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Inquiry committee asks lawyer to draft letter of impeachment (Hartford-AP, Apr. 30, 2004 Updated 3:35 PM) _ Members of a special legislative committee that has been considering whether Gov. John G. Rowland should be impeached has asked its lawyer to draft an article of impeachment because he has not fully cooperated with their probe. The decision was prompted when a lawyer for Rowland refused to testify before the House Select Committee of Inquiry, which has been trying to obtain the personal financial records of the governor and his wife. Rowland has been under increasing pressure to resign since admitting in...

Judge Grants Request of IRS Office of Professional Responsibility to Disbar CPA   IR-2004-5, Jan. 12, 2004WASHINGTON — An administrative law judge has issued a decision and ordered that Joseph R. Banister be disbarred from practice before the Internal Revenue Service. Banister is a Certified Public Accountant from San Jose and former IRS criminal investigation agent.The IRS Office of Professional Responsibility, in a complaint against Banister, alleged that he was misrepresenting the law to taxpayers and that he failed to file his own federal income tax returns for tax years 1999-2002. OPR investigates allegations of disreputable conduct and incompetence...

A Veterans Day Salute to Veterans Thank you for all your service.We are forever gratefulYou risked your livesFor other peoples' moms, children and wives.Our country is still a democracyBecause you fought for libertyWanting the red, white and blue to be freeNever thinking of yourself. But for everybody elseThat's why we salute thee,The ones who saved our country.We thank you and wish you a special Veterans' Day. Sincerely,Chapman 8th Grade,Chapman Middle SchoolChapman, Kansas

Court Won't Enter Ten Commandments Fight 2 hours, 12 minutes ago By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court refused Monday to enter the long-running fight over an enormous monument depicting the Ten Commandments and the renegade judge who wants to put it back on display in an Alabama courthouse. AP Photo Related Links • Ten Commandments Monuments Litigation (FindLaw)   The court quietly rejected appeals from suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had argued the monument properly acknowledges "God as the source of the community morality so essential to a self-governing society." Lower federal courts ruled...

ABC News Poll. Sept. 4-7, 2003. N=1,004 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (total sample). Field work by TNS Intersearch. . "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism?" Approve Disap-prove NoOpinion     % % % 9/03 67 28 5 4/03 79 19 2 2/03 74 23 4 1/03 71 25 4 12/02 79 20 1 10/02 74 23 4 9/02 74 24 2 7/02 83 15 2 5/02 79 19 3 4/02 81 18 2 3/02 88 10 2 1/02 88 10 2 12/01 89 9 2 10/01 92 5...

Robinson consent sent to House of Deputies David SkidmoreEpiscopal News ServicePosted: 8/1/2003Corrected: 8/1/2003 (view corrections) The election of the church’s first openly gay bishop may be decided Sunday afternoon in the House of Deputies. In the aftermath of an intense marathon hearing at the Hyatt Hotel Friday morning, the Committee on the Consecration of Bishops recommended the consent resolution (C045) on Gene Robinson, bishop-elect and current canon to the ordinary of New Hampshire, be adopted by convention. Adhering to instructions from the Rev. Carolyn Keil-Kuhr, co-chair of the committee, the crowd of bishops and deputies and reporters packing the hotel ballroom refrained...

Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. July 24-25, 2003. N=1,002 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3. . ". . . do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling the situation in Iraq?" Approve Disap-prove Don'tKnow % % % 7/24-25/03 58 36 6 7/10-11/03 53 39 8 5/29-30/03 65 29 6 5/1-2/03 69 26 5 . "How well do you think U.S. efforts to establish security and rebuild Iraq have gone since major combat ended on May 1st . . . ?" VeryWell Some-whatWell NotTooWell Not AtAll Well Don'tKnow % % % % % 7/24-25/03 16...

CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. June 27-29, 2003. N=1,003 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3. . "Do you think marriages between homosexuals should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?" ShouldBe Valid ShouldNot Be NoOpinion % % % 6/03 39 55 6 1/00 34 62 4 2/99 35 62 3 3/096 27 68 5  

Newsweek Poll conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates. Latest: March 27-28, 2003. N=1,004 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (total sample). . "We’re interested in your opinion of the way George W. Bush is handling certain aspects of his job. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Bush is handling the war with Iraq?" Approve Disap-prove Don'tKnow % % % 3/27-28/03 70 27 3 . "Whatever your feelings about the Iraq war now, do you think the United States should have begun military action against Iraq when it did, or do you think the United States should have waited...

