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By Molly Ivins — With the Bush administration, it’s important to have in mind the old carnival con game: Keep your eye on the shell with the pea under it.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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By Norman Solomon — Public acceptance of killing thrives on abstractions. And, in turn, those abstractions are largely facilitated by news media. Solomon examines how words can mask the ugly truth of state-sponsored killing.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — Attempting to defuse the controversy over the decision to place the operation of several key American ports in the hands of a company based in Dubai, Vice President Dick Cheney said today that he would personally patrol those ports with a 28-gauge shotgun.
Posted on Feb 24, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Regarding the UAE port deal: The people running this country are perfectly willing to outsource American jobs, wages, and health and safety standards for the sake of free trade. Why would it surprise us that national security is ditto?
Posted on Feb 22, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — On Monday an Austrian court sentenced crackpot British historian David Irving to three years’ imprisonment for having denied the Holocaust 17 years ago. Directly on the heels of rioting sparked by the Muhammad cartoons, the ruling has exposed a longstanding double standard in the West about who is entitled to free speech and why.
Posted on Feb 21, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Reform follows scandal as night the day, except in these sorry times, when it appears we may not get a nickel’s worth of reform out of the entire Jack Abramoff saga.
Posted on Feb 20, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — The $42-billion contract represents the first time that the company has been employed to put its reconstruction expertise to work on one embattled human being. (satire)
Posted on Feb 17, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — There is no way to soft-pedal it: The astounding rise of an anti-American firebrand like Moqtada al-Sadr is an indicator of how wide and complete a political defeat pro-Western forces have suffered in Iraq.
Posted on Feb 14, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Welcome back to the paradoxical Bush/Cheney “responsibility society,” where no one (starting with the administration) takes responsibility.
Posted on Feb 13, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — A member of the U.S. Olympic ski team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human storyline to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event. (satire)
Posted on Feb 11, 2006
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By Jon Wiener — Fanatics are those people of any faith, color, persuasion or political belief who maintain that the end, whatever end, justifies all the means, including the bloody means. By this criterion I am afraid Hamas is a fanatic organization par excellence.
Posted on Feb 1, 2006
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 Illustration by Karen Spector
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By Robert Scheer — There simply would be no Enron story were it not for the deregulation of the energy market ushered in by Republican politicians.
Posted on Jan 31, 2006
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 Illustration by Karen Spector
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By Molly Ivins — As our government renames a civil liberties-trampling spying program and suppresses the results of its own studies, Americans are being left in an information vacuum regarding the true state of our union.
Posted on Jan 31, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — In case someone in the Justice Department is reading this, let me hasten to explain why I just clicked on the Victoria’s Secret online catalog photo featuring a certain “Very Sexy Lace & Mesh Garter Belt.” AOL made me do it.
Posted on Jan 24, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — “The last thing you want is a city that a bunch of hungry drunks are going to eat.”
Posted on Jan 24, 2006
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