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It is beyond belief that more than six years later, the nation learns that evidence has been withheld—that, indeed, the armed forces may have been involved in the siege in contravention of the law. "All on Janet Reno's watch. "She assumed ‘responsibility’ for all that occurred that day—on television, before the nation and the world. And, true-blue Clintonite that she is, Janet Reno weaseled out. . . .  "Janet Reno is, literally, unbelievable. Her continued presence in office will render Danforth's effort equally lacking in credibility, no matter how thorough it turns out." —Editorial, 9-10 New York Post   FOR THE RECORD...  "The record of this administration is his record." --Mr. Clinton campaigning for Al Gore. And here are some highlights from that record -- by the numbers:   7 independent counsel investigations of the Clinton administration.  72 House and Senate witnesses have plead the fifth.   17 witnesses have fled the country to avoid testifying.   19 foreign witnesses have refused to be interviewed by US  investigative bodies.   55 charges in Clinton scandals.   32 convictions (thus far) in all Clinton scandals.   14 imprisonments (thus far) in all Clinton scandals.   938 Lincoln Bedroom overnights by Clintonistas.   $40 million -- cost of Clinton's trip to China.   $500 billion -- cost of nuclear secrets trip to China.   416 elected Democrats have switched parties since Clinton took office.  62 House of Representative seats that have changed from Democrat to Republican. (1 "Republican" switched to the Demos.)  12 Senate seats that have changed from Democrat to Republican.   13 Governorships that have changed from Democrat to Republican.   1,200 state legislative seats that have changed from Democrat to Republican.   Bill Clinton promised us his would be "the most ethical administration in history." At his post-impeachment Demo pep-rally, Al Gore noted that he believed Bill Clinton would "be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents."   Latenight TV host and noted political scholar, David Letterman, concludes, "Clinton is campaigning for Al Gore who wants to be our next president and Clinton says that Al Gore was involved in everything this administration did.  I'm no legal expert, but I believe the term for that is 'accessory'."    Check out the latest video clips posted by the MRC. Recent ones include MRC Chairman Brent Bozell being interviewed on FNC about the lack of Chinagate coverage, Diane Sawyer passing out during a ride on a Blue Angels jet, ABC News praising Liddy Dole for advocating more gun control and a contrast between how Dan Rather grilled George Bush about Iran-Contra in 1988 but avoided Chinagate when interviewing Bill Clinton this year. To see the RealPlayer videos go directly to: MRC    Free on the Net  Make Left, Right and Center Your Homepage		Janet Reno: Corrupt or Doltish? With the Waco fiasco back in the headlines, one of two conclusions concerning this Attorney General of ours is inescapable. Either Janet Reno is the most corrupt A.G. in memory, or the most incompetent. L. Brent Bozell III FBI Alerted Dallas Hospital Hours Before Waco Fire Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas was warned, by federal agents on the scene in Waco, to prepare for trauma victims at least six hours before a fiery inferno consumed the Branch Davidian compound on April 19, 1993. Inside Cover Bush's Education Plan: Dubya Confounds Again Democrats are scratching their heads in consternation, utterly impotent to develop a strategy to counter Dubya when they can't even pin him down on the issues. Conservative Republicans are equally perplexed and monumentally distrustful, believing that true conservatives are unapologetic about their policy positions. The press is equally frustrated with Dubya's perceived evasiveness. There is nothing they hate worse (other than conservatism) than a politician who won't cooperate with them by gushing forth on all the issues. After all, they have to write about something. And Dubya hasn't been willing to give them any material. David Limbaugh Hillary's New Sugar Daddy Why can't the Clintons just buy a home like anybody else? Why must everything they do have an angle, a gimmick, raise questions, look bad? Desperate to make the carpetbagger issue go away, the Clintons announced that they're buying a $1.7-million house in the high-priced Westchester town of Chappaqua. But apparently their income, assets and debts don't qualify them for the necessary $1.3-million mortgage. Lesser mortals would have simply looked for a cheaper house, or maybe even rented for awhile. Not the Clintons. No, in their view, there is always someone out there willing to pay for what they want, what they believe they're entitled to. And they truly believe that they are entitled to this house. Dick Morris Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin? Recently a couple of dear friends visited us, bringing with them their six-year-old twins, Sara and Benjamin. These are some of the loveliest children you could meet -- not just in appearance, but in their behavior. They are the kinds of kids you can see in Norman Rockwell paintings, but less and less in the real world. Now Sara and Benjamin are going off to public school and it is painful to imagine