I was surprised to see debate occuring on senate floor regarding partial birth abortion.

December 15, 2002 The New After-School Activity: EvangelismBy TIM TOWNSEND N a recent Wednesday afternoon at Memorial Elementary, a public school in East Hampton, the public-address announcer called out groups of pre-kindergarten through third-grade students who were to be dismissed for the day. Many left for the waiting school buses, but others were told to head to after-school activities: "Students riding Bus 12," said the announcer, and then, "Students attending Good News Club."The children whose parents had signed them up for the weekly Good News Club filed through the halls and piled into Classroom 29. There were about 20 children...

The senate offices will be reallocated according to majority party and seniority by the majority party. Inside Freeper sources were able to smuggle a photo of Jefford's new office digs from Lott's desk.

My sister in law is in her fourties and has emphysema. She has been asked by the Red Cross to allow them to fly her Washington, DC and testify that Bush's proposals against clean air will cause her health problems. My wife asked me to provide information regarding whether this is a good idea or not. I have no idea what the hearing is or what the law is she is supposed to testify about. Does anyone know what hearing is taking place next week ? What is the topic and what are the pro's and con's ?

Girl Dies After Taking Ecstasy2:49 PM EDT,May 22, 2002BY COLIN POITRAS, Courant Staff Writer EAST HAMPTON -- A 16-year-old sophomore at East Hampton High School has died after taking the popular club drug Ecstasy at a house party last weekend. Makayla Korpinen died Tuesday afternoon at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, where she had been in extremely critical condition since Saturday, police said. Police say Korpinen swallowed a powdered form of Ecstasy at the party Friday night and then went into seizures when her boyfriend took her to his house afterward, according to Sgt. Garritt A. Kelly of...

Poll Could Be a Warning to RepublicansSupport for War on Terror May Have Little Bearing on Elections Listen to Mara Liasson's report. See the complete poll results (Adobe Acrobat reader needed)May 20, 2002 -- The most important issues facing the United States today are terrorism and national security, according to NPR's latest political survey. Nevertheless, the poll also shows that when it comes to this year's congressional elections, domestic issues such as the economy, Social Security, health care and education will determine how people vote. As Mara Liasson reports for Morning Edition, these findings come in the latest of a...

"DASCHLE DEMOCRATS" LAUNCH TO COUNTER AGGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE ATTACKS ON SENATOR TOM DASCHLE WASHINGTON, DC (March 29, 2002) - Prominent national figures, concerned South Dakotans and community leaders today announced the formation of "Daschle Democrats" - a group organized to combat the vicious, orchestrated smear campaign targeting U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in his home state of South Dakota. "The attacks against Senator Daschle have reached an unacceptable level of ferocity," said former Senator Howard Metzenbaum. "We could not stand by and let a good man's record continue to be so grossly distorted. More importantly, these attacks are not really...

As posted here I received a push poll Friday Night against the GOP candidate. Since then I have confirmed that it wasn't a poll by the GOP candidate and the Democrat claims no knowledge. Further the polling company refuses to provide the text of the poll. In response I would like to draft a letter to the editor and request your help for both rebuttle information and for suggestions about style. My intial reaction is to keep it short and make it funny by characterizing the questions as being totally exagerated while at the same time providing a rebuttle. I...

Mr Simmons, This is to advise you about a push poll that was directed to me last night about 9pm in East Hampton. After establishing I was a likely voter, the oldest male and was a republican I was asked who I would vote for. After telling them the republican candidate most likely (because I don't know you because of redistricting) I was asked a series of questions which included (not exact wording) : 1. Simmons voted for 450 million in retro active tax benefits for Enron. 2. Simmons voted against school building. 3. Simmons voted against allowing us to...

Hey, Whats all this news about shadow gov't, the recession being over, the White House not keeping Dashcle informed. We are losing focus here. Enron is going to bring Bush down isn't it ? Shouldn't we be focused on the real important issues that were outlined by the NYT about 6 weeks ago ?