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Leaving the Children Behind Social Services vs. families. By Emmy Chang, NR associate editor March 1, 2002, 9:15 a.m. On a September morning in 1999, while playing with her new kitten, a little girl named Jonie Stumbo wandered naked out of her family's Kings Mountain, N.C., home — and set off a two-and-a-half-year-long court battle over child welfare and Fourth Amendment rights. The two-year-old streaker was outside only minutes before she was spotted and brought back inside by an older brother. But someone had already put an anonymous call through to Cleveland County's Department of Social Services (DSS), and a ...

Please help me, I am drawing a blank about a figure in the Clinton Administration. She worked for Hillary Clinton actually. She was not chief of staff but was something like executive assistant or something like that. Her name popped up in Whitewater/Monica stuff because Bill identified her as someone who kept an eye on him for Hillary. A recent story in Roll Call referred to two Administration figures and I'm thinking this person is one of them, but I can't think of her name to save my life. Please help.

Alan Dershowitz just came on Radio 5 Live, who until then were unsure what the ruling meant, even whether it was victory for Bush. Dershowitz came on and said the election is over. THEN he said that the Supreme Court had just lost all credibility and legitimacy in America. That the last decision that was this bad - Dred Scott - needed a revolution to be fought to undo it. He said the American people would never accept the decision and the Court would lose all respect from the American people. Then he attacked the five justices one by one, ...

Jonathan Alter has to be the most blatant Gore/Dem shill on television. I watched on MSNBC at 4:30 a.m. Nov. 8 when he began the Al Gore recount campaign, and he said Bush would have to cede the presidency to Gore due to the popular vote and the pending legal battles (he's been right about the last part). Now he's on right after Bush speaks and is basically calling him a hypocrite because of a Texas law "PERMITTING" a recount and breathlessly reassuring America Al Gore will not accept the legal vote result to be announced in Florida Saturday. Don't ...