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George W. Bush said Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime had chemical and biological weapons and a revived nuclear weapons program. It did not.
Philosophy student Julian Johannesen and photographer Cosby Lindquist have been encamped in the neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio, for more than a year.
The presidential campaign debates are over, and the time for decision has come. The Nation endorses Senator John Kerry to be the next President of the United States.
Reservists mutiny in Iraq, old people keel over standing in line for flu shots and all sorts of cats leap out of Bush’s bag of secrets: According to Ron Suskind’s revelatory New York Times MagKatha Pollitt
Let’s hedge this with all the usual qualifiers. Kerry could pull it out. The spread’s within the margin of error. Respondents to polls are lying out of fear of John Ashcroft.
He can’t remember one mistake.
He’ll stay on course till Hades freezes.
How can he be so certain still?
Because he’s got the word from Jesus.
The new Tom Waits album begins, in very Waitsian fashion, with a racket: a squall of percussive noise that sounds like it was recorded in a freight elevator.
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