compiled by Janice Moerschel

Gulf War victims. H. Lindsey Arison III, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve (Ret.) has revealed that ''Chemical agents were present in areas where hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers were massing for the upcoming invasion of Iraq and liberation of Kuwait.'' And ''It is estimated that there are now more than 80,000 veterans suffering from Gulf War Syndrome . . .'' 6,526 deaths have resulted (as of July 5, 1995) and, in many cases, the disease is transmissible. Find the gruesome details of this tragedy and government cover-up on the Internet at: http://www.gslink.com/~arison/gws.html or just search for info on Gulf War Syndrome.

Foster Flimflam: Reed Irvine of ''Accuracy in Media'' reports that they submitted ads to The New York Times exposing facts about Vince Foster's death that didn't make it into the paper, e.g., that ''There is no evidence that Foster died in the park where his body was found,'' ''The .38 Colt army special found in Foster's hand was not his,'' ''The so-called 'suicide' note allegedly found in Foster's briefcase has been ruled a forgery by five handwriting experts . . .'' Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, chairman and CEO of the Times Company said the editors ''were not comfortable with the facts'' and ''Our editors feel that the suggestion that Foster may have been murdered is so speculative that it would be inappropriate to raise the matter at this time.'' (The ad made no mention of murder.)

Jennifer Dunn takes on the IRS. After she told her constituents ''In the next four years, I want to make life as hard on the IRS as they've made it on you,'' she received a letter from Sharon E. Brown, VP of the National Treasury Employees Union telling her that IRS employees ''are outraged at your totally irresponsible remarks,'' particularly in ''an age of Freemen and the militia.'' Ms. Dunn responded: ''I will not apologize for stating the obvious: the IRS is often overzealous, it does often trample the rights of taxpayers, and it does deserve closer scrutiny.'' Margaret Milner Richardson, the IRS commissioner, claimed her agency was striving to be ''more customer-friendly.''

Perot his own ''special interest.'' Newspaper journalist and author George Carpozi, Jr. reveals that Bill Clinton and Ross Perot made a deal in 1991. Effectively, Perot would be the spoiler in the presidential contest and ''In turn, Clinton agreed that his first act as occupant of the Oval Office would be to reform the nation's health-care system with massive changes.'' ''Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that Perot played a large hand in first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to craft the ill-fated health reform bill . . .'' and ''. . . not one but two of Perot's companies were earmarked in Mrs. Clinton's 'working papers' to play mammoth roles in the health-care industry.'' Wonder what the deal was this time . . . ?

Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas has no love for the U.N.: ''They're more inefficient than our own government, which is a hard task to achieve, but they've managed to achieve that . . . . It's like pouring money down a rat hole!''

The ''libertoon'' on this page is plagiarized from the Cato Institute's Christmas card. Thanks, folks!