Mission Not Quite Accomplished
“Vice” is a flawed but valuable corrective to liberal Bush era amnesia.
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Thinking of Leaving America? Here’s a Couple Who Did
Marty Roth and Martha Roth Discuss Their Move to Canada in 2005 Marty: Strictly speaking, Martha is the expatriate. I was just a lost Canadian returning to the country of my birth after fifty-four years. But after fifty-four years, I surely thought of myself as an American. I had just retired from an academic position at the University […]
Read MoreO My America: Boy, Am I Going to Get Into Trouble This Time!
by Lawrence Bush WORD IS that with the skyrocketing of Donald Trump into contention for the presidency of the U.S., lots of progressive Americans are eyeballing Canada as a refuge. When a radio announcer in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia threw together a website a couple of months ago, “Cape Breton if Donald Trump Wins,” he […]
Read MoreOpEdge: Torturing Language to Sanitize Torture
by Marc Jampole HOW DO WE KNOW that those who are defending the American torture program under the presidency of George W. Bush recognize that they are wrong and that torture is both illegal and immoral — in other words, evil? We can tell in the language they use. As soon as the Central Intelligence Agency, […]
Read MoreIsrael and Gaza: Some Relevant Quotes
• “The Israeli decision to kill Ahmed Jabari was total insanity. Jabari was behind enforcing all of the recent ceasefire agreements. He sent his troops out to stop the rockets and was prepared to reach a long term ceasefire. Jabari was also the main interlocutor of the Egyptian intelligence service in reaching ceasefire understandings. Now […]
Read MoreJune 5: Scooter Libby Imprisoned
Irve Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the son of a Jewish investment banker, was sentenced on this date in 2007 to 30 months in prison and a $250,000 fine after his conviction on several counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. Libby, who was chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, covered up […]
Read MoreAmerica, Bleeding
“Mission Accomplished” An Editorial It took the “miracle of the oil,” a one-day supply burning for eight days, to resanctify the temple in Jerusalem after the Syrian Greeks ran swine through it during the ancient days of the Maccabees. It will take a far greater miracle than that to restore the United States to sound […]
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