State of the Union News

THE PRESIDENT: Madam Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Seven years have passed since I first stood before you at this rostrum. via Forwarded Funnies

On April 2, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a five-year reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief , the Washington Post reports . via POZ

If all goes well, as you read this I will be in Patagonia taking a last look at the magnificent glaciers there before the global warming our president says does not exist swallows them. via Eastern Group Publications

This article appeared on Examiner.com on March 26, 2008. Some of the major new threats to limited government in the United States are independent of who is elected to the White House and Congress this November. via The Cato Institute

“There are lots of times where I'll read an interesting story online and send the URL to 10 friends”

Sen. Barack Obama's videotaped response to President Bush's final State of the Union address -- almost five minutes long and poorly lighted -- elicited little attention from newspaper and television reporters ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Everyone is pretty mystified what that many guys were doing dismounted in that area.”

When Alexander Pope wrote his famous line "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" in 1734, he was questioning how we are to understand evil in our lives within the context of a divine plan that we cannot ... via Austin American-Statesman

“The Iraqis still have a distance to travel. But after decades of dictatorship and the pain of sectarian violence, reconciliation is taking place--and the Iraqi people are taking control of their future.”

Five years have elapsed since the start of the Iraq war, but there are people who are still trying to justify this historic blunder. via Asahi Shimbun

“Anyone who tries to destroy our villages and cities, then we are going to destroy their villages and cities”

Bob Parry's Editorial Note: The Iraq War & Military Occupation now ending its fifth bloody year represents not only a human tragedy of enormous consequence and possibly the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. ... via The Baltimore Chronicle

“America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.”

ONE of the many mandates of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 calls for oil companies to increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline. via LancasterEagleGazette

Big Corn and Ethanol Hoax/By Walter E. Williams One of the many mandates of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 calls for oil companies to increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline. via Inside the NBA

“We're in the process of a European fund on efficiency and renewables, markably above the [U.S. proposed] amount”

U.S. President George W. Bush urged Congress to commit $2 billion toward his proposed international clean energy technology fund at Wednesday's session of the three-day Washington International Renewable Energy ... via Worldwatch Institute

“The [stem cell] lines we generated are the real thing. We still don't know if [the cells created by Thomson and Yamanaka] are going to do all the same things as normal embryo-derived stem cells”

In his January 2008 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush claimed that research by James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and Shinya Yamanaka of the University of Kyoto in Japan would ... via Discover

Video Visit with a Washington campaign memorabilia collector and see some of the thousands of political buttons he's packed away over the years. via AARP Bulletin

“You've had the emergence of outside groups, independent expenditures, and all of those things have made it more difficult to have the country reach major agreements.”

Although he won't say precisely what he'll be doing when he leaves Congress at the end of year, expect to see Chip Pickering more frequently in the grocery store, on the ball fields or at church when he comes ... via The Clarion-Ledger

It is often said in Washington circles that when it comes to reforming U.S. immigration or helping the world in fighting AIDS, President George W. Bush far surpasses the capabilities of many of his ... via American Chronicle

Earmarks have gotten some serious national attention recently with even President Bush promising to slash political pork spending in his State of the Union speech last month. via LA Daily News

In regard to Marianne Dimmick's letter about Nancy Pelosi being rude during the State of the Union speech because she was reading a booklet. via Oshkosh Northwestern

With all the lead-up to the presidential primary elections, it is understandable how quickly President Bush's final State of the Union address faded from view. via Home News Tribune

Ralph C. Lincoln, a distant cousin of President Abraham Lincoln, will appear at the Presidents Day observance at the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel in Shanksville at 2 p.m. Monday. via The Daily American

“This expensive and largely unsuccessful legislation has broadened the scope of the federal government's role in education”

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 13:39. national By THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL III Scripps Howard News Service Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Nearly two-thirds of American adults want Congress ... via ScrippsNews