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| Check out the latest video clips posted by the MRC. Recent ones include
MRC Chairman Brent Bozell being interviewed on FNC about the lack of Chinagate
coverage, Diane Sawyer passing out during a ride on a Blue Angels jet,
ABC News praising Liddy Dole for advocating more gun control and a contrast
between how Dan Rather grilled George Bush about Iran-Contra in 1988 but
avoided Chinagate when interviewing Bill Clinton this year. To see the
RealPlayer videos go directly to: MRC
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- Perfect Yank pitcher beans Hillary
Hillary still doesn't realize one can fool the media but not real Americans.
Cone tells Giuliani he's the real baseball fan
--NewYork Post
| Worry about the freedom to own a gun -- even if you don't
This is a constitutional matter, not a matter of hardware or crime-fighting. All Americans, including those who don't own guns, should be concerned with guarding a right that has been recognized in America for more than two centuries. Some of us might not choose to exercise a right, such as speech or assembly, but nevertheless we should not want that right taken away. Charlie Reese |
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| Emotion Causes Liberal Bias in TV Programs
(CNS) - Many cultural conservatives have lamented the liberal slant of television, but one Hollywood expert says it's inherent in the medium and any effort to remedy the bias won't work. Full Story |
| Clinton Accused of Violating China Spy Law
(CNS) - House leaders are accusing President Clinton of violating a federal law designed to prevent spying against the US by China. In a letter to Clinton, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the rest of the chamber's GOP leadership ask the president to obey the law, which requires the administration to publish in the Federal Register a list of People's Liberation Army companies operating in the United States. Clinton signed the measure into law last year, and the leadership wants to know why the White House failed to meet the statute's first deadline of January 15, 1999. Read full text of letter |
Mass Sentimentality
| We have -- in the case of the nation, not the Kennedy family -- something
else entirely, the death of a symbol. The media effusion is not about what
Kennedy did with his life, or indeed in any real sense who he was. It is
about the death of someone whom the celebrity-media culture deems to stand
for mass sentiments. That is a type of death that has become familiar,
its most striking recent occurrence before Kennedy occurring in the demise
of Princess Diana.
Michael Kelly |
Ebay seller takes advantage of John John’s death
Stern’s Phone Legion Strikes
Again
Dan Rather falls for lewd Stern trickster!
RadioDigest
APA Fatherhood Report "Utter Nonsense"
| A prominent authority on families and fatherhood is calling a recent
article describing fatherhood as not essential to child well-being "utter
nonsense," and said that reading the report was "like listening to someone
mouthing off in a bar.
Justin Torres |
| Boston PBS Station To Be Investigated for Trading Donor
List with DNC
(CNS) - The Boston public television station that admitted trading donor a list with the Democratic Party is under scrutiny for possible violation of federal law. In FlashNews |
| PBS Fundraising Scandal May Have Arkansas Roots
Diane Blair is a former political science professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. But the credential that won her a six-year appointment to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a friendship with both Clintons that goes back to the '70s. The CPB honcho's husband has an even more interesting resume. Jim Blair
was counsel to Tyson Foods during Clinton's governorship, and as such he
was in a unique position to guide Arkansas' first lady through the treacherous
world of commodity investing. Blair hooked Hillary up with suspect commodities
broker Red Bone and within months the miracle of the cattle futures began
to unfold.
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| New Yorkers Beware!
As Hillary lays on the Clinton schmooze, the locals might do well to take a lesson from Arkansans. After all, they were there the first time the Chicago-born, Yale-educated, Washington-trained first lady tried to sell herself to strangers in a state she'd never lived in before. Twenty-five years ago, a twentysomething Hillary Rodham campaigned alongside
her husband-to-be as he sought to represent his home state in Congress.
Bill Clinton lost that race but won the governorship four years later,
only to lose that office in 1980--partly because his abrasive wife with
her elitist counterculture ways rubbed Arkansans the wrong way.
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| Result of Kosovo conflict:
Situation is even worse than before I think that technology outpaced the intelligence quotient of the world's political leaders some years ago. Most of them are hypocritical remnants of the anti-Vietnam War era, not competent to command a small squadron of cavalry, much less a modern army. The scariest part is that most of these politicians are not even smart
enough to know that they aren't smart.
