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I have the text of this awesome speech, in my opinion the best of Reagan's career, but I cannot find the audio version anywhere after a couple weeks of searching. Can someone help me out?

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - The 8-year-old boy who had an arm reattached after a shark attack in the Florida Panhandle is awake and can focus on people around him, his doctor said Friday. "He's awake as opposed to being asleep," Dr. Ian Rogers told NBC's "Today" show. "His ability to focus on people and objects, it originally was not too good and now it's picking up and he's beginning to focus quite well." Jessie Arbogast's kidney function has improved to the point that he no longer needs dialysis, Rogers said. The boy still remains in a light coma, however. ...

Vice President Dick Cheney wrote to Congress this week refusing to turn over documents detailing deliberations on President Bush's energy policy. Doing so would ''unconstitutionally interfere'' with the White House's duties, he said. In a letter dated Tuesday, Cheney says Comptroller General David Walker exceeded his authority in asking for correspondence between the president, vice president and members of the White House's commission on energy. Democrats want the documents because they suspect Bush was influenced by the heads of several major energy companies -- some of whom he met with just before announcing decisions on the environment. As head of ...

I know. Watching PRAVDA (CBS-ABC-NBC-CNN) for actual news is a pointless exercise. I watch FOX almost exclusively, sometimes tune into CNN's Inside Politics for 15 minutes (for about as long as I can stand Judy Woodruff), and try to catch C-SPAN in its less biased moments. But tonight, in the wake of a good week for the Republicans in the Hosue and for President Bush, I thought I would see what PRAVDA was up to in their nightly news. It's best to know thy enemy. Earlier I had watched Bush's Rose Garden speech on C-SPAN. Very fine. But, as he ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Former President Clinton said Friday he will spend his post-White House years building bridges across racial and ethnic divides. Clinton also announced a $250,000 donation by the SBC Foundation for his planned presidential library and policy center on the bank of the Arkansas River near Little Rock. The SBC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the SBC Corp., parent corporation of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Speaking to about 40 guests at the Greater Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, Clinton said the donation will fund the center's work to resolve racial and cultural conflicts worldwide. ...

25 SIGNS THAT YOU LIVE IN THE YEAR 2001............. 1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave. 2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three. 3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?" 4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site. 5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year. 6. You check the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Iraq has rebuilt its air defenses since U.S. and British warplanes attacked radar and communications targets around Baghdad on Feb. 16, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday. Rumsfeld offered no indication of whether or how the United States would respond, but he seemed to hint that any retaliation would go beyond the limited set of targets in the February raid. ''One tends to want to do things that will have somewhat more lasting effects,'' he told a Pentagon news conference. He noted that the February attacks struck air defense sites that had been linked by fiber-optic ...

The Enemies of Nuclear Power By Travis Norsen With rolling blackouts continuing in California, many people are wishing for a science-fiction solution, in which discoveries in theoretical physics would lead to a new energy-producing technology. The fuel for this technology, as they imagine it, would be abundantly available, safe, inexpensive and clean. It may surprise those people to learn that the only fiction here is the belief that this is some future fantasy. Actually, the relevant discoveries in physics happened nearly a century ago, and the resulting technology—nuclear power—is now almost 50 years old. But the fact that this valuable ...

BUJANOVAC, Yugoslavia, Aug 4 (AFP) - Two Serbian policemen were killed and a third was wounded late Friday near Bujanovac in southern Serbia where Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (LAPMB) Albanian guerrillas operated until the end of May, a police source told AFP. The policemen were on patrol in the village of Muhovac, 16 kilometresmiles) north of Bujanovac, when they were attacked, said a local police official who asked to remain anonymous. Muhovac was the stronghold of Muhamet Xhemaili, one of the most hardline leaders of the LAPMB which was named after three towns in south Serbia with ...

OHRID, Macedonia (AP) - Albanian rebels clashed with Macedonian government forces Friday, seizing more territory and controlling a key road as negotiators tried to bridge differences over a peace deal. The Albanians were said to have launched 14 armed attacks overnight against government troops near the northwestern city Tetovo, Macedonian radio reported. The insurgents' advance early Friday effectively gave them control of a road linking Tetovo - Macedonia's second-largest city - with neighbouring Kosovo, the NATO-occupied Serbian province with an overwhelmingly Albanian majority. Meanwhile, hard bargaining proceeded at Ohrid, a lake resort in southwestern Macedonia, over Albanian demands for broader ...

Welcome to BaseCamp In the world of mountaineering, BaseCamp is where a climb begins. It's where the big tents get set up; where the food and fuel are stored. It's the fallback point in case of bad weather - the place everyone agrees to gather. So it is at FreeRepublic. Thanks to JR, we immigrants from TOS have been blessed with this space to launch our individual summit bids on the Mt. Everest of the world's political websites. If you run into a storm on the Forum, fall back to BaseCamp ! Stock up on nourishment, advice, or asbestos ...

