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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 37 |
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From Poland --
Thank you for this issue, especially for the "right to bear arms" quotes. Living in Europe where so many of the leftist's dream came true (no death penalty, almost totalitarian gun control) can really persuade some of the hardest sceptics that going the "liberal" (here we call it "socialdemocratic") way is going nowhere! Please, fight hard NOT to follow our continent's example!
Best Regards,
RF
Mrs. Clinton has attempted to establish a new identity by advertising herself as "Hillary," after the fashion of other notorious celebrities such as "Cher" and "Madonna." However, the strategy has backfired. It has revealed that without her husband, she is an empty suit. Her entire career has been spent clinging to her husband's coattails.
[ Linda Bowles, WND ]
Conveniently Forgotten Facts ??
Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow Black Panther named Alex Rackley needed to die because he was suspected of disloyalty.
Rackley was tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his cohorts tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him.
When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren Kimbo, took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Connecticut.
Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, a short eight years after this cold-blooded torture and murder, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbo, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College.
Isn't that something? As a '60s radical, you could fire a bullet into someone's head, and a few years later in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only in America!
Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later, Ms.Huggins was elected to a California School Board.
How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers.
These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial.
One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of, get this, the U. S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division; appointed WITHOUT Congress approval illegally by President Bill Clinton.
O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? No, Neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She has been called: "The smartest woman in the world. She is none other than the present Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from the State of New York - our lovely First Lady, the honorable(?) Hillary Rodham Clinton.
SUNDAY's official State dinner at the White House was nominally held to honor Indian Prime Minister Atai Bihari Vajpayee, but Hillary seized the opportunity to reward donors, curry favor with New York political reporters and stroke Empire State politicians.
Brazen in her use of the dinner to reward her friends, the first lady turned the official reception for the leader of the world's largest democracy into a dinner for her campaign.
Even a cursory examination of the guest list reveals the following links between her campaign and those who were wined, dined and feted:
** Big Donors:
** Take Their Money and Run
* Elizabeth Bagley, wife of Smith Bagley, heir to RJ Reynolds fortune, held a big Nantucket fund-raiser for Hillary. The Bagleys have given $100,000 in soft money and almost $20,000 combined to other Hillary-related causes.
* John Catsimatidis, Red Apple supermarket magnate, hosted a fund-raiser for Hillary which raised $500,000.
* Jeffrey Lynford, gave $1,000 to Hillary and $1,000 to the Democratic National Committee Services Corporation.
* Al Franken, comedian, taxi voice, gave $2,000 to Hillary.
* Ted Tetzlaff and Howard A. Tullman, held a fund-raiser for Hillary in Chicago last June that raised $300,000.
* Barbara and Martin Fife, former deputy mayor, longtime Democratic activist who gave $2,500 to Hillary and the Democratic National Committee
* Christie Brinkley gave $15,000 in soft money.
* Carol Kolsky gave Hillary $1,000.
* Neel Lattimore, Hillary's former press secretary who is now spokesman for the Video Games trade association, gave $1,000
* Harvey and Kathleen Sloan, longtime Democratic fund-raisers
* Robert and Laura Sillerman gave more than $40,000 to Hillary committees.
** Media People:
** Get Favorable Coverage
* Mort Zuckerman, Publisher, New York Daily News
* Richard Berke, New York Times political reporter
* Frank Rich, Times columnist
* Matt Cooper, political reporter for Time magazine
* Susan Page, political reporter for USA Today, and husband,
* Carl Leubsdorf of the Dallas Morning News
* Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio
* Geraldine Laybourne, CEO of Oprah's Oxygen Media
* Gwen Ifill, Washington Week in Review
* Ronald Insana, CNBC
* Sheila Mahoney, VP, Cablevision
* Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post
* Kevin Chaffee, Washington Times
* Star Jones, Clinton supporter and daytime talk-show host
* Renee Chenault, NNC anchor
** N.Y. and Labor Contacts:
** Keep 'Em Energized
* Jeff Soref, leading New York gay activist (and a good guy) and head of Empire State Pride Agenda
* Bhairavi Desai, staff organizer, New York Taxi Workers Union
* John Sweeney, president, AFL-CIO
* Rick Diegel, political director, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
* Brian K. Bond, director, Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
* Ian Rosenberg, Long Island University
** Campaign Staff and Advisers:
** Give 'Em A Night On the Town
* Mandy Grunwald, Hillary's media adviser
* Michael Sheehan, political advisor and Clinton debate coach
* Neera Tanden, Hillary's campaign policy director
** Scandal Figures:
** Keep 'Em Happy ...
** and Quiet
* Roger Altman, former assistant Treasury secretary, whose role in the Whitewater investigation has been questioned. Ray's report is due out soon.
