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07 April 2006
If only they'd hissed Barack Obama
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Alexander Cockburn
What a contrast between the French demonstrations and the vast and exciting marches here against proposed immigration laws, as against the limp turnouts against the U.S. war on Iraq!

Across a few explosive weeks the...
07 April 2006
Closing the secret school
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Robert Koehler
Something was missing when Father Roy Bourgeois and several companions traveled through South America last month: fear.

Or rather, as he said it, almost reverently, "FEAR-R-R-R" - a big, lingering, life-shaping word, clotted...
06 April 2006
DeLay: "Stand firm" and see a cockfight
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- In general, I'm against kicking 'em when they're down ... unless really awful people are involved. I figured Tom DeLay is so awful, plenty of people would gang up on him and I could pass.

Imagine my...
04 April 2006
Global warming: get busy
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- On the premise that spring is too beautiful for a depressing topic like Iraq, I thought I'd take up a fun subject -- global warming.

Time magazine warns us to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried." On the...
04 April 2006
The death penalty lets Moussaoui off easy where a "scream screen" might inflict the ultimate just punishment
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Harvey Wasserman
Now that 9/11 defendant Zacarias Moussaoui has been cleared for the death penalty, the din will rise for his immediate execution.

But if he really is guilty, and is now seeking martyrdom, the death penalty goes too easy on him...
30 March 2006
Bush's "New Kind of Democracy" for Iraq
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Andy Ostoy
When President Bush said that the new democracy he's creating in Iraq may not resemble the one we have here in the United States, he wasn't kidding. In fact, in Bush's convoluted world of political delusion, he serves not only as the high...

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