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No report yet on Condit team's fees in Levy case By Michael Doyle Bee Washington Bureau (Published Aug. 3, 2001) WASHINGTON -- Rep. Gary Condit benefits from some of the finest legal advice money can buy, but it's unclear how he's paying for it. Condit's newly filed campaign statements do not show any payments to either of the two attorneys who have represented him in the case of Chandra Levy, the missing 24-year-old Modesto woman. The statements also do not show any payments to others working on Condit's behalf in the Levy case, including his Washington-based public relations expert. Levy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. John McCain and Democrat Joseph Lieberman teamed up Friday to criticize President Bush's approach to dealing with global warming, calling for mandatory limits on greenhouse gases. The two senators said that regulations for carbon dioxide and other emissions that are believed to be changing the earth's climate are needed because voluntary measures -- favored by Bush -- will not work. In the clearest signal yet that the Senate is determined to pursue a separate climate agenda from the White House, the two senators will introduce legislation imposing a nationwide ''cap and trade'' system on greenhouse ...

Presidential Action – August 3 White House Office of Communications Message In his first six months, the President achieved success on each of his key priorities. The President is now looking ahead to his fall agenda of important priorities like reforming education, protecting Social Security and Medicare, helping the disadvantaged, protecting our men and women in uniform, and controlling irresponsible spending. The First Six Months The President’s leadership is replacing a culture of gridlock and cynicism with a constructive spirit of bipartisan respect and results. In his first six months, the President: ¨ Is changing the tone in Washington; ¨ ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) -- Mosler Inc., which began in 1867 as a safe manufacturer and grew to become a major producer of electronic security systems, abruptly sent employees home Friday and said it is immediately closing its U.S. operations. Mosler will be liquidated at the urging of lenders who said they could not continue to support the debt-ridden company, said Al Rabasca, the company's senior vice president of human resources. The shutdown eliminates the jobs of Mosler's 1,800 employees nationally, including about 350 in Hamilton, Rabasca said. For now, the company's ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - The owner of a small Toronto coffee shop had grounds for dismay when he received a bill for C$2.4 billion ($1.6 billion) from Canada's postal service. "I started laughing because there were so many numbers," store owner Derek Zavislake said on Wednesday. "One month would be C$90 million, another C$120 million and then C$90 million. The months' accumulation, which would normally be just a few hundred dollars, ended up to being quite a bit more than that," Zavislake said. "It's going to take us a few months to pay it off," he joked. The shop uses the ...

Left-wing magazines profiting from Bush presidency August 1, 2001 Left-wing magazines profiting from Bush presidency 'Residual anger' drives up sales Jeet Heer National Post As a left-wing activist, Victor Navasky was horrified by the election of George W. Bush as president of the United States, but as the publisher of the weekly magazine The Nation he couldn't be happier.Since Bush took office, Navasky's magazine, the flagship publication of the U.S. left, has seen a nearly 10% increase in circulation, jumping from 92,000 subscribers to more than 100,000. Navasky expects that this is just the beginning. "Our motto is: What's bad ...

Sorry I wont put Israel in the "key words" with the trailer trash. Note the two articals here are bunched together on the irna site.UN-Iraq /WRD/  Iraq earns additional $252m under UN `oil-for-food' program Tehran, Aug. 1, IRNA -- Exporting 12 million barrels of crude over the past week, Iraq has earned an additional 287 million Euros, or dlrs 252 million, under the ``oil-for-food'' program, which allows Baghdad to use a portion of its petroleum revenues to purchase humanitarian relief. A press release, a copy of which was made available to IRNA by the UN Information Center, quoted the ...

CRAWFORD -- There's not much to see and do in this Central Texas town, which is why local residents still shake their heads and grin when they talk about the visitor from Japan. "He flew into Austin, hired an interpreter to drive him up here," says Stan Nagel, who owns the Fina gas station and The Brown Bag gift store next door. "He got out and walked up and down the street a few times and got back in his car and went home. His interpreter said he just wanted to see Crawford." Life has been a little different here ...

NEWARK, N.Y. (AP) - Who stole the garden gnomes of Newark? And who set them up to look like they were playing baseball? As residents of this rural western New York village pondered the question, members of the ''Garden Gnome Liberation Front'' this week announced they would cease local gnome thefts while they focus on helping start other local chapters. ''We wholeheartedly support expansion into other towns, and will help new chapters in any way possible,'' according to a message e-mailed to the Finger Lakes Times. ''However, we also remind new chapters that this is a JOKE. Our greatest fear ...

