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December 10, 1999 State Dept. Now Estimates Serbian Drive Killed 10,000 By PHILIP SHENONASHINGTON -- The State Department estimated Thursday that 10,000 Kosovar Albanians were killed this year in the Serbian campaign to force out the Albanian population, a figure nearly five times larger than the number of bodies unearthed from mass graves. In a report on the toll from the so-called ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, the department also said that 1.5 million Albanians had been expelled from their houses and that more than 2,000 Albanians were in custody in Serbian detention camps. The estimate of deaths is broadly ...

Cop cadet in center of political storm City officials probe acceptance of former extensive drug user to police academy By Kevin Vaughan and Kevin Flynn Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers Denver officials retreated into silence Thursday as they launched a high-level investigation into the appointment of a police recruit with an extensive drug use history. City attorneys briefed the City Council's Public Safety Committee in a secret morning meeting. Afterward, they disclosed that the mayor's office, the city attorney, the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Safety are investigating the hiring of Ellis Johnson. Both the commission ...

Yale Students Develop "Gun Guard" To Keep Children And Loaded Handguns Apart New Haven, Conn. -- A group of Yale students have developed a device called Gun Guard that keeps children under age six from playing with loaded handguns, while still offering protection for gun owners. Designed in a Yale course called "Creativity and New Product Development," Gun Guard is a Velcro band that wraps around the gun. A circuit in a box is attached to the Velcro and contains a speaker equipped with a piercing alarm. When the gun is moved a few degrees up or down, a movement ...

On December 6, 1999, in a rally protesting Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s program dealing with the homeless, Reverend Al Sharpton sharply criticized a member of the Human Resources Administration: "If Jason Turner had come into the barn that night," Sharpton said, "he would have said to the baby Jesus: 'You have been born to two unwedded parents. They don't have an address. They don't have a job. We have to take you in custody and arrest your parents.'"1 For a man reportedly well versed in Biblical studies, this is a sad testament, indeed. For those not familiar with the Biblical account ...

Yesterday was a Great day! About 9am the phones started ringing off the hook. The media had gotten wind of my gun raffle. I was in the Quad-city times as well. Aparently, the story was on the AP and everyone else picked it up from there. The guy from AP was a rude SOB. He badgered my wife with repeated phone calls demanding more info and claiming the raffle was illeagal. I got calls from FOX, MSNBC, WLS-Chicago, and The Wall Street Journal. FOX TV is comming out to my house this morning. My friends, this thing is getting big, ...

As I type this Ken Starr is on C-SPAN being attacked by liberals blaming HIM for WJClintons crimes! So far...only ONE CALL not attacking Starr. Ken Starr is on C-SPAN'S Washington Journal Friday, December 10th from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. ET. Starr will be taking calls from a national audience... CALL NOW!!!!!A Chinese American man just got through and attacked Mr. Starr! 202-624-1115 (conservative line)

WHAT DO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION protesters, President Clinton, and the Microsoft judge have in common? Answer: an almost appalling ignorance of Economics 101.

>> Just one topic today, a special once in a decade event: In a fun evening of joking and frivolity, on Thursday night, December 9, at the Monarch Hotel in Washington, D.C., the Media Research Center presented the "Dishonor Awards for the Decade's Most Outrageous Liberal Bias" culled from the MRC's archive of news video and print publications from the 1990s. Stan Evans of the National Journalism Center emceed the dinner event. Serving as presenters of archival videos of the award nominees as originally seen on television during the past decade: Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, radio talk show host ...

THE Seattle protester wore a Gap sweatshirt that undoubtedly was made somewhere across the globe, under imperfect labor laws. He was perhaps one of the "anarchists" demanding comprehensive governmental regulation of international trade. When his denunciation of globalization took the form of looting a Radio Shack store, he liberated (as was said by his sort in the Sixties) a satellite dish. Analyzing Seattle's end-of-the-century version of the storming of the Winter Palace, The Washington Post's correspondent wrote that proponents of free trade can no longer just tell people that free trade improves workers' jobs and consumers' choices: "It turns out ...