* Eric Holder Jr., deputy attorney general and Janet Reno's keeper. Makes sure no special prosecutors or independent counsels get appointed.
* Don Fowler, former Democratic National Committee chairman, recently accused of soliciting funds from trial lawyers in return for Clinton veto of tort-reform bill
** A Publisher for Her Memoirs?
* Sydney Weinberg Miner, VP, Senior Editor, Simon and Schuster
* Carolyn Reidy and Michael Selleck, Simon and Schuster trade division
Undoubtedly, each of these worthy invitees is closely tied to the intricacies of U.S.-India relations, but one can't help wondering if their connection to Hillary, her campaign, her fund-raising, and her political needs had somewhat more to do with their invitations.
This gross misuse of the White House should trigger sharper questioning about Hillary's use of the Lincoln Bedroom and Camp David to reward her supporters. Her lame defense that she is entertaining "friends and supporters" is inadequate, especially in view of the fact that she was not there much of the time. The White House should release the names of all guests and the dates of their overnight stays.
[Dick Morris, NY Post Online ]
Senator Lieberman's ratings from SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
1999: On the votes that the National Right to Life Committee (ANTI-ABORTIONISTS) considered to be the most important in 1999, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 0 percent of the time.
1999: On the votes that the Planned Parenthood (PRO-ABORTION) considered to be the most important in 1999, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 100 percent of the time.
1999: On the votes that the National Abortion Reproductive Rights Action League (PRO-ABORTION) considered to be the most important in 1999, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 100 percent of the time.
1997-1998: On the votes that the Christian Coalition considered to be the most important in 1997-1998 , Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 9 percent of the time.
1999: On the votes that the gay rights group, Human Rights Campaign considered to be the most important in 1999, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 100 percent of the time.
1999: On the votes that the Conservative Index-The John Birch Society considered to be the most important in 1999, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 10 percent of the time.
1999: On the votes that the Gun Owners of America considered to be the most important in 1999, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 9 percent of the time.
1993-1994: On the votes that the National Rifle Association considered to be the most important in 1993-1994, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 0 percent of the time.
1999: On the votes that the Citizens Against Government Waste considered to be the most important in 1999, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 14 percent of the time.
1997-1998: On the votes that the Concerned Women for America considered to be the most important in 1997-1998, Senator Lieberman voted their preferred position 25 percent of the time.
[ Citizens for Truth in Political Advertising (CTPA) ]
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Clinton administration has handed out $180 million in bonuses to top Justice Department executives since 1993, including Lee J. Radek, head of the agency's Public Integrity Section, who vigorously opposed the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore.
Bonuses also went to Robert K. Bratt, former head of the department's international police training section, and his top assistant, Joseph R. Lake Jr., who were accused last week of mishandling classified documents and improperly obtaining visas for two Russian women.
The bonus payments are outlined in an ongoing investigation by the House Judiciary Committee, which is probing the cash awards program.
Mr. Radek, who received $47,100 in bonuses between 1993 and 1999, including $12,000 last year, came under fire in June when FBI Director Louis J. Freeh suggested he recuse himself from the department's campaign finance task force probe after telling agents he was "under a lot of pressure not to go forward with the investigation" because Attorney General Janet Reno's job "might hang in the balance."
Mr. Freeh said Mr. Radek's office was not capable of conducting a thorough investigation and he should recuse himself in favor of aggressive outside investigators -whom he referred to as "junkyard dogs."
Mr. Radek also ordered federal prosecutors just before the 1996 presidential election to stop an investigation into suspected illegal fund raising by Mr. Gore at a California Buddhist temple. He said in a Nov. 1, 1996, cease-and-desist order that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles "should take no steps to investigate these matters at this time."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen A. Mansfield immediately shut down the probe and turned over the case to officials in Washington. The order said that since outside counsel might be named, the inquiry would have to stop. No independent counsel was ever sought.
