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Can someone please explain (preferably with sources) the distinction of PAC vs any other lobbyist? Over the past weeks I've had a slew of arguments with Dems who tout Kerry's "No PAC Money" stance as indicative of the second coming and try as I might I can't figure out what the difference is --in this realm--between the Sierra Club and... well any other group really...

Microsoft announced today that it is pulling symbols deemed "offensive" from it's font libraries. In an unprecedented act of political correctness Microsoft Corporation has releases a "Critical Update" which forces the removal of the "BookShelf Symbol 7" font library (Bssym7.ttf) which contains several symbols which may offend enlightened persons with elevated sensibilities as and may cause the immediate failure of personal computers running various versions of the Windows operating system.The font library in question (Bssym7.ttf) was originally released on Friday, November 17th 2000. Microsoft has no immediate comment on why it took 4 years to discover the offensive symbols. Industry...

I'm looking for an online version of the POTUS' press conference-speech following Saddam's capture. I've had no luck with the standard news sources (Fox, CNN, etc.) as they only seem to have video of Albright's comments or Dean spewing his manure about it... Any help is appreciated.