Month: March 2006

Awake America

Awake America America Awake The serpent’s in your garden And Hannibal at your gate Glory, greed, and gluttony The war of sins play on Master, martyr, emperor So sate you on your young © Jill Stone My good friend Jill...

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Time: GOP Nervous About Midterms

Time Magazine does a horse-race article: The signs suggest an anti-Republican wave is building, says nonpartisan electoral handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, whose Rothenberg Political Report is closely followed in Washington....

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Iraq: Smoking Guns and Smoking Crack

NYT’s Don Van Natta Jr. reports this morning on yet another Downer Street Memo. Below the fold: Bush caught with his hand in the cookie jar again, and Charles Krauthammer makes fun of the sissy...

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The Democratic Spine

Alexander Cockburn is one of my favorite columnists. He’s out there. He doesn’t mince words. I’ve been reading his stuff in The Nation for two years now as a subscriber [subscribe here!]. His latest “Beat...

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Thoughts on Iraq

The President went to war in Iraq (according to the notes of David Manning, Tony Blair’s chief foreign policy adviser at the time) because we could not allow Saddam to go on playing with us. We can try to parse that turn...

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