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The posts below are in reverse chronological order with newest posts at the top. Voters Love Me, This I KnowIt's called a mandate.
MAN-date. Look it up. It isn't a date between two men.
To Front Page | Read This Story Show And TellAmerica once advised soldiers
that "Loose Lips Sink Ships," but really, who needs ships
anyway?
To Front Page | Read This Story A Rose By Any Other Name Still Has ThornsJust because there are two
sides to every story doesn't mean both are right.
To Front Page | Read This Story Two Roads Diverged In A Yellow WoodTaking the road less traveled
by would be poetic justice—but lousy politics.
To Front Page | Read This Story There's Got To Be A Morning AfterSometimes having faith in
your ideas isn't as important as having faith in your ideals.
To Front Page | Read This Story Near To The Madding CrowdMy country 'tis of thee,
bleak land of the GOP, for thee I wring.
To Front Page | Read This Story Winter Of Our DiscontentWith so many candidates and
clauses vying for my attention, I wonder: Is there such a thing as Voter's
Block?
To Front Page | Read This Story Just A Spoon Full Of SugarFriends tell me that Anyone
would be better than four more years of Bush, but what if I don't want just
Anyone to be President?
To Front Page | Read This Story War Of The WorldsAliens are among us, but
seeing them everywhere is as dangerous as not seeing them at
all.
To Front Page | Read This Story "When They All Come, We Finish It Off"How do you make peace with
men who are at peace only when you are resting in it?
To Front Page | Read This Story Free At Last, Free At LastAnd the rockets' red glare,
the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still
there.
To Front Page | Read This Story A Cry Heard Round The World"We hold these truths to be
self-evident ... that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights..."
To Front Page | Read This Story A Tale Of Two CitiesMoral equivalence is a tricky
thing; moral ambivalence, a dangerous one.
To Front Page | Read This Story Amazing Grace, Fantastic CourageI marveled at her naivete
when she said "just say no." Now I marvel at Nancy Reagan for a different
reason altogether.
To Front Page | Read This Story Open Minds And Closed HeartsIf a gun goes off in a
foreign land, does it matter who carries it or what cause they're fighting for?
To Front Page | Read This Story A Thug By Any Other Name Is Still A ThugSome acts are so heinous that
appeals to religion, political causes, or cultural referents cannot excuse
them.
To Front Page | Read This Story She Said, He Said?The great thing about the
news these days is that there's something in it for everybody. No matter what
one believes.
To Front Page | Read This Story On War And PeaceIt's been almost three years
since 9-11. Are we any safer today?
To Front Page | Read This Story Tilting At WindmillsPolitics can neither excuse
nor prevent acts of terrorism that belie justification.
To Front Page | Read This Story "Great Caesar's Ghost, Kent! Get That Story!"Intern scandal? Haven't we
heard enough about Bill Clinton? But wait, it's not Bill
Clinton.
To Front Page | Read This Story Testing Whether That Candidate Can Long EndureCaffeine, hot water, and
politics clearly do not mix well for me.
To Front Page | Read This Story Turning Swords Into PlowsharesTwo porters saved Greg
Mortenson's life. Now he is repaying them by saving their children's future.
To Front Page | Read This Story Some Ideals Are Worth Fighting For; Some Columnists Aren'tCalling upon Iraqis to kill American
soldiers, Iraqi collaborators, and foreign relief workers is taking political
commentary too far.
To Front Page | Read This Story "What Did I Know And When Did I Know It?"Governor-Elect Arnold Schwarzenegger
sets out to prove that California politics really are a glitch in the
Matrix.
To Front Page | Read This Story What Is The Matrix?"As you can see, we've had our eye on
you for some time now, Mr.
Anderson."
—Agent Smith, The Matrix. To Front Page | Read This Story You've Come A Long Way, BabyThe German electorate isn't getting
any younger. Some politicians have radical plans to change
that.
To Front Page | Read This Story First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Jews--Part IIThere's a cloud in every silver
lining.
To Front Page | Read This Story Between Iraq And a Hard Place"On the whole we have little or no
idea of your culture (no one told me squat about Iraq before I came here) so
anything you can tell us that will help us work with you is
great."
