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The latest FOX News poll, conducted January 14-15 by Opinion Dynamics Corp., shows that few Americans rate the current condition of the economy positively. Today, 13 percent think the economy is in excellent or good shape, down from 24 percent six months ago and 28 percent last January. Overwhelmingly the public says the economy is in only fair (46 percent) or poor (40 percent) shape. Today, 63 percent of the public approve and 28 disapprove of the job Bush is doing as president. While still impressive, the president's job approval rating has been on a gradual decline. Six months ago...

Pope combat controller awarded Air Force Crossby Airman 1st Class Jason A. Neal43rd Airlift Wing Public Affairs01/13/03 - POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AFPN) -- Senior Air Force leaders awarded the Air Force Cross to Tech. Sgt. John Chapman here Jan. 10. RELATED LINKS Printable Version Chapman, a combat controller killed in Afghanistan while saving the lives of his entire team, was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross, which is second only to the Medal of Honor as an award for valor. Secretary of the Air Force James G. Roche said Chapman was "an American's American" and a hero....

Approval Ratings of Handling the Terrorist Attacks

<p>May 21, 2002 -- THE Democrats, with Hillary in the lead, have blown it big time in their recent outraged flurry of questions about what President Bush knew and when he knew it. A close examination of the memos Condoleezza Rice discussed last week yields a clear, if unsettling answer: not a whole lot.</p>

Published 5/14/02 12:04:00 AM In Tom Clancy's novel, Executive Orders, a raw, new President, Jack Ryan, faces a deliberate provocation by the People's Republic of China. The PRC shoots down a civilian airliner in a military exercise in the China Strait, then tries to pin the blame on the Republic of China, its bitter Taiwan-based rival. New Secretary of State Scott Adler finds himself shuttling back and forth between Taiwan and Beijing, sifting through the propaganda and the lies and trying to figure out what it all means. On a secure telephone call to his Secretary, President Ryan gripes, "I'm...

Jewish Voters Gravitating Toward GOP FNC Bumper stickers showing U.S.-Israeli ties were handed out at a recent pro-Israel festival in L.A. Wednesday, April 24, 2002 By Katie Cobb LOS ANGELES — Jewish Americans make up only 2.5 percent of the U.S. population but they vote in higher percentages than any other minority group in the country. Typically, they are known as staunch Democrats, but as more of the traditional left of the Democratic Party gravitate toward the Palestinian cause, American Jews are indicating that they place more trust in the party of George W. Bush. "Prior to Sept. 11 on my...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Ending a 10-day Mideast peace mission with little to show, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that Israel had promised to withdraw troops from the West Bank within a week. He bluntly admonished Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that he had to do more to fight terrorism.

  A TEARY BUSH read Scripture on the Mountain of Beatitudes, where Christ gave his Sermon on the Mount. He also hit it off with Ariel Sharon; the burly general, then foreign minister, took Bush and a group of other American governors around the country, talking about the history of the land and giving them the security perspective of a warrior. When Bush learned that if Israel were forced to revert to its pre-1967 boundaries, parts of it would be just eight miles wide, he quipped, “In Texas there are some driveways longer than that.” The group watched Israeli...

Challenging Democrats, Bush Proposes Tax-Cut PlanTue Mar 19, 1:44 AM ETBy Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In an election year challenge to Democrats, President Bush (news - web sites) will propose a plan on Tuesday to permanently repeal estate taxes and help small businesses boost investment and lower health care costs. Photos Reuters Photo The package, which would cost more than $117 billion over 10 years, includes many tax cuts popular with Republican constituents. It faces opposition, however, from Democrats who control the Senate. They warned the tax cuts would deepen federal budget deficits and undermine Social Security (news -...

I've been listening to many of the conservative radio hosts and reading alot of comments here the past two weeks and conservatives are all in a meltdown over the Presidents moderate and maybe liberal actions lately. I find it dangerous for the GOP the way they have been harping because they seem to have forgotten how politics works with the high office. I think I can explain the Presidents actions and here is my take in one word:CLINTON !What, what does Clinton have to do with it?Think this through and stick with me for a minute. Clinton won with his...