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| Did IRS Shred Evidence?
The latest issue of Human Events featured an article by Landmark President Mark R. Levin on the latest developments in the Foundation's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. Landmark Legal Foundation |
| NOTABLE
QUOTABLES
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Bad Medicine – Trial Lawyers
Drive Liberal Agenda
| Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton and other liberals are jamming the airwaves
with their so-called "Patients' Bill of Rights." But they don't talk
about a study - by their own researchers at the bipartisan Congressional
Budget Office - which says their plans added regulations and frivolous
lawsuits would drive up insurance costs by $355 for every family each year.
The CBO says higher prices would force over 1.8 million Americans to lose
their insurance.
Click to see Full Story |
| House rascals vote raise for themselves, Clinton
With little debate, House members voted to give themselves a $4,600 pay increase yesterday, marking the second time since 1993 that lawmakers have agreed to raise their own salaries. Members also moved to double the president's salary to $400,000. (Editor’s note: when will Clinton let servicemembers earn a working
wage?)
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| Beyond the call of duty ...
After the "Battle of Las Vegas," where they were labeled as sexual predators by our ever-so-righteous press, the admirals deserted them and the slick politicians did what they could to castrate them, weakening their ranks by putting unqualified women in fighter cockpits and conducting a political-correctness pogrom. Simultaneously, President Clinton has been trying his best to break them with his wrongheaded over-commitment schemes. Col. David Hackworth |
| Feminism hurting U.S. military
There is an agenda at play. In Clinton's military, commanders interested in upward mobility must be seen as being on the "right side" of the liberal feminist issue. Never mind if politically correct notions of so-called "equality" come at the sacrifice of military readiness. The "agenda" is all-important. Jon E. Dougherty |
| Will America defend Taiwan?
When NATO ended its war against Yugoslavia, Bill Clinton said that NATO reserved the right to go anywhere in Europe or Africa to defend democratic or humanitarian interests. Well, Bill might get his wish much sooner than he thought. Because of comments that Taiwan's President made last weekend, America's military might have to go toe-to-toe with the People's Liberation Army of Communist China. John N. Doggett |
| How gun show was shut down - FBI turns off
insta-check system, halts business
"In what seemed like an arbitrary and capricious attack on U.S. commerce, the FBI, without warning, closed gun shows and the firearms business in general," said http://www.gunlaws.com Alan Korwin, noted gun law expert and an opponent of the FBI's background check system, who attended the Phoenix event. Korwin is the author of "Gun Laws of America," a reference almanac that lists every state and federal law pertaining to firearms in the country. WorldNetDaily |
| NAACP targets gun industry
"The NAACP apparently wants to limit the ability of its members to defend themselves and their families against violent crime," Dasbach said. "That's shameful enough, but what's even worse is that this lawsuit continues the disgraceful legacy of white racists who don't think blacks can be trusted with guns." "This kind of dangerous nonsense -- this ignorance on behalf of the
leadership of the black community -- has to be addressed by everyone,"
Zelman added. "It's time for people to tell the leadership of the black
community that they've been suckered, conned, and scammed by the 'limousine
liberals' of Washington, DC."
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| Politically incorrect heroism
It all started when a gunman took three hostages at a San Mateo, California, shooting range. He had left a note announcing his intention to kill hostages and then himself, so this was worse than even the usual hostage situation. At this point an anonymous employee of the shooting range took one of the guns on the premises and shot the gunman, freeing the hostages. This happened on July 6th, but have you seen the story anywhere? People get more media attention than this for recycling aluminum cans. It is politically incorrect to let it be known that guns in the hands of law-abiding private citizens can save lives as well as cost lives. Yet this has happened any number of times. There have even been cases of a policeman under fire being rescued by a private citizen with a gun. One year, more criminals were reported killed by private citizens than by the police. But it wasn't reported very widely. Thomas Sowell |
| Whole idea of a free lunch has no place on 21st century
menu
The lesson to be learned is simple: Shed the delusion that you can get something for nothing by shifting the cost to somebody else. Shed the delusion that government "gives" benefits. Once those delusions are got rid of, a positive and obvious truth emerges: All individuals have a common interest in honesty, in limiting government to essential services, in reforming the corrupt tort system, in being responsible jurors when summoned to serve, in socially ostracizing parasites who live off the sweat of others, and in promoting and maintaining peace. War is 100 percent wasteful and destructive in economic terms. Charlie Reese |
| Supporting The Family
Summer finds presidential candidates taking to the airwaves and the stumps, preparing the ground for the 2000 campaign. It is early yet. But we notice a curious and disturbing trend among some of the top contenders: a tendency to speak of "supporting the family" as an uncontroversial idea. In fact, the family has become the scene and occasion of some of the deepest divisions in America today. Larry P. Arnn President, The Claremont Institute |
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If I Were A Liberal, or Had Some Other Serious Problem...
