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By Molly Ivins — Dennis Hastert gets caught in a suspect land deal, Rep. Jerry Lewis is in deep with a stinko lobbying firm, and the Department of Homeland Security has become a Republican playground. Can’t the GOP, self-proclaimed bastion of morality, small government and fiscal responsibility, get anything right?
Posted on Jun 19, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — The political satirist writes that launching Hussein into space will achieve two of President Bush’s oft-stated goals: bringing the Iraqi to justice and landing a man on Mars.
Posted on Jun 19, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — The media continues to fizz with excitement at Bush’s “spontaneous” trip to Iraq, and his “eye to eye” with Prime Minister Maliki. However, continuously escalating violence reveals his visit to be just another misleading “Mission Accomplished” photo-op moment.
Posted on Jun 14, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — From the tone of his farewell address last week, you’d think Tom DeLay was being carried out of Congress on the shoulders of his colleagues, rather than slithering out of office with his tail between his legs.
Posted on Jun 13, 2006
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By Gene Gerard — The FDA just approved a vaccine to help protect against cervical cancer, but conservative Christian groups want to block its distribution out of fear that it would promote promiscuity.
Posted on Jun 11, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — Satirist Andy Borowitz tells us that North Korean President Kim Jong Il and televangelist Pat Robertson expressed outrage that they had been excluded from the competition.
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By Norman Solomon — Members of the media have been too easy on the Republican push to ban gay marriage. Yes, it may be all about politics, but does that mean society shouldn’t react harshly to the attempt to codify discrimination in our Constitution?
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By Joe Conason — Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff may have again revealed his incompetence by slashing New York’s anti-terror funding, but the problems plaguing that agency reach far deeper than one man.
Posted on Jun 8, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — Five of the largest U.S. newspapers shirked their journalistic responsibility by covering up the government’s outrageous smear campaign against Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.
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By Sunsara Taylor — A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control recommends classifying all women as pre-pregnant—whether they intend to conceive or not. It’s an audacious leap along the logical fault line that values women as mere fetal incubators.
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By Andy Borowitz — The political satirist quotes U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as saying: “This is the most serious threat to world peace since North Korea obtained an early DVD of ‘Gigli.’ ”
Posted on Jun 3, 2006
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By Gene Gerard — New Truthdig contributor Gene Gerard, a longtime college professor of history, religion and ethics, examines the efforts of conservative legislators to stifle discussion of contraceptives in public schools—in favor of abstinence-only education.
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By Sunsara Taylor — Sunsara Taylor, author of the widely debated BattleCry columns, sets forth in this manifesto a case for driving President Bush and his administration from office—anchored by an Oct. 5 boycott of work and schools nationwide.
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By Robert Scheer — The Bush family consistently acted to put Enron and its longtime CEO, Ken Lay, into a position to rip off investors and taxpayers. Why is the mass media ignoring that fact now that Lay has been convicted in arguably the most egregious example of white-collar fraud in U.S. history?
Posted on May 30, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Kenny Lay paid heaps in campaign contributions to use our president as his “errand boy,” and democracy faltered.
Posted on May 30, 2006
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‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
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