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It looks to me, now that Trump is looking like he can beat HRC, the administration is starting to cut her loose. The State Department is setting her up for an indictment. This will clear the way for Biden to run in November. Am I wrong? We'll see.

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TAX BREAKS: NWI lawmakers want big industry accountability BY BRENDAN O'SHAUGHNESSY Times Statehouse Bureau Chief INDIANAPOLIS -- Northwest Indiana lawmakers agreed Thursday on a measure to punish industrial companies who accept tax breaks and respond by sending jobs overseas anyway. Several lawmakers expressed anger at Ispat Inland Inc. for exporting 20 information technology jobs to India nine months after receiving significant tax relief. The change is intended to send them a message about accountability, they said. Last May, the General Assembly created a separate tax bracket for integrated steel mills and refineries that local assessors opposed to the plan said...

During major league baseball's recent inter-league play, you would have known that something was fishy if National League umpires routinely made calls favoring NL teams and American League umpires called all the close ones for the AL teams. That's basically what's been happening in the international trade arena, where the World Trade Organization routinely closes its eyes to violations of U.S. trade law by our "friends" around the globe, while threatening the United States with sanctions for upholding those laws. That's why the Bush administration needs to fight the WTO's July 11 edict that the United States must end its...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday it has awarded a five-year, $90 million enterprise (news - web sites) agreement to Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) to become the department's primary technology provider. Under the contract, Microsoft will supply desktop and server software to the newly created department, which has merged parts of 22 different agencies into one entity. The agreement delivers licensing coverage for about 140,000 desktops and will help the department to establish a common computing environment, Homeland Security said in a statement. Dell Marketing LP. was selected as the reseller, to provide the...

NEW YORK -- The country must have a strong manufacturing industry in order for it to have a strong steel industry, steel industry leaders said Tuesday. In separate but similar messages to world steelmakers at the 18th annual Steel Success Strategies conference Tuesday, United Steelworkers of America Leo Gerard and International Steel Group Inc. Chairman Wilbur Ross said the future of the U.S. Steel industry hinges on how the country deals with its trade deficit. U.S. trade laws have allowed the nation's manufacturing industry to lose 3.1 million jobs in the past 10 years -- 2 million since Bush took...

VALPARAISO — Investment banker and Muslim activist Aly Kahn will try to add state senator to his list of titles. Kahn joins an increasingly crowded field of candidates who want to be appointed to replace Sen. Bill Alexa, D-Valparaiso, who will resign at the end of the month to be appointed to the bench in Porter County. “I think it is an uphill battle, but this is a country where you can do anything,” Kahn said. Alexa’s district is spread across parts of seven counties, including the southern portion of Porter County. It will be up to Democratic precinct committeemen...

HAMMOND — Many members of the Northwest Indiana Muslim community have felt frightened and targeted for racial profiling since since Sept. 11. The stories and feelings aren’t new, but what’s frustrating to Northwest Indiana Muslims is they had hoped the poor treatment might get better with time. But they say it hasn’t. Several residents spoke at a forum Wednesday at Purdue University Calumet sponsored by the U.S. Attorney’s office. About 30 people attended the meeting set up to open communications between the Muslim, Arab and Sikh communities. The forum was a response to dozens of questions raised during a meeting...

Well P-double O-P! They have stopped allowing anyone in or out of my building. They won't say why, but it is rumored that an office on the seventh floor opened an envelope containing a "white powder". Now we are all stuck here! Sheesh!! BTW, this is in Merrillville, Indiana.

Afrocentric courses praised Feb. 4, 2002 By Leslie Jones McCloud / Post-Tribune correspondent GARY — School officials hope by including Afrocentric instruction in their curriculum, they will attract the interest of students at Beckman Middle School and across the city. They hope the change brings better school performance, behavior and higher test scores. Beckman is the first school to try the inclusion and the first to make it a permanent fixture. The move was celebrated Friday with a kickoff breakfast for faculty and staff at the school. “We want to plan how we can infuse an Afrocentric curriculum into our ...

I got the LOTR Soundtrack CD for Christmas. One small problem...it won't play on my computer! I can see the tracks in MS CD Player, and the counter counts down, but no sound emanates from my PC speakers. It is also impossible to view the tracks in a window. Ok,I can see copy protection (not really, but for the sake of the argument...), but they've just made it impossible for the thousands that use their PC at work as a CD player to listen to the CD. I am sorta honked off about this!

DEVELOPING: BUSH TO NAME JUSTICE DEPT AFTER A KENNEDY...

Drudge had a blurb that stated that statues stolen from a Catholic church had been found in a mosque with "allah is great" written on them and now the blurb is gone

LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) --- The presidency of William Jefferson Clinton may be history, but his longtime supporters, producer Harry Thomason and his wife, producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, are preparing a final defense on his behalf. Along with filmmaker Adam Friedman, the Thomasons are set to begin filming a theatrical documentary based on Joe Conason and Gene Lyons' nonfiction book "The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton," which documents efforts to discredit the couple from the time of Bill Clinton's governorship in Arkansas through the 1998 presidential impeachment trial. Thomason, Bloodworth-Thomason and Friedman ...

Forum favors diplomatic solution Experts say U.S. needs to examine long-term consequences BY ROBIN BIESEN Times Staff Writer Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2001 VALPARAISO -- Despite overwhelming support in the polls for President Bush's plan for a military response to the Sept. 11 terrorist bombings, the overwhelming majority of those gathered at a forum at Valparaiso University on Monday night appeared to favor a diplomatic -- not a military -- solution. The forum, sponsored jointly by the university and The Times of Northwest Indiana, invited a trio of academics and the spiritual leader of Lake and Porter County Muslims to ...

If you want to get your blood boiling, check out this link: Asking Saves Kids Parents are urged to ask their neighbors if they have guns in the house and kids are urged to turn in anyone who has a gun in their neighborhood. Nice huh?

Announcing the Freeper Motorcycle Hooligans Riding Club! Do you ride? Are you a Freeper? Would you like to ride with other like-minded Freeper Motorcycle Hooligans? Let's see if there is any interest in getting a group together. Respond please! Thanks!