What made our revolution different?
Spinners, sinners and no winners
Clinton administration:
Maybe the Government’s To Blame . . .
As the Democrats and the Republicans debate "what should be done," two answers emerge, both stupid. The Democrats blame guns. The Republicans blame the Creator (or rather, the lack thereof). The silly season is on. Men aren't the only abusers
Now, Mother Jones -- the left-leaning, pro-feminist magazine widely recognized for its journalistic integrity and careful reporting -- comes out with this: "A surprising fact has turned up in the grimly familiar world of domestic
violence: Women report using violence in their relationships more often
than men."
Al Gore -- racist to the core
That, my friend, no matter how you slice it, is a racist concept. In
other words, blacks and Hispanics are not smart enough, enterprising enough,
ambitious enough and creative enough to achieve on their own -- they need
the government to intervene on their behalf, giving them a preference or
holding back the competition.
Impeachment of Clinton may aid GOP after all
Switzerland: Europe's gun centre where kids don't kill
kids
Off Target with Gun Controls
Scholars decry more gun control
Led by John R. Lott, a University of Chicago School of Law professor
and noted gun control research analyst, some 290 other educators from schools
such as Harvard, Stanford and UCLA have appealed to Capitol Hill to examine
the ill-effects of previous gun control laws before imposing new ones.
Q: Should Congress phase out the family estate tax? Yes: This archaic tax punishes most entrepreneurs, farmers and many
family businesses.
No: Estate taxes encourage giving, build character and promote American
economic values.
An interesting debate, however, it misses the point - where does the Constitution give government this right? NAACP Engages in Partisan Activity, Violating IRS Code
Liberalism on Parade at the Washington Post
After months of meticulous snooping and poking, and spending some undisclosed vast some of stockholders’ money, what did the Washington Post learn? Richard Mellon Scaife is a patriotic conservative who supports conservative causes. Can you believe it? And there’s more. Richard Mellon Scaife believes Clinton to be a man of bad character. Mr. Scaife’s apparent fault in this regard is that he reached his conclusion before Judge Susan Webber Wright officially certified Clinton to be a contemptuous liar. (My comment, not the Post’s.) There you have it. Now, may I inquire: when can we expect you to investigate the funding
activities of the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pew
Foundation, the Mott Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the other
multi-billion dollar foundations which serve as the financial engine of
the left? After all, they’re all much larger than any of the Scaife foundations.
Never, of course. The left’s favorite causes – prisoners’ rights, gay and
lesbian rights, welfare rights, environmental extremism, higher taxes,
more government, and the rest – receive every year many more millions of
dollars in tax-exempt support from larger and more numerous left-wing foundations,
not to mention taxpayer-subsidized grants from the federal government.
And, of course, they receive the regular support of the Washington Post’s
news and editorial pages – for free!
Is Hillary Clinton qualified for the Senate? Take a hard
look at the record
Her record. The Times Unofficially Endorses Gore
First, does the paper really believe that Americans don’t “know enough”
about Al Gore after he’s been in office for seven years? I think they know
he claimed to invent the Internet; said there was “no controlling authority”
that prevented him from making campaign solicitations from his office;
that on the day Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives,
Gore, at that infamous White House pep rally, insisted that his boss will
be remembered as one of the greatest American presidents; and that despite
his current mantra of “family values,” honesty is apparently not one of
them. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have railed against the tobacco industry in
1996, exploiting his sister’s death of lung cancer in 1984, when he had
bragged in Southern states during the ’88 presidential primaries that he
tilled tobacco like any hard-working farmer.
