A flip-flop by George W. Bush worsened the military-political debacle in Fallujah last April when the Bush administration overruled the Marine commanding general twice, first ordering him to undertake a retaliatory assault against the rebellious Iraqi city and then abruptly reversing direction three days later.
Vice President Dick Cheney has gone to great lengths to conceal who helped him write the administration's ill-conceived energy policy, which is little more than billions in tax giveaways to the energy industry
"The government is taking public property in the airways, licensing them to a small number of people, and is looking the other way as those people advance their own commercial interests and won't allow room for questioning."
Nearly everyone who is anyone in the high brow art world has been trying to kill painting for almost 50 years now. Painting refuses to die.
A worldwide call for new artwork inspired or about Mexican virago Frida Kahlo.
Blogger Felix Salmon was optimistic about the Freedom Tower, but he recently noted some concerns.
Woody Allen said: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Would you want to live forever?
for the week beginning 9-13-04
"Smokie has never been in a better shape than now"-Terry Uttley
Re-Issues for Re-Animator, amongst many others, and also a couple classic TV sets and so on.
An interesting program on The Question of God will be worth catching tonight on PBS.
It tickled me to have a good reason to give a column a title like this. It doesn't happen every day.
John Kerry suggested Saturday night that Republicans may try to keep black voters from casting their ballots to help President Bush win in November.
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