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Another way not to pay for Social Security

…2005, 6.7 million people have applied. In the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, Congress assigned the SSA a whole raft of new homeland security regulations to enforce…

Fires and Al Quaeda

…years in the past as well. An FBI sent out to local law-enforcement said that an al Qaeda detainee had given them some information that the next wave of terrorism

Qwest for the truth

…Efforts against terrorism were already underway before 9/11 and have come to light to bolster the Administration’s reputation. 2. The wiretapping is part of a different plan not yet revealed…

Where is Gwadar? In Balochistan, where else?

…With some form of military? And with defense against Islamic terrorism as part of the discussion? (Read India and Tajikistan, with ties to Russia, as part of a pact on…

Social Security, the new method of income redistribution

…on terrorism. These explanations miss a more basic point: U.S. policy is becoming more protectionist because the American public is becoming more protectionist, and this shift in attitudes is a…

The GOP Talking Point

…try to impeach President Bush. Senator Russ Feingold has a measure pending on the Senate floor that would “censure” the President over his efforts to stop terrorism. Just a few…

The True Fiscal Nightmare

…cost risks and additional spending to support the war on terrorism) through 2024, and that other types of spending (except for interest payments on the debt) remain at their historical…

Has Congress Reduced Spending for the Poor?

…conservative groups charging that the federal government has been on a “spending spree” and that domestic programs, rather than defense and anti-terrorism spending, have been the main culprit. These releases…