Archive for May 2005
Letter to President Bush: Try to Stabilize Iraq, then Leave
Dear President Bush, Let’s relax a few minutes and acknowledge that you are the most powerful man in the world, and the United States is fighting another war in Iraq, and the war is already more than two years old and the insurgency more deadly than ever and that your strategic reasoning for putting troops…
Read MoreLiberals and Conservatives Calling each other Nazis
A few days ago I opened my email inbox and was surprised to see a message, from a member of a conservative online publication, stating they’d used my column “Sixty Years after Hitler” but had forgotten to tell me – much less ask permission to use it. The member further noted that many people had…
Read MoreOpponents of Immigration Hurl Letters and Insults
Who are the angriest people in the United States? Are they the supporters or opponents of war in Iraq, neocons or neoliberals, the devout or the secular, disrespected homemakers or overworked career mothers? No is the answer to each of the aforementioned inquiries. The most outraged people in the land are those actively opposing illegal…
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