There are certain professionals the public must be able to trust. Doctors and lawyers come to mind. Until Monday, stock analysts and bankers would have made our list, too. More

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I live a mere mile or so from one of San Diego's water treatment plants that uses chlorine. Chlorine can be a rather noxious chemical. If for some catastrophic reason my neighboring water plant experienced an "uncontrolled release," my home certainly would be in range of potentially toxic fumes. More

Apparently, he liked the chocolate cake. Just hours before Paul Dennis Reid was to be executed by lethal injection early Tuesday morning, the seven-time murderer finally decided to sign the papers that would allow his appeals to go forward. More

While the rest of the world worries about getting SARS, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has come down with a different malady: a bad case of hoof-in-mouth disease. More

Sneaking a peek through the curtains the Bush administration has used to cloak the awarding of contracts to rebuild Iraq is like catching a glimpse of a very special incest episode of ElimiDate: a bunch of muscular, cash-drunk corporate lotharios vying for the affection of their governmental kissing cousins. More

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"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home," Sen. Rick Santorum told an AP reporter, "then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." More

Now that the war is over (even though it hasn

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