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bondudcentral From: bondud@optonline.net
Subject: Tax cuts spurring the economy cause billion dollar Govt. surplus. Why are liberals ALWAYS wrong??!!!
Date: May 11, 2005 6:35:26 PM EDT
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Federal Government Records Big Surplus

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
Wednesday, May 11, 2005

(05-11) 14:29 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --


The federal government recorded a surplus of $57.7 billion in April as a gusher of tax receipts raised hopes that the budget deficit for this year could show a big improvement.


The Treasury Department reported Wednesday that last month's surplus was more than three times the $17.6 billion surplus recorded last year and was the biggest monthly surplus since $67.2 billion in 2002.


The all-time record monthly surplus was $189 billion recorded in April 2001, the last year the government recorded a surplus for the entire year.


While the government normally runs surpluses in April as taxpayers file their tax returns, this year's surge in revenue took economists by surprise and prompted many to lower their forecasts for the deficit for all of 2005.


"We are seeing a fundamental improvement in the nation's fiscal situation," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com.


Zandi said he was reducing his estimate for the deficit for the current budget year to $350 billion based on the strength of tax receipts in recent months, down from his earlier estimate of $385 billion.


The Bush administration in January forecast that the 2005 deficit would hit an all-time high of $427 billion this year, surpassing last year's record of $412.8 billion.


The Congressional Budget Office was more optimistic in January, forecasting a 2005 deficit of $368 billion. It now says, based on the stronger revenue collection, that the imbalance is likely to be around $350 billion.


The administration will not change its own deficit forecast until this summer when it issues a midsession review of the budget. But the improvement should help President Bush meet his campaign pledge to cut the deficit in half as a percentage of the total economy by 2009, the year he will leave office.


For April, revenues increased by 26.1 percent from April 2004 to $277.6 billion. Spending was up as well, rising by a smaller 8.6 percent to $219.9 billion in April compared with the same month a year ago.


So far this budget year, revenues total $1.22 trillion, 13.7 percent higher than during the same six months for 2004. The government's budget year begins Oct. 1.


Spending over the past six months totals $1.45 trillion, up 7.3 percent from the same period a year ago.


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bondudcentral From: bondud@optonline.net
Subject: I say we put some panties on this man's head and get some answers!
Date: May 4, 2005 5:44:32 PM EDT
To: bondud@optonline.net

This is a story about the capture of one of Osama's buddies and the information we are getting from these captured high ranking Al Queda. BTW, Only in America do we put a retarded girl in prison (for possibly 11 years) for mistreating terrorist, murderer, inmates, by putting panties on their heads.....
from the May 05, 2005 edition

Al Qaeda's No. 3 a major capture
The Libyan national was caught after a gun battle with Pakistani forces Monday.
By Faye Bowers and Owais Tohid
WASHINGTON AND ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – The capture of Abu Farraj al-Libbi, Al Qaeda's new No. 3 leader, in a remote region of Pakistan is a major step forward in the fight against terrorism, according to government officials and terror experts.

"Abu Farraj al-Libbi's one of the hard-core Al Qaeda members," says Bruce Hoffman, a terror expert at the RAND Corp. in Washington. "He's not as well-known to Americans as many of the 9/11-era Al Qaeda leaders. But since Al Qaeda's expulsion from Afghanistan, he has become an increasingly important player - stepping into the role vacated by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."

ABU FARAJ AL-LIBBI: Pakistan had a bounty on his head.
B.K. BANGASH/AP

Mr. Libbi, whose capture Monday was made public only Wednesday, isn't considered to be as sophisticated or talented as Mr. Mohammed, who is credited with hatching the 9/11 plot and others, and who also was captured in Pakistan in 2003.

But after Al Qaeda was evicted from Afghanistan in 2001, Libbi allegedly traveled with Osama bin Laden, seeking refuge in the border region of Pakistan.

Since then, the Pakistani government has placed him on their top-six list of terrorists, accusing him of engineering several attacks, including two assassination attempts on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003.

Those attempts on Mr. Musharraf's life - in which 17 others died - came quite close, experts say, indicating that Libbi was an Al Qaeda up-and-comer with good command of intelligence, surveillance, and planning.

