When the people at the top lie and deceive it has a way of percolating down to the bottom. The Iraq war has been nothing if not a barrage…
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I was listening to one of George Bush’s little tetes-a-tete with the red state citizenry the other day. He is taking his hyped-up case for revamping Social Security “to the people”…
Back in 1968, when I and my family flew out to San Diego to begin my job as an assistant professor at SDSU, we were accompanied by a contingent of…
I feel a twinge of guilt using Terri Shiavo as my lead in this piece. The poor woman has been exploited by the Republicans, the anti-abortionists, lawyers, clerics, and…
“Supporting the Troops” has become axiomatic in the discourse on the war in Iraq. This mantra is our prime Viet Nam legacy. No matter how you feel…
Almost the sure sign that our own democracy is in peril is the political drum beat that we must bring democracy to the rest of the world. This political evangelism is…
It would be unseemly to, let’s say, wish for the Iraqi election to be a flop. You have to admire those people coming out to vote, walking, not riding…
It would be a stretch to conflate the American torture antics at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo with the horrors of Auschwitz and the other Nazi extermination camps that are being…
In the Middle Ages the Germans had an adage, stadt luft macht frei , city air make one free. During an historical period when religious authorities and the manorial system were…
Don’t ever ask Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan “what time is it?” This guy is such an automatic prevaricator he is going to give you the wrong time, probably…