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GWB's Brave New World. There, I said. Its a cliché that I can't avoid, and a cliché that happens to be, well, true. If you are a person of the politial persuasion who wishes government control our health care system, I'd advise you to be careful what you wish for -- you just might get it. It seems that not only does our "conservative" president have the honour of passing the largest piece of social welfare spending since Lyndon Johnson, with the government-funded prescription drug plan, he will most likely be the first President to wield medical science as a...

A Harris County grand jury indicted a Cypress teenager Wednesday for arson in a March flag-burning incident. Randall W. Heinrichs, 18, of the 14500 block of Enchanted Valley in Cypress, is accused in the March 22 burning of a U.S. flag that was displayed vertically on the building of Lumber Tag Specialties, said Kaylynn Williford, Harris County assistant district attorney. The building, in the 13300 block of Skinner,, was damaged in the fire and the flag was consumed, Williford said. No one was hurt. Heinrichs also is charged with criminal mischief in connection with a March 16 incident in which...