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APRIL
2002
Colin Powell, Leave This
Administration!
April
30, 9:00AM · Colin Powell is a good
soldier. He does now what he and those like him have always
done. He follows orders, even the ones he has questions about.
But there comes a time when even the good soldier has to step
up and speak out for what he thinks is right.
By birdman
Today Video Games, Tomorrow
Online Communities?
April 30,
9:00AM · A right-wing judge ruled last
week that video games are not protected by the First Amendment.
How long before this ruling is extended to include Internet
Relay Chat and message boards?
By AngelKnight
Ashcroft and Consumers
April 30,
9:00AM · As President Bush's Attorney
General, John Ashcroft may become something of a student of
American legal history. However, his past job experience as
an attorney general indicates disregard of one of the clearer
lessons from the history books: antitrust prosecutions should
not be used to stifle political speech.
By Margie Burns
The Bowtie Brawler Takes
a Beating
April 30,
9:00AM · As a fan of both the "sweet
science" and politics, I was drawn to CNN's new Crossfire.
The promos run by CNN compared the new format to a prizefight
- and a real knockout occurred last Thursday night.
By Taylor Sias
Clinton's Example,
Bush's Strategy
April 27,
9:00AM · As the Republicans saw with
Clinton, we will see our key issues slowly undercut, dying
a death of a thousand slashes. And we will scream like extremists
about how wing-nut Bush is, while the media reports his moderation,
and the Republicans grin and slap each other on the backs.
By Joby
Comstock
The Man to Defeat George
W. Bush: John Edwards
April 27,
9:00AM · Edwards has the ability to
win back the south and energize the Democratic base and win
over moderates, to produce a winning coalition. By Prion
Call it a Conspiracy?
Yes, No, Still Vacillating 'Twixt the Two
April 27,
9:00AM · Regarding Bush's planning on
overthrowing the Constitution and establishing a dictatorship
on the pretext of 9/11, I find that flying in the face of
human nature. But then again... By Scaramouche
Bush Is Not Dumb; He's
Too Clever By Half
April 27,
9:00AM · George W. Bush is not dumb.
He is preying upon the citizens of this nation with a viciousness
and will that more resembles evil and lack of empathy than
lack of intelligence. By kentuck
When Cowboy Politics Falls
Short
April 26,
9:00AM · Unfortunately the United States
has a long and embarrassing history of polarizing complex
issues into asinine, media-fed dualities of good versus evil
when neither side is as good or evil as they are represented.
By Christopher
Miller
What We Stand For
April 26,
9:00AM · In these dangerous times, when
our hearts and our wills are tested by powers and ideologies
that seek to destroy the great vision this country was founded
on, it is necessary to speak clearly and plainly what it is
we believe in and why we fight. By Joe
Vecchio
The Marshall Scam
April 26,
9:00AM · How would the press react if
the President of the United States made a major address on
a critical issue that proved he was delusional, ill-informed,
contradictory, and essentially working and living in fantasy?
Unfortunately we now can get an answer to that question. By Joseph
Arrieta
A Simple Plan
April 26,
9:00AM · It's your right, as an American
to have as much energy as you can use (well, at least as much
as you can afford.) By Lincoln
Farnum
Time Out! A Pause for
Longer-Range Thinking
April 25,
9:00AM · Here, in short takes, are some
reflections on four areas that could use some deeper examination:
political despair, Bush's coming downfall, the new face of
warfare, and America's response to Islam. By Marie
Jones
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
April 25,
9:00AM · How do you raise a boy to know
peace in a world that increasingly embraces war? How do you
nurture a peacemaker when all around you, men are choosing
to kill, destroy, lie, cheat and steal in the name of religion,
greed, political beliefs, or just sheer nationalistic arrogance?
