Author Archives: Al Swearengen

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN – Published: June 17, 2005 So I have a question: If I am rooting for General Motors to go bankrupt and be bought out by Toyota, does that make me a bad person? It is not … Continue reading →

By PAUL KRUGMAN – Published: June 17, 2005 The Toledo Blade’s reports on Coingate – the unfolding tale of how Ohio’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation misused funds – deserve much more national attention than they have received so far. For … Continue reading →

By NEAL STEPHENSON – Published: June 17, 2005 – Seattle IN the spring of 1977, some friends and I made a 40-mile pilgrimage to the biggest and fanciest movie theater in Iowa so we could watch a new science fiction … Continue reading →

Statistics Often Count Lesser Crimes On Thursday, President Bush stepped to a lectern at the Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy in Columbus to urge renewal of the USA Patriot Act and to boast of the government’s success in prosecuting terrorists.

On the day that Terri Schiavo’s autopsy is released, Fox News’s 8-10 PM lineup of Bill O’Reiley and Hannity and Colmes spent under a total of ten minutes on the subject, while the disappearance of Natalee Holloway was covered for … Continue reading →

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Now that a doctor has confirmed that Michael’s contention concerning Terri being in a vegetative state was in fact correct, and that her condition was irreversible, what’s next for the Schindlers and their palls over at Fox News?

By TED KOPPEL

LONDON (AFP) – Europe’s oldest civilisation has reportedly been discovered by archaelogists across the continent. More than 150 large temples, constructed between 4800 BC and 4600 BC, have been unearthed in fields and cities in Germany, Austria and Slovakia, predating … Continue reading →

From the moment on Thursday when the young man sat down in Dr. Richard Stein’s dental chair in southwestern Kansas and opened his mouth, Dr. Stein was certain he recognized the enemy. This had to be the work, he concluded, … Continue reading →

Massport’s union longshoremen have been placing kids as young as 2 years old on the payroll in a long-running scheme to give them bogus seniority that fattens the wages they fetch as adult dock-workers years later, investigators contend.

For the first time in history, everybody get’s the GM employee discount!

By CARL HULSE Published: June 5, 2005 WASHINGTON, June 4 – With lawmakers returning from the Memorial Day recess, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, faces a crucial test of whether he can re-establish his authority after a rapid sequence … Continue reading →

By JOEL BRINKLEY Published: June 4, 2005 – New York Times WASHINGTON, June 3 – The United States criticized four of its closest allies in the Middle East on Friday, saying Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates … Continue reading →

The identity of Deep Throat is revealed just in time.

I want to encourage anyone who wants to forward one of the articles posted here to do so. As I’ve been posting on an ‘as close to daily as possible’ basis, the traffic numbers have hit a number and remained … Continue reading →

http://www.petitiononline.com/judgeam/petition.html It’s for a constitutional amendment that would require a 2/3 vote in congress for any judicial appointment. Regardless of what party is in the majority at any time, a 2/3 majority vote should be the standard to maintain the … Continue reading →