LIKE old clothes, the language of the old Cold War is comfortable, but not presentable. The “West” is not western. “Eastern” Europe is no longer eastern; central Europe is no longer central.
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Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) introduced the Restore Act, a bill aimed at bringing back into balance the need for security and liberty in the government’s surveillance efforts.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday announced that he will trim Britain’s forces in Iraq nearly in half, withdrawing 2,500 troops by early 2008.
WHAT’S the difference between a low-tech lynching and a high-tech lynching? A high-tech lynching brings a tenured job on the Supreme Court and a $1.5 million book deal. A low-tech lynching, not so much.
Whether we avert catastrophe with climate change may actually be decided by Citibank and Bank of America.
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This Sunday marks the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. Following the 9/11 attacks, President Bush promised the country “sustained, comprehensive and relentless operations to drive [terrorists] out and bring them to justice.”
This morning, President Bush stood for bad government, insurance companies and cheaper tobacco and vetoed expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to cover 10 million kids.
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I am speechless.
Six weeks of people-powered activism has produced a thrilling victory:
You killed the “dirty trick” by the Republicans to steal the White House.
Two career investigators in the office of State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard have charged that they were threatened with firing if they cooperated with a congressional probe of Krongard and his office.
Unless President Bush backs away from his threat to veto a significant expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, it will be incumbent on all Republicans in the House who value health care over ideological warfare to summon the … Read more »