Reducing crime is not the true aim of the gun-control
crowd
Suppose your neighbor showed up one day and said, "I don't trust you. I'm going to conduct a criminal-background investigation, and I'm going to make sure you have no firearms in your house." What would you think? Would you not be insulted? Would you not think that your neighbor may have some hostile intentions toward you? Perhaps most Americans don't realize that, from 1776 tot he recent passage
of the Brady Bill, background checks for gun buyers was never a requirement.
The Founding Fathers boasted that all Americans were armed. Of course,
they governed free men, not a herd of sheep.
The last hope for real reporting
Simple rule. Good rule. Notice Dunne didn't say "journalist." Dunne hated the term "journalist." A journalist, he once said, is "an unemployed newspaperman." Reporters in Washington too often forget they should spend their time exposing the hypocrisy of the system, not becoming part of it. But that's hard to do when the news organizations can't even hire real reporters to do the job. Reporters are supposed to be nonpartisan. But the host of Meet the Press, Tim Russert, is a former political hack for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Chris Matthews, host of Hardball, shilled for the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill. CNN brings in political consultants as guest hosts of Crossfire. The list goes on: Paul Begala, Oliver North, George Stephanopolis, et al. When networks present political partisans as "journalists," the real
loser is the American public, which cannot depend on traditional
news sources to get unvarnished information.
A gun control cause with no real leadership
Because of the lack of support from Attorney General Janet Reno's attorneys,
those charged with enforcing federal gun statutes are beginning to take
their cases to state courts. In one area of Colorado, for instance, a task
force of ATF agents and local police has made 167 arrests for gun violations
since April. Of these,139 were for felonies and 37 for misdemeanors.
More than 65 illegal weapons have been confiscated.
The Hillary Clinton cheat sheet
Odd Coalition Would Curb Civil Forfeitures - Hyde, Past Foes Push House Legislation For years, civil liberties concerns have taken a back seat in Congress
and in court to the war on crime, but this bill has attracted support from
a potent array of unusual bedfellows. It was sponsored by the main combatants
in the committee's impeachment brawl: Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.),
ranking Democrat John Conyers Jr. (Mich.), fiery conservative Robert L.
Barr Jr. (R-Ga.) and outspoken liberal Barney Frank (D-Mass.). That odd
quartet enlisted the support of the American Civil Liberties Union and
the National Rifle Association, as well as groups of bankers, lawyers,
Realtors, developers, boat owners and anti-tax activists.
The Fed as social worker
Liberals are opponents of choice
When Jane spoke out
Jane Fonda was 34 in 1972. Her decision to abet the totalitarians who
were engaged in killing her fellow-Americans was not an adolescent whim.
It was an adult choice, and it was beneath contempt. And now she is to
be honored for "speaking out for justice?" What can the American Association
of University Women be thinking?
Family Research Council Names Court Jesters
Media group lambastes NATO
"It could still be hoped that a coalition of democracies, which claims
to have right on its side, would behave with more integrity than the dictatorship
it is fighting against," the group said.
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| The End of Sovereignty
So let's get some perspective. The war was started unilaterally by a discredited, impeached President, devoid of any moral authority and of dubious sanity, a proven liar, held in contempt, who has bombed a sovereign nation which has never remotely threatened the United States or any of its allies or interests. Mr. Clinton's aggression was not authorized or recommended by the Constitution,
by the United Nations, by Congress or even by his own military advisers.
He has tried to justify the wholesale slaughter of innocent people as a
"moral imperative". What utter nonsense. Is he giving himself a pep talk?
All he has done is united a divided Yugoslavia behind President Milosevic
and ensured that US troops have sort out the mess he has created.
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| Rep. Bob Barr tells Navy: Time to spike Spike's ads
Reacting to Spike Lee's suggestion two weeks ago that National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston should be shot, Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has made a formal request that the moviemaker be held officially accountable. "It is bad enough that Spike Lee has a history of promoting racial division at every opportunity. However, his recent public comment that Charlton Heston should be shot for defending the Second Amendment is beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct. "I request the Navy immediately cancel any contract with Spike Lee.
