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Hey, Congress: We want our tax credit, too!
President George W. Bush announced his plans
for sweeping tax cuts and reform in Chicago on
Jan. 7. His plan calls for accelerated income-tax
rate cuts passed through Congress in 2001, increasing
the child tax credit, giving middle-and lower-class
parents as much as $400 in rebate checks, and
eliminating corporate dividends (which are taxes
individuals pay on stock dividends).
Making sure to get their piece in as well, Democrats
introduced their own economic stimulus plan last
Monday, calling for some tax cuts as well, but
not as extensive as the $670 billion over the
course of 10 years that Bush is asking for.
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Low-fat
eating difficult—but helpful in the long run
In a cartoon in the Jan. 6 edition of The New
Yorker magazine, Alex Gregory depicts a U.S. map.
The entire country is white except for two small
black areas at Los Angeles and New York City.
No, this has nothing to do with race. The black
areas are labeled “Too skinny.” The
rest of the continental United States is “Too
fat.”
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| Draft reinstatement a mistake
(U-WIRE) RALEIGH, N.C.—In
the 25 years from 1948 until 1973 young men were
being forced to register to die in a country other
than their own—in some field or some jungle—at
the request of the country in which they lived.
For this quarter-century, our country played a
lottery with the lives of young men 18 and older.
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| A few final insults,
demands before I leave
 The
end of the semester is finally upon us. For some,
that means a few weeks of relaxation. For others,
like myself, it means the end of the college experience
and onto the real world.
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Hale
creates own reality: Hatemonger on trial
On Jan. 8, Matthew
Hale, leader of the white supremacist World Church
of the Creator, was arrested for allegedly soliciting
someone to murder Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.
Lefkow enforced a ruling by a federal appeals
court that said Hale and his church violated the
trademark of the Church of the Creator, an Oregon
church operated by the TE-TA-MA Truth Foundation
which does not endorse the racist views of Hale’s
church.
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