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Andy Borowitz: Bin Laden’s State of the Jihad Address Short on Specifics

The satirist reports that critics are assailing the terrorist mastermind’s annual speech as being nothing more than a vague laundry list of terror targets.

Posted on Jan 26, 2007 READ MORE  | 39 READS


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Truthdigger of the Week: Sen. Jim Webb

Truthdig tips its hat this week to the newly elected Democratic senator from Virginia, who delivered a blistering response to President Bush’s State of the Union address.

Posted on Jan 26, 2007 READ MORE  | 119 READS


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AP / Sunday Alamba

Don’t Touch That Mail!

A native Nigerian writer takes stock of the changing face of her country’s most prominent economic export after oil: e-mail scams.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 READ MORE  | 2623 READS


Obama’s ‘Fresh Face’ Could Work Against Him

The baby boomers who were once suspicious of anyone over 30 are now skeptical of Barack Obama because he’s under 50.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 READ MORE  | 535 READS


A Reagan Democrat

Sen. Jim Webb replied to Bush’s State of the Union speech with a moral clarity almost unheard-of since the days of The Great Communicator.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 READ MORE  | 92 READS


Hillary’s Way

She may lack Obama’s charisma and Edwards’ poise, but Sen. Clinton has made fools of her naysayers before.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 READ MORE  | 76 READS


Yet Another Actor Acting Out

“Grey’s Anatomy’’ star Isaiah Washington’s recent meltdown was as puzzling as it was repulsive.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 READ MORE  | 94 READS


Why Bush’s Speech Didn’t Matter

None of the progressive-sounding proposals in the president’s speech stand any chance of actually arriving on Capitol Hill as legislation.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 READ MORE  | 70 READS


George W. Bush
AP Photo / Charles Dharapak

The World Agrees: Stop Him

Stop him before he kills again. That is the judgment of the American people, and indeed of the entire world, as to the performance of our president, and no State of the Union address can erase that dismal verdict.

Posted on Jan 23, 2007 READ MORE  | 219 READS


Barack Obama
AP / Seth Wenig

Barack’s Racial Balancing Act

Sen. Obama’s multiracial heritage could help mend the great fissure in American society.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 READ MORE  | 132 READS


Marie Cocco: Saving Their Seats, and Maybe the Country

Congressional Republicans have an opportunity to be both pragmatic and idealistic by abandoning the president on the war.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 READ MORE  | 59 READS


Reforming Pakistan’s ‘Dens of Terror’

Pakistan’s “madrassas” have been described as “jihad universities” because of their ties to the Taliban and Islamic extremists, but a small-scale indigenous effort to reform the religious schools could be making more progress than the combined forces of the American, British and Pakistani governments.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 READ MORE  | 348 READS


Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
AP / Evan Vucci

E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Upstart Versus the Machine

The Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton 2008 contest highlights the differences between bottom-up and top-down political campaigns.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 READ MORE  | 32 READS


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Brad Friedman: Stop Whining and Start Leading

If Congress wants to be treated like a coequal branch of government, it has to act like one, and Bush’s State of the Union address is the perfect time to start.  Pictured above, Sen. Jim Webb, who will deliver the Democratic response to the president’s speech.

Posted on Jan 20, 2007 READ MORE  | 126 READS


Andy Borowitz: Rosie-Trump Feud Advances Doomsday Clock

The satirist reports on a potential wellspring of the apocalypse.

Posted on Jan 19, 2007 READ MORE  | 68 READS


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