Surely, in a nation with such a diverse array of talented directors and
producers, the United States Navy can do better than choosing a divisive
hatemonger such as Spike Lee to direct its recruiting commercials."
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As His Scandals Grew, Clinton Felt Besieged on All Fronts
The first three excerpts from "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy
of Watergate." Copyright (C) 1999 by Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster.
Part
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| Victory my ass
Bill Clinton went before the nation Thursday night and declared victory in the Kosovo war. If we can ever stop laughing, we may write something about that. DOUG THOMPSON |
| The Media vs. The First Amendment
Rather than lambast the politicians, Moyers and Hewitt and Sawyer should focus their attention on the media's own tremendous irresponsibility in ducking coverage of politics. When PBS avoided live coverage of the Thompson hearings on campaign corruption because the kiddie shows were too important to be interrupted, when ABC and CBS had no time for live coverage of an unprecedented impeachment trial, they lost all credibility in their comments about the public interest and dysfunctional democracy. In the coming election year, one thing all Americans should not tolerate
is the arrogant liberal media assumption that they are the indisputable
champions of the First Amendment. By these programs and proposals, these
journalists are declaring war on the right of private individuals and groups
to speak to the public. That's not the proper definition of democracy or
free speech.
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| This week a federal judge threw out the attempt by a group of United
States congressmen to seek a court judgment against the Clinton administration's
clear violation of the War Powers Act.
The decision is one more clear demonstration that laws increasingly
mean nothing to American ruling elites. We are quickly ceasing to be a
republic, because we have a government not of laws, but of power. Everything
in our national life is coming to be determined by the arbitrary possession
of power. As this more and more becomes the case, deep abuses of property
and person will soon follow.
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| IRS Rules
An editorial in the June 4, 1999 Wall Street Journal discusses the latest developments in Landmark's lawsuit against the IRS to uncover the sources of referrals for apparently politically motivated audits of nonprofit organizations critical of the White House. Landmark has focussed on a single individual: Terry Hallihan, a senior
IRS official Landmark says is “uniquely situated to address relevant questions
relating to the handling of FOIA requests generally and the handling of
Landmark’s request specifically, including the thoroughness and scope of
the search.” The group says Ms. Hallihan is also qualified to speak on
IRS policy regarding third-party requests for audits. In addition to these
reasons Landmark has further submitted a confidential, ex-parte memorandum
to Judge Kennedy. Clearly Landmark has information it has not yet made
public, and putting Ms. Hallihan under oath seems an eminently reasonable
request. Indeed, given the IRS’s demonstrated lack of good faith, such
a deposition would seem an imperative.
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Best-selling author Bill Gertz
The Clinton administration's motivations for sell-out
--WorldNetDaily
APA Backpedals From Pedophilia Report
| (CNS) – The American Psychological Association Wednesday repudiated a report it published that concluded that child sexual abuse "does not cause intense harm on a pervasive basis," saying the group failed to consider the potential for misinforming the public by publishing the article. Full Story |
| In 1996, Hillary Rodham Clinton's book "It Takes a Village" argued
for greater non-parental influence in the lives of children. That same
year, a documentary film called "It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues
in School" offered an example of the Hillary Doctrine in action. In the
movie, administrators and faculty, stepping into the moral tutor's role
historically filled by moms and dads, advocated to youngsters in grades
one through eight the oh-so-enlightened position that Gay Is OK.
Now "It's Elementary" has come to public television. Some PBS stations have already aired it, and several dozen more will over the summer. Its director and co-producer, Debra Chasnoff, admits that it was "not intended to be a journalistic piece of work. We wanted to make an uplifting, inspiring film." Chasnoff is absolutely right about "It's Elementary" not being journalism.
It is, in fact, pure propaganda, "uplifting" and "inspiring" only if you
agree with the film's militant promotion of the homosexual lifestyle.
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| 'It's Elementary' doesn't teach tolerance
"There is no question that humanity has a hateful, dangerous undercurrent, especially prevalent in the mind-set of young males. This undercurrent runs throughout human history and has found its outlet in self-aggrandizement by exhibiting power over the poor, the weak or the different. But to link this evil with the beliefs and attitudes of Christians is preposterous." Dr. Laura Issue: Gay "Rights"? |
Film on Gays
| Reaction to the publicly-funded video It's Elementary, which will be
broadcast on public television stations around the nation in the next few
weeks, continues to pour in from family groups, conservatives, and elected
officials.
