Which America do you want? The America where citizens wishing to hear
their elected leaders speak in person must first pledge their loyalty
before being admitted? The America where citizens instead wishing to
display dissent are...
27 August 2004
"Happy is the country which requires no heroes," Bertolt Brecht
commented. Today, by that standard, the United States is a very
unhappy country.
These days, the public's genuine eagerness for heroes is difficult to...
These days, the public's genuine eagerness for heroes is difficult to...
26 August 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- We were bound to get at least one good laugh out of Swift Boat Veterans for Humongous Lies, and what a pip it is. Upon being identified as the lawyer both for the Bush-Cheney campaign and the Swift Boat Liars, Benjamin...
23 August 2004
AUSTIN, Texas - It's an early Labor Day SURPRISE! Congratulations, if you make between $23,660 and $100,000, you have just very likely lost your right to overtime pay, courtesy of the Bush administration.
If...
If...
19 August 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- Remember what it was like just before the war? Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- Colin Powell told us to the pound how many tons of this, that and the other -- Saddam had a reconstituted nuclear program, he...
15 August 2004
KANANASKIS, Alberta -- Make that a big Canadian, "Oh dear." These nice Canadians, whom George W. Bush once managed to triumphantly identify as "our most important neighbors to the north" are famous for their reticence. Canada, Land of the...
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