Hours after Coretta Scott King died, President Bush led off the State
of the Union address by praising her as “a beloved, graceful,
courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and
carried on a noble dream.” For good measure...
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02 February 2006
I'd become so used to Nicholas Kristof's January visits to prostitutes in Cambodia that it was a something of a shock to find him this January in Calcutta's red light district instead.
As readers of his New York...
As readers of his New York...
02 February 2006
Opening arguments in the long-awaited criminal trial of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and company president Jeffrey Skilling is expected to start soon now that a jury has been selected for the case.
For many people...
For many people...
02 February 2006
Bush jumpstarts the alternative energy movement with his own hot air demonstration
When Gore Vidal endorsed last night's demonstrations against Bush’s ridiculous I-am-the-state theatrical stunt, he added the pithy...
When Gore Vidal endorsed last night's demonstrations against Bush’s ridiculous I-am-the-state theatrical stunt, he added the pithy...
01 February 2006
You'd think that after doing this State of the Union thing five times
he'd finally get it right and say something new and meaningful.
Instead, what we got was another dose of some good ole Texas drivel.
Nothing more than a bunch of...
01 February 2006
Ohio's GOP-controlled legislature has passed a repressive new law that will gut free elections here and is already surfacing elsewhere around the US. The bill will continue the process of installing the GOP as America's permanent ruling...
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