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***Media Research Center CyberAlert*** Wednesday March 1, 2000 (Vol. Five; No. 36) McCain Voters Prefer Gore: Bush's Fault; Granny D, NBC Hero; Gentle Bus #### Distributed to more than 5,700 recipients by the Media Research Center, bringing political balance to the media. Visit the MRC on the Web: http://www.mediaresearch.org. Past CyberAlerts are available at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/news/cyberalert/ Subscribe/unsubscribe information at end of this message. #### 1) Bush won, but CBS still focused on his "difficult day on the stump" denying he's anti-Catholic. The exit poll found 42 percent of McCain voters plan to vote for Gore this fall, a finding CBS and ...

Woman jailed for keeping her girls from their father, a sex offender. By Andrea Ball American-Statesman Staff Saturday, February 19, 2000 First sternly, then gently, the judge repeated the question to the sobbing Austin mother: Where are your children? Debbie Schmidt leaned forward in her chair, blond head bowed, shoulders heaving. "I don't want to disrespect you, ma'am, but I can't tell you," she said, choking out the words. That answer Friday landed Schmidt back in the Travis County Correctional Complex, where she has spent the past 10 days for hiding her two young daughters from their California father, ...

Police Department Accused of Raiding Another Wrong Home The Associated Press HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A pregnant mother of three says officers searching for illegal drugs mistakenly raided her home, the second such allegation levied against the Hallandale Police Department. Tracey Bell, 28, said she was chatting on the phone with her mother Feb. 2 when heavily armed Hallandale Beach police officers broke through her door in search of illegal drugs. A Hallandale Beach couple last year accused the department of doing the same thing. Bell, who is nine months pregnant, said the officers threw her on the floor ...

Clinton to Meet Internet Leaders on Cyber Threats WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton will convene a meeting on Tuesday of government officials and leaders in the Internet business community to respond to this week's attacks on popular Web sites. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said on Friday that Clinton wanted to bring the group together ``to talk about what our overall long-term plan is and to work through whether we're doing everything we can now.'' Hackers knocked out popular sites Yahoo! (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news) , the largest independent Web site, leading retailers Buy.com (BUYX.0), eBay (NasdaqNM:EBAY - news) , Amazon.com ...

Police Department Accused of Raiding Another Wrong Home The Associated Press HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A pregnant mother of three says officers searching for illegal drugs mistakenly raided her home, the second such allegation levied against the Hallandale Police Department. Tracey Bell, 28, said she was chatting on the phone with her mother Feb. 2 when heavily armed Hallandale Beach police officers broke through her door in search of illegal drugs. A Hallandale Beach couple last year accused the department of doing the same thing. Bell, who is nine months pregnant, said the officers threw her on the floor ...

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1st Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. 2nd Amendment A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 3rd Amendment No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without ...

Just watched the vote on C-Span. The Levin amendment has not passed. It wasn't even close. I don't have the exact numbers but I think it was 68 against and 27 for. Yoohoo....

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles could wind up being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars over its worst police scandal in 60 years and one prominent attorney is even predicting financial ruin for America's second largest city. Other lawyers agree that civil rights lawsuits stemming from hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wrongful convictions based on planted evidence and perjured testimony by rogue cops could be costly for the city. But they doubt that its coffers are about to be sucked dry. The scandal plaguing the Los Angeles Police Department has so far led to a judge overturning the convictions ...

I have been TRYING to understand the Democrooks positions on some pretty testy issues but have yet to get it. For instance, a question was asked to Bradley if he has ever cried after victory or defeat in a basketball game. GIVE ME A BREAK.... ZERO SUBSTANCE ..... I FEEL YOUR PAIN CRAP .... Neither of these guys deserve to be running, even on the Democrook party. Let's throw them some real hardball questions Judy, like "How's the weather up there Bill?"

Who do you think won the debate tonite? Go to VOTE.COM and see the results.

The National Guard is Engaging in Unconstitutional Searches and Seizures in Granger County, Tennessee Today on my syndicated Radio program on the Genesis Communication Network a caller identifying herself as "Sue" in Granger County, Tennessee relayed information about military conducting random warrantless searches in conjunction with the Granger County Sheriff’s Department on the night of Saturday, January 15, 2000. I then confirmed the validity of the story on the air, by calling the local newspaper, The Granger County News. Still on air I proceeded to call the Granger County Sheriff’s Department. After a short conversation with the Public Relations ...

