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— Texas mayors and business leaders filed a class-action lawsuit Friday alleging Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff hoodwinked landowners into waiving their property rights for construction of a fence along the Mexican border. Members of the Texas Border Coalition said Chertoff did not...
The Nation - The Nation -- Last weekend, I traveled to Mississippi's first congressional district, a bastion of Republican power that has been home to William Faulkner, Elvis Presley, and the scene of massive riots on the night James Meredith attempted to integrate the University of Mississippi.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Agents for Sen. Hillary Clinton, trying desperately to keep alive her presidential campaign, are privately telling Democrats that she is so "tight" with a dollar that she would not continue her contest against Sen. Barack Obama if she did not have a chance to win. That was a...
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri May 16, 2008 7:06 PM EDT Eleven years ago, the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) set out its statement of principles advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, putting the country on the road to a preventative invasion of Iraq. Signatories...
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That’s how it goes. Everybody knows. ~~Leonard Cohen The fate of...
I'm a self-employed currency trader that enjoys walks in the moonlight and bubblebaths. I powerlift and can bench 405lbs, squat 600lbs and deadlift 600lbs. I've got most of a business degree with a minor in mechanical engineering technology. I drive a Jaguar XJ8 and a 71 Pontiac Grand Prix, both...
Will Hillary Clinton fight for the nomination past June 1st? Agents for Sen. Hillary Clinton, trying desperately to keep alive her presidential campaign, are privately telling Democrats that she is so "tight" with a dollar that she would not continue her contest against Sen. Barack Obama if she...
In the absence of other political news, pundits are obsessing over head-to-head matchups between McCain and Obama. According to a Washington Post-ABC News national poll conducted last week, 39 percent of those surveyed said that they were following the presidential race "very closely." As the...
Is the threat of global warming worth the cost of prevention? President Bush's proposal last month of a plan to halt increases in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 was roundly criticized by critics on both sides of the issue. Critics of the global warming theory say nothing needs to be — or can be...
By THOMAS BEAUMONT • tbeaumont@dmreg.com • May 17, 2008 U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell said Friday that history will judge whether he voted too often in favor of Iraq war financing measures before siding with lawmakers who support ending the war. The Des Moines Democrat, who is facing a challenge in...
