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Robert Novak (printer-friendly version)August 1, 2001Monitoring the Teamsters WASHINGTON -- It is astonishing enough that President Bush has retained Bill Clinton's federal prosecutor in Manhattan, one of the Justice Department's key appointments. Mary Jo White, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, now claims veto power over who monitors the Teamsters union. What's more, she has partially succeeded. White actually should have no role whatever in picking the three-member Internal Review Board (IRB) created to look out for the scandal and corruption that has long plagued the giant union. Nevertheless, she killed Justice Department plans to name ...

WASHINGTON — The House tackled a broad energy bill Wednesday that would open an Arctic wildlife refuge to oil drilling and provide tens of billions of dollars in tax breaks for energy industries. The Bush administration touted the legislation as key to meeting the country's future energy demands and called it a balance between needed energy development and energy conservation. Democrats said it was too heavily tilted toward helping energy companies, with more than $33.5 billion in tax benefits over the next decade. They said $8 of every $10 would go to coal, oil, nuclear and other energy industries. The ...

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Mentioned elsewhere on FR, but this deserves a prominent spot in the Breaking News category. It's Time To Reverse Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton At ReverseRoe.com, you can take part in the most powerful project to confront abortion there's ever been: The two women who were the original plaintiffs in the 1973 Supreme Court cases that made abortion legal in the U.S. throughout all nine months of pregnancy, Norma McCorvey (former "Roe" of Roe v. Wade) and Sandra Cano (former "Doe" of Doe v. Bolton, the companion case to Roe)... ... are preparing to bring suit to REVERSE ...

**Exclusive** Magazine editor Tina Brown has given the green light to a controversial new photo spread that will depict President Bush's daughters -- in jail, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned! The shock spread, set to appear in the September issue of Tina Brown's TALK magazine, comes just days after First lady Laura Bush accused the news media of overzealous, profit-driven coverage of her daughters, saying the twins should be "totally left alone." Models have been hired to play the Bush daughters in prison for alcohol violations. One planned photo, obtained by DRUDGE, features a President Bush look-alike springing his daughters ...

New problems fester in Klamath water dispute KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) -- Federal officials on Tuesday gave two Oregon irrigation districts one day to resume water flow to a northern California lake that is home to endangered sucker fish. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said the Langell Valley and Horsefly districts would be in violation of their dam operating conditions if they didn't send water south by Wednesday morning. The two irrigation districts draw water from two reservoirs, making them the only districts in the Klamath Project to get irrigation water throughout the summer. Other districts receive their water from ...

WITH barely a moan or a gasp of protest, a small crowd gathered under the shadow of the GPO on Dublin's O'Connell Street to celebrate Ireland's first National Orgasm Day. As t-shirted ladies from the Ann Summers sex shop on O'Connell Street released 1,000 pink balloons into the heavens to mark the historic occasion, one had to wonder what the late Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid would have made of these orgasmic festivities. It's a long way from the Eucharistic Congress. Karen Mings, an Ann Summers assistant, led the celebrations, but struggled to free the balloons from a ...

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The man who brought Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn and Jim Carrey to Moscow this summer has a new project up his sleeve — a Hollywood television series about the KGB. This time, however, they won't be the cruel psychopaths of Cold War movies or the megalomaniacs of James Bond films. They're the good guys. Producer Bob Van Ronkel is putting together a multimillion-dollar television series tentatively titled "Files From the KGB" that will be filmed in Russia and use an almost all-Russian cast to show the swashbuckling adventures of what was arguably once the world's most feared intelligence agency. "I ...

BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com -- Police to search near Fort Lee, Virginia, after tip Chandra Levy's body buried there. Details soon. For complete coverage of this story visit: http://www.CNN.com or AOL Keyword: CNN

31 July: While Jerusalem tensed for the seventh day running of Palestinian terrorist hits, Israeli helicopters fired missiles through the window of the third floor of a seven-story, straight into a strategy conference of top Hamas leaders. Among the eight killed were Jamil Mansour, the organization’s most ardent advocate of suicide bombings against Israel, and Jamil Salim, a senior officer of the group. Their deaths closed the books on the June 1 Tel Aviv disco killing eight in which 22 Israeli teenagers died, That atrocity and nine other attacks in six months were ordered from the bombed Hamas Headquarters in ...

Every legitimate movement must have one, and only one, great guiding principle. Let me give some examples. That of Christianity is succinctly stated as "He arose." The bottom-line guiding principle of Christianity is the resurrection. Without it, there isn't much reason to have a Christian religion. However, with this standard held on high, Christianity has survived, and survived well, for 2000 years. Let's pick another vigorous movement. Socialism. What is its single guiding principle but the "governmental caretaker state." Its advocates are everywhere in the media. And because its premise is so easy to subscribe to, we have a modern ...

Los Angeles, July 26 (Bloomberg) -- California's top utility regulator said a proposal to use a dedicated slice of electricity rates to repay as much as $13.4 billion of California power bonds may provide a simpler way to secure the debt. The state's Senate last week passed a bill that would set aside a portion of private utility revenue to pay off the bonds. That would replace the current plan, under which state regulators would make sure electricity rates provide enough money to the California Department of Water Resources for debt payments and all other power costs. The legislation ``would ...

The issue of drug policy hasn't gotten a lot of ink or bandwidth lately in the American press, and there's a good reason for that: There hasn't been much to say. In the last two decades, the drug war has been subject to about as much debate in the nation's capitol as the metric system. While America snoozes, however, strange noises are beginning to seep across our borders, threatening to disturb our peaceful dreams. Right upstairs, our Canadian neighbors are engaging in a strange and unthinkable act — conducting a full-throated debate over liberalizing their drug policies. Undoubtedly, many Americans ...

Robert Harrison, A Black Confederate Defends Dixie & "Tells It Like It Is!" To Mike Ritter of the Arizona Tribune Re: Your Yankee ancestors... Date: 07/18/2001 1:17:54 PM Central Daylight Time From: sucellus@yahoo.com (Bob Harrison) To: mritter@aztrib.com (Mike Ritter) Alrighty Now! Being a full-time husband and father of three wonderful little Rebels, I have little time for such squabbles, but this one bears a strong need for attention. Before I go into this issue at length let me explain a few things about myself. MY name is Robert Harrison, and I am a professional historian and Research Librarian at SC ...

COMING SOON - ASSET TAX FAIRNESS TAX? By: Sentry There are two things that you can kiss good-bye forever—make that three, if we include our freedom. First, the words "tax cut." Second, the words "Republican President." Not only will the tax cut be reversed, you will soon find a communist U.S. government adding to the income tax with a new "asset tax." And, you better take some collection item photos of George Bush since there never will be another Republican President in this country. If soaring dependency, 75% approval ratings for felon Clinton at the peak of impeachment hearings, a ...

The Charity Commission is investigating a north London drama school following accusations that its head tried to ‘cure’ gay men of their homosexuality. Sam Kogan, head of Kogan’s School for the Science of Acting in Holloway, London, enforced a regime that included yoga, cold showers, long walks and psychoanalysis in order to turn gay men straight. Jamie Holland, a student of the school, told Time Out about his experiences with Kogan. An openly gay man, he said that at first he thought his sexuality was not a problem. He added: “Initially the school was great. The idea was that in ...

By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Wednesday, August 1, 2001 With the number of illegal immigrants at a historic high, many state and local officials have recently proposed or approved benefits for them that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The changes involve narrow privileges such as driver's licenses, health care and cheaper college tuition......Bush administration's plans for an initiative that could legalize millions of undocumented immigrants.(The rest of these story and links to other related story can be found by clicking on the link atop this page.)

Wednesday, August 01, 2001Residents urge secession from stateBy The Associated Press NEWINGTON (AP) – Townspeople haven’t called out the militia, but some frustrated residents of the feisty town of 850 want to secede from the state over the same issue that led to the American Revolution: taxation.About 200 people packed Town Hall on Tuesday night to respond to a petition signed by 52 residents urging the town to invoke a constitutional clause giving them the right to revolt.But revolutionary fervor was tempered with many residents calling for less drastic measures. The meeting ended with the town’s board of selectmen ...

Many people believe the son of God would not go to church if he were alive in present times, a survey claims.Figures show 43% of Christians agree that the existence of the Church as an organisation puts more people off Christianity than attracts them.The survey also found 71% of Christians only go to church a couple of times a year, on special occasions or not at all.Researchers from NOP interviewed 931 adults on behalf of the religious division of publishers Hodder and Stoughton.Only 40% of those questioned agreed that Jesus would go to church if he were alive today.Results also ...