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SEATTLE -- Got the blue-state blues? Rudi Kischer feels your pain. The immigration lawyer in Vancouver, British Columbia, plans seminars in three US cities -- Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles -- to tell Americans frustrated with President Bush's reelection that the grass is greener north of the border. And that is not an allusion to Canada's more-lenient marijuana laws. "We started last year getting a lot of calls from Americans dissatisfied with the way the country is going," Kischer said. "Then after the election, it's been crazy up here. The Canadian immigration website had 115,000 hits the day after...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The drain of jobs to cheaper markets overseas and the Republican candidate's eagerness to usher in free trade agreements has prompted textile leaders to support a Democrat in South Carolina's U.S. Senate race this year. "There's a lot of Republicans up here who would struggle to vote for a Democrat, but in the textile industry there's a number of us who are finding it much easier this election," said Carl Lehner, chief executive officer of Leigh Fibers in Spartanburg. Industry leaders embraced Democrat Inez Tenenbaum after U.S. Rep....

<p>Ankit Fadia, an 18-year-old freelance security tester, has successfully broken into more than a dozen computer networks in India. But the Stanford freshman really doesn't think that's much of an accomplishment.</p> <p>"As far as computer security is concerned, India is really bad,'' said Fadia, who published three books about computer security before leaving his native India. "Security is not a high priority for Indian companies."</p>

Wallace Street Journal Going South David Bond Sleepless and Solvent in the Silver Valley March 18, 2004 WALLACE, Idaho - Seems like it was only yesterday when the great Anaconda Copper Company broke its pick in South America - Chile to be exact - but it was actually 33 years ago. The train wreck that had once been the U.S. mining industry in South America was absolute and lethal. Yet the events leading up to it seemed, even to nominally intelligent Americans, each harmless in and of itself. But the net effect of this - to use the term employed...

I have asked that Mr. Robinson and the moderators remove my account. I no longer wish to be a part of this website. The response I received was that I must post an opus first. This is my opus. For friends of mine who wish to contact me at any time in the future, I will be over at designeduniverse.com. The prayer thread for President Bush which I started on this hand is in capable hands. I appreciate all who have kept it going and pray that it continues. I also pray that Free Republic will return to the forum...