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...guarantee of more deficits. But Bush insists that failure to extend tax cuts--which he calls a tax increase--won't cure the deficit because it will slow down a fragile economy. "In my judgment," Bush told a crowd of business people at a moving-van lot in northern Virginia last week, "the best way to solve the deficit is to grow the economy--not run up your taxes." But the reality is that with the help of his tax cuts, Bush has already piled on more than a trillion dollars to the national debt...
...Congress geared up for this week's hearings on the Sago mine accident, which killed 12 coalworkers earlier this month, disaster struck another West Virginia mine. A fire at Alma No. 1 last week left two people dead--and put new pressure on the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), which regulates mining operations. House Democrats are asking whether MSHA oversight has been not only weaker but also more secretive under the Bush Administration. Sago was cited for 208 alleged safety violations in 2005, Alma No. 1 for 95. In the past, the MSHA made its inspectors' full notes...
...only two days to clean the tank and flush clean water through the system.“They were paying me $500 a day, and I finished in two days!” he reflects. “What a moron!”—Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...spokesman for John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV ’61 said he did not know whether the West Virginia Democrat ever belonged to one of the secretive social groups. A spokesman for Senator David Vitter ’82 did not return a phone message inquiring whether the Louisiana Republican ever had final club ties...
...Your editors enhanced the nation's misery index in smashing style with the overwhelming number of pictures that were a stark visualization of ugliness, suffering and pain. Didn't any of your photographers catch a pear tree blossoming? A wren scolding? A schoolboy playing? John F. Waldron Virginia Beach, Virginia...