—American G.I. in Iraq. To Front Page | Read This Story U.S. To Search Aircraft After Box Cutters FoundA chilling reminder that the "friendly
skies" remain a lot less friendly than we once imagined.
To Front Page | Read This Story First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The JewsMalaysia's prime minister has plans to
foster Muslim success—but they're largely old bigotries, repurposed in new
guises.
To Front Page | Read This Story North Korean Video Packs Punch, Lacks Subtlety"We clearly remember the blood and
tears we shed, and you were the cause of our country's
division..."
To Front Page | Read This Story Needed: A New Political OrderArnold's campaign strategy, not
Davis's tenure, is what we most need terminated.
To Front Page | Read This Story CIA Paid Mullahs To Spread Moderate MessageA new book claims that the CIA paid
moderate Islamic leaders to counter anti-U.S. sentiment in the Arab world. If
that's true, why tell us about it?
To Front Page | Read This Story Appeals Court Blocks California RecallWho is to govern California—will
the last person voting please turn out the light?
To Front Page | Read This Story Arafat Is In Mortal Peril, But Not From You-Know-WhoThe public announcement that Israel
may assassinate Yasser Arafat was politically foolish, even though the words
alone may accomplish the deed.
To Front Page | Read This Story Is The Plaintiff Mightier Than The Sword?Arabs and Jews are back in the
news—and back in court. But don't expect either side to collect much on
these claims.
To Front Page | Read This Story Clever Is No Substitute for CognizantI respect his intellect, but I'm
selling short on this economist's political future.
To Front Page | Read This Story War Is Hell; It's Also ExpensiveHow many Wars of 1812 does it take to
equal the cost of one Iraq conflict?
To Front Page | Read This Story Politics Make Strange BedfellowsOur Saudi Arabian allies have targeted
an agent of Western decadence—and this time, it's not George
Bush.
To Front Page | Read This Story And A Little Porn Shall Lead ThemAll boobs and no brains? Mary Carey
is full of surprises.
To Front Page | Read This Story Win One For "The Gray"California First Lady Sharon Davis has
a blog. Guess who she's supporting in the recall election?
To Front Page | Read This Story Make Your Job Interviews A Success—The California Way!The state's gubernatorial candidates
can teach us all a lot about how to apply for a job.
To Front Page | Read This Story Arafat's Request For Assurances Shows His HypocrisyYasser Arafat wants Israel to promise
that it will not kill or capture him if he visits Gaza. Pity that he didn't
feel the same way about the teens he sent to die there.
To Front Page | Read This Story Appeals Least Likely To Be GrantedThe lawyer for smiling Bali terrorist
Amrozi makes a novel argument for sparing his client's life.
To Front Page | Read This Story Remembrances Of The Father We Never KnewSaddam Hussein's daughters recall his
virtues, not his vices—but why is their image so
distorted?
To Front Page | Read This Story How can we lose with them on our side?Holy Angels, Batman--politician super
heroes!
To Front Page | Read This Story Profile in courageAn Iraqi man hid from Saddam Hussein's
secret police for 22 years behind a false wall in his home.
To Front Page | Read This Story "Welcome to the Real World"The Pentagon is shopping for ways to
capture everything a person sees, says and hears as part of a project it says is
meant to help create smarter robots.
To Front Page | Read This Story Terrorism—An American ProductAn Arab intellectual argues that the
U.S. is the true source of terrorism
To Front Page | Read This Story Sesame Street Used To Break Iraqi POWsAmerican interrogators of Iraqi POWs
have an unlikely new ally: Elmo.
To Front Page | Read This Story Looking Long Into the AbyssThe Pentagon plans to develop a
massive computer surveillance system that would have the power to track people
as never before. Does this make you feel safer or less
secure?
To Front Page | Read This Story The Sinister Politicide of Yasser ArafatIf instability defines a crisis, then
the sociopolitical situation in the Middle East has become so predictably and
consistently violent, that we need a new vocabulary to describe
it.
To Front Page | Read This Story Dying Strength and War With IraqOne hopes that the military has not
seen too many Hollywood movies in which the "bad guys," though mortally wounded,
always endure long enough to wreak a last act of vengeance.
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