Monthly Archives: November 2005

Over the Top

11/24/2005 – 9:39 am

Thanksgiving is a past tense holiday; present tense at best. It’s not about the future, except as a subject for meditation. We can today reflect on what we’ve done with what we’ve been given and how we might use those gifts to shape our future. A worthy exercise for any last Thursday [...]

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Below the Fold

11/17/2005 – 1:00 pm

George W. Bush’s polling numbers continue to seek new lows. Even Republicans in the Senate are lining up behind resolutions pressuring the White House to set a timetable for getting out of Iraq and banning torture. Could our long, national nightmare be coming to an end? Are we turning a corner? [...]

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What Will It Take?

11/10/2005 – 9:55 am

My country invaded a nation was not a threat to ours. We didn’t have good intelligence before the invasion and when I write “we” I mean the citizens and, apparently, the Congress.
As far as we can tell, the vice-presidential-Pentagon cabal that runs our government had good intelligence, but instead cooked up a pack of [...]

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The Tonya Harding Defense

11/3/2005 – 10:35 am

A week after Harriet Miers withdrew her name from consideration for Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat on the Supreme Court, the search for a qualified candidate goes on. Yes, George Bush nominated Samuel Alito Monday morning, yes, Mr. Alito has experience as a constitutional lawyer and yes, 15 years behind the bench on the Third [...]

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