what they might be like a year from now. Most people are unaware how much time and effort the public schools -- and some private schools -- are putting into undermining the values and understanding that children were taught by their parents and re-orienting them toward the avant-garde vision of the world that is fashionable in the educational establishment. Thomas Sowell Expanding the Charter Idea America’s system of government education, operated by the states, has for decades functioned as a public utility, with guaranteed clients and funding. That funding has continued despite poor performance and widespread dissatisfaction among parents, students, and politicians alike. In 1983, the federal Department of Education saw the problem as sufficiently serious to release the self-explanatory book, A Nation at Risk. Since that time there has been little change, as American students continue to fall behind their foreign counterparts. But America’s education establishment, despite its record of resisting and co-opting reform, has not been able to contain a powerful new movement that is expanding the options of parents and students. Pacific Research THE ROT BEGINS IN THE WHITE HOUSE Virtually every federal department has been corrupted under President Bill Clinton. The Commerce Department was used to sell seats on foreign trade missions in exchange for campaign cash. The Interior Department cannot account for billions of dollars in Indian trust monies, and top appointees were using their positions to conduct opposition research and smear members of Congress. But nowhere is the corruption more acute than at the Justice Department. Landmark Legal Foundation F'Get It, Maxine The late comic sage, Henny Youngman, reflecting on his stern upbringing said, "Until I was fifteen I thought my name was Shut Up." The joke always amused me until I heard Maxine Waters say "Shut up" to a Congressman who disagreed with her. The tone of her rebuke carried all the inelegance one might hear from a streetwalker in a dispute over turf. Norman Liebmann Why Isn't Janet Reno in Jail? Of all the events of the past decade that led to cynicism of the government and alienation from it, none had the impact of the Waco tragedy. Over 80 American citizens died horrible deaths, including two pregnant women and 25 children, 17 of whom were under 10 years of age.  They burned to death in a lantern-lit, wooden structure that had been violently rammed by armored tanks and assaulted by chemical weapons. The attack was authorized by President Clinton and ordered by Attorney General Reno. Linda Bowles Preaching Hate Sunset For Fanatics What do Pat Buchanan and Khallid Abdul Muhammad have in common? Each demonstrates in his own way that these are hard times for demagogues. If Buchanan's star is fading at the moment, he is not unlike Khallid Muhammad, whose "Million Youth March" bombed last week like a well-promoted Broadway flop. Clarence Page The Worldwide 'Webb'? Convicted Whitewater felon and Justice Department Waco point man Webb Hubbell has become the latest of the high-profile Clinton scandal figures to plead his case in cyberspace, following the examples of Susan McDougal, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp and Johnny Chung. Carl Limbacher Clinton fatigue  Poll shows voters want Bill and Hillary out of office   --Reuters   Henry, Janet and Bill  This hasn't been a good year for those of us who believe in truth, justice and equality. First, the spineless Senate let Bill Clinton off the hook for lying to the American people. Last week, Janet Reno told us that she lied about the inferno in Waco for six and a half years. Now, Henry Cisneros gets off scot-free while his mistress rots in federal prison.  John N. Doggett  It's all about liberty, the rule of law and honest government  America was not invented just so people could get a better return on their investment. It was invented to provide liberty so people could pursue their own vision of happiness, whether that was financial, religious or artistic. Success was not part of the bargain. The only promise was that government would not infringe on people's freedom and would protect their freedom from enemies both domestic and foreign.  Charlie Reese  Labor Day: Death, Destruction and Union Corruption  Organized labor groups use Labor Day to laud the work and productivity of their members. But according to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Labor Day actually serves as a "painful reminder of the vicious tactics that union officials employ against workers who bravely refuse to toe the union line."  CNS  The Importance of Team  Speech at The Weekend  by J. C. Watts  The President Needs Your Daughter  Bernard Lewinsky, a Beverly Hills doctor who has contributed to the Democratic Party over the years, recently received a request from the Clinton Legal Expense Trust asking for help in paying off the $10.5 million in legal expenses of Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Lewinsky wrote "Return to sender" on the envelope, scrawling underneath, "You must be morons to send me this letter!" according to a Lewinsky family friend who asked not to be identified.  Joseph Schuman  Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey  How far can a white guy go in criticizing black culture before Time declares him a racist? Salon’s conservative columnist David Horowitz found out last week.   