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About this video Some people would like you to think President Bush lied when he talked about Saddam Hussein's weapons. The funny thing is, many of the president's current critics are politicians who made strikingly similar claims about Iraq in the not-too-distant past. When Bill Clinton was in office, his fellow Democrats had much to say about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. But if you listen to them now, you might conclude that the entire party suffers from collective amnesia. Democrats used to talk tough about Iraq. They did when one of their own was in the White House. And...

<p>Thanks to the movement of American jobs overseas, including well-paying jobs for engineers and computer programmers, "the United States will be a Third World country in 20 years," economist Paul Craig Roberts said at a Brookings Institution forum.</p> <p>If economists could condemn members of their profession for heresy, Paul Craig Roberts would probably be a candidate for excommunication. Few tenets, after all, are so widely shared among economics PhDs as the belief in the positive impact of free trade. Yet Roberts is publicly challenging that precept, and making waves doing so at a time when trade has leapt to the forefront of the nation's political debate.</p>

Lottery's legal bill jolts Sen. Cohen Charges reached nearly $1 million By Amber McDowell, The Associated Press February 13, 2004 NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Lottery's nearly $1 million bill for almost five months of legal services is "appalling" and should spark a re-evaluation of services the lawyers provide, state Sen. Steve Cohen said Wednesday. "The information I've received caused displeasure, disconcertion and disgust," Cohen, D-Memphis, told members of the Legislature's Lottery Oversight Committee. "As a member of the (legal) profession and sponsor of the lottery referendum, . . . I am appalled by the bills submitted by the law firms."...

Weapons of Mass Destruction WMDs can be Atomic, Biological, Chemical, or Verbal! Years before George W. Bush became our president, most prominent Democrats wanted Saddam Hussein's head on a platter. Now those same Democrats say that George W. lied to us and Hussein never had any WMDs, and the only reason president Bush went into Iraq was for the oil. The next time one of these "Demon-crats", masquerading as a politician, start spewing their Verbal Weapons of Mass Destruction; send them a copy of this web page. "One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity...

Posted on Thu, Jan. 01, 2004 Former chemistry professor can't testify in Doritos suit, court says Associated Press PITTSBURGH - A man trying to prove that Doritos snack chips are dangerous will have to do it without the help of a retired University of Pittsburgh chemistry professor. Charles R. Grady filed a product liability suit against Plano, Texas-based Frito-Lay in 1995, claiming his throat was damaged because of the rigid texture and triangular shape of the corn chips. Grady's attorney wanted to use a study by Charles Beroes, a former professor, who showed how much force and saliva was needed...

"I wanted my soccer girls to play for each other ... not with each other" That's the headline atop a (U.K) Sun article about the resignation of Gretna women's soccer team manager Barney Davidson, who quits after five years at the helm, even though his daughter is on the team. There's just too much friction within the team, which won the Northern Women's League in 2002 and is currently fourth in the Northern Combination-League (which includes the Manchester United women's team). "Half the team are lesbians and at one time there were more," Davidson tells the London Daily Mail. "I...

Before the story of his drug addiction broke in the National Enquirer, Rush Limbaugh was the subject of a virtual news blackout.... ... the elite media have largely ignored the Limbaugh phenomenon....over the past 15 years ... Limbaugh has been treated like a slight disturbance in the background of political debate.... This all changed when the drug story broke.

Very rare vanity of mine...How would my parents' generation handle the war on terrorism? ...Conversely, how would this generation's leaders have handled Summer, 1945...?

Principal Gives Teachers Memo for Grade Requirements Barbara King is in her first year as principal of East High School. King has given her teachers a memo spelling out grading requirements for students. Eyewitness News obtained a copy of the memo from a school teacher. The letter instructs teachers to give grades no lower than a "C". King admits to writing the memo. "It has to do with something going on internally with schedule changes, OK, so teachers know," King said. Memphis City Schools says it needs a chance to discuss the memo with the principal on Friday before any...

