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The US Supreme Court has agreed to take the Bush appeal on the Florida recount. Briefs must be filed by Thursday.

ovember 9, 2000 Gore's Gambit. Lobbyists were being hit up late yesterday by Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign for contributions that will help bankroll the army of 50 lawyers that has descended upon Florida to raise questions about election results in the Sunshine State. One source said the calls from the Gore campaign were part of an effort to raise a fast $3 million by Friday in order to investigate any potential shenanigans that could help shift the state's 25 electoral votes into the Democratic column and throw the election to the Veep. "They're going all out," said one ...

Elections supervisor discovers forged ballot By Scott Streater News Journal staff writer A fraudulent absentee ballot in Pensacola has sparked a criminal probe into potentially widespread voter fraud that could further muddy a presidential election whose outcome hinges on several thousand votes in Florida. The State Attorney's Office is leading an investigation into whether the forged ballot is part of a much broader scheme to redirect mailed ballots to someone who filled them out and forged the voter's signature. ``I agree there may well be more than just this one,'' said Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar, who is heading ...

THE CLINTON-GORE-MILOSEVIC CONNECTION In spite of the grimness of the joke, I had to laugh when I got the press release from the "election observers" invited by the Yugoslav government to give the good government seal of approval to Slobodan Milosevic's recent exercise in ballot box stuffing. While parliamentarians and others from the West were largely excluded, a coalition of Communist and other leftist parties and "independents" from Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Germany, India, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Moldavia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Palestine, Portugal, and Slovenia eagerly accepted the invitation to take a ...

THE CLINTON-GORE-MILOSEVIC CONNECTION In spite of the grimness of the joke, I had to laugh when I got the press release from the "election observers" invited by the Yugoslav government to give the good government seal of approval to Slobodan Milosevic's recent exercise in ballot box stuffing. While parliamentarians and others from the West were largely excluded, a coalition of Communist and other leftist parties and "independents" from Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Germany, India, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Moldavia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Palestine, Portugal, and Slovenia eagerly accepted the invitation to take a ...

My first vanity (I think), but I couldn't resist -- and this is real news. The Buchanan campaign has secured ballot status in California! And here's how it went down. . . . The state executive committee of the Reform Party, with a slim majority by the Verney Wrecking Crew, had taken Pat's name off -- but Buchanan brought in some big legal guns and sued Bill Jones, the California secretary of state. At the hearing today, the Buchanan lawyers were so good that they convinced Jones even before the hearing even began, so Jones folded -- and Buchanan is ...

Behind the Headlines by Justin Raimondo Antiwar.com August 14, 2000 Dispatches From the Front THE BUCHANAN MOMENT As the confetti fell, and the last phrases of Buchanan's acceptance speech echoed against the rafters of the Long Beach Convention Center, the near universal hiss from pundits on both the left and the right rose up like a chorus of cicadas. Pat's appearance on Meet the Press with the obnoxious Tim Russert is typical of what we must come to expect: here is the only presidential candidate talking about the vital foreign policy issues – the uniquely presidential issues – that will ...

Friday June 30 7:23 PM ET Perot Won't Run for President By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer Ross Perot rejected supporters' efforts to put his name on the Reform Party's primary ballot Friday, clearing a hurdle for Pat Buchanan (news - web sites)'s presidential bid. Russell Verney, Perot's spokesman, said the Texas billionaire decided against running in the primary because he had no intention of actually competing for the White House against Republican George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites).

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elian Gonzalez and his family left their secluded retreat in Maryland on Saturday to visit the home of prominent Democratic Party benefactors in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood. Elian, the 6-year-old Cuban castaway who has become the focus of a heated battle over his future, has been staying with his father, stepmother and younger half brother at the Wye River Plantation, about 55 miles east of Washington, since April 25. But Saturday night they went by police-escorted motorcade to the home of Smith and Elizabeth Bagley, who have been active in Democratic fund-raising efforts. Bagley is a foundation ...

The following is the text of a letter sent to Mark Gimein, author of "'Fair Use' versus Foul Play, which appears today in Salon at the following url: http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/11/10/copyright/index.html As anyone can see who bothers to go to freerepublic.com, links to the original article are indeed included on virtually every article. It is interesting how you openly admit that you sat down to write some preconceived diatribe without investigating the facts. But what else could we expect from someone who extolls the theft of corporate documents but hails the crushing of a popular citizens' bulletin board by the armed fist ...