Clinton Favors Computer Snooping by Declan McCullagh 6:00 p.m. 19.Jan.2000 PST WASHINGTON -- Visions of stealthy black helicopters landing on your lawn and disgorging Nomex-clad troops to steal your PGP keys aren't just for conspiracy theorists. The Clinton administration wants to be able to send federal agents armed with search warrants into homes to copy encryption keys and implant secret back doors onto computers. More Infostructure in Wired News Read more Politics -- from Wired News See also: Fidnet Eases Up on Net Plan "When criminals like drug dealers and terrorists use encryption to conceal their communications, law enforcement ...

U.S. taxpayers find laws too complex, confusing WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The biggest problem facing taxpayers as they prepare to file their 1999 returns is the complexity of tax laws, a report released Tuesday by the Internal Revenue Service said. ``The most basic aspects of the tax law, such as filing status, exemptions and the Earned Income Tax Credit, are complicated and contain exceptions and special rules that many taxpayers do not understand,'' the IRS' Taxpayer Advocate Service said in a report to Congress. ``The yearly enactment of new laws, as well as amendments to existing statutes, creates confusion ...

Ex-N.J. Police Chief Gets 4 Years CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) _ A former police chief has been sentenced to four years in prison for leading a band of rogue officers in what prosecutors say was the most corrupt department in New Jersey history. Retired West New York Police Chief Alexander V. Oriente ``represented a nightmare scenario in law enforcement,'' U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary said Wednesday. Prosecutors say Oriente and members of his 140-officer department took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from 1989 to 1997 to shield prostitutes, illicit liquor sales and illegal gambling operations in the ...

Top World News Wed, 05 Jan 2000, 2:31pm EST Clinton Weighs $10 Million Job at Lazard After Presidency, Magazine Says By Christopher Paris Washington, Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Bill Clinton will join the New York investment firm Lazard Freres following the end of his presidency in January 2001, Washingtonian Magazine reported, citing unnamed sources. Clinton would be paid a salary of $8 million with $2 million in possible bonuses and he'd join his friend Vernon Jordan who became senior managing director at Lazard Freres in January and may have helped arrange a post for Clinton, the magazine said. In ...

I was just out for a while (getting gas) and I noticed that at virtually every gas station I passed by that lines were starting to form. Some people are actually filling up extra containers. I guess the sheeple are FINALLY getting around to those Y2K preparations.

TALE OF THE TAPE /// 11:41 AM ET/// WCBS-AM in NYC is reporting that the FBI uncovered a car in Coney Island filled with explosives. First reports said an arrest was made.... 11:53 /// CBS is reporting that Giuliani says it has nothing to do with Wash. or Vermont collar, but NBC in NYC is saying that the Brooklyn collar was made based on phone records between the Wash. perp. and this guy in Brooklyn... 11:58 /// Entirely an FBI caper. Giuliani referred all questions regarding the actually arrest to the US Attorney's office and the FBI. Helecopter pictures over ...

Ex-Beatle Harrison Stable After Stabbing Updated 11.09 a.m. ET (1609 GMT) December 30, 1999 HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England — Former Beatle George Harrison was stabbed in the chest by an intruder who broke into his home in a pre-dawn attack near London, police officials said today. Dave Caulkin/AP A police officer stands on guard outside the gatehouse of George and Olivia Harrison's mansion in Henley, Oxfordshire The spokesman said Harrison, 56, was in stable condition in hospital after fighting off the intruder at his closely guarded home in Henley-on-Thames, west of London. His wife, Olivia, was also wounded in the attack. ...

Dubbed the name A2K for Austin 2000 the city will host a free New Years bash with top name entertainment, light/laser shows and of course lots of drinking and partying. A corridor of 9 square blocks will be closed off for the expected 200,000 people that could show up. A2K Web Site

ABILENE, TX_Pat Barber used to be the prosecutor for Mitchell County, Texas. So when his car was pulled over on Interstate 20 there last spring by uniformed officers of the West Central Texas Inter- Crime Task Force, he knew he hadn't violated any traffic laws by tapping his brake lights to switch off his cruise control. It certainly didn't give these troopers reasonable cause to search his car. "I'm a lawyer, and not easy to intimidate. I am by trade trained to be an adversary and to resist police pressure," Barber tells HIGH TIMES. But when the troopers "began ...