John Strausbaugh  Carpetbagging 101  Among the more pointed barbs cast at first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in her potential Senate bid has been that of "carpetbagging."  To some extent, the charge owes its potency to the great distances the accusers are willing to travel to make it stick. For New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, that distance is some 1,050 miles; last month, in a perverse reversal of the first lady’s career itinerary, he journeyed to Little Rock, Ark., collecting money from sympathetic Republicans and highlighting the preposterousness of a non-native seeking office in a foreign state.  Benjamin Soskis  The NRA and the Press: A Case Study in Media Bias  The underlying point of Brian A. Patrick's thesis, which examined NRA coverage in what he called "the elite press of the nation" -- The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Times -- is that the NRA actually benefits from bias against it by gaining new members. But to get to that conclusion, he first had to prove that the bias exists, and the journey is more interesting than the destination itself.  K. Daniel Glover  Bradley Nears Gore in New Hampshire  Bad news for Al Gore: Bill Bradley has vaulted into a virtual tie for the Democratic race for president in New Hampshire.  Boston Globe  Clinton Can't Qualify for a Mortgage  So guess who bails him out?  Associated Press  Judicial Watch to Sue over Clinton Home "Purchase"  "First, the 1.35 million dollar 'loan guarantee' by Chinagate fund-raiser Terence McAuliffe is nothing less than an outright gratuity to the president personally, which is illegal under government ethics and bribery laws. Federal court testimony in Judicial Watch’s Chinagate case has already shown that McAuliffe was involved in illegal fund-raising and influence peddling; this seems more of the same.  Judicial Watch also questions why the White House Counsel’s Office, which  'approved' the loan scheme, is giving the Clintons personal legal advice at  taxpayer expense.  NewsMax  Waco's Little Rock connection  There's ample reason to believe Bill Clinton was working behind the scenes on engineering the initial Waco raid even before he became president.  One of the original witnesses against the Branch Davidians was Bill Buford, the agent in charge of the Little Rock, Ark., branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Buford was, also, according to Arkansas sources, a friend of Bill. The Waco case was apparently very important to Buford as an affidavit states he was working on New Year's Day calling former Branch Davidians seeking to find evidence of sexual abuse.  Andy Beal, who first explored the Little Rock connection to Waco, asks a good question: What was the resident agent in charge of the Little Rock office of the BATF doing investigating a sex abuse case in Texas? Is sex abuse BATF's jurisdiction? Is Texas under the jurisdiction of the BATF's Arkansas office?  WorldNetDaily  The Selective Koppel Lecture Series  Koppel has demonstrated a pattern of selective devastation. Clinton was left untouched. Koppel crippled Brown when he was Clinton's only remaining obstacle to the nomination in 1992. Now he has singled out Bush.  MRC  Reno's Dogs Don't Hunt  Janet Reno should resign, be fired "with prejudice," impeached for either incompetence or conspiracy, or sued under Title 18, Chapter 13, Section 242, which addresses the subject of deprivation of rights under color of law:  Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.  The above is not the rantings of any radical right wing nut -- it is verbatim from United States Code Title 18, Chapter 13, Section 242. Gosh oh gee golly ... maybe it's just me, but it does kind of sound like it was specifically written for the kind of gross abuse of power under the color of authority that resulted in the Waco tragedy.  Geoff Metcalf    Gore goes fundraising, Clinton style  What is peculiar about Gore's criticism of the GOP's "paycheck protection" plan is his lack of ability to remember what he's done to destroy unions in this country.  Jon E. Dougherty  America's first  fallen female warrior   The United States has its first fallen war heroine. On Aug. 3, the plane carrying the body of Army Capt. Jennifer Odom arrived home in the dead of night. You would have thought that President Clinton, who has opened up many front line positions for female solders, would have been there -- chewing on his well-worn lower lip, tear in eye -- to pay his respects. It would have been the perfect photo op, but no. It's as if she never existed.  Jane Chastain  A Prescription That Shouldn't Be Filled  President Clinton has proposed a massive new entitlement program that would cost taxpayers billions, increase Medicare costs for seniors, further jeopardize the failing Medicare system.  Find out more from National Taxpayers Union.  America's Class Warfare  Most Americans recoil at class rights and class privilege. Yet few Americans recognize women's rights, minority rights, homosexual rights as class privilege with license beyond what the constitution intended.  