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Equipment remains a problem for frontline National Guard troops too. At a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week, Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan held up photos of vehicles in Iraq sent to him by National Guard soldiers from the 42nd Infantry Division. The vehicles still had not been fitted with armor, despite Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assurance they would all have extra protection by Feb. 15. General John Abizaid, the U.S. Central Command's chief, who was testifying, promised to investigate. "It's very frustrating," Ryan later told TIME, "that we're still not protecting our troops." --By Douglas...
...also attempts to keep its speakers politically balanced, McLaughlin said. Deaver and Kolbe are Republicans, while Edwards is a Democrat...
Oluwatosin is keeping his mouth shut, but the breach at ChoicePoint has had politicians in full gumflap. "Our system of protecting people's identity is virtually nonexistent in this country," said Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York. Schumer's staff was able to download personal information on the likes of Dick Cheney and Brad Pitt from a ChoicePoint rival, Westlaw. Nearly 10 million people were victimized last year by identity theft, at a cost of $5 billion. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, pledged to schedule hearings on the topic. And that was before Bank of America learned...
...Performance of the Week Two former U.S. Presidents, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, arrived in Asia last week on a four-country tour to keep the world's attention focused on the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami. The pair?in Democrat blue and Republican red, respectively?visited a stricken village in southern Thailand on their first stop; an emotional Bush praised "the spirit of the Thai people" while Clinton stressed the need "not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there...
...conservative Republican who disagrees politically with Summers on many issues. Yet I come to his defense here as he is assaulted by advocates of “political correctness”—a political philosophy embraced by his very own liberal democrat establishment—perhaps even...