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WASHINGTON- As Laura Bush tells it, she and her husband were pulling into the driveway one night when she turned to him and said the speech he had just given wasn't very good. He drove into the garage wall. No wonder the future president went a little off course. These were words from an endlessly supportive wife, who had till then heeded advice from mother-in-law Barbara Bush never to criticize her husband's speeches. The family car-or at least the ranch pickup-has been safe ever since. Sure, she let be known she didn’t care for his “dead or alive” ultimatum to...

Why is the Right afraid of imposing a military draft? The number of troops in Iraq is below what is clearly needed. Additionally, many troops have had second and third tours of duty. A tired and disillusioned force is dangerous for all concerned. The National Guard troops are in great need of relief. The training most have received is minimal, at best. If the War on Terrorism is such a threat to America and our way of life the implementation of a military draft makes the most sense. Many from the right and left have compared the "War on Terror"...

The following is an e-mail sent to Sean Hannity and is being placed here so those who may not listen to Sean Hannity have the opportunity to be aware of a serious concern I have. Mr. Sean Hannity I would like to take this opportunity, since I know you have the ability and resources to interact with multitudes of people, to encourage you, to encourage your listeners and any other folks you can possibly communicate this message to, to be wary of falling in to the vile, venemous, seething hatred game the likes of Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, et. al.,...

NEEDED: Fair and Balanced ReportingRecently, Reuters carried an article by 'Win Back Respect' (go drop them a nice line at www.winbackrespect.org on their Blog) signed by American students living in England who said Bush's foreign policy is 'arrogant' and 'their lives are now in danger'. Generation GOP and the College Republican National Committee responded to this Reuters article with a detailed response backed by more than 25 international student leaders from 17 countries who feel that Bush's foreign policy is positive.Bottomline: Reuters did not carry the response letter. Please visit http://www.generationgop.com/news.shtml to read the response letter and see the impressive...

Expelled from the Dominican Republic, an ex-Haitian police chief is charged in Miami with helping to smuggle cocaine through Port-au-Prince airport. A former Haitian National Police commander in charge of law enforcement at the Port-au-Prince airport shook down drug traffickers for tens of thousands of dollars and let them fly cocaine-filled planes to the United States, a criminal complaint alleges. Romaine Lestin, expelled Friday from the Dominican Republic on a smuggling conspiracy charge, appeared Tuesday before a Miami magistrate judge without a lawyer and did not respond to the charges. Lestin, 35, told Magistrate Judge Robert L. Dube that he...

The leftiest big city on the Left Coast was Clinton country on Monday, with former President Clinton continuing his blockbuster book tour and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton headlining a Democratic fund-raiser where she vowed to defeat the Republicans' "extraordinarily ruthless machine." Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters -- some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend -- to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. (news - web sites) was the highest-ranking automaker in an annual vehicle quality survey released on Tuesday, with its Lexus luxury brand winning top honors for the 10th consecutive year. The closely watched J.D. Power and Associates survey of long-term vehicle dependability is based on responses from 48,000 owners of three-year-old vehicles in the United States when questioned about scores of specific problems ranging from wind or brake noise to uneven tire wear and stalling engines. The survey is key to the auto industry because 52 percent of new car buyers say long-term quality...

Just heard it on the radio.

Just heard on KVIl in Dallas, Col. Hackworth being interviewed. Stated he will be releasing the names of the notorious 17 today on the internet. FYI

Sunday, May. 09, 2004 1:50 PM EDT 9/11 Flashback: When Libs Backed Torture In the months after Sept. 11, when the shock of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history still angered most Americans, even the most vigorous civil libertarians were in favor getting tough with detainees in the war on terrorism - even to the point of actually recommending torture. It's a measure of how much the outrage of that dark day has faded that a handful of demeaning photos of detained Iraqi terrorist suspects has sent the nation into a convulsion of handwringing and recrimination. Things were different...

Tue May 4, 2:48 PM ET Demonstrators chant 'Bomb London, bomb New York' and 'We are terrorists' outside Downing Street, London, Tuesday May 4, 2004, on the day that the British government announced that it will make a statement concerning the photographs which allegedly show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. (AP Photo/John D McHugh)