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(Important information, originally posted by Howlin under the Weekly Standard's title, which may not have caught enough attention.) Lowering the Bar May was a bad month for presidential historians of the James Carville school. By majority vote, a six-member committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court -- at least three of whom appear to be Democrats -- recommended that Bill Clinton be disbarred for his various violations of legal ethics during the Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky matters. This decision went rather far to explode the standard Carvillean thesis: that the president did nothing wrong enough to warrant any official sanction. ...

The list of the 26 entities giving or raising $500,000 or more at last Wednesday's DNC expletive-fest was listed in Washington Post article. I did me a little searching using Alta Vista to get a sense of who these people are, and figured I'd post it in case anyone is interested or cares to comment: S. Daniel Abraham West Palm Beach, FL Mother Jones quote, 4/96: "Abraham owns Slim-Fast and Thompson Medical Company, controlling 70 percent of the $1.3 billion appetite-suppressant and meal replacement market. The company has been under attack for negligence, breach of warranty, and product liability issues, ...

Internal Justice [LaBella] Memo Excuses Loral From Funds Probe Inquiry: [LaBella] Task force found no wrongdoing between Clinton and firm that sought to launch satellite in China. Focus has been on refusal to appoint counsel in case. By WILLIAM C. REMPEL, ALAN C. MILLER, Times Staff Writers  WASHINGTON--When Sen. Arlen Specter recently obtained the internal Justice Department memo of former campaign finance task force chief Charles G. LaBella, the Pennsylvania Republican used it to resurrect a favorite partisan target: President Clinton's approval for Loral Space and Communications Corp. to launch a satellite from China two years ago. At the ...

Editorial, 13 May 2000, translated from the major Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf: Didn't Reach ThemThere has been a true epidemic of stabbings in Amsterdam this year. April was an especially bad month according to the police. The police spokesman admitted in the same breath that last year's major campaign to turn in knives and other weapons did not reach the aggressive types as had been envisioned. Particularly those who pull a knife at the least provocation are the least impressed by any form of protest against street violence. Unfortunately, this last realization should not be too surprising. Only the most ...

Well, it seems that NBC has already overcome the concern about having its news crew beat up in the Elian raid and is ready to capitalize on the story as a TV Movie Drama.

Did you see the performance by William J. Clinton and Jay Leno on the WH Correspondent's Suck-up last night? If you had the intestinal fortitude to sit thru it all, you have earned my eternal admiration, provided you did not like it one bit. I have to admit that the irrelevant, lonely president bit was funny on principle and as-produced, but not funny if you thought about what Clinton was really thinking while taping it. One of the little gimmicks was the resume bit. Let's work on the content of a realistic and truthful resume that the perjurer-in-chief could send ...

My wife got an e-mail from her uninformed, liberal New York sister who has never taken the time to get the facts beyond the stuff she sees on TV and gets to do video editing on at CBS. Eight years of my wife's accumulated frustration with and reading on the left wing bastards found release in an excellent summation of what the crooks in the White House have been up to. I thought it was classic and I want to share her stream-of-consciousness tirade with all of my buds at FR, for comment and further use. Here goes ... Liberal ...

The following quote probably represents the sentiments of most, if not all, FReepers: "The preservation of our liberties depends on an enlightened citizenry. Those who get most of their news from television probably are not getting enough information to intelligently exercise their voting franchise in a democratic system. As Thomas Jefferson said, the nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never can and never will be. We can bring that up-to-date and amplify it a bit: the nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the ...

Judicial Watch's top-10 wish list for 2000 © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com As the world enters a new millennium (God willing, given Y2K and the threat of terrorism), Judicial Watch reflects on its five-and-one-half-year history and success in fighting corruption in government. However, it recognizes that much work needs to be done, principally bringing a dishonest and criminal Clinton administration to justice, where Congress and the Justice Department have either abdicated or obstructed their duties and responsibilities. If this cannot be accomplished, a dangerous precedent will be set for future generations: that the ruling political class is above the law, and ...

