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In the early 1990s, the owners of the major league baseball teams held a meeting in Denver. Jerry McMorris, the owner of the new Colorado Rockies, decided to host a lunch not at a restaurant near the meeting site, but at a country club in suburban Castle Rock. It was a mistake. The men who own major league baseball teams are imperious types, with the attention span of a 4-year-old. They are not used to being herded onto buses for long drives. Worse, this bus got lost; the driver circled round and round. The mood on the bus got ugly. ...

Keyes is a guest on CNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews tonight, right now after Al Sharpton (at least in the Pacific time zone). Check local listings for times and repeats.

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(Clinton blamed for 'transparent, politically motivated' prosecution) . Next Monday's hearing in the Linda Tripp "interception" case will be a pivotal event in what is widely regarded as a politically motivated prosecution of the person who blew the whistle on Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Tripp's defense lawyers and Maryland prosecutors will be in court to argue over the famous audiotape made by Tripp of her conversation with Monica Lewinsky. If the judge rules that the tape cannot be used by the prosecution -- immunity promised explicitly by former Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's office -- the Maryland case against Tripp ...

Media silence on Panama Canal No, it's not just that the butchers of Beijing are on the verge of taking over the most strategic and valuable piece of real estate in the Western Hemisphere. That would be bad, of course. But what really worries me is that Americans remain asleep to the dangers this development portends for them. They are asleep because the media dare not awake them. Worse yet, though, it's not just poor news judgment, I fear, that keeps the press silent -- even in the face of President Clinton's admission last week that the Chinese will ...

The Neal Boortz Show Friday Funch Bunch from Friday, December 3, 1999. That's me in the center. From left to right are JoAnn Pflug (Lt. Dish from "Mash"), Lynn Russell of CNN and Georgia Representative Bob Barr. We had all just finished a pile of Mexican food from Gringos. Hence the expressions. BACK TO BOORTZ!

There has been a lot of criticism about how FOX NEWS lied about the financial health of the Keyes Campaign. The NEWS stated that Keyes was in debt. The Keyes campaign must be in debt or it is unethical. The Keyes campaign has not paid its State Chairman in Iowa his monthly salary since May. Why? The Keyes campaign tells him that they don't have the money that they contractually agreed to pay him! How could a viable campaign not have $1800/month to pay their full-time Iowa Staffer???? No wonder the State Chairman in Iowa resigned on November 29th....he knows ...

There has been a lot of criticism about how FOX NEWS lied about the financial health of the Keyes Campaign. The NEWS stated that Keyes was in debt. The Keyes campaign must be in debt or it is unethical. The Keyes campaign has not paid its State Chairman in Iowa his monthly salary since May. Why? The Keyes campaign tells him that they don't have the money that they contractually agreed to pay him! How could a viable campaign not have $1800/month to pay their full-time Iowa Staffer???? No wonder the State Chairman in Iowa resigned on November 29th....he knows ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. A few words, if you will, on the feud between George W. Bush and a guy named Zack. Briefly, it seems that Zack -- Exley is his surname -- has a Web site (who doesn't these days?) that takes some pointed potshots at the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. The site (www.gwbush.com) looks official enough that you might mistake it for the candidate's official Web posting ...for maybe about five seconds. Then you realize that Exley, a 29-year-old computer guy from Boston, has actually put together an acidic parody accusing ...

Subject: COA Introduction and update for donors Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 11:09:02 -0800 From: Brian Puckett ( guns1776@earthlink.net ) To: Brian Puckett ( guns1776@earthlink.net ) Ladies and Gentlemen You are receiving this email because you have either contacted me regarding Citizens of America, or regarding the civil disobedience statement I wrote titled “Why I WILL NOT Obey California’s Gun Registration Edict”, or related items. I imagine every one of you would like to REVERSE the current anti-gun campaign led by the federal government, the communications media, and several state governments. YOU CAN HELP DO THIS--- IN ONE OF THE ...

An FBI Man's View of Waco By Gary Aldrich Human Events December 10, 1999 Sen. Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.) is quietly conducting a special Senate Judiciary subcommittee probe of the Justice Department's handling of the siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., on April 19, 1993. But if Specter wants to get at the whole truth about Waco, he cannot stop at the Justice Department. He must trace the political chain of command for this tragedy right back to where the buck is supposed to stop-the Oval Office. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who were at Waco say ...

Senator chairs panel that oversees communications; adviser works at company WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain, whose presidential campaign rails against special-interest influence, raised $10,000 from AT&T executives soon after introducing legislation that would make it easier for the phone giant to expand further into the cable TV business. McCain's bill would take away the Federal Communications Commission's power to approve telecommunications mergers, eliminating one of the two regulatory hurdles facing such industry deals. He introduced the legislation less than three weeks after FCC Chairman Bill Kennard said in May that AT&T's proposed takeover of cable company MediaOne "warrants very ...

