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TV 12 local West Palm Beach is showing police sharp shooters departing from WPB International Airport as the announcement of Clintoons fund raiser washout was given. The Shyster was supposed to go up to Jupiter Island (My Turf) but it got too wet for him.

Call it "ballot box deja vu," "initiative instant replay," or "electoral encore": this November voters may get to decide again whether to lower the two-thirds vote requirement for passing local school bonds -- and Libertarians are already stepping forward to oppose the measure, the party announced today. "Like a zombie rising from its grave, this initiative refuses to die," declared Libertarian state chair Mark Hinkle. "Voters have already killed this idea once because they knew that lowering the two-thirds vote requirement will increase property taxes substantially, line the pockets of the teachers unions and developers, and lead to the passage ...

A bill to place some restrictions on the federal government's ability to seize property was passed yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. S. 1931,which was sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), would require the government to makes its case "by a preponderance of the evidence," would enable judges to release property to the owners while a case is in process, if government possession would create substantial hardship, would extend the period of time an owner has to challenge a seizure in court, and ends the requirement that such an owner post a bond with the ...

John McCain, as a former victim of a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp, certainly knows the meaning of the deprivation of liberty. Yet he is in the forefront of a battle to undermine a fundamental freedom: the freedom of speech. With loud support from Bill Bradley, President Clinton, and now - more ominously - even the Supreme Court, Sen. McCain is leading the fight to further restrict a citizen's right to contribute to the campaign of his choice. Political contributions are inherently a mode of speech - more clearly so than many of the forms of "symbolic speech," such as nude ...

The Cato lnstitute has an unusual political cause-which is no political cause whatsoever. We are here tonight to dedicate ourselves to that cause. To dedicate ourselves, in other words, to . . . nothing. We have no ideology, no agenda. no catechism, no dialectic. no plan for humanity. We have no "vision thing," as our ex-president would say, or, as our current president would say, we have no Hillary. All we have is the belief that people should do what people want to do, unless it causes harm to other people. And that had better be clear and provable harm. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Harry Browne is no fan of government. In fact, it would be fair to say he even hates it. So what is an anti-government Libertarian to do? On Monday, Browne announced his second long-shot bid for the White House. The 66-year-old former investment adviser from Franklin, Tenn., thinks government has failed. He has proposed a 12-step program that would eliminate income taxes, Social Security, the war on drugs, federal welfare and a lot of other things Washington does. Browne received less than 1 percent of the vote in the 1996 election, but contends the climate is ripe ...