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Voigt on America – September 17, 2004 Saddam Hussein’s Genocidal Campaign against the Kurds Steven T. Voigt, Esq. Recently, I have spent considerable time reading about the horrible crimes committed by Saddam Hussein against his own people. As I study accounts of the years of terror under Saddam’s dictatorship, I am horrified and saddened. Saddam’s reign was terrible. Many people suffered from his evil acts, but the Kurds, a distinct people with their own language and culture who live in northern Iraq, were particularly brutalized. My thoughts and prayers go out to these people. They have lost so much, but...

Following press inquiries about Teresa Heinz Kerry's massive fortune, which is estimated at between $900 million and $3.5 billion, and her apparent support for various environmental groups that have been campaigning on Kerry's behalf, Heinz has promised to release the first two pages of her 1040 tax return just one month before election day.[1] As I type this, I am reviewing my 1040 tax return to see what the first two pages illustrate. The first two pages include nothing more than basic, raw numbers, including my salary and the sum of my deductions. The pages do not indicate the names...

"[My opponent] is not only somebody who embraces the pro-choice position on abortion, for instance, which is already at odds with the Declaration principle that we are all created equal, and endowed with the right to life. He is somebody who has carried it to such an extreme that he actually stood by and would allow infants who are born alive — as a result of a botched abortion procedure — he would allow them to be put aside like garbage, and let them die." —Ambassador Alan Keyes, August 9, 2004, speaking about his Senate race in Illinois Left-wing talking...