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Conservation Wastes Energy By Kimberley A. Strassel. Ms. Strassel is an assistant editorial features editor at the Journal. Her OpinionJournal.com1 column appears on alternate Thursdays. The Bush administration today unveils its energy policy, one that will rightfully put energy supply, and better ways of delivering that supply, at the center of our nation's energy efforts. The howls have already begun, with environmental groups, Democrats and a few misguided Republican "moderates" furious that conservation policies haven't been given a leading role. For the past decade, U.S. energy policy has followed the conservationist agenda like a bible. Bill Clinton came to office ...

KC police toughen stance against leaving children unattended in vehicles By TANYANIKA SAMUELS - The Kansas City Star Date: 03/02/01 23:04 Kansas City police want parents to think twice before leaving their children unattended in cars. If you get caught, there could be a price to pay, said Deputy Chief George Roberts. "We're not trying to make it a burden," Roberts said Friday. "We're just saying that we are going to look at this, and we're going to take the appropriate action." Child endangerment laws and city ordinances that prohibit leaving a running car unattended have been on the books ...

The Revenge Industry Prepares Valentine's Gifts for the Jilted By JANE COSTELLO WSJ.COM A dead rose by any other name ... might be the perfect Valentine's Day gift for that special someone you can't stand. For the cottage industry of entrepreneurs specializing in the art of retribution, this is peak pain season. Courting the nation's dumped and distressed, they are busy gathering dead flowers and boxing up fish heads, melted chocolates or stones with curses on them. Michael Baumgartner, a human-resource consultant from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., operates RevengeUnlimited.com, (www.revengeunlimited.com1), a Web site he started in 1997. It hawks dead ...

After being admonished by old Holy Joe Lieberman to disavow my first amendment rights to assemble and speak, wild horses will be needed to keep me from the Mill Creek Park on Saturday, November 25. 47th Street between Main and JC Nichols Parkway at 1 pm Can you join me? free state four

For the Manly Art of Turkey Frying, Goggles, Sobriety Are Recommended By SUSAN WARREN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL For David Zima, there's nothing that spices up Thanksgiving dinner like a little danger. Come Thursday, he'll be standing outdoors on his suburban North Dallas driveway, dropping the carcass of a raw turkey into a vat of boiling oil. As the searing oil contacts the turkey's moist flesh, the pot will become a caldron of churning, spewing grease and steam. Mr. Zima, an emergency-room nurse, knows that getting splashed could mean third-degree burns and a trip to the hospital. ...

Even the Playmates Are Protesting By Tunku Varadarajan, a senior editorial page writer at the Journal. LOS ANGELES -- Saturday night at the Playboy Mansion: Proximity to a beautiful woman tends, I find, to lead to disillusionment. Call me a cad, but I can't help noticing how spotty Neriah Davis, Miss March 1994, is under all her makeup. We are in a crush by an outdoor bar, and I've managed artfully to wedge myself right beside her -- much to the consternation of a man from the Washington Post (of whom more later). Ms. Davis, dressed in a jade bunny ...

July 17, 2000 Thinking Things Over Malicious Discretion at Justice By ROBERT L. BARTLEY You don't have to be a "Clinton-hater" to smell something fishy about the prosecution of Charles Bakaly III, formerly spokesman for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. The New York Times says trying him on criminal contempt of court charges is "unduly punitive and extreme." Julian Epstein, Democratic House Judiciary counsel, brands it "a terrible prosecution." Does it cross the bounds of "hate" to draw the obvious conclusion? To wit: This is the latest instance of the Clinton administration abusing the judicial process to settle scores and ...

June 9, 2000 Potomac Watch Tsk, Tsk, Bill: You Aren't Playing By Beltway Rules By PAUL A. GIGOT Bill Gates is a hard man to warm to, but this week I sympathize with him. Not only do the feds want to break up his company, but he must now endure public lectures about his many supposed political blunders. The Microsoft chairman didn't bow enough to bureaucrats, or canoodle enough with politicians. He gave away too little money too late, when it only looked cynical. His e-mails were too tart, or too honest, or something. And -- this one belongs in ...

Thank Senator Helms The good news from President Clinton's weekend summit in Moscow is that it ended without a lame-duck deal damaging American security. For this successful failure we can thank Jesse Helms, George W. Bush and, reading between the lines, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Clinton was eager to strike a new arms deal that would burnish his legacy and lock in limits on U.S. nuclear defenses. "Clinton's Ticking Clock: A Rush for Arms Control," is how the New York Times described it yesterday. But the President's effort was stymied by a series of timely political interventions. First ...

June 2, 2000 Why Death and Taxes Are No Longer Certain By PAUL A. GIGOT As liberals go, Hawaii Democrat Neil Abercrombie is a stalwart. He belongs to the Progressive Caucus and votes down the line with labor. But next week he's going to vote not merely to cut, but to repeal in toto, the estate tax. "I never thought I'd be providing cover for Bill Archer," cracks the 10-year House member over the phone from paradise, referring to the tax-cutting Republican Ways and Means chairman. "This is an idea whose time has definitely come. The support is broad ...