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July 2004

WHAT PRICE UNANIMITY?

Wednesday, 28 July 2004 9:52 A GMT-07

Another analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report, this one written by Ray McGovern and published online by Tom Paine.Common Sense, http://www.tompaine.com . It tells how commission vice chairman Lee Hamilton, when caught off guard in an interview by

9/11 REPORT NEEDS READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Sunday, 25 July 2004 5:06 P GMT-07

The long awaited report of the so-called 9/11 Commission is a mixed bag. Very thorough, as far as it goes, it does a good job of spelling out what happened and makes some timely reccommendations. Unfortunately, in it's desire to present a unanim

A TALE OF TWO (CORPORATE) CITIZENS

Friday, 23 July 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

I'll admit it. I have a tendency to avoid patronizing big, successful companies. Or, if I do patronize one now and then, feeling just a tad guilty when I do. Too often their success has come at the expense of their consumers, suppliers, employe

SEN. ROBERTS LEAVES KANSAS FOR OZ

Wednesday, 21 July 2004 3:08 P GMT-07

.Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) has followed Dorothy's journey from Kansas to Oz. As Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Roberts has released the Committe's report claiming that faulty intelligence given to the Bush administration by the CIA w

DRAGGING GOD INTO POLITICS - OR - HYPOCRISY AND HYPERBOLE

Sunday, 18 July 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

It's been a while since I posted one of Molly Ivins' columns. I particularly like this one as it reflects my own opinions about dragging God into politics as too many politicians try to do. I think the human quality that I most despise is hypocr

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A WOLF(OWITZ) AT THE DOOR

Friday, 16 July 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

NOTE: I want to wish News-Opinion a hearty "HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY." It was a year ago this month that I started this blog-site!! In that time the number of "hits" here has reached 13,000. Not the greatest number compared t

HOW OUR FAITH-BASED MEDIA FAILED

Friday, 16 July 2004 4:20 P GMT-07

At long last a few voices among the corporate media are admitting what has been obvious to many (though not enough) of us since before the invasion of Iraq: they have been giving the Bush administration a free ride, accepting "on faith"

THE COSTS OF FOLLY

Thursday, 15 July 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

Now that we've experienced the fiction of "handing over sovereignty" (sic) so that Iraqis "have their country back," Derrick Z. Jackson asks, "how long will it take for us to get our country back?" A columnist for t

WHITE HOUSE GETS COAT OF WHITEWASH

Wednesday, 14 July 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

Finishing up the July 12, The Progress Report , http://www.progressreport.com , with the third and last segnent from that publication. The Senate Intelligence Committee report released last Friday appeared on the surface to put the responsibility f

INTELLIGENCE CORRUPTED TO FIT POLICY

Wednesday, 14 July 2004 12:52 P GMT-07

Following up on the subject of my earlier blog today, I'm posting this commentary by Ray McGovern published online by Tom Paine.com , http://www.tompaine.com . Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst for 27 years, is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Profes

PLAN TO HIJACK ANOTHER ELECTION? -- OR -- LINCOLN TURNS IN HIS GRAVE

Tuesday, 13 July 2004 5:16 P GMT-07

Here is a second segment of The Progress Report of July 12, http://www.progressreport.com . It looks at the effort -- apparently Tom Ridge has been made the point man -- to see if there is a way the Republicans can "postpone" the Novembe

OUTFOXING FOX

Tuesday, 13 July 2004 3:46 P GMT-07

This seems to be the summer of hardhitting films that take on the Bush administration and the corporate media in the U.S. So far, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 has gotten the most attention. And rightly so. It's been setting all kinds of b

HOW TO BE ABOVE THE LAW

Sunday, 11 July 2004 8:44 P GMT-07

Throughout the presidency of Bill Clinton, Republicans kept harping on the notion that no one -- not even a president -- is above the law. That truth should be an accepted axiom. Clinton was rightly held to that standard and was exonerated by th

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THE GREAT 'FLIP-FLOP' ISSUE

Sunday, 11 July 2004 9:25 A GMT-07

The Bush/Cheney campaign has been attacking John Kerry for having "flip-flopped" on a number of issues or positions. The attacks are a gross distortion of Kerry's record and attempt to paint a picture that is not at all acc

THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

Saturday, 10 July 2004 11:44 A GMT-07

I have no interest in astrology, palm reading or other pseudo-scientific charlatanism. I've thought for many years, however, that handwriting analysis is another kettle of fish. I even dabbled at it myself years ago. I never worked at it hard e

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HIDDEN IN THE NOONDAY SUN

Friday, 9 July 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

The threat of domestic terrorism from the anti-government, white supremacist, neo-nazi types that gave us the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, is not getting much attention in the media or from Bush administration officials. Why this silence? The disco

WILL IRELAND BE NEXT?

Thursday, 8 July 2004 5:35 P GMT-07

In preparation for his recent trip to Ireland, G.W. Bush agreed to an interview by the Washington correspondent for an Irish television network. Apparently Bush assumed that the innocuous questions -- and lack of follow-up -- he's used to getti

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EDWARDS NOT 2nd CHOICE FOR KERRY

Thursday, 8 July 2004 5:27 P GMT-07

John Nichols, a staff writer for The Nation, http://www.thenation.com , posts a regular column for the Online Edition of that magazine called, "The Online Beat." Almost immediately after the announcement that John Edwards was named by Jo

KANGAROO COURT FOR SADDAM

Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:45 P GMT-07

I don't believe I've ever posted two consecutive articles by the same author, let alone THREE! Well, I've said more than once that Robert Scheer is my favorite columnist, so there! This essay is a follow-up to my post earlier today. The author

EX-TERRORIST NOW IRAQI P.M.

Wednesday, 7 July 2004 12:44 P GMT-07

Iyad Allawi, handpicked by the Bush administration to be the interim Prime Minister of Iraq is an ex-terrorist who plied that trade for the CIA in an effort to "destabilize" Saddam Hussein's regime in the 1980s. Hard to think of terrorist

TORTUROUS ROAD TO JUDGESHIP

Tuesday, 6 July 2004 3:46 P GMT-07

The man in John Ashcroft's Justice (sic) Department who wrote the memo which sought to justify the use of torture for Iraqi "detainees" has been rewarded with a lifetime appointment as a judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Read ab

IRAQ 'SOVEREIGNTY' A SHAM

Sunday, 4 July 2004 5:32 P GMT-07

On June 24, on the eve of the "turnover of sovereignty" to the Iraqi Interim Government, I posted a blog entitled "Inventing 'Sovereignty'" in which I suggested that the entire exercise was a sham. From a post-turnover perspec

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PROBLEMS IN IRAQ & IN U.S. VOTING

Friday, 2 July 2004 11:59 P GMT-07

In my blog of June 30 entitled, "Ideological Obsession and Cronyism," I made reference to a just released report by the Governmental Accounting Office (GAO) in Washington, that indicated that, in several very important ways, the Iraqi peopl

HEALTH CARE CRISIS OF FAITH

Thursday, 1 July 2004 3:39 P GMT-07

The crisis in the U.S health care system just continues to deepen. It is incomprehensible that the wealthiest country in the world still attempts to get along on an antiquaited and unworkable system. Every other industrialized, "developed&qu

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