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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reportedly angling to start another war between Israel and the Lebanese Hizbullah terrorist group in order to deflect attention away from his own lack of popularity at home. Ahmadinejad has faced constant friction from grassroots opposition movements since last June, when lopsided election results re-electing the president raised red flags among suspicious voters, who suspected the government had rigged the polls.

Some background info for non-Wisconsin residents: Wisconsin currently suffers from a $ 1.1 billion budget deficit. Our Republican Governor has proposed the elimination of state shared revenue funds to individual municipalities...a plan which has been met with "extreme" opposition from local government officials unwilling to try to cut their budgets.The Democratic controlled State Senate has proposed an early retirement program for state employees as a means for budget savings. Below are excerpts from a memo written by Bob Lang, Director of the Legislative Fiscal Bureau for the State of Wisconsin to Senator Chuck Chvala, re: POTENTIAL COSTS AND SAVINGS OF...