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Foxes, Henhouses and Democratsby Daniel Sargis13 October 2004A series of seemingly unrelated incidents at geographically scattered Republican campaign headquarters is starting to form a curious pattern.   To borrow a phrase from that esteemed defender of civil rights, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), I am “deeply concerned that the right of U.S. citizens to vote in free and fair elections is again in jeopardy.”  As you may remember, Johnson and twelve other Congressional Democratic co-conspirators requested that the United Nations monitor this November’s U.S. elections.  Instead of 100 international “observers,” Johnson should have called out the troops from the...

Labor Unions Fail "Enron Test": By David Keene The scandals at Enron and Global Crossing shook Washington as well as the markets and the investor community because, in each instance, corporate executives and their cohorts in the reporting and accounting world figured out how to either avoid reporting what they were up to or to hoodwink everybody by filing incomplete or misleading reports with regulators and those who follow their activities. The result was a demand for increased corporate transparency and, eventually, the passage of legislation requiring thorough and understandable disclosure. That meant that those most likely to be hurt...

<p>Who says the war on terror isn't going well?</p> <p>To read the media reports, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao visited the AFL-CIO's winter meeting last week and raised hell. But what really happened is that she told America's labor leaders the truth about union corruption and they just thought it was hell.</p>