19 December 2001
The fall of Enron sounds the death knell for one of the great rackets of the last decade: Green Seals of Approval, whereby some outfit like the Natural Resources Defense Council or the Environmental Defense Fund would issue testimonials...
12 December 2001
Has the collapse of Enron finally pushed Social Security "reform" off the political agenda for the foreseeable future? Half the stock on Enron employees' 401K retirement plans was Enron paper, contributed as a company match, for which,...
09 December 2001
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Representative Barbara Lee

Representative Barbara Lee of Oakland, California, the lone dissenter in the U.S. House of Representatives in a 480-1 vote in favor of President Bush’s use of...
09 December 2001
Dear Columbus Free Press Editors,

I recently started thinking about a topic which I had never thought much about before, and I probably would rather not think about it now, however; my conscience will not allow me to disregard...
05 December 2001
"Arafat is guilty of everything here." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared on television Monday night. "Arafat has made his strategic choices: a strategy of terrorism." In sync with these fierce words, Israeli forces launched...
29 November 2001
It had seemed to me that one absolutely certain fact, beyond all dispute or question, is that the terror attacks of Sept. 11 had no silver lining, no unexpectedly beneficial fallout. It was, is and will be a terrible business with...

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