AUSTIN -- Operating on the theory that what we owe our country
in time of crisis is, among other things, our best thinking, let's continue
to think about what America can usefully do now.
We have a bad national...
We have a bad national...
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04 October 2001
During the first two days of this month, CNN's website displayed
an odd little announcement. "There have been false reports that CNN has not
used the word 'terrorist' to refer to those who attacked the World Trade
Center and Pentagon,"...
02 October 2001
Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty issued a demand to Abbott Laboratories that they immediately stop selling Sodium Thiopental for use in lethal injection -- one of three chemicals utilized to kill human beings. As...
02 October 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Back from a month in Europe, I meant to begin
by suggesting it's time to start thinking outside the box. Then I got back
to Texas. The sign outside our neighborhood strip joint says, "Hot Babes,
Cold Beer, Nuke 'Em, GW...
27 September 2001
Back in 1988, the father of our current president was bedeviled by
what media outlets called "the wimp factor." After eight years as vice
president, George Bush was making a run for the Oval Office. But quite a
few journalists kept...
25 September 2001
The Bush administration has vowed that it will not aim the
Pentagon's firepower at civilian targets in Afghanistan. Such assurances
are supposed to make us think that innocent bystanders will be spared when
the missiles fly and the...
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