By Marie
Jones
Some Dare Call It Conspiracy
April 25,
9:00AM · I was going through some of
my old books and found a dog-eared copy of one called None
Dare Call It Conspiracy, by Gary Allen. In its day (1970),
it caused a minor sensation for its revelations. By Bassman
Pornographic News
April 24,
9:00AM · Each day my television delivers
my dose of pornography. It comes unbidden into my home, filling
the air with all the lurid details of someone's misdeeds and
twisted perversions. By Bridget
Gibson
Dumbing Down: America's Fast
Food Electorate
April 24,
9:00AM · Recent articles by Ernest Partridge
and Michael Gronewaller raise interesting questions about
the tactics which liberals need to use to restore some semblance
of democracy to our nation. Here is another opinion. By Christian
Dewar
My Favorite Republican
Hits Rock Bottom
April 24,
9:00AM · Don't we all have a favorite
Republican? I know I do and it's certainly not McCain or Snowe
or Chaffee. My favorite Republican is Robert K. "B1 Bob" Dornan.
By birdman
Reality Check II
April 23,
5:00PM · There may be very little that
I like about or agree with when it comes to Team Bush but
I have to give them credit where credit is due; they certainly
do provide a fella with an awful lot of inspiration. By Michael
Shannon
George, I Couldn't Agree
With You More
April 23,
5:00PM · Once you get Dick Cheney installed
as ruler of Iraq, it's only a 5-4 SCOTUS ruling to statehood,
two Republican Senators, countless House members and all the
oil we can use.
By RastaBob Martin
Watching Men Drown
April 23,
5:00PM · What is clear is that Americans,
average people like you and me, have lost their ability to
reason. Either that or American Nationalistic fervor is morphing
into fascism. By Maggie
Porter
The Feelings of One Airman
April 23,
9:00AM · In 1995 I took an oath to serve
my country and Constitution. Now, seven years later, I find
myself serving a fascist regime. By anonymous
That Deaf, Dumb and Blind
Kid
April 23,
9:00AM · Bush's lack of leadership skills
has never been more apparent than in his stance with the Middle
East. By W.
David Jenkins III
This Used to be a Helluva
Good Country
April 23,
9:00AM · It's time for all Americans,
regardless of political persuasion, to understand that bad
ideas will sink democracy. By punpirate
Need a Hand, Little Fella?
April 22,
5:00PM · If Bush had the diplomatic
sense of a grapefruit he'd make a call to Little Rock this
week. By birdman
One Wild Weekend in Venezuela
April 20,
9:00AM · Did the US meet with the leaders
of the recent coup in Venezuela and encourage them to overthrow
a democratically elected government? By Richard
Prasad
War on Terror: Year Six
April 20,
9:00AM · It is November 2006 and the
United States has opened a new military initiative in the
War Against Terrorism... By Scott
Sloan
The Yucca Mountain Plan
April 20,
9:00AM · Our beloved government has
decided, after 50 years of storage, that the 77,000 tons of
uranium rods must be moved to Nevada now. By Bob
Nichols
Iceberg Ahead in Florida
April 20,
9:00AM · The Florida Democratic Party
has set a course that could lead to a scramble for the life
boats if party leaders continue to ignore the impending iceberg
warnings. By Interfan
The Doctrine
April 19,
9:00AM · The Bush Doctrine is a hypocritical,
childish game of cowboys and Indians disguised as foreign
policy. With each passing day, it is becoming plain to see
-- to even the most casual observer of Bush's words and deeds
-- just how much of a threat the Bush Doctrine is to the stability
of the world. By S.A.
Lowery aka Khephra
Suddenly It's 2065
April 19,
9:00AM · Georgie Bush is president.
He's the grandson of number 43. Unfortunately, the country
has run out of Kennedys but there are a lot of Bushes still
around...
By Bob Volpitto
From Camelot to Crawford
April 18,
9:00AM · Last week Georgia Rep. Cynthia
McKinney asked the forbidden question concerning Sept. 11:
Why is the Bush administration stonewalling, and why has it
asked Senate investigators to back off? By warren
pease
One Flew Over the Coup-Coup's
Nest
April 18,
9:00AM · They do not hate us for our
freedoms specified by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
They hate us as an imperial country with the freedom to destroy
their fragile democracies, their resources and their humanities.
