13 April 2005
The real consequences of Tax Day
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Happy tax day, fellow citizens!

My favorite authority on taxes is David Cay Johnston of The New York Times, who won a Pulitzer for reporting on the terminally unsexy topic of taxes. His book "...
12 April 2005
Technical violations: oh, they're all related
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Freshly returned from a week of intellectual sparring at the Conference on World Affairs, the annual gabfest in Boulder, Colo. (the late jazz critic Leonard Feather called it "the leisure of the theory class"), I find...
07 April 2005
Beyond the Narrow Limits of News Coverage
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Norman Solomon
I was glad to open the New York Times last Monday and see the headline: “In Steinbeck’s Birthplace, a Fight to Keep the Libraries Open.” After visiting Salinas, Calif., over the weekend, I was eager to find out whether the disturbing and...
05 April 2005
Non-parent in residence
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- Why in the name of sanity, you may ask, should an aging, overweight spinster like myself agree to go bungee jumping with her nephew? My fellow aunts will understand immediately, however, when I explain that the nephew in question...
05 April 2005
Abortion and Schiavo -- The stories we tell
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Paul Loeb
Even if you've heard more than enough about Terry Schiavo, it seems useful to consider why Bush's political grandstanding backfired. Over seventy percent of Americans, including solid majorities of self-described evangelicals, opposed the...
01 April 2005
How and Why We're Working to Block the Bankruptcy Bill
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David Swanson
"April Fools!  We're not really going to wreck the bankruptcy system and turn families over to the gentle mercies of credit card companies!  We just wanted to see how extreme we could get and have the media still believe it!"

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