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AUSTIN, Texas -- Food fight! Here's a beauty: to vote or not to vote, to favor or not to favor the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill?
Theoretically, everybody's in favor of a plan to help senior citizens with prescription drug costs, which are truly appalling. Many seniors literally have to choose between their meds or food. Everyone agrees it's awful -- the question is whether the bills currently in the House and Senate are actually an improvement.
Those of you who make up your minds based on the if-he's-for-it, I'm-against-it method (quite a few people seem to be doing that these days) are in deep doo-doo on this one. True, Ted Kennedy is for it, and The Wall Street Journal is against it. On the other hand, the White House is for it, and pretty much everyone on the left except Kennedy is against it. The press is helpfully wringing its hands and announcing, "This is soooo complicated."
Theoretically, everybody's in favor of a plan to help senior citizens with prescription drug costs, which are truly appalling. Many seniors literally have to choose between their meds or food. Everyone agrees it's awful -- the question is whether the bills currently in the House and Senate are actually an improvement.
Those of you who make up your minds based on the if-he's-for-it, I'm-against-it method (quite a few people seem to be doing that these days) are in deep doo-doo on this one. True, Ted Kennedy is for it, and The Wall Street Journal is against it. On the other hand, the White House is for it, and pretty much everyone on the left except Kennedy is against it. The press is helpfully wringing its hands and announcing, "This is soooo complicated."
Written by Bob Fitrakis
Edited by Brian Lindamood
Published by: Columbus Alive/Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism 246 pages; $15.00
Buy this book at: Free Press Online Store
Great investigative journalists are few and far between these days, but Bob Fitrakis is definitely one of them.
For years in both the Columbus Free Press and Columbus Alive, Fitrakis has been digging up the dirt on a wide range of corporate criminals, death penalty abusers and right-wing fanatics.
This superb compilation of some of Bob's best stuff, written over the years for Columbus Alive, is a welcome addition to the annals of muckraking. In many ways, it serves as a primer on the art of exposing hidden truths, and could serve as a good basic text for high school and college students not yet brain deadened by television or George W. Bush.
Edited by Brian Lindamood
Published by: Columbus Alive/Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism 246 pages; $15.00
Buy this book at: Free Press Online Store
Great investigative journalists are few and far between these days, but Bob Fitrakis is definitely one of them.
For years in both the Columbus Free Press and Columbus Alive, Fitrakis has been digging up the dirt on a wide range of corporate criminals, death penalty abusers and right-wing fanatics.
This superb compilation of some of Bob's best stuff, written over the years for Columbus Alive, is a welcome addition to the annals of muckraking. In many ways, it serves as a primer on the art of exposing hidden truths, and could serve as a good basic text for high school and college students not yet brain deadened by television or George W. Bush.
Just a quick thanks and salute to Harvey Wasserman for the piece "Truth is
the weapon of Bush's self-destruction: the Superpower of Peace has the
ultimate force," which I first saw tonight on the Common Dreams site before
I linked directlly to The Free Press. Perhaps bleak bulleted lists such as
this will cause some ostrich heads to emerge from the sands and do
something.
Nancy, Of ocurse, an excellent article by Wasserman. Thanks for sending it. However, W. made THE mistake that has been the curse of humankind since Day One. He misquotes Jesus with the statement, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Jesus did not say that. I know that quotation is incised in stone at the Tower of the University of Texas, in marble plaques in different languages in the entry hall of the library of the former New York University Heights campus, etc. etc.
What Jesus said was said (or is reported to have said) "IF you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and teh truth will make you free." (John 8:310
In other words truth is a condition subsequent of discipleship. While our reptilian brains want to make truth an absolute value, Jesus suggested that turth only comes as a consequence of discipleship. Discipleship is very fluid, changing, adaptive to situations, and situational. Discipleship can only be defined by continuous action and adjustment to changing circumstances.
What Jesus said was said (or is reported to have said) "IF you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and teh truth will make you free." (John 8:310
In other words truth is a condition subsequent of discipleship. While our reptilian brains want to make truth an absolute value, Jesus suggested that turth only comes as a consequence of discipleship. Discipleship is very fluid, changing, adaptive to situations, and situational. Discipleship can only be defined by continuous action and adjustment to changing circumstances.
Dear Mr. Wasserman:
Peace,
Connie Johnston
This article was superb! Thank you so much.
Go get 'em, boys.Peace,
Connie Johnston
My congratulations! I am a voracious reader, and have been for several decades, and truly, in all those years, I have never read an article this awesomely, this breathtakingly idiotic; and trust me, I have read Noam Chomsky and would not have believed anyone on the planet, not even Gore Vidal, could so seamlessly weave falsehood after falsehood so wondrously into an article that anyone who lived in reality could allow to be published in their paper. But now I see that you ARE the editor, so you snuck in a masterpiece! I hope you consider re-titling your paper. A free press is vital in any open society, so that citizens can inform themselves of the truth; real freedom is what we find when we cease to be in the thrall of delusional worldviews; I hope you can break away from yours.
Sincerely
Dick Kane
Sincerely
Dick Kane
Lost his law license,Lied under oath , refused to do anything about Bin Laden.
Has been a nothing president wasting eight years,and saying a BJ isn't sex,
which has turned a lot of High schoolers on. Pardoned criminals allowing
his brother in law to make thousands of dollars. Whitewater,FBI files,I could go on.
The protection of our country against Sadaam or any other country that trains and arms potential terrorist murderers is the number one duty of our President. If our country is destroyed,or our Constitution,is compromised, then we have nothing including our hard fought for freedoms.
The protection of our country against Sadaam or any other country that trains and arms potential terrorist murderers is the number one duty of our President. If our country is destroyed,or our Constitution,is compromised, then we have nothing including our hard fought for freedoms.
Hi,
I just want to say THREE CHEERS!!!! WE have to believe truth will set us
free...
and it's about time someone besides Michael Moore took umbrage with the BS
of
polls suggesting this imbecile, cold blooded KILLER is a popular leader...
like you nailed it, if the press wasn't so into a sycophant role of laying
Hosannas as this antiChrist's (?) feet, maybe we'd see an uproar... it's a
mixture
of "give 'em cake"
mixed with "a sucker is born every minute," with a final dose of "short
attention span theater" thrown in... I hear 60's songs in my head now, as if
resurrecting the all but forgotten dreams, that our generation, like Hamlet,
not
forget our almost blunted purpose... to maintain LIGHT in the world as these
dark
lords rise to ascendancy on might alone... knowing JUSTICE slows down the
other guy, the ones who "give a damn about their fellow man...." If Gore
starts
the liberal radio network, 60's music to re-rouse our ideals would be a good
start. After all, seems to me all the hate in rap and all the obscene boom
box
pounding is either Hiroshima's revenge or some kind of atavistic drum
pounding
to signal war a'perpetually coming... thanks again.
Just took a BRIEF glance at your website and Mr. Wasserman's deluded
vitriolic rant. He sounds pretty much like my mom's former neighbor--only
the neighbor's paranoid conspiracy theory is that someone stole her oil
wells, stocks, and bonds. But she's not in a hospital either.
I'd be willing to chip in for either more meds for him or another colander since he appears to have lost his.
DP
Mother of three sons and four grandchildren
I'd be willing to chip in for either more meds for him or another colander since he appears to have lost his.
DP
Mother of three sons and four grandchildren
FUCK wasserman, he's a stupid son-of-a-bitch.....and a goddamn lying
socialist motherfucker.