The video, which is being run on public television, was funded by the San Francisco-based Columbia Foundation, People for the American Way, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the California Teacher's Association. In a release, Concerned Women for America called It's Elementary "a
masterful work of propaganda" and disputed the video director's claim that
it is aimed at adults and educators.
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"My Name is Hillary And My Ego Needs You"
| She comes to us, not because she loves Zabar’s (still less, Tonawanda),
but to fill the hole in her life. The deal of her life was not meant to
include Kenneth Starr and Monica Lewinsky rolling her husband’s betrayals
through the streets like garbage cans. The lies she had told for years
had been told mostly to herself; there was, if not honor, at least control
in that. The lies she had to tell from January 1998 on were damning. To
get revenge on her husband and his doxy tart she needs the balm of electoral
victory, and the sense of worth that office conveys. Finally she will stand
alone, with the unworthy one in her shadow, not her in his.
To fix her psyche, we’re supposed to give her one of our Senate seats.
We are a One-Step Program for the emotional and political addict. "My name
is Hillary, and I believe that a Power lower than myself—the voters of
New York—can restore me to self-esteem."
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| We've been holding our collective breath for a very long time, 'til
the red and white had practically drained from our national colors. But
now finally, we can breathe a deep sigh of relief. Hillary has made up
her mind: She wants to be New York's next senator.
Hillary Rodham Clinton may believe the role of first lady was beneath
her, but she learned some important campaign skills on the job nonetheless.
No first lady in history has raised more political campaign contributions
using the White House for social functions than Hillary Clinton has. From
selling the Lincoln Bedroom to offering cups of White House coffee for
$100,000 apiece, Hillary certainly picked up some valuable fund-raising
gimmicks while official hostess at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. That's one role
the country certainly won't miss when it loses its first lady.
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| Only a U.S. president who knows more about making love than war would
declare the puny and ineffective one-sided assault on the former Yugoslavia
to be a victory. By any objective standard, the goals of Serbian leader
Slobodan Milosevic, not of NATO and the United States, have been achieved.
Milosevic remains in power, even though he is an indicted war criminal. He may feel empowered to conduct more ethnic cleansing against other groups of people he doesn't like. The Serbs have been resisting those they view as interlopers for 600 years and aren't about to stop now because an impeached president of the United States says they should. Anyone with a sense of history longer than the instant replay must surely know the folly of President Clinton's goals to battle evil and hatred between peoples who don't like each other. He might as well declare war on original sin from which all curses flow. In 1941 Adolf Hitler committed more than 30 divisions to the region, including the armored vehicles and the elite Waffen SS. After four years, the Nazis were forced to withdraw, suffering more than half a million casualties. Only President Clinton and a historically challenged American public would accept the fiction that we have "won" the "war" against such a battle-hardened people. In these modern times, feelings eclipse facts. The administration and
NATO will congratulate themselves, even as many conservative commentators
are in full-throated praise. Someone will nominate Bill Clinton for the
Nobel Peace Prize to ensure his "legacy." Al Gore won't have this foreign
policy albatross restricting the reinvention of himself. And the aging
hippies can gather around a summer bonfire and sing, "All we were saying
was give peace a chance."
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AMPOL's COMMENTARY
| There's been much "punditfying" about the impact
of Hillary race on Gore's campaign. Outside of Gore spinners, there appears
to be no one who sees how this can redound to Gore's advantage. Hillary
will be a distraction, a magnet (if not a black hole) for money and media
attention. Gore's chief challenge is stepping out of the shadow (or mudpit)
created by Bill Clinton. Just as he starts that endeavor, he has to worry
about Hillary blocking out the light. She will be an ever-present point
of comparison for Gore. He will be constantly asked to comment on developments
within her campaign. ("Mr. Vice President, do you agree with Hillary Clinton
that all federal and state contractors should pay a living wage, which
is higher than the minimum wage?") Her message (whatever it will be) will
compete with his message (whatever it will be).
American Politics |
| Race for the Cure took place on June 5th to raise money and awareness
for breast cancer. But its purpose is incomplete if it does not include
information on one of the proven causes of breast cancer: abortion.
