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11 October 2006
Naked and afraid
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Robert Koehler
What blessings, what outrage.

The Amish child said, "Shoot me first." The survivors counseled forgiveness and prayed for the soul of the murderer. This was all too solemn and too real to be purveyed by the mainstream media as...
10 October 2006
The not-so-great Texas gubernatorial debate
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- I sacrificed an hour Friday evening to watch the Texas gubernatorial debate on your behalf, since I knew none of you would do it. Democrat Chris Bell looked and sounded like the only candidate who won't embarrass the state...
10 October 2006
Welcome to the nuclear club
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Norman Solomon
Moments after hearing about North Korea’s nuclear test, I thought of Albert Einstein’s statement that “there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence...
09 October 2006
The genius of John Nichols
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David Swanson
With "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," John Nichols has produced a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States.  Unlike several recently published books,...
05 October 2006
Where there's war, there's Kissinger
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Old War Criminal is back. I try not to hold grudges, but I must admit I have never lost one ounce of rancor toward Henry Kissinger, that cynical, slithery, self-absorbed pathological liar. He has all the loyalty and...
05 October 2006
Orgasms and wargasms
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Alexander Cockburn
Sex scandals, at least in societies dominated by guilt-sodden Protestants, fulfill the therapeutic function usually attributed to pleasant or exciting sex: exploration of intimate areas of political life, surfacing "issues" normally...

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