Do you know the sad reality about the state of the nation’spensions (search)today? They’re promises, that’s all. Promises that are easily broken and more often easily re-jiggered. What’s the moral of the story? Control your own fate. Invest your own money/ Take charge of your own life. You may trust …
Read More »Gerlach Pursues Permanent Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON – Despite a drumbeat from mostly Democratic quarters decrying additional tax cuts as reckless, Pennsylvania RepublicanRep. Jim Gerlach (search)has made it his business to embrace them, and he thinks the voters in his district will too. “I think the tax cuts were absolutely the right thing to do, and …
Read More »Woops! Paper Reports Kerry-Gephardt
The latest from the Political Grapevine: For or Against Abortion?John Kerry (search), who has voted against banning partial-birth abortion and has campaigned for abortion rights, has now taken a position agreeing with a central tenet of anti-abortion groups. Kerry, in an interview with the Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph Herald, said, “I …
Read More »Churchgoers Find Faith at the Movies
They say God is in the details, but a new genre of Web sites and the pastors who use them believe He’s also at the movies. Sites like Movieministry.com, HollywoodJesus.com and Reelspirituality.org offer biblical lessons found in popular flicks and ways preachers can incorporate these ideas into sermons. “We live …
Read More »Grrr! … Howard Stern in for Rude Awakening
IsHoward Stern (search)bigger than radio? I don’t think so. But no matter what I think,Stern isabout to find out just how bighe is — or is not — when he leaves commercial radiofor what he believes are greener pastures above the ionosphere onsatellite radio. If you haven’t heard, Stern signed …
Read More »Competitive House Races Limited in Number
WASHINGTON – From the suburbs of Seattle to the union halls of New York, thousands of volunteers are contributing their sweat to help their candidates eke out a victory in the toughest, closest House races across the country. More than the individual races are at stake — taking control of …
Read More »Reporter Supporter
The latest from the Political Grapevine: Reporter Supporter The editor and publisher of the Chattanooga Times Free Press is standing by his reporter who fed that question about armor to the soldier who then asked Secretary Rumsfeld. Editor Tom Griscom, a former official in the Reagan Administration, said in an …
Read More »Zarqawi Associate Charged
A Lebanese national with ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search), the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, was picked up in Minnesota and charged Friday in a New York court with lying to the FBI about his ties to terrorists, Fox News has learned. According to a federal complaint obtained by …
Read More »I've Got Mail
As you know, I read my e-mails from viewers and try and respond to most of them (I have to sort through all the spam e-mails to find the ones from viewers.) I had a “three day weekend” so I did not get to the e-mails for three days. So …
Read More »Controversies of Duty
Remember theBill Clinton (search)draft evasion story in 1992? He received a draft deferment after promising to report for ROTC duty. He failed to report and then got lucky with a high lottery number, which was never called. His commanding officer at the time virtually accused Clinton of lying to him …
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