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Jan. 31 Neal Knox Update -- Tuesday the Wisconsin Assembly will vote on whether to override Gov. Jim Doyle’s (D) veto of a license to carry law. The Senate has already passed the measure and the state’s press and leftist organizations are practically foaming at the mouth to stop it. The override could succeed – or fail – by a single vote. The vote had been scheduled this past Tuesday but was cancelled because one pro-gun member was absent due to illness – a claim disputed by the press, which said the delay indicated the majority Republicans didn’t have the...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Two former top Pentagon officials each were sentenced Friday to 24 1/3 years in prison for taking more than $1 million in bribes and accepting prostitutes from government contractors. Robert Lee Neal Jr., 51, and Francis Delano Jones Jr., 51, also were ordered to jointly pay $1.75 million in restitution. The Maryland men were convicted in U.S. District Court in July of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, witness tampering and obstruction of justice.Neal was appointed by President Clinton in 1996 to serve as director of the Pentagon's office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (SADBU), which helps...

In his classic Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville warned about the "tyranny of the majority." The French political scholar, who toured the United States in 1831, observed that few precautions had been taken to control the unlimited power of direct democracy. "If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed," de Tocqueville wrote, "that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation." This is what is happening in California. The recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis is an assault on democratic institutions. Led by right-wing...

A former Pentagon director on trial for extorting bribes from government contractors skirted normal procedures on behalf of a few favored companies and accepted gifts that included prostitutes, a co-worker testified Tuesday. Robert Lee Neal Jr., 50, of Bowie, Md., and his top assistant, Francis Delano Jones Jr., 41, of Fort Washington, Md., are facing trial on charges of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, making false statements and obstruction of justice.

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Revenue: Weary of high taxes, a famous old-line company wants to leave the U.S. Public officials’ reaction reveals an all-too-common mind-set in the halls of power. Stanley Works, the New Britain, Conn., toolmaker, announced in February that it had plans to reincorporate offshore. The move would save the company $30 million a year in taxes. Last week, shareholders approved a paperwork relocation to business-friendly Bermuda. The possibility has energized the political class. They see a cash cow about to jump the fence. "Stanley Works has no right to abandon their obligations as a corporate citizen of this country," mumbled Rep....

Durbin lacks the profile of a winner April 24, 2002 BY STEVE NEAL, SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST His re-election isn't a done deal. Sen. Richard J. Durbin's potential vulnerability was exposed in the March 19 primary when nearly a third of Democratic voters shunned him. Durbin, 57, who is favored to win a second term in the general election, got the lightest vote among the four slated Democratic candidates who were unopposed in last month's primary. As the sitting U.S. senator, he had the top ballot position and should have led the Democratic ticket. But he fell short of those expectations....