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WASHINGTON - Is Hillary Rodham Clinton, candidate for the U.S. Senate, clueless? This is the hard, relentless indictment presented in a new book on the first lady entitled "Hillary's Choice."By author Gail Sheehy's account, the woman now networking her merry way from the White House to the Capitol is blind to all that stands in her path.The rap sheet of Clinton's oblivion never seems to end. She didn't know about Gennifer Flowers until the president told her last year. She didn't know about Monica Lewinsky, didn't know that Webb Hubbell was stealing from her law firm, never spotted that ...

Might the British be about to lose their marbles? President Clinton seemed to hope so last month when he joined in the fighting between Greeks and British over the “Elgin Marbles,” a collection of Greek marble statues currently on display in London’s British Museum. The 2,500-year-old monuments were acquired by the 7th earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, in the early 1800s, and the British government later bought them outright for 35,000 pounds sterling. Greece wants its artifacts back and has been asking for them for years. No word on whether they would like to give the descendants of the earl ...

New York, New York, a wonderful town. The Bronx still is up and the Bowery’s down, but now the streets are clean. Pedestrians say “excuse me” when they bump into you on the sidewalk. The sense of menace is gone. Three days of walking the streets of downtown Manhattan and I encountered only four aggressive weirdos, beggars and/or homeless people. One was sleeping in a doorway, another in a cardboard box; one glassy-eyed bum was trying to sell me a small clay bowl he said he had hand-painted himself, and one punch-drunk kook on the subway was throwing his fists ...

The Boy From Cuba By William Raspberry Friday, December 10, 1999; Page A47 A Canadian mother, in a frantic attempt to find a better life, leaves her husband behind, takes their small child and hitchhikes her way across the border to the United States and hope. But she doesn't make it. The trucker who gave the tattered pair a ride misses a turn and goes careening down a steep hillside. Only the child survives. Canadian and U.S. authorities are locked in a dispute over whether the child should be given over to the care of relatives in Pennsylvania or returned ...

Born to Run By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 10, 1999; Page A47 What did Bill Clinton think he was doing in Seattle last week? He invites leaders from all over the world to a new round of talks on lowering trade barriers. They find themselves besieged by anti-trade demonstrators: environmentalists, protectionists, anarchists, lunatics. The president-host then shows up--and makes the demonstrators' case! Startling his own negotiators (and pleasing Big Labor), Clinton goes way beyond the official U.S. position about tacking environmental and labor standards onto tariff talks. He declares publicly that he favors imposing sanctions on countries that violate such ...

December 10, 1999 PUBLIC INTERESTS / By GAIL COLLINS The Book on George W. During his first presidential debate, George W. Bush volunteered that he was reading a book about postwar international policy. It is possibly a bad sign that we now feel compelled to examine what he meant by "read." Our leading Republican candidate has been plagued by speculation that he's not all that deep a thinker. "I read books all the time," he told the debate audience in New Hampshire, a tad defensively. "I'm reading a book on Dean Acheson right now." Aides said the book in question ...

Rivers of Invective Joan Rivers almost lost her lunch Tuesday when Hillary Clinton was the surprise speaker at a Mount Sinai Medical Center fund-raising luncheon. The comic went on her radio show the same day to call our First Lady "a liar" and another word "that starts with C [that] I can't even get to." Rivers tells us she's "furious" because she was told Hillary would not be speaking, but merely a guest for the afternoon at the Waldorf. "I wanted to make sure this was not a political event," Rivers, a Giuliani supporter, told us. "But then we're told ...

The conservative Media Research Center (MRC) held its Dishonors Awards dinner last night at The Washington Monarch Hotel in the District of Columbia with a sell-out audience of approximately 400 supporters.Conservative notables gathered from near and far to pay "tribute" to the recipients of the MRC's awards to those in the media who have demonstrated "The Decade's Most Outrageous Liberal Media Bias."FReepers in attendance were: holdonnow; Lurker No More !; Exit 148; A Great Per; Ironman; Angelwood; and Kristinn.Other luminaries in the conservative spectrum attending were: William F. Buckley; Michael Reagan; Lynn Nofziger; Reed Irvine; Larry Klayman; Tom Fitton; Gary ...

Shed a tear for poor George W. Bush. The man can’t get anything right. First it was his fund raising. Every morning when he went out to get the paper, he had to rake 20-dollar bills off his lawn. Perfect strangers were driving by at all hours of the night to throw money at the house. From all the commotion this caused, you might have thought the neighbors were complaining about the greenback litter. His phenomenal success in collecting money to run for president was naturally taken to be a sign of weakness, proof that people only gave him ...

ALAN KEYES RESPONDS TO A QUESTION DURING DEBATE IN PHOENIX ( Reuters News Pictures Service ) JEFF MITCHELL; 12-07-1999 POLITICS-DEBATE:PHOENIX,ARIZONA,6DEC99 - Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes responds to a question during the Arizona Republican Prmary debate in Phoenix, December 6. jt/Photo by Jeff Mitchell REUTERS

Something happened this early December, 1999. FreeRepublic member posters, "rolled up their sleeves" for several days and nights by rallying to create a better FreeRepublic. Donations by many fine people from all the #1-#5 threads stands at about $5K with more individual contributors ever on any previous fund drive. What this means is that caring people intend to keep FR on-line. BADJOE, who initiated this and many other FR fund drives, deserves a big applause for his methodical work! Thanks BADJOE for ensuring we have a high quality, full featured place to post. Without WillaJohns,Topaz,dalereed and chuck allen -- the ...

