AUSTIN -- Thomas Frank, author of "What's the Matter With Kansas?" is a subscriber to the theory that so-called "values politics" and lifestyle issues are just sophisticated versions of that old carnival con the shell game, in which the...
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20 September 2004
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Media watch alert: a curious double distortion in the media mirror, as the situation in Iraq unravels before our eyes. Iraq gets less media play for two reasons -- one an old media fault, and the other political.
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20 September 2004
MASON, Texas --- Letter from a non-swing state. Every political reporter and his hamster is covering the swing states. Here's the news from the rest of the country. This column is dedicated to all the Democrats in the red states and all...
11 September 2004
AUSTIN, Texas --- Oh for heaven's sake, doesn't anyone know how to research a story anymore? I have never seen anything as silly as this ridiculous Republican chorus that, aha!, Ben Barnes is a Democrat and so we know he's lying!
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10 September 2004
Soon after the American death toll in Iraq passed the 1,000
mark, I thought of Saadoun Hammadi and some oratory he provided two
years ago.
At the time, Hammadi was the speaker of Iraq's National Assembly. "The U.S....
At the time, Hammadi was the speaker of Iraq's National Assembly. "The U.S....