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Roe v. "Roe" Should the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion be overturned? a. Yes, I support Norma McCorvey's efforts. (60%) b. No, a woman has the right to choose. (36%) c. Not sure (4%)

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK … NOT EXACTLY A HISTORIAN  Retired Army General Wesley Clark has been very effective in keeping his face and opinions in the media forefront the past year or so.  There’s a reason for that. Political aspirations.  Clark is toying with the idea of announcing as a Democratic candidate for President of the United States.  Truth is, he’s after the number two spot.  Vice Presidential candidate for now, the Oval Office Later. Clark was a guest on Tim Russert’s Meet the Press this past Sunday. The questioning turned to Clark’s political ambitions and his feelings on the Bush...

<p>WASHINGTON — The House voted narrowly Thursday to extend $1,000 child tax credits through the rest of the decade while preventing low-income families from cashing in this year on rebates going out to other households this summer.</p> <p>The 224-201 vote on the package of $82 billion in new tax cuts sets up a confrontation with the Senate, which a week ago passed a much smaller bill to allow 6.5 million minimum-wage households to qualify for checks of up to $400 per child being mailed to middle-income parents.</p>

Close, but No Cigar By Lloyd Grove Thursday, May 15, 2003; Page C03 House Majority Leader Tom "The Hammer" DeLay is a tobacco-chewing, meat-eating Texas Republican who likes to drink red wine and smoke cigars.

<p>WASHINGTON — The IRS is poised to begin using private debt collectors to snag some of the $76 billion in taxes going uncollected because of manpower shortages.</p> <p>"This problem is so enormous and growing at such a pace, we need to do something dramatically different," says the IRS' Brady Bennett.</p>

Pentagon: War Cost Is $20 Billion So Far Wednesday April 16, 2003 6:10 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has spent more than $20 billion so far in the war against Iraq and expects to spend at least $10 billion more by the end of September, a senior official said Wednesday. That doesn't include the several billion dollars it will cost to bring combat troops back home, said Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon's comptroller. He also offered no estimate of the cost of stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq. At a Pentagon news conference, Zakheim said military operations in Iraq to date have...

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Here's the forehead-slapper of the day: Oklahoma has decided to allow Muslim women to wear scarves while being photographed for green cards or license photos. And get this: The decree comes from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety [sic]! Council on American-Islamic Relations admitted today that complaints from Muslims prompted the change. In a letter to Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, the pandering bureaucrats said: "A head covering will be permitted, if the head covering does not obscure a full front view of the face, display any: logo; insignia, symbol, or regalia; word or words; letter, number, or character,...

<p>Bush approves $397.4B spending package CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — President Bush signed a $397.4 billion government-wide spending bill Thursday that contains billions more dollars than he had sought for the budget year that began Oct. 1.</p> <p>Bush complained that Congress was spending too much in areas such as drought relief for farmers and not enough on his priorities.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Commercial pilots who want to carry guns in the cockpit would have to undergo psychological and background checks before being selected for a five-day training program under a plan announced Wednesday by the Transportation Security Administration.</p> <p>The first group of 48 pilots could begin training in a month, the agency said.</p>

U.S. food programs 'make the poor obese' By Christian Bourge UPI Think Tanks Correspondent From the Think Tanks & Research Desk Published 1/29/2003 10:45 PM View printer-friendly version WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. government's food aid programs for low-income people are contributing to the high obesity rates of America's poor, according to a recent report from a Washington think thank. "Today, the central nutritional problem facing the poor -- indeed, all Americans -- is not too little food, but too much of the wrong food," writes Douglas Besharov in his paper, "We're Feeding the Poor as if They're...

Speech was live on WSB Radio locally.

Here are the poll questions: What do you think about your federal income taxes? I pay too much I pay too little I pay just enough At time of post, here are the results: I pay too much 95% I pay too little 1% I pay just enough 4%

JUST SO YOU DON’T SLEEP WELL TONIGHT Attendees at a recent high-level policy seminar on the East Coast last weekend heard a presentation from an acknowledged expert on terrorism and the Middle East. Yeah … I’m being vague here. My source didn’t want me to name names. This expert said that President Busy couldn’t have been more right when he named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the “Axis of Evil” in the world today. He then set forth the following scenario: Osama Bin Laden is, indeed, quite alive and is presently in Iran. American authorities are aware that he...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Much has been done to improve security at America's commercial airports, but gaps remain in the nation's aviation system.</p> <p>Tens of thousands of small private planes are vulnerable to the kind of incident that occurred Sunday in Germany, where a man stole a motorized glider and threatened to crash it into Frankfurt's financial center before landing without incident.</p>

Bomb Rips Through Indonesia McDonald's Just saw this on FoxNews.com

NEW YORK — Financial crises in many states have led local and state legislatures to return to an easy source of revenue: increased property taxes on the nation's homeowners. But homeowners — and some politicians — are steaming mad and in one town, they have decided to revolt. Homeowners in Millburn Township, N.J., have decided they would rather secede to a neighboring county where taxes are lower than to face hikes in property taxes that could reach $3,000 per household.