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<p>WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The George W. Bush administration's 2004 Budget announced last week aroused the ire of many conservatives and led me to wonder: if that archetypal small government Republican Calvin Coolidge were brought back to us in 2004, which way would he vote?</p>

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from...

Filed at 5:23 p.m. ET BOSTON (AP) -- Vito Bruno remembers his father and thousands of others marching through Boston's North End 75 years ago to protest the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The Italian immigrants were put to death in 1927 after they were convicted of killing two people during a robbery. Many observers -- then and now -- say the trial focused unfairly on their anarchist political beliefs and status as immigrants ``They were being targeted because they were Italian,'' said Bruno, 85, who lived just a few blocks from the funeral parlor where the bodies...