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Accompanying the report was a memo from FBI Director Louis Freeh. Freeh told Reno, "In the face
of compelling evidence that the vice president was a very active, sophisticated fund-raiser who knew exactly what he was doing, his own exculpatory statements must not be given undue weight. The evidence tends to show that the vice president was an active participant in the core group fundraising efforts, that he was informed about the distinctions between 'hard' and 'soft' money, and that he generally understood there were legal restrictions against making telephone solicitations from federal property." Of course this memo was also ignored.
Investigators have confirmed that all of Al Gore's subpoenaed e-mail from March 1988 to April 1999 -- the entire period of the Clinton perjury inquiry and impeachment -- will not be made available because a "technical error" caused the backup tape system to fail. (Nixon only snipped a few minutes from his tapes!)
** The Tracks of My Tears Award to Rep. Jack Kingston, Georgia Republican, for $100,000 for Vidalia onion research.
** The Piracy of the Potomac Award to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, for procuring a $375 million amphibious assault ship for his district the Navy doesn't want.
** The Bridge Over Troubled Fiscal Waters Award to Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, South Carolina Democrat, for $1 million for the Limehouse Bridge, which is used by patrons of golf resorts on Kiawah and Seabrook Islands.
** The Who Wants to Be a Billionaire Award to Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, for using the other 49 states as his "porkline" while securing more that $1 billion in earmarks since 1991.
** The Jurassic Pork Award to Rep. Julian Dixon, California Democrat, for adding $1 million for a dinosaur exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History.
** The Smell Test Award to Sen. Kit Bond, Missouri Republican, and Rep. Stephen Buyer, Indiana Republican, for $1.75 million for animal waste research at the University of Missouri and Purdue.
"After the 1994 election, there was a lot of talk about getting rid of the Department of Education, which had a budget of $24.4 billion at the time. Roughly five years later, the department is still kicking, and a budget of $35.6 billion has just been approved. ... In 1993, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole was asked about judicial activists while on a radio call-in show. 'If you give us a majority and we don't produce, then you ought to throw us out,' he responded. Well, it's been five years. Isn't it time to start producing?"
[Free Congress Foundation's John Nowacki]
I recently sent out letters to all Republican Senators, several Republican Representatives and one Democrat Senator, Graham of Florida, expressing my outrage at the "Justice" Department's raid that snatched Elian Gonzales. I received only one reply. You're right, it was from the Democrat. Evidently none of the Republicans thought my opinion mattered… or was it that there was no campaign check enclosed? Maybe I should change my name to General Electric and try again.
By the way: Senator Graham's letter simply parroted the liberal Democrat propaganda that the media had been spewing. Ed.
Talk Radio must be making an impact, because the natives in the mainstream media are getting restless. Recently, Mr. Earle Bowden, editor emeritus of the Pensacola News Journal (a Gannett newspaper), beat the war drums of criticism and cynicism in an editorial targeting my radio talk show. The editorial reveals elitism and arrogance that explains why Talk Radio and other alternative information mediums have grown so rapidly.
First, it is interesting that while quoting (and misquoting) me, Mr. Bowden never once mentioned my name. Why is that? Why is he afraid to put a name to the targets of his vitriolic verbosity? That doesn't sound very professional to me.
Secondly, Mr. Bowden reveals an obvious mean streak. For a man who prides himself in being fair, objective and balanced, he had no reservation in unleashing a tirade of name-calling. He referred to me as an "ego-driven commentator" who permits "anarchy advocacy" on my show. He further said my show was "cheap entertainment" that gives "an open artery to self-generated paranoia feeding the conspirational dreamscape." He even suggested that my program "is structured to hate the government." It seems to me that if anyone is paranoid, it is Earle Bowden.
The spark that started this firestorm was my discussion of an article that appeared in the PNJ a few days before. It was a reprint of a Chicago Tribune article entitled, "Clinton to work on global order." A middle paragraph from the story said, "The heads of state will confront, in a variety of ways, the sometimes uncomfortable question of how much power the United States and Europe should each have in the new global order." (I found it remarkable that the Tribune report actually made it to the PNJ, because the newspaper shows a propensity to not publish such articles.)
It is my considered opinion that the mainstream media (including the Pensacola News Journal) is not a watchdog for freedom but is a lap dog for big-government ideology. In fact, the tactics of the mainstream media today rival the propaganda techniques of communist and socialist regimes past and present. I, therefore, stand by my characterization of the PNJ as "The Pravda of the Panhandle." (Mr. Bowden completely misstated my position, however, when he accused me of saying that the PNJ has "a direct connection with Moscow, Red China, perhaps even Fidel Castro's Havana." He simply made that up.)
Earle Bowden's heartburn seems to stem from my belief that the United States is in the process of surrendering its sovereignty to an increased political and commercial globalization and that the media are willing and compliant enablers of this process. However, it should be obvious to any reasonable, intelligent person that this is, in fact, occurring.
One of the gurus of American journalism is Walter Cronkite. He is an avid promoter of global government. In a speech on October 19 to the World Federalist Association, Cronkite said, "It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace."
He went on to say, "To do that, of course, we Americans will have to give up some of our sovereignty. We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system . to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.. Today, we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law - a democratic federal world government - to deal with world problems." That seems pretty much to the point.
Every day the federal government assumes more powers that constitutionally are granted to the states and local communities. More and more our armed forces are becoming world policemen for the United Nations. For all practical purposes, constitutional government is being discarded and independence is quickly disappearing. The media shares much of the blame!
The old adage is still true: "Necessity is the mother of invention." If newspapers (like the Pensacola News Journal) were doing their jobs, radio talk shows and Internet news services would not be necessary. Take a good look at us radio talk show hosts and Internet news publishers, Mr. Bowden. We are what you used to be.
[Chuck Baldwin 5-13 http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com ]
Take your pick.
Seriously though, the folks with PETA do something about what they believe. Even if they are total idiots, we at TCN have more respect for them than we do for conservatives that sit on their collective duffs and do nothing but complain. When was the last time you wrote a letter to a Congressman? Are you even registered to vote?
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