A surreal mixup disrupted CNN programming for a few moments on
Jan. 17 when the network switched to live coverage of Colin Powell. While
the retired general appeared on the screen, the audio was the voice of Sen.
Edward Kennedy at...
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09 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Worst idea of 2001 so far: naming a newspaper columnist to the U.S. Cabinet. You really don't want columnists running the government. As any newspaper reporter can tell you, all newspaper columnists work maybe two hours a...
07 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- George W. Bush is threatening to give us an energy policy
that marches militantly in exactly the wrong direction.
Bush's views on energy are still those of a West Texas oilman. He once ran for Congress from Midland...
05 January 2001
We've come a long way in this country since the 19th century --
but not so long that an admirer of the Confederacy can't be nominated to
run the Justice Department of the United States. The president of the
Confederate government,...
04 January 2001
MARATHON, Texas -- So far out in West Texas, there's only God and country on the radio. Along with endless sky and no cellphones. Drive across the Rio Grande in your pickup for lunch and say, "Oh, good, the War on Drugs is bound to work...
31 December 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- The time has come to bid farewell to President William Jefferson Clinton. Been a lot of wasted time and wasted talent these eight years. The politics of personal destruction. A level of vituperation so intense and so...
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