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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) wants NBC News to surrender to him alleged in-house NBC videotapes that reportedly show presidential-election-night interference with news operations by General Electric Co. chairman and CEO Jack Welch in support of then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush. GE, one of the largest industrial conglomerates in the world, is the corporate parent of NBC, which owns a national TV network, multiple local TV stations and a stable of cable networks. Like many major news outlets, NBC News called last November's presidential race for Republican Bush over Democrat Al Gore, even though the contest wasn't decided by the U.S. ...

The first lesson we learn in a course in economics is that there is scarcity. Technically, the definition of scarcity – or maybe merely its description – is this: "At zero price, there is greater demand than supply." The second lesson we learn is that men deal with scarcity through the division of labor. They specialize in production, which enables them to increase their output and therefore their wealth. In politics, these two principles are inescapable. Seldom are we taught how to apply these analytical principles in politics. For today's lesson, I consider the problem of resistance. I begin with ...

I was about as cold as I’d ever been. The Midwest was in the midst of a bitter winter in February, 1959. The wind was punishing, trees were freezing up and snapping, and the little yellow school bus I was riding in with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper had been breaking down. After our "Winter Dance Party Tour" appearance in Duluth, Minnesota, our bus broke down again. Buddy had had enough. He talked the club manager into chartering a plane to fly the headliners to our next show in Fargo, North Dakota, and tried to recruit ...

PANAMA CITY, Florida (AP) -- A former Hooters waitress has sued Hooters restaurant where she worked, saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest. Instead, she said, she won a new toy Yoda -- the little green guy from the "Star Wars" movies. Rest of the Article Here: The Rest of The Story

WorldNetDaily: Is Bush the 2nd coming of Stanley Baldwin? This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?23858 Tuesday, July 31, 2001 Is Bush the 2nd coming of Stanley Baldwin? By Hugh Hewitt © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com--> © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Few readers in this century will remember the name of the dominant figure in British politics from the mid-1920s until his retirement in 1937. He is chiefly remembered now for his hostility to Churchill and for keeping Churchill out of power even as Churchill's warnings of Hitler's rising power kept coming true. Stanley ...

It should come as no surprise that the television news anchor garnering the most attention this summer has been CBS' Dan Rather. After all, big Dan has been consistently colorful, quotable and controversial for the past 20 years, a staple of broadcast news. But while most media gazers have been captivated by Rather's stubborn refusal to cover the Chandra Levy story, another network giant may be having a bigger impact on television news just by disappearing for awhile. Why would one of the three biggest, and arguably most important, TV news personalities spend an entire summer off the tube? ...

Our daily post of "word for the day" in order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the "word of the day" in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review thread link will be posted for your edification. ;-)Practice makes perfect.....post on.... obstreperous; \ub-STREP-ur-us; ob-\, adjective: obstreperously; adverb obstreperousness; noun 1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant; unruly. 2. Noisy, clamorous, or boisterous [From Latin obstreperus, noisy, from obstrepere, to make a noise against : ob-, against; see ...

BAGHDAD, July 31 (AFP) - Iraq will keep up attacks on US planes overflying its territory despite Washington's threats to strike back, the minister of state for foreign affairs vowed on Tuesday. "The Americans are the aggressors and they must take responsibility for their actions. It is Iraq which reserves the right to respond, not Washington," Naji Sabri said in an interview with AFP. Washington's threats "only serve to strengthen the Iraqis in their determination to resist and struggle for the defence of their rights, their independence, sovereignty and interests," said Sabri. "To struggle against enemy planes is a legitimate ...

You've got to hand it to the National Education Association. The NEA's press people and spin artists know how to manipulate the news. The NEA got widespread national publicity by announcing on Independence Day that it was withdrawing its controversial proposed "New B" resolution regarding "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Education." Parents concluded they could relax in the assurance that their darlings would not be exploited with such teaching in the schools. But not so fast. It was all smoke and mirrors. The 10,000 delegates assembled in this year's annual convention in Los Angeles quietly adopted at least ten separate ...

The US Air Force (USAF) expects to begin later this year a one-year space experiment to assess the merits of using satellite hyperspectral imagery (HSI) to locate and strike enemy targets hidden by camouflage and other deceptive measures that can thwart visible sensors. The experiment, part of the service's Warfighter-1 programme, comprises an HSI spectrometer camera aboard Orbital Imaging Corporation's (ORBIMAGE's) soon-to-be launched OrbView-4 satellite and a mobile ground-processing command station, which are designed to provide near-real time HSI to theatre commanders. During the experiment, the USAF will collect up to 500 HSI images to ascertain how well the sensor ...

