AUSTIN, Texas -- When it comes to religion, I've always believed it's more important to walk the walk than to talk the talk. I come from a tradition (Episcopal) that considers it rather in bad taste to wear your religion on your sleeve,...
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23 June 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- As I.F. Stone used to say, "All governments lie," so that's no shockeroo. What's peculiar is the reaction in the media.
-- You may recall that when even the administration finally admitted Saddam...
-- You may recall that when even the administration finally admitted Saddam...
18 June 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- No sooner do we win a long struggle to clean up politics and restore democracy in this country than we find the whole thing under attack, and we have to go out and re-fight the same battle all over again. Good thing we're...
18 June 2004
Political myth-making goes into overdrive every four years. With
presidential campaigns fixated mostly on media, an array of nonstop spin
takes its toll while illogic often takes hold: When heroes are absent,
they're invented. When...
16 June 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- Such comfort. At the close of the G-8 summit, described by President Bush as "very successful" (except we didn't get anything we wanted), the president offered us comfort on the uncomfortable topic of torture: "Look, I'm...
10 June 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- When, in future, you find yourself wondering, "Whatever happened to the Constitution?" you will want to go back and look at June 8, 2004. That was the day the attorney general of the United States -- a.k.a. "the nation's...
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