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Robert Scheer: Bush Links Energized Enron

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 31, 2006 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? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: Reform the System Or Lose the Democracy

Molly Ivins / Truthdig May 30, 2006 Kenny Lay paid heaps in campaign contributions to use our president as his "errand boy," and democracy faltered. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Wow! Iraqi Leader Takes Bush’s Calls

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 24, 2006 "  'He wouldn't have taken my phone call a year ago,' Bush said Monday of the new Iraqi parliament speaker. 'He's now taken it twice.' Wow, and it cost only $200 billion and thousands of maimed and dead American soldiers to get the president's call returned." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

BattleCry: Ron Luce’s Holy War

Sunsara Taylor / Truthdig May 23, 2006 Truthdig contributor Sunsara Taylor reports again from the front lines -- a BattleCry Christian-fundamentalist rock music rally, where a "sexpert" claims that "condoms don't work," Navy SEALs stage mock assassination raids in the name of Christ, and evangelist Franklin Graham suggests that HIV/AIDS is a punishment from God (Third in a series See: column 1, column 2) . Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Bush More Right Than Wrong on Immigration

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 17, 2006 "It is good news that the public is finally hip to Bush's con, yet it is worrisome when surprisingly sensible proposals by the president on immigration are automatically rejected because of the source." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Andy Borowitz — Bush Demands That Iran Halt Production of Long Letters

Andy Borowitz / Truthdig May 13, 2006 The political satirist reports: White House aides said that writing an 18-page letter to President Bush, who is known for his extreme distaste for reading, was the most provocative act Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could possibly have committed. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Battle Cry for Theocracy

Sunsara Taylor / Truthdig May 12, 2006 A young activist explores the frightening world of a Christian evangelical youth movement that is holding rock concerts and rallies at city halls nationwide this weekend "If you?ve been waiting to get alarmed until the Christian fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping them up to do battle in 'God?s army,' wait no longer" (First column a series of three Second column here, third column here). Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Hayden–the Spook in Your Phone

Robert Scheer / Truthdig May 10, 2006 UPDATE: Michael V. Hayden, nominated by President Bush to head the CIA, is the man responsible for the most extensive attack ever on the privacy of U.S. citizens. While head of the NSA, he oversaw the program that recorded the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans. Want to take action? Check out StopHayden.org (includes video proof that Hayden is smugly incorrect about the privacy foundation of the Fourth Amendment). Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Norman Solomon: Hunger and the Limits of Journalism

Norman Solomon / Truthdig May 8, 2006 "Journalists routinely function as cogs in media machinery that processes tragedy [in this case world hunger] as just another news commodity." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: Race Card Backfires on Republicans

Molly Ivins / Truthdig May 4, 2006 Dec. 16, 2005, is a day that will live in infamy in the Hall of Fame of Unintended Republican Consequences. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Rev. Madison Shockley: Christian Coalition in the Fray

The Rev. Madison Shockley / Truthdig May 2, 2006 The religious advocacy group is inserting itself into the fight over the San Diego congressional seat of disgraced ex-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: The No-Reform Lobby Reform Bill

Molly Ivins / Truthdig May 2, 2006 Calling this lobbying reform measure an "ethics bill" requires brass bravura. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )