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"Five people going about the prosaic chores of daily life were indiscriminately shot
dead in a 17-hour span in Montgomery County yesterday and Wednesday." Thus began the
lead story in my morning paper...For those who don't know, Montgomery County is a
suburb of Washington, DC and a hop, skip and a jump from where I live...Now it appears
a 6th man was shot last night in DC...Police are investigating for a possible
connection...Not very comforting to say the least...
We'll get into and a couple of other cases (Milwaukee mob beating and Pennsylvania mom
convicted of manslaughter for allowing underage kids to drink in her pad...Three of
the teens died in a car crash afterward) with fmr. FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt, fmr.
Philly police Commish John Timoney, defense guy Joe Tacopina & fmr. prosecutor Wendy
Murphy...That'll be the first half...
Kicking off the back half we've got the Rev. Jerry Falwell...Dig these quotes...
Jerry Falwell calls Islam's prophet a `terrorist' in television interview..."Jesus set
the example for love, as did Moses," Falwell says. "I think Muhammad set an opposite
example." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021003/ap_wo_en_po/us_falwell_muhammad_1
Ibrahim Hooper from the Council on American-Islamic Relations plays defense...'nuff
said..
The Buzz will be Fund and Jim Warren from the Chicago Tribune...We've got a cool
Clinton package from his trip to England...Talk about Fun Clinton News! Plus, Zell
Miller disses the Dems and the latest legal battle in Jersey!
Fun Clinton News from Sneed: Former President Bill Clinton not only headed to the
nearest McDonald's in London on Tuesday night after earning big bucks for addressing a
conference, but he ordered a steak burger with large fries and a large Coke.
*The dessert: He also shared 20 Chicken McNuggets with actor Kevin Spacey and an aide
to Brit Prime Minister Tony Blair.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/sneed/cst-nws-sneed04.html
Fund's Diary: Election Through Litigation...Was Gore's postelection campaign only the
beginning? http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/
Zell Miller That '70s Show...Have Democrats learned anything in the past 30 years?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002382
I gotta jam...Please kick it with us tonight...
Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing in Washington, DC
Dig this as well: Get in the Hardball 'Hot Seat'!...Citadel student Nicholas Sinclair
took the 'Hardball Hotseat' challenge. How many questions can you answer?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/810538.asp
This just in...6 indicted in Ore. for al-Qaida links...4 arrested in Portland, 1 in
Mich.; 1 suspect believed overseas (MSNBC) http://msnbc.com/news/817052.asp
Convicted mom takes her story to the court of public opinion...Local drunken driving
deaths defendant goes on 'Donahue,' 'Chung.' (Allentown Morning Call)
http://www.mcall.com/news/yahoo/all-a1_3mccloskeyoct04.story
7 boys charged as adults in beating...10-year-old kept in Children's Court; other
juveniles expected to be charged (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct02/84812.asp
A rather curious story here: Republicans are crying foul after the Democratic National
Committee sent out a fundraising e-mail this week attacking President Bush's plan for
partial privatization of Social Security. The e-mail includes an animated cartoon
depicting Bush pushing a wheelchair-bound elderly woman down the graph line of a
crashing stock market. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41018-2002Oct3.html
Police guard Md. schools after killings...Police were deployed Friday to schools in
Montgomery County, Md...New murder overnight investigated; two men in white truck
sought in earlier slayings
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/816566.asp
Police Resume Manhunt for Montgomery Killer...Montgomery County residents are heading
to work this morning, taking their children to schools and paying close attention to
their surroundings as police continue a manhunt for the killer or killers who shot
five people in a 17-hour killing spree. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42216-2002Oct4.html
The Democrats told the Supreme Court Friday the Republicans are trying to dictate
voters' choices in a New Jersey Senate race. (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=683&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20021004/ap_on_el_se/new_jersey_senate
President Bush is using his family's oceanside Maine estate as a base to aid
Republican candidates in New England, raising money for the GOP gubernatorial hopeful
in Massachusetts and a senatorial nominee in New Hampshire (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20021004/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
U.S. places war materiel in Gulf Pentagon begins Iraqi psychological drive (Wall
Street Journal) http://www.msnbc.com/news/816958.asp
U.S. stance on Iraq splits U.N....As U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix confers
with the Bush administration Friday, the Security Council remains split over a new
resolution to disarm Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/811728.asp
Rowan Scarborough: U.S. tracked top al Qaeda planner's visit to Baghdad...A "top 20"
al Qaeda planner was in Baghdad several months ago, giving further credence to the
Bush administration's assertion of linkage between Saddam Hussein's regime and Osama
bin Laden's terrorist organization.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021004-30441705.htm
Lindh: Attack was 1st of 3 planned...John Walker Lindh and other al-Qaida and Taliban
prisoners told U.S. interrogators the Sept. 11 hijackings were supposed to be the
first of three increasingly severe attacks against Americans. Their claims have not
been corroborated, government officials
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/816836.asp
Republicans are trying to use President Bush's popularity, a Spanish-language TV
program and voter registration drives at naturalization ceremonies to cut into the
Democrats' long-standing lead among Hispanic voters. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=548&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20021003/ap_on_el_ge/hispanic_voters
Pelosi breaks with Gephardt on OKing war...Democrats divided on deal with Bush to
authorize force (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/10/04/MN102580DTL
Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa is breaking with his party and his president to oppose a
resolution in the House authorizing use of military force against Iraq. "There may be
a case for regime change, but not for war against Iraq and its people," Leach, a
Republican from Iowa City, told the House Committee on International Relations. (Des
Moines Register) http://www.suntimes.com/output/sneed/cst-nws-sneed04.html
MA Gov: Democrat Shannon P. O'Brien failed to get a lift from her first major
televised debate against GOP opponent Mitt Romney, and the pair remain deadlocked a
month before Election Day, a new Boston Herald poll shows.