December 27, 1999 STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 27, 1999 STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY President Clinton's Visit to World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland President Clinton will visit Davos, Switzerland on January 29, 2000 to attend the 30th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, a gathering of world leaders from business, political, and academic communities. The President?s visit represents an important opportunity to discuss his vision of globalization as we enter the 21st century. ###

WASHINGTON (SFC Press) - The first draft of BillyJeff Clinton's Thanksgiving proclamation for 1999 has been leaked to the Washington Press Corps. The official version issued by the White House press office Saturday, 20 November 1999 from Florence, Italy, corrected some of the initial Clintonian details. However, for the benefit of presidential historians, SFC Press has reconstructed the first draft in order to give insight into the deep, incisive and unheralded brilliant thought processes of the man who, according to Al Gore, will ultimately be recognized as one of America's Greatest Presidents. Prizes (in the form of deep admiration) to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton's Thanksgiving proclamation for 1999, issued by the White House press office Saturday from Florence, Italy, minutes before they realized it was the President's early draft and quickly replaced it with the official one:   Well over three and a half centuries ago, strengthened by faith and bound by a common desire for liberty, a small band of Pilgrims sought out a place in the New World where they could worship according to their own beliefs. Surviving their first harsh winter in Massachusetts and grateful to a merciful God for a sustaining harvest, the men and ...

Friday November 19 7:46 PM ET Tax Man Collects From 'Millionaire' By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Richard Nixon was worth $1 million to the first "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" contestant to win the top prize.Appearing on ABC's hit quiz show airing Friday night, John Carpenter, a 31-year-old Internal Revenue Service employee, wasn't taxed by the final question: Which of these U.S. presidents appeared on the television series "Laugh-In"? A. Lyndon Johnson; B. Richard Nixon; C. Jimmy Carter; D. Gerald Ford.The correct answer, of course, was Nixon, who as a presidential candidate in 1968 ...

Mayor Willie Brown said allegations that mayoral challenger Clint Reilly hit and kicked a former girlfriend are relevant to the election. "Once you submit yourself to run for public office you submit yourself to critical, close examination about every aspect of who you are and what you're about," Brown said Wednesday. "And from a voter's standpoint, it's all relevant." The comments were the first public statement by the mayor on last week's allegation by his campaign manager, Jack Davis, that Reilly in 1980 knocked a girlfriend to the ground during an argument, kicked her and broke her ribs and jaw.

I did not see anybody a FR key on this atrocity last weekend. This is from the transcript of Fox News Sunday. I lost my appetite last Sunday night as my wife played her FNS tape for our dinner entertainment ... SNOW: You're going to have hearings next week on China. Tell us about it. LOTT: Yes, we are. As a matter of fact, I continue to be amazed that instead of trying to, you know, solve the problems that we found at the nuclear labs, Secretary Richardson and the administration are resisting. See, it's not a question of how ...

Here's a little test of our confidence in and admiration for our Commander-in-Chief. I spent a little time last week going through our catalog of photographs in our company's photo lab to select some that would be useful for a marketing brochure. The photo lab staff had the radio on as I was flipping through pages of photos. During the on-the-hour newscast a clip of our illustrious TROPIMPOTUS came on, with him promoting some pandering lie or other. The moment his voice came on, they whacked down the volume to zero, turning it up cautiously again after a while to ...

Don't know about you, but I'm suffering "willide-withdrawal". We need more of them colorful sayings and we're running low. Here's a recap of some of the winners of the last month or so ... Famous willide quotes on FR: They're workin like weevils in a barrel of flour. Bullshit. And believe me, I know what bullshit is. I've stepped in, landed in, and hopped over more piles of it than there is grits in a iron pot. I wouldn't piss in a libertarian's ass if his guts was on fire. Madder 'n a red-ass goat. You gotta swim in what ...

--- for fair discussion only --- Some Tips on Surviving an Internship Without a Grant of Immunity New York Times - Week in Review It's been a year and a half since the word "intern" became a punchline, time enough, perhaps, to purge the national consciousness of tiresome jokes about fringe benefits and dry cleaning. And time enough for interns to resume their rightful place at the bottom of the office food chain, no matter how they got their jobs or how much money their parents gave the campaign. Throughout history, interns have labored in obscurity, working long hours for ...