Molly Ivins / TruthdigMar 2, 2006
I'm against Saddam Hussein. I'm sorry it didn't work out the way they wanted it to. Now let's go. Because anybody who tells you it couldn't possibly get worse is a fool. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigMar 1, 2006
It's the season's big hit, a zany farce with pompous officials in the Bush administration and their hysterical courtiers in the mass media asserting positions that are patently absurd but hilarious to watch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Jon Wiener / TruthdigMar 1, 2006
At Huffington's recent Democratic Party fundraiser, Howard Dean talked a lot, in strong language, about retaking the House but was stunningly silent on Iraq. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Molly Ivins / TruthdigFeb 28, 2006
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. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Norman Solomon / TruthdigFeb 27, 2006
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. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Larry Gross / TruthdigFeb 27, 2006
OK, the votes are in and now we all, or those of us who care, will have to wait till March 5 to find out whether the high water mark of the Year of the Queer in Hollywood will have been the nominations sweep by "Brokeback Mountain," Hoffman, Huffman, etc. In other words, did the Academy voters actually mark their ballots for this year's apparent favorites? Will the foxy stalwarts of cable talk shows be proved wrong again?
When the Brokeback wave first broke over the industry the predictable consensus of the bloviators was that the "gay cowboy" film would bomb once it ventured outside the coastal enclaves into the heartland, but that it would clean up at that March madness of the lavender left known as the Oscars. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Andy Borowitz / TruthdigFeb 25, 2006
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. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Molly Ivins / TruthdigFeb 23, 2006
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? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigFeb 22, 2006
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. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Molly Ivins / TruthdigFeb 21, 2006
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. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Andy Borowitz / TruthdigFeb 18, 2006
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) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigFeb 15, 2006
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. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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