"You can't have 4% to 5% (GDP ) growth with real interest rates so low, because eventually if you don't do something about rates then you'll have to catch up by reacting to inflation," Ryding said last week.

"Russian Political power is not yet fully tethered to law," Mr Powell wrote. "Key aspects of civil society - free media and political party development, for example - have not yet sustained an independent presence."

At best ? to borrow the already classic language of the State of the Union address ? his administration is engaged in deficit reduction-related program activities.
According to cleverly misleading reports from the Heritage Foundation and other like-minded sources, the deficit is growing because Mr. Bush isn't sufficiently conservative: he's allowing runaway growth in domestic spending. This myth is intended to divert attention from the real culprit: sharply reduced tax collections, mainly from corporations and the wealthy.

? ?The massive Harvard University Civil Rights Project study released last year found that it was 50% more likely for a black vote to be ?spoiled? than a white vote. In Florida, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission found that a black vote was nearly 10 times as likely as a white vote to be rejected.?-- Greg Palast and Ina Howard, YES! Magazine,8/22/03
? ?Two Republican dominated corporations, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), and Diebold Voting Systems, now control 80% of the vote count in the United States?--Lynn Landes, Portland Independent Media Center, 8/24/03
? ?People complain that they can't find an honest car mechanic and that their lawyer is ripping them off and their butcher has his thumb on the scale, but they somehow put their faith in politicians, who are the biggest crooks in America, thinking 'Oh no, these big Washington power brokers would never rig an election.??-- Jim Collier, the author of Votescam, on WXYT's Mark Scott show

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger broke state law last year when he used a loophole to loan his campaign committee $4 million, a move that prevented voters from knowing before Election Day who would end up paying the governor's campaign bills, a judge ruled late Monday.

Trosper said one theory is that Spirit's random-access memory, or RAM, has too little capacity to manage the file buildup in the flash memory.