December 29, 2003
Watch What You Wish For
George W. Bush is going to wish he never heard of a spider hole.
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December 14, 2003
One Down, But How Many More?
They finally bagged the Butcher of Baghdad. Let’s hear, once again, three cheers for the Red, White and Blue. Seriously, this is a historic event for which the brave men and women of the United States’ Armed Forces deserve the commendation of all freedom-loving people in this world, not to mention the eternal gratitude of the long-suffering citizens of Iraq.
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November 4, 2003
The Nature Of Freedom
Something has been bugging me for quite a while.
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September 17, 2003
A Matter Of Trust
Despite Summer’s steady stiffening into Fall, things are heating up. The economy remains steadfastly going nowhere and the federal deficit -which, according to the experts, isn’t necessarily a bad thing- is looking to be $500 Billion next year. Former General and television pundit for military affairs, Wesley Clark just announced his intention to vie for the chance to become President.
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September 3, 2003
The Truth Of The Matter
So Thomas L. Friedman thinks America and American interests are destined to prevail in the Arab world because 4.5 million people voted for a winner in “Superstar,” the Arab version of “American Idol.”
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August 27, 2003
A Left & A Right
I have felt just the tiniest bit of pride in heretofore producing this series of essays wholly out of the cloth of my own thoughts, informed, I hope, by the various threads of texture, color, and substance I manage to glean by having an open mind, an inquisitive spirit, and a desire to distinguish between fact and fiction in this wacky world.
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August 24, 2003
California Recall 2003
In a Democracy, the People get the government they deserve.
-Adlai Stevenson
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August 1, 2003
Kucinich in 2004
Hope springs eternal.
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July 16, 2003
Remember the Bastille
As we enter the dog days of Summer, who is not nearly glazed-over by the who-shot-John of all the discredited, manipulated, politicized, fabricated, misinterpreted, misattributed, so-called intelligence upon which the Bush Administration relied to entice Congress, the media, and the public to accept the fiction that it was absolutely, frighteningly imperative we commit hundreds of thousands of American armed services personnel to “indefinite” duty in the Persian Gulf?
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July 1, 2003
Give A Little Bit
George W. Bush needs our help.
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