After Nick Smith voted no and the bill passed, Duke Cunningham of California and other Republicans taunted him that his son was dead meat.
Although President Bush had to be awakened to collect the last two votes, Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Majority Whip Roy Blunt made it that close.

mred: cnn is talking about possible bombings in kenya - single source, and uncorroborated. britain is 'preparing for attacks from alqaeda'. fukk off. 'trafficking in elements of wmd by countries who have made solemn promises not too is wrong.' fukk off.

At one point another officer complained: "We don't even know what they're charged with. This is so fucking stupid."

The federal government has put civil liberties at serious risk by casting a wider net than Britain or the United States in the pursuit of terrorists, warns a former head of Canada's spy agency.

I've never heard of a holder of the OBE openly criticising the monarchy. They are officially friends, and that's what this cool Britannia project is about. It gives OBEs to cool rock stars, successful businesswomen and blacks who would be militant in order to give the impression that it is inclusive. Then these rock stars, successful women, and ex-militants write to me with the OBE after their name as if I should be impressed. I'm not. Quite the opposite - you've been had.

When economics and politics clash, economics usually wins. The trouble is that the tussle can take a while and the longer it lasts, the greater the collateral damage it can generate.


Although they've been warning Americans about the dangers of prescription drugs from Canada for nearly a year, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials can't name a single American who's been injured or killed by drugs bought from licensed Canadian pharmacies.

Among his other roles, Mr Condit sits on the board of Boy Scouts of America but, in the last year, Boeing has behaved in anything but the Baden-Powell fashion, having been accused of stealing military secrets from rival contractors and luring Pentagon staff involved in awarding it orders.

Hugo Chavez may be the most important man in the world.

This isn't an accident. The neocons have set the terms of the occupation of Iraq with the obvious intention of making it impossible for the Americans to criticize the Israeli brutality against the Palestinians.

This massacre is a PR disaster. What does the Pentagon do? They make up a long lie about the ambush by the Saddam supporters, and come up an exact number who were killed. They add the story of the bank notes for some additional color. They can't help embellishing the lie by describing the fact that the attackers were wearing uniforms, so that they can blame the resistance on organized Baathists and thus continue the American fable that the resistance is from Saddam supporters rather than the whole Iraqi population.