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WASHINGTON – With no fanfare, President Bush on Friday signed the most sweeping rewrite of corporate tax law in nearly two decades, showering $136 billion in new tax breaks on businesses, farmers and other groups. Intended to end a bitter trade war with Europe, the election-year measure was described by supporters as critically necessary to aid beleaguered manufacturers who have suffered 2.7 million lost jobs over the past four years. But opponents charged that the tax package had grown into a massive giveaway that will add to the complexity of the tax system and end up rewarding multinational companies that...

Iraqi Official: Saddam Will Be Executed Stewart Stogel Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004 UNITED NATIONS - "Saddam will be executed, the Iraqi people demand it," so confessed an Iraqi official travelling with visiting interim prime minister Iyad Allawi. Allawi has spent the past week visiting Washington and then moved on to NYC to address the 2004 U.N. General Assembly. Several members of the Allawi delegation speaking on background, told NewsMax that pressure on the Allawi government to "move" on the Saddam issue has been growing, especially from Shiite religious quarters. While no firm date has yet been set for the upcoming...

NEW YORK — CBS has appointed former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief executive Lou Boccardi to investigate the National Guard documents story that has caught the news network by storm. The two-person review panel will begin its work this week and will have full access and complete cooperation from CBS News and CBS, as well as all of the resources necessary, CBS said in a statement Wednesday. The panel will report its findings to CBS News and CBS. The findings also will be made public, according to the network. Meanwhile, a veteran CBS News producer...

The Real Concern About Rathergate September 19, 2004 by Thomas D. Segel Everyone who can take pen to paper, fingers to keyboard or voice to the airways has something to say about the docu-drama surrounding President George W. Bush and his service in the Air National Guard. It is also interesting that CBS News and its left of center anchorman should be the subject of a story rapidly being known as Rathergate. Dan Rather and CBS News were in the forefront of those media organizations that trumpeted the Watergate scandle, which ultimately brought about the demise of an American president....

Theresa Heinz Kerry Will Not Speak Tonight @ DNC!Just heard it on Fox News.

Subject: Artificial Intelligence A popular bar had a new robotic bartender installed. A fellow came in for a drink and the robot asked him, "What's your IQ?" The man replied, "130." So the robot proceeded to make conversation about physics, astronomy, investments, insurance, and so on. The man listened intently and thought, "This is really cool." Another gent came in for a drink and the robot asked him, "What's your IQ?" The man responded, "100." So the robot started talking about football, baseball, and so on. The man thought to himself, "Wow, this is really cool." A third guy came...

Number of physicians in the U. S.: 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171 (U. S. Dept of Health & Human Services) Number of gun owners in the U. S.: 80,000,000. Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups): 1,500. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188. Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one doctor. Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand.

Treason or Not? The Case Against Ted Kennedy May 14, 2004 by Joe Mariani At some point, we will have to muster the courage to face the facts about Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy (D-Ma). Since the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power was made, his criticisms of the President have become more shrill and accusatory. For the most part, that's fine -- the First Amendment protects the right to freedom of speech that we all have, within certain limits. (For instance, one cannot yell "Fire!" in a crowded building if there isn't one.) However, Ted Kennedy may have crossed...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices backed further away from recent highs on Wednesday, on forecasts that U.S. inventory data would show the world's biggest consumer further replenishing its crude stock cushion. Related Quotes DJIA NASDAQ ^SPC 10480.15 2050.24 1140.53 -90.66 -9.66 -7.63 delayed 20 mins - disclaimer Quote Data provided by Reuters Missed Tech Tuesday? Conquer the data mountain, preview Longhorn's data tools and check the best software for managing your data. Expectations of the stock build outweighed news of a car bomb in Riyadh, capital of top world producer Saudi Arabia. London Brent crude was down 46 cents at...

