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Batman of FreeRepublic.com hereby calls CNN a pathetic fraud. What do we expect from CNN anyway - unbiased and accurate news? HA!

When Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) of Colorado, whose district includes Littleton, meets with constituents and they talk more about tax cuts than gun control, he sees a winning issue. His town-hall meetings this summer, part of more than 600 such Republican gatherings across the United States, are aimed at selling the party's plan to cut $792 billion in taxes over the next decade. ...polls show tax relief is low on Americans' list of priorities. That's despite the fact that, as Representative Tancredo counts it, the overall tax burden is at its highest since World War II. Nevertheless, as Republicans use ...

The Time.com web site is taking a poll for the "Phonies and Frauds of the Century. Here is some of what they say about the poll: This list of suggested "Phonies and Frauds" was drawn from thousands of nominations...posted on the TIME 100 site over a period of about a month. The staff of TIME.com then met and..reduced the number of nominees to 40... Their phony list has 40 names - you may vote for one. Names on the list include: Kenneth Starr - Linda Tripp - Ayn Rand - Henry Kissinger - Oliver North - Pat Robertson - Rush ...

The Time.com web site is taking a poll - HERE - for the "Phonies and Frauds of the Century. Their list has 40 names - you may vote for one. Names on the list include: Kenneth Starr - Linda Tripp - Ayn Rand - Henry Kissinger - Oliver North - Pat Robertson - Rush Limbaugh - J. Edgar Hoover - Bill Gates - William Westmoreland - Edward Teller There are others - Geraldo Rivera is about as serious a liberal as I found - he got my vote. Here is some of what they say about the poll: This list ...

This political game is so easy it is embarrassing. Let me describe how we democrats are winning - it is not that difficult to understand. First: We help and encourage our opponents to self-destruct. (A piece of cake) Second: We keep our troops in line. (Sometimes a minor challenge) Third: We stay on the offensive. When we are caught (in hypocrisy or whatever), we immediately accuse our opponents of the same thing and then we attack the revealing source. Forth: We exploit our favorable press relationship. An overwhelming number of the press have our political philosophy - we just need ...

The United States appears to be sleep-walking on a course to sure destruction, and America’s leaders, who have plotted this course, appear to be completely oblivious to the mortal danger they are leading us into. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the imminent giveaway of the U.S. Canal in Panama. In just a few months, unless the American people raise a terrific outcry, this strategic waterway, so vital to our economy and national security, will be turned over to Panama. But Panama, a tiny country of only 2.8 million people, does not even have an army. It has the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife Marianne are living apart and attempting to negotiate a mutually acceptable divorce settlement, associates familiar with the situation said Monday. These associates added that neither Gingrich nor his wife has filed formal papers seeking a divorce. The couple was married in 1981, at a time when Gingrich was a junior Republican congressman from Georgia and she was a business consultant and county planner from Ohio. Marianne Gingrich was a frequent presence in the Capitol during her husband's four years as speaker.