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Articles
JULY
2002
Putting Lipstick on a Pig
July 31,
2002 · A juxtaposition of Bush's words
or actions to some of the more memorable words spoken by his
predecessors gives a much clearer sense of just how well the
'boy who would be President' stacks up. By Eric
Munoz
A Poisoned Well
July 31,
2002 · Have we all gone crazy with blind
patriotism? I wonder. War against Afghanistan was crazy enough,
and now, after not being able to solve the fundamental problem
- terrorism by a small group of Islamic fundamentalists, we
are now rushing headlong into yet another war, with Iraq.
By punpirate
Appointment Embarrasses Administration
July 31,
2002 · Sometimes a person is so wrong
that they are almost right. In the case of the appointment
of Priscilla Owen, Bush has gone so wrong that he is past
right and back to wrong again. Far from a conservative justice,
Owen is one of the most radical judges on one of the most
conservative courts in the country. By Nicholas
Pyeatt
Options, Options
July 30,
2002 · Our Merino senators uttered nary
a bleat when that felon Jeff Skilling says it's just too complicated
to explain, but lack of or not sharing knowledge has never
been my style. If you know the crux of the options controversy,
by all means click on. John McCain is still wrong about Vietnam,
but probably - probably - right this time. By Joseph
Arrieta
Giving the Draft the Shaft
July 30,
2002 · Ask yourself: What kind of uproar
would arise if reinstatement of the draft followed an ill-advised,
illegal, and undeclared war that Pentagon officials and our
allies have spoken out against? And even worse, how many mothers
would stand for having their sons inducted when those declaring
war stand to benefit from war?
By Maureen Farrell
The Immaculate Perception
July 30,
2002 · War on Terror and her bastard
son, Security, are superb examples of political (people) manipulation.
Is it possible that we could declare "war" on "war on terror"
without perceived collateral and unintended damages to the
child 'neath her skirt? By Jarab
RFK: A Reflection on True
American Leadership
July 27,
2002 · Perhaps, in stark contrast to
what we currently have in the White House and on the Hill,
“RFK” may help remind us that we should expect (or even demand)
more of our leaders than that they look like someone we’d
like to drink a beer with. By Dwayne
Eutsey
The War for Votes
July 27,
2002 · Make no mistake about it. Our
country is on a collision course with the destruction of anyone
or anything that might question the current administration’s
bloodlust and thirst for the supremacy of the ruling class.
By Bridget
Gibson
Circumcised War
July 27,
2002 · The troops of our Turkish allies
lent their support to the grand effort to eradicate terror
last week by arranging a mass circumcision for young Afghan
boys in Kabul. The "war on terror" that began with such clarity
of purpose appears to have had a similar procedure performed
upon it. By Mike
McArdle
So They Said
July 26,
2002 · George W. Bush is unfit
to be President of the United States. And now, finally, the
people, the press, and even the businesses that supported
Bush are realizing what the rest of us knew all along - that
shoehorning an incompetent moron into the oval office wasn't
such a good idea after all. By Frederick
H. Winterberg III
Lemming Patriots
July 25,
2002 · Republicans use patriotism the
way snipers use tall buildings, it’s just a way of getting
a better shot at the people they want to take out anyway.
So imagine my revulsion, as the entire Senate leap frogged
over one another for the en masse photo op of reciting the
Pledge of Allegiance. By Terry
Sawyer
The Coming Toil
July 25,
2002 · Whoever is lucky enough to unseat
Dubya, they'll wish they hadn't. What's ahead of any new officeholder,
in Congress, in the White House, in the State Houses around
the country, is a daunting task: undoing the damage done by
politicians favoring deregulation and minimized oversight
by government. By punpirate
Watch What You Wish For
July 24,
2002 · We of the loyal opposition have
a bit of a problem. No, I do not mean that George W Bush is
the President - that is not a little problem, it is a monumental
problem. The problem I refer to is how do we best insure that
his tenure in office is a four year problem and not an eight
year one. By Mike
Shannon
Play It Again, George
July 24,
2002 · In Gulf War I we boasted that
we "eliminated" 100,000 Iraqis and lost only 150 of own soldiers,
many to friendly fire. We saw on the evening news long lines
of burned out enemy vehicles that were destroyed during Saddam's
retreat from Kuwait en route to the sanctity of their homeland.
By Bob
Volpitto
History Won't Absolve
Mr. Bush
July 23,
2002 · History will not find the US
a law-abiding nation under President Bush. And yet, the 1990s
had been the decade celebrating International Law. Had the
people of the US not been informed of that? By Luciana
Bohne
When Geedubya's in Crawdad...
