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By Ellen Goodman — Nancy Pelosi can stand the political heat, and so can a raft of women candidates slugging their way to Election Day.
Posted on Nov 2, 2006
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By Joe Conason — Anticipating a bruising defeat at the polls, Republicans have begun claiming that many Democratic victories would actually validate conservative policies.
Posted on Nov 2, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Bush & Co.‘s attacks on Sen. John Kerry’s quasi-gaffe reveal the utter political bankruptcy of the GOP.
Posted on Nov 1, 2006
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By Danny Postel and Nader Hashemi — Two experts on Iran tear to shreds the L.A. Times columnist’s recent essay about America’s “need” to intervene in that country.
Posted on Oct 31, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — The dire predictions President Bush is making about “cutting and running” from Iraq are almost identical to the horrifically inaccurate ones Presidents Johnson and Nixon made about Vietnam.
Posted on Oct 31, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — The columnist warns against dancing a jig on the coffin of the Republican Party.
Posted on Oct 30, 2006
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A measure to raise the minimum wage is the rare ballot option that isn’t a choice between the lesser of two evils.
Posted on Oct 30, 2006
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By Rep. Dennis Kucinich — In advance of the election, Republicans painted Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) as the specter of a Democrat-controlled House. In this piece for Truthdig (originally posted on 10/30), Kucinich responds to the attack, and gives the American people a preview of what’s to come.
Posted on Oct 30, 2006
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By Jabari Asim — There’s something off about making a TV ad that equates your first time voting with your first time having sex.
Posted on Oct 29, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — The political satirist reports that the president also proposed erecting a 700-foot fence around Hillary Clinton.
Posted on Oct 27, 2006
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Truthdig salutes Michael J. Fox, who reacted with grace when right-wing hate-machine Rush Limbaugh accused the actor of faking the symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease in order to curry political favor for stem cell research.
Posted on Oct 27, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — The McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill has proved about as effective a barrier as tissue paper in keeping special-interest money out of elections.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
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By Ellen Goodman — Whether they’re donning a slutty Halloween costume or a full-body Islamic veil, many modern women believe they are making their own choices of self-representation—but they’re actually caught in a cultural vise.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
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The president’s attempt to whitewash “stay the course” from the nation’s collective memory is emblematic of the bankruptcy of his administration’s policy on Iraq.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Even judged against his own gutter-level standards, Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Michael J. Fox set a new low.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
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