LOS ANGELES -- On the televised surface, the Democratic National Convention exuded plenty of sweetness and generosity. One speaker after another explained that America's working people have a wondrous friend in a party that is committed to...
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15 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- I'm not a weapons expert, and you're not a weapons expert,
so how are we supposed to know whether the National Missile Defense system
is a good idea?
Even if you've read enough about it to be skeptical, there are real...
13 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Seems like half of Texas is busy manning the pumps on both
sides of the state's reputation.
The Bushies keep trying to prevent the foreign press from portraying us as a place where retarded people are promiscuously...
11 August 2000
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The Striking CWA Workers and their Student Allies
The clash between the increasingly corporatized and Republican-dominated OSU administration and the underpaid Communication Workers of America OSU...
10 August 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- What with George W. Bush moralizing all over us from
Philadelphia and Al Gore back in his Dudley Do-Right mode choosing the
seriously righteous Joe Lieberman, looks like we're in for a season of moral
one-upmanship and...
10 August 2000
It's always dangerous when politicians claim to be doing God's will. So,
as the novelty fades from Al Gore's selection of Joseph Lieberman,
journalists should ask some probing questions about the ticket's
conspicuous piety.
Over the...