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Tancredo to Pres. Fox: Mind Your Own Business Congressional Desk By Congressional Desk December 21, 2005 Congressman Ridicules Mexico’s President for Leveling Threats against U.S. for Immigration Policy WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) condemned Mexico’s President Vicente Fox for his threats against the United States over Congress’ recent actions to secure the border. Tancredo led a coalition of reform advocates in the House of Representatives to pass a bill last week that would, among other things, build a security fence along portions of the U.S.’s southern border, mandate that employers verify the legal status of employees and prevent...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hoping to save hundreds of lives, health officials made a regulatory change Wednesday that will allow the city to track thousands of people with diabetes and occasionally prod them to take better care of themselves. In doing so, New York will become the first American city to monitor diabetes in the same way health departments now commonly track people with HIV or tuberculosis. It will also be treading new ground, and potentially raising some privacy concerns, by collecting information about people who have a chronic disease that isn't contagious or caused by an environmental toxin. The...

Congressman Joe Barton (R, Texas) announced that due to a boring December, Congress will look into a "deeply flawed" BCS and decide who will play in BCS bowl games. "We're tired of seeing results we don't want in the BCS bowl games, so we've decided to go ahead and take over NCAA football as a government agency," said Barton...

Put a cork in it, Bono. Bono, the Irish rocker -- lead singer of U2 -- and Make Poverty History activist, has intruded into Canadian politics and feels "crushed" and "disappointed" that his onetime buddy, Prime Minister Paul Martin, won't commit 0.7% of our GDP to the economic sinkhole that is Africa. Heck, Bono even thinks Martin deserves to be punished in the election being called today -- for disappointing him. What cheek. What audacity. What is it about big-shot entertainers that they think they are more important than they are and that they know better than the rest of...

Former President Clinton believes the Democrats should pounce on and exploit President Bush's refusal to hike taxes to finance Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "They should continue to oppose it, and they should make it an issue in the 2006 election, and they should make it an issue in the 2008 election," said Clinton, interviewed on Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "I think it's very important that Americans understand... tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1...

I am no authoritarian and will not alter constitution to seek re-election, Russia’s President declares RUSSIA will not tolerate outside interference in former Soviet republics or any attempts to destabilise countries on Russia’s borders, President Putin declared last night. Still angry at the Orange Revolution that toppled Ukraine’s pro-Russian leader in December, Mr Putin denounced non-governmental organisations that were quietly backed by Western governments and fomented uprisings in Moscow’s former sphere of influence. “Our foreign partners may be making a mistake,” he said during a 2½-hour meeting in the Kremlin with Western academics and journalists, including The Times. “We are...

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the U.S. government, on Wednesday called President Bush a "cowboy" who had failed to manage the Hurricane Katrina disaster and evacuate victims. "That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq ... and left its own population adrift," Chavez said in a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television. His remarks came as U.S. authorities evacuated thousands of people from New Orleans and after Bush said it would take years to recover from flooding caused by Hurricane...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez offered humanitarian relief Wednesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina but sharply criticized the U.S. government's planning and response to the disaster. Chavez focused his criticism on U.S. President George W. Bush, calling him "the King of Vacations," referring to the fact he was at his Texas ranch when the hurricane struck. "As more information comes out now, a terrible truth is becoming evident: That government doesn't have evacuation plans," Chavez said during a speech. He said Bush, "there at his ranch, said nothing more than 'you need to flee;' he didn't even...

The state attorney general wants the country singer who made the song "Redneck Woman" a hit to stop "glamorizing" the use of chewing tobacco at her concerts. State officials said Gretchen Wilson can be seen on concert jumbo screens pulling a can of Skoal from her pocket while performing her new song, "Skoal Ring." That may violate the 1998 settlement between states and tobacco companies forbidding tobacco ads targeting young people, Attorney General Paul Summers said. "Many young people attend your concerts and purchase your music and T- shirts," Summers wrote in a letter he sent to Wilson Thursday. "Because...

