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Former President Bill Clinton said that the state's TennCare program may not be around much longer, but predicts that one day there will be a national program similar to it.

In a race for the US presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a problem that has dogged her since her days as first lady: an entrenched bloc of voters who simply do not like her. And her experience as a senator in New York shows that despite vigorous campaigning around the state since taking office, she remains an extremely polarising figure who is unable to sway these voters to her side. One poll after another shows that roughly one in three New Yorkers has an unfavourable opinion of her, a statistic that has not changed since she took office in 2001....

When Hillary Clinton runs for president, she may have to face her own version of the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth - in the form of her husband's accusers, the women the Clintons have been trying to erase from the national memory of Bill's presidency. Reacting to Sen. Clinton's efforts to use the opening of her husband's presidential library last week as a springboard for her campaign, star impeachment witness Kathleen Willey told NewsMax, "I have some words of advice for the former first lady. Remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." Willey said she was struck by the fact that...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton warned Thursday that she already sees signs of corruption with Republicans firmly in control of the House, the Senate and the White House. "You know, absolute power corrupts absolutely," Clinton told CNN's "American Morning." Dropping the bipartisan demeanor she'd adopted for the opening of her husband's presidential library, Clinton said, "I think that we have an administration and Republican leadership that, you know, is very powerful. And power should be handled carefully in a democracy." Clinton complained that when Republicans were in the minority, "they certainly wanted to apply the harshest of rules to Democratic...

Geez, that month I spent with a breakaway sect of the Seventh Day Adventists in Washington Heights was really an adventure. It just wasn't for me, though. Know what I mean? They were all like: "You must abstain from impure acts." And I was kind of skeptical initially. Then, they came back with: "Well, it's not like your whack game is getting any play in the first place. Just give it up already!" And I was all like: "Screw you buddy! I still have FreeRepublic." Thanks for being there, guys!

A souped up Chevy Camaro owned by David Koresh, the slain leader of the Branch Davidian religious sect, will be sold at a Texas auction this weekend, the auctioneer said on Wednesday. The 500-horsepower Camaro was Koresh's everyday car and has dents from an FBI (news - web sites) tank that struck it during the April 19, 1993 raid in which he and 80 Davidians died and their Waco, Texas compound burned to the ground, said Daniel Kruse of vintage car firm Kruse International. The 1968 model "muscle" car with a powerful 427-cubic-inch motor has the words "DAVID'S 427 GO...

11th Anniversary Of Fiery End To Davidian Siege WACO, Texas -- It was 11 years ago Monday that David Koresh and dozens of his Branch Davidian followers died in a fire outside Waco. The fire broke out when federal officials tried to end a 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound. That standoff began after a shootout in which four federal agents and three members of the religious sect were killed. The agents were looking for stockpiled automatic weapons and hand grenades.

11th Anniversary: As I do each year, I post this as a reminder to all of my fellow Freepers that our freedoms and liberties hang by a thin thread. On Sunday, February 28, 1993, at 9:30 AM, nearly 100 heavily armed agents from Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco and Firearms arrived at the Branch Davidian Compound in central Texas, near Waco. They didn't go to Mt. Carmel to attend morning worship services, they went to execute a search warrant for illegal gun parts. After debarking from the cattle trailers and trucks that they arrived in, they immediately shot the dogs and...

As I do each year, I post this as a reminder to all of my fellow Freepers that our freedoms and liberties hang by a thin thread. On Sunday, February 28, 1993, at 9:30 AM, nearly 100 heavily armed agents from Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco and Firearms arrived at the Branch Davidian Compound in central Texas, near Waco. They didn't go to Mt. Carmel to attend morning worship services, they went to execute a search warrant for illegal gun parts. After debarking from the cattle trailers and trucks that they arrived in, they immediately shot the dogs and puppies near...

A comprehensive library of data regarding the events that transpired during February 28 thru April 19, 1993 at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas is available at the PBS/Frontline weblink.

Will Democrats Select The General Of The Waco Siege As Its Presidential Nominee? By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon November 11, 2003 An October 28 report in Insight magazine reminded us that the Democratic presidential candidate and now-retired four-star general, Wesley Clark, was the Army commander who used U.S. soldiers and military hardware against American civilians in the federal assault against the Branch Davidians which violated the Posse Comitatus Act and resulted in the massacre of nearly ninety lives, including old men, women, and children. To be sure, General Clark possesses a plethora of great distinctions....

<p>SOUR LAKE, Texas — A former federal prosecutor who defended the U.S. government in a lawsuit filed by surviving Branch Davidians (search) was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.</p> <p>A police officer checking on an abandoned vehicle found the body of former U.S. Attorney J. Michael Bradford (search) shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday.</p>

<p>A former federal prosecutor who defended the U.S. government in a lawsuit filed by surviving Branch Davidians was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.</p> <p>A police officer checking on an abandoned vehicle found the body of former U.S. Attorney J. Michael Bradford shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday.</p>

As I do each year, I post information to commemorate the attack by FBI agents in military vehicles on the Branch Davidians compound near Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.The Branch Davidians, a reclusive group of Christian believers, had been attacked 51 days earlier by over 100 heavily armed BATF agents, surrounded and subjected to psychological warfare techniques by government agents. On April 19th the feds sent in military vehicles to fill the building at the Branch Davidian compound with chemical agents to flush out the remaining occupants. What resulted was a fire that burned to death nearly all the...

10 years after Waco siege, police face another standoff 04/19/2003 By DAVE HIOTT / The Dallas Morning News GUN BARREL CITY, Texas – Sheriff J.R. "Ronny" Brownlowe isn't ready for a showdown. Not like the one 10 years ago a few miles outside Waco. On Saturday, survivors will mark the passing of a decade since at least 74 people died at the fiery end of the Branch Davidian siege. But for Sheriff Brownlowe's Henderson County deputies, it will only be another day in another standoff, now nearly three years old. Militant fundamentalist John Joe Gray, 54, retreated to his 47...

In the ten years since a devastating fire took the lives of 74 Davidians, a group of survivors has returned to the windswept plains east of Waco, like ghosts haunting the site of their former compound. A new church has been built at Mount Carmel, and inside, they listen to their leader preach the same apocalyptic doctrine, and they wait for David Koresh to return. LIKE MOST VISITORS, THEY HAD driven by the front gate slowly, then turned around and tentatively poked onto the property. The driver pulled up to the dirt parking area in front of the Mount...

Children were playing, women were cleaning the kitchen and some men were reading the newspaper that Sunday morning as rain drizzled outside the Branch Davidian compound. Just before 10 a.m., sect leader David Koresh appeared in the cafeteria doorway and said he'd been told someone was coming. "He said, `Everybody stay calm,'" recalled Clive Doyle, who was in the compound. "I could hear him go down the hall and open the door. Then I heard gunfire, shots being fired by the hundreds. I heard him say, `Wait! We've got women and children in here!'" It was Feb. 28, 1993,...

On February 28, 1993, a team of agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) launched an assault on the premises of a religious community called Mount Carmel, outside Waco, Texas, occupied by a sect called the Branch Davidians, led by a man named Vernon Howell, who had assumed the name David Koresh. Ostensibly to serve a search and arrest warrant, the raid resulted in a shootout in which four ATF agents and six Davidians were killed. This was followed by a takeover of the operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Hostage Rescue Team and...

Attacked by 100 BATF agents on a Sunday morning during February, surrounded for 51 days, subjected to psychological warfare techniques by federal agents and finally attacked with military vehicles on the morning of April 19, 1993 the Branch Davidians died in horrific fire that burned their Church compound to the ground.

Branch Davidians and their families have appealed the dismissal of their $675 million wrongful death lawsuit over the 1993 federal assault on the sect's Waco compound. Attorneys for the plaintiffs accused U.S. District Judge Walter Smith of bias against the Branch Davidians and their leader, David Koresh. Koresh was among some 80 men, women and children killed after the Davidians' complex burned to the ground April 19, 1993, after an armored federal assault. The assault capped a 51-day siege that began with a raid by federal agents that killed four agents and six Davidians. Smith dismissed the lawsuit in 2000,...