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As a consultant, I've been hit by the slowing of the economy and the destruction of the tech sector, I've recently caught myself dwelling over the prosperous times of the late 90's when I was making 6 figures. Being one to want to know the wheres, whats... and particularly the why's... I started researching the issues behind the downfall of the tech sector within the U.S. While this is hardly a comprehensive explanation of what’s wrong with the economy and every aspect of the tech sector, it is in my opinion the quickest and most obvious thing that’s wrong with...

A History of Mike's Face. Possible Hillary's running mate? http://anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.html

Senate Clears Way for Its Pay Raise Thu Nov 14, 3:20 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has used one of the first votes of its lame-duck session to accept a pay raise for the fourth consecutive year. The Senate, without debate, used its second vote on Wednesday to reject 58-36 a measure by Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis., that would have denied the congressional pay raise. With the slumping economy and financial markets, job layoffs and federal budget deficits, "this is the wrong time for Congress to give itself a pay hike," Feingold said in...

"Politics," essayist P.J. O'Rourke once wrote, "are a last resort." Now the technology sector, after having weathered disappointing quarter after quarter, is in dire need of something -- anything -- to get it back on its feet. In last week's election, it might have found a savior. While the political leanings of many digerati fall somewhere between radical libertarianism and extreme ambivalence, the CEOs who run technology companies and the organizations that represent them in Washington are eager for the new Congress to get under way. It's easy to see why: According to a CNET (CNET) News.com analysis, Senate Republicans...

Please take a moment to say "Thank You"! to Our Service Men and Woman Please take one minute out of your day to visit the Department of Defense Web page below and add your name to a brief message thanking the men and women of the U.S. military services for defending our freedom, then forward this message to your friends or associates and ask them to do the same. The compiled list of names will be sent out to soldiers, sailors and airmen at the end of the month. Visit ---- Defend America (Circulation of this message is being sponsored...

Gore and other Democrats, if they want power again, need to have that discussion again. They need to have an exorcism and free the party of the Bill-Hillary-Carville-McAuliffe-Begala gang. The Democrats needs to cut the sleaze.

Trent LOTT - Just Said Lets Roll on FOX Live FlyingA LETs ROll

LAVERGNE, Tenn. (AP) - Sixteen Muslims have filed a religious discrimination lawsuit claiming managers at a Whirlpool plant yanked scarves off women's heads and followed workers into restrooms to make sure they weren't praying. The current and former workers at the factory sued Whirlpool seeking $310,000 in damages, along with a court order forcing the company to "reasonably accommodate" the workers' religious practices, as required by law. Tom Kline, a spokesman at Whirlpool's corporate headquarters in Benton Harbor, Mich., declined to comment. Hodan Hassan of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington said workers at the refrigerator and air conditioner...

<p>BOSTON -- House Speaker Thomas Finneran went to court Monday to save his sofa.</p> <p>Advocates for the voter-approved Clean Elections law are trying to auction his office furniture, including his desk, sofa and love seat, to pay for the law, which he staunchly opposes.</p>

<p>AMHERST — At least 31 union protesters, most of them students, were arrested Monday at the University of Massachusetts after occupying an administration building and trying to block a police bus.</p> <p>Fourteen protesters staged a sit-in to support a 360-member resident assistants' union that is demanding recognition from UMass, which has refused to bargain with the group since its March creation.</p>

George W Bush. c/o White House 1700 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC Dear Mr. Bush, I am writing this letter because I am concerned about this bill HR 2356, that eventually will reach your desk. I would like to know how you Personally feel about this bill, and when it is in strick violation of the Constitution of this our great nation. How can you sign this bill into law, and violate your oath of office? This bill as you know is an infringement upon the 1st amendment on freedom of speech. I feel that if this bill is passed it ...

