20 May 2005
Blurb: End the filibuster -- in 2015
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Paul Loeb
If the Republicans really believe our top federal judges deserve an up-and-down vote, and that the filibuster is an unfair relic, there's an easy solution: Propose a rules change that will end it-in 2015.

I'd still support...
20 May 2005
Bolton Blunders and other GOP idiocy
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Cynthia L. Butler
I am sorry. I can't help but comment on this one.  I sat by idly and watched the Bolton controversy unfold and have been uncharacteristically silent while I watched the GOP shove this Presidential prerogative down everyone's choking...
18 May 2005
The Koran and Guantanamo
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- As Riley used to say on an ancient television sitcom, "This is a revoltin' development." There seems to be a bit of a campaign on the right to blame Newsweek for the anti-American riots in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other...
18 May 2005
This is a revoltin
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- As Riley used to say on an ancient television sitcom, "This is a revoltin' development." There seems to be a bit of a campaign on the right to blame Newsweek for the anti-American riots in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other...
16 May 2005
The Beginning Of The End Of The Age Of Reason
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Todd Huffman
History is slowly being rewritten. Hard to believe yet harder to deny is the increasing frequency and fervor with which those on the religious right are asserting that the United States was founded on Christian principles. Every day, on...
14 May 2005
Nuking Democracy
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Paul Loeb
At the height of the nuclear arms race, those who marched against it used to say that in the ashes of a nuclear war, no one could tell a capitalist from a communist. "Not necessarily," others would joke, "Richard Perle could tell." For...

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