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QUESTIONS FROM THE RIGHT
A reader writes, in re: href="http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives20050601.shtml#100916" target='new"'>Myth vs. Fact: Is Africa the Lost Continent? “What about all the aid that gets...
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HISTORY’S VERDICT: GUILTY AS CHARGED?
Will two hearings — one official, the other not — be seen by historians as a href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/17/071404.php" target='new"'> color=#003399>turning point in ending the...
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MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK
“Watching the Sunday morning’s talk shows provided possible answers to some political riddles,” regular correspondent Alan Edelson writes. He continues: There was target='new"'>John McCain on Meet...
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‘LAST THROES’ . . . UH-HUH
align=right border=0>Need some entertainment on a Monday morning? How about ABC chief White House correspondent href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=127239" target='new"'>...
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AGUILERA’S ‘TORTURE’ MUSIC
Prompted by Time magazine’s href="http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1071230,00.html" target='new"'>Inside the Wire at Gitmo, about an interrogation at Guantanamo’s Camp X Ray in...
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KILL BILL, THE LATEST VERSION
align=right border=0>The demonization of Bill Moyers is not limited to conservative venues. It also finds a warm, comfy outlet on supposedly liberal PBS. George Neumayr, executive editor of the...
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NPR-UNION EPIC FEUD; D’ARCY ON THE GUGGIE
A labor arbitration hearing has been finalized for July 7 to settle the case brought against National Public Radio by the union representing a staff editor who was disciplined for his supervision of a...
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Regarding Christina Aguilera’s “Torture” Music, we have a taker: LOONY TUNES Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,Or cause cardiopulmonary arrest.It all depends on the listener’s cultural...
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HEADLINES AND STORIES TO LOVE
Earlier this week in Monday Morning Quarterback, a regular correspondent wrote that Joe Biden “has the experience and the smarts to be a fine president.” I myself like the Democratic senator’s...
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THE DICTIONARY STRATEGY
Parsing words is the liar’s last resort. So Cheney Boy had nowhere else to go to justify his absurd claim that the Iraq insurgency was in its...
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99 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL
Summer is soon upon us, and it won’t be long before it’s off to overnight camp for many lucky youngsters. They’ll be writing home, of course. href="http://www.lowculture.com" target='new"'>Low...
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WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ BY CHRIS HEDGES
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743255127/antiwarbookstore/002-08207 80-0660049" target='new"'> src="http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/images/HEDGESbookcover.jpg" width=140...
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FRANK, RICH, AND DANDY, HE KEEPS ON TRUCKIN’
The latest target='new"'>Frank Rich column is a dandy recap of what’s been happening in The Land of Oz. “The attacks [on the press] continue to be so successful that even now, long after many news...
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BATTLE OF THE PREWAR MEMOS
Another prewar memo, written July 21, 2002, two days before the famous Downing Street memo, has come to light. href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1648758,00.html" target='new"'>...
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‘CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE’ FUN FOR CAMPERS
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/americas/2002/inside_camp_xray/meals.stm " target='new"'> width=170 align=right border=0>More...
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HOLD THE FRIES, LEFTIES ARE NOT ALONE
I never thought I’d be glad to hear from a Goldwater Republican, much less agree with him. But Straight Up reader M. Paulding has changed my mind. He writes in response to...
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THE ‘DOMESTICATED’ PRESS
“Exhibit A” of a “domesticated” press. That’s what former CIA analyst href="http://faculty.schreiner.edu/tomwells/ray_mcgovern_bio.htm" target='new"'> color=#003399>Ray McGovern calls this...
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NEW BLOGGER ON THE BLOCK
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MYTH VS. FACT: IS AFRICA THE LOST CONTINENT?
Economist target='new"'>Jeffrey Sachs was his usual stellar self earlier this week at the target='new"'>Council on Foreign Relations – calm, cogent, full of facts (all of them broken down into...
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KING GEORGIE BARS THE DOOR
width=200 align=left border=0>Congressman John Conyers Jr., far left (courtesy of the daily Kos — have a target='new"'>look at this), was barred from delivering a petition to Georgie Boy that...
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