AUSTIN, Texas -- My, my, my, the great Iraqi Gold Rush is on,
and who should be there at the front of the line, right along with
Halliburton and Bechtel, but our old friends at WorldCom, perpetrator of the
largest accounting...
16 June 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- Watching some dipstick the other day on Fox
News carry on with great certainty about Hillary Clinton and her evil
motives -- and I don't think this guy actually spends a lot of time tete a tete with Mrs. Clinton...
15 June 2003
In a democracy, leaders must earn and retain the public's trust. No
matter how loudly those leaders proclaim their dedication to
fighting terrorism, we must not flinch from examining whether they
are trustworthy.
On March 17,...
On March 17,...
12 June 2003
LONDON -- The people of Britain and the United States are
living in parallel, yet substantively different, media universes.
Bonds of language and overlaps of mass culture are obvious. But a
visit to London quickly illuminates the...
12 June 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- In the "physician, heal thyself" department,
please note the response of White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer to a
bulletin from North Korea that said: "The intention to build up a nuclear
deterrent is...
10 June 2003
AUSTIN -- Remember the guy in "The Graduate" who tells Dustin
Hoffman, with heavy emphasis, "Plastics"? This column is sort of in the same
vein. Psst, kids, there's money in wind. If I were a
fresh graduate looking for something...