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Bush Bashers & the Bashers Who Bash Them Bush Bashers & the Bashers Who Bash Them

For well over a decade now, right-wingers and Republicans have heaped insult, lies and slander on liberals and Democrats, who responded for the most part by becoming starchy, sel...

Aug 26, 2004 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Zombies for Kerry Zombies for Kerry

Didn't John Kerry ever read about rope-a-dope? Karl Rove must be kicking his heels with merriment at the way the horse-faced son of Boston is tangling himself up in the Swift Boa...

Aug 26, 2004 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Vietnam Confessions of George W. Bush The Vietnam Confessions of George W. Bush

"I am angry that so many sons of the powerful and well placed...managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units." --Colin Powell on the Vietnam War, in My American J...

Aug 26, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Iraqi Olympic Soccer Players Kick the Stuffing Out of Bush’s Fantasy Iraqi Olympic Soccer Players Kick the Stuffing Out of Bush’s Fantasy

Team members do not want to be used as an ad for the presidential campaign.

Aug 24, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Kerry Made a Bush League Error on Iraq Kerry Made a Bush League Error on Iraq

His refusal to recant his war vote plays into the President's hands.

Aug 17, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Alternative Visions Alternative Visions

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Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Dr. Marc Siegel

PBS Adds Insult to Injury PBS Adds Insult to Injury

Click here to ask PBS CEO Patricia Mitchell to reconsider the network's new conservative slant. CORRECTION: The Dow Jones Corporation's total revenue (not profit) topped $1.5 bil...

Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman

Bush, After Saying He’ll Cede Hollywood to the Democrats Because He Has the Regular People Behind Him, Sings a Song to That Effect, to the Tune of That Old Bush, After Saying He’ll Cede Hollywood to the Democrats Because He Has the Regular People Behind Him, Sings a Song to That Effect, to the Tune of That Old

Regular people, just plain working folks
Always stood out in my eyes.
I scorn all those people who drink wine instead
Of eating Frito pies.

Aug 12, 2004 / Column / Calvin Trillin

One More Chalabi Black Eye One More Chalabi Black Eye

A close alliance between Iraq and the fanatical ayatollahs of Iran is the most likely accomplishment of the US invasion.

Aug 10, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

Kerry’s Past Is the Key to His Future Kerry’s Past Is the Key to His Future

The paranoia that young Kerry warned against is now a staple of the Bush re-election campaign, and Kerry must meet it head-on.

Aug 3, 2004 / Column / Robert Scheer

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