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From the Washington Post’s The Once and Future Republic of Vermont: “Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 [...]
From Newsweek’s article, Hysteria Over Iran: “Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland’s and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 [...]
From Frank Rich’s article, The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us: “Call me cynical, but when Laura Bush spoke up last week about the human rights atrocities in Burma, it seemed less an act of selfless humanitarianism than another administration maneuver to change the subject from its own abuses. As Mrs. Bush spoke, two women, both Armenian [...]
From Seymour Hersh’s recent New Yorker article, Shifting Targets: The Administration’s Plan for Iran: “The former intelligence official added, ‘There is a desperate effort by Cheney et al. to bring military action to Iran as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the politicians are saying, ‘You can’t do it, because every Republican is going to be defeated, [...]
From the NY Times review of the new Springsteen record: “And while the songs on ‘Magic’ characteristically avoid explicit topical references, there is no mistaking that the source of the unease is, to a great extent, political. The title track, Mr. Springsteen explained, is about the manufacture of illusion, about the Bush administration’s stated commitment [...]
From Salon’s Bush’s stairway to paradise: “In his unstoppable commentary about himself, Bush has become as certain of his exalted place in history as he is of his policy’s rightness. He projects his image into the future, willing his enshrinement as a great president. History has become a magical incantation for him, a kind of [...]
From the NY Times Magazine article, Conscience of a Conservative: “What, exactly, are the legal limits of executive power in the post-9/11 world? How should administration lawyers negotiate the conflict between the fear of attacks and the fear of lawsuits?”
From McClatchy DC’s article, Pentagon won’t make surge recommendation to Bush: “In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won’t make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month’s strategy assessment, but instead will allow top commanders to make individual [...]
From Salon.com’s The waning power of the War Myth: “For Bush, Vietnam’s real relevance to Iraq isn’t the early withdrawal issue — it’s the ’stab in the back.’ The ’stab in the back’ holds that America was only defeated in Vietnam because we lost the will to fight. And those who sapped our will, those [...]
From the Associated Press’ Vermont only state Bush hasn’t visited as president: “Vermont has [the] noteworthy distinction [of being] the only state President Bush hasn’t visited as president. For the nation’s 43rd commander in chief, the clock is ticking. He has 17 months left to squeeze in a visit to the bluest of blue states.”
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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