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James R. Hanson
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Letter to the Dispatch: The election
In its 5/22 editorial on absentee voting, the Dispatch declared that long lines were the biggest problem "in what turned out to be a clean election in this state."
Sonoma State University's "Project Censored" in its spring newsletter said for one to say the election was honest he would have to…
9/11: It worked, didn't it?
Richard Clarke in "Against All Enemies" paints a picture of wrong-headed leadership making bad judgment calls. Given the Bush objectives, however, this can all be seen as good judgment, casting an entirely different light on 9/11: It worked, didn't it? If the 9/11 Commission is to get…
The strange collapse of building seven
If "Building Seven" says nothing to you, you have lots of company. On 9/11 it caught fire and fell to the ground, all 47 stories. Yet today, two and a half years later, no one knows why--that is, unless they are privy to some inside knowledge. When World Trade Center Tower One (…
A course staked out by lies
As a ward director in the 1960 Nixon campaign, I was disgusted when John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson seemed to have stolen the election. Nevertheless, on that day three years later I wept, watching the black-and-white TV along with my wife. For three days we watched, doing little…