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Former Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle (SD) on Tuesday warned against impeaching President Donald Trump over last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Buried in the bowels of the stimulus plan the Senate passed Tuesday are key healthcare provisions that will set America on the road to socialized medicine, involve the government in your choice of a doctor, and inevitably trigger another funding crisis that will be used to justify still greater federal intervention in America’s healthcare industry, experts tell Newsmax. Among the most controversial parts of the bill are new federal guidelines that will require the government, rather than a doctor, to decide whether a patient should get medical care. Ironically, the stimulus bill that will cost more than $1 trillion will...

Senator Blasted for Abusing Office, Seeks IRS Probe of Conservative Group By Jeff Gannon Talon News August 8, 2003 WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of the Rushmore Policy Council. The South Dakota-based organization has run advertisements that publicized the voting record of Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) on abortion and other family values issues. Baucus' committee has oversight of the IRS. The Montana Democrat wrote a letter to the agency in which he suggested the activities of the group...

Did anyone see CBS's "The Early Show" this morning (about 8:15 a.m. CST) when to my horror Harry Smith interviewed Tom Dashcle and asked him: Smith: (words to the effect) "Senator Dashcle, what is your response to people who have criticized you for what you said about President Bush and the war on Iraq?" Dashcle: mumbles something about how his opponents want to squelch his right of free speech and then says: "It's time to put that behind us and MOVE ON." !!!!!Did anyone else see this? Were you as disgusted and outraged as I was? Harry Smith is just...

I stand here, musing at Germany, and Russia, and France, all of them up to their eyeballs in illegal dealings with the "Butcher of Baghdad", and trying to present high-minded ideas to the world why we shouldn't end his reign here and now. "More time," they bray! "He may get REALLY angry at us if we challenge him," cry the Liberals in their turn. But echoing in my ears is a far more ancient call, one made by Europe in the 1930's and beyond. "Appeasement!" echoes down the corridors of time. "For you know, he's only killing his own people,...