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It first appeared to be an all-too-typical drive-by shooting in San Francisco's troubled Western Addition - distinguished only because it was witnessed by a member of the city's Board of Supervisors. But police now say the incident was far darker: an extreme case of vigilante vengeance involving a father and his 16-year-old son against a supposed street robber blamed for holding up the youth on the way to school. The 39-year-old father, after being summoned to the scene by his son, allegedly ran over the suspected robber in the family car and then urged his son to shoot the prone...

Today President Bush, in an unscheduled appearance, stood with Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne, and talked with the press in Donnelly, Idaho, fielding questions about Iraq, Israel and Cindy Sheehan. Tomorrow he is scheduled to make a speech to the Idaho National Guard and thank them for their service.Enjoy your trip to Sanity Island on the Daily Dose!!

The President left Columbus, Ohio (just thought I'd mention that again....) yesterday for a fundraiser in San Antonio, Texas, and from there went to Crawford, Texas and Prairie Chapel Ranch, where First Lady Laura was waiting for him. Yesterday, the biggest surge in economic growth (7.2%) in 19 years was announced, and today the House of Representatives passed the $87.5 billion Iraq/Afghanistan package, with grants and not loans, as the President wanted, which the Senate is expected to pass on Monday. Good news for our stellar President! Rather than going immediately back to Washington, the President is traveling to California...

"Let no child be left behind"; ... "It takes a village to raise a child"; ... "Quality time"; ... "Crime Stoppers." Each of the foregoing, unfortunate phrases is supposed by many to be an expression of progress, is as American as Enron and now is at home in - the West Indian Republic of Trinidad and Tobago? During our just-concluded annual visit to my wife's folks in Trinidad, my family was bombarded with warmed-over Americanisms on television. (While prosperous, tiny Tobago with its beautiful beaches is the preferred destination of tourists, 93 percent of the 1.3 million largely hardworking, hard-luck...