AUSTIN, Texas -- There may yet be some instructive points to be mined from
the New Hampshire primary. Perhaps the most important of these is that
George W. Bush is not the front-runner because he is the most able or
effective candidate. He...
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03 February 2000
Time magazine recently offered some notable journalism. A 14-page
investigative report -- "Big Money and Politics: Who Gets Hurt?" --
provided extensive coverage of how government decisions really get made in
the nation's capital....
02 February 2000
The reeling Bush campaign is pulling out all the stops to show that George
W. is not only a true leader of men, but a warm soul. "He's had to sit in
the chair," cries Gov. Carroll Campbell of South Carolina, whose state faces
a Feb. 19...
01 February 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Best lead paragraph of the New Hampshire primary: "I
expect to live long enough to hear a woman running for president asked what
she would do if she found herself pregnant" -- Ellen Goodman.
This is the year that the...
27 January 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- You must admit, the Iowa caucuses gave us a trove of
delights.
First there is the incomprehensible second-place finish of Steve Forbes, a man with the charisma of former guv Dolph Briscoe. Now your cynics would argue...
27 January 2000
Andrew Jackson won the White House in 1828 with a fresh approach to
oratory. "Jackson was the first president to master the liberal rhetoric,"
wrote historian Howard Zinn, who called it "the new politics of ambiguity
-- speaking for the...
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