BEDFORD, N.H.—Certain questions come up in town meetings year after year, primary after primary. Taxes. Education. Abortion. Health care. This was one rarely put into words: A supporter of Texas Gov. George W. Bush rose to ask--in the nicest possible way, hemming and hawing and obviously uncomfortable--whether Bush is, you know, well . . . dumb. "Intellectually curious" was the gentle phrase the man used. But Bush did not miss the point of the question. "They're saying I'm not, uh, very smart," he said, and the audience in Bedford's whitewashed old Town Hall laughed. Was it a nervous laugh? ...

In 2000, for which Republican candidate will you most likely vote? Gary Bauer 311 1.4% George W. Bush 9867 43.5% Steve Forbes 1772 7.8% Alan Keyes 1133 5.0% John McCain 3933 17.3% I won't vote Republican 5684 25.0% Total votes: 22700 In 2000, for which Democratic candidate will you most likely vote? Bill Bradley 5072 22.9% Al Gore 3926 17.7% I won't vote Democratic 13123 59.3% Total votes: 22121 Now that Pat Buchanan is officially seeking the nomination of the Reform Party, are you more or less inclined to consider voting for him? More inclined 1961 8.6% Less inclined ...

Related Articles Ticketmaster Sues Again Over Links (August 10, 1999) Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure. (August 6, 1999) In issuing a preliminary injunction on Monday, Judge Tena Campbell of the United States District Court in Salt Lake City said it was likely that the critics, Sandra and Jerald Tanner, had engaged in contributory copyright infringement when they posted the addresses of three Web sites that they knew, or should have known, contained the copies. The copyrighted material was the text of the Church Handbook of Instructions, a limited-distribution book that enables lay clergy to administer the ...

December 9, 1999 Russian Public Opinion Edges Toward Peace In Chechnya By Sophie Lambroschini The perception that virtually all Russians support the harshest military actions against Chechnya may be an exaggeration. In polls made public this week by the respected All-Russian Center for Public Opinion (VTSIOM), about half of respondents said they oppose an all-out war. Almost one in five Russians surveyed (17 percent) say they are against the war if it costs too many soldiers' lives. And close to half (45 percent) say they think they would support peace negotiations if the idea were proposed by Prime Minister Vladimir ...

Thursday December 9, 10:08 AM Clinton Christmas Traditions NewsMax.com has yet to receive its White House holiday missive, but reportedly the card the Clintons are sending out this year reads: "Our family wishes you and yours a blessed holiday season filled with treasured memories of past traditions and joy and peace in the new millennium." Signed, Bill and Hill, complete with an embossed presidential seal. Treasured memories of past traditions? Earlier this year, "First Partner" author Joyce Milton revealed one especially unique Christmas tradition that Bill particularly enjoyed: "It was no secret to the press corps that a number ...

ONE MAN’S OPINION Darrell Scott Our Greatest Need Darrell Scott is the father of Rachel Joy Scott, one of the students murdered at Littleton, Colorado’s Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Mr. Scott’s son, Craig, miraculously survived the massacre, but witnessed as two of his friends were shot to death in the school library. On May 27th, Mr. Scott testified in Washington, DC before the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Judiciary Committee. Following is his statement: Since the dawn of creation there have been both good and evil in the hearts of men and of women. We ...

Attorneys for Branch Davidian survivors suing the government in a wrongful-death lawsuit have declined to nominate experts to participate in a court-ordered test of the FBI's infrared imaging technology. U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. has ordered a re-creation of the final day of the 1993 siege at Mount Carmel to determine whether flashes picked up by a Forward Looking Infrared, or FLIR, camera indicate gunfire. The re-creation was requested by both the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) and the Davidian survivors. The plaintiffs have argued that shots were fired that may have prevented Davidian members from ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nineteen states shipped billions of dollars more to Washington then they got back in aid and services, according to a report Thursday. Generally, states in the Northeast and around the Great Lakes, along with California and Nevada, were the biggest losers. Southern states fared the best. The 23rd annual Federal Budget and the States report was prepared by economists at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. It analyzed data from fiscal 1998. Herman Leonard, one of the authors, said states that did the best tended to be lower-income states where residents did not pay ...

Philip vs. Ryan showdown looms on gun law By Rick Pearson Tribune Political Writer December 10, 1999 Illinois Senate President James "Pate" Philip said Thursday that a controversial provision in the Safe Neighborhoods Law, which made illegal possession of a firearm a felony, should not be restored next week when legislators try to put the law back into the state statutes. The General Assembly has been called back to Springfield to re-enact the law, which was ruled unconstitutional last week by the Illinois Supreme Court. But the DuPage County Republican's vehement opposition to the provision could drag out what some ...