ItĆ¢€ā¢s reasonable to estimate that more than a quarter of a million people demonstrated against the Iraq war on Saturday in Washington,…
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President Bush has evaded Cindy Sheehan’s question, “What was the noble cause that my son died for?” But he provided a partial…
Calls for firing Michael Brown are understandable. Aptly described as “the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA” by columnist Maureen Dowd a…
The man in the Oval Office is fond of condemning Ć¢€Åkillers.Ć¢€Ā But his administration continues to kill with impunity. Ć¢€ÅThey can go…
The men and women of the National Guard shouldnĆ¢€ā¢t be killing in Iraq.They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi. The…
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For a long time, the last refuge of scoundrels was Ć¢€Åpatriotism.Ć¢€Ā Now itĆ¢€ā¢s Ć¢€Åthe war on terror.Ć¢€Ā President Bush and many of…
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