The New York Times %3E Washington %3E Campaign 2004 %3E Friendly Fire%3A The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad

The New York Times %3E Washington %3E Campaign 2004 %3E Friendly Fire%3A The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad: "veterans with longstanding anger about Mr. Kerry%27s antiwar statements in the early 1970%27s allied themselves with Texas Republicans."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Just in case anti-Bush documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11' needed any more controversy to fuel its hot box office, a new war of words has broken out over whether the U.S. Army is stonewalling efforts to book the film at military bases."

First Draft - George and Laura Lie to Larry King

First Draft - George and Laura Lie to Larry King: "a partial list of the whoppers told by the Midland Misleaders side by side with the truth."

Billionaires For Bush

This is fun.
Billionaires For Bush

Progress Report, 8/13/04 - American Progress Action Fund

Progress Report, 8/13/04 - Cheney's 'Sensitive' Hypocrisy

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor the Wealthy

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor the Wealthy: "Fully one-third of President Bush's tax cuts in the last three years have gone to people with the top 1 percent of income, who have earned an average of $1.2 million annually, according to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to be published Friday.
The report calculated that households with incomes in that top 1 percent were receiving an average tax cut of $78,460 this year, while households in the middle 20 percent of earnings - averaging about $57,000 a year - were getting an average cut of only $1,090."

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Holograms Help Identify Sham Script

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Holograms Help Identify Sham Script

"No two signatures--even ones penned by the same person-are exactly the same. But some characteristics, such as the writing direction and the way two lines overlap, will remain similar among many samples written by one individual. Traditionally, handwriting analysts have studied scrawls in two dimensions. Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo and his colleagues at the University of Rome Three in Italy, have turned up the heat. By scanning a document with laser beams, the team can generate a hologram of the pen strokes within a signature. "Using image processing and virtual reality makes it easy to detect the presence of bumps at crossover points," Schirripa Spagnolo says. "Finding these bumps allows experts to easily determine the sequence of strokes in a piece of handwriting and the telltale signs of a forgery or original."

But once the forgers know what this technique looks for, they will probabloy be able to beat it.

Hit & Run

Hit & Run

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