On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education.

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.

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Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.