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05 January 2007
Celebrity carnage
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Robert Koehler
"He spent the rest of the day working to pull the dead bodies of his family from the rubble of his home, finally reaching his dead son at 4:00 p.m."

- Human Rights Watch, in a 2003 report on the U.S. air war in Iraq and the...
05 January 2007
Gerald Ford's failure of nerve
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Paul Loeb
Compared with Nixon and the Republicans who followed him, Gerald Ford looks like the embodiment of Main Street decency and prudence. Ford’s judgment seems even better when we learn that he told Bob Woodward that the Iraq war was “a big...
04 January 2007
Not even the sense of a duck
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Molly Ivins
The president of the United States does not have the sense God gave a duck -- so it's up to us. You and me, Bubba.

            I don't know why Bush is just standing there like a frozen rabbit, but it's time we found out. The...
02 January 2007
Live spring
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Robert Koehler
Is Santa real? What about God? Or Mr. Stranger Danger? A 5-year-old's curiosity is a wonder to behold - more than a wonder if you haven't had your coffee yet, or if you're trying to get last-minute Christmas shopping done at Target and...
31 December 2006
The ethics of Palestinian resistance
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David Swanson
With Jimmy Carter's book a best seller and the Iraq War a top political concern, many Americans may have an interest right now in thinking about Israel and Palestine.  I'd like to recommend to anyone with that interest picking up a copy of...
28 December 2006
Farewell to our greatest president
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Alexander Cockburn
Adieu, Gerald Ford! It has always been my view that he was America's greatest president. Transferring the Hippocratic injunction from the medical to the political realm, he did the least possible harm. Under Ford's tranquil hand the nation...

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