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President proclaims character week
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
Another one of those vacuous Presidential Proclamations slipped by me last week. Now we have an official week for "National Character Counts."
(124 words in story) Full Story Bush's compares Iraq & Vietnam, concluding?????????
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
Finally, praise for a piece of ordinary journalism, which managed to identify and explain the built-in contradiction in President Bush's comments about what Vietnam means for Iraq.
(743 words in story) Full Story Government of the people, by the people, and as far away from the people as it can get
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
Okay, you're disgusted that federal secrecy seems to be growing faster than the mold on your civil rights. But how, pray tell, to describe the problem, to quantify the phenomenon so that others may see the problem?
(296 words in story) Full Story A room with a view and a surgical bed
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
Speaking of health care cons, try this out for size: more and more Americans are traveling abroad to have expensive surgical procedures done, because the cost is far lower even with the travel costs added in.
(362 words in story) Full Story It isn't often that poverty is funny, but check these "thresholds"
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
The government computes two measures of "poverty" for various purposes. The main one is the "poverty threshold" which is the measure to which we refer when we talk about whether more or less people are in pverty today than at some prior time.
(989 words in story) Full Story Second tangible benefit of Democratic victory?
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
The "Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction" has uncovered several instances of fraud, embezzlement, and other efforts to redirect money from Iraq reconstruction projects to the pockets of a passel of sleazos.
(1 comment, 256 words in story) Full Story God's foreign policy
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
For all those who say, "what's it hurt to bring religious beliefs into the realm of government?"
(646 words in story) Full Story The Health Care con to come
By Lee Russ, Section OpEd
What does a powerful group of corporate interests do when they see their interests threatened? You really need to ask?
They come up with their own rather questionable "solution" to the problem that has caused the threat to them, one which guaranties that they will remain powerful, successful, and rolling in profit. (1 comment, 548 words in story) Full Story
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