By Ron Sylvester The Wichita Eagle Judge Rebecca Pilshaw is scheduled to hear arguments today on whether to drop charges against Reginald and Jonathan Carr.   The Carr brothers, who face the death penalty, are charged with a combined 113 criminal counts in Sedgwick County District Court. Most stem from Wichita's second December quadruple homicide, in which the victims were found on a snowy soccer field. The Carrs are also charged with killing a Wichita symphony cellist and robbing another man. Those familiar with the courts say it would be surprising if Pilshaw drops all charges the lawyers are ...

I just found out last weekend that one of my service buddies has been diagnosed with GWS. He has six children and runs a small paint contracting business. He is at the point where he has almost lost the business, because he cannot drive, stand on ladders or anything. He is in constant pain, has severe weakness and blacks out and the VA is telling him that his symptoms are not definitive. This man is a God-fearing conservative who served his country with distinction and integrity. He is still working, but is concerned about how long he will be able ...

My son is leaving for the U. of IL Urbana-Champaign on August 12th. He's going to study engineering, (what else?) Are any of you freepers alumni of that university? Any freepers in the Urbana-Champaign area? We will arrive on campus August 15th, God willing and the creek don't rise. Any info or suggestions appreciated.

NY1 has learned Friday the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office has not been able to find proof former president Bill Clinton did anything illegal in his last-minute pardon of New York financier Marc Rich. A federal official tells NY1 prosecutors investigating the controversial pardon heard about lapses in judgment by the former president, but not anything worthy of an indictment. It is not clear when the probe will formally be closed, but the source tells NY1 it looks like it will be soon. Federal prosecutors were looking to see if Rich's ex-wife Denise bought the last-minute pardon with campaign donations. The ...

Take out a one dollar bill and look at it. The one dollar bill you're looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design. This so-called paper money is in fact a cotton and linen blend, with red and blue minute silk fibers running through it. It is actually material. We've all washed it without it falling apart. A special blend of ink is used, the contents we will never know. It is overprinted with symbols and then it is starched to make it water resistant and pressed to give it that nice crisp look. If ...

Starting with the fact that Mr. Laughlin has an IQ of over 180, the fact that Mr. Laughlin is a foremost authority on the psychology of CG Jung, having been recruited by Jung’s closest colleagues to write a definitive book on Jung’s psychotherapy; the fact that Mr. Laughlin’s films broke three box office records in a row, and Mr. Laughlin’s distribution innovations forever changed the film industry; the fact that Mr. Laughlin teaches his new cancer treatment and prevention program at major universities and medical schools from Yale to Stanford, and has conducted dozens of courses for the cancer patients ...

Two Cheers for Media Bias -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By J. PETER MULHERN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The right is forever complaining about media bias. Rarely does any conservative pause to reflect on the benefits of having to swim against the liberal cultural current of the chattering class. This is understandable. Reading a newspaper or listening to a news broadcast can be painful for anyone with a firing synapse. Everywhere one turns the DNC's crude political propaganda is amplified and repeated. Unspeakable tripe about voter disenfranchisement, electoral illegitimacy, social security lockboxes, global warming and innumerable other subjects is broadcast as unassailable truth. All the noise ...

Immigration authorities late Thursday announced they will bring to U.S. soil the Cubans rescued at sea after a migrant smuggling tragedy off the Florida Keys, departing from a six-year policy of repatriating migrants picked up offshore. As Immigration and Naturalization Service officials prepared to transport the rescued Cubans to the Krome Service Processing Center in west Miami-Dade County, the Coast Guard called off a search for a woman and three children. After 41 hours in the water, they are presumed dead, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Michael Brock. Two others drowned, bringing the death toll to six in the ...

Check out this web page, it's pretty funny. You can "dress up" Dubya with different colors of hair, different clothes, make him say different things, etc. The person that did it probably meant it to be demeaning, but I think it is pretty clever.

ALL NEWSROOM The Bush family secret for one-term presidencies "Read my lips!" states a full-page ad in the Washington Times today. The ad compares the "No new taxes!" pledge made by former one-term President George H. Bush, to a campaign promise made by his son, President George W. Bush. During his 2000 bid for president, George W. Bush promised to "oppose federal funding for stem-cell research that [destroys] human embryos." The ad is designed to encourage the President to keep that promise. "During his 1988 quest for the presidency," the ad states, "George H. Bush made a bold promise to ...

Rep. Coyne to Retire After Term Updated: Fri, Aug 03 4:26 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. William J. Coyne, D-Pa., a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, announced Friday that he will retire when his term ends next year. Coyne has represented a district that includes Pittsburgh and some of its northern and western suburbs since 1981. He is the fourth ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over such issues as health care, taxes and trade. Coyne's retirement avoids a potential primary fight with Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., who represents an ...