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A federal judge handed a landmark victory to Kane County and the state of Utah on Wednesday in a years-long dispute with the federal government over whether some rural routes should remain in use as roads, or if they should be closed to the public. In two decisions, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups found he had jurisdiction to hear Kane County's claim, gave parameters for "reasonable" right-of-way widths on some routes and determined that 12 of 15 routes in dispute were roads and therefore accessible by the public. The distinction hinged on an 1866 law through which Congress sought to...

** EXCERPT ** With a large charitable donation in hand, Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady flew to Little Rock to dine with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a 1993 gala honoring her as an "Arkansan of the Year" at a time his company, a multibillion dollar banking conglomerate, was seeking an end to a 30-year trade embargo with Vietnam. Five days after the March 4, 1993, dinner at the Excelsior Hotel, Mr. Riady took the embargo question directly to President Clinton, saying in a four-page letter that its demise would bring political reforms in that communist country. By that time,...

Scandals: Hillary Clinton calls President Bush's talks with the Saudis about increasing oil output "pathetic." But it's not as pathetic as her co-president husband locking up billions of tons of clean coal in exchange for political contributions.As Bush wrapped up his Middle East trip, Sen. Clinton commented: "President Bush is over in the Gulf now begging the Saudis and others to drop the price of oil. How pathetic." A large part of America's energy dependence on foreign sources can be traced to Sept. 18, 1996, when President Bill Clinton stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon on the Arizona...

Beijing, China (AHN) - China confirmed Tuesday that it had tested anti-satellite weapon. However, it added that the nation does not have intentions of an arms race in space. Beijing said it had officially told the governments of the U.S., and Japan about the missile test. The Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said China was interested only in "peaceful development of outer space." The satellite intercept test is said to be the first of its kind in well over 20 years and there are concerns that it may give rise to a space arms race. An article in the American...

Most terminal operators at U.S. ports are foreign companies and some are owned in part by foreign governments. APL, which manages terminals in Oakland, Los Angeles, Seattle and Alaska, is owned by the NOL Group, which is majority owned by the Singapore government. The Chinese government owns part of a company that operates a terminal at the Port of Long Beach. That company, Cosco Container Lines, a division of China Cosco, caused a stir similar to the current one back in 1998. Cosco ships had been calling on the Port of Long Beach for many years, using a public terminal....

It resembles a giant bamboo shoot, can carry people more than a kilometre skyward in less than 40 seconds, and yesterday it was officially declared the world's tallest building. The 508 metre tall building in Taipei's Hsinyi district is 56 metres taller than the previous record holder, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The opening of Taipei 101 - a reference to the number of floors - was attended by local dignitaries keen to bask in the glory of one of Asia's most ambitious engineering projects ever. As an opera company entertained the crowd, the world's fastest passenger lifts whisked...

There are times when Hillary Clinton must wish that her husband were dead. Don't get me wrong. I want Bill Clinton to live a long and scandal-filled life. I have no plans to hurl an ashtray at the former beach-boy president. In fact, I would take a bullet for Bill Clinton if only to protect my income as a reporter. However, if Hillary wants to win the White House, she could make it a cakewalk if Bill were pushing up daises. Imagine Hillary running for president if Bill were suddenly to die. The former first lady would be the object...

  link to movierequires Flash Player 6, available HERE CLINTON TURNED DOWN SUDAN'S OFFERS OF BIN LADENHEAR CLINTON'S SECRETLY TAPED "ADMISSION" NOW by Mia T, 3.28.04   "The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They...

CLARKE WITNESSED FIRST-HAND THE CLINTONS' UTTER FAILURE TO FIGHT TERRORISM "If Clarke's plan had been implemented, [i.e., if clinton had responded to the bombing of the USS Cole, a clear act of war, militarily instead of telephonically!] al Qaeda's infrastructure would have been demolished and bin Laden might well have been killed. Sept. 11, 2001 might have been just another sunny day" [So the real question that requires answering is this: Why did this legacy-obsessed president miss a golden opportunity to secure his legacy for all time by wiping out terrorism, then in its incipient stage and stoppable? Was...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry: "Call me irresponsible."(Call it: "Putting my out-Deaning Dean ahead of the troops.")     Mia T, 3.17.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com    ne•o-ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n. neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e.,...

