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No Comment Coulter Shock "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President," wrote rightwing pundit Ann Coulter...
...Word Overboard The International Council of Cruise Lines is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to eliminate the word "outbreak" from descriptions of passenger illnesses, reports The Wall Street Journal...
...Internal documents reveal the military spent nearly $250,000 to track media coverage of the school, to create letters to the editor to counter negative views, and to track the comings and goings of Father Roy Bourgeois, who started the School of the Americas Watch fifteen years ago...
...Students could hunt the mock immigrants and receive a candy bar as reward, reports The Dallas Morning News...
...His comments came a week after he apologized for calling those who oppose corporate donations for President Bush's inaugural parties 'communists,' " reports the Reno Gazette-Journal...
...Army has developed a comprehensive plan to deflect criticism of the School of the Americas, now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, reports the National Catholic Reporter...
...We won't have to worry about Syria anymore...
...You know, I can fly an F-15, put two nukes on 'em, and I'll make one pass...
...Negative publicity from outbreaks led to a decrease in cruise bookings in 2003...
...Syria is where those weapons of mass destruction are, in my view...
...Miracles of Money "If 100 percent of Americans at age eighteen knew they were going to retire with a savings account, it would change their attitude to regulating companies, it would change attitudes towards envy, and how they feel about rich people," Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and a Republican strategist, told the Guardian regarding Bush's plans to privatize Social Security...
...No Comment Coulter Shock "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President," wrote rightwing pundit Ann Coulter in a February 23 column...
...Always on the Sunny Side Global warming will cause more Arctic ice to melt, notes Scientific American...
...If It Bleeds, It Leads From The New York Times: "In the month leading up to last year's Presidential election, local television stations in big cities devoted eight times as much air time to car crashes and other accidents than to campaigns for the House of Representatives, state senate, city hall, and other local offices," according to a study released by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...In the same speech, Gibbons also said that it was "too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket" to become human shields in Iraq...
...Agnew Returns Republican Representative Jim Gibbons of Nevada condemned "tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals" for their opposition to the Iraq War...
...Target Practice Young Conservatives of Texas sponsored a "Capture an Illegal Immigrant Day" on the campus of the University of North Texas...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Some members of the group wore shirts that said "illegal immigrant...
...Let Me Nuke 'em Republican Representative Sam Johnson of Texas told President Bush that the United States should consider dropping nuclear bombs on Syria...
...Johnson also told a crowd at Suncreek United Methodist Church in Allen, Texas, that, "Syria is the problem...
...But, "on the positive side, the Northwest Passage would open within a few decades to regular summertime shipping, and opportunities for offshore oil and gas extraction would probably increase...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Thomas has been reporting on the Presidency for forty-five years...
...Image Problem The U.S...
Vol. 69 • April 2005 • No. 4