Ashbrook Institute  The $5 Billion Kidnapping Plot  "It is an enormous idea, an important idea, and it is going to happen," said Senator Barbara Boxer here last week, speaking of her "Early Education Act of 1999," a $300-million plan for taxpayer-funded pre-school, beginning at age three.  Attendance at such schools is voluntary but nearly all three- to six-year-olds attend, along with 34.9 percent of two-year-olds. Parents do not get to select which maternal school their children attend. Three-year-olds quite properly belong with their parents, who care for them more than any state employee. But the interests of children have long taken a back seat to those for whom politics is paramount.  Capital Ideas  The New 'Racists' are Here  The NAACP, like NATO, searches desperately for a reason to exist. Unfortunately for the NAACP, the "black community" hemorrhages with good news. The black middle class continues to grow.  Larry Elder  Argus Hamilton  Hilarious Political Jokes  Courting Mediocrity  As a matter of law, the suit filed by Berkeley Unified, Hayward Unified and Oakland Unified school districts against Proposition 227, which mandates English immersion programs for most limited English students, seems doomed.  The lawsuit would upend that provision by making the state school board grant entire school districts ... not parents ... 227 waivers. If successful, the suit would force parents in affected schools to apply for waivers to get their children into English immersion ... that would mean a return to the very status quo voters rejected when they approved 227 by more than 60 percent.  The districts chose the lawsuit route. It's a control thing. They can't stand voters telling them how to teach kids ... even if it makes students learn more.  Debra J. Saunders   Censoring the Mass Media   We have figured out that the Woodstock Generation was an inadequate substitute for Yahweh on the mountaintop. The Children of the Sixties gave us the welfare state, political correctness, quota-based segregationism, free love and a moral numbness that permits feminists to say "So what?" to a rape allegation against a president.  Tony Snow  A Minority View: Killing the Messenger  In 1995, only 465 black high-school seniors, out of 103,872 taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), scored 650 or higher on the verbal portion. On the math portion, 1,437 scored higher than 650. By comparison, out of 674,343 white test-takers, 36,700 scored 650 or higher on the verbal portion; 51,306 scored 650 or higher on the math part. Out of 81,514 Asian test takers, 2,513 scored 650 and higher on the verbal portion; 9,454 scored 650 and higher on the math portion.  The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has issued the following dictum: "The use of any educational test which has significant disparate impact on members of any particular race, national origin, or sex is discriminatory, and a violation of Title VI and/or Title IX respectively, unless it is educationally necessary and there is no practical alternative form of assessment which meets the education institution's needs and would have a less disparate impact."  That's just what we need -- more educational dumbing-down. And it's being done by stealth, out of the sight of the American people. Black people should raise hell about the U.S. Department of Education's demeaning arrogance.  Walter Williams  In Defense of My Bias   I can only assume that critics who denounce men like Mencken or their modern day counterparts-- Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, etc.-- are suffering from some fatal confusion. They seem to be mistaking columnists for selfless, dispassionate and equitable recorders of public life. This has never been the case. After all, a columnist's main tools are passion and swagger. Of course, I mean that as a compliment. Commentators add kick to an otherwise antiseptic genre. Hard news guys, on the other hand, ensure a paper's credibility. Each has always maintained a distinct role.  Armstrong Williams  Newt's way sent him down the highway  Only in Washington could the President of the United States get it on with a young girl, lie about it, and then leave his bitterest opponent to sleep on the wet spot.  The Daily Rant  Losing the education race  The education of children will be one of the  key issues in the next election cycle. This is as  it should be. Our schools are failing to perform  their most elementary assignment: teaching children to read, write and do arithmetic.  Linda Bowles  Union Corruption Update   By National Legal and Policy Center  Who Is Right - The People or the Government?  Pardon us if we can't help but believe that neither Congress nor Miss Reno will manage to get to the truth regarding Waco. And speaking of the truth, ordinary citizens have long held that it was the FBI, which burned down the Branch Davidian complex. And various citizens groups have also insisted that the Army's Delta Force was also on hand for the final confrontation. So who is right, the people or the government?  Paul Weyrich  Welfare Reform And Private Charity Resources  How are the poor best aided? A consensus had developed that the centralized, heavy-handed approach of the federal government created more problems than it solved. The Acton Institute envisions a revivified civil society that is energetically involved in transforming the lives of the poor with a minimum of government intervention.  