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The Bush administration proposed today to roll back some of the protections for Medicaid recipients that President Bill Clinton put in place on the day before he left office in January. The new rules set standards for health maintenance organizations and other managed care plans serving poor people and the disabled under Medicaid. Bush administration officials said they agreed with the intent of Mr. Clinton's rules, but had decided to give states more flexibility in achieving those goals. The new standards would give Medicaid recipients many of the same rights guaranteed to people in private health plans under legislation passed, ...

Reveille For Radicals: Lessons From the Life of Saul Alinsky A Sermon by Rev. John E. Gibbons Saul Alinsky, the only son of Russian Jewish immigrants, grew up in the slums of Chicago's West Side. His mother was only 17 when he was born in 1909; his father was a tailor; they lived in the back of a store. "My idea of luxury," he later recalled, "was to live in an apartment where I could use the bathroom without one of my parents banging on the door for me to get out because a customer wanted to get in." When ...

Take This 'Yob' And Shove It By Tom Dalton Since he began his campaign for the White House last year, George W. Bush has repeatedly made one thing clear to the press: He, and sometimes his wife, are fair game. His kids, however, aren't. And while the Bush twins' drinking incidents a few months ago certainly gave the media pause to consider whether their behavior warranted coverage, most reporters were respectful of the president's wishes. This week, however, a particular Windy City Jackass crossed the line by using an utterly false report from a British tabloid as the source for ...

This morning, the following blurb appeared on the New York Post's "Page Six" column, which is their gossip page:Just asking WHICH wild child daughter of a politico was smoking pot at an L.A. party? The hard-partying lass puffed right under the nose of the minders who try to keep her out of trouble . . . [source, scroll down] The Post named no names, but left an implication. The Hotline Scoop page, however, decided to make the implication even more blunt: D.C. police believe the car Condit was in "when he discarded a watch box belonged to one of his ...

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TONY SNOW, HOST: And we are back with our panel -- Mort Kondracke, Bill Sammon, and Mara Liasson. OK. It's that time, Mort. We've got to talk about the latest developments in the Gary Condit case. Now, as The Washington Post has reported and Rita Cosby talked about earlier, there's a rumor that -- or an allegation by a minister in Modesto, California, that the congressman had an affair with the minister's then 18-year-old daughter. KONDRACKE: Who denies it. SNOW: Who denies -- well... KONDRACKE: Well, who has posted a note. SNOW: Who -- who has posted a note. KONDRACKE: ...

Larry Kudlow was running late for his own dinner party. It was Tuesday, June 26, and Mr. Kudlow, the economist and National Review columnist, was set to host a select group of conservative intellectuals—“our gang,” as he calls them—at his apartment at 93rd Street and Madison Avenue. Belatedly freed from his talking-head duties at CNBC, Mr. Kudlow rushed home to find his living room already filled with guests. National Review editor Richard Lowry was there. So was Mark Cunningham, an editor of the New York Post’s editorial page. One topic was on everyone’s lips: the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial primary. ...

WEST ORANGE -- Republican Bret Schundler will air the first television ad of his campaign for governor against Democrat Jim McGreevey this weekend, campaign officials said Thursday. The 30-second ad will be broadcast in the New York and Philadelphia television markets on cable and broadcast stations, according to campaign spokesman Bill Guhl. In it, Schundler compares McGreevey's record as mayor of Woodbridge with his own as mayor of Jersey City and calls his opponent a "machine politician." The ad says debt, property taxes, and crime are all up in Woodbridge. In Jersey City, according to the ad, property taxes and ...

Marty at a loss if mad shuffle whacks the 5th by Howie Carr Friday, July 13, 2001 What is it with these Democratic congressmen who keep losing things? First Rep. Gary Condit misplaces an intern. And now, Rep. Marty Meehan's 5th Congressional District has, as the Fox News Channel would say, VANISHED! Poor Marty - he gets whacked in the middle of what he had thought would be the biggest week of his political career. For the first time since impeachment, Marty was getting to hobnob with the all the Beltway heavy hitters, and this time it wasn't because he ...

I thought it was sort of a strange thing to report in the manner they did, but at the top of the hour, Fox just dropped a small report stating that police are analyzing something they discovered at Condit's apartment that may be blood.

