By now, it's a media ritual. Whenever the U.S. government raises
the alert level for terrorism -- as when officials announced the orange
code for "high risk" on May 20 -- local, regional and national news
stories assess the dangers and...
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15 May 2003
BOISE, Idaho -- When last we left the saga of Texas' few living
elected Democrats, they had fled the state pursued by minions of the law --
legislators on the lam. These courageous citizens, fleeing vile Republican
oppression in their...
14 May 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- They just went too far, that's all. This
session of the legislature has been as brutal, callous and indifferent to
the welfare of the weakest, the most frail, youngest and oldest Texans as it
is possible to get...
08 May 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- "We ought to be beating our chests every day.
We ought to look in a mirror and be proud, and stick out our chests and suck
in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans!'" -- Jay Garner, retired
general and the man in...
08 May 2003
A new poll tells us that -- by a two-to-one margin -- Americans
"use clearly positive words in their descriptions of the president." The
Pew Research Center, releasing a nationwide survey on May 7, declared
"there is little doubt ... that...
06 May 2003
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- In Pensacola, Fla., a crowd of pink,
plastic flamingos on the lawn means someone is having a birthday. The
flamingos are usually for a major, zero-ending birthday, so on the day you
turn, say, 50, you walk out of the...
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