George W. Bush accomplished one thing in his presidency better than he accomplished anything else: He made us into a nation of frightened,...
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In the past week, Edward M. Kennedy (politician), Dominick Dunne (writer) and James J. Donlon (my uncle), died. I have written about the first two...
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Funny, the young woman who asked Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), in a town hall meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, why...
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Robert Novak is dead. The rabidly conservative political know-it-all died Aug. 18, of brain cancer, the same ailment that claimed Lee Atwater, sire of...
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Sen. Charles Grassley says the Senate health-care reform, unlike the House bill (HR 3200) “dropped end-of-life provisions from consideration...
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Readers of my column yesterday, which introduced my observation concerning the fundamentalist “proof” of god after another...
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Just so you know: I am not an incredibly wealthy limousine liberal. I got my liberal creds (if such there are) the hard way, by being a college...
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Sarah Palin must have felt the backlash yesterday, not only here, but on other pages than mine. Either that, or the kennel manager decided to muzzle...
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Liar, liar pants on fire…or, why wasn’t the news media all over Palin’s request that the GOP lie for her during the presidential...
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About those wingnuts and their misuse of language to attempt to hoodwink people: Sarah Palin’s swan song was just such a piece of sloppy (not to...
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