Lack of shelters for Y2K worries Red Cross Wednesday, December 8, 1999By Tom GromakJOURNAL STAFF WRITER Red Cross officials worry local residents won't have enough places to find shelter should a Y2K disaster hit Genesee and Lapeer counties. The organization's local chapter is scrambling to find sites to be used as emergency shelters for people who lose power, water or heat if there is a major utility failure in the new year. "We're not prepared if the whole county goes out. We don't have enough shelters if all of Lapeer and Genesee counties go out," said Red Cross official ...

Yugoslav Army Blocks Montenegrin Airport By Alen Mlatisuma Associated Press Writer PODGORICA, Yugoslavia (AP) - The Yugoslav army Wednesday moved heavy trucks onto a runway of the main Montenegrin airport and banned all civilian flights, raising tensions between federal authorities under President Slobodan Milosevic and the independence-minded republic. The main runway at the Podgorica airport was blocked at around 5 p.m. and all commercial flights were canceled by Yugoslav authorities "because of security reasons," said Drago Milanovic, the director of the airport. Milanovic said he hoped that "the problem" will be solved by Thursday, when Montenegro's two airports - ...

In a flight of utter fantasy, I have decided to challenge the sitting VPOTUS to debate the weighty issues of the day this Thursday in Davenport. The offer to debate shouldn't leave anything but a oilstain in Mr. Gore's road to the White House. After all he's a professional politician. He's poised and perfected. Yet, I suspect that the results of my challenge will yield the same results as the last time Mr. Gore and I exchanged pleasantries. I'll have to remind him of our last encounter to get him to accept this challenge. This rare opportunity comes from a ...

Tuesday, December 07, 1999Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Ain't no time to wonder why ... Peacekeepers now see bonfire at the end of tunnel.      The skeptics were right.       The NATO press briefings insisted it was vital for the United States and her allies to launch an air war against Serbia, to stop the Serbian genocide of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.       Why, the Serbs had already murdered more than 10,000 Muslim Albanians, the NATO press briefing officers declared -- with estimates sometimes soaring to as many as 100,000 bodies in "mass graves."       Of course, it now turns out ...

Waves of discontent shake China's leaders Kevin Platt (plattk@csps.com) Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BEIJING, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1999 -- China's Communist leaders control the world's largest army and paramilitary force, but they sometimes act as if they are under siege - perhaps with some reason. Growing waves of laid-off workers, landless peasants, and persecuted religious groups are taking to the streets. So last week, "200 ... top police, paramilitary, and Army leaders met in Beijing to plan and orchestrate a clampdown," says Frank Lu, who heads Hong Kong's Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in ...

Political Commentary: BRADLEY ATTACKS ON GORE CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING On Monday, November 22, 1999, former Senator Bill Bradley fired serious charges of campaign duplicity at Vice President Al Gore. Senator Bradley resurrected the spectre of Clinton-Gore's questionable and unethical 1996 "soft money" fund-raising tactics. He accused the White House of making a secret handshake deal with Congressional Republicans to let campaign finance reform legislation die. In my opinion, Bill Bradley's charges are based on strong evidence. But this is not the first time the former New Jersey Senator has raised these issues. In 1996, Bradley wrote an op-ed piece, criticising Clinton ...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Wednesday December 8, 4:20 PM 'Hillary Shuns Homeless' Video Rescheduled for Tonight After a day of wrangling between Fox New Channel and the producers of "Feed", a documentary featuring videotape of Hillary Clinton shunning a homeless man, the network obtained permission to air the controversial Clinton footage Wednesday night. Sean Hannity, co-host of FNC's "Hannity & Colmes", told NewsMax.com Wednesday morning that legal considerations forced postponement of the tape's broadcast last night but that negotiations were still ongoing. An hour into his WABC afternoon radio show, Hannity had ...

From a report by the Direct Action Medical Collective, one of the groups that provided first aid during the Seattle demonstrations. KIRK JAMES MURPHY, MD: Individuals exposed to chemical weapons in the late afternoon and evening of December 1st at two locations downtown blocks adjacent to Pike Place Market and the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill evinced and reported a pattern of symptoms which is inconsistent with the pattern of symptoms which may be ascribed to irritating agents. This "atypical" pattern of symptoms includes the rapid onset of: mydriasis (pupillary dilation) with resultant impairment of visual acuity; tachycardia (rapid ...