** SH: ARM YOURSELF OR HARM YOURSELF** TED IS TURNING OVER** CZECK MATE A thought to ponder: “All is chaos under heaven. The situation is excellent!” MAO “AMERICA WILL BE HARMED’ was the Saddam Hussein “threat” selected to headline the BREAKING NEWS on CNN this morning. There was Nic Robertson, the usually incisive reporter standing [...]
* LIBERATION THEOLOGY* WAITING FOR “A DAY”* GLOBAL TRIBE AIRS TONIGHT Missing words in last night’s State of the Union sermon: Osama, risks, costs of war, cosequences of war, collateral damage, alternatives to war, duration of war, Putin, France, Germany, anybody else… democracy. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman called it “liberation theology, but from the right this [...]
*STATING THE UNION*WAR IN THE WINGS*ABC GOES PORN “Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States.” And so, it will begin with these words tonight at 9 PM, with smiles and applause as President Bush strides to a platform that he has used before to boost his Presidency and popularity. There are two subjects on [...]
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