Both were delivered by Jay Leno and, to avoid partisanship claims, I'll list one for each: (Dem) If Kerrey is elected President, he may be the first person in ...
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/ 0,,SB108363156752601022-IFjfINglaF3mpusaHuGbamHm4,00.html ... President Bush first proposed a richer Medicare-drug benefit...
Some Cities Struggling to Keep Pension Promises By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH Many cities that offered their workers large retirement pensions find that their pension...
I will be going to an Academy of Actuaries meeting 5-6 and 5-7 in Washington. My fav subjects--SS, Medicare and medical care, retiree medical systems and...
OP-ED COLUMNIST Restoring Our Honor By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Without an overhaul of its Iraq policy, this administration is courting a total disaster for us all. ...
Bush Proposes a Plan to Aid Opponents of Castro in Cuba By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS President Bush announced a plan to increase dramatically the money for Cuban...
U.S. Rules Morning-After Pill Can't Be Sold Over the Counter By GARDINER HARRIS Drug regulators were concerned about whether young girls would be able to use a...
Florida Judge Authorizes Removal of Feeding Tube By ABBY GOODNOUGH A Florida judge has ruled unconstitutional a law that empowered the governor to prolong the...
A Giddy Heartland Gives Bush Warmth Missing in the Beltway By JIM RUTENBERG President Bush's stops in the Midwest, part of his three-day bus tour, have scored...
Growth of Jobs Reinforces Hopes of Sustained Turnaround By LOUIS UCHITELLE The nation's employers added hundreds of thousands of jobs for the second month in a...
Hey, I have it---bring back Halliburton from Iraq to provide the security. May 8, 2004 POLITICAL MEMO A Collision of Security, Democracy and Daily Life By...
__Vonnegut Denounces Bush's War Crimes "Nobody needs to tell Kurt Vonnegut to stop beating around the Bush. 'They're adroit criminals,' the 81-year-old...
__What Colin Powell's Circle REALLY Thinks About the Bush Regime There are some choice statements made by Powell's aides on the Bush Regime in a recent GQ...
__Terror Flight School Owner Flew Saudis on Illegal Flights Daniel Hopsicker writes, "A federal complaint filed April 5 in Ft. Myers, FL. accusing flight...
n.. Jim Hightower: Greenspan's Social-Security Quackery. Excerpt: Greenspan's trail of quackery begins back in 1983, when he chaired a commission that...
Just Trust Us By PAUL KRUGMAN When an administration operates without accountability, a moral catastrophe is inevitable. May 11, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST Just...
Chile's Pinochet is very important--not just because of Nixon and Kissinger's go-ahead to assasinate Allende and help Pinochet--but because they were the first...
To the Bushites, it is not bad enough to have the most bizzare, costly, unworkable and failing system of privatized health care in the world, these bums have...
May 12, 2004 Executive Calls Vote-Machine Letter an Error By JOHN SCHWARTZ Walden W. O'Dell, the chairman and chief executive of Diebold Inc., said on Monday...
__Rumsfeld Personally Approved Torture Newsweek reports, "Donald Rumsfeld likes to be in total control. He wants to know all the details, including the precise...
__Family of Nick Berg Blames Bush Administration for Son's Horrifying Death AP: "Michael Berg [the father of the US contractor beheaded by an Islamic group]...
__Dutch Mourn First Casualty in Iraq, Will Likely Pull out Troops by June 30 BBC: "Police in southern Iraq have arrested two people over a grenade attack which...
__Drug Companies That Donated Most to Bush Will Gain Most from 'Medicare Reform' Scam Sharon Theimer writes: "A few weeks after the Bush administration named...
Dancing Alone By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN For the Bush crowd, getting re-elected and staying loyal to the conservative base is more important that getting Iraq ...
__Army Times Editorial: A Failure of Leadership at the Highest Levels "Around the halls of the Pentagon, a term of caustic derision has emerged for the...
__Intimidated by Kerry, GOP Scrambles to Slap Together Sham Healthcare Package Until John Kerry began his outspoken push for real health care reform in the...
A cartoon the other day showed a priest telling his flock that communion would not be given to any Catholic who disobeyed the teachings of the Church on...
__Bush's Phony Recovery: Untold Number of 'New Jobs' Depend on War and Tax Dollars "It is impossible to know how many of the 708,000 jobs created in the past...
The Shocking Story of How AARP Backed the Medicare Bill Back before the NeoCons took over Congress in the mid-1990s, AARP was in essence a consumer advocacy...