By Bridget
Gibson
Can Brock See Yet?
April 18,
9:00AM · David Brock's Blinded By
the Right is an apolitical book, and while it denounces
and apologizes for the "conservative movement" that replaced
politics with sex scandals, it does not make a political apology.
By David
Swanson
Sold to the Highest Bidder
April
18, 9:00AM · Sold to the Highest
Bidder is a book that I would recommend to anyone interested
in politics and how the property class has turned this country
into a plutocracy. By James
M. Kehl
Follow This
April 17,
9:00AM · As children we were taught,
as part of our culture, that conformity is desired over personal
expression, so that today we are conditioned to follow without
question. By Susan
Norman
The Intefadeh and Israel
for Dumbbells
April 17,
9:00AM · So much convoluted politics
in the Middle East, so much history, so much violence and
hatred. It's all so confusing. By Bernard
Weiner
Amateur Night in Ramallah
April 17,
9:00AM · As the past few weeks have
plainly indicated, the grownups may be back in charge at the
White House, but they are grownups who, at least on foreign
policy matters, are a pack of gibbering idiots. By Jeff
Ritchie
In Contempt of George
W. Bush
April 16,
9:00AM · I have studied Bush carefully
for many years now. I have deliberated thoughtfully, weighed
the mountains of evidence, and I have reached a verdict. I
find George W. Bush in contempt. By unblock
In Defense of Smart Tactics
April 16,
9:00AM · I wish I could say that Mr.
Gronewaller is just plain "wrong, wrong, wrong" about Mr.
and Mrs. Average American. Sadly, he isn't. Thus there may
be less disagreement between us than meets the eye. By
Ernest Partridge
Consequences of the Vast
Right Wing Conspiracy
April 16,
9:00AM · Bill Clinton's reputation needs
to be restored every bit as vigorously as it was destroyed,
to show the future that good leadership is rewarded, and treachery
is rejected. Not for Clinton's sake, but for our nation's.
By Joby
Comstock
A Modest Proposal
April 16,
9:00AM · It is a melancholy object to
those who journey through the history of this great country,
when they see how the rewards of preferential treatment have
benefitted the African immigrants over White immigrants. By Bob
Martin
Megadittoes Rush! First Time
E-Mailer!
April 15,
5:00PM · Mr. Limbaugh, your hypocrisy
is so voluminous that I don't know where to start. And, as
a back-handed compliment, I must admit that there's no way
to keep up. By Brian
Harwell
Clarence Thomas and the
Republican Right
April 15,
5:00PM · According to a recent report
by the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, the Bush administration
is pursuing policies that serve to resegregate America. What
does Clarence Thomas think of this? By Christian
Dewar
Don't Get Smart, Get Stupid!
April 13,
9:00AM · I really think the problem
is that we as liberals are in general far more intelligent,
well reasoned and educated, and will go to astonishingly great
lengths to convince people of the integrity and validity of
our fair and well thought out arguments. By Michael
Gronewaller
Designer 'Genes'
April 13,
9:00AM · The more money they get, the
more power they can buy. With more power, comes more money,
which buys more power, which…well, eventually they accumulate
enough wealth to in essence buy the government. By Kerry
Tomasi
Journey of a Seed
April 13,
9:00AM · Dorothy Walker Bush planted
a seed in her dear child George, and he apparently transplanted
it into the game of politics and transmitted it on to his
seedling sons. By Teresa
Simon-Noble
ANWR and Snake Oil
April 13,
9:00AM · According to the GOP, drilling
in ANWR will boost the economy, create new jobs, make more
fuel available, and probably will cure the common cold. By Radfringe
Button This (Beware of
the Lobsterman)
April 12,
9:00AM · I swear, George, you have to
stop this. You're embarrassing us in front of the whole world.
