Month: April 2005

The Iraq War: Good Idea or Bad?

MaggieEh and I have been having what I consider a very interesting discussion about Iraq in a subthread of an old diary on which no one else but the two of us has posted for days now.  And (I hope doing this is okay with...

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Can the President Read?

The commission looking into the ostensible intelligence failures that led our country to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, has quietly released a 601-page report. There was almost no media coverage of the launch of...

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Education and "The Mighty Wurlitzer"

Those who read this site regularly know how hard it is to get the ordinary person to accept that much of what they read in the press on political issues is inaccurate, often framed and deliberately distorted by what we often...

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