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...Barb Grimes Chalfont, Pennsylvania AOL: TchrBarb...
...love public radio. I rely on the BBC to relay the increasingly distressing news of our world in soothing British voices. I need NPR to inform me of my elected representatives' latest antics. I have been known to stand and applaud when Nina Totenburg lands a particularly well-aimed barb on Speaker Newt. (Not that it's particularly challenging to make fun of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, but that's another tirade...
...billion from projected welfare costs of $600 billion, and as much as $275 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, which are now projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients. The report, in a barb at opponents who demanded to know where the GOP cuts would fall, challenged Democrats "to detail their alternatives, or to explain what taxes they would raise, where they would cut Social Security or why their believe the federal budget should not be balanced...
...success with Apple, both Steves developed and sold ``blue boxes,'' outlaw devices for making free telephone calls. Their contemporary and early collaborator, Lee Felsenstein, who designed the first portable computer, known as the Osborne 1, was a New Left radical who wrote for the renowned underground paper the Berkeley Barb...
...into his presidency. "Until a few weeks ago, (Democrats) were saying we didn?t even need a tax cut," Thompson said, after enumerating similarities with his Party?s 10-point "Contract with America." He told November supporters: "Your vote got the president?s attention." Thompson offered one more parting barb at Clinton?s new concoction: "We must do more than just reshuffle a few agencies and take money from one place to fund something else...