The memorial at Kent State University was the perfect place to walk and talk with Paul Wellstone. He was hurting from an old college wrestling injury, and perhaps, though we didn't know it then, from the onset of MS. So he could barely...
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30 October 2002
We live in the "blowback" years. By blowback we mean, what goes around comes around. Unforeseen consequences, or foreseen but ignored. Unleash the mujahiddeen on the Soviets in Afghanistan, and you end up with Osama bin Laden. Blowback...
23 October 2002
If George Bush pulls 100 percent of the vote the next go-round in Florida, would he, too, proclaim a general amnesty for all federal prisoners, the way Saddam Hussein has just done after pulling his 100 percent under polling conditions...
22 October 2002
Two hundred years of American democracy could definitively end November 5, starting in Missouri.
No matter what happens in the overall election, the race for the US Senate seat from Missouri will determine who controls the...
No matter what happens in the overall election, the race for the US Senate seat from Missouri will determine who controls the...
16 October 2002
An entire nation is trying to figure out a profile of the sniper who, at time of writing, has killed nine people in the suburban Washington, D.C. area. My portrait: A guy, of course. Ex-military, possibly in Special Forces or like Timothy...
09 October 2002
Here are 10,500 dockworkers locked out at every port on the West Coast from Seattle to San Diego, with the shipping and terminal operators and big retail chains like Wal-Mart begging Bush to help them break the International Longshore and...