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...located. Rumsfeld proposed closing 33 of the Pentagon's 318 major military bases, along with shuttering or realigning 775 smaller facilities, to save nearly $49 billion over the next 20 years. But what's "striking" about the base-closing plan, says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the nonpartisan Lexington Institute think tank in Arlington, Va., is "the geographical migration of the military out of the Frost Belt and into the Sun Belt." Northern states such as Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey will lose more than 19,000 military and civilian jobs at the facilities on Rumsfeld's hit list...
...Using calculations supplied by the White House Office of Management and Budget, House leaders claimed that the $968 billion budget was $57.5 billion less than it would have been if current spending programs continued unabated. The Senate declared the total savings next year would be only $55 billion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, working with projections that in the past have often proved more realistic than OMB'S, said the new budget would save only $39 billion...
...progressive parent who lives in San Francisco." That didn't stop him from founding in 2003 Common Sense Media, which runs a website that rates TV shows, video games, music, books and websites for age appropriateness. "I'm no right-winger or religious ideologue," he says. "This is a nonpartisan issue." Kathleen Richardson of Des Moines, Iowa, is executive secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and the mother of three kids, 12, 16 and 18. "Here I'm promoting free speech and the values of the First Amendment professionally," she says, "and yet it drives me crazy that...
...year pay the higher tax today, within five years virtually all such families will pay it--and the AMT will have moved further down the income bracket to some earning as little as $50,000 a year, projects the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group whose estimates are widely accepted. Put another way: 3 million taxpayers will fall victim to the AMT this year; that number is scheduled to climb to 19 million as soon as next year and to 30 million--one-third of all taxpayers...
Critics question whether fair-mindedness in education can be legislated. "Legislators are acting out of frustration, with no great tools at their disposal," says David French, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan civil-liberties group. "How do you mandate balance?" It's unclear, for instance, how either Hagedorn's bill or the Horowitz version would have made a difference in the case of Metro State's Meranto; neither prescribes penalties. Even if the bills passed, "there's a risk that [they] may set a precedent of legislators becoming micromanagers," says Robert O'Neil, director...