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CHANGE THE COURSE

Excellent news, Americans! At last, BushCheneyRummy & Company have decided that they can no longer “stay the course” in Iraq.... Read more...

GOOD NEIGHBORS, BAD FENCE

By gollies, our congress critters have finally done something about illegal immigration! Just in time for November’s congressional elections, the... Read more...

WAL-MART'S NEW LOOK

The modest, working-class persona is passé. Wal-Mart… is on the way up! Deciding to market to a more affluent clientele,... Read more...

IRAQI-STYLE "DEMOCRACY"

In George W’s Glorious New People’s Democracy of Iraq, journalists don’t strive to win a Pulitzer Prize – they strive... Read more...

THE WAR TALLY

Bodies. Dead ones. Dead bodies are the harsh, horrifying, riveting realties of war. That’s why those who make war don’t... Read more...

SPANKING CEOs

What’s the matter with CEOs? Why is it that they brutally fire so many loyal and productive workers, willfully pollute... Read more...

"CORRUPT KARL" AND JACK

Remember ol’ Whatzhizname? You know, Jack Abramoff, the disgraced superlobbyist who confessed early this year to corrupt influence peddling in... Read more...

STATE SECRETS

In repressive regimes, it’s common for the authorities to run closed governments – and its also common for them to... Read more...

DRINKING LIBERALLY

Why should politics be nothing but an interminable series of deadly-serious, often-boring meetings? I say we ought to “put the... Read more...

KATHERINE HARRIS SPEAKS

Let me begin by thanking God for Katherine Harris. She is such a picture-perfect example of ultra-right-wing looniness, theocratic hubris,... Read more...

PITY FOR CEOs

Friends, I’m appealing today to your most charitable instincts. I want you to know about the terrible oppression being suffered... Read more...

IT'S 2006, GEORGE, NOT 1706

Here’s today’s phrase: habeus corpus. This phrase embodies the democratic principle – enshrined in our Constitution – that government officials... Read more...

WAR PROFITEERS

War is hell – unless you’re the CEO of a corporation that profiteers on the hell of war. In that... Read more...

INTEL PICKS OUR POCKETS

The current congress has not merely practiced business-as-usual – but business-Far-More-Than-usual. Congressional leaders have rammed through a blizzard of subsidies,... Read more...

BUSH HAS A COW

When George W talks publicly about his war in Iraq, he always points to his multinational partners, dubbing them the... Read more...
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