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(snip) Hillary Clinton, whose "I intend to run" two weeks ago was clearly ambivalent in tone (her qualification was truncated mid-sentence by a mad rush of hysterical lady teachers toward her) is embarking on a trial campaign for which she has no record of concrete achievement and which seems to have no other aim than to snag a comfy post-White House residence and a face-saving reason not to live with bimbo-besotted Bill. Salon reader Steve Story asks, "Is New York in such dire intellectual straits that it must panhandle for leadership?" The people of New York (including my scores of ...

In 1948, the last year Philadelphia hosted a political convention, there was a curious new feature on the floor of Convention Hall: For the first time, a television camera recorded the event. Of course, at the time, very few Americans owned TVs. Within four years, however, there were three national television networks and thousands watching from home. By 1980, networks started broadcasting via satellite. And by 1984, CNN offered 24-hour coverage. But no convention since the early days of television has demonstrated a changing media landscape as dramatically as the one planned for Philadelphia next summer. When the major ...

Inside the Beltway John McCaslin Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, immersed in controversy since presiding over the Clinton-Lewinsky grand jury, has been presented the Judicial Excellence Award at the 128th annual banquet of the D.C. Bar Association. For the judge, the award couldn’t come at a better time. In a unanimous 3-0 vote in mid-September, a federal appeals court panel overturned Judge Johnson’s ruling ordering independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to face criminal contempt proceedings for reported leaks of grand jury information in the Monica Lewinsky probe. After President Clinton walked away a free, but impeached, man, ...

Here are further excerpts from an extensive radio interview of Chip Tatum, a 25 year CIA agent: ------------------------------- T: (AUDIO GAP) in Nicaragua, which pretty well started the Iran-Contra investigations. I flew them into the Contra camp. While we were there, I was given a cooler marked "vaccines," a large cooler. We put it on board the aircraft. I took the vaccine cooler to San Pedro Sula (sp?), as instructed, and I took the two passengers there. They were to get on a C130, or a 123, I don't recall what they were? A: A C130 is that huge ...

The more the West cries foul, the harder the Russians will push. And with a rise in oil prices having boosted the Russian budget, even the IMF threat is unlikely to have much effect on Russia's plans. Western leaders are warning that not only will destroying the Chechen capital and every living thing in it diminish Russia's international standing, but the march on Grozny may have created its own momentum. Russian sources admit there's no military rationale for pressing ahead with an all-out assault on Grozny. From a strategic point of view, it makes more sense to simply lay ...

By Jill Nelson MSNBC CONTRIBUTORDec. 7 —  The response to my recent column, “Men I Would Clone” makes it clear that, like it or not, most of us have passionate feelings about cloning. It was heartening to hear from many readers who have men near and dear to them who they’d put at the top of their list for cloning. One reader wrote that the first man she’d clone would be “...my grandfather, for making me feel so valuable and loved.”   FATHERS, BROTHERS, UNCLES, friends and husbands were nominated by numerous readers, probably more than I know, since the ...

Subject: It is time to vote for OURSELVES Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 23:49:36 -0600 From: "Ron Johnson" (rondo@soltec.net) To: (rondo@soltec.net) I'm sure you have all heard about the latest school shooting here in the USA and today another shooting in a Dutch school. And too, the little trick they are trying to pull on the CHEAPER THAN DIRT (retailer and distributor of sporting goods) folks down in Texas? And let us not forget the little deal out there in California and their gun registration that takes affect Jan. 1, 2000. And on a worldlier note, we also give ...

I put up a thread "Remember Free Republic For Christmas" yesterday. I wasn't getting much response and went to bed dejected. Was I ever surprized this morning. SUPER FREEPERS Willa Johns, Buckeroo. and Topaz took over and caused a blizzard of posts and donations. Willa Johns got the thread moving and helped keep it alive. Buckeroo chimed in with $100 and the pledge to give $5.00 more for every $10.00 or more donation and literally paged every Freeper he knew. Topaz kept track of the pledges and got labled "Bean Counter" I had $1200 in credit card donations in this ...

The Kosovo refugees who gained celebrity with the birth of their child, "Baby Amerikan," but went home with hard feelings about the United States now think leaving was a mistake, a Dallas relative said. Baby Amerikan, the first child of Kosovo refugees born on U.S. soil, has been sick since his embittered parents went back in late September, said the relative, Sheban Murseli. The family, he said, is getting by largely on humanitarian aid, living in the looted remnants of its former home. "They made a mistake, and they're paying for it now," said Mr. Murseli, who helped bring ...

(Written by an Episcopalian Minister in Georgia) As I was making my daily journey to the Post Office the other day, I patiently waited for a car to vacate a parking space near the door. As the rear of the vehicle came toward me, I noticed a bumper sticker which read, in big, bold letters, "THANK ME. I VOTED CLINTON-GORE." Of course, the bumper sticker was printed in response to an earlier sticker which adorned some automobiles some six years ago. Back then, as Presidents Bill and Hillary were attempting to nationalize health care and play havoc with the discipline ...