HONOLULU (AP) - The Hawaii Supreme Court has effectively ended the drive to legalize gay marriage in a state once considered one of the most likely to accept same-sex unions. In a ruling Thursday, the court said the effort by homosexual couples was rendered moot by a 1998 amendment to the state constitution overwhelmingly approved by voters. The amendment gave lawmakers the authority to limit state-recognized marriages to opposite-sex couples. "Thank you to the Hawaii Supreme Court for affirming what we've known all along - that marriage, by God's definition, is between opposite-sex couples," said Mike Gabbard, chairman of ...

CULTURAL The radicals are back "The Battle in Seattle" was not about trade, but about left-wing revival By Gene Edward Veith Ever since the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan, the left wing has been in a state of decline. The Soviet Union fell apart; the world discovered the wonders of the free market; and deregulation and the scaling back of the welfare state have been the order of the day. But the debacle in Seattle-one of the largest protest demonstrations in U.S. history-wasn't just retro-nostalgia for the '60s. It signals that the left is back, with new tactics for the ...

Internet-based retailers will eventually have to charge sales taxes to customers, just as brick-and-mortar stores do, to level the playing field between the different types of businesses, according Texas' two U.S. senators. "I personally believe in the end that we will have sales taxes just as you have in a store," said Sen. Phil Gramm, speaking with reporters Thursday in Dallas. "I think you would collect the taxes when the product is shipped." The collection of sales taxes would allow Main Street businesses, particularly in small towns, to compete against their cyberspace rivals, said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Without ...

News December 9, 1999 - The 18th Anniversary of Officer Faulkner's tragic death. In Honor of Officer Faulkner and the Faulkner Family Today we honor the memory of Officer Faulkner, who died in the Line of Duty 18 years ago today. Please keep the Faulkner Family in your prayers on this day and in the future. Citizens who want Justice for Daniel Faulkner In an appearance on the morning program Good Day Philadelphia{Fox29-TV}, Pamela Africa made reference to Mumia.com, in which she implied that the Fraternal Order of Police is an active participant in the creation of Mumia.com Mumia.com ...

I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands. There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. (Preface to The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis)My Dear Julius (1), Landsberg prison which I entered on April 1, 1924 and where I wrote Mein Kampf, is strangely similar to this place that I entered after shooting myself on the afternoon ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Collections from IRS enforcement actions such as property seizures and liens plummeted by $1.3 billion in the past year as the agency struggled with fewer agents to implement a law that gave taxpayers broad new rights. Top Internal Revenue Service officials say the decline must be reversed or the integrity of the entire tax system could be placed at risk. ``We really don't want it to go down any more than it has,'' IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti said in a recent interview. ``We're trying to keep the ship afloat.'' IRS statistics on major enforcement actions -- ...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (December 10, 1999 8:01 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Gary Bauer carps about rivals ducking "tough questions." Steve Forbes speaks of "copycatting" a campaign machine. Alan Keyes focuses on "renewing America" while Orrin Hatch offers a more quiet conservative theme. George W. Bush is far from conceding in this fight for the favor of the Republican right. Each has carved out backing from social and religious conservatives important in GOP political circles, but none has succeeded in coalescing the right into a unified political force. That's a key dynamic in this election cycle - especially in ...

Everybody agrees that something historically momentous has occurred in the White House. But it is not that the first lady is seeking political office on her own. It is that the first lady is moving out of the White House while her husband is still occupying it. Mrs. Clinton is packing her bags for New York and decorating the Christmas tree in Washington. As usual, a Clinton is in two places at one time. But the magnitude of this dissonance is staggering. Even as she ornaments the White House for the holidays, so as to present it to the ...

McCain, Bradley appearance likely Friday, 10 December 1999 7:15 (GMT) WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) - Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic former Sen. Bill Bradley, each narrowing the distance on their party's leaders, plan to make a joint appearance in support of campaign finance reform. The New York Times reported in its Friday editions that because of strong showings in New Hampshire, joint appearance featuring Bradley and McCain will be in that state, perhaps next Thursday. While nationwide polls show McCain and Bradley trailing, recent polls in New Hampshire show McCain, R-Ariz., ahead and Bradley, who represented New Jersey in ...

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