28 June 2005
The liberal straw man
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- The first thing I ever learned about politics was never to let anyone else define what you believe, or what you are for or against. I think for myself.

I am not "you liberals" or "you people on the...
28 June 2005
This July 4, let's enshrine the Ten Amendments, not the Ten Commandments, as America's true Patriot Act
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Harvey Wasserman
The Supreme Court's mixed rulings on displaying the Ten Commandments on public buildings and property offer us the perfect patriotic step forward for this coming July 4: let's post the first Ten Amendments, i.e. the Bill of Rights,...
25 June 2005
What matters about Guttermeister Rove is that he's evil ... and soon over
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Harvey Wasserman
The harder they come, the harder they fall.

The legendary reggae song says it all about the evil, soon over Karl Rove.

For years we've heard only of the GOP Guttermeister's "genius". But for all his alleged...
23 June 2005
The history of smoking guns
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Alexander Cockburn
As long as I've lived in America, there's been this tragic-comic ritual known as the "hunt for the smoking gun," a process by which our official press tries to inoculate itself, and its readers, from political and economic realities....
23 June 2005
Follow the money
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Molly Ivins
SAN DIEGO -- As that great American, Deep Throat, never said, "Follow the money." (The line is by William Goldman, who wrote the movie, "All the President's Men"). Keeping your eye on the shell with the pea under it is not easy when the...
21 June 2005
More damning than Downing Street
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Paul Loeb
It’s bad enough that the Bush administration had so little international support for the Iraqi war that their “coalition of the willing” meant the U.S., Britain, and the equivalent of a child’s imaginary friends. It’s even worse that, as...

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