Ethics Group Seeks Disbarment of Runaway Lawmakers



"The grievance asks the State Bar to consider whether the absentee attorney legislators committed criminal acts by evading arrest, hindering apprehension, interfering with public duties, interfering with Texas peace officers' exercise of their authority and performance of their duty, violating the Open Meetings Act, and abusing their official capacity,"

James Logan

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GEPHARDT GOES MISSING!!

PRESIDENTIAL candidate and former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt has dug himself an early grave in his pursuit of the White House: Since the first of the year, he has missed 84 percent of the votes in the House of Representatives.
Gephardt did not do the honest thing and resign since he wasn't planning to show up for work. Instead, he let us continue to pay his $154,700 salary. At more than $5,000 per vote, the American people might find him a trifle expensive.



Dick Morris

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LOSING WITH CONTEMPT

May 16, 2003 -- MEMO to Mike Bloomberg: Change your ways or you won't win a second term as mayor.

I attribute this likely future failure not to his tax increases, his refusal to face down the municipal unions or his smoking ban. These policy follies are based in a gigantic attitude problem - a kind of knee-jerk billionaire's contempt for businessmen who might only make a few thousand a year in profit.



JOHN PODHORETZ

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Dem duds

The sight of these nine will not only make you laugh but cry. We don't mean cry for your country, because this country has survived even more pathetic candidates. What strikes us is the sadness of their suffering desperation as they sweat through their pointless diatribes pleading for help. They look like a group of loveless children in a Third World country.



Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder

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Dems Worry War Helping Bush's Popularity

"He was on every channel talking about getting the bad guys who did this and how we're going to track them down and kill them," she said. "He's done a very effective job at turning people's attention away from the economy and playing to people's emotions."
Jennifer Mann

"I think we have to show we are tough on national security," said Ken Cheuvront
"We have to show..." Is a telling statement from the Dems. You see, Bush does not 'show' anything, He is strong on defense.
It is part of his core value system, something the dems do not seem to have. They think 'What do I need to believe in to get elected?'
Instead of having core values and letting those values guide them. Neil

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"Hurray for the Times owning up and getting to the story of its own ineptitude before its competitors. But to expect anything less is a little like arguing that Exxon deserves special praise for cleaning up all the oil that spilled out of the Valdez. Just imagine Blair, filing a piece on POW Jessica Lynch datelined Palestine, West Virginia, without leaving New York. When he can pull that off without any questions from editors, he makes his editors look like fools."

L. Brent Bozell III

Unfit to print


New York Times managing editor Howell Raines has been quoted as having boasted in 2001 about Jayson Blair as an example of the Times' commitment to "diversity" -- because Jayson Blair is black. White reporters do not get promoted for doing what Blair did.

This is such an old story of the fundamental fraudulence of affirmative action, whether in the media, academia, or elsewhere. These stories are full of ignored warnings, arrogant self-righteousness by those who brush aside the warnings, and often the demonizing of anyone who dares to criticize either the policy or the incompetent individuals who got where they are because of the policy.


Thomas Sowell

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The Old Gray Liar


THE NEW YORK TIMES is to be commended for ferreting out Jayson Blair, the reporter recently discovered making up facts, plagiarizing other news organizations and lying about nonexistent trips and interviews. A newspaper that employs Maureen Dowd can't have had an easy time settling on Blair as the scapegoat. Blair's record of inaccuracies, lies and distortions made him a candidate for either immediate dismissal or his own regular column on the op-ed page.

Ann Coulter.org

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WHO: Traffic Is Four Times as Lethal as War

Traffic kills four times as many people as wars and far more people commit suicide than are murdered, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday
Reuters

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Study: Without Cigarettes, Smokers Seem to Lose Track of Time


STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - For smokers separated from their cigarettes, time seems to stand still. New research indicates there's good reason for that.
Time perception, one of the simplest indicators of a person's ability to concentrate, is severely impaired after just one day without cigarettes, according to a study in the current quarterly issue of the Psychopharmacology Bulletin.



Dan Lewerenz

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Kennedy Was Cocaine User

"The first time it happened Jack must have seen the shocked look on my face. 'For my back, George' Kennedy said to me with his bad-boy wink," Jacobs wrote, adding that Lawford pleaded with him not to tell Sinatra.
George Jacobs

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Democrats Continue To Grouse Over President Bush's Landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln

"Considering the expense to the American taxpayer and use of American military men and women as 'extras' for this media stunt, the president should pledge that his landing not appear in any presidential campaign commercials and videos."
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe

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Memorandum on the President's Agenda from John Feehery, Press
Secretary for House Speaker Hastert

"The President's domestic agenda is steaming full speed ahead in
the Congress, and anyone who thinks differently has lost their
marbles. Is that clear enough? "

John Feehery

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President Bush's May 10 Radio Address to the Nation

"I urge every citizen to participate in this important debate and
to make your voice heard. Explain to your local representative or
your senators what tax relief would mean to your family and your
business, and please tell the members of Congress why our economy
needs that relief now."



G.W. Bush

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The Roadblock on the Road Map



The Bush administration can pretend that Abu Mazen is really in
control. It can pretend that Abu Mazen, without control of the
security apparatus, is somehow going to stop the violence. That
would be a precise repetition of the disaster of the Oslo "peace
process," in which the United States willfully and repeatedly
ignored the realities on the ground -- Arafat's corruption,
incitement and support of terrorism -- until all hell broke loose in
September 2000, and it could pretend no more.


Charles Krauthammer



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President George W. Bush declared back in March: "War crimes will
be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be
no defense to say, 'I was just following orders'." But the task
of rounding up Saddam's key Ba'athist henchmen and trying them
for executing coalition POWs and forcing women and children to
act as human shields just got tougher. We are shocked -- SHOCKED
-- to report that many senior Saddamites, who were able to elude
advancing coalition forces thanks to intelligence provided by the
French, escaped through Syria, possibly to the EU, using passports
provided by the French. To date, only 19 of the 55 most wanted
Iraqis have been brought into custody, and only one of them is
from the wanted list's top ten.

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