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EDITORIAL • September 26, 2000 By any means necessary When Kathleen Willey Schwicker (formerly known as Kathleen Willey) related her story of sexual assault by President Clinton on "60 Minutes" in March 1998, she rocked the nation. Sen. Orrin Hatch was moved to say that if Mrs. Schwicker's story were true, "I think this presidency is over." Even more significant was the response of NOW's Patricia Ireland, suddenly shaken out of feminism's silent complicity on the subject of the president's serial abuse of women. "This is not just sexual harassment," Ms. Ireland said on CNN. "If it's true, this is ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE SEPT 26, 2000 00:48:43 ET XXXXX ABC NEWS SPIKES STORY ON MOLE; REPORTER, PRODUCER 'FURIOUS' **Exclusive** ABC NEWS on Monday afternoon spiked a story that was set to air on WORLD NEWS TONIGHT WITH PETER JENNINGS -- a story that featured an on-camera interview with a source who claimed a Gore staffer bragged about a mole inside of Bush headquarters! ABC NEWS award-winning reporter Jackie Judd and fearless producer Chris Vlasto sat in horror as they were told their investigation would not see the light of day. There is now only a remote possibility the ...

The first few lines of the Declaration of Independence are now the gold standard of government philosophies throughout world. More and more governments live by this philosophy. Those that don’t are forced to lie and say that they do abide by these ideals. Fewer and fewer peoples are willing to tolerate a government that does not abide by these rules. More and more people want to come to the country that wrote down and made these ideals real. What a strange time in human history to say that it is inappropriate for students to say these words in school. These ...

FBI agents investigating the case of lost-then-found nuke secrets at Los Alamos are focusing on three weapons scientists who appear to have worked in collusion, the LOS ANGELES TIMES will report on Wednesday. Officials tell the paper that "human error and arrogance, not espionage, appear to be the culprits in the deepening mystery. "It's a screw-up and a cover-up,'' said one source. "It's not a spy ring." The paper’s Bob Drogin has learned that three scientists under suspicion all gave conflicting answers in interviews, and indicated deception on lie detector tests. Developing...

On Monday Vice President Al Gore announced the "second American revolution." As president, he would lead the charge to wire the nation, making sure everyone had the opportunity to be online. "The next Thomas Edison or Marie Curie may be a child waiting in a ghetto or a rural hollow for the tools to learn and experiment," the vice president rhapsodized. "Let's get him — or her — wired and online." It turns out that Mr. Gore needn't have looked for underserved poor children any further than his own backyard, only their needs are more basic. Tenants of Mr. ...

For years, conservatives have complained that America's college campuses focus less on education than on the training and nurturing of radical activists. Academia's defenders have routinely dismissed such suggestions as right-wing paranoia. The criticism has been right on target. The New York Times reported last weekend that a new movement has taken root on college campuses - dubbed, in typical intellectual-babble, "postcolonial studies" - whose primary objective is to radicalize students and turn them into political activists. Indeed, leaders of the movement are unabashed about their political aims. Barbara Harlow, who teaches English at the University of Texas, boasted ...

WASHINGTON –– The Federal Election Commission on Wednesday dismissed a conservative group's complaint against Hillary Rodham Clinton over an arrangement for a home loan with a prominent Democratic fund-raiser. The Conservative Campaign Fund alleged in September that the first lady and Terry McAuliffe violated federal election law when McAuliffe agreed to co-sign for the Clintons' $1.7 million home in Westchester County. Criticism of the arrangement led the Clintons to finance the five-bedroom home themselves. The group had argued that personal loans and guarantees for personal loans have always been treated the same as campaign contributions and are subject to ...

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Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have skipped recent school board votes in Little Rock, Ark., and Chappaqua, N.Y., respectively, although the president claims he really did vote in the Arkansas election. Meredith Oakley, associate editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, wrote recently that the president "had the audacity to claim that he had postponed transferring his voter registration from his mother-in-law's Little Rock address to Chappaqua, which would enable him to vote for the missus in November, so that he could vote for the Little Rock School District's requested 5-mill tax increase. A subsequent check revealed that an ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The California Assembly narrowly approved an Internet tax measure Tuesday that could rake in tens of millions of dollars for a state whose economic good times have been largely driven by high-tech. The bill, which clarifies state law regarding the taxation of Internet purchases, comes as lawmakers across the country are grappling with similar issues regarding online sales. The proposal must still go through the state Senate and Gov. Gray Davis, whose office has said the Democrat is generally opposed to the idea of Internet taxation. "This bill is a clarification of existing law, and ...

