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18 Rich Families Pay For Campaign To Kill Estate Taxes
By Sabrina Eaton Eighteen of America's wealthiest families, are bankrolling efforts to permanently repeal estate taxes that would save their families a total of $71.6 billion, according to a report released... ...
Projected Iraq War Costs Soar
The cost of the war in Iraq will reach $320 billion after the expected passage next month of an emergency spending bill currently before the Senate, and that total is likely to more than double before... ...
Exxon Mobil Profit Rises on Soaring Prices
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, on Thursday reported that quarterly profit surged, driven by rising oil prices. Anger over gas prices is gaining traction in many midterm... ...
You can help stop a nuclear catastrophe - You can help save the world
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:00:05 -0700 Subject: You can help stop a nuclear catastrophe From: Steven Staples, Abolition 2000 sstaples@polarisinsti tute.org View this as a web page - http://www.abolition2000.o rg/site/lookup.asp?c=cdJIK KNpFqG&b=1584679... ...
GOP Blocks Tax Hikes on Oil Firm Profits
While Republican leaders sharply criticize soaring gasoline prices and energy industry profits, GOP negotiators have decided to knock out provisions in a major tax bill that would force the oil companies... ...
Oilman In Chief: Bush eases environmental rules on gasoline
by Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com George W. Bush would like to sell you the idea that pesky environmental regulations are keeping gas prices high. http://www.tompaine .com/articles/2006/04/26/o ilman_in_chief.php Oilm an... ...
Heading toward a deficit disaster
Last year, the “official” federal budget deficit was $319 billion, bringing D.C.’s total public debt to $4.6 trillion. http://www.kans ascity.com/mld/kansascity/ news/opinion/14406624.htm From Information... ...
A Campaign Gore Can't Lose
"The case Gore makes is worthy of sleepless nights," says Richard Cohen of the Washington Post in his praise for a new film titled, "An Inconvenient Truth," a cinematic version of the lecture that former... ...
Come Shake Up Washington
UFPJ's "Peace in Iraq Call-In Day" Is Monday, April 24 On Tuesday, April 25, the Senate will take up the supplemental spending bill for 2006. The current proposal includes $67 billion more for the wars... ...
STOP ANIMAL TESTING
A message from Ruth: DEADLINE APR 21, 2006, SIGN UNTIL CLOSE We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: Tell Animal Planet to Create a series on animal rights issues Target: Animal Planet... ...