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Mexican’s Cry: Legalize It!
Mexico’s Narco Opera Reaches for High NoteBy John Ross / May 25, 2008 Mexico’s on-going Narco Opera is straining to reach new dramatic heights. Springtime 2008 has been for killing. Since Good Friday (March 21st) when 22 citizens were slaughtered … Continue reading
Fox News’ Liz Trotta Jokes About Killing Obama
Fox commentator slams Clinton, jokes about killing ObamaBy Nick Langewis / May 25, 2008 This morning, while discussing the media uproar surrounding Senator Clinton’s latest invocation of Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, Liz Trotta, former New York bureau chief of … Continue reading
R.I.P. Utah Phillips
One of the great hobos, labor organizers, union men and singer/writer/mentors Utah Phillips passed away on Friday night. He was 73 years old and I suspect any reader of Songs:Illinois will be well aware of the work of Utah. Newer … Continue reading
US "Superpower": Not Without Foreign Money
War Abroad and Poverty at HomeBy Paul Craig Roberts / May 23, 2008 The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring. As the US is broke and deep … Continue reading
To Play the VGC Opening for Velvet Underground
This just discovered today, a new Austin e-mag called the Blunderbuss. Randy Kirchhoff is part of the effort, and a fine one it looks to be. Our congratulations to all involved. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Vulcan Gas Company … Continue reading
Maureen Dowd : All About Eve
Hillary’s inelegant misspeakBy Maureen Dowd / May 25, 2008 Maybe it was the proximity of Mount Rushmore and Deadwood, but something caused Hillary’s inner Eve Harrington to leap out in South Dakota. Venturing into Daschle-Obama territory, she inadvertently and inelegantly … Continue reading
Barack Obama wants Bill to heal Hillary Clinton wounds
Obama’s team think their man and Bill Clinton can reunite the partyAn assassination remark is the latest twist to sour relations between the two rivalsBy Sarah Baxter / May 25, 2008 WASHINGTON — Barack Obama, the probable Democratic presidential nominee, … Continue reading
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U.S. Economy On Very Shaky Ground
Tim Backshall, chief credit derivatives strategist at Credit Derivatives Research LLC, sits for a photo in his office in Walnut Creek, California, on May 6, 2008. Photo by Andy Freeberg/Bloomberg Markets via Bloomberg News. A long but very good analysis … Continue reading
Will You Explain the Surgical Use of a Five-Hundred Pound Bomb in a Densely Populated Suburb?
On Generals Testifying Before Congress: A Mash NoteBy Fred Reed, April 14, 2008 Whenever I see that some dismal general will testify to Congress regarding the war against Iraq, I imagine the first paragraph of his Power Point presentation: “All … Continue reading
War: A Plague on the Minds of Those Who Fight It
Memorial Day, 2008By Juan Cole Memorial Day is about honoring those who have sacrificed themselves for the nation, in our armed forces. We cannot honor them properly unless we know the full extent of their sacrifice. We have to count … Continue reading
With Equal Parts Grace and Calamity
The Conlin-Beavan family experiment requires that lights be low in their Fifth Avenue apartment. Photo: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York TimesThe Year Without Toilet PaperBy Penelope Green / March 22, 2008 DINNER was the usual affair on Thursday night in Apartment … Continue reading
The War on Terror Meets the War on Immigrants
From the H-Blocks to a Texas Jailby Sandy Boyer and Shaun Harkin / May 24, 2008 Twenty-six years ago, Pol Brennan was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh, watching his friends die on hunger … Continue reading
