Maybe that s precisely where you should be buying your gas. Business is booming these days on Indian reservations coast to coast as numerous tribal leaders have chosen to discontinue collecting state gasoline taxes. With the recent release of over 30,000 FBI documents involving evidence of a larger conspiracy than originally charged in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma, some media analysts are starting to ask questions. A federal appeals panel in San Francisco held Tuesday that federal agents are not immune to state prosecution for the violation of state laws when excessive zeal or malice are involved. Looks like the U.S. porous border policies may be letting in more than a few undocumented vegetable pickers.
Fighting is underway again in Macedonia.
The U.S. 7th Fleet has set sail from Hawaii to the waters near Japan, just in case the North Koreans follow through on their saber rattling. The Chinese are conducting amphibious wargames using 10,000 of their crack troops across from Taiwan's outlying islands. A U.S. aircraft carrier battle group has been sent to monitor the exercises. Meanwhile, the Middle East is one or two heartbeats from a major coronary. A weekend suicide bombing that killed 20 young Jews and injured 85 more led PA Chairman Yassir Arafat to call for a ceasefire that he apparently has no power or desire to implement.