Musharraf himself named the Libyan as the chief suspect, the "mastermind" of the assassination attempts, and the government in 2004 placed an advertisement in Pakistani newspapers that showed Libbi dressed in a Western suit, with a trimmed beard. A reward of 20 million rupees (about $335,000) was offered at the time for any information that might lead to his capture.

"He's definitely an operator and a very important guy," says Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit.

Now security officials say they will question him about the location of Mr. bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

"We don't have any information about Osama or Zawahiri being in Pakistan or in the tribal region," says Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, Pakistan's federal interior minister. "We can say we can get good information about Al Qaeda's network from him, but we cannot say whether his information could give us useful clues about bin Laden's whereabouts."

Musharraf walks a fine line

Pakistan has been a major battleground in the fight against Al Qaeda since the 9/11 terror attacks on the US. And Pakistan has been both applauded and criticized by the US in its efforts to rein in terror groups there.

President Musharraf, as the assassination attempts show, walks a fine line between running a transparent government and dealing with Islamic fundamentalism there.

This past year, for example, Pakistan waged a huge security offensive in the North West Frontier province, known as a tribal area that hasn't responded well to central government intervention.

It has also built new roads and schools in the region in an attempt to win over the allegiance of tribal leaders there.

Meanwhile, hundreds of local and foreign militants have been killed by Pakistan's security forces in the tribal belt during the past year. And Pakistan has handed over some 700 suspected Al Qaeda militants to the US, most of whom have been captured in cities and towns rather than the remote, mountainous region bordering Afghanistan.

Among those captured in major cities and handed over to the US by Pakistan are top-ranking members Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, and Abu Zubaydah. Those three are in US custody in an undisclosed location, and have apparently provided a wealth of information to US interrogators.

But Pakistani officials say they will not hand over Libbi to the US, as he is wanted - and will be charged - in Pakistan for the assassination attempts on Musharraf.

Applauded by Bush

Still, Pakistan has also received large doses of criticism from US government officials. Many of them say the Pakistani leader hasn't gone far enough to root out terrorists.

In a two-part interview aired on National Public Radio this week, former CIA operative Gary Schroen, who led the hunt for bin Laden immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said he didn't think Musharraf was doing all he could to apprehend Al Qaeda members.

But Wednesday, President Bush applauded the Pakistani government's apprehension of Libbi, a man Mr. Bush said was a "major facilitator and chief planner for Al Qaeda," and also implied that Pakistan acted on US intelligence.

"I applaud the Pakistani government for their strong cooperation in the war on terror," he said, and "for acting on solid intelligence to bring this man to justice."

In announcing Libbi's arrest Wednesday, Pakistani officials said they nabbed him, along with an associate, in a shootout on Monday in Mardan, one of the towns in the Frontier province where Al Qaeda members have sought refuge in the past.

"He is a big catch and a big dent in Al Qaeda's network," says Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, federal information minister. "We had been looking for him for a long [time]. He was a key terrorist apprehended after Abu Zubaydah and KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] by our security agencies."

"Abu Farraj [al-Libbi] was considered to be amongst the planners of Al Qaeda," adds Mr. Sherpao, the Pakistani official. "It is a big blow to the Al Qaeda network and will further create dents after acquiring information from him."

Pakistani officials say it is not clear that Libbi would know bin Laden's whereabouts, or those of Mr. Zawahiri. But they say they do expect to glean important clues about Al Qaeda's operations in the region. "We expect invaluable information from his interrogation. We may find further clues to strike further blows to Al Qaeda network," says a Pakistani security official who asked not to be named. "We are going to interrogate him also about his links with sleeper cells in Pakistan or abroad."

"He can speak Urdu and Arabic, so he was kind of a bridge between local militants and foreign militants," the official went on to say. "He is believed to be an expert on drawing maps and diagrams. His arrest could badly damage any links between the various tiers of Al Qaeda."

Libbi, Pakistani officials say, sent coded messages to contacts in both Britain and the United States, and may be able to provide information on those contacts, as well as any plots that may be in the pipeline.

But it's not entirely clear how long Pakistan has actually had Libbi under its control. One US intelligence official suggests that he may have been in custody for some time. That, he says, is typical operating procedure because the intelligence operatives want to exploit not only any information they would gather from al Libbi through verbal interrogations, but also from any of the electronic devices in his possession or other documents he may have carried with him, before his fellow terrorists knew he'd been nabbed.

