Editor’s note: President Bush never misses an opportunity to tout the economic growth and job gains of the last few years. The Dow may be at record highs, but there’s an ugly truth behind the myth of today’s economic “good times.” We asked occasional contributor Perry L. Weed to tease out the real story from […]

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A Scandal-Filled Election—Two bribery convictions, one money-laundering indictment, two sex scandals, one Russian contracting fiasco and $90,000 stashed in a freezer. It’s been that kind of a year for the 109th Congress. Here’s how scandals are affecting some of the Congressional races across the country: Duke Cunningham, California: Cunningham resigned from Congress and pled guilty last […]

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Editor’s note: The author says it would require a year’s worth of Spectators to lay out his case, fact by fact, that our recent elections were stolen. But since that case has already been made in detail elsewhere—and not just by Miller—we asked him to prepare a reader’s guide to all the evidence. We’ve published that bibliography on-line, […]

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Books, Articles, Letters Conyers, John, et al. What Went Wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. DeHaven-Smith, Lance. The Battle for Florida: An Annotated Compendium of Materials from the 2000 Presidential Election. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. DeHaven-Smith, Lance. Letter on the issue of election fraud. News […]

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Prix Fixe—Gas prices are falling, from $3 a gallon in August to a national average today of $2.23 for regular unleaded. Energy experts say the end of the Israel-Lebanon war, a milder than expected hurricane season and declining world oil prices are contributing factors. But the American people aren’t convinced that politics isn’t at play […]

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