July 23,
2002 · It is somehow grotesque that
we were allowed during those dog days of summer to blissfully
fritter away our last days of Constitutional freedom as we
know it. Freedom that throughout our proud history - until
last summer when we were knocked flat on our emotional backs
- was worth fighting for. By Sheila
Samples
Ask Marilyn, Get a Right-Wing
Response
July 23,
2002 · Marilyn Vos Savant devotes about
half of her column space each week to Mensa-type games, brain
teasers, word puzzles. I guess that's what people with the
highest IQ are supposed to devote themselves to. Or is it
that people who devote themselves to this crap end up testing
with the highest IQs? By David
Swanson
If a Fella Won't Let Ya
Look, He Must Be Hiding Something
July 20,
2002 · George W. Bush said that Sadam
Hussein "refuses to allow us to determine whether or
not he still has weapons of mass destruction, which leads
me to believe he does." Who could argue with that, other than,
say, some bleeding-heart criminal defense attorney trying
to convince the jury that his client's failure to testify
shouldn't be taken as an indication of guilt? As if. By Doug
Pibel
Let It Be War!
July 20,
2002 · I remember my mother telling
me when I was an idealistic teenager about a person who she
heard say in public prior to WWII, "If it means higher prices
for corn, then let it be war!" I could not help but think
of those callous words when I ran across an article by Larry
Kudlow of the National Review. By Thomas
James Martin
One Week in the Life of an
Operation TIPS Volunteer
July 19,
2002 · Today we get a rare glimpse at
a week in the life of one of these patriotic Americans who've
volunteered to join their work with our Homeland Security
needs. Joe Bigelow (an alias, of course) is not just your
average cable guy. He's an unsung hero who gives of himself
to keep the rest of us safe. And he's agreed to share a week
of his personal journal with us. By Mike
McArdle
A Letter From California
July 19,
2002 · Almost all of California is focused
on regular life and dreading the day they have to pay attention
to politics. After the stolen election, electricity debacle,
tech meltdown and the realization that the President and Vice
President are just two more corporate crooks Californians
are doggedly keeping their heads down while chugging through
a summer of work, play and life. By Joseph
Arrieta
Inside Bush's Diary: The
Sucking Sound of Quicksand
July 18,
2002 · The stuff has hit the fan, and
our administration is covered in huge chunks of it. It's like
we're being sucked into quicksand and can't seem to escape,
no matter how much we bob and weave. And the damn media -
the media that's kept silent and supportive up til now - is
starting to resemble the circling sharks of old. By Bernard
Weiner
Ann Coulter and the Cancer
of the Far Right
July 17,
2002 · I love this great country of
ours, and I have witnessed the rise of a cultural and political
mindset that aims to literally suck every bit of life out
of our institutions. I have tried to shy away from this reality,
but recent events have convinced me that this reality cannot
be ignored. The modern conservative movement in general, and
the Republican Party establishment, is morally bankrupt.
By Rafique Tucker
Whose Economy?
July 17,
2002 · Which is it? The Clinton economy
or the Reagan economy? Conservatives just can't keep their
stories straight. After hearing for the eight years of Clinton's
presidency that it was not the Clinton Economy but the Reagan
Economy, President Bush on Monday 7/15/2002 gave Clinton the
credit for the great economy of the last decade.
By Dennis Elliot
The Five Point Plan
July 17,
2002 · As a lifelong Democrat I was
disappointed by the banal five point plan that the Congressional
arm produced for the upcoming election. In a time with so
much at stake it was disenchanting that the party big wigs
did not take the opportunity to come up with a truly innovative
document.
By Nicholas Pyeatt
Rabid Radio
July 16,
2002 · In the 1990s, conservatives with
big bankrolls began building what has become a monopoly of
talk radio. Its first voice to gain nationwide attention was
that of Rush Limbaugh. Since then, uncreative clones have
sprung up to push their extremist views - carbon copies of
each other - coast-to-coast. By George
H. Beres
The Fugitive Atheist Act
July 16,
2002 · When history is gone, we will
be in the land of George Santayana, doomed to repeat the worst
brutalities of the twentieth century and the worst inequities
of the Robber Baron Era while fighting over the same worthless
"my god is bigger than your god" turf as the sixteenth century
wars of religion and the eleventh century crusades in the
Holy Land. By arendt
All Newt's Children
July 13,
2002 · The blame game is in full swing.
