) -- In response to a project that plans to make available on the Internet the financial disclosure statements of the nation's 1,600 federal judges, a federal district judge in Florida has barred the release of any of those public records until further notice. At the same time, Judge William J. Zloch of Fort Lauderdale has hurriedly convened a Friday meeting of the 15-member Financial Disclosure Committee of federal judges from around the country to discuss what to do next. Zloch ...

Clinton Begins Congressional Strategy for China WTO 6.37 p.m. ET (2349 GMT) December 7, 1999 WASHINGTON — Anticipating a tough fight, the White House reached out to members of Congress on Tuesday on a strategy for gaining congressional approval of China's entry into the World Trade Organization. White House chief of staff John Podesta and other aides met at the White House with Democratic Rep. Norman Dicks of Washington state and Arizona Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe and other members on how best to gather support for approving permanent normal trade relations with China. Given the protests against free trade ...

Homelessness: An assault that horrified a city last month produces the first big issue in a high-profile contest. By JOSH GETLIN, Times Staff Writer NEW YORK--The homeless issue, all but forgotten in the city's booming revival, has come roaring back in the days since a man smashed a woman's head with a brick on a busy midtown street. It has also become the first hot-button issue in the expected U.S. Senate race between Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Indeed, after months of petty squabbling over tactics and public relations blunders, the horrifying attack on ...

"Not this year: ditch the chicken and cue the voters for a real race with strong candidates" Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I think it's time to retire the chicken. You remember the chicken. It showed up most conspicuously in the 1992 presidential campaign, when a couple of Clinton guys in a bar decided to rent a chicken suit and trail George Bush the elder around, complaining that he was afraid to debate. Unfortunately, the elder actually engaged the chicken itself in heated colloquy while on the stump, and many fowl puns ensued in the press. The decision by ...

Start Spreading the News, Hillary's Packing Today By MARIAN BURROS ASHINGTON -- Between about a dozen holiday parties at the White House, the elaborate plans for the millennium celebration and a full campaign schedule in New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton is sneaking in a little packing. At the annual unveiling of White House Christmas decorations (this year's theme reflects times past), the first lady said today that the timing of her move into the Dutch Colonial house in Chappaqua, N.Y., that she and the president bought for $1.7 million depended on the Secret Service. "I don't know if we'll be ...

try to answer these? Thirty-nine unanswered questions about Y2K: 1. Why is there not a single Fortune 1000 firm that has said, in its 10-Q SEC statement, that it is fully, unequivocally Y2K- compliant? 2. How can an entire industry be deemed "Y2K ready" if no members of that industry are claiming full Y2K compliance? 3. Why is it politically correct for pharmaceutical companies to stockpile life-saving medications but not for a family to do the same thing? 4. How can the U.S. economy not be impacted by major infrastructure failures in countries with which America trades goods and services? ...

How judges fail to police themselves: A case study © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com When was the last time that you heard of a federal judge getting in trouble for allegedly taking bribes, banning a lawyer from his courtroom for expressing his opinion or asking a question, sitting on a case for years as the plaintiff goes under financially, or for that matter making one bad decision after another? The answer is almost never. Federal judges, like lawyers, generally protect themselves. Indeed, federal judges -- who are appointed by the president for life, through a system of political patronage -- have ...

Freepers go to the WH almost every Saturday with no chance of seeing a President. My question is: When is the last time a President of the United States said "Hello" to the general public in FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE???? When was it OK to come out to the West and East Front Gates? Has it ever beem done by a president to say "Hi" to the visiting public? Honestly, I don't have a clue????????? Has it ever been done? My point is this...........A lot of us have gone by the front of the WH. Has there ever been ...

Information on covert drug smuggling by Bush family on a need to know basis, are you feeling the need ?

Sorry, Mom . . . CAUTION!!! ENGAGE CRAPP DETECTORS NOW Socks C. IN AN EXPLOSIVE head-on confrontation with her husband, an irate Hillary Clinton demanded a divorce! Disgusted by the President's ice-cold reaction to her run for the Senate, the long-suffering First Lady insisted that Bill follow her orders and get fully behind her political effort. When Clinton refused to play second fiddle, an outraged Hillary shouted: "You're looking at a divorce, my friend!" Stunned by her searing threat, Clinton went berserk - and the White House has been a bitter battleground ever since, say shocked insiders. An ENQUIRER investigation ...

National Journal December 12, 1998 No Modesty, Please, We're the DLC By: William Schneider -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When a group of moderate, business-oriented Democrats organized the Democratic Leadership Council in 1985, at the peak of the Reagan Revolution, their aim was to change the philosophy of the Democratic Party. They could hardly have imagined, back in those dark days, that 14 years later, the DLC would succeed in changing the country's governing philosophy. But it has. The council emerged from the ashes of a Democratic catastrophe--the 1984 Mondale campaign. The council's goal was to pull the Democratic Party away from the left ...

Hell, No, Uighur Won't Go Western reporting on China's problems with her minorities tends to concentrate on Tibet. The spectacle of a picturesque and eccentric culture (the Younghusband expedition of 1904 found that the Tibetan official they were dealing with bore the title "Grand Metaphysician") being stomped into the dust by a brutish and amoral despotism naturally arouses our sympathy. There is the focusing presence of the Dalai Lama, too; and also the simple fact that Tibet has always had a long border with the Free World, across which thousands of refugees have been able to escape. However, when ...

WASHINGTON –– Former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger on Tuesday joined a chorus of conservatives warning that China may be preparing to assume control of the Panama Canal, a development that he said would imperil U.S. security. It would be illogical for China to "pass up a chance to acquire a major foothold in one of the world's three major choke points – especially if it can be done with little lost or risk," Weinberger said in a statement. He said China already has established a beachhead in Panama through a Hong Kong-based corporation, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which signed a lease ...

The New Democrat Movement New Democrats are the modernizers of the progressive tradition in American politics. We believe in the traditional values that have always propelled the Democratic Party. But we're New Democrats because we believe that the best way to further those values in a new era is to modernize our policies and programs so they keep up with the changing times. New Democrats stand for an amalgam of traditional Democratic values and modern means.Our enduring purpose is equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none. Our public ethic is mutual responsibility. Our core value is community. Our outlook ...

White House Joins Suit on Gun Cos. By ANNE GEARAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is helping prepare a class-action suit against gun makers, alleging that guns and how they are marketed have contributed to violence in public housing projects, administration officials said Tuesday. The class-action lawsuit by some or all of the nation's 3,100 local housing authorities would be patterned on suits filed against the industry by 29 cities and counties, the officials said. Those suits claim that gun manufacturers have sold defective products or marketed them in ways that increase the likelihood that they ...

From the FOX News Channel program guide from 'Hannity and Colmes' tonignt: Tonight's Topics and Guests (Dec. 7, 1999): But He Played One in the Movies... Jesse Ventura under the Microscope: Did the Minnesota governor lie about his military past? Our guest claims to have proof that he was never a Navy Seal. We'll get to the bottom of it tonight on Hannity and Colmes.