<p>In a race against time, Reich to run for governor By Rick Klein, Globe Staff, 1/9/2002 romising to deliver ''a shot in the arm'' to the Democratic primary, former US labor secretary Robert Reich today will officially announce his candidacy for governor of Massachusetts. The entry by Reich is expected to shake up a Democratic field now dominated by State House politicians and party insiders. Early polls show that Reich - an outspoken, well-known liberal who served in the Clinton administration - would be among the front-runners in the Democratic race. His flirtation with a run has already set off concern among supporters of Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham, who is relying on labor support, and former Democratic National Committee chairman Steve Grossman, who has been courting liberal activists. Despite his prominence and popularity, Reich faces a tough battle to qualify for the primary ballot, which requires the backing of 15 percent of delegates to the Democratic convention in June. Those delegates will be chosen by local Democratic committees on Feb. 2 and many delegates will pledge their support to a candidate at that time, giving Reich barely three weeks to make his case to them. Reich, a Brandeis University economics professor, will formally launch his candidacy at an 11 a.m. news conference at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, according to an adviser. The Cambridge resident plans to stress his background in economics during the campaign, saying he is best equipped to bring about economic growth and recovery in the state. His advisors say he will run a vibrant campaign that will be freewheeling and accessible, hoping to stir the popular fervor set off by US Senator John McCain in his Republican presidential bid two years ago. ''I'm going to inject energy into the party,'' Reich told the Globe last week. ''I'll be like a shot in the arm. I will bring people back who are turned off by politics.'' Quick-witted and media-savvy, Reich has already drawn headlines by calling Acting Governor Jane Swift ''an embarrassment'' and saying he would consider raising the state tax on capital gains. He will need to gain attention, since he has raised just $70,000 for his campaign. Birmingham, by contrast, has collected nearly $3 million. Reich's bid presents a quandary for organized labor groups, which are largely behind Birmingham, a former labor lawyer who has championed major initiatives like minimum-wage increases. Reich, a fierce supporter of workers' rights and a higher minimum wage, will also try to lay claim to labor support, which can be influential at the Democratic convention and in the September primary. ''We haven't had a lineup like this in a long time,'' said Robert J. Haynes, president of the state AFL-CIO. ''It's going to be a good, competitive race, and Reich adds to it significantly.'' As he seeks his first elected office, Reich could also find that he's made some enemies in the Democratic Party since he left his Cabinet post in 1997, said Dan Payne, a Democratic political consultant who is unaligned in the race. Many Clinton loyalists are still smarting from Reich's public break with the former president, whom he accused of leaving the party ''dead as a doornail,'' and from Reich's decision to back former US Senator Bill Bradley over Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton remains immensely popular in Massachusetts. ''Democratic regulars could throw back in his face comments about Clinton and Gore,'' Payne said. ''It depends on what kind of campaign he conducts.'' While Reich could cut into the support of candidates such as Birmingham, Grossman, and former state senator Warren Tolman, his candidacy could mean a boost to Secretary of State William F. Galvin, the most conservative of the Democrats running, and state Treasurer Shannon P. O'Brien, the only woman in the race, who may benefit from a crowded field of male candidates. Reich, 55, graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he was a classmate of Bill Clinton's. He spent 12 years teaching at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government before joining the Clinton administration in 1993. He now teaches social and economic policy at Brandeis. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Clare Dalton, and their two sons. As he launches his bid, Reich is expected to turn to experienced political operatives, some of them former aides to Bradley and Senator Edward M. Kennedy. David Burke, who at one time was Kennedy's chief of staff, has been spearheading Reich's organizational efforts. Providing policy guidance is Nick Littlefield, who served that role with the senator after previously working as his chief aide on the Senate Labor Committee.</p>

<p>Businessman eyes run for Meehan's seat US Representative Martin Meehan, the Lowell Democrat who has had no serious challenge since his election 10 years ago, will probably face a Dunstable businessman this fall. Republican Charles J. McCarthy has formed an exploratory committee and plans to make a formal declaration of his candidacy for the 5th Congressional District seat next month. McCarthy, a decorated Vietnam veteran, said he will emphasize national defense issues and the revival of a slumping economy. McCarthy has had a 25-year career in the technology industry as a tactical and strategic planner. His wife, Kathleen, is a teacher in the North Middlesex Regional School District.</p>

Updated Photos I'd like to let folks know that Miss TN Liberty has sent in more pictures of the TN Income Tax Rally. &quot; How to have a Modern Day Boston Tea party.&quot; Enjoy the Additional Pictures of the action in Nashville Folks. Click the Link Below to view the Update Photos. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b70829b193d.htm

TN Tea Party &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How to have a Modern day Boston Tea Party (Photos) &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TN says no to State Income Tax 63 to 33. Today the people from Tennessee gathered at the Nashville Capital and had a modern day Boston Tea Party. No tea was dumped, but the people of TN gathered and let their voices be heard once again. I was able to get time off from my work today, to join the TN Tea Party gathering. I am happy to report that the event was very peaceful and I believe it once again ...

TN Tea Party &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How to have a Modern day Boston Tea Party (Photos) &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TN says no to State Income Tax 63 to 33. Today the people from Tennessee gathered at the Nashville Capital and had a modern day Boston Tea Party. No tea was dumped, but the people of TN gathered and let their voices be heard once again. I was able to get time off from my work today, to join the TN Tea Party gathering. I am happy to report that the event was very peaceful and I believe it once again ...

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New Page 1 The GOP's best friend &nbsp; By Brian McGrory, 8/7/2001 e is the secret weapon of the state's ailing Republican Party. He is so politically astute and deviously cutthroat that GOP officials believe he'll not only help them retain the governorship and break into the congressional delegation but dominate the most popular issue of the day. &nbsp; The mere mention of his name causes Republicans to clench their fists in celebration and Democrats to clench their stomachs in fear. His underlings are believed to rehearse the words, ''You're right, sir. You really are smarter than everybody else.'' ...

AP National AP National FBI to Probe Suburban D.C. Police UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- The FBI has begun investigating seven more cases involving Prince George's County police, including the shooting of four unarmed men and the beating deaths of two others. The new probes, including the death of a teen-ager shot 13 times in the back while laying face down, bring to 32 the number of cases involving police officers in the suburban Washington county that the FBI is investigating. The agency's findings will be forwarded to federal prosecutors, who will decide whether to seek indictments against the ...

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