We needn't look to transcendent concepts or Bubba's crotch
for the answer. As much as anyone, the person at the heart
of the current scandal is a certain aggressive, chubby guy
with white hair. By Mike
McArdle
Cooking America's Books
July 13,
2002 · Much like the much maligned,
and deservedly so, corporate crooks now on the spot, George
Bush based his budget on money that wasn't there. Under Bush's
tax cut plan, revenue forecasts for the next decade or so
were based on the rosiest scenario, while outlays were calculated
to grow modestly, and did not take into account population
growth or inflation. By Eric
Munoz
The Party of Excess
July 13,
2002 · There should be a day of reckoning
for the most basic lack of compass that has enveloped our
nation. This country has sat back and idolized wealth as the
end-all and be-all and allowed anyone who possesses enough
of the green to flout any and all rules that they have not
bought into legislation. By Bridget
Gibson
The MRC and Liberal Media
Bias: Creating Their Own Enemy
July 12,
2002 · It's an Orwellian irony: Conservative
pundits can only justify their overwhelming domination of
the news media if they can prove that Liberal Media Bias exists.
Enter the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell's media hit
squad for the right, running on a healthy dose of Scaife money
and lucre from other conservative cash cows. By Mark
Weber
The Tarantula Tango:
Despair and Hope in the Body Politic
July 12,
2002 · Rather than rant at length about
the daily Bush&Co. outrage or scandal -- they come so fast,
it's hard to keep up -- let's take a step back for some longer-range
perspective. By Bernard
Weiner
Malefactors of Great Wealth
July 11,
2002 · Without reasonable regulation
of the markets (something Mr. Bush disdains), there will simply
be no end to the stock-rigging scandals and the continued
enrichment of corporate insiders. Given the fact that insider
trading is, itself, largely responsible for the President’s
personal fortune, it seems highly unlikely that this administration
plans to do anything substantive. By Jeff
Ritchie
Can Ideologues and Pragmatists
Coexist?
July 11,
2002 · There's a whole spectrum of voices
within the Democratic Party. On one hand, congressional Democrats
have become so concerned about winning the next election that
many have abandoned criticism of George W. Bush. Other Democrats
and leftists stake out ideological positions that seem to
be self-defeating. By Jack
Neefus
Spongewallet-Bush Pentagon-Pants
July 10,
2002 · The followers of Spongewallet-Bush
Pentagon-Pants don't like to delve too far from that Alternative
History Channel Murdoch is running so they are probably unaware
of the similarities between their own cartoonish FAUX ratings
grabber in the Oval Office and the one from Bikini Bottom.
By Paul
Winkelmann
Former Governor of Texas
Says "No More Stealing, You Guys!"
July 10,
2002 · The former Governor of Texas
is truly exercised about this issue. Apparently, the little
problem WorldCom had, the one with putting $3.8 billion into
the wrong column, was just about almost the final straw, pretty
close. He got onto the teevee and was downright snappish,
and proclaimed that this sort of chicanery just has to stop.
By Doug
Pibel
Meet the New Boss; Same as
the Old Boss
July 10,
2002 · Putting around the family golf
course on his birthday with dear old dad, our Fearless Leader
seemed undaunted by (or smirkingly oblivious to) reports of
the growing political instability in Afghanistan, or the widening
number of economic scandals shaking corporate America, or
the countless other "distractions" flaring up in the New World
Disorder that he has helped to create. By Dwayne
Eutsey
The Pledge-o-Matic
July 9,
2002 · The Pledge-o-Matic is a life-sized
genuine looking school student replica that recites the pledge
at the touch of a button. It has enough built in features
that you can stay one step ahead next court decision or political
mood swing. By Mike
McArdle
Bush's Harken Mistakes
Blamed on Clinton's Penis
July 9,
2002 · In a move to fend off questions
about the administration's ability to handle the corporate
accounting scandals, the White House today placed responsibility
for George W. Bush's own previous SEC troubles squarely on
the shoulders of Bill Clinton's sexual escapades. By Gil
Christner
The Different Colors of
Green
July 9,
2002 · As I survey the mountains around
Pine Ridge, I can still see the remnants of the dirt roads
and mudslides from the mining of sixty years ago. I wonder
to myself, "Was it worth it? What did we get for our mountains?"
In all my travels, I have yet to see mountains as beautiful
and endearing as the hills of home. It is sad to see the damage
that has been done to these jewels. By
kentuck
A Cynic's Guide to the 2002
Election
July 2,
2002 · I feel that the demographics
of the US are turning the Democrats' way - but then 9/11 happened
and the party seemed to completely lose its voice. However
it's not at all too late for the party to hold its own and
possibly gain some valuable ground this fall. Here's one way
to do it. By Mike
McArdle
Thieves With Briefcases
July 2,
2002 · Here we have a President whose
one claim to academic/intellectual fame is that he is the
first MBA to hold the office of Chief Executive of the United
States and what happens? Right in the middle of his watch
corporate America plunges into the biggest meltdown of investor
confidence since the early days of the Great Depression. By Michael
Shannon
Just Kidding...
July 2,
2002 · Many liberals mistakenly believe
that the right wing has an emotional investment in the logic
of its own claims and, as a result, is due any day now to
simply die of embarrassment. By Pamela
Troy
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