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: The New York Times (search) has been asking lawyers who specialize in adoption cases for advice on how to get into the sealed court records on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' (search) two adopted children. There is no indication The Times had any evidence there was anything improper in the family's adoption of five-year-old Josie and four-year-old Jack, both born in Latin America. Sources familiar with the matter told FOX News that at least one lawyer turned the Times down flat, saying that any effort to pry into adoption case records, which...

Ortho is promoting promiscuity and unsafe sex in young UNMARRIED women. A commercial for birth control devices by OrthoEvra shows a young woman saying: "My life goes a million miles a minute, so remembering to take the pill every DAY can be such a hassle. So I thought the weekly patch might be a good thing." The problem is, this young woman is NOT wearing a wedding or engagement ring on her left hand's 'ring' finger but she is instead wearing a large EXTREMELY OBVIOUS ring on her NEXT finger (closer to her thumb) which typically indicates an unattached...

Oops, make that 25,814 -- not 400,000. In March 2004, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said 400,000 Americans die each year due to obesity-related problems. But wait. Citing flawed data, four months ago the CDC revised the number down to 365,000. But now, another branch of the CDC says the first branch -- the CDC's Division of Adult and Community Health -- got it wrong. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics says, no, the real figure is 111,909. And after you deduct the beneficial effects of being moderately overweight, the figure declines to 25,814! So is the CDC...

I am a Canadian, your neighbour to the north. We’re your largest trading partner, you’re ours; like it or not, you’re our best friends. We like you as individuals. A neighbour who shares your culture to a very large degree can analyse America like perhaps no American can, certainly like no other foreigner can.

PARIS (AP) _ Respected French daily Le Monde on Saturday broke its own tradition of not taking sides in foreign elections by endorsing John Kerry in next Tuesday's U.S. election. In an editorial, the paper said the exceptional stakes of this election make Kerry the desirable choice ``beyond the borders of the United States.'' It lauded Kerry's ``internationalist'' view of the world, his ``ability to recognize his own errors'' and his foreign policy experience. Le Monde said President George W. Bush has undermined ``the rules of law on which American democracy is founded'' and ignored ``the international architecture'' that has...

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<p>Iran told President Bush to mind his own business Friday after he called for greater democracy in the region. Similar and equally caustic views were expressed by commentators across the region.</p> <p>While some commentators stressed that most people in the Middle East genuinely want democracy, Bush's preaching on freedom aroused resentment in a region where America is accused of waging war on Iraq and siding blindly with Israel against the Palestinians.</p>

The European Union called Friday for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty in a declaration issued as it marked the first World Day Against the Death Penalty. The European Union said Tuesday it would continue to use all diplomatic means to try to persuade China, Iran, the United States, Japan and others to abolish the use of the death penalty. The Italian presidency of the 15-nation bloc called for countries that still have capital punishment to issue moratoriums, and to ban executions for people who were minors when they committed crimes. About seventy countries worldwide still carry out the...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - A Milwaukee-based foundation is asking the city to remove its Ten Commandments monument from a public park following complaints from several residents. The stone monument has sat in a corner of City Park since 1965, when it was erected by the Fraternal Order of the Eagles. No one had complained to city officials about the monument in recent years until they received a letter this week from the Freedom From Religion Foundation asking for its removal. ''We have members in Casper who asked me to complain,'' foundation member Annie Laurie Gaylor said. ''That is how we...

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned the United States not to meddle in his country's affairs following comments by a U.S. official about a possible referendum on his rule. "I have to remind the U.S. one more time that they have no right to express their opinion ... we are an independent country not a colony of North America," the president told thousands of cheering supporters during a street rally. Chavez, who survived a coup in 2002 and later outlasted a two-month opposition strike, now faces a campaign for a recall referendum from foes who...

Bill to Ban Bear Baiting Provokes Anger 53 minutes ago Add Politics - U. S. Congress to My Yahoo! By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - An Alaska congressman angrily denounced a colleague Thursday for introducing a bill that would ban bear baiting on federal lands. "I wish I had my native people in here right now," Rep. Don Young (news, bio, voting record), R-Alaska, told the bill's sponsor, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., at a hearing. "You'd walk out of here with no head on." Young's comments came at the end of a testy exchange over the bill,...