The rhetoric surrounding George W. Bush's economic stimulus package, as boastfully "bi-partisan" as it is (we are, after all, in an election year), indicates a complete lack of comprehension of the difference between this 'national' economy and the 'people's' economy, and the extent of the gap between the two.

The unveiling of his plan was classic bush bullshit. State something ambiguous about a $140 billion adrenaline shot, then have your cronies act as wingmen. Hence,...

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The military mis-adventurers of the bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups of men thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room," the title of Alex Gibney's film on what went wrong at Enron.

The republicunts in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination.
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i farted and it was mildly spicy with a sweet after-taste

FART-HOL

The irony of visiting your doctor.

You sit in the waiting room and you see all these sharp dressed sales reps come in from different drug companies. Once you got back to the exam room, the walls are plastered with posters from drug companies, as well as pictures, little models of different parts of the anatomy and anything else you can think of. All the mugs would be from a drug company and even the office supplies would bear their names.

All the sudden I would get...

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The honoring of Martin Luther King, Jr. today is a time for those of us within the activist movements he energized to pause to reflect on Dr. King's vision of universal freedom and opportunity for all.

His dream is no less than the American dream, a dream that lives on and impels us to constantly ask ourselves the question:

Does freedom ring in America today?

We all know Dr. King because of his historic impact on civil rights, but many don't realize that...

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