Category Archives: Commentary

Sound As a Dollar

7/24/2003 – 11:56 am

Administration budget officials last week projected that the deficit will reach $455 billion this year. What was truly frightening about the announcement is that previous projections by these same people have proven to be wildly optimistic. When the Bushies say we’re going to have a half trillion in debt, what might the real number be? […]

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Reality Bites

7/17/2003 – 11:54 am

Claudette arrived in Texas this week, coming ashore as a weak hurricane. She is not Andrew or Camille, one of those storms that’s remembered for a generation; but she arrives at a turning point in weather history. Earlier this month, the World Meteorological Organization announced that temperatures and storms across the planet are becoming more […]

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Support Our Troops?

7/10/2003 – 11:50 am

Greg MacDonald was a complex man. He had a degree in philosophy, studied Arabic, volunteered for the anti-war group Peace Action in Washington, DC. Greg was also a four-year veteran of the Marine Corps Reserves. Although he’d volunteered at Peace Action and attended anti-war rallies, he was a lance corporal in Bravo Company, 4th Light […]

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Out in California

7/3/2003 – 11:49 am

Out in California, they’ve got an economic crisis. The new fiscal year has begun for the Golden State, no budget is in place and there’s a $34 billion deficit. State offices are closing or cutting back, state services are being stopped for lack of available funds. Because of the budget shortfall, it will be a […]

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Buy American

6/26/2003 – 3:06 pm

Unemployment is now at six percent, a nine-year high. Times are hard, they may get harder. How will people make ends meet? What will they do to get by? I spent a good part of the 1990s traveling around America, missing most of the tourist spots. My travels took me to the Rust Belt, towns […]

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Call Him Ismail

6/19/2003 – 3:04 pm

In 50 or 60 years, as historians write about this period, they will detail the formative experiences of a prominent anti-American leader. We know quite a bit about this man already, but one thing we don’t yet know is his name. For the sake of convenience, let’s call him Ismail. Ismail, as his name suggests, […]

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You Can Quote Me

6/12/2003 – 3:02 pm

On August 26, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said, “Simply stated, there’s no doubt Iraq now has weapons of mass destruction.” There’s a reason Dick Cheney spends most of his time in hiding and it ain’t national security. What Mr. Cheney said was not qualified, it was not tentative, it was not equivocal, but it […]

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