A few big farms in Ohio producing majority of sales - newarkadvocate.com: "Of [nearly 78,000] farms spread throughout Ohio, the largest 1,200 are producing 41 percent of the state's agricultural sales, according to the federal Census of Agriculture released last week....
Licking County agricultural extension agent Howard Siegrist said 12 to 15 farms generate about half the farming income in the county. And Ohio Fresh Eggs, the largest farm operation in the state, generates about 40 percent by itself, he said.
The county had about 1,482 farms in 2002...."

If the voting machine company is small enough, a leftist government can afford one too:"[The Venezuelan] government purchased a 28 percent stake in Bizta, through a venture capital fund, in June 2003 -- just a few months before the company bid for the elections contract....
The Herald also reported that a top official in Venezuela's science ministry, Omar Montilla, joined Bizta's board of directors in December to represent the government's three million shares. Two months later, the National Electoral Council awarded Bizta and partners Smartmatic and CANTV the $91 million."

OrlandoSentinel.com: State News: "The state has agreed to spend at least $125,000 on private attorneys to fight for a law that restricts the release of voter records, even though Attorney General Charlie Crist has said the statute is probably not worth defending....[O]fficials concede the costs could go higher."

According to the GAO, reports by the DoD, CIA and VA vastly underestimated the number of veterans exposed to chemical warfare agents during Gulf War I:
"It is likely that if models were more fully developed and more credible data for source term and meteorological conditions were included in them,...the hazard area would be much larger and most likely would cover most of the areas where U.S. troops and Coalition forces were deployed."
Link to .pdf of report

Yahoo! News - US to Correct Terror Report, Says Attacks Increased: "The State Department said on Thursday its report that the number of international 'terrorist' attacks fell last year was wrong and in fact had risen sharply. "

AlterNet: IVINS: The Day the Constitution Died

San Antonio Current: "Xenophobia and religion color GOP convention "

Commission to hear complaint on funds raised for local GOP - zanesvilletimesrecorder.com

nbc4columbus.com - News - Blackwell Subpoenas Householder Over Contracts

The Globe and Mail: "Truth be known, however, the Iron Curtain's collapse was hardly Ronald Reagan's doing."

washingtonpost.com: Fewer Republicans Trust the News, Survey Finds They're just following orders, since Cheney told them only to believe Fox news. So there's no surprise CNN loses credibility points, but Fox gains none.

Ronald Reagan: Still the Teflon President?: " the overwhelming praise for a president who plunged the nation into its worst deficit ever, ignored and cut public money for the poor, while also ignoring the AIDS crisis, is a bit tough to take"

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Florida: "Coincidentally, the state's elections supervisor, Ed Kast, announced Monday he was resigning that position to pursue other opportunities in the private sector."

Mail Pouch paintings: History or advertisments? - zanesvilletimesrecorder.com: "U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-St. Clairsville, said...[h]is advice to barn owners is civil disobedience. 'I would say don't do anything,' he said. 'Defy the state.' "

Democracy Now! | REMEMBERING THE DEAD-Ronald Reagan 1911-2004: Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott & Robert Parry on Iran-Contra, the Nuclear Race and Covert Wars from Central America to Africa

Consortiumnews.com "The unpleasant history was shunted aside or covered up. When declassified U.S. government documents led to a judgment by a Guatemalan truth commission that the Reagan administration had aided and abetted genocide, it was a one-day story. When a CIA inspector general confirmed that many contra units had engaged in drug trafficking and were protected by the Reagan administration, the mainstream press only grudgingly acknowledged the story."

Telegraph | News | Iraqi judge orders arrest of American aide to Chalabi: "computer files belonging to the British consultant investigating the oil-for-food scandal were destroyed by hackers and a back-up databank in his Baghdad office wiped out.
Claude Hankes Drielsma, a British businessman and long-time acquaintance of Mr Chalabi, accused America and Britain of mounting a 'dirty tricks' campaign to obstruct his inquiry."

AlterNet: Reagan Redux: " This would mean that Reagan's election was illegal, that the trading during the Iran-Contra scandal had a precedent, that Reagan and G.H.W. Bush's buildup of Saddam Hussein's military was motivated in part by a desire to counter weaponry and money that the United States had given Iran in exchange for Reagan's election, that our media has completely fallen down on the job, and that we're all a bunch of suckers."

Delays, Purge Hit Voter Rolls - from TBO.com: "For the second straight presidential election, Florida's law against former felons voting, a law grounded in Old South racism, may prevent thousands of people from voting. "