Last year, Mr. Radek also was criticized before the Senate Judiciary Committee by FBI agents Ivian C. Smith, Daniel Wehr, Roberta Parker and Kevin Sheridan, who said, in unprecedented public testimony, that Mr. Radek blocked a search warrant aimed at stopping the destruction of evidence by Democratic fund-raiser Charles Yah Lin Trie. The agents were barred from executing the warrant at Trie's Arkansas office even after learning that records were being destroyed.
Mr. Smith, former agent in charge of the FBI's Little Rock office, testified he was so angry over the search warrant he wrote personally to Mr. Freeh to say "the team at [the Justice Department] leading this investigation is, at best, simply not up to the task."
Trie pleaded guilty to election law violations. In 1996, he gave $640,000 to President Clinton's legal defense fund, which later was returned. The cash included checks with signatures matching those on other checks and money orders numbered sequentially, but from different cities.
Mr. Radek, who recommended on three occasions that no independent counsel investigation of Mr. Gore was warranted despite contrary views by Mr. Freeh and Charles G. LaBella, the task force chief, denied ever saying the pressure he faced was related to whether Miss Reno would remain as attorney general. He said that while the task force was in a "pressure cooker," the pressure he was referring to was to "do a good job, to do it vigorously and do it well."
It was Mr. LaBella who told Miss Reno in 1998 that Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore were key players in a fund-raising scheme designed to "raise money by whatever means and from whomever would give it, without meaningful attention to the lawfulness of the contributions." He recommended an independent counsel be sought to probe their fund raising activities.
Mr. Bratt, who received $67,000 in bonuses between 1990 and 1993, was named last week in a report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General as having violated regulations relating to travel, security, the use of contractors, and the hiring and promotion of federal workers.
As head of the department's international police training section, he was accused of "serious, substantial and egregious misconduct." A report said he warranted the "imposition of discipline," although no sanctions have been sought by the Justice Department.
Mr. Bratt retired and has declined to comment. Now a consultant at Science Applications International Corp., a McLean defense contractor, he was one of Miss Reno's closest advisers.
Investigators said Mr. Bratt used his position to improperly obtain visas for two Russian women, including Yelena Koreneva, with whom he had a "romantic relationship." They said Miss Koreneva and a second woman, Ludmilla Bolgak, "socialized extensively" with Mr. Bratt in Moscow. Visas were obtained for the women, although they were not used.
The bonus program is questioned in a letter from Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde to Rep. Harold Rogers, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. It outlines bonus payments by the department between 1993 and 1999.
"The committee has requested further information from DOJ about how it awards bonuses and will continue to review this program to ensure that DOJ's cash award program is administered fairly and provides incentives and rewards for exceptional performance," Mr. Hyde wrote.
Bonus totals paid prior to 1993 were not available. Mr. Hyde asked Justice in December for information on bonuses paid prior to the Clinton administration, but was told the figures were unavailable. In February 1993, the Clinton White House publicly criticized former Attorney General William P. Barr, a Bush administration official, after he awarded $108,000 in bonuses to 37 Justice Department employees.
Mr. Hyde said bonus amounts under the Clinton administration averaged $19.5 million annually from 1993 to 1996, but increased in 1997 to $28.6 million. In 1998 and 1999, he said, the department approved $72.7 million in bonuses -a jump he said was "not explained by a similarly proportional increase in employees."
The Illinois Republican also questioned the "distribution of bonus awards among certain individuals," saying several inside the department's justice management division, which oversees personnel and pay matters, received bonuses - including Assistant Attorney General Stephen Colgate, who got $110,900; Deputy Assistant Attorney General Janis Sposato, $82,700; and Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Connor Vail, $74,680.
The report also said Mr. Lake, who received a $5,000 bonus in 1995, "willfully submitted a false statement" to help Mr. Bratt obtain visas for the Russian women. He left Justice in 1997 and has been unavailable for comment.
White House records released Monday show that Hillary Clinton's travel expenses have now cost the taxpayers over $1 million. Voters don't mind. It's a small price to pay for keeping her out of their health care decisions.
Al Gore was in L.A. Tuesday campaigning in a work training center for mentally challenged adults. He talked about the importance of medical privacy. His dog and his mother-in-law had called him about it that morning.
Al Gore was busted for saying his mother-in-law pays three times more for the same arthritis medicine that his dog takes. It all evens out. The dog pays four times more for Gaines Burgers than his mother-in-law does
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