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GREENSBORO -- Toni Harris won't see President Bush when he jets into our city Wednesday. She's not a Republican with deep pockets. She's a mother of eight with empty pockets, a thin woman of 32 living with her husband at the city's homeless shelter. But that's not to say she wouldn't love to wag his ear. If she had the chance, she would tell him plenty. "I would give him the runaround, just to make him understand that there are people in the world who need help to survive,'' she said Monday. "It shouldn't be like that. The government should...

The Republican Party is uneasy as it shambles toward the crucial 2006 congressional elections. Many of its supporters claim to feel demoralized, if not seduced and abandoned, by the conservative president they thought they elected in 2004. With President Bush's Nixonian economic policies and unwillingness to curtail federal spending, and the Republican faithful as confused as everyone else about the Iraq War, this is a good time to gain some political perspective from two veteran architects of the Reagan Revolution. In the midst of another difficult political predicament, Germany's Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, once said he had finally found...

Michael D. Brown was nominated by President George W. Bush as the first Under Secretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response in the newly created Department of Homeland Security in January 2003. As the head of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Under Secretary Brown leads federal disaster response and recovery operations and coordinates disaster activities with more than two dozen federal agencies and departments and the American Red Cross. He also oversees the National Flood Insurance Program and the U.S. Fire Administration, and initiates proactive mitigation activities. Additionally, Under Secretary Brown helps the Secretary of Homeland Security ensure the...

Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Bush got Machine Gun al-Kelly and Pretty Boy al-Floyd. Their daddy, al-Capone? If he's still alive, wasn't blasted into a crumpled wreck during that first missle and bunker-buster attack of the war and isn't cowering in some cousin's basement, or under cover in Iran, Syria, Jordan or the Sudan, he is now facing a little trouble. (If he is in one of those countries, or even with our "friends" in Saudi Arabia, they are also now facing a little trouble. There isn't a tyrannical government left in the world that doesn't now know that.....(snip) Liberals on...

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has so far declined to comment on her husband's shocking address to Britain's annual Labour Party conference this week in Blackpool, England, a speech described by British newspapers as "a devastating attack" on President Bush. Calls requesting comment from the Senator or her spokespersons, placed by NewsMax.com on Friday to her offices in New York and Washington, D.C., have gone unreturned, with Clinton herself volunteering no public reaction. Though U.S. news coverage of Mr. Clinton's speech has downplayed the unprecedented attack on his successor, a move that completely violated protocol for former presidents, British press...