Looking at visual images from U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, news
watchers now find themselves in the midst of a jolting experience that
roughly resembles a process described by Donald Rumsfeld: “It is the
photographs that gives one the...
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07 May 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- Let's get real. On Fox So-Called News, former Army Sgt. Tony Robinson was allowed to claim without contradiction that what happened at the prison at Abu-Ghraib was no worse than "fraternity hazing." Rush Limbaugh concurs...
04 May 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- For all I know, we may have just done something smart in Fallujah by hiring ex-Iraqi troops to take it over, but it's sure not what we said we were going to do when we started to go in. Then, the photos from the Abu Ghraib...
29 April 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- And a grand time was had by feminists from all over the nation Sunday, out exercising our right to peaceably assemble and to petition our government for redress of grievances. While we still can.
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29 April 2004
AUSTIN -- Sinners of Texas, unite! We have nothing to lose but our vices! In case you hadn't noticed, our only governor, Goodhair Perry, is fixing to tax the bejeezus out of us. It's not as though the state's topers, gamblers and smokers...
29 April 2004
On his way to confirmation as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the
current U.N. envoy John Negroponte was busily twisting language like a
pretzel at a Senate hearing the other day. The new Baghdad regime, to
be installed on June 30, will have...