(2004-01-31) — A little known provision of the so-called Patriot Act allows federal authorities to confiscate the Carolina Panthers’ playbook and carry out sneak-and-peek inspections of the team’s pre-Super Bowl strategy sessions.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said, “This is nothing that we couldn’t do with any other combatant against the finest American Patriots. There is [...]

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(2004-01-31) — Former President Bill Clinton paid a visit to the White House yesterday, just hours after offering campaign advice to Congressional Democrats, at a time when a new poll shows President George Bush in a virtual dead-heat with Democrat presidential candidate John F. Kerry.
“I gave the president a few little ideas,” said Mr. Clinton [...]

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(2004-01-31) — Allowing European Union (EU) nations to sell advanced weaponry to the communist Chinese dictatorship will help maintain global balance, according to the French Foreign Minister who wants the EU to drop its embargo on such sales.
“There is a balance in world affairs — a yin and yang, if you will,” said Dominique de [...]

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(2004-01-30) — A United Nations team sent to assess the feasibility of direct elections in Iraq, announced today that it has found no evidence of voters in the nation of 25 million persons.
“We need more time,” said an unnamed spokesman for the U.N. election team just minutes after arriving at Baghdad Airport. “This is [...]

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(2004-01-30) — After David Kay told a Senate panel last week that his Iraq Survey Group has found no stockpiles of WMD, Sen. Carl Levin, D-MI, demanded a sweeping investigation of U.S. intelligence capabilities.
In addition to probing why the C.I.A. failed to discover Saddam Husseinís dearth of weapons of mass destruction, Sen. Levin said the [...]

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(2004-01-30) — Rush Limbaugh’s medical records contain stunning revelations about the top-rated radio personality, according to an expert who has examined the files.
“Blood pressure and pulse readings recorded in these records indicate that Rush Limbaugh actually may have a four-chamber heart,” said the unnamed expert who read the records on a lunchroom bulletin board at [...]

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(2004-01-30) — Wealthy U.S. Senators from both sides of the aisle today agreed to use their personal funds to make up the difference between the promised cost of the new Medicare drug benefit and the latest Bush administration cost estimates — a gap of about $130 billion over 10 years.
“Like any other business, when you [...]

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