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Dear Mr. President: We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right." Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism.

Demonstrators Mary Porta, kneeling, and others pray for Terri Schiavo, Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005, outside the hospice, where Terri resides, in Pinellas Park, Fla. Under increased security and with fading hopes, Terri Schiavo's parents asked supporters to return home to spend Easter Sunday with their families as the couple's severely brain-damaged daughter went a ninth day without food or water. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)

The Martha verdict appears quite popular with the political classes and the vaunted "man on the street," not to mention the nation's mainstream journalists.  The post-trial comments of one juror, Chappell Hartridge (Juror Number Eight), say it all: "Maybe this is a victory for the little guys who lose money thanks to these kinds of transactions. Maybe it's a message to the big wigs." Remember that this was not a trial about "insider trading."  The judge said so, the prosecutors said so, the pundits said so.  Even the New York Times declared that it was not an "insider trading" charge. ...

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN KERRY HAS QUITE A RECORD -- AN ARREST RECORD, THAT IS. HE HAS QUITE AN ANTI-MILITARY RECORD TOO. . .WORKING WITH HIS RADICAL PALS LIKE JANE FONDA. . . . AND TEDDY KENNEDY. . . TO LABEL AMERICAN SOLDIERS AS 'WAR CRIMINALS'. . . AND PROCLAIM THAT COMMUNISM WAS AN OVERBLOWN THREAT. . . BUT NOW KERRY AND THE LIBERAL MEDIA WANT YOU TO FORGET HIS ANTI-MILITARY PAST. . .WELL AT LEAST SOME OF IT. . . AND REMEMBER. . . THAT AS KERRY SAID THIS YEAR, THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IN THIS COUNTRY IS OVERBLOWN....

see myself in the pouring home see the light come over now see myself in the pouring rain i watch hope come over me here we are now, going to the east side i pick up my friends and we start to ride ride all night, we ride all day some may come and some may stay here we are in the pouring home i watch the light man fall the comb i watch a light move across the screen i watch the light come over me here we are now going to the west side weapons in hand as...

A joint British and American spying operation at the United Nations scuppered a last-ditch initiative to avert the invasion of Iraq, The Observer can reveal. Senior UN diplomats from Mexico and Chile provided new evidence last week that their missions were spied on, in direct contravention of international law. The former Mexican ambassador to the UN, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, told The Observer that US officials intervened last March, just days before the war against Saddam was launched, to halt secret negotiations for a compromise resolution to give weapons inspectors more time to complete their work. Aguilar Zinser claimed that the...

Let's move on I took the poll and then realized why the vote is 78% Bush. Between Bush and Gore, I liked Bush too. He was a likable patriotic guy who made mistakes in his oration. To me, Gore was Clinton again. We were there, and we moved on. Now, I think it is time for Bush to move on. All of the issues about him are just becoming too transparent. I am sure that people like Rumsfeld and Cheney knew him as George's kid. And let's face it, the Texas Air National guard is where rich kids fought in...

Hotlinking: loading an image onto a webpage from another website's server, without permission, thus stealing bandwidth and often violating copyright When you make a webpage you can specify the images that will appear on the page, either as stand-alone images, or as backgrounds. If you search the web you will find a lot of images that will be just what you want. Some of them will be copyrighted. Some will be noted as "help yourself" and for many there will be no comment made. If you see images that you are given permission to use, please understand that the permission...

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John Kerry's aides say they have begun talking to the Secret Service about protection for the Democratic nomination frontrunner. (Healy, Boston Globe 2/11)

Why don't they get how how can the conservatives not see the truth when it is hanging in front of them. I have studied dictators. I have ingested too much false and unverified information to go on without talking out. Bush is the real dictaor here. I admit that Saddam Hussien was an evil man and that he horrible things, but our actions against him were completely uncalled for. Why did we invade Iraq to begin with? Was it for those ever elusive weopons of mass destruction? Or was it for a more personal gain? Perhaps oil? I challange any...

<p>I think he's been using the termoil there for his own agenda, and hasn't been really helpful.</p> <p>Would Kerry do a better job?</p> <p>I dunno. But at least Bush won't be able to do any more damage.</p>

Retired Guard Officer Says He Saw Some Files Discarded in TrashRetired National Guard Lt. Col. Bill Burkett said Tuesday that in 1997, then Governor Bush's chief of staff Joe Allbaugh told the National Guard chief to get the Bush file and make certain that 'there is not anything in there that will embarass the governor.'Col. Burkett said that a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin, he saw Mr. Bush's file and documents from it discarded in a trash can.He said he recognized the documents as retirement point summaries and pay forms.Bush aides denied any destruction of records in...

Okay, I've been lurking here for 2 years and finally read something today that made we want to write. First of all, I'm a life long Republican of the Conservative branch. And Bush blew it on the WOT. Sept. 12th he should of declared war on Iran and Pakistan, forget about Iraq. Iran and Pakistan are the ones that came to our country and MURDERED 3,000 of us. Not Iraq, Not North Korea, Not Syria. WE ARE FIGHTING THIS WAR BECAUSE 3,000 AMERICANS WERE SLAUGHTERED ON AMERICAN SOIL. Has everyone forgotten that??? If Bush had went full force into Iran...

<p>While the death tolls continue to mount and we spend billions on this illegal occupation crucial programs go unfunded and the deficit spirals out of control.</p> <p>Please see the brilliant animation by Ben Cohen explaining how just a small change in our already bloated defense spending could make the world a much better place for everyone.</p>

<p>Mortar shells found in Iraq and believed to be suspicious in fact contained no chemical agents, the Danish army said after a week of tests. --- Both the U.S. and British governments cited the threat of illicit weapons of mass destruction as a main reason for launching the Iraq war. However, no such weapons have been found so far.</p>