With the day of reckoning rapidly approaching, all but the hardiest Y2K alarmists have turned tail. Advocates of myriad disaster scenarios are sounding increasingly uneasy about their past pessimistic bleating. It's about time. While there was a date-related problem in many computer programs, the panic outdistanced the likelihood of calamity so much that we reached absurdity in record time. And now the problem, such as it was, is largely fixed. It was, of course, predictable from the start. Mix the millennium, technology and an over-heated economy, and you have instant apocalypse. Just add media. The first mention of the debacle-in-waiting, ...

Masks! By T.V. and Aida Weber (posted 12-5-99) Introduction by Jared Israel The connection between Kosovo and Seattle may seem obscure; I think not. In "Collateral Damage in Seattle" [see note # 1 at end] our reporter argued that the police repeatedly attacked peaceful anti-WTO demonstrators in Seattle to provoke a violent response. The purpose? To provide "newsworthy" images to prove the demonstrators had started the trouble. Our reporter saw the police literally herding demonstrators from place to place, provoking them time and again like a movie director re-shooting the same scene to make sure he got good footage. Over ...

Joseph Farah is editor of WorldNetDaily.com. Matt Drudge had it just about right last weekend in describing the case of premeditated journalcide committed against him by Frank Rich of the New York Times. The New Media star called the opinion hit piece, titled "The Strange Legacy of Matt Drudge," his "obituary." But I've got news for Rich. He isn't worthy of carrying Drudge's laptop. And, no matter what the New York Times thinks, the New Media aren't about to go away and permit the corporate establishment a monopoly on the dissemination of news any more. Rich gives himself away early ...

There's a great old laugh line about self-absorption. The variations are endless, but it basically goes like this: "Oh, please, we've talked enough about me. Let's talk about you. (Pause.) What do you think of me?" And that pretty much describes the give and take among the Republican presidential candidates in Monday night's so-called debate on CNN. The media blasted Thursday's debate because it didn't allow the candidates to ask one another questions. This one did, and the result raised a question for the rest of us: Who cares? The six candidates had zero interest in quizzing one another ...

Whitewater and Castle Grande are the tip of a massive iceberg of Bank Lootings using Land Development as a front. Back in the 1970s a reporter with the IRE from Arizona Mr. Don Bolles was BOMBED in his car. Mr. Bolles DIED 10 days later. This reporter with the Arizona Republic was investigating large scale LAND FRAUD associated with Mobster types and politicians in Arizonia. During this same period over in Houston and Dallas TEXAS massive Illegal Land and Bank fraud schemes were producing 100s of Millions of Dollars in Loot for many Texas Mobsters and their gang of GOVERNMENT ...

Whitewater and Castle Grande are the tip of a massive iceberg of Bank Lootings using Land Development as a front. Back in the 1970s a reporter with the IRE from Arizona Mr. Don Bolles was BOMBED in his car. Mr. Bolles DIED 10 days later. This reporter with the Arizona Republic was investigating large scale LAND FRAUD associated with Mobster types and politicians in Arizonia. During this same period over in Houston and Dallas TEXAS massive Illegal Land and Bank fraud schemes were producing 100s of Millions of Dollars in Loot for many Texas Mobsters and their gang of GOVERNMENT ...

Whitewater and Castle Grande are the tip of a massive iceberg of Bank Lootings using Land Development as a front. Back in the 1970s a reporter with the IRE from Arizona Mr. Don Bolles was BOMBED in his car. Mr. Bolles DIED 10 days later. This reporter with the Arizona Republic was investigating large scale LAND FRAUD associated with Mobster types and politicians in Arizonia. During this same period over in Houston and Dallas TEXAS massive Illegal Land and Bank fraud schemes were producing 100s of Millions of Dollars in Loot for many Texas Mobsters and their gang of GOVERNMENT ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is leading the nation in eliminating problems that result in medical errors, according to the chief physician at the veterans agency. "VA's emphasis upon patient safety and ensuring consistently reliable, high-quality care has already resulted in improvements that meet or exceed national standards," said Acting Under Secretary for Health Dr. Thomas L. Garthwaite. VA has created four Patient Safety Centers of Inquiry to develop innovative solutions to critical challenges in patient safety. Dr. Jim Bagian, a former astronaut and director of VA's National Center for Patient Safety, said, "There ...

Who says violence accomplishes nothing? In four days of destructive protest in Seattle, opponents of the World Trade Organization succeeded in bending U.S. President Bill Clinton to their will. For all the squawks and yells in Seattle about democracy, what really bugs the WTO's opponents is that it is not nearly anti-democratic enough. They want the unelected WTO to function as a true world government, setting not only the rules of international trade, but also setting international labour and environmental standards. And in an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last week, Mr. Clinton knuckled right under: "What we ought to ...

Holocaust Survivor Denounces Anti-Gun Movement Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc. P.O. Box 270143 Hartford, WI 53027 Phone (262) 673-9745 Fax (262) 673-9746 Holocaust Survivor Denounces Anti-Gun movement Unlike many interviews with Holocaust survivors, this one conducted by Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (P.O. Box 270143, Hartford, WI 53027; 262-673-9745; membership $20) with Theodore Haas, a JPFO member and a former prisoner of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, is a clear warning to all freedom loving peoples to keep our guard up against arrogant politicians who are hell bent to create governments that ...