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/poll10042002.htm
The Maryland Democratic Party is asking the state to investigate whether Republican
Michael S. Steele inappropriately mediated an alimony agreement between his sister and
her estranged husband, professional boxer Mike Tyson. (The Baltimore Sun)
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/election/bal-md.steele04oct04,0,5935337.story?coll=bal%2Dlocal%2Dheadlines
HI-02: Attorney General Earl Anzai will ask the state Supreme Court for guidance today
on when the state should schedule a special election to pick a temporary replacement
for the late U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink, and exactly who will be allowed to vote in that
election. (Honolulu Advertiser)
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Oct/04/ln/ln01a.html
FL Gov: Bush's 'juicy details' draw fire...Governor's camp says he simply 'relayed
details' http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/100402/Local/ST013.shtml
Nearly two weeks into "Tape-gate" and there are still more questions than answers
surrounding the audiotaping of a Republican campaign meeting last month by a former
aide to Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. (Des Moines Register)
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/19385678.html
Union Leader Campaign Notebook: Democrat poll says Shaheen leads, independent poll
puts Sununu ahead http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=14639
President Bush wanted American Taliban John Walker Lindh executed if prosecutors could
have proven that he helped kill a CIA agent, according to a new book. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/48689.htm
Martha Stewart steps down from NYSE board...Martha Stewart resigned from the board of
the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, one day after federal prosecutors secured a key
witness in their investigation of the ImClone Systems Inc. insider-trading scandal.
(AP) http://washingtontimes.com/business/20021004-98672744.htm
Lizzie Grubman has been slapped with another suit stemming from her Hamptons smashup
last summer - the ninth action against her to date. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/48687.htm
Grove: Roger Clinton's Housing Problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40707-2002Oct3.html
Opinion/Editorial
George Will: About two hours after Sen. Robert Torricelli's weepy press conference, in
which he -- a liberal, hence nimble at victim-mongering -- proclaimed himself a victim
of America's defect ("When did we become such an unforgiving people?"), the presses of
the Democratic Party's newsletter, The New York Times, were printing an editorial
exercise in situational ethics.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/will/story/4643850p-5662006c.html
Judicial 'borking'...Fifteen years after Robert Bork got thumbs-down, the process of
Senate approval for White House judicial nominees remains a festival of
disingenuousness, writes Michael Kinsley in Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/816760.asp
Pat the Bully...Buchanan's new magazine has a funny way of giving peace a chance.
(Slate) http://slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=2071908
Peggy: He Should Thank Us...Torricelli's problem? He carries a torch for himself.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110002381
Landfield: A Payback to Special Interests...You might have expected that in the
present economic climate of corporate scandals and in the same week that President
Bush signed corporate accountability legislation, that Congress would stand up and
oppose a bill which goes overboard for big business
http://www.practicalpolitics.net/landfield/8_5_02.html
Congressman Mike Thompson: The first time I was criticized for going overseas, I was a
19-year-old Army airborne soldier returning from Vietnam. Antiwar protesters tried to
tip over the bus carrying me and other wounded soldiers from Travis Air Force Base to
Letterman General Hospital.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41198-2002Oct3.html
Alterman: Something about Al Gore brings out the worst in people, and nowhere is this
truer than in the so-called "liberal media." Journalists' "default" position on Gore,
Joe Klein notes, is "ridicule. http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021021&s=alterman
Krauthammer: The myth of 'U.N. support'
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer.html
Page: Keeping it real, despite howls from black 'leaders'
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1002/page.html
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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