Scientists Create Scores of Embryos to Harvest Stem Cells By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG WASHINGTON, July 10 — Breaking a taboo against creating human embryos expressly for medical experiments, scientists at a Virginia fertility clinic have mixed donated eggs and sperm to derive embryonic stem cells, the primordial cells at the crux of a national debate over federal research funding. The experiment was conducted at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va., a privately financed clinic that pioneered in vitro fertilization in this country. It is not a major scientific advance, experts say, because stem cells have already been ...

Adventures in Ideology by Peter Orvetti, May 2001 One of the rules of life I have learned the hard way is, "Don't leave a paper trail." Ideas change as situations do, but in an era when every word might be archived on the Internet for ages, extreme caution is required. Strewn across my short life history are dozens of political essays -- fairly well written, some are even well argued. But having come into a certain maturity at age 26, I now find I disagree with almost all of them, because they come from political extremes I visited and then ...

Abstinence from sex new class The Associated Press Seventh-graders in Meridian and Lauderdale County schools are scheduled to take a new and somewhat controversial course on sexual abstinence this fall. The aim of the initiative is to convince teenagers to say no to premarital sex, officials said. Parents were notified of the new program through letters sent earlier this spring, and officials say another round of letters to parents will be sent before students return to classes in about six weeks. Funding for the course — a national initiative — is being sought through a grant from the Mississippi Department ...

Study: Clones Have Hidden, Dangerous Flaws By Amanda Onion ABCNEWS.comDolly the cloned sheep turns 5 today, but scientists still don't understand why she is abnormally obese. A new study hints to the causes of clones' hidden flaws and sounds a word of caution against cloning humans. Nearly 98 percent of attempts to clone animals have failed and those that do survive often appear abnormal and grossly enlarged. Now researchers say they have new evidence to explain why. By tracing specific genes in cloned mice, Rudolph Jaenisch, a biologist at Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues, found ...

CNN CROSSFIRE Is the Republican Party Reviving Itself in the Northeast or Heading Straight for Oblivion? Aired June 27, 2001 - 19:30   ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BRET SCHUNDLER (R), NEW JERSEY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE: They said that it couldn't be done, but you proved it otherwise. (APPLAUSE) (END VIDEO CLIP) ROBERT NOVAK, CO-HOST: Tonight: A big win for conservatives in New Jersey. But ...

Just a meeting place for all the NJ Republicans to post their turnout reports, exit poll reports, and of course, tonight's results. Go Brett! Be Seeing You, Chris

On the Braves telecast, the announcer related this story. He said something about how we all have our travel related nightmare stories, but that last night, the Braves were delayed getting out because they got stuck in a tunnel behind a broken down float from a gay pride parade.The announcer's quote was "Only in New York, folks. I'm not making this up."

Harkin Feels Limited on Farm Budget by Philip Brasher AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee says he feels constrained to hold emergency farm relief this year to $5.5 billion because of spending limits in the congressional budget agreement. ''I feel like I've been handed the wheel of a ship when somebody locked the rudder in place,'' Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Friday. ''I'm just going to have to work with that.'' An aid package that size would push government farm payments to more than $21 billion this year. The congressional budget plan ...

Bush Nominates Conservative Judge CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- President Bush nominated conservative judge Carolyn B. Kuhl on Friday to a federal appeals court considered among the most liberal in the country. The White House announced that Kuhl of Los Angeles County Superior Court is Bush's choice for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Kuhl must be confirmed by the Senate, where Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., promised not to block a vote. Feinstein had raised objections with the White House after it floated Kuhl's name for the federal bench without consulting California lawmakers. Feinstein has since ...

Hi all.Seems we have had quite an influx of new posters of late, particularly a whole slew of former L.dotters. Reading the thread where most of these L.dot refugees (*grin*) first posted to, I realized that there is a lot to learn for a newbie here at Free Republic.We have the HTML Sandbox and the HTML Bootcamp which can help with the HTML for use here (and elsewhere), and we have Alamo-girl's Welcome Desk. However, I am sensing that a general purpose FAQ would have value.What I am thinking is that the FAQ would have sections on the basics (what ...