Waist Deep in the Big Muddyby Jonathan Wallace
I hope that George W. Bush's confidence is better placed than George A. Custer's, who shouted "Hurrah, boys! We've got 'em!" as he led the charge of 225 cavalry against 3,000 Sioux at Little Big Horn. |
by Wayne Grytting If your cause is just, then how many dead Iraqi children is it worth? |
by Sy Schechtman Who is to be the judge of the integrity and virtue of the nation who strikes preemptively? |
by Ben G. Price We have come to a point in American history when a war of aggression is openly proposed and defended by legislative appeasers of a regime without shame or conscience. |
"I was so naïve," she told me, " I didnt realize the United States was teaching them how to torture under the cover of that agency." |
By Tommy Ates Lower-middle class and poor American children are continuing to get the shaft in terms of accessing educational opportunities and state resources in order to improve social conditions. |
by Seth Finkelstein In battles over copying and rights, the very language itself is a skirmish. |
By Matthew Hogan Never attribute to evil what you can to stupidity and apathy. |
The people want their sausage, and they are not particularly fastidious at how it is to be made. |
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