What should be the most important issue in this election is one that is rarely, if ever, addressed: Why is
U.S. military spending at the highest point, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than at any time since the end of World War
II? Why, without a sophisticated military opponent in sight, is the United States spending trillions of dollars on the development of high-tech weapons systems that lost their purpose with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago?
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THE MOST intriguing revelation of Special Prosecutor Patrick
J.
Fitzgerald’s news conference last week was his assertion that he
would have presented his indictment of
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby a
year ago if not for the intransigence of reporters who refused to
testify before the grand jury.
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MAYBE IT’S because I recently was awakened by a volley of gunshots
that resulted in the death of an innocent college student – a
budding leader in her community – that I am so outraged that
Congress has decided to grant the gun lobby its most fervent and
irresponsible wish: blanket immunity from civil lawsuits.
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MEDIA corporations are arguably the most important yet least examined
centers of power in our society.
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GOV. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger, it turns out, is just an action figure.
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CRONY CAPITALISM is the name of the Republican game.
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APPARENTLY,
IT took divine intervention in the form of Hurricane
Katrina to make George
W. Bush, the compassionate conservative, aware
of the existence of poor people in our midst.
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THERE’S
NEVER a terrorist around when you need one.
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WHAT THE WORLD has witnessed this past week is an image of poverty
and social disarray that tears away the affluent mask of the United States.
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