A letter in Sunday's Austin Statesman cites a David McNeely column, "(Governor) Perry taking asbestos loss hard" and comments that: <begin quote> Gov. Rick...
The pension revolution began at IBM, with 350,000 employees getting screwed with cash balance plans. It seems that not only was pension expense (FAS 87)...
Standard Operating Procedure By PAUL KRUGMAN Misleading the public has been a consistent strategy for the Bush team on issues from tax policy to the war in...
__'Gross Scandal': Telecom and Broadcast Industry Paid $2.8 Million for Trips of FCC Employees Molly Ivins writes: "This is a gross scandal. The Center for...
West Europe Is Hard Hit by Strikes Over Pensions By MARK LANDLER A wave of strikes from France to Austria left much of Western Europe snarled, as protesting...
We should be doing the same thing...striking over our social security mess and our health care mess... Well Martha is now legally a criminal...what a...
__If WMD Claims Were Fraudulent, 'Worst Scandal in American Political History' Paul Krugman writes: "It's no answer to say that Saddam was a murderous tyrant....
OP-ED COLUMNIST Duped and Betrayed By PAUL KRUGMAN How can we maintain Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security at today's tax rates? We can't. June 6, 2003 ...
__Cheney and Wolfowitz Pressured CIA Analysts on Iraq Reports WashPost reports: "Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past...
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/magazine/08WWLN.html ... I have belonged to the Republican Party all my life. As a Republican, I have served as a cabinet...
I dont have time at this moment to read the article...the problem for me here is that IF they find any WMD...it will always be in my head that maybe the...
One must wonder if, in the absence of the substantial WMDs claimed to exist and the now revealed doctoring of intelligence to suit White House needs, if "W"...
... to ... Take a look at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030606.html ... Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if...
... OMG -- and a Republican at that! I noticed on a news commentary program tonight that they rightfully pilloried Sen. Craig for holding up a bill authorizing...
It looks like there will be hearings....no question that bushie had a vindetta against Sadam....it would be good to keep the Bush team tied up in hearings...
Our Magnificent Military Leader, who got daddy to get him to cop out on the Vietnam War, it seems, along with his right-wing friends on the Supreme Court, is...
A recent NYT op/ed piece recommended that readers replace the word "taxes" with "services". Looking at a number of Bush's speeches in this light, the results...
... Works beautifully... (excerps from the most recent 'bush, taxes' google search that it could muster below) ... House raises price tag for new services...
Accounting After Andersen What Has Changed, What Hasn't Ari Weinberg, 06.11.03, 11:13 AM ET This is a story about how the accounting profession has changed...
Hindsight of course is 20-20...but I belive it was a very big mistake for Bush to make such a big deal and shake hands in the mid east...I think this will be...
... In my opinion, she is unelectable to such an office not only because many seem to be unwilling to vote for a woman in such a capacity and because she is...
Press avoids news in Blumenthal book Joe Conason - The New York Observer 06.11.03 - As anyone who has written a book about American politics in recent years...
__They're Not 'Conservatives', They're Feudalists Thom Hartmann writes: "The real agenda of the new conservatives is nothing less than the destruction of...
__Grover Norquist's Pipeline Leads to the White House Jill Zuckman writes: "Those who believe in a 'vast right-wing conspiracy' might trace its path to a...