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Gov. Perry said “we in Texas have no intention to implement so-called state exchanges or to expand Medicaid under Obamacare.”

Big earthquake tonight, 7.2 Solomon Islands....

Hello my fellow Freepers. My wife, daughter, son-in-law, and me are going to NYC tomorrow for the first time for a weekend get-away. I would like some recommendations on some good restaurants and things to see and do, nothing to fancy, but nice.We are staying at the Waldorf Astoria and the only thing on our schedule is a Broadway show on Thursday night.If any NYC Freepers can recommend something, I would appreciate it. I will definately go to Ground Zero and say a prayer. I hope the locals can understand me, after all I have lived in Texas all my...

AUSTIN - As if leading a superpower and fighting a war don't keep him busy enough, George W. Bush now has to report for jury duty.

Is it possible to have a system of taxation which is simple, efficient, progressive, and revenue neutral replacing all those taxes listed above? As it turns out, Yes. By capitalizing on financial data processing technology, it is possible to create a tax code for the 21st century-- one that is astonishingly easy for all citizens to understand, that is easy to administer and to comply with because it eliminates the need to file tax or information returns. The system, developed by University of Wisconsin Professor of Economics Edgar L. Feige, is known as the APT or Automated Payments/Transaction Tax. You...

Let's take nothing away from the original Shrek, a brazen, howlingly funny romp through fairy-tale history, with the occasional pause to mercilessly skewer the sanctimony of the Walt Disney Co. But Shrek 2 is an entirely different beast, a movie with a heart so big that no movie screen could possibly contain it. This is a sequel every bit as funny and imaginative as the original -- and twice as tender and wise. It's bottled joy, an unadulterated bliss-out and certainly one of the very best movies you'll see all year. If Shrek was about fighting for the most beautiful...

We already have learned not to refer to what's going in the New England Patriots' "war room" today or to think about the Eagles and Terrell Owens coming to Dallas to resume the Cowboys-Eagles "wars." As we watch hours of NFL draft coverage Saturday, there is another word to be avoided. These are fine athletes being selected for the pros. These are not "heroes." Pat Tillman was a hero. Pat Tillman may have been the last American sports hero for the sacrifice he made, for the choice he made that resulted in his death Thursday in Afghanistan. Yes, the NFL...

<p>A photograph of John Kerry together with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1970 in Pennsylvania has surfaced on the Internet, angering veterans who say his association with her 34 years ago is a slap in the faces of Vietnam War veterans.</p>

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Friday to block a hard-fought Republican redistricting plan in Texas that could cost Democrats as many as six seats in Congress. The justices will announce later this year whether they will consider an appeal from congressional Democrats and others who claim that the map dilutes minority voting strength. In the meantime, they rejected an emergency appeal that sought to stop the state from using the new boundaries in this year's elections. The districts were approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature in a special session following months of partisan bickering, highlighted by two out-of-state walkouts by...

I was sent this site in an email from my beautiful daughter-in-law who is the mother of my two beautiful granddaughters. I want to share it here. I don't know if this has been posted before but I have not seen it so here it is.All true Americans who love this country will understand and relate to this.All the liberals, American haters, and democrats don't have a clue and never will.God bless George Bush and all the great Americans like him and the ones who have come before him. With the Grace of God there will still be more of...

ENNIS, Tx. – Just a few people recall the remarkable and tragic story of the four Ennis boys. Soon, relatives and friends say, only the stones will tell the tale. But what a tale it is – friendship and dedication, bravery and sacrifice, of ties binding the boys in life and linking them in death. It unfolds in Ennis and ends on a miserable island 6,000 miles from home, where all four young men would die in a span of about three weeks. Sixty-two years ago, Ennis was a small town of 7,000 or so, and the place buzzed with...

A plane carrying rescued U.S. POW Jessica Lynch left for the United States on Saturday after a week of treatment at a military hospital in western Germany. The C-17 military transporter took off from Ramstein Air Base at 2:20 p.m. with the 19-year-old private first class, several members of her family, and some 50 other injured soldiers on board. She was expected to travel to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Lynch, a supply clerk from Palestine, W. Va., was captured March 23 after her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of...

MSNBC just reported that he was shot trying to leave Iraq. No further details available yet.

Statement from Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks March 14, 2003 "As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect. We are currently in Europe and witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war. While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American."

Does anyone know what the rules are for a member nation (US) to withdraw from the UN?I mean, what is required? Can President Bush just do it with an order, does Congress have to vote?I am just curious what is the procedure.

Wake Up! Once again we are counting our dead, and gathering body parts of our youth as they are blown to pieces by these blood thirsty Moslem Islamic Palestinian Terrorist. And if I sound a little disturbed about it, you got that right. This one also came very close to home, as Joel was on his way home from Jerusalem between the hours of 7 and 8 this morning, and we also knew he travels that route. And wouldn't you know he was nearly an hour late. So for the hundreds time I found myself on my face before God...

ST. LOUIS (BP)--Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North was onboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Reagan National Airport in Washington when terrorists flew a plane into the west wall of the Pentagon Sept. 11. As his plane banked, diverted to Dulles International, a passenger looked out the window and said, "The end is near." North recalled the events of Sept. 11 as he addressed the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference in a patriotic service June 10. A conservative commentator and former national security adviser in the Reagan administration convicted for his role in the Iran-Contra affair, North said that his...

ST. LOUIS (BP)--President Bush heralded Southern Baptists as champions of the faith and said that Baptists "believe as America's founders did: that religious faith is the moral anchor of American life." Bush delivered his remarks June 11 via satellite to messengers gathered at the America's Center for the 2002 annual meeting of the SBC in St. Louis. The president's address contained references to his personal faith in God, his commitment to preserving the traditional family and social issues important to evangelicals. Bush, who garnered widespread support from evangelical Christians in the 2000 presidential elections, reminded Southern Baptists that he shares...

ABC NEWS PRESIDENT APOLOGIZES FOR TERROR COMMENTS Wed Oct 31 2001 13:11:08 ET ABC NEWS President David Westin on Wednesday will apologize for telliing the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism that he had no opinion if the Pentagon was a legitimate target for terrorist. The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that Westin now believes he was "wrong" making the comments. "I apologize for any harm that my misstatement may have caused," Westin will say in a release. MORE "When asked at an interview session at the Columbia Journalism School whether I believed that the Pentagon was a legitimate target for ...

With President Clinton's adultery as their unspoken reference point, Texas first lady Laura Bush and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay offered Gov. George W. Bush Friday as a moral-to-the-core leader who would restore dignity to the presidency. They spoke at the Republican Party of Texas State Convention in downtown Houston, where delegates also adopted a political platform that blasts some Republican judges for striking down the state sodomy statute and allowing a few girls to have abortions without their parents' knowledge. For the first time in 10 years, Bush did not attend the state convention. He was in Ohio ...