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(3/12/06 - WASHINGTON) - Seven months after President Bush said Texas showed its great compassion by taking in half a million Hurricane Katrina evacuees, the state is uncertain it will be sufficiently reimbursed for its neighborliness. Bush lauded Texas a month after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and the day Hurricane Rita slapped the Texas coast. "It made me so proud to be from the state of Texas, to see the Texans rise to the occasion," Bush said while visiting a shelter for Katrina refugees in San Antonio on Sept. 24. But the president's latest emergency funding request for...

After this week's message of "cut and run" outrage this may seem like a small thing but one positive thing we can do right now for our troops is send them a Christmas message of support. No rants - just letting them know the ways that we love and support them. They need to hear this more than ever and what better way than a Christmas letter. Working with FR's own Merry Band of Patriots, you can FReepmail me the message from you/your family. No need for your full name but your location would be nice so the troops can...

The story of how a grassroots effort to mark the graves of the American war dead in France, called "The French Will Never Forget," became a statement of support and solidarity in politically volatile times.

We plan to buy a camping trailer toward the end of summer. Can you get more trailer for your $ buying a regular trailer? What is the advantage of a 5th wheeler? Does anyone have any pros or cons? Thanks for any thoughts.

I have a question about something that has rocked me to my Baptist core. I am also going to address the question to our pastor next week. My eight-year old brought home a study guide for parents to assist us in the "nuturing the faith of your child". It states: "Children are sinners and the implications are eternal" - "Our children are helpless sinners who deserve God's wrath". Whatever happened to "Except ye be converted, and BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 18:3 ). And. "Suffer the little children to come unto...

10 SECONDS THAT SHAKES ENGLAND: FURY AT CBS-TV AIRING OF DYING DIANA Wed Apr 21 2004 21:18:28 ET Friends of Princess Diana last night expressed disbelief after a picture of her dying in the wreck of her Mercedes was broadcast on TV, the UK DAILY MAIL splashes on Thursday. MORE The American network CBS showed the black and white image, taken by paparazzi moments after the car crashed in Paris. On air for ten seconds, it clearly showed Diana's face, shoulders and upper torso as she lay dying. Friends were distraught at the decision to show the picture, which they...

This week provided yet another opportunity to compare George W. Bush and Tony Blair. Again, our president came up a bit short. Blair had a brilliant and compelling essay in the Guardian over the weekend. Give it a read. Then look at the transcript of Bush's April 13 press conference. A few differences stand out in particular. First, Blair's language allows that he understands our success in Iraq is a very open question. Bush speaks with astonishing--and, to me at least, vaguely unsettling--certitude on nearly every issue: the viability of democracy in an Islamic, Middle Eastern state; the question of...

But when Brown contrasted Powell's military experience to Bush's record with the National Guard, saying the president "may have been AWOL" from duty, Powell exploded. "First of all, Mr. Brown, I won't dignify your comments about the president because you don't know what you are talking about," Powell snapped. "I'm sorry I don't know what you mean, Mr. Secretary," Brown replied. "You made reference to the president," Powell shot back. Brown then repeated his understanding that Bush may have been AWOL (search) from guard duty. "Mr. Brown, let's not go there," Powell retorted. "Let's not go there in this hearing....

Kerry's Special Friends By DAVID BROOKS Published: February 7, 2004 John Kerry has been railing against the special interests, and I don't think that's very nice because it implies that some people's interests are not so special. I like to think that everybody's interests are special in their own way. What's more, I think Kerry knows this, because if you look over his long career, you see that he loves all our interests, big and small, near or far. For example, a Chinese businesswoman named Liu Chaoying dreamed of having her company listed on a U.S. stock exchange. That's certainly...

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Al Gore, who lost the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000, assailed Bush, accusing him of betraying the nation by invading Iraq. "He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure, dangerous to our troops, that was preordained and planned before 9-11," Gore told Tennessee Democrats at a party event Sunday.

"The year after his committee’s vote to give Communist Vietnam a clean bill of health, the strangest thing happened. In December 1992 Vietnam signed its first huge commercial deal worth at least $905 million to develop a deep-sea commercial port at Vung Tau to accommodate all the trade that was to come. It signed the deal with a company called Colliers International. At the time, the Chief Executive Officer of this company was C. Stewart Forbes. Name sound familiar? It should. He is Senator John F. Kerry’s cousin. What a coincidence! Less widely noticed, when the Democratic Party decided to...

WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV TONIGHT AND HEAR PRESIDENT BUSH GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH.....