US officials and terror experts say much could be learned from Libbi, including, possibly, bin Laden's whereabouts. And even more, perhaps, about how Al Qaeda has been adapting in the past several months.

It's known, for example, that several members of the top tier of Al Qaeda's hierarchy have been replaced. Intelligence officials believe these replacements are not as talented as the first string. But Libbi's arrest could not only confirm that information, but also provide names as well as locations for other leaders.

Moreover, intelligence officials and terror experts say Al Qaeda has expanded its operations across the globe. Because Libbi is from Libya, intelligence officials could also learn more about operations and the "ratline" - recruiting stream - coming from there as well as other North African countries.

"One of the first training camps we came across in Afghanistan had 'Libyan fighting group' " on a nearby sign, Mr. Scheuer says.

Ties to other terrorists

While the Pakistani government was hunting Libbi, it was also apparently homing in on a close associate of his, an Egyptian known as Hamza. But it wasn't clear at press time if Hamza was the other person who the Pakistani government apprehended along with Libbi.

Both of them are alleged to have spent time with another terrorist, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was arrested in Pakistan last summer. Ghailani was apparently a computer expert, and it is believed that Pakistani officials, possibly with the help of US operatives, gained information from Ghailani's computer about Libbi.

The security agencies also retrieved information about Libbi and his associate, Hamza, from the interrogation of another Pakistani computer wiz, Naeem Noor Khan, also arrested last year. His computer, reportedly, contained messages and pictures of buildings targeted by Al Qaeda in both the US and Britain. That information led to heightened alerts in both countries at the time.

Now, with the arrest of Libbi, security officials say they will question him about his involvement in those plans and other Al Qaeda links.
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bondudcentral From: bondud@optonline.net
Subject: Fwd: Editorial
Date: May 2, 2005 3:56:36 PM EDT
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Subje Editorial                                                          
   ct:                                                                    
                                                                          




     We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about
the USA.

       Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was
written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published
       under the title "C"ntarea Americii, meaning "Ode To America")Ê in
the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei

       "The Daily Event" or "News of the Day".

       ~An Ode to America~

       Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another
even if you painted them all one color! They
       speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing
mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs. Still, the
       American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand
put on the heart.

       Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, and the secret
services that they are only a bunch of losers.
       Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out
onto the streets nearby to gape about. The
       Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.

       After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the
smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in
       the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings
and cars as if in every place and on every car a
       government official or the president was passing.

       On every occasion, they started singing their traditional song:
"God Bless America!"
       I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours
listening to the story of the guy who went down one
       hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who
she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who
       gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the
plane from hitting a target that could have killed other
       hundreds or thousands of people.

       How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being?

       Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of
some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes.
       And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were
put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a
       family, but a spirit, which no money can buy.

       What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land?
Their galloping history? Their economic Power?
       Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and
murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding
       commonplace.

       I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion...Only
freedom can work such miracles.

       Cornel Nistorescu

       (This deserves to be passed around the Internet forever.)

_____________________________________

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bondudcentral From: bondud@optonline.net
Subject: A must read from a blogger in the UK about anti Americanism.
Date: April 27, 2005 7:46:58 AM EDT
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April 26, 2005
Debacle

Blogging from where I am, I only get to certain things late in the (UK) day, if I get to them at all. But I won't pass up the brief chance I have to comment on the piece of muck by Richard Gott published in today's Guardian. It has many of the now standard anti-liberation left identity marks: the Nazi Germany analogy, with the US as 'evil empire', and 'an unbridled country that presents a global threat similar to Germany in the 1930s'; Tony Blair 'a war criminal who should be locked up behind bars' (in which one must be grateful for the clarifying detail 'behind bars'); and a vote for Respect countenanced as a way of trying to secure 'an anti-war majority in parliament', this is in complaisant silence about the filthy political associations with which that particular organization is tainted.