Over Here: He came to Washington with a target on his back, lacking the power to dent the bureaucracy. But Tom Ridge and his Homeland Security team are quietly making things happen in a hurry.Ridge Against the Machine Click Here to read !

BOXER SHORTS California Sen. Barbara Boxer was promising reporters a hot scoop last Friday about Enron's relationship with the Bush administration, only to end up look like the girl who cried wolf. For several days Boxer and her staff had promising Hill reporters documents from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that would have documented meetings and contacts between FERC members and Enron from August 2000 through June 2001. "They said the documents would show that those contacts spiked after the Clinton administration left office," says one financial reporter covering Capitol Hill. "They thought it was going to be a smoking ...

<p>February 10, 2002 -- THE latest from Europe is complaints about American "unilateralism" in deciding to target the "axis of evil" - Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. If our allies won't agree to join us in crippling regimes that sponsor terror, we should let them go their own way and we should go ours.</p>

News - A USFSA Staffer Sits With the President President Bush poses with USFSA Senior Director of Athlete Programs Christy Krall in the stands at the opening ceremonies. Sasha Cohen is at the far left of the picture. (Picture courtesy of yahoo.com and AP) It&#x2019;s safe to say that most everyone directly connected with the 2002 Olympic Winter Games &#150; athletes, coaches, officials, etc. &#150; will find the Games to be a highly memorable event. On a comparitive scale, it would be as memorable as, say, meeting the President of the United States. So how memorable would it be ...

This is really breaking news so please read on to see why:I was just flipping the channels to the major networks just to see what they were saying about Enron. NBC's Cambell Brown had an interview with Dick Cheney today and she asked him about enron getting in to secret meetings with him on energy policy.Cheney's response was the Sierra Club met with him and had 12 points they wanted adopted and Cheney said they adopted 11 of the 12 Sierra Club recommendations and virtually none of Enrons. He said he would be a fool not to meet with as ...

By Mike Allen and Bill Miller Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, January 26, 2002; Page A11 SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, Jan. 25 -- President Bush announced plans today to develop a federal tracking system to monitor the arrival and departure of noncitizens from airports, ports, and Mexican and Canadian border crossings. A White House statement said the system "will dramatically improve our ability to deny access to those individuals who should not enter the United States, while speeding the entry of routine, legitimate traffic." The "entry-exit tracking system," to be developed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, was included in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) signed into law legislation designed to protect mistreated children and promote adoption on Thursday, and called for $130 million more funding for the program in next year's budget.``In this town. sometimes the really good pieces of legislation aren't really recognized because there hasn't been a lot of fighting and hair-pulling and gnashing of teeth,'' Bush said before signing the legislation at a small desk in the White House East Room, with an adopted child at each elbow.``But this bill -- sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans -- is a meaningful, real ...

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The 1,209th CyberAlert. Tracking Media Bias Since 1996 | Wednesday January 16, 2002 (Vol. Seven; No. 8) | Dobbs: Enron Gave to Dems Too; Not Even a "Whiff" of Scandal; Clinton's Links to Tyson Downplayed; Suffering Al Qaeda Prisoners 1) After a CNN story highlighted Enron donations to Republicans, Moneyline anchor Lou Dobbs prodded the reporter: "We do have a sense that Enron not only contributing to Republicans but mightily, as well, to Democrats, wherever it served the political purpose of the company, isn't that correct?" 2) Add Newsweek's Howard Fineman to the short list ...

<p>WASHINGTON — Democrats have lost their early advantage with voters as the war on terrorism and its leadership by President Bush have overshadowed the economy and other domestic issues, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.</p> <p>More Americans, 61%, have a favorable view of the Republican Party; 55% have a favorable view of the Democratic Party. That erases a 9-point Democrat edge just before the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>