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May 24 -30, 1998 edition
World Net Daily By Joseph Farah I've got a simple question: Does Bill Clinton think he's president of the United
States of America or the People's Republic of China? If you examine his policies, vis a
vis Beijing, it's difficult to tell. In fact, truth be told, he seems to have done much
more to safeguard the security interests of China than of the United States. Let's look at
the facts.
Drudge Report By Tony Snow WASHINGTON -- The latest Chinagate eruption differs from all previous Clinton controversies because it doesn't require people to hear a lot of grisly stuff about the president's lust or his wife's greed. This one focuses on the simple issue of incompetence. In less than six years as commander in chief, Bill Clinton has done what Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and the rest of the Cold War tyrants couldn't accomplish. He has drained the American military of its muscle, crippled its will, sucked the brains from the intelligence establishment and removed what backbone remained in the foreign-policy establishment. [more]
Washington Times by Wesley Pruden We've found the smoking gun. (The steaming egg roll, if you like.)
New York Post By Dick Morris DEFENSE Secretary William Cohen told Fox newsman Tony Snow that Pentagon aide Clifford Bernath decided on his own to release damaging information from the confidential personnel file of Clinton accuser Linda Tripp to Jane Mayer, a reporter for The New Yorker magazine. Cohen lied. [more]
World Net Daily By Joseph Farah Here's a prediction: Kenneth Starr's long-awaited report on impeachable offenses by the president is going to be completely overshadowed by the latest revelations of a direct connection between Chinese military intelligence and illegal Democratic Party campaign contributions. And that's good, because, as I have said many times, Starr's independent counsel investigation has been, until now, either a comedy of errors or itself a scandalous political cover-up in the making. [more]
more Vin:
still more Vin:
Washington Times: Clinton vetoes D.C. tuition vouchers President Clinton sided with teachers unions yesterday and vetoed legislation that would have given 2,000 poor children in Washington, D.C., free tuition at private schools, saying it robs cash from the city's dilapidated public schools.
GOP budget plan's potential is political, not legislative A $101 billion budget-cutting plan cleared by the House Budget Committee on Wednesday gives Republicans a politically popular agenda to run on this fall, but it has no chance of passing Congress, GOP strategists said Thursday.
GOP sets a veto trap for Clinton The GOP-led Congress is drawing an election-year line in the sand, sending President Clinton bills he will either veto or allow to become law without his signature.
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Washington Post House Rebukes Clinton on China Satellite Deal 'Not in the National Interest' In a series of nearly unanimous votes, the House Wednesday said President Clinton failed to act in "the national interest" earlier this year when he gave permission for a Chinese satellite launch to a U.S. aerospace firm with close Democratic ties, and moved to block him from approving similar exports. With all but a handful of Democrats joining the House GOP majority, legislators rebuked Clinton's handling of a critical aspect of U.S.-China policy -- commerce in militarily sensitive technology -- just a month before he is to make a long-planned trip to Beijing. One of the measures, effectively banning all further exports of commercial satellites to China, would terminate current and pending deals by U.S. companies valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.
New York Post The proud parents of two high-school heroes who wrestled a crazed teen shooter to the ground said yesterday that guns are not an issue in the tragedy. "I don't feel this is a gun issue. It's got nothing to do with guns," Robert Ryker, wearing a National Rifle Association hat, told reporters. New York Post SPRINGFIELD, Ore. RYAN Crowley will always hear the click of that trigger, and blood will flood his memory. He had just seen his best friend, Mikael Nickolauson, shot dead - and was only an eyelash away from eternity.
