AUSTIN, Texas -- Some days, it's hard to pick the outrage du jour, but hypocrisy is always an inviting target, and the United Nations oil-for-food scandal provides a two-fer. We have been hearing much right-wing huffing over the dreadful,...
01 April 2005
The first quarter of 2005 brought significant media dividends for the
Bush-Cheney limited liability corporation.
Stakeholders received windfalls as mainstream news outlets deferred to consolidation of power from the...
Stakeholders received windfalls as mainstream news outlets deferred to consolidation of power from the...
31 March 2005
I am deeply saddened by the passing of Terri Schiavo this morning. Her loss is truly a sad day for all America and the world. Our hearts are heavy as we witnessed Terri’s ordeal as her feeding tube was withdrawn two weeks ago, inducing...
29 March 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- As a general rule about Bush & Co., the more closely a policy is associated with Dick Cheney, the worse it is. Which brings us to energy policy -- remember his secret task force? In the long history of monumentally bad...
26 March 2005
Journalists often refer to the Bush administration’s foreign policy as
“unilateral” and “preemptive.” Liberal pundits like to complain that a
“go-it-alone” approach has isolated the United States from former allies.
But the standard...
24 March 2005
Since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, 1,524 US soldiers have died (as of March 22, 2005), and 11,220 US soldiers have been wounded in action (as of February 26, 2005).1 Iraqi casualties are even larger. A study...
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