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Last I looked, Bush +3.3 and kerry -3.7

Gap seems to still be closing. I was kind of hoping it would have stopped by now. Gota have some good job numbers and a good debate performance !

More Colorado voters trust President Bush and his handling of the Iraq war than they do Democratic Sen. John Kerry, according to a statewide voter survey commissioned by The Pueblo Chieftain. In a telephone survey last week of 600 registered voters who are likely to vote, 51 percent of the respondents said they would vote for Bush while 39 percent said they would vote for Kerry. The poll was conducted by Ciruli Associates of Denver. The margin for error in the poll is 4 percent

This would be a great Bush ad..upbeat, gets the point across that 5.6 unemployment is actually 'normal' Good Upbeat Ad

I'm trying to find information about MAAG-TAIWAN.

Looking for article that was linked in thread little over a week ago. It was a german article blaming the war on France and Germany. Der Ziet or Speigal? Thanks for any help.

<p>CENTRAL IRAQ, Iraq, March 24-The Iraq war's first deep assault by attack helicopters turned into a frenzied battle early this morning as U.S. pilots came under intense fire from anti-aircraft artillery and individual Iraqis with rifles, pilots said. One AH-64 Apache Longbow helicopter went down in Iraqi-held territory, due either to enemy fire or mechanical failure.</p>

<p>Insider notes from United Press International for March 11 ...</p> <p>Reports from Paris say that President Jacques Chirac, fearing that intense U.S. diplomatic pressure is having its impact on the wavering votes in the Security Council, is privately urging Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to make a grand gesture. Chirac is proposing that the Iraqi leader convene a big news conference in Baghdad -- including the CNN, BBC, and al-Jazeera TV cameras -- and announce the dismantling of a headline-catching weapons system as a concession to the U.N. inspectors. The only problem seems to be Iraq's previous statements that it has no remaining weapons systems to hand over -- despite the small print of the 173-page UNMOVIC inspectors' report that Hans Blix failed to specify in his U.N. address Friday.</p>

A quote I saw in a book once...maybe by Victor Davis Hanson 'Culture and Carnage'. quote from a 'Robert Heinlien (sP). It was about how if you didn't think war solved anything, just ask Hitler and xyz and have Nepolean referee.

Kofi turning the UN terrorism speech into one on 'multilateralism'....(barf)

Where is Osama on this, his greatest day? If anybody was releasing tapes or radio or letters, you'd think it would be this 'master' of jihad against America.

<p>Lynn Rivers could be doing more than salvaging her own career and ending John Dingell's if she wins next week's primary election matchup of incumbent Democratic U.S. House members.</p> <p>She may save gun control.</p> <p>In a year in which Democrats both nationally and in Michigan have soft-pedaled support for new gun restrictions, Rivers has made them a centerpiece of her campaign in the new 15th District that covers Monroe, and parts of Washtenaw and Wayne counties. And as the Aug. 6 election nears, the four-term congresswoman and her gun control allies appear ready to pump up the volume.</p>

I read within the last few months an article stating why Isreal went to war in 1967...and that since that time Egypt has admitted that they were planning to strike. Does anyone have that source or know of such a recent(last 3-4months) article? I'm battling a guy at work about this. He says Isreal started the 1967 war, I say it was the Arabs. Thanks, madions46

<p>JERUSALEM — In rapid succession Tuesday, a Palestinian man opened fire on a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub, a suicide bomber blew himself up on an Israeli bus, gunmen ambushed Israeli motorists in the West Bank and a mysterious blast went off in the Gaza Strip.</p>

The unadvertised effects of reform Chicago Tribune Published February 21, 2002 The Club for Growth is an innocent name for what many people would regard as a sinister special interest that tries to affect the decisions of federal lawmakers. What the group does is find congressional candidates who share its fervent belief in deregulation and tax cuts. It then encourages its members to write $1,000 checks to those campaigns. Members mail in contributions, the organization bundles them up and sends them to the candidates, and, if things go as planned, candidates indebted to the Club for Growth get elected. Recently, ...

Fending Off the Speech Police By George F. Will Sunday, March 11, 2001 The coming debate on campaign finance "reforms" that would vastly expand government regulation of political communication will measure just how much jeopardy the First Amendment, and hence political freedom, faces. Recent evidence is ominous. In 1997, 38 senators voted to amend the First Amendment to empower government to impose "reasonable" restrictions on political speech. Dick Gephardt has said, "What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy." Bill Bradley has proposed suppressing issue ...

CNSNews.com) - A new poll shows South Dakotans believe Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) is more interested in pleasing the national Democratic Party than his home state, and they don't support his presidency bid. The poll, conducted by the Club for Growth, shows that if Daschle ran for president today, he would be overwhelmingly defeated in his home state. "By more than two-to-one, South Dakotans think Congress should cut taxes to stimulate new jobs and economic growth rather than increase government spending," said Club for Growth President Stephen Moore. "South Dakotans also strongly believe increased spending is more responsible ...

New Life for Sea-Based Defense? A step forward. By Henry F. Cooper, chairman of High Frontier. Cooper was SDI director during the first Bush administration and President Reagan's ambassador and chief negotiator at the Geneva defense and space talks with the Soviet Union. January 30, 2002 10:10 a.m. Last Friday, the Navy successfully tested its Navy Theater Wide interceptor by shooting down an Aries rocket fired from the island of Kauai. An Aegis Cruiser, the U.S.S. Lake Erie, acquired and tracked the target rocket from its location off the coast of Hawaii, computed an intercept solution, and launched its test ...

Gun-control advocates should change their tune By Matt Rosenberg Special to The Times Times are hard for gun-control advocates. Following Sept. 11, firearm purchases spiked 10 to 20 percent nationwide. It's not about terrorism, but personal security. Even in pacific Seattle the numbers are up, police say. You can almost picture trust-fund liberals from Leschi and Laurelhurst laying down their copies of the Utne Reader and Mother Jones to buy pistols and take target practice in Bellevue. The old anti-gun rhetoric sounds dated. As when state Democratic Party Chairman Paul Berendt told the Olympian newspaper that Eastern Washington GOP activists ...

<p>TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa voters will go to their polling stations Tuesday to pick a replacement for Republican Rep. Steve Largent, who has quit Congress to run for governor of Oklahoma.</p> <p>The special election Tuesday for the 1st congressional seat pits Democrat Doug Dodd against Republican state Rep. John Sullivan. The race has brought attention from the national parties since the narrow 222-211 Republican margin in the House means every seat counts as Democrats try to regain the majority.</p>