In connection with Tony Blair's alleged criminality Gott makes reference to 'history's hall of infamy'. Well, he and the rest of his present-day ilk are set fair to join that very hall in their own right: those senior figures on what once saw and represented itself as a new, democratic, anti-Stalinist left, but who have lately caved in and gone politically berserk; people who have been on the wrong side of nearly all, or indeed all, of the key international conflicts since the first Gulf War, resolutely anti-American and ready in this with cheap and grotesque Hitler-Nazi references, but somehow a little bit less resolute in what their alignment might mean with respect to the likely future of the most noxious movements and lethal regimes there are; 'democrats' in everything except a proper recognition of the democracy that exists in the US and other Western nations, and of what the absence of democracy means for those peoples for whom it is in fact - daily, ruinously - absent; loud denouncers of the abuses and crimes or alleged crimes of the US, or the UK, or Israel, but more tactful and tactical in relation to other and much worse; people for whom George W. Bush is a more hated figure than Saddam Hussein or anyone else is or was, and for whom the discontinuation of that monster's rule in Iraq today seems to be of less importance morally than the failure to find WMD there or an 'international law' to which many of them have never shown any visible attachment hitherto.

What is it that has led to this intellectual and political debacle of so much of the left of (roughly) my own generation? The pathology of anti-Americanism? The failure to call certain political phenomena by their proper names? A loss of nerve and/or moral perspective in face of a capitalism seemingly everywhere triumphant? Perhaps (three times). But a debacle is what it is - the loss to progressive opinion of half a generation or more of those who might otherwise have been expected to pass on a mature wisdom to younger others. Instead, this shameful legacy.

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Subject: CIA cannot rule out WMD being shipped to Syria before the war.
Date: April 27, 2005 7:25:38 AM EDT
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Just yesterday the main stream media reported there was NON POSSIBLE WAY WMD went to Syria before the war. The story has changed overnight. What liars these news people are.
CIA can't rule out WMD move to Syria


By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The CIA's chief weapons inspector said he cannot rule out the possibility that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were secretly shipped to Syria before the March 2003 invasion, citing "sufficiently credible" evidence that WMDs may have been moved there.
    Inspector Charles Duelfer, who heads the Iraq Survey Group (ISG), made the findings in an addendum to his final report filed last year. He said the search for WMD in Iraq -- the main reason President Bush went to war to oust Saddam Hussein -- has been exhausted without finding such weapons. Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the early 1990s.
    But on the question of Syria, Mr. Duelfer did not close the books. "ISG was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule out the possibility that WMD was evacuated to Syria before the war," Mr. Duelfer said in a report posted on the CIA's Web site Monday night.
    He cited some evidence of a transfer. "Whether Syria received military items from Iraq for safekeeping or other reasons has yet to be determined," he said. "There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation."
    But Mr. Duelfer said he was unable to complete that aspect of the probe because "the declining security situation limited and finally halted this investigation. The results remain inconclusive, but further investigation may be undertaken when circumstances on the ground improve."
    Arguing against a WMD transfer to Syria, Mr. Duelfer said, was the fact that all senior Iraqi detainees involved in Saddam's weapons programs and security "uniformly denied any knowledge of residual WMD that could have been secreted to Syria."
    "Nevertheless," the inspector said, "given the insular and compartmented nature of the regime, ISG analysts believed there was enough evidence to merit further investigation."
    He said that even if all leads are pursued someday, the ISG may never be able to finally determine whether WMDs were taken across the border. "Based on the evidence available at present, ISG judged that it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place," his report stated. "However, ISG was unable to rule out unofficial movement of limited WMD-related materials."
    Speculation on WMDs in Syria was fueled by the fact that satellite images picked up long lines of trucks waiting to cross the border into Syria before the coalition launched the invasion. Mr. Duelfer previously had reported that Syria was a major conduit for materials entering Iraq that were banned by the United Nations.
    Saddam placed such importance on illicit trade with Syria that he dispatched Iraqi Intelligence Service agents to various border crossings to supervise border agents, and, in some cases, to shoo them away, senior officials told The Washington Times last year.
    Today, U.S. officials charge that Syria continues to harbor Saddam loyalists who are directing and financing the insurgency in Iraq. The Iraq-Syria relationship between two Ba'athist socialist regimes has further encouraged speculation of weapons transfers.
    Several senior U.S. officials have said since the invasion that they thought WMD went to Syria.
    Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command during the war, said in his book, "Inside CentCom," that intelligence reports pointed to WMD movement into Syria.
    In October, John A. Shaw, then the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, told The Times that Russian special forces and intelligence troops worked with Saddam's intelligence service to move weapons and material to Syria, Lebanon and possibly Iran.
    "The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict," he said.
    
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Subject: Other politicians with *Tom Delay* problems-you may not read this in the NY Times.
Date: April 14, 2005 7:22:54 AM EDT
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By The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Lawmakers with relatives on their congressional or campaign staffs include:


_ House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas: Wife and daughter were paid more than $500,000 since 2001 for working for DeLay's campaign and political action committees.


_ Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman: Son Matthew received about $34,000 and daughter Rebecca about $36,000 for working on the senator's 2004 presidential campaign.


_ Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash.: Nephew Todd Reichert was paid $3,000 last year, plus several hundred dollars for mileage, for serving as driver.


_ California Democratic Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark: Wife Deborah earns $2,400 a month for serving as campaign consultant.


_ Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif.: Wife Arlene Willis serves as congressional chief of staff at a salary of nearly $111,000.


_ Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich.: Wife Laurie Stupak earned about $36,000 annually the past two years as the finance director for her husband's campaign.


_ Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio: Wife Elizabeth was paid about $1,730 a month during his 2004 campaign. She has worked as a campaign consultant for him since the 2001 election cycle.


_ Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif.: Cousin Ken Costa made about $45,000 for serving as a co-campaign manager last year.


_ Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah: Three college-age children worked on his campaign last year. Emily was paid $5,425, Jane $9,508 and Laura $17,766.


_ Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn.: Sister-in-law Sharon Davis has been his campaign treasurer since 1994,and daughter Libby Davis was his campaign coordinator in the last half of 2004. Libby Davis was paid about $2,334 a month; Sharon Davis was paid about $1,000 a month for bookkeeping last year.


_ Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, employs his wife, Kathy, as his campaign manager. She was paid $21,791 over four months, including a $7,500 bonus last November.


_ New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop: Daughter Molly was paid $46,995 as his 2004 campaign's finance director.


_ California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Wife Rhonda Carmony makes $40,000 a year as his campaign manager.






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AFTER THE WAR

Coming Home

What I learned serving in Iraq.

BY GREG MOORE

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y.--There are no longer generators running, or armored vehicles rumbling, or mortars exploding, and the roar of the silence is deafening to me. What I hear at night now is the gentle breaths released from the perfect lips of my sons. The same lips that I cannot kiss enough. The lips that make my eyes fill with tears every time they touch my cheeks.

My release from Fort Drum came earlier than expected, so when I pulled into my driveway at noon the house was empty. I dropped my bags inside and walked alone through the rooms, soaking in the images and smells that had been only a memory during ten months in Iraq.

My older son's first-grade teacher had been wonderful to me while I was away. She sent school updates and pictures via e-mail almost weekly. So when I popped my head into her classroom she came running and gave me a "welcome home" hug.

"Easton is practicing a song. Why don't you surprise him?"

My heart was racing. I followed the sound of the piano and the little voices singing, then stood and watched. Trickles of love and pride started involuntarily down my cheeks as I listened to my son. He has gotten so big. The anticipation built as I waited for him to see me.

The little girl next to him was the first to notice the uniformed man standing in the doorway. The image she saw and the facts she had been told were doing battle in her brain. Then her eyes grew wide and her mouth fell open.

"Easton! Easton . . . your Daddy's here!" she said in an electrified whisper.

My son's head snapped around. The excitement and disbelief on his face is something I will never forget. I motioned him to me and he ran into my open arms. There was no hiding my tears, and I didn't care to. This was the day I had waited for.

I choked out my words of love and hung on to this boy who had cried so many nights, who said he didn't care if he got any other presents for Christmas, he only wanted his Daddy to come home. This boy who had used all his wishes on me. He kept pulling his head back from my shoulder to look at my face. Cheers rose from the other kids and teachers.

Hand-in-hand, Easton and I stepped outside and drove to the other side of town. I had another little boy to catch up with. When I went inside he was napping. "Marshal, wake up. I have a surprise for you," I heard his day-care provider say.

She came out with his head on her shoulder. When he looked up his eyes grew wide and all signs of sleepiness disappeared. "Daddy!" he exclaimed in pure excitement as he fell forward into my arms. My heart ached with love, and pure joy soaked my cheeks.

I was complete again. I had my boys. And there have never been more perfect words spoken to me than "I love you, Dad."

It may take my wife and children a long time to realize that while I look the same, I am not the same person who said goodbye to them many months ago. I will never be the same again--thankfully so.

Each day now I am acutely aware of what makes me happy, and what it is I do that makes other people happy. Walking point through the volatile streets in Iraq helped me see this much more clearly, and I will make every effort to preserve that awareness for the rest of my days.

