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08 September 2004
And so it goes...
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- The wire services are reporting that we just lost seven Marines in Fallujah. To use Linda Ellerbee's line, "And so it goes ..."

        The way it does not, NOT go is as claimed last week at the Republican...
07 September 2004
Shut up and color: the politics of bullying
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Paul Loeb
He's lost his voice since, but the best thing John Kerry did at the Democratic convention was to challenge the bullying. He talked of the flag belonging to all of us, and how "standing up to speak our minds is not a challenge to...
02 September 2004
Unmitigated gall
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Stephen Colbert, correspondent for “The Daily Show,” the only news program to watch during the Republican convention, found the theme of this convention like a homing pigeon: “Unmitigated gall.”

        This...
30 August 2004
Another record
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Another record. We have already lost more American soldiers (488) in Iraq in 239 days of this year than we did in 287 days last year (482), when there was a war on and before our mission was accomplished.
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27 August 2004
To America's Young Voters: Which America Do You Want?
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Todd Huffman
Which America do you want? The America where citizens wishing to hear their elected leaders speak in person must first pledge their loyalty before being admitted? The America where citizens instead wishing to display dissent are...
27 August 2004
Beyond Hero-Worship
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Norman Solomon
"Happy is the country which requires no heroes," Bertolt Brecht commented. Today, by that standard, the United States is a very unhappy country.

These days, the public's genuine eagerness for heroes is difficult to...

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