Credit Agricole Indosuez (CAI), part of France's largest bank, yesterday became the latest French company to deepen its involvement in Iran as European investors continue to benefit from US antipathy to the Islamic government in Tehran. CAI said it had signed a framework agreement with Iran's five largest state-owned banks to provide multi-source buyer credits - facilities for buyers of exports from various European countries - worth up to Dollars 1bn (Pounds 702m). The previous CAI limit was Dollars 700m. The agreement is guaranteed by the Iranian Ministry of the Economy and Finance and by European export credit agencies. SG, ...

Several new military transport helicopters were added to the Greek army's forces yesterday at a ceremony at the Pachi base near Megara, west of Athens. Greece has ordered seven CH-47Ds at a total cost of 120 billion drachmas as part of its 1996-2001 procurements program. These helicopters are superior to those that Greece already has in terms of electronics, self-defense systems, engines, and navigational and communications equipment.

Cuba's astonishing health-care success JENNIFER M. ACKER AMHERST, Mass. TO SOME, it may seem ridiculous to extol the Cuban health-care system because of some of the obvious failings of Castro's regime, including lean government salaries and crumbling Havana housing. It isn't. Even the World Bank has recently lauded the island's health and education triumphs. It's about time. On April 30, World Bank president James Wolfenson praised Cuba's social-welfare system, or social "mattress" as I have heard one Cuban economist call it. In its 2001 edition of World Development Indicators, as reported by Inter Press Service, the bank demonstrated that Cuba ...

This morning once again, I woke up to Mancow showing one of our project shirts. This time it was a shirt that we haven't widely publicized. Raoul sent it out to certain media that would appreciate it, and I sent the one to Mancow with the now getting infamous "END INTERN ABUSE" shirt. Picture this- Bright orange shirt, affectionately called MacDougal orange, on the back in BIG lettering: Its not on the photo, but at the bottom of the lettering on the back of the shirt it says- Join the resistance- FreeRepublic.com and on the other side, it says Shirts- ...

Bush Accused of Missile Deceit Reprinted from NewsMax.com Bush Accused of Missile Deceit John L. PerryTuesday, July 31, 2001 Former President Jimmy Carter's CIA chief says what President Bush really fears are nuclear missiles from some rogue Russian militarist, not from communist North Korea. Bush's proposed missile shield system "is against Russia, not North Korea," the ex-director of the Central Intelligence Agency asserted. That bald statement by retired Adm. Stansfield Turner, CIA director from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration, came as close as it gets in diplomatic parlance to accusing Bush of deliberately bilking the Russians on ...

Okaloosa's $100G re-education camp Among local taxpayers, Okaloosa County's proposal to raise the sales tax by a penny has been on shaky ground all along. It's not so much the amount of money involved. It's the knowledge that government officials want more money primarily to erect or expand government buildings. The millions raised can be expected to improve the workplaces of judges, politicians and bureaucrats. To those who aren't judges, politicos and paper-pushers, the idea is a tough sell. It got tougher last week. County commissioners decided to give $100,000 in taxpayers' money to a political committee called A Penny ...

I attended the fundraiser for Bret Schundler this afternoon with guest of honor Vice President Dick Cheney. It was held in a large tent at the National Guard Training Center in Sea Girt, NJ. I actually went in two capacities -- as a journalist for the Jewish Voice and Opinion of New Jersey, and as a regular attendee. VP Cheney's remarks at the press conference and at the fundraiser were quite similar, and I have combined them into one account. The press conference began about 4:50 pm, with NJ Republican Party Chairman Joe Kyrillos commending the NJ Republican Party ...

The government is considering a wide range of measures to limit the freedom of demonstrators to disrupt life in the capital, including the power to ban protests and to keep them away from official buildings and embassies. Any such effort is likely to meet with stiff resistance from organizations that regularly stage demonstrations in central Athens to the detriment of transport and commerce in the city. The daily Ethnos reported yesterday that the legislation will be presented this autumn and that it is aimed at easing traffic congestion for the Athens 2004 Olympics. The paper said that the Public Order ...

First Lady Laura Bush fueled speculation her husband will approve federal funding for stem-cell research yesterday when she cited the "life that could be saved by research." "A lot of those embryos will be destroyed anyway or disposed of anyway," Mrs. Bush said. "There's certainly a life side of it . . . when you think about life that could be saved by research." But Mrs. Bush also told CNN she's "not really sure where [the president] is right now on it." Advocates, such as former First Lady Nancy Reagan, who has personally appealed to the president, say embryonic ...

MOSCOW, Jul 31, 2001 -- (dpa) The Russian military Tuesday denied U.S. media reports that it recently carried out a test of an adapted missile that could potentially outwit a U.S.-deployed missile shield. "No tests at all took place in Russia two weeks ago," a spokesman for the Russian Strategic Missile Forces told Interfax news agency. Moscow keeps Washington fully informed on all tests, he said. The Washington Times reported Monday that a Topol SS-25 intercontinental ballistic missile was test-fired from central Russia to Kamchatka in the Far East two weeks ago. The last stage of the missile flew unusually ...