As anyone can see who bothers to go to freerepublic.com, links to the original article are indeed included on virtually every article. It is interesting how you openly admit that you sat down to write some preconceived diatribe without investigating the facts. But what else could we expect from someone who extolls the theft of corporate documents but hails the crushing of a popular citizens' bulletin board by the armed fist of the State. The following is the text of a letter sent to Mark Gimein, author of "'Fair Use' versus Foul Play, which appears today in Salon at the ...

From such worthies as Bill Kristol, William Safire, Charles Krauthammer, and all the usual suspects on the neoconservative "Right," to Chris Matthews, the Anti-Defamation League, Salon.com, and what remains of the Popular Front coalition of the 1930s, the chorus of condemnation is not only loud: these people are practically frothing at the mouth. This impressive display of Left-Right unanimity underscores the narrowness of the politically permissible and the reality of the ideological dictatorship we are living under. The war cries of the media lynch mob are stunning in their vehemence and their variety: "Isolationist!"-- "nativist" - "racist"-"fascist" - "Hitler-lovin' Nazi" ...

The following is a transcript of a thread on Lucianne.com, home of the late and largely unlamented defector from Freerepublic.com, the Stalinesque Lucianne Goldberg (who else would put her own haughty photo at the top of EVERY page on her website?) It shows the fanatic hatred that these phony "conservatives" have for PJB, which even stoops to sexual innuendo. Without more ado, here is the slime-trail for all to follow: To quidnunc Do you think that now would be a good time to bring up how Pat avoided military service because of a physical condition usually associated with VD? Posted ...

It started in Bosnia, reached a crescendo in Kosovo, and now is completed in the case of East Timor: the complete transformation of the War Party. Called "hawks" in the US, during the dark days of the Cold War, and traditionally lampooned in England as "Colonel Blimps," these characters created a whole antiwar movement simply as a reaction to their murderous arrogance and repulsive personalities. Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon, who became an archetype of human evil during the sixties, Robert McNamara, who used pseudo-scientific jargon to rationalize mass murder of Vietnamese civilians, and General Curtis E. LeMay, who ran with ...

It started in Bosnia, reached a crescendo in Kosovo, and now is completed in the case of East Timor: the complete transformation of the War Party. Called "hawks" in the US, during the dark days of the Cold War, and traditionally lampooned in England as "Colonel Blimps," these characters created a whole antiwar movement simply as a reaction to their murderous arrogance and repulsive personalities. Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon, who became an archetype of human evil during the sixties, Robert McNamara, who used pseudo-scientific jargon to rationalize mass murder of Vietnamese civilians, and General Curtis E. LeMay, who ran with ...

Editor's note: For the hard right, recent news about the 1993 raid on Davidian headquarters in Waco, Texas, is seen as a sign that the mainstream is finally waking up to the truth. This has not had a calming effect, PNS commentator Justin Raimondo writes, and may spread and intensify discontent. Raimondo is the author of "Reclaiming the American Right" (CLS Press, 1993), and the forthcoming "An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard." He is the editorial director of Antiwar.com. The Daily Oklahoman newspaper quoted Bob Ricks, the FBI's spokesman in 1993, as saying to Janet ...

Behind the Headlines August 27, 1999 IS IRAQ NEXT? With the Kosovo war, the criminal mendacity of U.S. foreign policy seemed to have reached its limit. The lies, the venality, the puffed-up grandiosity of our preening leaders and their repulsive spokespersons - surely, you think, it can't get any worse that @that@. But just wait until you see what they have cooked up for us come September -- a major new offensive in the U.S.-British war on Iraq, according to news reports. And preliminary indications are that it @can@ indeed get worse. RUMORS OF WAR The war on Iraq is ...

Behind the Headlines August 27, 1999 IS IRAQ NEXT? With the Kosovo war, the criminal mendacity of U.S. foreign policy seemed to have reached its limit. The lies, the venality, the puffed-up grandiosity of our preening leaders and their repulsive spokespersons - surely, you think, it can't get any worse that @that@. But just wait until you see what they have cooked up for us come September -- a major new offensive in the U.S.-British war on Iraq, according to news reports. And preliminary indications are that it @can@ indeed get worse. RUMORS OF WAR The war on Iraq is ...