“On the cold moonlit evening of March 5, 1770,” writes David McCullough in his magisterial “John Adams,” “the streets of Boston were covered by nearly a foot of snow.”
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This White House gang is so practiced in lying with a straight face that it never thinks twice about recycling its greatest hits.
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For more than four years, the Bush administration and its oil company cohorts have worked toward the passage of a new oil law for Iraq that would turn its nationalized oil system over to private foreign corporate control.
The Bush administration is trying to protect itself by purging independent-minded prosecutors.
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As the Democratic House passes the CLEAN (Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation) energy act, promising to generate $14 billion over 10 years by repealing subsidies to oil companies and invest the money in renewable energy sources, it is … Read more »
“During the election campaign, House Democrats promised to take our country in a New Direction, to change the way Congress does business, and to get to work addressing the real challenges facing the American people. All within the first 100 … Read more »
Provocative words by President Bush and a fresh American military buildup in the Persian Gulf seem to mark a new focus on Iran that could signal another Cold War or even a deadly confrontation
For a time, conservatives reacted to those who raised parallels between Iraq and Vietnam with shock, dismay, even rage.
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The lesson of the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s was that when a bank has failed, you should shut the thing down. We should do the same with President Bush’s failed war.
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