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Monthly Archives: January 2012
A Prayer For America And Its People
‘Smacks Of Fascism’
Goodbye, Habeas Corpus
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN America changed as the new year stumbled across the threshold, but the big shift didn’t get much press, which is easy to understand. Can there be a deader news day than a New Year’s Eve that falls on a weekend? Besides, alive or dead, habeas corpus has never been a topic to […]
Iowa, New Hampshire Hype
Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidate Answer The Question
BY JOE CONASON Politicians and their flacks lie every day, but it is unusual for someone prominent to utter a totally indefensible falsehood like the whopper that just sprang from the mouth of Eric Cantor’s press secretary on national television. While interviewing the House majority leader, 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl suggested that he might […]