Once Upon a Time
by Steve Osborn
Once upon a time, people looked to their newspapers to give them the facts. Newspapers reported what was going on in their world, and that included what the government was doing. Thomas Jefferson said, "If I had to choose between government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter." The people were jealous of their hard won freedoms and proud of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and the guarantees they gave to the people.
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The Unrelenting Unitary Executive
by Jesse Toler
While the newsmakers and newshounds have been aggressively chewing on the Bush administration, a generally overlooked but very newsworthy item is Bush's daily expansion of presidential power, often in the form of Presidential Signing Statements. The president is using the signing statement as a line item veto in flagrant violation of Article I of the Constitution, creating his own species of legislative history in the process, and announcing his intention to ignore the very bill he is signing into law.
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Politicians Lie? Say it Ain't So!
by Michael Boldin
Politicians would never try to mislead us would they? The American People deserve honesty from their government; but one would be hard-pressed to prove that, in practice, we receive anything but the opposite. To be clear, when I refer to our government, I don't mean the Party in power at the moment, but instead, I am referring to the institution of the federal government itself, which has cheated us, wasted our money, conquered nations, and lied to us, no matter which party has held the reins.
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War-Making 101: A User's Manual
by Stephen Lendman
In less than six months we'll be taking our annual pause in remembrance of that fateful October 29, seventy-seven years ago, which brought Wall Street to its knees after the stock market excesses - call it economic exuberance - of the twenties. It seems ironic, if not befitting, that the tulip-mania that existed three centuries before in Amsterdam had to be reenacted, of all places, in New Amsterdam. One could say that before becoming the Big Apple, New York had become in 1929, the Big Tulip.
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