Dissembler in Chief?

After seeing news clips of Ari Fleischer trying to defend DOE’s Abrahams’ meetings with industry officials, I’ve conferred a new title on him: Dissembler in Chief. Further analysis of the newly-released documents (released only after a court ordered it, btw) indicates “the task force added a section on the environment only after an outcry from …

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Jesse Helms as Good Guy?

He has got to be the most unlikeliest of sources of help fighting AIDS, but nonetheless, Sen. Jesse Helms is offering to increase appropriations for USAID to do just that. More motherhood issues, albeit not quite as tragic for humanity: remember the mysterious deaths of Kentucky thoroughbred foals last year? So far, so good this …

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Poetry

The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command …

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