Use of disabled in attack outrageous
      It was an act so appalling I could not imagine it could be true. I read with horror the news story of how two women with Down syndrome - with limited intellectual ability - were identified as the "suicide bombers" in the Feb. 1 attack in a Baghdad pet market. Let's be perfectly clear - they wer...
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Tax cuts, not tax rebates, are needed
      The International Monetary Fund recently forecast that the U.S. economic growth will slow from 2.2 percent in 2007 to 1.5 percent in 2008. Many 24-hour-a-day news programs have to have something to talk about, and since the war in Iraq now looks winnable, the economy must be the latest bad news.
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