The first National Nutrition Summit in 31 years is being held in Washington this week, President Clinton kicking things off over the weekend by issuing the federal government's new Dietary Guidelines 2000. Mr. Clinton, who claims he's not as big a fan of Ronald McDonald as the press has made him out to be, is encouraging Americans to choose more whole-grain foods and a variety of fruits and vegetables every day, and moderate the saturated fat, cholesterol, sugar, salt and alcohol in our diets. All well and good advice from our commander in chief except, according to one hospitality ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Friday he was concerned about the possibility of power blackouts in some parts of the country this summer. "We don't want to panic anybody, but we are concerned in the upper Midwest, in California, in the Southwest and parts of the Northeast," Richardson told CBS News. "These are areas that are especially vulnerable because of inadequate transmission, inadequate capacity, and we're worried, so we have had a number of emergency drills," he said. Earlier this week the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) issued its annual summer assessment, saying utilities ...

It occured to me that just one person emailing an article to his or her Congresscritter doesn't have much impact. Here's an idea: If we all email the following article to Representitives whose last names begin with "A" on Monday, "B" on Tuesday, "C" on Wednesday, and so on, we could literally flood their "In" boxes with something about which they should be aware. Perhaps this could be coordinated with phone calls, etc. This is the article from Insight Magazine

The former top lawyer for the CIA is to appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today but will decline to answer questions about his role in a security investigation of former CIA Director John Deutch. Michael O'Neil will not answer questions from the panel until the Justice Department completes its review of whether CIA officials acted improperly in handling the investigation of Mr. Deutch, Roger Spaeder, an attorney for Mr. O'Neil, said in an interview. A Senate aide said the former CIA general counsel is expected to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during the closed-door hearing. The ...

We're not sure what President Clinton has been up to lately, but we have it on good authority that Tricia "Trish" Trupo — the struggling New York waitress stiffed by Hillary Rodham Clinton two weeks ago after the first lady devoured two orders of scrambled eggs, home fries and rye toast —received two suspicious envelopes in the mail. Postmarked by the post office nearest the White House, the first envelope contained a DC Powerball lottery ticket, with "Socks the Cat" scribbled as the return address. A $5 bill was tucked into the second envelope, licked shut and mailed by ...

WEST PALM BEACH - Peter Kessler didn't mean to start an avalanche, but now that it's rolling, he's really enjoying the show. A week ago today, someone posted a news story that caught Kessler's eye on FreeRepublic.com, a conservative Web site. It was about Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign entourage having breakfast at a cafe in Albion, NY, and forgetting to tip the waitress - a single, uninsured mother who makes only $5,000.00 a year outside of tips. "My comment was, 'Gee, maybe we should take up a collection for this poor woman,'" Kessler recalled. The comment, which Kessler posted ...

The Al Gore Whopper Watch continues apace -- with the vice president constantly providing fresh evidence that his relationship with the truth has become positively Clintonian. Gore's latest problem, however, goes far beyond the bizarre "I invented the Internet" and "I inspired ‘Love Story'" tall tales. It's even more significant than his desperately disingenuous effort to deny the truth about his 180-degree turn on the abortion issue. The vice president, according to FBI documents released by Congress two months ago -- to little media attention, unfortunately -- did an about-face when questioned about the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign fund-raising scandals. ...

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott Thursday stopped a Republican effort to block President Clinton's judicial nominees, a day after Mr. Clinton appointed to the Federal Election Commission a Republican who favors unlimited campaign donations. "I don't think we would be able to go all year without confirming any nominees," Mr. Lott, Mississippi Republican, told Sen. James M. Inhofe on the Senate floor. "In some of these states, there truly is a need for more judges." Mr. Lott's office denied there was a connection between his action and Mr. Clinton's appointment of Bradley Smith to the FEC. That appointment is ...

More than $85,000 from Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's (R-Miss.) leadership PAC was stolen by the PAC's bookkeeper last year to fuel a drug habit. The embezzlement was disclosed in a Jan. 31 filing to the Federal Election Commission that included 10 months of corrected reports for Lott's political action committee, the New Republican Majority Fund. The PAC employee, James Reed, a Mississippi native who has resided in Alexandria, Va., was fired and his family has fully reimbursed the PAC, according to a letter from the PAC's attorney, John Dowd of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. No criminal or ...

Underdog Bill Bradley yesterday refused to say whether Veep Al Gore is fit to be president as the 2000 Democratic race got rougher -- literally down and dirty -- on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. Asked on ABC-TV's "This Week" if Gore is fit for the Oval Office, Bradley refused to give a direct answer, saying: "The American people are going to have to make that decision." Bradley kept painting Gore as a liar, and the angry veep -- struggling to hang on to a shrinking lead -- accused him of "divisive and manipulative attacks" that will ...