A woman has confessed to the grisly slaying of a Pakistan-born man, whose headless body was found last week in a shed behind the man's East Memphis home, police said Wednesday. Ejaz Ahmad, 41, was found by his 11-year-old son and the son's grandmother behind 1730 Sea Isle last Thursday. The son had gone to the home to check on a pet chicken, police said. According to a medical examiner's report obtained Wednesday, Ahmad was shot in the chest and stabbed many times in the neck and shoulders with a sharp object. The body, which was wrapped in plastic, had...

Post the attendance of rallies in your area on this thread. Here's a start from threads I have read in just the last few minutes: Saturday, March 22, 2003 500 – Costa Mesa 400 – Monterrey 2,000 – Milwaukee __?__- Medford Oregon _?___- Reno 7,000 – Millington, Tennessee

Article published Mar 18, 2003 Goo Goo Dolls to Play at Tribute Concert Hootie & the Blowfish and the Goo Goo Dolls have been added to the list of performers for the inaugural Dale Earnhardt Tribute Concert. The concert is set for June 28 at Daytona International Speedway at Daytona Beach, Fla. It will be the first non-racing event to take place there. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Dale Earnhardt Legacy Program, which will donate money to children's, wildlife and educational programs. Previously announced performers include Sheryl Crow, Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn and Alabama. "Music was such...

Tritt Urges Americans to Support Troops HIRAM, Ga. - Travis Tritt says it's time for people to stop criticizing President Bush and start support the military troops in Iraq. "The bottom line is ... what's going to happen is going to happen. To be a good American — regardless of which side you're on — you have to get behind President Bush. More important, you have to get behind the troops," the singer told AP Radio. "If this (war proceeds), we know they're going to go over there and do the jobs they were trained to do. All we can...

Pro-war celebs making voices heard ArtsCanada HOLLYWOOD - Pro-war celebrities are slowly making their voices heard among the anti-war protestations of their Hollywood colleagues. "Thank goodness we have a president with the courage to protect our country," says NBC's Law and Order star Fred Thompson in an ad praising the Iraqi policies of President George W. Bush. Thompson, a former U.S. senator, filmed the spot in response to actor Martin Sheen's commercial calling into question the need for war. "Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work. War won't," says Sheen, who plays a fictional president in NBC's The West Wing. Sheen has...

Next time a Dem tries to make political hay of the cost of the Iraq war, remember, "[T]he economic impact on the city from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center will cost as much as $95 billion and will reverberate for years to come..."

Liberals are such transparent hypcocrites. Even if you accept that some of the "anti war" folks are sincere, we KNOW this is what would happen: IF Bush did nothing, and if terrorists attacked again, America would demand to know why we didn't do something to prevent it. And if the terrorists were found to be armed by Saddam, the left would demand, why didn't we stop them, knowing as we did that Saddam was a threat to America and to the world? America wants to know why we didn't see and stop 9 11, why our intelligence didn't figure it...

Astronaut Was Awe-Struck During Spacewalk The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Dec. 1 — After completing three spacewalks in five days, astronaut John Herrington got a chance to relax Sunday and reflect on what it was like to hurtle around Earth at 17,500 mph outside his spaceship. He couldn't help but think: "That's a loooong way down." Herrington said he was somewhat intimidated by the fact that at any moment, he might find himself in uncontrollable motion and break away from the international space station, which would be "a bad thing." "So I was always constantly on guard that I...

Democrat William Jefferson has ruled United States Congressional district 2 in New Orleans for years. Conservative Republican challenger Thomas "Silky" Sullivan threatens to bring common sense and patriotism back to the Crescent City district...

Talk radio: where incivility reigns Guest columnist B. Keith English is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. August 19, 2002 Tune your radio to the AM band anywhere in the United States and you can quickly find one or more "talk" stations (in Memphis, the most prominent is WREC-AM 600). You can identify talk radio by the generally far-right political slant of the opinions expressed, but even more by the descriptions the hosts and callers offer of people who don't share their opinions: "Idiot." "Moron." "Nutcase." "Imbecile." "Ignoramus." "Half-wit." "Scum." "Commie." And,...

<p>"Springsteen pulled off a stunning performance of his controversial song 'American Skin (41 Shots).' It was one of the most brilliant and courageous things I have ever seen executed by a rock star..."</p>