ALERT! CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme team is reactivated and in high gear... March 20, 2004 Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda By PHILIP SHENON ASHINGTON, March 19 --Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation --and how the new administration was slow to act. They said the warnings were delivered in urgent post-election intelligence briefings in...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's flip-flop opportunism(Bush tweaks Kerry; Kerry tweaks Bush's anti-Kerry ad)     Mia T, 3.17.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com    ne•o-ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n. neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e., while surrendering to...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's flip-flop opportunism   Mia T, 3.17.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com    ne•o-ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n. neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e., while surrendering to the terrorists, as it continues the traditional '60s...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's Vietnam Quagmire   Mia T, 3.16.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) http://johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com  The Bush administration is so enthralled by the idea of preemption and American military might….This is the consequence of a policy that regards legitimacy as largely a product of force and victory as primarily a triumph of arms. But as we discovered in Vietnam, success on the battlefield, or even in a series of battles, can often be the beginning and not the end of a conflict. John Kerry...

BUSH KNEW: yesterday's outmoded, outré idea, tomorrow's rage by Mia T, 3.12.04 Not unexpectedly, the web appears to have been wiped clean of that image. Anyone have pic of Hillary holding up "BUSH KNEW" headline in Senate?   very fashionista understands the capriciousness of style. Yesterday's outmoded, outré idea can become tomorrow's rage. Literally. And at the drop of a hat. In 2002, within a day of brandishing the New York Post BUSH KNEW front page like an uzi on the Senate floor, missus clinton, no doubt animated by overnight polling supporting our Commander-in-Chief, quickly disarmed and retreated; and the...

      Kerry's(?) Veep Short List by Mia T, 3.11.04 ALL Double, trouble TOIL for HUBBELL; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. THIRD WITCH (a stealth Conservative) Scale of BONIOR, tooth of WOLF, HILLARY'S memory, maw and gulf A ravin'd salt-sea shark, Ears of the MARTINS digg'd i' the dark, Gall of BILL, and McCURRY'S slips "Noes" of LANNY, and HUBBELL'S lips,Finger of ICKES ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab:Add thereto a Chinese squadron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. ALL Double, trouble TOIL for HUBBELL; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. SECOND WITCH: Cool it with...

clintonCREEP: Just who is in charge of the Kerry campaign anyway?(Elect Kerry (or any Dem) AND YOU GET THE CLINTONS) by Mia T, 3.9.04 NEW! hillary talks: VEEP CREEP (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com by Mia T, 3.7.04   Uber Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton is warning all-but-certain presidential nominee John Kerry to back off if he's thinking about replacing party chairman Terry McAuliffe before the election. Asked about rumblings that the Kerry camp wanted to toss McAuliffe over the side, Clinton told the New York Times on Friday, "Terry has...

Kerry VEEP: Hear hillary(White-House Zipper-Hoist2 Attempt?) by Mia T, 3.8.04 NEW! hillary talks: DEEP VEEP (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com by Mia T, 3.7.04   Uber Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton is warning all-but-certain presidential nominee John Kerry to back off if he's thinking about replacing party chairman Terry McAuliffe before the election. Asked about rumblings that the Kerry camp wanted to toss McAuliffe over the side, Clinton told the New York Times on Friday, "Terry has helped the Democratic Party move into the 21st century to compete against the incredible...

NEW! hillary talks:DEEP VEEP (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)   Uber Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton is warning all-but-certain presidential nominee John Kerry to back off if he's thinking about replacing party chairman Terry McAuliffe before the election. Asked about rumblings that the Kerry camp wanted to toss McAuliffe over the side, Clinton told the New York Times on Friday, "Terry has helped the Democratic Party move into the 21st century to compete against the incredible interlocking institutional powers of the other side." "A lot of plans have been laid, a lot of infrastructure put in place,...

<p>"Darling, a sponge fits in anywhere."</p> <p>So went the exchange between Barbra Streisand and the late great Kay Medford in "Funny Girl."</p> <p>BARBRA STREISAND'S admiration for Bill Clinton hasn't wavered, despite the fact that he is no longer president. Streisand was like a giddy school girl at a chi-chi dinner for California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, last week in L.A. (At the Pacific Palisades home of venture capitalist David Fisher.) Clinton, still wildly popular with Democrats, attended, and Barbra was starry-eyed, protective and affectionate with him.</p>