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Democratic pundits still scratch their heads as they try and figure out what the recent presidential election tells them. They believe that voters rejected the messenger, rather than the message. But how many different ways can they come up with to tax, spend, regulate and redistribute the wealth? Democrats think your money belongs to the government. If you have a lot, goes the Democratic ideology, you married it, inherited it, cheated for it, found it or lucked into it.

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There’s a law that says members of Congress should not be paid for workdays missed due to campaigning or other unexcused absences. There’s also a catch: It hasn’t been enforced since 1914. U.S. Code Title 2 section 39 holds that every no-show lawmaker has to forfeit “his salary for each day he has been absent from the Senate or House.” The only legal excuse for not showing up is “the sickness” of a member “or some member of his family.” If the statute were applied today, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) might have to pay back thousands of dollars. As The...

The dust is beginning to settle, and, after all the hype, after all the pundit analysis, after all the expert opinions, basic politics won out. Most people think of the Iowa Caucus in terms of a primary election. It is not. In Iowa, Democratic voters in each precinct gather in a church, school, library, or some other convenient place to elect delegates to the state convention. That convention elects delegates to the national convention, which elects a nominee. The difference is how each caucus election is carried out. When the voters assemble, they gather into groups based on whom they...

FOR ABOUT a year, Republicans and Democrats agreed on the need to prosecute the war on terror vigorously. No longer. Nearly all the presidential contenders as well as other heavyweight Democrats have spoken out against the war on terror, preferring it to be a police action against terror. • Howard Dean, replying to a question asking about the death penalty for bin Laden: "I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I still have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in...

OK Gang. I saw these quotes on religion from the Nine Dwarves, and could not resist the urge to translate what they REALLY meant. Here we go: "..former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, said recently that he prayed privately but quit being an Episcopalian in a dispute with his parish over a bike path." Translation: "I am an atheist and a frivolous unstable MORON". "..Donna Brazile, who managed Gore's 2000 campaign, recalled recently that she felt uncomfortable even mentioning her religion while working in the 1988 presidential campaign of Michael Dukakis. "I couldn't talk about my faith," she said, adding that...

SALEM - He was the quiet, well-groomed man in the suit, who kept to himself in this neighborhood nestled at the edge of a bustling college, where almost everybody seemed to be from somewhere else and nobody stood out. But yesterday, a different Ahmed Fathy Mehalba was on display, this time in a federal court, where he appeared in jeans and an orange golf shirt, accused of possessing classified information he allegedly acquired at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he worked as a civilian translator. Just what route the Egyptian-born Mehalba, 31, took after his days...

At the urging of Congressman Dick Gephart, "miserable failure(s)" of leadership must be addressed. Instead of lending credence to his attacks on President Bush, we should examine the records of a few other leaders. As they say, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the Gander, so let’s begin with former President Bill Clinton. Clinton was president during several attacks by Al-Queda and its affiliates, including the bombing of the World Trade Center, the attacks on the USS Cole and the Khobar Towers. He refused to punish those responsible, even refusing to take Osama bin Laden into custody...

<p>WASHINGTON - As an adviser to leading Democratic politicians and an activist on women's issues, Joanne Symons helped Rep. Richard Gephardt negotiate the tricky political waters of switching positions on abortion in 1986 as he planned his first presidential campaign.</p>

Wars do not win elections. Harry Truman discovered that in 1952 when he was forced to concede a possible re-nomination from his party because of the Korean conflict. Lyndon Johnson suffered humiliation in the run-up to his re-election in 1968 because of the unpopularity of the Vietnam War. Even popular wars like the Gulf War in 1991 did not coat George Bush Sr. in the flag enough to win him re-election the following year. Very often, presidents have been beaten due to unforeseen issues in elections. In 2004 it appears that Democrats will use health care as their dark-horse issue...

In a new National FOX News Poll of Registered Democrats :Conn. US Senator Joe Lieberman leads with White House 2004 Field with 29% of the vote.Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri has 15%Mass. US Senator John Kerry has 13%North Carolina US Senator John Edwards has 8%The Reverend Al Sharpton has 5% And ex-Northeastern Governor Dean has 2%

House minority leader tells Hispanic conference he will introduce bill to legalize undocumented immigrants Mon Jul 22, 3:50 PM ET By DEBORAH KONG, AP Minority Issues Writer MIAMI - House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt said Monday he plans to introduce a bill that would grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants. The measure, he said, would legalize immigrants who have lived in the United States for five years and worked in the country for two years. "Our proposal will bring undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and into the light of accountability and greater cooperation in our fight against...

It is time that we march on Washington!!!! We need to gather as we did in Oct. 1998 for the March For Justice, where thousands of us gathered at the Washington Monument. Why? to demand an accounting from the Congress and the Senate on the monies (our Taxes) that they are spending. We are the shareholders of this country. There are salaries being paid to people in Washington who are not contributing to the upholding of our Constitution. Money is being spent without the "Shareholders Aproval" It is time we demanded to know where our money goes, how it is...

Did anyone happen to record Rush's show this morning when he played the Gephardt quote from a press conference about Gephardt's mother always asking him when he was going to pass the prescription drug bill? It was classic Lib-Dem-Soc-Commie. His mother needs prescription drugs, but apparently El Dicko cannot afford it. Instead, he wants you and me to pay for it! There's nothing this guy and his cronies won't do as long as it is someone else's money! Anyway, if anyone taped this or knows where the transcript can be found, it would be great if it could be posted...

American Humanist Association Humanist Manifestos I and II-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Manifesto I The Manifesto is a product of many minds. It was designed to represent a developing point of view, not a new creed. The individuals whose signatures appear would, had they been writing individual statements, have stated the propositions in differing terms. The importance of the document is that more than thirty men have come to general agreement on matters of final concern and that these men are undoubtedly representative of a large number who are forging a new philosophy out of the materials of the modern world. -- Raymond...