9th In The Series – Atomizing into the Future

Today will be the 9th radiation treatment of 35. You could say we are about a quarter of the way through. The strange thing about these treatments is you never

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A Heckuva Claim – washingtonpost.com

 This Washington Post Editorial touches on a number of points about the Bush tax cuts, most of which are not in the President’s favor. PRESIDENT BUSH wrote in a Wall

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OpinionJournal – Featured Article

It is nice to read something on the Op-Ed pages at the WSJ that I can agree with for a change. Looks like the new Senator from Virginia has a way with telling it

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What happens next?

“When Democratic committee chairmen issue subpoenas and conduct oversight hearings, will news accounts portray them as harassing the White House? Or will journalists recognize that aggressive congressional inquiries were a

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Lies and the Media

“Journalists by nature shy from pinning the “liar” label on any political leader, but President Bush’s acknowledgments that he had not been forthcoming about his plans to dump Defense Secretary

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I think they learned the lesson…

Reflecting on Henry David Thoreau’s 1859 journal entry about John Brown’s raid and the dismissive reaction of cautious newspaper editors, it seems little has changed. It may have taken over a century, but today’s partisan editors have certainly found their butter—even if now it’s just margarine imitating the real thing.

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