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Adam Sandler and Bob Barker's friendship extended much further than the memorable scene they shared together in Happy Gilmore.

Need proof of how pork-addicted Congress has become? Consider this: Some in the Senate are looking for ways to shift funds from the troops in Iraq to some of their favorite pet projects.At risk is the $94.4 supplemental spending bill President Bush requested from Congress to provide $92 billion for hurricane relief and the troops in Iraq and $2.4 billion for avian flu response. Despite his warning that anything above this amount would lead to a veto, several senators abused the must-pass status of the legislation to add $14 billion in wasteful pork-barrel goodies for influential constituents, ...

U.S. military dominance goes largely unquestioned. No army can hold a battlefield against our troops. No planes can ground our Air Force. No enemy ships can challenge our naval dominance. hales, though, are a different story.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…." That Dickensian description of Europe during the French Revolution holds true for American conservatives today.In the modern American edition, though, the two cities of our tale are not Paris and London. They're "Washington, D.C." and "everywhere else."

Here are two pieces of news. Can you tell which is good and which is bad? 1. Economic growth in the coming months is expected to range between 3 percent and 4 percent. 2. Economic growth in the coming months is expected to be 0.7 percent. The answers might surprise you. The first sentence is actually bad news, because we're talking about the white-hot American economy. GDP grew 5.3 percent in the first quarter, so a drop back to 3 percent would represent a slowdown.