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Marie Cocco: Last Refuge of the Republicans
Oct 17, 2006 If Democrats want to roll back Bush's tax cuts, it's only because they want to protect Medicare over millionaires.Marie Cocco: The Smoldering Legacy of the World Trade Center
Sep 7, 2006 After five years, we must ask: How did the path from Ground Zero somehow lead us to Abu Ghraib? Where did the elemental goodness that inspired us in those first days and weeks after the attacks on New York and the Pentagon go?Marie Cocco: The Pretense About Jobs
Sep 6, 2006 When it pays better to be old and retired than young and working, we can no longer indulge Bush's fantasy that the economy is on the right track.Marie Cocco: The Myth of the Investor Middle Class
Aug 29, 2006 A new study reveals the "ownership society'' of conservative dreams for the fraud it is; do-it-yourself financing doesn't work when the upper class owns 80% of the nation's stock.Marie Cocco: The Power of ‘Nothing’
Aug 24, 2006 The word leaped from President Bush's lips, dismissive and defiant, as though the questioner should have known better, and perhaps should not have asked.Marie Cocco: Return of Cable TV’s ‘Experts’
Aug 22, 2006 The same supposed authorities who publicly convicted John and Patsy Ramsey of killing their daughter 10 years ago have returned to cast the same dubious aspersions on John Mark Karr.Marie Cocco: The Potemkin Village of Baghdad
Aug 17, 2006 The Iraqi government, which President Bush heralded last spring as a "milestone,'' a "turning point'' and a "watershed event,'' is perilously ineffectual.