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<p>LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush's trip to Florida to focus on education issues is being overshadowed by worries about the economy. Concerned about the vanishing surplus, Democrats say the administration may have to curtail spending and its tax cuts, or it may end up taking money from Social Security. Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott says that won't be necessary. Lott calls for a new tax reduction.</p>

<p>LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Let's listen in now to Republican Minority Leader Trent Lott. He's got some words this morning about the budget and about the economy.</p> <p>SENATOR TRENT LOTT (R), MINORITY LEADER: ... have the funds to reduce, or will have those funds to reduce the debt even further. So we've got considerable amount of work to do.</p>

<p>BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Some say it's topic A at the White House: What to do about a limping U.S. economy? A panel of experts say there is light at the end of the financial tunnel. It should hit by the end of this year, but in the meantime President Bush faces the question about the economy now.</p>

<p>JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: David Haffenreffer's been looking at the newspapers and there's an explosive story about an Iowa town in there, isn't there?</p> <p>DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, very explosive. We're...</p> <p>CAFFERTY: How do you top Bob the Builder?</p> <p>HAFFENREFFER: You can't.</p> <p>CAFFERTY: No.</p>

Why Are Kids Killing Kids? The Nutrition-Mind Connection Editor:     "The fact that Johnnie can't read and that we have a $200 billion annual national medical bill both stem from the same cause - a poor delivery of elements from the soil in, both quality and balance.     The above statement was made in 1979 by John Hamacker. It remains true today, except that our national medical bill is now closer to one trillion dollars per year. Despite the vast resources of our nation, our health status is deplorable. We rank on a par with third world nations in this ...

Protesters in Waco Prepare for Reno Does former Attorney General Janet Reno think her appearance Thursday in Waco, Texas, will be a good photo opportunity to bolster her bizarre decision to run for governor in Florida? She might be surprised. Young Conservatives of Texas and Citizens Organization for Public Safety announced plans today to stage an information campaign and protest when Reno speaks at Baylor University. On Wednesday, the groups will hold a "teach-in" (nicely appropriating a term from 1960s leftists) and screen Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Mike McNulty's "Waco: A New Revelation" and, after a question-and-answer session, his new short ...

Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and now Phil Gramm retiring. This has created a media firestorm about how Senate Republicans will be wiped out in 2002. True, Republicans probably will not regain the Senate in 2002. And there are still at least a couple of possible retirements that really would hurt Republican chances in 2002. But these three retirements have been blown way out of proportion. Lets look at them individually. In South Carolina, Strom Thurmond is looking a bit frail, so he decides to retire instead of running for another term that would end when he would be 106. This ...

The University of Toronto's decision to shun a British academic has cast doubts over the integrity of its scientific research, reports Anne McIlroy Monday September 10, 2001 Canada's largest and most prestigious university and has come under fire from two Nobel laureates and 25 other internationally respected scientists for withdrawing a job offer to a UK researcher after he questioned the safety of antidepressants like Prozac. In a letter, the 27 scientists say the decision to send Dr David Healy packing violated the principles of academic freedom, "besmirched" the name of the University of Toronto and "poisoned the reputation" of ...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. President George Bush praised the United States' longstanding relationship with Australia on Monday, and presented Prime Minister John Howard with a gift that symbolizes the U.S.-Australia military alliance -- the ship's bell of the USS Canberra, an American vessel named in honor of an Australian warship lost in World War II.</p>

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 10, 2001 AP President Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at Jacksonville International Airport in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP) President Bush tried to breathe new life into his education agenda Monday, seeking to cajole lawmakers into action. "I don't think education ought to be a partisan issue," Mr. Bush said at a campaign-style event at an elementary school. "I know reading is not a partisan issue &#151; I mean, getting every child to read in America is an American issue and it ought to be an American goal and it is going to be in this administration." ...

