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Pope John Paul II returned to a Rome hospital today after a relapse of his flu-like symptons and difficulty breathing.
The 84 year-old Pontiff suffers from Parkinson's disease and other ailments which exacerbate his condition. A brief statement from the Vatican says the Pope was taken to the hospital for "specialist treatment and further checkups."
The Pope spent 9 days in he hosiptal earlier this month.
Health News - Pope Taken Back to Hospital
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Although they cannot offer an alternative soultion to the pending crisis with Social Security, a liberal advocacy group is turning to personal attack to undermine any suggestion of changing the Social Security System.
The Campaign for America's Future, a George Soros funded group, is attacking the integrity of Rep. Jim McCreery (R-LA) chairman of the House sucommitee on Social Security for accepting campaign contributions from the banking and securities industry. Calling these contributions "corrupting ties to Wall Street."
McCreery supports the idea of personal accounts.
I wonder how many Democrats received contributions and more from the same industry.
Liberal Advocacy Group Getting Personal in Fight Over Social Security -- 02/24/2005
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Three Californoia television will be fined by the Federal COmmunications Commission (FCC)for failing to provide timely graphics and captions to deaf and partially deaf viewers.
The stations are being fined for their coverage of wildfires in October 2003.
The FCC says emergency information presented to hearing vieweers must be given to deaf viewers "simultaneously or nearly simultaneously." If a broadvaster does not provide closed-captions it must present the informatiuon in a "crawl" at the bottom of the screen, maps, or graphics.
"People with hearing disabilities have a right to the same timely emergency information as stations provide to their hearing audiences," FCC CHairman Michael Powell said in a statement.
Only one station KUSI is planning to appeal the fine. Under FCC rules stations have 30 days to appeal any fine.
This is the first time the FCC has proposed fines in this situation. Yahoo! News - FCC Proposes Fines Over Emergency Info
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Here is this week's column from Ann Coulter. HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Republicans, Bloggers and Gays, Oh My! by Ann Coulter
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