Andrew Jackson won the White House in 1828 with a fresh approach to
oratory. "Jackson was the first president to master the liberal rhetoric,"
wrote historian Howard Zinn, who called it "the new politics of ambiguity
-- speaking for the...
25 January 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- You know how refreshing it is when someone in politics
just up and tells the flat truth? I hope she doesn't get fired for it, but
Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Bush campaign, did so after George W.
got "off-message"...
14 January 2000
And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless
media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A
grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed
themselves trustees...
13 January 2000
Have you noticed that the system of justice in this
country is shutting down, piece by piece by piece? We have long noted the
deleterious effects of "tort reform" here in Texas, where insurance
companies are ever bolder, and injured...
12 January 2000
On Jan. 15, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the ninth anniversary of the Gulf war, 10 people will begin a month-long fast on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C. They're members of Voices in the Wilderness, the Chicago-...
11 January 2000
So here we are in the Year Aught, the millennium's over,
the Christmas tree is down, we're in debt, and here comes January, February,
Ry-Krisp and cottage cheese. Now is the winter of our discontent, so I think
we ought to coordinate our...
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