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A new study released by the Employment Policy Foundation (EPF) found that proposed changes to the Part 541 regulations governing overtime would expand overtime protections to an estimated 3.4 millions workers. The analysis found that no one who currently has a right to overtime under the current regulations will lose that right under the proposed rule.

People often ask me: "Dave, as a leading candidate for president yourself, can you be unbiased when you write about the other candidates?" Yes, When I believe that my opponents are wrong, I will point that out. But, by the same token, when I believe that my opponents are having carnal relations with livestock, I will point that out, too. "Fair and balanced," that is my legally trademarked motto. So today I'm going to analyze the presidential campaign, which, in accordance with our constitution,is taking place exclusively at picnics in Iowa and New Hampshire. Voters are lured to these picnics...

Media is after Bush with a vengeance. Elections are coming up. Interesting read. Many Bush haters out there.

Judging from news reports--of terrorist attacks in Iraq and political sniping at home--some might think that my native Iraq is in a terrible mess. Not so. Many critics see the attacks as signs that Iraqis oppose American involvement. A British survey and an Iraqi poll, however, found that 76 and 85 percent of Baghdadis, respectively, favor the continued presence of coalition troops. That's because iraqis know, to the core of their marrow, that after 35 years of subjugation, brutality and isolation, they need help, and that if America left prematurely, disaster would likely ensue.

GOP wins more backing from black clergy /Pastor turns Republican, supports Perry By JOHN WILLIAMS , Houston Chronicle Political Writer, R.G. RATCLIFFE Staff DALLAS - For the second time in two years, an African-American minister from Houston took center stage Saturday at a Republican event. The Rev. C.L. Jackson of Houston's Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church provided a show of support for Gov. Rick Perry by announcing at the Republican State Convention that he is switching parties. To the cheers of some 8,500 party stalwarts, Jackson said that his two days at the convention convinced him that he now is...

A department of re-election security? By MAUREEN DOWD WITH the most daring reorganization of government in half a century, George W. Bush hopes to protect something he holds dear: himself. After weeks of scalding revelations about a cascade of leads and warnings prefiguring the 9/11 attacks that were ignored by the U.S. government, the president created the Department of Political Security. Or, as the White House calls it for public consumption, the Department of Homeland Security. Bush's surprise move was a complete 180, designed to knock FBI Cassandra Coleen Rowley off front pages. He had resisted the idea of a...

Halibut and more smells up Congress By ROBERT D. NOVAK AS President Bush announced the government's reorganization to combat terrorism, the Senate quietly concluded a charade of business as usual under cover of a national crisis. In the dead of the night, it passed an "emergency" anti-terrorism appropriations bill that in fact was loaded down with extraneous spending. The appropriators like to put bills like this on a fast, closed train, shielded from the public. Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Phil Gramm of Texas battled to slow down and open the runaway express. But scarcely one-third of their...

BILLIONS LOST BY FEDS By JOHN CRUDELE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 28, 2002 -- WASHINGTON complains about deceptive corporate accounting. But the government last year misplaced an incredible $17.3 billion because of shoddy bookkeeping, or worse. Let me put that into numbers so you can fully appreciate the amount. It's $17,300,000,000 - the price of a few dozen urban renewal projects, a nice size fleet of warships or about half the tax cut that everyone made such a fuss about last summer. Disappeared. Gone. Nowhere to be found. In fact, the government's accounting was so atrocious that the General Accounting Office -...

How Clinton Failed The Left's attempt to re-write history It wasn't because of Paula Jones or the cocaine ring at Mena Airport or the stories about Arkansas troopers soliciting girls for Bill Clinton that I wrote "The Trickle-Down Economy” in 1993 for Barron's. No, that article was about economics and jobs, not sex and drugs. I quoted Winston Churchill: “Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.” On the campaign trail, candidate Clinton had talked as though he knew...

Inside Report: Byrd's Ridge promotion WASHINGTON -- Sen. Robert Byrd, insistent that Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge testify to Congress, has inserted in the emergency supplemental appropriations bill a provision promoting Ridge to Cabinet status against President Bush's wishes. Bush has refused to let Ridge testify on the grounds that he is a confidential presidential adviser, but all Cabinet members must appear before a congressional committee when summoned. Byrd is expected to insist that the Ridge provision be included in the final version of the emergency money bill. A footnote: As Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman, Byrd also slipped a provision...