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| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:00:00 EST Reading the signs from voter turnout |
| To judge from the mainstream media, George W. Bush and the Republicans are in trouble. Bush's job ratings are lower–though just a bit lower–than they were during the 2004 campaign. Congress's job rating has fallen sharply since the beginning of the year. The mainstream media have been giving lavish coverage to the Democrats' pummeling of Bush and the Republicans on issue after issue–the struggle over confirmation of appellate federal judges, the fight over the nomination of John Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations, the supposed ethics problems of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the charges by Amnesty International and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin that the Guantanamo Bay prison camp is another gulag. Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has been lambasting the Republicans in what even some Democrats consider extravagant language. |
| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST Making the tent bigger |
| Richard Cizik is the lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, which represents 30 million members. While the religious right has received attention recently for its opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion, and the Senate Democrats' filibuster of conservative judicial nominees, Cizik is aiming to widen the movement's agenda to include environmental protection and advancement of human rights. |
| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST Americans seek legislative protection from identity theft |
| More than 40 million credit cards handled by an Atlanta-based card-processing company have been exposed to fraud. Information from approximately 13.9 million MasterCard brand cards and 20 million Visa cards may have been stolen from systems used by third-party processing company CardSystems Solutions. Cards from other brands such as Discover and American Express may also have been vulnerable. Names, account numbers, and verification codes were exposed, but Social Security numbers were not. |
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| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:46:22 EDT ID theft: Out of control? |
| Over 40 million credit card accounts potentially exposed to fraud is a big deal. But is it unusual? Not really. The breach that occurred at CardSystems Solutions, involving 22 million Visa cards and 13.9 million MasterCard cards, may be the biggest yet. But it's hard to say for certain because until 2004 businesses weren't required to disclose breaches that exposed consumers' personal information. |
| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:49:33 EDT 60 reported injured in Israeli train wreck |
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| Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:05:46 EDT Syria critic killed in bomb blast |
| A car bomb has killed an anti-Syrian politician in Beirut, a day after opposition leader Saad Hariri's camp won Lebanon's parliamentary elections. George Hawi, former secretary general of the Lebanese Communist Party, died instantly in today's blast, police said. It was the second slaying of an anti-Syrian activist this month. |
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