http://national.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for national en Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:49:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2029440 unknown@Netscape.com A New York City Food Bank report, released today to mark National Hunger Awareness Day, says more than a third of city residents have trouble affording food for their families. Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:49:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2029440newyorkcityfoodbankreportnationalhungerAwarenessdayNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2020489 unknown@Netscape.com The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:34:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2020489republicannationalcommitteegrassrootsdonorrevoltbushImmigrationpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2011580 unknown@Netscape.com Step through the front door of the Haskell Library and you're in the United States. Walk across the carpeted floor to the circulation desk and you're in Canada. But if you sit down on the couch, you're back in the U.S. Sat, 26 May 2007 22:23:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2011580NewsnationalSecurityUnitedstatescanadaborder http://web2announcer.com/go/2008214 unknown@Netscape.com Murders in the city of New Orleans jumped 182 percent in the first three months of the year, and police fear it could go even higher with the scheduled withdrawal of National Guard troops from the city next month. Fri, 25 May 2007 01:56:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2008214neworleanscrimeviolencenationalguardNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2004549 unknown@Netscape.com I am all for the war. I agree that we should be spending whatever is necessary to continue the war and the fight. Having said that, I thought this article was interesting when they compared what else the $426 billion could be used for. Interesting stuff. Tue, 22 May 2007 21:54:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2004549iraqwardefensenationalSecuritydebtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1995722 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush caught driving his pickup truck without his seat belt During National Seatbelt Week. Tue, 22 May 2007 06:17:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1995722bushseatbeltnationalweekNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1991101 unknown@Netscape.com The National Restaurant Association today called for the nation's 935,000 restaurants to apply for its prestigious ninth annual Restaurant Neighbor Award, which recognizes outstanding community service. Tue, 22 May 2007 02:08:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1991101nationalrestaurantassociationamexcommunityserviceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1974222 unknown@Netscape.com With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack. Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility "for ensuring constitutional government." Sun, 20 May 2007 21:37:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1974222bushadministrationnationalSecuritypresidentialDirectivePoliticsconstitutiondictatorshipNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1946334 unknown@Netscape.com Criminals will target ID cards as the ''gold standard'' of identity theft, a police chief said yesterday. Fri, 18 May 2007 21:27:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1946334nationalidforgerybigbrotherNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1951735 unknown@Netscape.com What's described as "a significant new cave" has been discovered within Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in the Central Valley. Fri, 18 May 2007 18:07:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1951735SciencecavesequoianationalparkNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1941927 unknown@Netscape.com The Grand Canyon is more than a great chasm carved over millennia through the rocks of the Colorado Plateau. It is more than an awe-inspiring view. It is more than a pleasuring ground for those that explore the roads, hike the trails, or float the currents of the turbulent Colorado River. Fri, 18 May 2007 16:17:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1941927grandCanyonexploringnationalparkcoloradoriverNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1897844 unknown@Netscape.com "We wrote a blank check for Iraq," Leahy told The Politico in a phone interview Monday. "The Iraqi National Guard seems to have a direct pipeline for whatever it wants. I'd like the U.S. National Guard to have a pipeline." Tue, 15 May 2007 14:26:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1897844nationalguardiraqkansasemergenciesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1870605 unknown@Netscape.com "The problem with the National Guard is not being exaggerated or overstated," said Loren Thompson, a military analyst at the Lexington Institute, a Virginia-based national security think tank. "It is very real, and it is a very big deal." Sun, 13 May 2007 02:49:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1870605bushtroopsurgeiraqGreensburgtornadonationalguardNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1829110 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush issued a formal national security directive yesterday ordering agencies to prepare contingency plans for a surprise, "decapitating" attack on the federal government, and assigned responsibility for coordinating such plans to the White House. Thu, 10 May 2007 21:10:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1829110bushwhitehouseshadowgovernmentnationalSecurityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1810133 unknown@Netscape.com Kathleen Sibelius says that the war in Iraq has severely hurt her state's National Guard response to deal with an F-5 tornado that destroyed Greensburg. Gov. Sibelius said because the Department of Defense has shipped personnel and equipment to Iraq, the state doesn't have half the tractor-trailer trucks it needs to move heavy equipment, and only a Wed, 09 May 2007 15:02:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1810133AnillwindandnationalpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1803989 unknown@Netscape.com Lack of equipment in Kansas is symptomatic of a larger problem Tue, 08 May 2007 21:32:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1803989nationalguardkansasbushiraqtornadodamageNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1802136 unknown@Netscape.com White House Press Secretary Tony Snow this morning blamed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for the shortages, saying he was "not aware of any prior complaints" by the governor about the equipment Tue, 08 May 2007 21:23:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1802136nationalguardkansasSebeliusresponsibilitywhitehouseNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1796824 unknown@Netscape.com his idea of "national security" is just about as mythical as the notion that some elected official with no fiduciary interest in our personal well-being can do anything to bring it about. Tue, 08 May 2007 17:45:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1796824nationalSecuritygovernmentpowerNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1760252 unknown@Netscape.com Repairs have made the national park in Washington state accessible again. But winter storms have left it a more primitive -- and dangerous -- place. Last fall's torrential rain, 18 inches in 36 hours, washed away bridges and roads, obliterated hiking trails and destroyed campgrounds. The damage is estimated at $36 million. Sat, 05 May 2007 17:49:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1760252Mt.RainiernationalparkvolcanoStormdamageNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1633210 unknown@Netscape.com Since 1946 the Democratic Presidents increased the national debt an average of 3.7% per year when they were in office. The Republican Presidents an average increase of 9.3% per year. Clinton raised the national debt an average of 4.3% per year, while Reagan, Bush, and Bush raised the debt an average of 10.8% per year. Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:50:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1633210U.S.nationaldebtgdpMoneygovernmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1547078 unknown@Netscape.com In his State of the Union Address this year, the Commander in Chief of the War on Terror asked the newly-elected Democrat-controlled Congress to join him "in pursuing a great goal." To effect regime change in Iran, thereby delivering "a decisive blow to terrorism," and achieving yet another famous "victory for the securi Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:52:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1547078ethanolathreatTonationalSecurityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1528662 unknown@Netscape.com The cultists who support this National ID card say that it's all voluntary. And it is. You can refuse to comply, in which case you won't be able to open a bank account, enter a federal building, ride a plane or train, etc. Yes, quite voluntary. A nice card, containing all sorts of sensitive information, which can be scanned everywhere you go. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:11:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1528662nationalidRealstatesrightsconstitutionlibertyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1436724 unknown@Netscape.com REAL ID reduces rights of the individual to a string of digits, subject to the good-will of politicians, the government, software and/or bureaucrats. It makes Americans get permission to live and move in the basic functions of society: banking and travel. We shouldn't have to ask permission to be functioning citizens within our own country. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:28:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1436724Realidnationalbillofrightsliberty10thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1399443 unknown@Netscape.com On Tuesday, Maryland became the first state in the union to drop out of college. The electoral college, that is. Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed a law that would award the state's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. As long as other states agree to do the same. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:01:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1399443ElectoralCollegeVotingmarylandPoliticsnationalpopularvoteNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1390344 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush's spy chief is pushing to expand the government's surveillance authority at the same time the administration is under attack for stretching its domestic eavesdropping powers. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:58:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1390344McConnellnationalintelligencedirectorspyingfisa4thAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1366798 unknown@Netscape.com How might U.S. national security be threatened by mega-droughts, coastal flooding, killer hurricanes, food scarcity and the other ecological calamities scientists widely predict will occur if global warming continues apace? No one knows, but Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., think it's time to find out. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:04:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1366798ChuckHagelDickDurbinglobalwarmingnationalSecurityPoliticsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1339167 unknown@Netscape.com The 3,400 soldiers of the Indiana National Guard's 76th Brigade Combat Team were alerted Friday that they will be deployed to the Mideast sometime soon. Some of the brigade's soldiers have already served in Iraq and Afghanistan, including one unit that recently returned from training Iraqi security forces. Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:57:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1339167iraqAfghanistannationalguarddeploymentsurgeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1334256 unknown@Netscape.com Several National Guard brigades are expected to be notified soon that they could be sent to Iraq around the first of next year, according to a senior Defense Department official. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:56:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1334256nationalguardiraqmilitaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1321787 unknown@Netscape.com Several National Guard brigades are expected to be notified soon that they could be sent to Iraq around the first of next year, according to a senior Defense Department official. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:27:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1321787pentagonalertnationalguardTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1320868 unknown@Netscape.com One in three people are expected not to cooperate with identity card checks, Home Office papers from 2004 suggest. Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:52:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1320868nationalidukNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1238236 unknown@Netscape.com Federal investigators are reviewing the activities of 103 scientists who may have had improper links to pharmaceutical companies while they were employed at the National Institutes of Health, apparently resurrecting a conflict-of-interest inquiry that many in the agency thought was closed. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:27:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1238236conflictofinterestnationalInstitutehealthpharmaceuticalcompaniesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1153372 unknown@Netscape.com There have been many great diaries about the recent discovery of the gwb43.com e-mail system. Karl Rove does 95% of his e-mailing over that server. Nice. And end run around the Presidential Records Act. And a political move to hide what could be incriminating records. What hasn't been mentioned is the likely huge national security breach... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:32:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1153372PoliticsKarlRoveattorneygateelectronicespionagenationalSecurityNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1143602 unknown@Netscape.com HELENA, Mont. - Glacier National Park in Montana and adjacent Waterton National Park in Canada should be declared endangered, because climate change is eliminating glaciers and harming the park environment, a dozen organizations said in a petition presented Thursday. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:50:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1143602GlaciernationalparkendangeredterritoryparksNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1106536 unknown@Netscape.com Federal standards for identification are not authorized by the Constitution. It doesn't matter whether they're enforced through "laws" or economic "incentives" to the States. The politicians, by trying to force this on us without amending the Constitution to allow it, are showing utter contempt for states' rights and the princip Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:48:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1106536RealidnationalconstitutiontenthAmendmentstatesrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1103793 unknown@Netscape.com A senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday said he finds privacy concerns prompted by the proposed Real ID regime puzzling. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:29:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1103793RealidnationaltenthAmendmentNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1067612 unknown@Netscape.com A former White House official accused of improperly editing reports on global warming defended his editorial changes Monday as reflecting views expressed in a 2001 report by the National Academy of Sciences. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:01:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1067612globalwarmingwhitehousebushethicsnationalacademyofSciencesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/994616 unknown@Netscape.com The Patriot Act greatly increased the FBI's authority to issue so-called "national security letters" (NSLs)--warrantless demands for private information from third parties such as phone companies, Internet service providers and banks. When Congress reauthorized the Patriot Act in early 2006, it did so on the condition that it receive deta Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:33:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/994616nationalSecurityletterspatriotACTlibertyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/882944 unknown@Netscape.com March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month(TM) (NCRCAM) and the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation (CRPF) in collaboration with partner organizations nationwide are determined to improve these alarming statistics. Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:05:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/882944nationalcolorectalcancerAwarenessmonthncrcamNews http://web2announcer.com/go/805109 unknown@Netscape.com The sad truth is no one will be held accountable, and there will be no trials or prosecutions for the countless innocents that have been killed in America's foreign wars. The result is that the politicians are further emboldened to wage even more wars in the future. Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:00:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/805109wariraqpopulistnationaldefenseforeignpolicyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/795507 unknown@Netscape.com Looks like some pending legislation could bring in a national ban on radar detectors. Bad news for speeders. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:00:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/795507radardetectorsnationalbanlegislationspeedingticketsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/674848 unknown@Netscape.com Why is it that when people talk about (the U.S. budget), the gross domestic product is brought up and explained that our deficit is at a low level? Why is the national debt -- $8.7 trillion, which climbs at almost $2 billion a day -- never mentioned? Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:56:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/674848nationaldebtwhitehouseMoneydeficitUnitedstatesbudgetNews http://web2announcer.com/go/597744 unknown@Netscape.com An Air Force drill sergeant and former Iowa National Guard member who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty, she said Wednesday. Whether that amounts to an honorable discharge, as Michelle Manhart also says, is unclear. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:18:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/597744PlayboymichellemanhartairforcenationalguardNews http://web2announcer.com/go/526129 unknown@Netscape.com Nearly half of India's children are malnourished, putting the country in the same league as some of the world's poorest countries even though fewer infants are dying and more pregnant Indian women are seeing doctors, according to government data released Friday. Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:03:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/526129indiachildrenmalnourishednationalFamilyhealthsurveyruralNews http://web2announcer.com/go/486266 unknown@Netscape.com The National Kidney Foundation of Florida will begin their walkathon this Sunday. Among the team captains, we have one of our own from Netscape. Here's the Scoop Du Jour from "Spadecallers Corner". Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:04:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/486266nationalkidneyfoundationWalkathononofusNews http://web2announcer.com/go/472780 unknown@Netscape.com States like Maine protested that not only was this law an unwarranted intrusion on the privacy rights of their residents, but it was a de facto national ID card in its own right, yet another foot in the door towards a totalitarian police state. The costs of implementation would be too high, projected to be in the tens of millions in each state, and Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:09:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/472780RealidnationalmainetenthAmendmentstatesrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/455463 unknown@Netscape.com Simon Cowell's opinion of Hillary Clinton's rendition of the National Anthem. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:49:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/455463HillaryClintonsingingnationalanthemsimoncowellNews http://web2announcer.com/go/454854 unknown@Netscape.com All too many Americans are unaware that lawmakers used the patriotic-sounding mantra of "national security" to amass political capital. Immigration legislation last year included myriad 'enforcement' and 'security' provisions that, in reality, had nothing to do with security - or immigration enforcement. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:13:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/454854nationalSecurityImmigrationdebateexecutivepowerPolitcalDecoyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/447966 unknown@Netscape.com A revolt against a national driver's license, begun in Maine last month, is quickly spreading to other states. Within a week of Maine's action, lawmakers in Georgia, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked at Real ID. They are expected soon to pass laws or adopt resolutions declining to participate. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:36:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/447966nationaldriverslicensestatesRealidNews http://web2announcer.com/go/418483 unknown@Netscape.com The REAL ID Act, for those of you lacking the time and stomach to analyze Leviathan's droppings, might better be titled "Papers, Please." Passed in 2005, due to take effect in 2008, it finishes the job of turning Amerika into a police state by making driver's licenses into national ID cards. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:12:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/418483RealidnationaltenthAmendmentconstitutionmaineNews http://web2announcer.com/go/404956 unknown@Netscape.com A blogger received a letter from Jennifer Daniel Collins, an attorney at Faegre & Benson that represents The National Pork Board. It stated, for the most part, that use of the phrase "the other white milk" violates their trademark on the phrase "the other white meat." Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:24:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/404956bloggingbloggerfaegreandbensonnationalporkboardmilkNews