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Apr 19 - 25, 1998 edition
by Vin Suprynowicz 'As long as a man has another cartridge or hand weapon to use, he does not yield'
World Net Daily On April 2, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright ridiculed critics of the United Nations who say the world body is a threat to U.S. sovereignty. A day later the U.N. Commission on Human Rights attacked use of the death penalty in the U.S., and one week later judicial bureaucrats at the U.N. World Court ordered the U.S. to forget about its own legal processes and re-try a Paraguayan convicted in Virginia of murder.
World Net Daily You win some and you lose some. Unless it's the IRS you're playing with. Then you lose even when you win.
Washington Times by Wesley Pruden Kenneth Starr met his critics more than halfway last week, giving up his golden parachute into Malibu and offering to let someone else investigate an astrologer's claim that rich conservatives had tainted his star Whitewater witness.
Washington Times The Supreme Court's ruling denying a stay of execution for Angel Breard in Virginia Tuesday night affirmed that a more recent U.S. law trumps an older international treaty.
New York Post WASHINGTON - Ex-jailbird Webster Hubbell - and possibly his wife, a tax lawyer and accountant - could be indicted as early as next week for tax fraud, NBC reported Thursday.
CBN News When an Armed Forces medical examiner discovered a possible .45-caliber bullet hole in the head of a dead cabinet secretary, neither the family nor the FBI were notified. No autopsy was done, nor, some allege, was there a complete examination of the body or thorough testing of the head wound. And the first set of head x-rays, which showed what may have been bullet fragments in the brain, were destroyed.
Washington Post DES MOINES, Iowa—Flanked by a rubber footwear display and a large red "Layaway" sign, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) genially autographed newly minted copies of his "Lessons Learned the Hard Way" for hundreds of Iowans.
Washington Post Amid mounting criticism of Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) tobacco proposal, the House Republican leadership is considering a wholly different alternative that would fold an anti-teenage smoking initiative into a broader anti-drug package.
London Times An American Bible scholar concluded that the Holy Grail was probably a simple clay cup rather than the much more elaborate traditional creations of artistic imagination.
CBN News The mysterious deaths of a number of people, linked in one way or another to Bill Clinton, have generated numerous conspiracy theories. But are these deaths part of an actual conspiracy ... or just coincidence? CBN News reporter Gary Lane attempts to unravel the mysteries.
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Washington Times 'Infowar' hacking crashes U.S. power, disables command Senior Pentagon leaders were stunned by a military exercise showing how easy it is for hackers to cripple U.S. military and civilian computer networks, according to new details of the secret exercise. New York Times UNITED NATIONS -- A report by the United Nations chief arms inspector has concluded that Iraq is no closer to meeting the requirements for the lifting of sanctions than it was last fall, when Baghdad began to disrupt efforts to locate and destroy its remaining weapons of mass destruction. Washington Post HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—It seems unlikely they could offer assistance to a president beset by a criminal investigation: an assistant manager for an Arkansas undertaker who dabbles in astrology, and her son, a 17-year-old college student grappling with freshman calculus.
Washington Post Interviews with elected officials, political appointees and high-level bureaucrats found a majority do not think Americans know enough about issues to form wise opinions about what should be done. Washington Times The Rutherford Institute is considering expanding its help to Paula Jones beyond the $300,000 already paid for legal expenses to help tide her family over the financial crisis caused by Northwest Airlines' firing of her husband, Stephen.
New York Times Since postwar leftist radicalism peaked in 1968, conservatives have affixed Ronald Reagan's name to a revolution, the South has deserted the Democrats for the Republicans, the Christian right has pushed its way onto the national stage, and liberal confidence in government action has become about as commonplace as the rotary phone. Yet historians have all but ignored modern American conservatism.
Washington Times Pol Pot was a small man who cast a giant bloody shadow over the latter half of the 20th century, and his death in Cambodia left even the memory of his rule a thing of fearsome terror. Washington Times The chairman of a House panel investigating the Teamsters has accused the union of refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents and telling its accounting and polling firms to withhold records from the panel.
Washington Times Republican congressional leaders, eager to avoid an open split with religious conservatives, have promised legislative action on religious persecution, abortion, parental choice in education and voluntary school prayer. Washington Times State Department diplomats want a major say in what high-technology weapons systems the Pentagon develops. Opponents of the plan argue that giving the State Department and U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) their way will hobble work on missile and other defense programs. Washington Times Republicans are headed into the 1998 congressional elections with a healthy economy and the first balanced budget in 29 years, but they remain politically divided over their biggest vote-getting issue: tax cuts. Washington Times R.T. Reza, 85, sat in the Penn Valley Community College gymnasium, sharing a box lunch with his wife, Ernestine. The retired minister and his wife, a former nurse, came to hear President Clinton tell them about his plans for Social Security. Washington Times As the 1998 campaigns begin in earnest, Republican Party leaders are bent on blurring differences between the two parties on such issues as racial quotas, immigration and bilingual education, while Democrats appear just as ready to talk them up. Washington Times The Democratic National Committee ordered a DNC official last week to stop digging up dirt about the personal lives of Republican members of Congress who may conduct impeachment hearings against President Clinton. Washington Times The Republican Congress has turned more liberal in its voting in the past year, especially in the Senate, a study by the American Conservative Union concluded. Washington Times Talk of "family values" -- once a sure winner for Republicans at the polls -- threatens to be a divisive issue for the party this election. Conservatives "sense that leadership, on some of these issues, has been tepid," said Randy Tate, executive director of the Christian Coalition. "They're unwilling to put forward an aggressive agenda." Washington Times Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr said Thursday he had told Pepperdine University Law School that he no longer wants to be considered for the deanship because the end of the Whitewater investigation was "not yet in sight."
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Those
who would blithely abandon the greatest safeguard of liberty -- the right of the
individual citizen to keep and bear military-style arms -- aren't real strong on
consistency. 
