AUSTIN, Texas -- Since the political world ranges from poor to icky these days, you may think we are gratitudinally challenged this Thanksgiving. But a mere soupcon of sunny optimism goes a long way toward getting us to dwell on how lucky...
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24 November 2005
When Thanksgiving arrives, the media coverage is mostly predictable.
Feature stories tell of turkeys and food drives for the needy. We
hear about why some people, famous and unknown, say they feel
thankful. And, of course, holiday...
24 November 2005
Since Bill Moyers retired, I watch PBS pretty rarely. I remembered why when
I saw the NOVA special on New Orleans, "The Storm that Drowned a City." It
gave some useful chronology, but in an hour-long program on the genesis and
history of...
23 November 2005
During the middle of the day on Friday, I spent an hour or two on a conference call with activists and congressional staffers discussing next steps to end the war. We planned, among other things, to organize support for Congressman John...
22 November 2005
Thanksgiving week began with the New York Times noting that “all of
Washington is consumed with debate over the direction of the war in
Iraq.” The debate -- long overdue -- is a serious blow to the war makers
in Washington, but the U.S....
20 November 2005
In early January, US District Judge John Jones III is expected to deliver his decision in a lawsuit filed by eleven parents, with the help of the ACLU, against the school board of Dover, a sleepy Pennsylvania town outside the capital,...
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