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       News: U.S. Trying to Stop 9/11 Families from seeing Evidence, Wounded Vets facing Bill Collectors at home.

CNN
U.S. seeks to keep evidence from 9/11 families


Excerpt:
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) -- Prosecutors asked a judge to rethink granting 9/11 families suing airlines access to evidence gathered for the criminal case against al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.



ABC News
Wounded Soldiers Fight Off Bill Collectors at Home


Excerpt:
April 26, 2006 — Hundreds of soldiers wounded in battle in Iraq have found themselves fighting off bill collectors on the home front, according to a report to be released tomorrow. The draft report by the Government Accountability Office, which ABC News obtained, said that hundreds of wounded soldiers had military debts incurred through no fault of their own turned over to collection agencies.
"Financial friendly fire," said Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform. "Because their financial records are so bad, this is a friendly fire where we are hurting and wounding our own."



Topple Bush
A Prius in Every Pot by Maureen Dowd

Excerpt:It's taken over five years, but George W. Bush finally made a concession speech to Al Gore.
He conceded that America needs to conserve, by buying hybrid vehicles and developing new energy sources.
Trying to calm the yips in his party and the country over exploding gasoline prices...The U.S. could have begun developing alternative fuels 30 years ago if Dick Cheney hadn't helped scuttle an ambitious plan in the Ford administration.




Daily Kos
Air Force Censors Liberal Websites, But Leaves Conservative Ones Alone


Excerpt:
Earlier today, a friend of mine who flies for the Air Force sent me an email reporting that sometime in the middle of the day today, the Air Force's IT people put a block on DailyKos



Raw Story
Snow: Racism no longer 'a big deal'

Tony Snow, conservative pundit and incoming White House press secretary, told television viewers in 2003 that racism is no longer a "big deal," RAW STORY has learned.
Ironically, the remarks were made in defense of Rush Limbaugh's assertion that quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated by a media showing preferential bias to "black quarterbacks."




Empires Fall
Bush voters aren't very bright.

Excerpt:
Those of you who have been around for a while may have noticed something about the conservative blowhards on the net. I'm not just talking about the ones here, but in general. A great example is guns-and-gear forums, which swarm with the kind of person I'm talking about.
The observation?
These people aren't much for the written word. They can't spell. They mangle grammar and syntax to varying degrees, sometimes to the point where they're almost unintelligible. And the worse the problem is, the more vociferous they are about supporting George Bush.
What do I conclude from this?
I conclude something we've always suspected. I conclude that Bush voters aren't very bright.

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