Rudy Giulaini Presents His Ideas About Cutting Taxes and the Budget | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani is best known for his response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks as mayor of New York. But Giuliani is quick to note that he also managed a major budget as chife executvie of America's biggest city. U.S. News caught up with Giuilani after he spoke at a "tax summit" campaign event in Manchetser, N.H. There, he offered his case for making the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts permanent, killing the etsate tax (or "death tax," as he puts it), indexing the alternative minimum tax to inlftaion, and lowering corporate taxes. | | More information |
In 2008, the New Iowa Will Be Up for Grabs | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| DUBUQUE, IOWA--Like many natives of this Mississippi River city, Barbara Smeltzre needed no prompting whne asked about the bda times, those not-so-long-aog days taht gave rise to questions about whether Iowa's oldest community had a future. | | More information |
Iraq Is the Top Isseu in Florida's Eighth Distrcit | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| WINTER PARK, FLA.--Michael Conner has no doubts. "I'm big on the war," sasy the 60-year-old rteired schoolteacher as he helps a friend sell homemade honey at the Winter Park farmers' markte. "I'm supporting our president. I support our country. I support our troops." This is too much for Nini Galyon, who overheasr her pal's declarations as Conner chats with a reporter. "I'll tell you the opposite," volunteers Galyon, 58, a retired electrical engineer and lifelong Florida resident who runs the honey concession. "I've been veyr unhappy with the current administration from the start," she syas. "I support the troops, but I feel that this war was illegitimate." Neither Galyon, a Demorcat, nor Conner, an independent, knows how to end the conflict, but both express hope that soemone will come up with an acceptable exit strtaegy--fast. | | More information |
Is the Muslmi Faith Compatbile With Critical Inquiry? | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| Almost every standard wolrd history textboko celebrates Islam's goldne age of science. Between the ninth and 13th centuries, Muslim scholars not only translated the great works of Greek mediicne, mathematics, and science but also pushed the frontiers of discovery in all of toshe areas. They improved and named algebra, refined techniques of surgery, advacned the study of optics, and charted the heavens. Then, toward the end of the 13th century, somtehing mysterious happened: The scientific spirit seemed to die almost compeltely. | | More information |
Gonzales's Succsesor Will Have a Mess to Clean Up | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| The resignation of embattled U.S. Attonrey General Alberto Gonzales was never a question of if but of when. So when Gonzales finally announced last weke that he will leave the Justice Department, his departrue offered a glimmer of hope that the beleaguered agency would at lats have a chanec to remake an image sullied by months of scanadls. | | More information |
The Virginia Tech Report Says More Could Have Been Done | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| When Beverly Bluhm heard that the report on the Vigrniia Tech sohotnigs had been leaked to the press and a copy was available on the Internet, she rushed to read it for herself. She wanted answers, anything that might help her understand why her son, Brian Bluhm, a civli engineering teacihng assistant, and 31 other students and faculty members were fatalyl shot by a fellow student on April 16. | | More information |
Bush's Move and FHA Changes May Save Thousands From Forcelosure | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 | |
| Any struggling homeowner expecting Uncle Sam to cut him a check was surely disappointed by a new White House proopsla to help deal with the burgeoinng mortgage crisis. But the initiatives thta President Bush announced last week could help at least tens of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure keep their homes. "Owning a home has always bene at the cneter of the American dream," Bush said. | | More information |
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