I ran across a recent FoxNews.com article about a California company marketing female lingerie to heterosexual men and was once again struck by how this "conservative" news service continually feeds perversion and promiscuity to its customers for ratings and numbers, like all the "shock" programming made available on their sister channel. Not to be outdone by Hollywood liberals, Fox News, under its banner of "fair and balanced reporting" regularly provides titillating, tantalizing and tawdry stories for our consideration and consumption as if to be providing a legitimate public service by doing so. FoxNews: Lingerie Closes the Gender Gap Posturing as ...

08/02 16:21 U.S. Real Estate Market Faces a `Sharp Contraction,' (Update1) By Robert Burgess New York, Aug. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. real estate market faces a ``sharp contraction'' with rising vacancy rates, slowing rent growth and falling property values that will last through 2002, according to consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. ``The expansion phase of the cycle has ended, and ended rather abruptly,'' said Peter Korpacz, director in the firm's global real estate research group. The report is the latest evidence of a weakening real estate market. Torto Wheaton research said last month that the U.S. office vacancy rate has ...

Firearms Tip Sheet The Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC) think this information, the first in a series of bi-monthly emails we'll be sending out, might be of use to you when considering potential story lines. Cognizant of the criticism and scrutiny being generated in Washington toward the creative community, we recently convened a Round Table of writers, directors, producers and other industry professionals to brainstorm alternative approaches to traditional "shoot-em-ups" -- approaches that are more aligned to what actually happens in the real world. Hopefully, these depiction suggestions will not only be the impetus for fresh story ideas, but will ...

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Scores of onlookers gathered Friday on Signal Hill to take part in an unofficial send-off for the Terra Nova, a massive ship that's the centrepiece of Newfoundland's second, major offshore oil project. The $2.7-billion vessel, which set sail four years after the Hibernia oil platform was towed to the Grand Banks, is the first of its kind in North America. More importantly, its completion confirms the oil industry's long-term commitment to Newfoundland, said Gary Bruce, Petro-Canada's vice-president of offshore development. "Hibernia kick-started the industry here," Bruce said Friday. "I look at Terra Nova as building ...

--------------------------------------------------------------------- E-News Volume 16 August 3, 2001 http://www.nrsc.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM THE NRSC NEWSDESK President Bush visits with Republican Senators... http://www.nrsc.org/nrscweb/newsdesk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FEELING THE LOSS Yesterday, Senator Hillary Clinton and the Senate Democrats exhibited blatant partisanship by rejecting President Bush's nominees for head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Vice President Cheney lamented the Democrats' lack of bipartisanship and cooperation: "[Daschle] talks a good game about wanting to cooperate with the administration. He and I've talked, for example, about moving nominees along. In Mary Gall, you've got somebody who is eminently qualified to be chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. ...

NRSC Choose... Task Force Inner Circle Roundtable Senatorial Trust Senate Council NRSC       NewsDesk NJ: Further woes for Torricelli August 2, 2001 By Brian Blomquist Source: New York Post This article has been excerpted The FBI yesterday started investigating allegations that Sen. Robert Torricelli took $62,000 in campaign contributions from a New Jersey businessman who used straw donors. Josh Krantz, 45, who owns a New Jersey real-estate company, said the FBI interviewed him yesterday about a $2,000 contribution that a business partner and Torricelli friend, Richard Kurtz, made in Krantz’s name. “He gave the money and put my name ...

MONT TREMBLANT, Que. -- The Chretien government is committed to creating a friction-free border with the United States, Canada's Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew promised North American manufacturers yesterday. "Global economic integration and competition requires a seamless border as the foundation of the economic vitality of the world's two largest trading partners," Mr. Pettigrew said during a speech to the first joint conference of the U.S. National Association of Manufacturers and the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters. "Stoppages and delays at the border can have a dramatic impact on our economic prosperity," Mr. Pettigrew said, noting that companies with plants on both ...

Time for Discussion on Easing Canada's Drug Laws, Rock Says Allan Rock, the Minister of Health, said it was time for an open discussion on liberalizing Canada's drug laws as he toured the government's official marijuana growing plant yesterday. "When I was justice minister, I paid lawyers to prosecute these drug cases, many of them involving people, young people, with very small amounts. The question often arose as to whether or not this was a good use of dollars and the justice system. I think it's time for a discussion in Canada about all of this," he said. Mr Rock ...

International negotiators meeting in Geneva have a week to save the UN conference on racism from collapse. The conference was intended for heads of government but some countries intend to send lesser representatives. Although many leaders of the developing world are planning to attend, Tony Blair is among the western leaders who will be absent. The decision whether to send the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, or a junior minister, is being delayed until a judgment can be made on the likely outcome of the meeting. Diplomats from states planning to attend the conference, due to start in Durban, South Africa, ...