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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A woman who has been considered dead found out recently that the government still doesn't believe she's alive. According to government paperwork, Laura Todd has been dead off and on for eight years, and Todd said there's no end to the complications the situation creates. “One time when I (was) ruled dead, they canceled my health insurance because it got that far,” she said. Todd’s struggle started with a typo at the Social Security administration. She said the government has assured her since the problem that they have deleted her death record, but she said the problems...

Bush recently signed an unconstitutional bill into law, CFR. With his quote of "but it does present some legitimate constitutional questions", he showed that he had foreknowledge of that fact. He blatantly endangered our rights and failed to keep his oath "to support and defend the Constitution". With all this in mind, I cannot think of one reason why we should not move for his impeachment. If anyone of you can think of one, please respond.

From the movie McLintock, spoken by G. W. McLintock (John Wayne) for the Comanche: "We are an old people, and a proud people. When the white men first came among us, we were as many as the grasses of the prairie. Now we are few, but we are still proud. For if a man losses his pride in manhood, he is nothing. You tell us now that if we let you send us away to this place called Fort Sill, you will feed us and care for us. Let us tell you this, it is the Comanche law that no ...

Treaty of Tripoli ARTICLE 11. As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Guy Eaker is one of several professional anglers who participated in one of Ray Scott's "Eagles of Angling" tournaments, which benefit a small church in the B.A.S.S. founder's hometown in Alabama. Also fishing this particular tournament was former President George Bush and his son, at that time the governor of Texas, both of whom are friends with Scott. Eaker had the privilege of fishing with the elder Bush first. With Secret Service agents perched in the trees around the lake and a boat with more agents and a surgeon trailing behind them, Eaker recommended tht the president use perhaps the ...

Louisiana Purchase was the most important event of President Thomas Jefferson's first Administration. In this transaction, the United States bought 827,987 square miles (2,144,476 square kilometers) of land from France for about $15 million. This vast area lay between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. The purchase of this land greatly increased the economic resources of the United States, and cemented the union of the Middle West and the East. Eventually all or parts of 15 states were formed out of the region. Reasons for the purchase. When Jefferson ...

Wednesday, I went to the Million Mom March an Washington Ceasefire's public gathering. During this, they used the whole people commit suicide with guns and the 10 children falsehoods, which from the crowd, I shouted that they were wrong and the basis of where they got those, then the real facts. I was confronted by a number of them that if I have something to say, to go up on stage and say it. I said, "Oh right!", and proceeded toword the stage. I was politely waiting my turn when they told me I coouldn't do that because I wasn't ...

Trying to find out the general feel of what people think. How would you feel if we got together a whole bunch of 1040 forms, then we goto public places such as the Capital's reflecting pool or Boston Harbor, dressed as Indians (maybe the Mohawk tribe) and tossed them in.