I wouldn't be surprised if your Mom was slapping your Poppy
upside the head for rigging the "election." By W. David
Jenkins III
What is the Shape of
the Activist Web?
April 11,
9:00AM · Oddly enough, I feel the Activist
Web must take a page from Rush Limbaugh. He started out by
entertaining with jokes and music and then sucked in the dittiots
for his rant. Similarly, we need more than dead-on-arrival
all-politics sites. By Jim
Mooney
America is Not Bush's
Sandbox
April 11,
9:00AM · Once in the White House, Bush
began playing with America as if it belonged to him, as if
it was his sandbox to play in. He could decide who could play
with him, and who had to be sent away. America was HIS! By Madison
Cut the Ties that Bind
April 10,
9:00AM · Mr President, how can you possibly
reconcile the contention that Iraq is a hostile regime while
at the same time ignore the fact that American corporations
continue to profit from and lend support to it?
By Michael Shannon
The Myth of Republican Tax
Cuts
April 10,
9:00AM · If you're frantically in the
midst of finishing that annual math test given by the IRS,
you probably don't have time to figure out whether or not
you actually received a much-publicized tax cut that Republicans
like to claim they gave you in 2001. By Jackson
Thoreau
FAQ: Bush on Foreign Policy
April 10,
9:00AM · Given the current war on terrorism,
many people are turning their attention toward foreign policy,
and some of the people are actually employed in the Bush Administration.
By Jeff
Ritchie
The "Alice Documents":
Inside the Mideast Negotiating Room
April 10,
9:00AM · The enclosed documents purport
to be a record of what transpired inside the Mideast negotiating
room. We can't verify the authenticity of the "Alice" documents,
but they certainly do make one wonder - and think. By Bernard
Weiner
I Would Like to Know Why...
April 10,
9:00AM · I would like to know why I
never hear the questions that I want asked in the media. By TruthIsAll
On Heroes, Heroism, and
Julie Hiatt Steele
April 9,
4:30PM · To me the real act of bravery,
of heroism, is the conscious, deliberate decision to embark
on a course of action that carries a significant risk of physical
to oneself in doing so, and deciding to take that risk.
By Robert C.
The Bush Education Bill and
the Post
April 9,
4:30PM · With the signing of HR1, President
Bush's "education reform" legislation, the Washington Post
Company stands to reap a bonanza in the hundreds of millions
of dollars.
By Margie Burns
Don't Just Get Mad, Get
Smart
April 9,
9:00AM · Now really, what is the objective
of the dissenting internet: to share our rage at the usurper
regime, or to restore our democracy? If the latter, we'd best
take careful assessment of our tactics. By Ernest
Partridge
George W. Bush's Call
for Volunteers in the Service of America
April 9,
9:00AM · In the 1970's Bush uncharacteristically
volunteered to work at a Houston antipoverty charity program
where his father was an honorary chairman. This was the first
and last time the Dubya had ever demonstrated any 'compassionate
conservatism' towards the less fortunate. By Christian
Dewar
The Short History of
the Bush Doctrine
April 9,
9:00AM · The Bush Doctrine worked well
in Afghanistan and as it related to Al Qaeda. But it leaves
little leeway when the situation is not so black-and-white.
By Eric
Munoz
Presidential Documents
April 9,
9:00AM · It is beyond-belief shocking
to see executive orders given to the President of the United
States by oil companies, and then to see him obediently issuing
the order he was asked to issue. Yet that is exactly what
happened, last spring. By Margie
Burns
DEAR
WORLD
Bloodshed, and an
American Hero
April 6,
10:00AM · here in America, we're remembering
a great hero. A hero who just might offer some hope for you
all. The guy I'm talking about is Martin Luther King. By Patricia
Heartland
Faith Based or Faith Debased?
