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The Joy of Elvis By Todd Allen Elvis just had a birthday. Do you care that a dead man just got a hypothetical year older? I don’t particularly care, but I did go to a decent party for him. Maybe I should back up a bit. A few blocks down the street from me is Chicago’s House of Blues. I rather enjoy going there. I especially like going there when I don’t pay for the show. Fortunately, I’ve never paid to see a show there. I’ve been to trade show parties there, a few times. These are the best, as ...

Edwards almost broke Home Entertainment News Obituaries Sports Marketplace Business Site Map Classifieds Weather Back to Index Published on 1/17/01     E-mail this story to a friend Edwards almost broke Former governor cites fines, defense By CHRISTOPHER BAUGHMAN Advocate staff writer Former Gov. Edwin Edwards said he is almost broke and is living on retirement checks after shelling out about $3.5 million in fines and legal fees from two federal trials last year. Edwards on Tuesday also tried to dispel rumors that President Clinton, a fellow Democrat, will pardon him before Clinton leaves office Saturday. Edwards was sentenced to ...

Who's your daddy? Our friends at America Online are asking subscribers what job Bill Clinton should tackle next? • Chief of staff to Sen. Hillary Clinton • Hollywood producer • Judge • Author • Standup comedian • Used-car salesman • Host of the talk show "I feel your pain." While these jobs make us chuckle, Inside the Beltway readers have proven to have far more intelligent imaginations. So please send all future job openings fitting for Mr. Clinton to the e-mail address found below, or else write to John McCaslin, Inside the Beltway, 3600 New York Ave., NE., Washington, ...

Bush is hanging in there against Nasty Al.

Go To Poll The demogogues are winning this one, so far.

Corporal congressman A new political action committee is focusing on electing former U.S. military personnel, reservists and National Guardsmen to the U.S. Congress. "The most effective way to ensure that the armed forces are properly engaged is to ensure that those making the decisions have a keen understanding of how our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines live, train and fight. In short, someone who has military experience," says the National Defense PAC. The PAC, which labels itself nonpartisan, supports any candidate's bid for Congress so long as they've worn a niform (active or reserve) of the nation's armed services. "Since ...

Dave Kopel on NRO   LOWRY: Only Adjust. Go. 8.29.00 Gore Screws on the Silencer 8.23.00 Red Meat Encryption 8.14.00 Misfiring at Harlon Carter 8.10.00 Instant Check, Permanent Record 8.02.00 Civil Disobedience in Canada 8/29/00 12:10 p.m. Gore Screws on the Silencer Al goes mum on guns to avoid a Dukakis-like blunder. By Dave Kopel, director of the Independence Institute emember the spring of 2000? Al Gore's strategists were proclaiming that gun control would be one of their core issues for the coming election. But these days, gun control gets only passing references from Gore, while the major focus ...

To spare Jim Rob any unneccessary trouble, here's the link: Malkin

Hunter S. Thompson in Gun Mishap Updated 3:28 PM ET July 28, 2000 ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson slightly wounded his female assistant when he fired a shotgun to chase a bear off his Colorado property. Pitkin County District Attorney Mac Myers confirmed there was an incident on Thompson's property near Aspen on Thursday. Division of Wildlife spokesman Pat Tucker said one of his officers was told by the sheriff's office that a bear had been reported near Thompson's home. "We've had bears all over the place in Aspen, Woody Creek and Snowmass this year," ...

Since there are reports and rumors that Bush will make his selection this weekend, this will be the last update of the odds before post time. If you haven't made your picks, get to the betting windows now. I divided the entrants into 4 groups: the ones with no real chance, we'll call the "Dreamers". They want it, but they are kidding themselves if they think it will happen. The "Reluctant Warriors" are the ones who claim they don't want the job. The "Sleepers" are the ones nobody is talking about, but Dubya loves a surprise, just as much as ...

I originally posted the morning line for the GOP Veep Futurity back in February: Handicapping the Veep Sweepstakes. This is the latest update, relying on the twists and turns that are leading to Philadelphia in just under 4 weeks. Tom Ridge: 12-1. Ridge had momentum till it became clear that Bush could win Pennsylvania without taking on his pro-choice, RINO baggage. The size difference is a smokescreen for the fact that Ridge violates the first law of veep selection: "Do no harm". George Pataki: 100-1. Not a chance. Connie Mack: 20-1. His name keeps coming up, thanks to Fred Barnes. ...

Goldberg File   Columns / Current Issue / Goldberg File / Nota Bene / Subscribe / Ad Info / Washington Bulletin / Home 6.26.00 Gore's Over 6.23.00 The Day After 6.21.00 Making Men without Chests 6.19.00 Reagan Envy 6.16.00 Coservative Zoology 101 6.14.00 Is Gore an Alien? 6.12.00 Gore's Parallactic View 6.07.00 I'm Not Afraid of Technology 6.05.00 It's Official: Elián Case Was About Rule of Power 6.02.00 Make It a State? I Have a Better Idea 6/26/00 5:50 p.m. Gore's Over The New Republic gives him two different plans for how to blow the election. By Jonah Goldberg, ...

Portrait of America | Electoral College   June 22, 2000 Electoral College Bush 276 Gore 106 In the race for the White House, George W. Bush now leads in states with 276 Electoral Votes and Al Gore leads in states with 106 Electoral Votes. States with 156 Electoral Votes are in the toss-up category. A toss-up means that neither candidate is leading by more than the margin of sampling error. For a list of who leads in which states, click here. To see a state by state listing of poll results in alphabetical order, click here. Polls conducted immediately ...

TAS Classics ?" name="frame1" width="468" height="60" frameborder="no" border="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" SCROLLING="no"> August 1993 Hill 1969 by David Clayton Carrad On Memorial Day this year I got up and caught the 8:22 a.m. train to Washington, D.C., headed for the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall to join the protest against Bill Clinton's presence there. In my right hand I carried a small, white plastic bag. Inside the bag was my "boonie" hat -- the shapeless, unofficial camouflage hat I wore in the jungles of Vietnam twenty-five years ago. The night before, I had found the hat in an old suitcase in ...

I originally posted the morning line for the GOP Veep Futurity back in February: Handicapping the Veep Sweepstakes. Since then, there have been a few entries, as well as a few scratches. Therefore, with Satchmo playing a trumpet, here's the updated line. Tom Ridge: 7-2. If Bush has to pick a pro-choicer, he might as well pick up Pennsylvania's 23 electoral votes in the bargain. He's not my first choice, but he's gaining momentum. George Pataki: 99-1. Keep dreaming, George. Why not do something productive, and run against the Wicked Witch of the West Wing if Rudy drops out? Connie ...

Inside Politics Feminist activists, pointing to polls that show Vice President Al Gore lagging among female voters, have urged him to embrace more forcibly the agenda of left-wing women's groups. Leaders of the National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority, the American Association of University Women and other feminist groups met for nearly two hours with the vice president Tuesday at his office in the Old Executive Office Building, the Los Angeles Times reports. Also present were Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile, Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala, reporter Edwin Chen ...

Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards(D) has just been found guilty of racketeering. The details are still sketchy, but he and his son Stephen have definitely been convicted on at least one of the 96 counts.