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As an American given the freedom to dissent, I do not and will not support a pre-emptive attack on Saddam Hussein and Iraq. I will not be diverted by a failing administration into believing that the unfinished business of the father needs to be taken care of by the son. I do not and will not support any program that encourages spying on my fellow man, neighbor, friend or stranger. Big Brother was a fictional scare tactic meant to instill fear, not to gather information. I do not and will not support a farm subsidy program, which is neither wanted...

Confidence Men Why the myth of Republican competence persists, despite all the evidence to the contrary. By Joshua Micah Marshall Let's be honest. As upset as you may have been in January 2001 that George W. Bush was going to be president, you had to admit he had a pretty impressive team. They had beaten a sitting vice president with seemingly every advantage; they outmuscled and outmaneuvered the Gore camp during the Florida recount; and despite the abbreviated transition, they quickly and smoothly assembled a seasoned White House staff. Many top appointees were in their second or third tour...

TONIGHT'S SUBJECT: Today's violence happened in Jerusalem. But all over the world, tens of thousands of people are living through the trauma of violence and disruption. How can there not be long-term effects? Will these people be able to rebuild their lives, or are we losing whole generations? ---- There was an old expression about the aftermath of nuclear war that dates from the Cold War. "The living would envy the dead." I never thought that could be true. But it is true that tens of thousands, actually hundreds of thousands, of lives have been destroyed. We've all seen the...

<p>May 6, 2002—Actually, it wasn't strange. It was standard smear politics. Take what someone says, stretch it into what she didn't say and then ridicule her for it. The only thing that's strange is that McKinney hasn't gone down to punch Post editor Len Downie a few feet below the nose.</p>

<p>April 30, 2002—They lie to us. We know they're lying. They know we know. We know they know we know. So what is the problem with the American media? More specifically, what's the problem with The Washington Post?</p> <p>It's easy to excuse the behavior of most of the media. American newspapers have been reduced to canned astrology columns, Little League scores and restaurant reviews. Television "news" is mostly salacious tales like Monica and Chandra.</p>

COLUMN | April 8, 2002 ERIC ALTERMAN Sullivan's Travails: Stop the Presses Andrew Sullivan cannot have an easy life. A Catholic gay man who is also HIV positive, his political views have led him to attach himself to a party, a movement and a church that believe him to be practicing an abomination. Influential Republican power-brokers blame America's sexual tolerance for the attacks of 9/11. The military he reveres is kicking gays out at a rate unseen since the presidency of Ronald Reagan--another Sullivan hero. And his church offers a warmer embrace for pedophile priests than for honest homosexuals....