When I look through my photo album I think about the men I served with, and learned to count on, who are no longer by my side. The men who had their bodies pierced by the hatred of terrorists, men who left their last breaths in a place far away. Great men doing a job that allows this noble country the freedoms it deserves.

I have seen the dark side of humanity and it has forever changed me. As I sit here in my house, with the sun streaming through the windows, I look out and see the boughs of the evergreens blowing in the breeze.

There are no armed guards on the roof. No sandbags. I don't call in grid coordinates of my whereabouts any more.

Mission briefs have been replaced by wonderful communication between two parents. As I drive through town, I am alone; with no turret and no gunner above me. I don't have to scrutinize every pile of dirt, every plastic bag to check whether it may explode.

Amazingly, I am safe.

Mr. Moore is a staff sergeant in the New York National Guard's Second Battalion, 108th Infantry. This article appears in the April/May issue of The American Enterprise.

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bondudcentral From: bondud@optonline.net
Subject: George Soros is a busy guy-now trying to rewrite the US constitution at Yale Law School. Elitist creep.
Date: April 9, 2005 6:19:56 PM EDT
To: JoelConnelly@seattlepi.com, JPC2626@aol.com, kad2107@columbia.edu, Lauren.Dudley@mccann.com, bravenewworld@msnbc.com, Bob831@sbcglobal.net, aldud28@aol.com, Lberizzi@aol.com, jer08@aol.com, danmcajr@optonline.net, anelson@sidley.com, bill.kaufmann@calgarysun.com, and 15 more...

Soros is a scary man who was just convicted of insider trading in France (where he barely got a slap on the wrist). He has billions and plans to spend them in the US to change our Govt. to his way of thinking (socialist) he owns the Democratic party (his words) and Hillary Clinton. We should be very concerned-money talks- big time.
April 9th, 2005


Soros-funded effort for new Constitution

The bien pensants at Yale Law School, are engaged in a Soros-funded conference to write us a new Constitution.(I guess they think we are too stupid to know we need one or what it should contain):

Yesterday Yale Law School grad ('00) Leah Mesfin wrote to alert us to this weekend's doings at the law school. Leah noted that she'd started reading us in connection with our coverage of the Republican convention this past September. She wrote:


Recently I got an invitation from the YLS to register for an upcoming conference at YLS called "The Constitution in 2020." Their plan is simple - they plan to congregate to produce a vision of what the Constitution should be for 2020 and then to colloborate on how to use their influence and judicial power to accomplish it. Their posts with their plans for the conference are here.

I wrote this because I thought you and the rest of your readers might be interested in knowing how these elitist morons are conveniently drafting us a new Constitution since we're too dumb to govern ourselves. The posts and the whole project are so deeply offensive on a variety of different levels. Who do these people think that they are that they can effectively draft a new Constitution for the rest of America? They're a handful of elitist, unelected, out of touch, narcissistic, overpaid, underworked, downright foolish liberal intellectuals that think they are more righteous than God, and therefore, by divine right, are the only ones worthy of the task.(more)

I guess once they're done, the next step is to get Pew to get its various grantees to come out with reports that this new Constitution is what we want, peddle that to the msm, and create another CRF type "groundswell" for its adoption

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The Constitution in 2020

April 8-10, 2005 • Yale Law School

A conference bringing together leading figures in American law to catalyze debate among progressives about the Constitution's future.
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It is time for progressives to set a constitutional agenda for the 21st Century. In 1987-88, the Reagan Justice Department produced a white paper known as “The Constitution in 2000” which, by taking a long view rather than focusing on the immediate issues of the day, was immensely successful in influencing the Constitution under which we now live. If progressives are to rehabilitate that Constitution, they must now, more than ever, articulate constitutional ideals capable of inspiring the next generation. The goal is to set forth a positive constitutional vision for tomorrow, rather than merely to respond to the crises of today. Accordingly the Yale chapter of the American Constitution Society, the Yale Law School, Yale's Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, the American Constitution Society, the Open Society Institute and the Center for American Progress invite you to a conference on “The Constitution in 2020.”
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Faculty Organizers
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America in the World: This theme addresses the challenges posed by the dual issues of terrorism and globalization. Critical issues include: the tension between democracy and globalization, national security, warmaking, immigration, and the interaction of foreign law with the U.S. Constitution.