Acton Institute  Does the NAACP Still Believe in King's Dream?   No element of King's dream has been cited more often than his hope that his children "will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Most commentators highlight its principle of nondiscrimination on the basis of race, and well they should. But few have noted that King does not dream of an America that refuses to judge his children, only one where fellow citizens do not use race as the measure of his children's worth. By emphasizing individual rights, which include not being discriminated against simply because of your race, King found common  ground for the nation's diverse citizenry to occupy without jeopardizing any individual's opportunity to succeed.  The NAACP, on the other hand, now promotes racial or group identification as the key to success for "colored people" in America. Their premise is that blacks are still victims of pervasive racism, and therefore must band together as blacks to defend against perceived threats to their livelihood. A recent example is the NAACP lawsuit against gun manufacturers for "oversupplying handguns" to "minority communities."  Lucas Morel   John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs  Ashland University  An Ugly Conspiracy of Silence  If there's to be racial goodwill and harmony, at the minimum we must be willing to confront sometimes ugly truths. One of those truths has to do with interracial crime.  Last June, Jared Taylor, president of New Century Foundation, in Oakton, Va., held a press conference at Washington's National Press Club to report on the foundation's recently released study, The Color of Crime. Some of the study's findings about interracial crime were surprising, so much so that I did an independent verification of the numbers.  Regardless of race, criminal violence is despicable and deserving of condemnation. But far more destructive are the official and unofficial attempts to mislead and conceal. Roughly 400 members of the major print and  electronic media were invited to the press conference on The Color of Crime. According to Taylor, several asked for advanced copies before they'd consider sending anyone. Only fourteen people stayed for the briefing and only a couple reported on the study, most notably the Washington Times and C-Span. One reporter said that he'd like to write a story but he doubted he could get it by his editor.  Walter Williams  Networks Blasted: Too Few Homosexual Characters on TV Shows  The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation  (GLAAD), following a precedent set by the National Association for the  Advancement of Colored People, is criticizing the TV networks' fall lineup,  in this case saying that 28 gay, bisexual or transgender characters on the  new TV shows is not enough.  CNS  NYC Bored of Education - Paying the Price for Religious Persecution?  The New York City Board of Education is reviewing  its options after being hit with a lawsuit by a former Bronx teacher who was  fired last year for praying with her grieving students.  CNS  If I were the devil   By Paul Harvey  Is it time to ban doctors?  Firearms death danger is, therefore, roughly 25,000 deaths per 200 million -- this includes bad guys, as well as the violent death of innocents. In other words, there is annually one death associated with every 8,000 firearms.  Contrast this with the fact that there are roughly 500,000 doctors in the U.S. A 1990 Harvard Medical School study reported over 100,000 deaths per year from "medical misadventure," a polite term for fatal doctor or hospital mistakes. Doctor death danger is, therefore, roughly 100,000 deaths per 500,000 doctors or one death for every five MDs.  So you see, a doctor, on average, is 1,600 times more deadly than any given firearm.  Joseph Farah  Perception vs. reality   For years I have been saying, "... some people just don't want to be confused with facts which contradict their preconceived opinions."  Geoff Metcalf  CNN Still Suffering From Legal Fallout Over Tailwind  It gets worse for CNN.  The cable network last year fired two producers, sacked correspondent Peter Arnett, split up its investigative team, issued a public apology to veterans and the estate of Richard Nixon, plastered a harsh retraction on its Web site and installed a new quality control vice president, yet its Operation Tailwind debacle refuses to stay safely consigned to the past.  Matt Fleischer    GAO Report Disputes Gore Claims on Red-Tape Cuts  Although Gore says that the program has "saved the American people over $137 billion," the GAO report concludes that the National Partnership for Reinventing Government claims credit where credit is not due.  The GAO concluded that it could not document nearly $22 billion of $30 billion in the savings it had analyzed. Investigators determined that money was counted twice, expenses were overlooked and some savings were reported years before they occurred.  Gore's office, offered a chance to respond, referred phone calls to the Office of Management and Budget, which came up with the savings estimates.  LA Times  Bolting From Gore?  A few Democratic state legislators in Iowa privately complain they would like to get out of their presidential commitment to Vice President Al Gore, but none have publicly abandoned ship.  Robert Novak