"I would have loved to have found no association between breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, and our data is accurate. It’s not a matter of believing, it’s a matter of what is." Dr. Janet Dailing (who is pro-choice) of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, who has reached the conclusion linking breast cancer to
abortion.
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of Moneyline forced out by CNN President
Rick Kaplan
| The rivalry between Clinton's golf buddy CNN President Rick Kaplan
and CNN.fn boss and Moneyline host Lou Dobbs reached critical mass last
week, when Dobbs challenged Kaplan's news savvy on the air during his top-rated
business show. Dobbs, who is not a fan of the Clinton administration, is
often at odds with Kaplan's fawning, kid-gloved treatment of the White
House.
MRC |
| Last month, a federal court of appeals held that the Environmental
Protection Agency has been acting in an unconstitutional manner.
Repudiation of EPA's wacko science was important, but more important was the Court's finding that the section of the 1990 Clean Air Act upon which the EPA relied in issuing its controversial regulations amounted to "an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power." The court held that the EPA's actions violated the "nondelegation" doctrine that prohibits Congress from entrusting legislative power to government agencies without legal standards to guide the use of the delegated power. With their typical economics misunderstanding, the news media described
the court's decision as a major victory for a broad range of industry groups
from trucking companies to electric utilities, who fought the tougher air
quality rules as too expensive and ill-conceived. We can label it a business
victory for the trucking and utility industries only if the rest of us
don't benefit from lower-cost trucking and electricity.
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Commentary
| Victory in Kosovo?
Now what? The problem in assuming that air power alone won the war is that it could lead to disastrous consequences. Our decision to use military force should always be made in a climate of grave sobriety. War must forever remain our last option. But there is now a danger that we will be deluded into believing that we are invincible and that we can intervene in any global conflict and prevail through air power alone without any casualties. David Limbaugh |
| Seems clear that NATO had lost this war before it even
began
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's war Yugoslavia reminds me of my high-school Latin teacher Miss Katie Monroe, a fine lady, was fond of saying, "Boy, if you're arguing with me, you've already lost." Charlie Reese |
| You just can't get good help
40 percent of teacher prospects flunk test The numbers intensify growing concerns about the preparation of students in public schools and the quality of teachers at those schools. At the same time, they renew questions about whether such tests can measure teaching ability. ``I think it would be shocking if you gave it to every higher-education
student and 40 percent failed, regardless of whether they were in teacher
education,'' said Patte Barth, senior associate of the Education Trust
group in Washington. ``It's a high-school-level test.''
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| Burton to Investigate DOE Intimidation of Whistleblower
Despite objections by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, the chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, Dan Burton (R-IN), has announced that he will call the former head of Safeguards and Security at the Energy Department, retired Army Lt. Col. Ed McCallum, who was placed on administrative leave in April for allegedly violating security protocol, to testify about security lapses at DOE facilities. Conservative News Service |
Another end-run around Congress
| Good to his word to go over the heads of Congress when necessary to achieve his legislative agenda, President Clinton has issued yet another executive order -- this one in place of Senate ratification of a global climate treaty. |
| No need to end run Congress
Since Clinton had over 900 FBI files stolen from the Justice Department, who among us seriously believes Congress -- regardless of who controls it -- is even relevant anymore? In another day and time, Clinton would never have been allowed to serve
out his first term, let alone have an eight-year opportunity to usher in
socialism nationwide. And yet, here he is again, issuing illegal, unconstitutional
orders without so much as a whimper of opposition from a Republican-controlled
congress. Well, OK -- maybe just a whimper.
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More parents opt out of system after Colorado
--WorldNetDaily Issue - Education
TWO EMPLOYEES
SUE CLINTON/GORE
NLRB
| National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed suit against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, pleading for an order that would compel the NLRB to take action on a case completely ignored for more than six years. Read more from NRTW |
| Call it "Divorce, Clinton Style." The imitation of divorce that allows
the first couple to live in separate cities after their imitation of marriage.
Now she's eyeing the U.S. Senate. Makes you want to sing, "Looking for
Love in All the Wrong Places."