Liberties and Communities: The questions encompassed by this theme include the relationship between the Constitution and the broader social fabric of the United States, and in particular the constitutional protections provided to individuals acting alone and as members of various groups. Critical issues include: family, religion, federalism, and crime.

New Politics: This theme focuses on the challenges to democratic processes in an age of economic and technological change. Critical issues include: money in politics, voting rights, media concentration, gerrymandering, and the constitution of the public sphere in a digital age.

Social and Economic Inequality: This theme concerns the constitutional obligations of the government to protect against discrimination and to guarantee minimum standards of living. Critical issues include: the nature of constitutional equality, the causes and remedies of inequality, the disparate roles of courts and Congress in vindicating rights of equal citizenship.

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bondudcentral From: bondud@optonline.net
Subject: George Soros' group, MoveOn.org is after Rep. Tom Delay for some of same offenses NY Senator Shumer is guilty of.
Date: April 9, 2005 7:37:37 AM EDT
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Who's against DeLay?
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WASHINGTON -- MoveOn.org, the left-wing activist group leading the fight against Rep. Tom DeLay, has claimed there is a Republican clamor to replace him as House majority leader that does not actually exist.
 "Now," said an e-mail dispatched by MoveOn, "some Republicans in Congress are speaking out against DeLay." In fact, however, no Republican in Congress has criticized DeLay publicly, not even on an off-the-record basis.

 The e-mail also declares unequivocally that "DeLay illegally used corporate funds in support of his plan to redistrict Texas." Actually, DeLay has not been convicted, tried or even formally accused of breaking the law.

GOING TO ROME

 Members of the Senate and House from both parties hurried to arrange to be in Rome for Friday's funeral of Pope John Paul II. But their ranks did not include the lawmaker most responsible for establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and the Vatican in 1983: Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana.

 Lugar, who then, as now, was the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pushed through a Senate resolution enabling the relationship despite strong Protestant opposition. President Ronald Reagan then came under heavy pressure not to set up an embassy in Vatican City. Since the establishment of formal diplomatic ties, however, there has been little criticism.

 The rush of senators and House members to attend the funeral, not seen when earlier popes died, came without a formal invitation. Lugar told me he was staying in Washington because of urgent Foreign Relations Committee issues on the Senate floor, indicating that "devout Catholics" should get precedence on the trip. However, those going to Rome included many non-Catholics -- such as Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

DISSING THE POPE

 Thirty minutes after voting 98 to 0 Tuesday to honor John Paul II, the Senate by a narrow margin went on record against the late pope's "Mexico City policy" barring U.S. government spending abroad for abortions.

 The pope was a principal architect of the Vatican-proposed policy, adopted at a 1984 United Nations population conference in Mexico City. President Ronald Reagan then issued an executive order prohibiting federal grants for groups that perform abortions abroad and that lobby to legalize abortion in developing countries.

 Republican Senate staffers and outside conservative groups were caught off guard Tuesday when Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California suddenly brought up a proposal to undo the Mexico City language. It passed 52 to 46, thanks to eight Republican defections and unanimous Democratic support.


WOOING BLACKS

 Republican National Chairman Ken Mehlman attended last Wednesday evening's reception in Washington by the National Urban League, but Democratic Chairman Howard Dean was not there.

 A Democratic National Committee spokesperson said Dean missed the prestigious African-American organization's major event because he had a schedule conflict with the annual black-tie dinner of the Washington Radio and Television Correspondents Association. However, Mehlman was able to attend both events.

 A footnote: Dean so far has avoided mini-debates with Mehlman. NBC's "Meet the Press" has failed in several efforts to pin down Dean for a joint appearance with Mehlman.


MARYLAND GOP HOPES



 National Republican leaders, seeking to elect a Republican senator from Maryland for the first time since 1980, privately express confidence that Lt. Gov. Michael Steele next year will run for the seat left open by the surprise retirement of Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes.

 Steele, who is an African-American, is considered the strongest Republican candidate but was thought to be more interested in running for another term as lieutenant governor. The only announced Democratic contender, former Rep. Kweisi Mfume, also is black.

 A footnote: National GOP leaders are hoping to win a seat in another Democratic stronghold, New Jersey, with State Sen. Tom Kean Jr. (son of the former governor). The Senate vacancy is being created by Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine, who is leaving to run for governor.



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