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National: Bush's
second term isn't beginning smoothly - President Bush's second
term, which doesn't officially begin until his Jan. 20 inauguration,
already is getting off to a rocky start.
Questions about the administration's
speed in responding to the tsunami disaster, along with reservations
about attorney-general nominee Alberto Gonzales and Bush's Social
Security reform proposal, provide evidence that the nation's
43rd president won't benefit from the sort of honeymoon he had
upon assuming office in January 2001. - More...
Monday - January 10, 2005
 National: Inaugural
history packed with tradition - Like most Washington institutions,
the presidential inauguration was founded on modest beginnings.
But it has since grown into an extravaganza of parades, dinners,
balls and parties. - Read...
Monday - January 10, 2005
National: IRS
improves ... GOP squabbles... Cold War thinking - If taxpayers
confessed their returns were only 90 percent accurate, they would
likely face countless demands for receipts and documented records.-
More...
Monday - January 10, 2005
Commentary/Columns
 Michael
Reagan: Touching
the Third Rail - Nothing gets the Democrats' partisan juices
flowing faster than Republican attempts to straighten out the
ailing Social Security system before the ailment becomes terminal.
Most Americans, unaware of
the machinations and deceptions that attended the birth of Social
Security when it was signed into law on August 14, 1935, think
it's some kind of pension system where they pay premiums in the
form of payroll taxes which are put aside in a trust fund from
which they can draw benefits once they reach the age of 65. -
More...
Monday - January 10, 2005
 Dick
Morris: Who's
A 'Penny Pincher'? - According to New York Times columnist
Nicholas Kristof, America is a land of "penny pinchers"
who are not sufficiently generous to the needy in the rest of
the world. Citing our relatively low level of per-capita official
governmental foreign aid, he refuses to take issue with the recent
charge by a U.N. official that we are "stingy." More...
Monday - January 10, 2005
 Ann
McFeatters: Not
coming to the presidential ball? Lucky you - Here's another
dirty little Washington secret. Inaugural balls are not glamorous.
They are not even much fun. And presidents almost never like
them.
But they still happen.
This year, at President Bush's
second inauguration on Jan. 20, despite his obvious lack of interest
in being on the dance floor, there will be nine balls: the Stars
and Stripes Ball, the Liberty Ball, the Freedom Ball, the Democracy
Ball, the Texas Wyoming Ball (separate from the private Black
Tie and Boots Ball sponsored by the Texas State Society on Jan.
19), the Independence Ball, the Constitution Ball, the Patriot
Ball and the Commander-in-Chief Ball.- More...
Monday - January 10, 2005
 Betsy Hart: Taking
aim at the 'Do-Gooders' - Here's one thing I've never really
understood: Why, in the mainstream culture, has there long been
a presumption of virtue on the part of liberals, but a presumption
of malice when it comes to conservatives?
Liberals are just seen as inherently
compassionate - often, even by conservatives. I've heard the
latter say things like, "Liberals mean well, they're good
people, but their policies don't work. ..." Yet has anyone
ever heard an avowed liberal say, "Those conservatives are
good, well-meaning people, but ..."? - More...
Monday - January 10, 2005
 James Derk: First
rule for computer users: Back up the data - At the risk of
reducing my own computer repair business somewhat, I feel compelled
to offer some hints as to how people can save themselves some
grief.
One of the more common ailments
people are bringing us now is dead computers or dead hard drives
with sort of doe-eyed looks (remember the cat in Shrek II?) pleading
with us to bring them back to life.- More...
Monday - January 10, 2005
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