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The front page story in tomorrow’s New York Times will be an announcement and examination of George W. Bush’s signing of a directive that gives him even greater control over much greater control over “the rules that the federal government develops to regulate public health, safety.”

Bush has now declared that every federal regulatory agency must have a regulatory policy office headed by a political appointee. This will tighten the presidential control that already shocked anyone paying attention, especially with regard to the so-called Envrionmental Protection Agency, which is now merely a large sham supported by taxpayers.

Read all about it in tomorrow’s Times.

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