Washington Times Domestic cigarette smugglers have long made Washington state a favorite target, attracted by smokers trying to escape paying the nation's second-highest excise tax. Officials there now report an influx of illegally imported Chinese cigarettes, which some say is a sign of things to come nationwide if the Senate bill that would raise prices by $1.10 per pack becomes law. New York Times It is the mantra of the nation's opponents of smoking: that sweeping changes in the way cigarettes are marketed and sold over the next decade will stop thousands of teen-agers each day from starting the habit and spare a million youngsters from untimely deaths. The evidence, however, doesn't say that. Washington Post The House Thursday demanded that President Clinton make public all legal papers involved in his fight to invoke executive privilege in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation, an assertion he has not even publicly acknowledged making. Approved on a 259 to 157 vote, the nonbinding House resolution stopped short of imposing new limits on the use of executive privilege, as some GOP leaders have urged. But in an embarrassment for the White House, 36 Democrats joined Republicans in voting for a resolution Washington Post Independent counsel Donald C. Smaltz, who brought an indictment against former agriculture secretary Mike Espy last year, made a rare public attack on Attorney General Janet Reno last night, citing specific instances in which she has blocked his investigation and alleging she "wouldn't even touch" an allegation his probe turned up about President Clinton. World Net Daily Federal land swap leaves some feeling betrayed SALT LAKE CITY -- First they felt betrayed by President Bill Clinton, now they feel betrayed by their own governor. Garfield County residents in Utah's remote desert believe their population of only 4,000 has made them inconsequential to elected leaders. Washington Post Despite Pentagon misgivings, the House voted Wednesday to require the Army, Navy and Air Force to train male and female recruits separately. New York Times Microsoft may be on the defensive now, but the company could strike back with powerful legal arguments and tactical moves that would make it a formidable contender in court. That's the verdict of some veteran antitrust lawyers who were asked this week to call the early plays in the antitrust case of the decade.
Washington Times Says he acted on his own Assistant Defense Secretary Kenneth Bacon said Thursday he's sorry he did not check with Linda Tripp's attorneys before leaking information from her personnel file to a reporter. He said he was not following instructions from the White House. Washington Post A federal judge ordered Secret Service officers Friday to reveal what they know about President Clinton's relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky, dismissing dire warnings that such testimony would jeopardize the safety of presidents by destroying their trust in the agents who guard them.
Washington Times President Clinton's upcoming trip to China increasingly looks as if it will become a political football as Congress probes new charges about the role of Chinese money in the 1996 election and exports of U.S. technology to Beijing. Washington Post House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) announced Wednesday that he would create a select committee to probe allegations that China illegally obtained missile technology from a U.S. company that received favorable treatment from the administration. Washington Post In a vivid new display of President Clinton's precarious position within his own party, a majority of House Democrats Thursday joined Republicans in urging Clinton and administration officials to show more cooperation with a widening array of congressional investigations. Washington Post Senior Justice Department officials Wednesday rejected an FBI suggestion to invoke the Independent Counsel Act in the ongoing investigation of whether campaign contributions illegally influenced President Clinton's China trade policy. Washington Post Justice Warned of Impact on Legal Probe President Clinton gave the go-ahead in February to a U.S. company's satellite launch in China despite staff concerns that granting such approval might be seen as letting the company "off the hook" in a Justice Department investigation of whether it previously provided unauthorized assistance to China's ballistic missile program. World Net Daily Clinton brought up Schwartz WASHINGTON -- Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson said Thursday that President Clinton on three different occasions considered Bernard Schwartz for the job of secretary of defense. Schwartz was the top soft money donor to the Democrat Party in 1996. His company, Loral Space and Communications, is now under investigation for allegedly illegal transfers of missile-guidance technology to Communist China. Washington Post Former Clinton administration agriculture secretary Mike Espy paid a $50,000 fine for using money from earlier congressional campaigns to pay legal bills arising from an independent counsel's investigation, officials said Friday. Washington Post Depicting the United States as superior to all potential foes in conventional combat but vulnerable to terrorists and saboteurs, President Clinton moved on a broad front Friday to shore up the nation's defenses and protect its troops and citizens against electronic or germ warfare. Washington Times A three-page summary telling Linda R. Tripp how to lie in the Paula Jones sexual misconduct lawsuit remains a key reason why independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr wants to question top White House aides in the Monica Lewinsky sex-and-lies grand jury investigation.
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So long as the economy booms, it appears, the American people don't care about the
president's sexual shenanigans, or even whether he and his wife enriched themselves with
shady business deals and Dog-Patch double-billing in long-ago Arkansas. 
