Harold Meyerson has an interesting article in the Spring 2005 Dissent Magazine called "Beyond The Consensus: Democrats Agree on How to Play Defense, but What Are They Fighting For?" (http://www....
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19 April 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- Spring fever is taking a weird form this year. Politicians say nice things for political reasons and then revert with a vengeance -- a sort of political Tourette syndrome, they can't help what they say.
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18 April 2005
The recent decision by General Motors to pull its advertising from
the Los Angeles Times has not gone over very well.
“Blame the press,” Daily Variety scoffed in mid-April, after several days of publicity about the...
“Blame the press,” Daily Variety scoffed in mid-April, after several days of publicity about the...
17 April 2005
President Bush just told reporters that he has no intention of setting
any timetable for withdrawal. "Our troops will come home when Iraq is
capable of defending herself," he said. Powerful pundits keep telling us
that a swift pullout of U...
13 April 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- Happy tax day, fellow citizens!
My favorite authority on taxes is David Cay Johnston of The New York Times, who won a Pulitzer for reporting on the terminally unsexy topic of taxes. His book "...
My favorite authority on taxes is David Cay Johnston of The New York Times, who won a Pulitzer for reporting on the terminally unsexy topic of taxes. His book "...
12 April 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- Freshly returned from a week of intellectual sparring at the Conference on World Affairs, the annual gabfest in Boulder, Colo. (the late jazz critic Leonard Feather called it "the leisure of the theory class"), I find...
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