A September 1999 edition of the Texas Observer revealed that, "...the Governor lied in an affidavit when he said he had no conversations with the director of S.C.I., the funeral company whose work Bush is alleged to have been doing when he ordered that the director of the Texas Funeral Commission be fired."

President Bush pardoned a former mayor of Plano, Texas, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 1996, the Justice Department announced Monday.

Richard G. Convertino, a 14-year veteran of the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit, also alleged in his lawsuit against Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft and other department administrators that Washington officials acknowledged that they were "enjoying" undeserved credit for keeping the country safe from domestic terrorism.
Convertino maintained that the department had "continuously placed perception over reality," which had been to the "serious detriment of the war on terror."

Fear means no longer saying hey, just what the hell is wrong with you people?

two of every five who voted for Bush in 2000 consider themselves evangelical Christians
Bush has based his view of leadership on his sense that God has chosen him for this moment. To doubt himself is to doubt God.

The Justice Department has exaggerated its performance in the war on terrorism, interfered with a major terror prosecution and compromised a confidential informant, a federal prosecutor has alleged in an extraordinary lawsuit against Attorney General John Ashcroft

Bush has directed the panel to "specifically examine the Intelligence Community's intelligence prior to [the Iraqi war] and compare it with the findings of the Iraq Survey Group [ISG]and other related agencies." That is it. But this assignment virtually guarantees delay. The ISG has not yet completed its work. And it may not complete that work before the commission's report is due in March, 2005.

Tokyo bought an astounding US$172 billion last year to keep the yen from strengthening too much against the greenback. The push only accelerated further in January, when Japan snapped up another US$67 billion.
The purchases are so large they are effectively subsidizing record U.S. budget and trade deficits, keeping American interest rates low and worrying some experts that a painful shock will hit if the spending spree stops.
While Tokyo hasn't stopped the dollar from falling, it has limited its drop against the yen to 12 percent since January 2003. In contrast, the dollar sank 23 percent against the euro during the same period.