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...their efforts elsewhere, jihadists haven't forgotten their ultimate battleground--the U.S. Late last week the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued another of their vague public warnings about possible threats. Privately, they say incoming intelligence reports are loaded with talk that al-Qaeda remnants are intent on pulling off another spectacular event. Officials believe such an attack is more likely to occur on U.S. interests abroad, simply because it's easier to assemble the weapons, explosives, vehicles and foot soldiers outside the U.S. But no one dares rule out attacks within the country. FBI agents were quietly...
...political equation is obvious. The President will be able to say the Democrats opposed prescription drugs for the elderly whether the Medicare bill passes or not (just as he campaigned in 2002 saying the Democrats blocked Homeland Security because they wanted labor-protection provisions in the bill). The same is true, to a lesser extent, of the energy bill, which Senators of both parties managed to stop, perhaps temporarily, last Friday. The President can still say, "We proposed energy 'reform'; the Dems opposed." Not many Americans will scour the fine print. As for gay marriage, my guess is that Bush...
...Alphonsos, their perspective shifted dramatically when they returned to their homeland of Guyana, where mosquitoes, jaded students, frequent blackouts and an irregular water supply were part of daily life. "I learned that you can really live very happily as long as you have good relationships with the people around you. You don't have to have all the amenities that we in this country seem to have," Mervyn says...
...could have accomplished our full stimulus effects with tax cuts that were temporary and targeted and more in the form of state and local assistance projects like homeland security or infrastructure. There were a lot of deferred projects that could have been started up very quickly...
Delegates at the event, who came from 116 colleges and 27 countries, lived with cadets and participated in discussion groups with regional or thematic foci, such as “Homeland Security” and “Democratization.” By the end of the conference, groups developed foreign policy recommendations for their specific topics...