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The Senate should reject President Bush’s nomination of Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson for Treasury secretary. Under Paulson’s leadership, Goldman Sachs participated in ethically, and perhaps legally, questionable business practices. Paulson also supports the economy-killing Kyoto Protocol and has demonstrated little respect for private property rights. On the ethical front, Paulson has refused to answer questions about his apparent use of Goldman Sachs’ corporate assets to advance his personal interests. In 2002, Paulson used at least $35 million of shareholder money to help environmental groups stop a “sustainable forestry” project in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Environmental groups had delayed the...

WILLIAM WELD Addresses GOP Hispanics GOP gubernatorial hopeful William Weld told a gathering of Hispanic Republicans yesterday that he supports congressional proposals to create a guest-worker program for undocumented immigrants. "Congress must pass a comprehensive immigration bill creating a guest worker program that gives hardworking immigrants a path toward citizenship," Weld said in remarks delivered to the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Yonkers. "It's good for the economy and it's good for New York." Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts and a candidate for the GOP nomination for governor of New York, said immigrant workers should be treated with...

Interesting perspective by Krauthammer on Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume". He is saying that Senate dems stopped the bill because they want the House Bill left standing as a campaign issue. The House Bill is the one that would make felons of all illegal aliens. Krauthammer thinks the dems can create a wedge issue by painting the House Republicans as 'mean' by proposing to criminalize those that only seek to do the jobs that Americans won't do. Mara Liason (NPR liberal) on the same show said the demonstrators represented a huge voting bloc. When Brit Hume interjected to...