Norquist cries wolf
July 5, 2006
Grover Norquist, the fast-buck right-wing activist who never met a scheme he couldn’t cash in on, says John McCain is out to get him. If true, that’s reason enough to vote for McCain.
The final cut
July 5, 2006
Social scientists talk endlessly about the pros and cons of using castration on sex offenders but James Jenkins claims he is proof that taking the knife to his balls works.
Heart attack sends Ken Lay to final justice
July 5, 2006
Ken Lay, the George Bush friend headed for prison for his part in the collapse of energy giant Enron and the fraud that cost many investors everything they had, evaded jail the hard way, dying of a heart attack Wednesday morning.
The burning issue that isn’t
July 5, 2006
All the hoopla over a flag burning amendment has a feeling of “been there, done that, screwed with the Constitution.”
Meaningless
July 5, 2006
A decorated Marine from Akron, Ohio, is returning one of the medals he earned for service in Iraq because, he says, it is “eye candy” and political.
Did U.S. cut deal to let bin Laden stay free?
July 5, 2006
Abu Musab al-Zargawi’s widow says her late husband’s al-Qaida organization sold him out to the United States in exchange for an American promise to ease off on its worldwide hunt for Osama bin Laden.
On the surface, this sounds like normal terrorist propaganda in a misinformation war that the other side wages successfully.
Or is it?
Pentagon opposes Bush’s latest war plans
July 5, 2006
President George W. Bush has run into a new enemy in his efforts to launch yet another war. Military leaders in the Pentagon oppose his efforts to bomb and invade Iran.
How Fox News hurts conservatives
July 5, 2006
Fox News has long been a joke among professional journalists and the misinformation it distributes damages conservatives more than liberals.
Stopping Bush’s abuse of power
July 5, 2006
It was inevitable that Bush’s unconventional approach to fighting an unconventional war against unconventional forces would run up against the rule of law and the constitutional safeguards that govern even the treatment of those accused of being the nation’s enemies.
Defining drugs
July 5, 2006
My office at the University of Colorado is a three-minute walk from the Coors Events Center, built by the makers of Coors beer. That this seems completely unremarkable illustrates the remarkable rehabilitation alcohol has undergone since the collapse of legal attempts to ban it. And that rehabilitation exemplifies the astonishingly arbitrary way in which we deal with mind-altering substances.