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National: GOP
loyalist in firestorm over DeLay By Les Blumenthal - During
his 10 years in Congress, Rep. Doc Hastings has earned a reputation
as a low-key Republican loyalist who has fought to preserve funding
for cleaning up the Hanford nuclear reservation and to protect
agricultural interests in his sprawling central Washington district.
But Hastings now finds himself
in the middle of the political firestorm surrounding House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay and allegations that the Texas Republican's
fundraising and travel activities have violated House ethics
rules. - More...
Monday - April 04, 2005
National: Volunteer
border guards defend Minuteman Project By Margaret Talev
- They gathered for their assignments on Saturday, at 9 a.m.,
noon and 4 p.m., off a desert highway, in the parking lot of
a mom-and-pop computer repair store with a hand-made sign.
In four-member teams, they
rode out caravan-style for several miles along red-dirt roads
flanked by rocks and prickly brush. They fanned out hundreds
of yards apart along a skimpy barbed wire fence at the Mexico
border, eager to catch men and women trying to sneak into the
United States. - More...
Monday - April 04, 2005
Columns - Commentary
George Weigel: Pope
John Paul's many accomplishments - When Pope John Paul II
was hospitalized in February, evangelist Billy Graham praised
John Paul as the greatest Christian witness of the second half
of the 20th century. It was a generous comment from a man whom
some might consider a contender for the title he bestowed on
the pope - and it captured the truth of John Paul II's life in
a singular way.
For whatever else he was -
priest and bishop, teacher and author, intellectual and athlete,
mystic and media star - Karol Wojtyla, whom the world knew after
1978 as Pope John Paul II, was first and foremost a radically
committed Christian disciple. Everything else he did was an expression
of his Christian conviction. - More...
Monday - April 04, 2005
 James
K. Glassman: Time
for Congress to get serious about WHO's excesses - Paul Volcker's
report last week on the oil-for-food scandal uncovered shocking
incompetence and venality at the United Nations. But if Congress
really wants to reform the agency, the place to start is the
World Health Organization (WHO), which, in the latest absurdity,
has embarked on a campaign to drive baby formula underground
- and, eventually, off the face of the earth. The big losers
if the WHO is successful will, of course, be the world's poor
- the same victims of WHO blunders in fighting HIV/AIDS and malaria.
With AIDS, the WHO got a black
eye for placing 18 Indian-made ripoff medicines on its list of
approved drugs. Those medicines turned out to be uncertified
copies of the patented HIV drugs from which they were copied. -
More...
Monday - April 04, 2005
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