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In the 2001-03 state budget debate, a reduction from a planned $5.2 billion to $5.1 billion for K-12 is being called a cut even though this is an increase over 1999-2001 spending of $4.6 billion. -- MATT EVANS, Executive director, Oregon Tax Research. Did you understand that? The actual 1999-2001 school budget was $4.6 billion. The proposed Republican 2001-2003 budget is a record $5.1 billion. Unless you attended a modern public school, you can probably tell which number -- 5.1 or 4.6 -- is greater. The Oregon Left (mainstream media reporters and editors, liberal Democrat and Rockefeller Republican politicians, publc...

It's fascinating how the media have turned President Bush's request to Israel into a demand. After we posted an article from United Press International about President Bush's comments Thursday on the Middle East, a faithful reader noted an inaccuracy. According to UPI, "Bush insisted Israel immediately withdraw its military forces from the occupied territories." The reader noted, "He does not 'insist,' he asks, and he does not say 'immediate.'" We found the transcript of the speech, which included this phrase: "I ask Israel to halt incursions into Palestinian-controlled areas and begin the withdrawal from those cities it has recently occupied."...