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20 September 2006
A tortured debate
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Some country is about to have a Senate debate on a bill to legalize torture. How weird is that?

I'd like to thank Sens. John McCain, Lindsay Graham -- a former military lawyer -- and John Warner of...
16 September 2006
The conspiracists, continued -- are they getting crazier?
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Alexander Cockburn
I attacked the conspiracy nuts last week -- these being the self-styled "Truthers" claiming the WTC and Pentagon attacks were organized by a list of suspects ranging from Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to the Queen of England.
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15 September 2006
Remembering Ann Richards
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- She was so generous with her responses to other people. If you told Ann Richards something really funny, she wouldn't just smile or laugh, she would stop and break up completely. She taught us all so much -- she was a...
15 September 2006
Will anti-nuker John Hall rock the Congress?
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Harvey Wasserman
Rock Star and long-time environmental activist John Hall just won the Democratic primary in an upstate New York district that hosts what could be the world's most catastrophic nuclear plant. He wants it shut, and may soon be in Congress...
10 September 2006
9-11 compromise - the mini-series
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Paul Loeb
I'd actually be fine if ABC aired their Swift Boating mockudrama, The Path to /9/11. They just have to do one little thing:

Every couple minutes they need to interrupt the movie with a black screen that stays around for at...
08 September 2006
The 9/11 conspiracy nuts
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Alexander Cockburn
You trip over one fundamental idiocy of the 9/11 conspiracy nuts -- the ones who say Bush and Cheney masterminded the attacks -- in the first paragraph of the book by one of their high priests, David Ray Griffin, "The New Pearl Harbor." "...

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