Analysis: Why Bush blundered on immigrants Click for complete story Monday, 10 September 2001 8:03 (ET) Analysis: Why Bush blundered on immigrants By STEVE SAILER, UPI National Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The news just keeps getting worse for President Bush's hopes to ease immigration laws for Mexicans. First, his own party in Congress quietly but strongly objected. Next, at a formal White House welcoming ceremony last week, visiting Mexican president Vicente Fox, Bush's supposed best friend among world leaders, shocked administration officials by suddenly dropping the conciliatory language he had been using recently. Fox insisted upon ...

Ponzi schemes are bad enough, the worst and best-known of which is the present Social Security system, where today's retirement funds are used to pay today's retirees, leaving a large IOU from the government to today's workers. But the idea of a government "surplus" is quite puzzling. How can a government that levies taxes to pay for current expenses ever have a legitimate surplus? Each year's levies are supposed to support that year's budget, and if there is more money than is required to cover those expenses, it seems that the government cannot appropriate it as a surplus. Those ...

The British Government is preparing to launch a legal challenge against America over its use of the death penalty. In an unprecedented move the Foreign Office will instruct lawyers to intervene in an attempt to halt the executions of two men with dual British and US nationality currently on Death Row. One is scheduled to die in the electric chair before the end of the year. Britain is also considering taking a case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to challenge America over its death penalty policy. Ministers are known to have serious concerns about the trials ...

It will be very easy for you to say, "Well, I will do something, some day. When I can afford it, I am going to." But would you let an old "grad" tell you one thing now? Giving is a habit. Get into the habit now, because you will never be able to afford to give and contribute, thus to repay the obligation you owe to those people who made this college possible, if you wait until you think you can afford it. Start now regardless of how small, and in the days to come when you are confronted with ...

<p>JACKSONVILLE, Florida (CNN) -- President George W. Bush visited a Florida elementary school Monday as part of a renewed campaign to press Congress for an agreement on his education plan, a cornerstone of his agenda that has been on hold for months because of differences in competing Senate and House bills.</p>

<p>LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: Now to presidential politics, ever the more complicated. And also a peek at the angst surrounding the intervention of the highest court in the land in election 2000.</p> <p>A book called "The Accidental President," by "Newsweek" writer David Kaplan, looks at the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 ruling that essentially stopped the Florida recounts. Kaplan quotes one of the four justices, David Souter, as saying he'd -- "only if he had only one more day, he might have been able to persuade one of the five others to switch sides." Kaplan says the swing vote that Souter most likely was pursuing was Anthony Kennedy.</p>

<p>COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR: Turning now to politics and your pocketbooks, the slumping economy has created a difficult equation in Washington: Where can the decision-makers slash costs without cutting into constituent support?</p> <p>For more on the numbers crunch and the Capitol's new bottom line, we turn to senior White House correspondent John King.</p>

<p>JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: All right. We want to take our viewers right down to Florida this afternoon. That is where the president has gone. He's gone down there. Even though a lot of other people are talking about the economy these days, the president wants to refocus the nation's attention on education, particularly about his program to support more reading in the nation's schools and among the nation's young people.</p>

Passengers on the Free Republic Network Conference Cruise this October will be receiving a "Welcome Bag" with items they can use on the ship like sun screen, lip balm, can coolers, etc. In addition, some passengers will be throwing in promotional items from their business. Chapters are even getting in on the action! The South Carolina Chapter is sponsoring copies of the Pocket Constitution and Heart Of Texas is throwing in a beach towel or a visor, etc. If you have a promotional item you'd like to include, and, get a little advertising value out of it, FReepmail me! Also, ...

Following two consecutive front-page stories in The Buffalo News last week, the possibility of former President Clinton speaking at UB, which university administrators quashed last March, has resurfaced. Clinton spokeswoman Julia Payne told The News Clinton sometimes waives his speaking fee and "would love to consider speaking [at UB]." Student Association officials, excited by the report, have since resumed their quest to bring the ex-president to campus. According to his spokesperson, Michael Keevers, Clinton has been invited [by UB],but has not decided on whether he will be coming. SA President Christian Oliver and SA Vice President Joshua Korman said administrators ...