An Aggressive Conservative vs. a "Liberal to be Determined": "a format where conservatives out-number, out-talk and out-interrupt their liberal opponents. "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How British charity was silenced on Iraq

FT.com / Rebuilding Iraq

HoustonChronicle.com - Neil Bush deals detailed in divorce records

HoustonChronicle.com - Neil Bush provides sample for paternity case

Channelnewsasia.com president's brother had agreed to strategize with China's Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp at the same time the Bush administration is trying to help US firms compete more effectively against the Chinese.

United Press International: The Bush family saga

U.S. Newswire - House Leader Tom DeLay's Political Fundraising in the Name of Charity Concerns Philanthropy Watchdog; NCRP Urges IRS to Deny Tax-Exempt Status

AM - US budget 'out of control': Wall Street bank: "'The only thing I can tell you is evidently the word 'tomorrow' no longer exists in the vocabulary of otherwise responsible members of Congress'. So says Warren Rudman"

Islamist Turks still blame West | csmonitor.com: "There was no such thing as [mass suicide bombings] happening in Turkey before the Iraq war."

Medicare Bill Would Enrich Companies (washingtonpost.com): "The employers would get $70 billion in direct payments and $16 billion more in new tax breaks over the next 10 years. Thomas A. Scully, administrator of the federal agency that runs Medicare, said employers 'should be having a giant ticker-tape parade.'...They requested what Scully called 'a modest buyout,' equivalent to perhaps $350 per retiree. The bill, he said, provides more than twice that amount, a sum 'way beyond their wildest requests.' "

A New Age for AARP: "AARP Services, Inc., makes millions in royalties ($123 million last year) from the sale of health insurance, and could profit from passage of the bill."

CBS News | NYT: FBI Watching War Protesters | November 22, 2003 21:06:20

U.S. Seeks Advice From Israel on Iraq : "Some U.S. officials acknowledge that they blanch at the idea of the Pentagon adopting tactics from Israel, a nation regularly criticized for security tactics it employs to battle armed groups it has never managed to quell....Indeed,...the Israeli army's...current chief of staff, Moshe Yaalon, along with a group of retired heads of the Shin Bet internal security service and even some active-duty soldiers say the methods have been unduly harsh and threaten to destroy Israeli and Palestinian society if no solution is found to the conflict. But such concerns have not slowed the flow of information between Washington and Jerusalem."

CIA Seeks Probe of Iraq-Al Qaeda Memo Leak (washingtonpost.com): "If they had such a productive relationship, why did they have to keep trying?"

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U.S. Military Returns to War Tactics (washingtonpost.com):"In a...public relations push to highlight what it deems to be successes in Iraq -- he showed a picture at a news conference on Thursday of the shot-up truck next to two bodies covered by black shrouds.....'The Americans want to follow the Israeli plan,' said Hamed Hassan, an elderly resident of Hawijat Ali. 'It doesn't work there. Why will it work here?' "

Right, the war was over. Now we're starting it again. Dead bodies are great PR and proof of US success.

New Doubts About Bush Trade Agenda (washingtonpost.com): "President Bush's free-trade agenda is in serious danger of slipping into reverse as next year's national elections loom"

Tobacco-state lawmakers push last-minute buyout plan: "the quota plan is an 'ill-advised scheme,' R. Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, wrote in a Nov. 14 letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill."

Why are the AARP Board and CEO Providing a Virtual Soft Money Ad Campaign for The Republicans? - BuzzFlash Reader Contribution "AARP, which formally unveiled its new headquarters building in downtown Washington last month, has softened its earlier militancy because it is preoccupied with its profit-making enterprises, including $100 million in earnings from the sale of insurance, mostly Medicare supplemental policies."