Bush Ejects Two From Bioethics Council (washingtonpost.com)

Scalia Took Trip Set Up by Lawyer in Two Cases

Government Executive Magazine - 2/25/04 House panel sidetracks resolution calling for spy probe

Guardian Unlimited | Cartoons | 26.02.04: George Bush's stance on gay marriage

Dramatic Climate Change Could Become Global Security Nightmare Article includes link to original report in pdf format.

BW Online | March 1, 2004 | Commentary: Let's Wage War On Gas Guzzlers

Daily Yomiuri On-LineControl Japan's access to oil, control its military.

Primary Struggle Strengthening Contenders : "'I don't think Kerry can beat Bush. But I think Bush can beat Bush, and they're doing a very good job of it at the moment,' said one Republican strategist close to the White House.
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us: "Climate change 'should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern', say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network."
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Intelligence: C.I.A. Admits It Didn't Give Weapon Data to the U.N.

State Department Excluded From Senate Threat Hearing : "The State Department's intelligence branch, whose skeptical prewar assessments of Iraq's weapons programs were more accurate than other agencies' judgments, is being excluded from a panel that advises Congress each year on worldwide threats..., even though the bureau has participated in the hearing every year since it began in the early 1990s."

In the New Economics: Fast-Food Factories?

Bush recommending cuts in education spending after '05 : "President Bush, while promoting proposals to boost federal education spending next year, plans to pare back spending on schools in subsequent years, budget figures show. ...'Education is already underfunded in these budgets, and in fact 37 programs will be zeroed out in '05,' said John See, spokesman for the American Federation of Teachers. 'It will just get worse.'
The White House is proposing an education budget increase from $63.26 billion to $66.4 billion next year, although some school programs would get bigger increases than others. The numbers include mandatory as well as discretionary spending authority. But the total would immediately drop in 2006 and would fall to $63.6 billion by 2007.
That's less than 1 percent above current spending, so with inflation it would represent a decrease. It's also 4 percent less than Bush's much-touted increase for 2005. "

Electionline.org (Electionline Today)

MSNBC - NBC: Investigators question ricin test results "federal agents have found no source for the powder found in the mailroom of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s office" Did they look in Frist's pockets? Meanwhile the AP characterizes Bill Frist's "calming prescence" during the recent ricin hoax. It's easy to be calm when you know there's no threat.

Welcome to the ANG!: "'As threats to America change... the National Guard and reservists will be more involved in homeland security, confronting acts of terror [that] our enemies may try to create.'

President George W. Bush
14 February 2001 "

Joint chiefs chairman says duration of US military presence in Iraq is ``unknowable'': Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Richard Myers "said that if he and the top U.S. commanders in Iraq were to 'sit around a table, I think we could draw out a pretty good diagram of where we think we're going to go' with winding up the Iraq operation.

"On the other hand,... 'Actually, the things we've sat around and talked about before have been wrong on every count,' he said with a chuckle."

LITTLE REGULATION: Chinese citizens demand better job safety after deadly accidents : "By one estimate, an average of 300 Chinese lose their lives every day in industrial accidents, mine collapses and other disasters. China tallied a quarter of a million fires last year alone. More than 120,000 people died in work-related accidents from January to November 2003, the English-language China Daily newspaper reported in December, citing official figures. "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US lawyer sues over terror cases: "Mr Convertino says officials punished him for cooperating with a Senate investigation into failures in the war on terror by blowing the cover of an intelligence asset."

ESPN.com - Page2 - Bush's disturbing sleeping disorder: "Desperate men do desperate things, and stupid men do stupid things. We are in for a desperately stupid summer."