Debra Saunders Also see - Ms. Rodham |
| Spike Lee faces the dilemma that all successful they're-out-to-get-us
"victicrats" must answer: how to explain his eye-popping success. His triumph
means one of three things.
One, he has simply been lucky. The customary evil forces that conspire
to bring blacks down failed against him. Two, that Lee is so supremely
talented, so gifted, he conquered the odds. Or three, that the system,
with all of its flaws, actually works when talent and determination meet
opportunity.
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| Democrats are demanding a vote on gun control in an atmosphere of hysteria
for a very good reason -- their cause is driven by pure emotion. It will
not stand up to dispassionate analysis.
Don Feder Issue - Gun Control |
| Those who have been pushing affirmative action all these years do not
want their dogmas put to the test and discredited. The Clinton administration
is leaning on colleges and universities to keep putting racial body count
ahead of academic standards. The U. S. Department of Education's Office
of Civil Rights recently sent out a booklet which warns that "the use of
any educational test which has a significant disparate impact on members
of any particular race, national origin, or sex is discriminatory."
Thomas Sowell Issue - Education |
| Said the little girl, "For a while there, I figured the emperor for
a stark naked hypocrite. But the scribes don't seem to see through his
finery, so maybe we shouldn't either. Or at least we ought to keep it to
ourselves." "The emperor's wearing some fine new clothes after all," said
the little boy. "Surely, if he wasn't wearing a stitch, the wise people
of the mass media would point that out."
Norman Solomon See Also - The Clinton Legacy |
| Former presidential advisor Dick Morris once appeared on 20/20 and
explained how his boss, the President, sized up his 1996 opponent, Bob
Dole: "You must understand something. Bob Dole is not a nice man. Bob Dole
is evil! The things he wants to do to children are evil! The things he
wants to do to poor people and old people and sick people are evil! Let's
get that straight."
Larry Elder |
| You see, Spike Lee, the Second Amendment is colorblind. You may
think it funny to suggest that someone who has been and remains in the
forefront of our civil rights struggles should be shot. But I don't. I
didn't think it was funny when Ice-T and Time Warner recorded a song called
"Cop Killer," and neither did Charlton Heston. He stood before the Time
Warner Board of Directors at their annual meeting and read to them the
disgusting lyrics that advocated killing cops. You may not agree with Charlton
Heston, but you know where he stands: fighting for freedom.
Tanya Metaska |
Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly
| Most academic economists who've studied the minimum wage conclude that
higher minimum wages cause unemployment, not so much among the general
labor force, but among low-skilled workers, especially teen-agers.
Walter Williams |
A MINORITY VIEW
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armed citizenry and liberty
Walter E. Williams
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Last week was just another installment in the frantic farce of the
Clinton presidency, which, if ever dramatized, would have to be
called "The Blunder Years."
Don Feder
Reno names prosecutor to probe lab-secrets leaks
| Senator Lott questioned why it has taken six months for the select
committee's report to be released, and how it was possible President Clinton
was unaware of the leaks "whose damage you almost have to measure in megatons."
A polygraph test of Mr. Lee, administered by the FBI, found he
gave misleading and deceptive answers to questions about passing information
to China. But the Justice
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International Experts Group Meeting on
Developing and Promoting International
Mutual Assistance Practices
| Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Frances Fragos Townsend noted
that "We are all here because we recognize that among the most effective
weapons against the growing threat of transnational crime are international
cooperation and effective mutual legal assistance. This decade has seen
dramatic increases in international movement of organized crime groups.
The result has been a significant increase in the number of criminal cases
having international aspects."
Editor's Note: It appears in Mrs. Townsend's opinion, Mr. Lee's espionage isn't a crime. National Institute of Justice |
Network Apathy Toward Chinese Contributions
and Espionage
| If TV anchors regularly suggest viewers should worry about everyday
threats like spoiled hamburgers or "monster" sport utility vehicles, why
can’t they report on the threat posed by the Chinese theft of secrets that
may make their nuclear missiles arrive with better aim and increased deadliness?
The nation’s most prestigious newspapers have published scoop after scoop
detailing the connections between Chinese contributions and espionage efforts,
and ABC, CBS and NBC have aired next to nothing about them on their morning
and evening shows.
The Media Research Center |
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