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...11th hour amendment to the original redistricting cut the 28th district to prevent the merging of the districts of two incumbents from Newton...
Webster's dictionary defines terror as an "intense, overwhelming fear," and a terrorist as someone who has the ability to "instill intense fear." By that standard, the anthrax scare the past few weeks has been as powerful an act of terror as the attack on Sept. 11th. The nation was terrified by the airliners that slammed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing more than 5,000 people. The assault of anthrax-laced letters has caused insignificant casualties by comparison - three dead, a couple of people seriously ill, a handful sick but recovering, and fewer than 50 slightly tainted...
...made history: No war - not World War II, not World War I, not the Civil War, not even the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House- has resulted in the U.S. Congress being evacuated. But it's just happened twice: After the attacks on September 11th and again last week...
...session during the times Washington was in danger of attack by Confederate forces so there was no need to evacuate. Ditto for the War of 1812. Congress was out of session when the British stormed Washington on Aug. 24, 1814. And Congress hadn't technically convened on Sept. 11th even though folks were cleared out of the Capitol. But you get the picture...
...current, very unfamiliar situation, there?s little doubt about whether to proceed with an investigation. Do we need to investigate our colossal intelligence failures that led to September 11th? Of course we do, But this shouldn?t be just a blame rain dance, where the Beltway types just move the same problems from one box into another...