22 December 2005
Eulogy for Stanley "Tookie" Williams
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Jesse Jackson
Memorial Service for Stanley Williams
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Los Angeles, California

When I visited Stanley three times and had prayer with him, he said, "I regret I was a predator upon my people. We...
22 December 2005
A new phase of bright spinning lies about Iraq
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Norman Solomon
Three days before Christmas, the Bush administration launched a new salvo of bright spinning lies about the Iraq war. “In an interview with reporters traveling with him on an Air Force cargo plane to Baghdad,” the Associated Press reported...
22 December 2005
Fear of the devil
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Robert Koehler
The nation is headed for a showdown with Evil . . . or rather, with the sense-shattering, all-justifying, absolute belief in it. My God - finally!

Here, for instance, is U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, explaining to Wolf Blitzer...
21 December 2005
Fantasy in Iraq
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- It is clear we will need to practice hard on our credulity in the future just to get a grasp on how dumbfounding the entire Iraq War is. We need credulity up to the Wonderland White Queen's standards, believing as many as...
21 December 2005
The year of the vanished credibility
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Alexander Cockburn
Start with Bush. Never at ease before the cameras, he now has the hunted blink and compulsive nasolabial twitch of the mad dictator, a cornered rat with nowhere left to run. Nixon looked the same in his last White House days, and so did...
19 December 2005
Good old constitutional crisis
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Uh-oh. Excuse me. I'm so sorry, but we are having a constitutional crisis. I know the timing couldn't be worse. Right in the middle of the wrapping paper, the gingerbread and the whole shebang, a tiny honest-to-goodness...

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