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President Bush traveled today to Jefferson City, Missouri, where he participated in a conversation with seniors about the Medicare prescription drug benefit program at the Etta and Joseph Miller Performing Arts Center. He also visited the Lutheran Senior Services Community at Heisinger Bluffs Senior Center in Jefferson City, before traveling to Des Moines, Iowa to visit the Wesley Acres Senior Center in Des Moines, Iowa with Senator Chuck Grassle, and to attend a reception for gubernatorial candidate Rep. Jim Nussle . First Lady Laura was in Midland, Texas for the official dedication of the childhood home of the President, along...

Poll is on the left about half way down the page. The anti-Commandments loonies have a big lead on the poll. Let's even things up. Should the State of Texas be forced to remove the Ten Commandments display from the state Capitol grounds? Yes 67.0% No 33.0% votes: 929

Architect of Iraq campaign will write, hit speaking circuit WASHINGTON, May 22 — Army Gen. Tommy Franks, who orchestrated the U.S. military campaign against Iraq, has decided to retire, Pentagon officials told NBC News on Thursday. FRANKS MADE HIS decision after turning down an offer to serve as the Army’s chief of staff, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Among other things, Franks plans to write a book and hit the speaking circuit, the officials said.