The spouses who were interviewed estimated that one or two in every 10 wives take deployment very hard. "Their husbands will probably get out," Kristin Jackson said.

About half of those polled said they expect their spouses to reenlist, and that they will support the decision. But about three in 10 said that they are certain their spouses will get out -- and that they want that to happen.

Alameda County, the first and, until recently, largest user of Diebold touchscreen voting machines in California, warned the McKinney, Texas, firm this week that it is "not adequately performing its obligations."
Clark also made note of "absentee ballot problems," a reference to a glitch in the Oct. 7 recall election that mysteriously awarded thousands of absentee votes for Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante to Southern California Socialist John Bur-ton. A Diebold technician changed the votes based on examination of the paper ballots and scanned ballot images.


The history of FDA raids and the failures in American drug policy demonstrate that the government?s policies on prescription drugs, taken to the extreme, are no more sane and no less violent than its war on illegal drugs. Regulation of all drugs?legal and illegal?begins with a flawed political process and ultimately relies on armed police raids. Expanding police and surveillance powers to stop prescription drug ?abuse,? regardless of the amount of force or money used and the number of victims, will likewise fail just as such measures have failed to stop marijuana ?abuse.?

It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of
armchair ombudsmen that the public print reports
news from a parallel universe - one that has never
heard of politically-motivated assassinations,
CIA-Mafia banking thefts, mind control, death
squads or even federal agencies with secret budgets
fattened by cocaine sales - a place overrun by lone
gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on
their best behavior. In this idyllic land, the most
serious infraction an official can commit--is a
the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder)
no residency status.


RFID technology is on the brink of widespread applications in manufacturing, distribution, retail, healthcare, safety, security, law enforcement, intellectual property protection and many other areas, including mundane applications like keeping track of personal possessions. Some visionaries imagine "an internet of objects" ? a world in which billions of objects will report their location, identity, and history over wireless connections.

According to the Washington Post, 16 million viewers watched the interview as Clarke, who served for ten years as a top White House official in four administrations, revealed how little Bush and his advisors did to prevent an attack by Al Qaeda and how they immediately jumped on the attack as the excuse they were waiting for to go after Iraq. When one considers the demographics of the program?s viewers--over 30, aware of current events, and active voters, that spells serious trouble for the Bush campaign.

An investigative report in the Washington Post by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, ?The Age of Sacred Terror,? contradicts the Republicans faulting Clinton. The Sudanese government offered to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody. Not American custody. Barton Gellman of the Post reported on how the Clinton administration had tried to get the Saudis to accept custody of Bin Laden. But they refused. There was no offer to turn Bin Laden over to the U.S.

One month before Clinton left office, several conservatives praised him on his antiterrorism record. For example, Robert Oakley, ambassador for counterterrorism under President Reagan, said: ?Overall, I give them very high marks? The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama, which has made him stronger.? But Paul Bremer, who had had the same post under Reagan, and later chaired the National Commission on Terrorism, disagreed with Oakley. He felt that Clinton had ?correctly focused on bin Laden.?

As Clarke summarized Bush's national security catastrophe for Leslie Stahl, ?the tragedy here is that Americans went to their deaths in Iraq thinking they were avenging September 11th when Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. For a Commander-in-Chief and his vice president to do that is unconscionable.?