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Focuses on the conflict between U.S. President George Bush administration and the Congress regarding the defense budget. Recommendation of the Bush administration to reduce the nation's military budget over five years; Proposal of Representative Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee regarding reduction in the military budget; Criticism of Aspin's threat-based analysis; Information on General Colin Powell's National Military Strategy report.

Report that United States President George Bush has decided his presidential papers should go to a Texas university, but has not yet decided which one.

Discusses President George Bush's indifference towards Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's proposal for reducing the Social Security taxes. Indications that Bush was not willing to talk about Moynihan's proposal in public; Indications that Bush's nonchalance attitude towards Moynihan's scheme was deceiving; Budget director Richard Darman and White House chief of staff John Sununu's opposition against Moynihan's proposal; Heritage Foundation's issuance of a paper endorsing the Moynihan proposal.

The ribbon on the 104th U.S. Congress had barely been cut and newly appointed Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was already sounding a clarion call for a "wired" Congress. Gingrich unveiled the Thomas online system to great fanfare. He vowed all congressional products would be online, available for downloading. This, he claimed, would allow "ordinary Americans" to "bypass" the "media elite" of the Washington press corps, enabling U.S. citizens to join in a great exercise in democracy. Thomas was, Gingrich admitted, a "work in progress."The promise of Thomas has turned out to be more platitudes than product. That promise remains unfulfilled today and in some ways, Thomas is even less efficient than the day it was rolled out. Adding insult to injury, the well-hyped, supposedly info-savvy U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration, as it turns out, is sweetheart when it comes to cyberspace. The Bill Clinton Justice team raised the same arguments as George Bush's squad that e-mail can't be considered a record as can a piece of paper and if it were, it would be a presidential record and therefore not obtainable under the Freedom of Information Act anyway.

U.S. President George Bush has embarrassed the pardoning power; and thereby he may have done very well for himself. Bush's pardon of six officials involved in the Iran/contra scandal refreshed images of Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon after Watergate in 1974. Bush shamelessly invoked the authority of other precedents. For that enterprise, Casper Weinberger's papers provide crucial evidence. Although the pardon is irrevocable, Bill Clinton could help prevent further mischief by former Presidents by nullifying Reagan's Executive Order 12667, which grants former Presidents the right to impose executive privilege over their papers.

Focuses on attitude of Senator Jack Kemp regarding anti-poverty issue and criticism against the budget negotiations in the United States. Warning issued by Kemp against any tax increase; Opinion that Kemp has little influence on economic policy despite of being secretary of housing and urban development; Response of U.S. President George Bush regarding views of Kemp; Policy making ability of Kemp; Commitment to a conservative war on poverty; Implementation of the anti-poverty agenda; Strategy of Kemp for raising the anti-poverty issue through an option paper on poverty sent by the Domestic Policy Council to Bush.

Discusses the impact of U.S. President George Bush's nomination for office on daily business section market. Reaction of business section towards the no new taxes; Information on the causes for the punishing sell-off; Effect of the no new taxes on foreigners; Report that if the dollar is set to lose 20 percent of its value, and that billions more in U.S. government paper would soon flood the markets to pay for the deficit, selling existing holdings now is the best way to cut losses; Statement that without new taxes the budget deficit would not go away.

Presents letters to the editors concerning politics and socioeconomics in the U.S. Support for replacing the paper dollar with a coin for silver mining interests; Failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar; Need for national referendum on the dollar coin; Need for appropriate laws to prevent child abuse; Similarities and differences between post-modernism and pragmatism; Texas Governor Ann Richards comments on President George Bush; Emphasis of the American culture on youth.

The article presents personal insight on U.S. elections. The 2006 mid-term elections is about to end and the 2008 presidential campaign is about to begin. In 2000, the author wrote in a vote for George Herbert Walker Bush, for whom he worked as a speechwriter from 1981 to 1983. What a wrench it must be for him to pick up his paper every morning and read the now-daily debate about whether his son is officially the worst president in U.S. history.