AUSTIN, Texas -- What with George W. Bush moralizing all over us from
Philadelphia and Al Gore back in his Dudley Do-Right mode choosing the
seriously righteous Joe Lieberman, looks like we're in for a season of moral
one-upmanship and...
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10 August 2000
It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So,
as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman,
journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's
conspicuous piety.
Over the...
07 August 2000
An interesting semi-historical footnote concerning Dick
Cheney's oft-reiterated references to President Clinton's weaseling under
oath. "He knows what the meaning of 'is' is," says Cheney in his campaign
stump speech to show the moral...
06 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Gosh, the most balloons EVER! I bet all you slackers out
there who weren't watching are sorry now.
Just a few hints to Gov. George W. Bush's speechwriter: When you go into the riff about "I want to change the tone of...
03 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- My favorite factoid gathered by the 15,000 underutilized
reporters in Philadelphia is that the opening gavel of the Republican
National Convention was "acoustically enhanced" by a sound engineer to sound
"better than real...
02 August 2000
PHILADELPHIA -- Every day at noon, a couple of blocks from the convention complex where GOP delegates held their caucuses, destitute men lined up for lunch on the sidewalk in front of the Ministry to the Homeless. It was not a photo op....