The country's manufacturing sector grew at a scorching pace for a second straight month, breaking decades-old records and exceeding expectations of even those economists who have been cautious about the relative strength of the recent economic turnaround. Numbers released today by the Institute for Supply Management showed new factory orders, production and employment all rising significantly last month. With the pace of new orders reaching a level not seen since July 1950, some economists are hopeful that manufacturers will begin a serious run at replacing the 2.6 million factory jobs lost over the past three years.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Delegates at a marathon council to create an Afghan constitution have narrowed disagreements that threatened to scuttle the process and are close to approving President Hamid Karzai's demand for a strong central government, Karzai said Saturday. Some delegates still held out against a clause that would allow dual citizenship for top officials. That was an apparent jab at ministers who have returned from exile abroad to take up key Cabinet posts but have been unwilling to give up coveted American and European passports. Some 500 delegates at the grand council, or loya jirga, have spent three...

<p>WASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Ralph Hall (search) switched parties Friday night, filing for re-election as a Republican after nearly a quarter-century as one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress.</p> <p>"I've always said that if being a Democrat hurt my district I would switch or I would resign," Hall said in an interview with The Associated Press. He said GOP leaders had recently refused to place money for his district in a spending bill and "the only reason I was given was I was a Democrat."</p>

Freeper Help Wanted: I have an idea but need help putting it together. I am not that skilled at composing but I know that there are some wonderfully talented freepers who would do a much better job of putting this together than I ever could. Here it is: Remember this? DASCHLE ACCUSES PRES. BUSH OF POLITICIZING WAR ON TERROR, IRAQ How about putting together a notification, letter, petition or whatever containing this story and comments from the Democrats about the war since Daschle made this statement on the floor of the Senate? Include all the Dem candidates statements, Kennedy's statements,...

1. ADVOCATES, PLEASE HELP! Sign Petition Please copy and print out the following petition to the U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft seeking his assistance in saving Terri Schindler Schiavo. To help her, after signing it with your name and full address, please mail it in by US Mail today! We are requesting that you send it to both Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Disability Rights Section of the Justice Department. Here are both addresses: U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 and also please call by phone at: Office of...

The angry liberals just won't stop in their relentless pursuit to wage war on anyone who doesn't agree with their way of seeing the world. The left constantly uses terms like "diversity," "inclusion" and "freedom of speech" but if you happen to hold a position that differs with theirs, forget about it - no inclusion for you, pal. Polls have shown that the preponderance of university professors, journalists, and entertainment executives and performers are Democrats or hold liberal opinions.

Op-ed: Three Iraqs, not one Shlomo Avineri Saddam’s regime was merely the most extreme manifestation of the harsh underlying fact that Iraq’s geography and demography condemned it to rule by the iron fist. Nor has Saddam’s fall changed this fact America’s mounting difficulties in setting up a coherent form of government in Iraq, let alone a democratic one, inspire a question that most statesmen consider unthinkable: is it possible that there is no way to re-constitute Iraq as one state, and that alternative options must be considered, unpalatable as they may appear? Like so many problems in the re-birth of...

Dishonest Reporting 'Award' for 2002 Our annual award for the most skewed and biased reporting. We thank all the HonestReporting members for submitting nominations for this year's Dishonest Reporting "Award". There were many ignoble candidates, and we distilled the list down to the worst offenders. HonestReporting took many factors into account: Was there a policy of deliberate bias? Were reports based on unreliable sources or no sources at all? Did the reporter or publication refuse to admit its errors? So without further ado, we regretfully present the Dishonest Reporting Award 2002. "Dishonorable mentions" are listed first (in alphabetical order), followed...

COMMUNISM IN AMERICA: Ann Coulter recently spoke about Joseph McCarthy and called him an American patriot and prophet who was way ahead of his time. Mr. McCarthy recognized Communist infiltration into our society and political system and the danger this posed to the future of the U.S. He was demonized and discredited. Why? Because he was exposing Communism in America. To those who believe that the threat of Communism disovled with the breakup of the United Soviet Socialist Republic, that is what they want you to believe. Communism is alive and well IN AMERICA TODAY. Our universities have been taken...

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The Bush Administration, which essentially endorsed Israel's bombing of Syria, has given the all-clear to the US Congress to approve economic sanctions against Syria. Sources said the Administration, frustrated with Syria's failure to crack down on alleged terrorists, had dropped its opposition to the stalled Syria Accountability Act. The House of Representatives international relations committee will approve it today, staff members said on Monday. With a majority of Democrats and Republicans in both houses of Congress in favour of the act, it is almost certain of passage, probably early next week, staff members said. In his first public comments on...