Old Fashioned Patriot

Jackson, who faces trial next year on child molestation charges, appeared happy during the few minutes he spoke to the arriving throng.

One of the youngsters shouted, "We love you!"

"I love you more," Jackson replied before putting an umbrella over his head and walking back toward his house.

He told Giovanni Minoli of Italian state television's investigative news program "We Are History" that he was still waiting for the United States to reward him for giving up prohibited weapons.

White House officials said they are planning a major public campaign to sell the nation on Mr. Bush's agenda, which also includes overhauling the income tax, reducing regulation of business and restricting lawsuits brought against corporations.

The analysis, released Wednesday, largely confirms an earlier report on the same statistics by the American Federation of Teachers.

"This industry understands that it's got a problem," Mr. Tauzin, a Louisiana lawmaker who is retiring from Congress, said in an interview. "It has to earn the trust and confidence of consumers again."

The 2004 election casts huge doubts on the legitimacy of the American government. The only way to address this issue is to find out why there was so much election fraud and why it all seemed to favor Bush.

Ethical problems? It seems you drew some blood with your post about their denying their stockholders some mammon by denying a church group wanting to pay American dollars to advertise peace and love.

A corporation that makes a shitload of money off of the Iraq invasion that refuses to ask Cheney about Halliburton and Rumsfeld about Bechtel thinks you have ethical problems?

I hope your lawyer settles for nothing less than a ten year contract for a half hour show every Sunday morning for this scurrilous, malicious and outright false smear of your good name.

Jeffrey H. Smith, a former general counsel of the C.I.A., said he had found considerable "confusion and contradiction" within the intelligence bill. "Lawyers across the intelligence community will be arguing about what these provisions mean for many months to come," Mr. Smith said.

Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc.

A Tough Cop Tempered by 9/11 and Iraq
By Michael Powell and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, December 4, 2004; Page A01
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 -- Mustachioed, plain-spoken and built like a .45 bullet, Bernard B. Kerik brings a cop's street savvy to the job of the nation's secretary of homeland security.

As we watch the legal wrangling over Ohio's suspicious voting irregularities, as well as debates about statistics and e-voting, and on and on, the Rude Pundit has one question: can anyone give an example cited in "mainstream" press sources of an electronic voting machine overtallying in John Kerry's favor?

While many questions concerning Oil-for-Food remain unanswered, one conclusion has become abundantly clear: Kofi Annan should resign. The decision to call for his resignation does not come easily, but I have arrived at this conclusion because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, as long as Mr. Annan remains in charge, the world will never be able to learn the full extent of the bribes, kickbacks and under-the-table payments that took place under the U.N.'s collective nose.

The anti-Bush, anti-war, and anti-good personal hygiene movement has launched an embarassingly under-attended protest to mark Bush's trip to Canada. We're talking a new low, here -- the were actually more journalists there to cover the protest than there were protestors

Within two or three months, Marine officials say, bigger projects will be set in motion: a new $35 million wastewater treatment plant, four new school buildings, several new health clinics.

Reconstruction projects undertaken in Najaf since the fighting there in August, for instance, have been plagued by corruption, overpayment and shoddy work, relief officials said. After an American corporation there began rebuilding a wastewater treatment plant, they found a lack of local people with the training to operate it, said Lt. Cmdr. Michael Woltz, a member of the team of Navy Seabees helping rebuild Falluja.