Uh... sorry... we're a little short of change right now. Maybe after we phase out social security...

From today's NYT:
Help For Africa:
Britain announced long ago that it would meet the 0.7 percent target by 2013. France is more than halfway there, at 0.41, and has announced a timetable to get to 0.5 percent by 2007 and 0.7 percent by 2012. From America - the stingiest of all, compared with the rest of the G-7, donating just 0.18 percent of its gross national product to foreign aid - there has not been a word about getting to 0.7 percent by any date in this century. We sincerely hope that President Bush plans to come up with something before July - even if he does it only because his most loyal ally has asked it of him.

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True to Ritual, House Votes for Full Repeal of Estate Tax. For the fourth time in four years, the House voted on Wednesday to repeal the federal estate tax permanently, a central element of President Bush's economic agenda.

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According to Ralph Z. Hallow of the Washington Times, there's a building movement among House conservatives to push ahead with passing a Social Security phase-out bill this year.