Free Republic

One of the overlooked stories of President Bush's Budget is what the President's focus is in the near-term future by his budget projection out to the year 2010. When President Bush submitted his Budget this year for Fiscal Year 2006, he also was required to submit projections four years out. It is the trend of the major categories (called "Superfunctions") which is both the most important and also the most shocking. "Human Resources" is the broadest measure of social welfare. It is also the largest expense in the USA's budget. For Fiscal Year 2006, the projection is 65.3 cents of...

The one thing that international bankers don't want to hear is that the second Great Depression may be round the corner. But last week, a group of ultra-conservative Swiss financiers asked a retired English petroleum geologist living in Ireland to tell them about the beginning of the end of the oil age. They called Colin Campbell, who helped to found the London-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre because he is an industry man through and through, has no financial agenda and has spent most of a lifetime on the front line of oil exploration on three continents. He was chief geologist...

RealClearPolitics Electoral Count Tuesday, November 2: Bush 227 - Kerry 203 (270 Electoral Votes Needed to Win) RCP Electoral Map | Battleground State Polls, Averages | Send This Page to a Friend Updated Electoral Count Analysis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ Solid Bush (191) Leaning Bush (36) Toss Up (108) Leaning Kerry (54) Solid Kerry (149) AL (9) AR (6) FL (27) ME (4) CA (55) AK (3) CO (9) HI (4) MI (17) CT (7) AZ (10) MO (11) IA (7) NJ (15) DE (3) GA (15) NV (5) MN (10) OR (7) IL (21) ID (4) WV (5) NH (4) WA...

Current Tally - 09/12/04 2000 Adjustment:  Bush +3.3%EV's:  Bush 285, Kerry 253Pct:    Bush 51.1%, Kerry 47.0%This site keeps a running projection for the 2004 US Presidential Election.  Using the most recent polling data, state-by-state voting totals from 2000 will be updated to project a 2004 outcome. Click here for an explanation of the formula I use to make these projections. Current Poll NumbersJob Approval:Approve: 51.4%  up 0.4% from 51.0% Approve: 48%  Newsweek  09/10/04 Approve: 52%  Associated Press - Ipsos  09/09/04 Approve: 56%  Time  09/09/04 Approve: 49%  Fox News  09/08/04 Approve: 52%  ABC - Washington Post  09/08/04 Bush vs. Kerry:Bush:...

2004 Will Be the U.S.'S Best Year Economically in Last 20 Years, The Conference Board Reports in a Revised Forecast Thursday December 11, 11:01 am ET NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Revising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year, making 2004 the best year economically in the last 20 years. The forecast, by Conference Board Chief Economist Gail Fosler, expects worker productivity, which set a 20-year record in the third quarter, to rise at a healthy 3.6% next year. That would follow a gain of 4.3%...

<p>Economists are nudging higher their projections for economic growth early next year, suggesting they are becoming more confident the recovery is sustainable.</p> <p>Among 53 economists who participated in The Wall Street Journal Online's November economic-forecasting survey, the average forecast for the inflation-adjusted, annualized growth rate of the nation's gross domestic product during the first quarter of 2004 was 4.1%. That was revised up from the 3.9% rate predicted when the group was last surveyed in October.</p>

Issue 31. January - February 1999 LABORATORY DEVELOPMENT OF CONVENTIONAL WARHEADS Anatoly Mikhailov, Deputy Chief Designer, Head of the Gas Dynamics Research Section, Russian Federal Nuclear Center   To continue a series of publications dedicated to the Russian Federal Nuclear Center All-Russia Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFYaTs-VNIIEF), and its role in the advanced development of conventional weapons, we shall focus on the Institute s gas dynamics research which constitutes a major aspect of warhead research development. The research in the field of gas dynamics, together with theoretical projections and computer modeling, help determine warhead physical configuration and its basic design....