"A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush." How quickly the Gore liberals adopt a totalitarian mindset, sounding like Soviet commissars back in the old days who would urge the voters towards a 98 percent turnout for the Communist candidate,...
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18 October 2000
Bill Clinton has always been one for the phony reconciliation, the win-win solution, the photo-op deal. The defining moment of his diplomacy was the "handshake" between Rabin and Arafat, offered to the world as the insignia of a decent...
10 October 2000
I was in southern Vermont this last weekend, outside Brattleboro, to speak about Al Gore to a leaf-peepers' dinner at the Kopkind Colony (named for the great radical journalist who died in 1994) and came face to face with one of Gore's big...
01 October 2000
Most people would probably agree that TV news anchors and reporters should have a strong determination to search for and report the truth no matter what the economic consequences to their station or network might be. I bet they would also...
01 October 2000
The Emperor’s New Clothes is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s well-known fairly tales. In the story, weavers are making an invisible cloth for the Emperor’s “new clothes”. The weavers claimed that anyone who couldn’t see the...
01 October 2000
You remember Steven Kanner, a local activist who refused dominant values, whether by riding the bus instead of a car, refusing to wear leather tennis shoes, or dreaming of working in a cooperative tofu factory. One of my best...
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