When I filled up this morning it cost $1.32 a gallon for 89 octane. Two months ago it was 1.01 a gallon. Four months ago I was paying 90 cents a gallon.
You won't read about it or see it in the news other than Fox News Channel, but former Democratic fund raiser Johnny Chung, a key figure in the 1996 campaign finance scandal, said Saturday Democrats told him how to plead the fifth amendment before he testified to Congress in 1997.
Speaking in an interview that aired on the Fox News Channel on Monday, Chung said he received a package on "how to plead the fifth" from the chief counsel for the Democrats on the Government Reform and Oversight Committee where he was set to testify.
Chung has been cooperating with a Justice Department task force probing allegations of illegal Democratic fund-raising in 1996. He told the panel in May that he helped funnel $300,000 from a high-ranking Chinese military officer to President Clinton's re-election campaign.
Chung was given five years probation in December after striking a deal with prosecutors and pleading guilty to charges of bank fraud, tax evasion and making illegal contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign. 120 other witnesses fled the country or pleaded the fifth amendment before Congress.
Also not seen: another Democratic fund raiser, John Huang, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony conspiracy charge for violating campaign finance laws and was sentenced to one year of probation. U.S. District Judge Richard Paez also ordered Huang to pay a $10,000 fine and serve 500 hours of community service.
The Democratic Party returned more than $1 million in donations that Huang funneled to political campaigns from the Asian-American community.
Yet somehow the Clinton-Gore administration has not been linked as having used the two fund raisers by the media. I wonder why?
Okay, so it's an older quote but the first time I read it:
"Ah, the 80's -- when sleeping with the president meant attending a Cabinet meeting."
Don't let the title fool you, as with all previous columns I still believe in the 2nd Amendment. But I also think progressively, that some gun control is positive and due.
The president was caught telling a little white lie again. When you're addicted to lying, apparently any little thing is grounds for mistruth. Of course, everyone lies about their golf game, right?
But at least one of his playing partners two weeks ago at Pebble Beach, Calif., thinks the commander-in-chief is good luck. Bryce Molder of Georgia Tech, one of the best college players in the nation, fired a 60 that day, the best score of his life.
Clinton told reporters that he shot an 82, then added: "No mulligans, 84."
Molder remembers differently, though: "I'd give him about 90. Hard to tell. Everybody in the group (except Molder) was hitting a bunch of shots again. If he counted every shot, he wouldn't have shot better than 92 or 93, but he hit enough good shots that he could get away with saying he shot an 85 or something."
Exactly, he could get away with it. Even in golf I hate the president.
President Clinton offered clemency last Wednesday to 11 members of a Puerto Rican independence group that staged some 130 bomb attacks on political and military targets in the United States from 1974-1983.
Do I even need to convince you that this is a bad idea?
There is precedent for such pardons, but by another Democratic president not known for his foreign affairs prowess. In 1977 and 79, Carter pardoned four Puerto Rican nationalists who were convicted in a 1954 shooting attack on Congress that wounded five lawmakers. Carter also pardoned a fifth nationalist who was convicted of plotting to kill President Truman in 1950.
And the Democrats threw a fit when President Ford pardoned President Nixon? At least he didn't let out people who were trying to and did physically harm Americans to achieve a terrorist agenda!