Dear Virginia:
In your letter, you asked me if there really was a Democratic Party. You said that all of your friends have told you it’s a big fat lie, a story that grownups tell little kids so they won’t worry about mean old...
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10 December 2004
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02 December 2004
AUSTIN -- It is both peculiar and chilling to find oneself discussing the problem of American torture. I have considered support of basic human rights and dignity so much a part of our national identity that this feels as strange as though...
30 November 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- Goody, goody, gumdrop. We could get Phil Gramm back again, this time as secretary of the treasury. Oh how I've missed that little ray of sunshine, the bleeding heart from Bryan, the man who thinks poor people are all fat....
28 November 2004
In an election likely to be decided as much by voter turnout as by convincing the remaining undecided, how do we maintain the hope that’s necessary to keep making the phone calls, knocking on the doors, funding the key ads, and doing all...
27 November 2004
How do we learn to keep on in this difficult political time, and keep on
with courage and vision? A few years ago, I heard Archbishop Desmond Tutu
speak at a Los Angeles benefit for a South African project. He'd been
fighting prostate...
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