April 6,
10:00AM · The mixture of religion and
politics is a modern Molotov cocktail that can and does kill
innocent men, women, and children. By
Bob Thorn
Making a Killing
April 5,
9:00AM · It would have been a bitter
death for the brave American soldiers fighting in Europe if
they had realized that comfortable American businessmen back
in the States were making fortunes financing the same industrial
cartels that manufactured the weapons that were being used
to kill them. By Christian
Dewar
Bush's Phony Afghan Drug
War
April 5,
9:00AM · The sad truth is that the US
does not want to stop the drug trade in Afghanistan, because
that would mean taking on the Afghan warlords, and if the
US did that, we might face a wider, more intense war than
we faced against the Al Qaeda. By Richard
Prasad
Dear Walt Isaacson...
April 4,
9:00AM · Which is it, Walt? Money or
cowardice? A bit of both, maybe? Did somebody get to you?
By Warren
Pease
The Carlyle Crusaders
April 4,
9:00AM · This strange war in Afghanistan
has made it painfully clear that, terrain and mobility aside,
there is no place and there is no time on "tomorrow's battlefield"
for heavy artillery. Unless the Carlyle Group can make a quick
buck, that is. By Sheila
Samples
The Danger of Apathy
April 4,
9:00AM · Why does the Radical Right
dominate the abortion debate? By Patrick
Ennis
The Armageddon Policy
April 3,
9:00AM · Our current President has repeatedly
suggested that ours is a holy war, a war against all evil,
and that invoking God's help is necessary for victory. By punpirate
The Limits of Collective
Punishment
April 3,
9:00AM · Apparently, both the Israelis
and the Palestinians have yet to discover something that most
teachers, historians, and drill sergeants already know: collective
punishment seldom works. By FDRLincoln
The Stealing of a Culture
April 3,
9:00AM · An open letter to Rep. Diana
DeGette (D-CO) on the subject of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA). By Walker
Draft Dodger in Chief
April 3,
9:00AM · Perhaps it is the wish of George
W. Bush that the citizens of the U.S. never learned or have
forgotten his own blemished military record and that of many
of his most bellicose, militant advisors. By Christian
Dewar
Guns, Oil, Payback
April 2,
9:00AM · Want to understand the junta
in power? Its as simple as G - O - P: we've got the Guns;
we'll take the Oil; anyone who objects we'll Payback. By arendt
Calico Cats Admit Fear
of Attorney General
April 2,
9:00AM · A new poll of calico cats across
the country reveals that a great majority of them are deathly
afraid of Attorney General John Ashcroft. By Gil
Christner
Reality Check
April 2,
9:00AM · The conventional wisdom that
we are being well served does not stand up quite as unscathed
as the apologists of the Bush administration would have us
believe. By Michael
Shannon
Bush and Leadership: Never
the Twain Shall Meet
April 2,
9:00AM · The media in all its insipid
desire to praise the President, and to a much larger extent,
the citizens of the United States, have missed the point.
By JM
Bush's Nuclear Madness
April 1,
3:00PM · The Bush administration's recent
decision to revise this county's nuclear weapons policy should
send a shivering chill down the spine of every human being
living on this planet. By Bassman
Not by Nukes
April 1,
3:00PM · Far easier to build than nukes,
build in big numbers, and build discreetly, are EMP bombs.
By bkl
Mushroom Nation
April 1,
3:00PM · If the United States is on
the side of truth and right, if we stand on the side of the
angels, why does this administration wish to operate in secrecy?
By Christian
Dewar
A Peek Inside Osama bin
Laden's Diary
April 1,
3:00PM · By all rights, I should be
dead by now. But the Americans always seem to leave avenues
of escape; I'm beginning to suspect that's by design, as Bush
can use me to scare his people and carry out his Pax Americana
plans around the globe. By Bernard
Weiner
I Am a Modern Conservative
April 1,
3:00PM · The instinct of self-preservation
is what fuels my hatred not only for those unlike me but also
for those who are less than able-bodied or able minded. By Neuvocat
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