AUSTIN, Texas -- Excuse me, but the Bush administration's
"internal contradictions," as the communists used to say, are showing like a
dirty slip. On Jan. 25, the administration ordered federal agencies to
review their contracts with...
04 February 2002
A new media tic -- likening George W. Bush to Franklin D.
Roosevelt -- is already so widespread that it's apt to become a
conditioned reflex of American journalism.
By now, countless reporters and pundits have...
By now, countless reporters and pundits have...
31 January 2002
AUSTIN -- The State of the Union was fairly surreal Tuesday
night. We won the war against Afghanistan, but we're still at war with Al
Qaeda, so we have to go attack North Korea.
The big paper-shredders at Enron...
The big paper-shredders at Enron...
29 January 2002
AUSTIN -- The seminal historic event always affects the
language. Already we can see that Enron is of this shattering magnitude. A
stick-up artist goes into the Jiffy Mart to pull a heist. He whips his
heater and says to the clerk, "Put...
24 January 2002
Even by Washington's standards, the ability of John Ashcroft to
reinvent himself has been a wonder to behold. Just a year ago, squeaking
through Senate confirmation as attorney general, Ashcroft found himself
shadowed by his own praise...
24 January 2002
AUSTIN -- Why do they hate us? Well, scope out the deal at
Guantanamo, and see what you think.
We go along for months having a war -- the war in Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, the war to get Osama bin Laden...
We go along for months having a war -- the war in Afghanistan, the war on terrorism, the war to get Osama bin Laden...
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