Conspiracy is going mainstream. On the morning of Jan. 8, Paula
Zahn of CNN went into histrionic wide-eyed mode as she parleyed with Richard
Butler, former head of the UN inspection team in Iraq, latter part of the
wipe-out-Saddam lobby...
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04 January 2002
First the tumult of war, now the fruits of peace. From
Afghanistan comes bracing news about the new era of tolerance, now that the
Taliban have, at least for the time being, slunk off the stage of history.
Shortly before the turn of...
30 December 2001
"We are often told that the poor are grateful for
charity. Some of them are, no doubt,
but the best amongst the poor are never grateful.
They are ungrateful, discontented,disobedient, and
rebellious. They are quite right to be so...
28 December 2001
Christmas morning found me walking with Jasper the Wonderdog up
a street called Slalom, approximately 6,500 feet above sea level in the
Sierra, on the outskirts of the town of Truckee, which lies athwart
Interstate 80, not far from Lake...
19 December 2001
The fall of Enron sounds the death knell for one of the great
rackets of the last decade: Green Seals of Approval, whereby some outfit
like the Natural Resources Defense Council or the Environmental Defense Fund
would issue testimonials...
12 December 2001
Has the collapse of Enron finally pushed Social Security
"reform" off the political agenda for the foreseeable future? Half the stock
on Enron employees' 401K retirement plans was Enron paper, contributed as a
company match, for which,...
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