subscribe now
• subscriber
  login
• current issue
• past issues
• online columns
• donate
• online store
• subscriber help
• renew
• gift subscription
• classifieds
• advertise
• about us
• contact us
• feedback
• links
• sitemap

Miers didn’t step down because she flunked the Con Law exam that Senator Specter was administering. No, she stepped down because she flunked the loyalty oath that the anti-abortion ayatollahs were administering.
To the 2,000 families, Bush promised only more morbid company. He’s content to send more U.S. soldiers on this fool’s errand. And we, nonviolently, must stop him.

October 27, 2005 The CIA complains a US ban on “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” of terrorist suspects would bar some techniques it uses in interrogations overseas.

October 28, 1919 Congress overrides President Wilson’s veto of Prohibition legislation

Special council Patrick Fitzgerald is expected to announce indictments in the Valerie Plame case this week, and the Republicans are having a very jittery time, as they wait to see if Scooter Libby or Karl Rove will go down.
I went down to Dharamsala, India, earlier this month to interview the Dalai Lama and ended up meeting a number of interesting people in the process.

Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students. But that’s what happened on September 20.

"It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice."