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"I have a Ph.D., and it's too complicated to suit me." – William Q. Beard, 74, on the Medicare drug plan - NYT

IBM Freezing Pensions - "Unhappy workers sued the company over the cash-balance conversion"

Medicare Misery - "Why would anyone have designed such an insane program?"

Lobbying Reform - "Lobbying today is essentially legalized bribery."

IRS Tracked Political Affiliation - "IRS officials acknowledged that party affiliation information was routinely collected"

Medicare Officials Probed - "The Finance Committee began investigating the contractors last summer"

'DeLay Inc.' - "The firm has links to no fewer than three of the scandals convulsing the US capital."

What Year Is This Anyway? - "Even the nation's chief executive is subject to the rule of law"

Let Us Prey - "When you've spent a lifetime exploiting religion for profit and power"

Corruption - "The arrogance that brought Republicans into power is arrogance that will take them out of power"

War Cost - "The war...to cost the United States...one trillion dollars and potentially over $2 trillion."

'Fool Me Once...' - "The Bush team...demonstrated its contemp...for normative standards of truth."

The Pimping of the Presidency - "Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration"

The Opposite of Good Is Apathy - "Change will not happen until we make it happen."

The Sago Mine Disaster - "If it'd been a union mine this never would have happened"

Ties That Bind? - "Abramoff was a top fund-raiser for the Bush re-election effort, raising more than $100,000"

Incoming - "The Center...does not have one Democrat...listed as having received a donation from Jack Abramoff"

Lobbyist to Reveal All in Congress Bribes Scandal - "This is potentially the biggest congressional scandal in history"

GOP's Lobbying Strategy - "This is the one thing that could result in a change in who controls the Congress"

Lobbying America's Guilty Secret - "Others claim it is legalised bribery, even corruption."

Lobbyist Pleads Guilty in Florida; Second Plea in 2 Days - "Abramoff directed favors to a senior DeLay staff member"

Abramoff's 'Cesspool of Corruption' - "Top Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is set to sing"

Bush to Give Away Abramoff Donations - "Abramoff raised at least $100,000 for President Bush's 2004 re-election effort"

Love, Labor, Loss - "Frail but fearless - that was Cassie. And that was her gift to her father."

Bush Could Bypass New Torture Ban - "Bush believes he can waive the restrictions"

The Unrestrained President - "The President's fervor for unconstrained party as well as presidential power"

'Ignored Iraqi Weapons Evidence' - "Every one reported that the programs did not exist."

Corporations Go Free - "The Rise of Deferred and Non Prosecution Agreements"

Looks Like Bush Knew Wiretaps Were Wrong - "We're talking about getting a court order before we do so"

Abramoff Pleads Guilty - "DeLay has taken three overseas trips with Abramoff"

US Rep. Murtha Says He Wouldn't Join Military Now - "The shadow of those killings stay with you the rest of your life"

Bush's Long War with the Truth - "Bush did not make a New Year's resolution to stop lying."

Wal-Mart Workers Enforce Rights - "It's about Wal-Mart workers sticking together"

NSA Gave Other US Agencies Information from Surveillance - "1,200 Americans citizens' calls were intercepted"

Friends Don't Let Friends Commit War Crimes - "You're like an ambassador for peace"

Letter from an Iraqi - "Because of you, we have witnessed horrible days and the future is a gloomy one."

After the War - "Polls now show the country decisively against the war and the Bush Administration"

War without End - "Can anyone claim today that they feel safer than they did a year ago?"

Bush Says, Bring It On - "This...Administration...has tried to bypass courts...more than any since Richard Nixon"

Willy Peter - "The U.S. used white phosphorous as an improved form of napalm, terrorizing enemies."

Giving Employees What They Want - "People don't want to work for an organization that's run by a bunch of crooks."

The Bush Family Coup - "The only explanation for the Bush domestic spying is that it's political."

Ex-Envoy Goes Public on Torture - "The British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture"

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail - "'This is the way things work in Washington"

Bush as the New Nixon - "Both Wiretapped Illegally, and Impeachably"

Union's Success - "A pension reimbursement...will put more than $150 million in workers' pockets"

'Equal Money' Went to Republicans - "Bush calls indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff 'an equal money dispenser' "

Freest Press Money Can Buy? - "The Pentagon is paying Iraqi journalists to write 'good news' stories"

The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005 - "A handful of elected officials...bent the arc of history toward justice"

Wear Hits Bush's Spokesman - "McClellan's public image is having some trouble recovering from it all"

Bush-NSA Spying - "Bush circumvented the judicial process and secretly authorized the...Agency to spy on thousands"

The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff - "The puppet master who pulled the strings of officials in key places"

The Year in Politics - "Bush appears to have expended the turning points. Welcome to victory."

Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination - "The government has alleged that Brown...discriminated against whites"

Fear Destroys What bin Laden Could Not - "He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help"

Government Spun News - "US military websites...pay journalists to write articles and commentary supporting military activities"

Transit Workers - "If it took a strike to get it, so be it. I think this is an overwhelming success"

Censuring Bush - "Committee would...make recommendations...for possible impeachment of Bush and Cheney"

Clinton Jencks, Organizer - "He saw parallels between the repression...and the Bush administration's current policies"

Ex-Enron Accountant Pleads Guilty - "Causey will serve seven years in prison and forfeit $1.25 million"

CIA Probes Renditions - "Some 100 to 150 people have been snatched up"

Illegal Interrogations - "After the Americans, the British?"

Slowly, Cancer Genes Tender Their Secrets - "Individual cancers are going to fall one by one"

The Crack-Up - "The...involvement of industry lobbyists in...the energy or bankruptcy bills, is far more troublesome"

Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free - "Media...often act as nothing more than a conveyor belt for government propaganda"

Over 10,000 March in Baghdad - "Calling for a rerun of the elections on the grounds of massive fraud"

The Year the Chickenhawks Go Home - "Impeachment is not necessary for people who never were elected"

The Hidden State - "Either the President must uphold the laws...or he must leave office"

Impeachment Buzz - "Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-Ups in the war in Iraq"

Some in UAW Seek a Recount - "Workers...had approved the deal by a 51 percent majority"

Corrupted - "2006 is expected to be the year of congressional scandals"

Veteran's Message - "We're still taking casualties from Vietnam...Is the same thing going to happen again?"

Stress Disorder - "If...PTSD rates are low . . . that is convenient for the Bush administration."

Called on Their Errors - "CIA agents' use of cell phones during mission lets police in Italy identify them"

Citizen Babies - "The United States is among the relatively few wealthy nations that allow birthright citizenship"

Spying on UN Diplomats - "The mainstream US media winked at Bush's illegal use of the NSA for his Iraq invasion agenda"

Telling It Like It Isn't - "Television journalism has thus become a lethal adjunct to war."

Wind Power - "Each Mag-Wind can generate 900 to 2,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a month"

Staying the course - "A great American erosion has occurred this year"

Big Brother Bush Is Listening - " It is not just congresspersons who are outraged at Bush's secret surveillance"

Bush Presses Editors on Security - "They accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff"

Beyond the Imperial Presidency - "They expect our trust, but they can't be bothered to earn it"

The Ultimate Quagmire - "Bush's new Iraq is pro-Iran. It will not recognize Israel. And it wants the Americans out"

A Bad Year for Goliath - "People everywhere...won't let the official version go unchallenged anywhere"

Bubble Burst by Troubled 2005 - "Bush has become 'bubble boy'...and his revolution seems to have popped"

Eavesdropping Could Undermine Work - "We pay the price for doing what the White House tells us to do"

Iraqis in the Dark - "The US paid...Bechtel Corp. $69 million for a natural-gas-fired plant that was never built"

Dems - "The GOP is going to continue down its path, with no realization that they are in a downward spiral."

Agency Could Be Big Brother - "If a dictator ever took over, the NSA 'could enable it to impose total tyranny' "

Surge in Airstrikes - "I'm hard-pressed to provide a single definitive explanation for the increase"

Bush's False Choices - " 'Whatever it takes' does not mean 'whatever the president says it takes' "

Jury Awards $207 Million to Wal-Mart Workers - "The workers claimed they were owed more than $66 million plus interest"

Power We Didn't Grant - "Congress should fully investigate these actions and the president's justification for them"

US Allies in Iraq Want Out - "It makes even more of a mockery of what the administration likes to call a coalition"

Cheney's Imperial Presidency - "It would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship"

Congress Denied Bush War Powers - "Bush...requested...Congress rejected"

Crypto Man - "He says the wiretapping is illegal."

Arrest Warrant Issued for 22 CIA Operatives - "Suspects wanted for allegedly kidnapping Egyptian cleric"

Iraqis March, Say Elections Were Rigged - "We refuse the cheating and forgery in the elections"

New York Transit Strike Ends - "The authority's pension demands...have been significantly scaled back."

'Impeachment' - "Bush broke the law on a scale that could warrant his impeachment"

Bush's Impeachable Offense - "Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans"

Lobbyist Plea Deal - "Abramoff may testify against 'at least a dozen lawmakers...' "

Bush Isn't Listening to the Constitution - "The president is not above the law; he is not King George."

Uncivil Liberties - "Why won't the Bush administration obey the law?"

Surveillance Hearings - "There may be legislation which will come out of it to restrict the president's power"

'I Am the Law' - "With Bush another week always means a new and more disturbing revelation"

Patriot Act Is No Bush Win - "The White House - couldn't break the filibuster, couldn't break the bipartisan group"

Transit Strike - "Other unions...watch to see how New York negotiates wages and key benefits."

The Breaking Strain - "Calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush must be heeded, and the House must act."

For Years, Bush Said Court Orders Required - "A wiretap requires a court order"

Christmas Bush - "The President of the United States has publicly acknowledged it."

Spy Court Judge Quits in Protest - "Jurist concerned Bush order tainted work of secret panel"

Cheney Defends Domestic Spying - "Time for the president to tell the truth"

Lobbyist Is Said to Discuss Plea - "Mr. Ney has said he was tricked by Mr. Scanlon and Mr. Abramoff"

Bipartisan Call for Wiretapping Probe - "The dark days of President Nixon"

Bush's Snoopgate - "Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story"

Impeachment - "People...are waking up to the...lies, crimes, and abuses of power committed by this president"

Probe of Bush - "Intelligence Committee called...for an immediate inquiry into his...spying on Americans."

New York Hit by Transit Strike - "New York transit workers walked off the job for the first time in 25 years"

Impeachable Offense - "Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans"

UK Minister Lied over CIA Flights - "CIA rendition flights did pass through its territory"

Bush's Illegal Spying - "The president acted unnecessarily...in direct violation of a criminal law"

Senator Byrd: No President Is Above the Law - "Never have the freedoms we cherish seemed so imperiled."

FBI Watched Activist Groups - "It's an abuse of power by the F.B.I."

Medicaid Changes Could Hit the Poor - "Critics say it shreds the health safety net for the most vulnerable Americans"

Bush Fundraisers Cash In - "Energy producers...dodged...cleanup costs after federal officials revised clean-air standards."

Unforgettable - "The real costs of that day came from the leeway a frightened public, a feeble Congress, and a cowed media"

Spending Bill Spares Major Weapons Programs - "A record $453.5 billion for the military in fiscal 2006"

The Constitution in Crisis - "These charges clearly rise to the level of impeachable misconduct"

Some Candor, but Not Enough - "60% of the public indicate they no longer trust the President to tell the truth."

Sen. Reid Calls US Congress 'Most Corrupt in History' - "This is a Republican scandal"

Congress Pushes Back, Hard, against Bush - "Blindsided by news of domestic spying, it is holding up a key bill"

Workers Fear for Health and Their Jobs - "I didn't want to worry about work, but work was all I worried about"

Response to Presidential Address - "I tried to watch President Bush's speech, but I couldn't - there was no electricity."

The Business of Voting - "Diebold machines can be hacked to change vote totals"

Secret Prison in Kabul - "I could hear people knocking their heads against the walls...screaming their heads off."

Bush Proud of His Big Ears - "This is Big Brother run amok"

Spending Cuts - "Bush came into office in 2001 with a budget surplus of $236 billion"

Torture's Long Shadow - "Neither the doctor nor those guards could ever look me in the eye again."

Big Brother Bush - "The President Took a Step toward a Police State"

Radical Militant Librarians - "When the shepherd is a wolf, the flock becomes only so much meat."

Frist's Charity Paid Consultants - "Paid nearly a half-million dollars...to members of his political inner circle"

Bush's Fumbles Spur New Talk of Oversight - "We're not going to be stonewalled here"

America's Anti-Torture Tradition - "I find the more of them are employed, the less they succeed."

Bush Vows to Continue Spying on Americans - "I tell you, he's President George Bush, not King George Bush"

Columnist Resigns - Lobbyist Paid Him - "He took payments from...Abramoff...for writing columns"

Fun Bits About American Torture - "Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America that is, and we do it a lot"

'78 Law Sought to Close Spy Loophole - "This is clearly in violation of FISA and a violation of the Constitution."

Bush Spying Scandal Probe - "Shocking...ought to send a chill down the spine of every senator and every American"

"Securing America without Destroying Liberties" - "Secret renditions should be stopped. Torture must be outlawed."

Pentagon Mishandled Database - "Pentagon analysts appear not to have followed guidelines"

Radiation Alert - "The radioactive cloud...may be responsible for 4,000 deaths"

Rove's Moment of Truth? - "It is a felony to make a false statement to the FBI, which Rove very clearly did"

Phone-Jamming Verdict - "A former top Republican Party official was convicted on telephone harassment charges"

Illegal Immigration Could Be a Felony - "Republicans push legislation that defies Bush's guest-worker plan"

House Defies Bush and Backs McCain - "An unusual bipartisan rebuke to the Bush administration"

McCain Overpowers Lame Duck Bush - "Cheney had made an unusual appeal...to provide an exemption for the CIA."

Doubts about Vote Machines - "It's possibly one person acting in secret changing thousands of votes in a second."

Coca-Cola Abusive Practices - "Coca-Cola...rife with immorality, corruption, and complicity in murder"

Senate Is Set to Require White House to Account for Secret Prisons - "No senator has publicly objected to the amendments"

President Knows Leak Source - "He is confident that...Bush knows who leaked Plame's name."

Enemies of the State? - "We've been moving from one nightmare to another."

Pensions Deal - "Their bill makes Americans' pensions less secure"

McCain, White House Deadlock on Torture Ban - "The goal is to make it very clear that the United States is a nation of laws"

Police Seize Forged Ballots Headed to Iraq - "At least three other trucks filled with ballots had crossed"

The Silence of the Doctors - "The doctor's presence did not restrain the interrogator's excesses"

On Torture: A Defining Moment - "McCain...provided Congress a chance to redeem itself"

Pentagon Rewrites Army Detainee Standards - "The Bush administration has taken its drive to permit torture to new depths."

Judge Clears Way for Border Fence - "The final leg of the fence would cross steep, rugged canyons"

US Paid for Media Firm Afghans Didn't Want - "Millions spent despite complaints deals were 'rip-off' to taxpayers"

Swiss Lawmaker Cites CIA Prison Evidence - "There is a kind of legal black hole in the middle of Europe"

1000 Days of War - "From Shock and Awe to a country torn between insurrection and democracy"

Byrd Warns Frist against "Nuclear Option" - "If the senator wants a fight, let him try it"

Abuse Cited in 2nd Jail - "Official says 12 prisoners subjected to 'severe torture.' "

French Told CIA of Bogus Iraq Intelligence - "No proof. No evidence. No indication. No sign."

Government Men Who Terrorize Iraq - "The doctor says the Americans have helped bring in new Iran-backed terror."

Class Warfare with Taxes - "No legislative choice...has so clearly pitted the super-rich against the suburban middle class."

Incalculable pain - "The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq."

Military's Information War - "We call our stuff information and the enemy's propaganda"

US Denies Red Cross Access - "A central purpose of the Red Cross is to visit prisoners and protect their human rights"

United States Needs Labor Law Reform - "December 10, is International Human Rights Day"

Workers' Right to Join Unions - "The right to come together in a union is a fundamental freedom"

Torture Administration - "In addition to murder and torture, humiliation and indignity have been widely used"

US Military Probing Video of Road Violence - "But who gave those civilians the right to shoot?"

Cunningham Probe - "The contractors' political activity came as they landed valuable government contracts"

Murtha's Tough Stand Boosts His Profile - "John Murtha is the perfect storm of credibility and quotability"

Bogus Qaeda-Iraq Link - "The Defense Intelligence Agency had identified Mr. Libi as a probable fabricator"

Plea Deal - "Boulis was killed in a gangland-style hit in Fort Lauderdale on Feb. 6, 2001"

Stay or Go? - "Surprisingly, a bipartisan consensus is emerging for bringing home our exhausted troops"

Carrying the World - "I don't blame the people who killed Casey but the people who...lied and deceived the world"

Cheney in Last Throes - "It was not a 'few bad apples' at the bottom. The bad apples were at the very top"

Acts of Defiance against War - "The crucial question is whether to go to Iraq and the war itself is in fact unlawful"

Rumsfeld's Deal with Saddam - "Washington and business interests combined to strengthen and arm Saddam Hussein"

Court Rules against Evidence - "Evidence obtained through torture...not admissible in British courts."

Rummy Exit - "Bush has told friends that Rumsfeld is a political liability"

Condi's Trail of Lies - "Rice's credibility, at least in the German press, was left in tatters."

Firestone Lawsuit - "Multinational corporations continue to undermine human rights and democracy."

Republicans Have Lost High Moral Ground - "Call it Tonto's revenge"

Iraq Reconstruction - "There are dozens of other criminal corruption cases being processed."

Ex-GOP Official Faces Conspiracy Charge - "One federal count of conspiring against voters' rights in 2002"

Delphi Attacks Workers - "Miller has told Delphi's hourly workers...that the American Dream is a thing of the past"

An Exit Strategy - "Bush...should be shown the exit door...to never darken the Oval Office again."

Protesters Greet Cheney - "Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Dick Cheney Has To Go"

Man Claims US Tortured Him - "In addition to torture, he claims his due process rights were violated"

Drug Plan - "Seniors...are realizing that it was constructed to help the insurance industry...drug industry"

Cash from Lobbyist - "The association paid Abramoff $460,000 that year to defeat the bill"

Money Laundering Charges against DeLay - "Priest upheld the money laundering charges against DeLay"

"F" on Homeland Security - "We believe that another attack will occur."

Frist's Votes Found to Favor HCA - "Because he owned so much stock in HCA"

Probe Could Extend to CIA - "There is one contractor with whom he enjoys a very, very, very close relationship."

America Can't Take It Anymore - "Bush policies appear to have corrupted the CIA to an unprecedented degree"

Anatomy of a Victory - "Bush's plan to privatize Social Security...is dead"

Torture Makes Justice Impossible - "Evidence obtained through waterboarding would never be admissible in a court of law"

CIA Charges - "The CIA may be illegally holding terror suspects at sites in Europe"

Wrongful Imprisonment - "Arresting people, treating them inhumanly and less than that, and with no rights and no laws"

Forged Prewar Intelligence - "The agency soon realized the documents were fake"

Reservist Faces Graft Charges on Iraq - "Wheeler is also accused of smuggling $100,000 in stolen funds"

Business as Usual: Corrupt - " It's not an easy question if you're talking about sending people to prison."

Lobbyist's Role - "Mr. Safavian is accused of lying to investigators and of obstruction of justice"

CIA Leak - "Rove...remains in legal jeopardy because his initial statements to investigators...were not accurate"

Complicity in Torture - "Pressure is mounting on the White House to answer"

Immediate Exit from Iraq - "Iraq is the worst place to fight a battle for regional stability"

'Secret Torture Flights' - "The United States was facing mounting embarrassment"

Delphi Workers Protest - "If you work your 30 years...with the promise of a pension, it should be there"

Medicare Drug Benefit - "Medicare has received thousands of complaints about its temporary drug discount card"

Slouching toward Genocide - "Bush's 'victory' plan in Iraq is starting to look increasingly like an invitation to genocide"

Withdrawal from Iraq - "That is what the American people and our troops deserve"

Military Propaganda - "Military efforts to influence Iraqi news coverage covertly should not be tolerated"

The Strange Case of Chaplain Yee - "An odd victory celebration for eight men who took down one prisoner"

US Occupation Is Worse Than Hussein - "Authorities are doing the same as [in] Saddam's time and worse"

Ethics Cloud Grows Wider - "Yet another corruption case involving prominent members of Congress"

Bomb al-Jazeera? - "The American press is predictably ignoring the story."

Unions Continue to Fight - "Bush administration's regulation to revamp workplace rules"

Mystery Train - "I cannot support a mission that leads to corruption, human rights abuse and liars."

VP Under Wraps - "Refused to disclose...executives...who attended meetings of...energy task force"

Money in Politics - "Big-dollar dealings have come to dominate...lobbyists and lawmakers"

Tactics of Medicare Insurers - "These steps are illegal, totally inappropriate and unacceptable"

Congressman Admits Taking Bribes - "Cunningham admitted to receiving at least $2.4 million in bribes"

Age of Anxiety - "Workers can no longer count on loyalty from their employers."

Fitzgerald Targets Rove Again - "Rove has remained under intense scrutiny by Fitzgerald's office"

Contractors Shooting Up Iraqi Drivers - "Security companies kill people they just drive away and nothing is done"

Moyers Has His Say - "The administration turned its hit men loose on us."

Union Makes a Clean Sweep in South - "It's the largest unionization campaign in the South in years"

Adrift and No Substantive Debate - "The result: we're adrift in Iraq and the public knows it."

Cut Our Losses - "This was a war done on the cheap and we're paying a heavy price for it"

Official Secrets, Lies, and the Truth - "The decision was political, not military"

Young War Victim - "He thinks Americans killed and wounded his children"

Feds Probing SunCruz Links to GOP - "Scanlon...pleaded guilty in Washington to conspiring to bribe government officials"

Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ... - "Cheney...is so radioactive that he vanished into his bunker for weeks at a time"

Rallies Converge in Texas - "This is George Bush's exit strategy from Iraq"

US Military Admits It Burned Bodies - "The soldiers implicated in the burning incident, would face disciplinary action"

Lobbyist Probe - " 'Possible influence-peddling' by Abramoff with congressional Republicans"

Probe Spreads to White House - "The US Justice Department's probe of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff"

Al Jazeera Wants US Bomb Memo Answers - "Tony Blair had talked Bush out of bombing Al Jazeera's headquarters"

He Now Sees War as a Mistake - "I don't think the American people will give eight to nine years, and I sure as heck won't."

Wrongful War - "If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."

Strike Shuts Down Italy - "It's been a long time since there have been any increases to the pensions"

Million-Year Health Standard - "Yucca Mountain in Nevada took a severe battering during a comment period"

Political Donations, Bribery - "Underwriting political campaigns is often derided as legalized bribery."

The Long March of Dick Cheney - "The hallmark of the Dick Cheney administration is its illegitimacy."

News Revolution - "Had they challenged and exposed the lies...the invasion might not have happened"

One Small Thanksgiving Story - "A US tank crew was randomly shelling the area"

Spare Bush's Blushes - "Desire to placate President Bush and prevent him being embarrassed"

Oil Fortune - "Iraq's oil should be for the benefit of the Iraqi people not foreign oil companies"

Happy Thanksgiving, Jose Padilla - "What the Bush administration has done to you is un-American"

Drug Benefit Questioned - "The prices offered by the Medicare drug plans are higher than all four benchmarks"

Wal-Mart Hires More Lobbyists - "A dozen lobbyists...now represent Wal-Mart"

Cheney's Trouble with the Truth - "Cheney...is the most bald-faced of the administration's war hustlers"

Get Some - "Cheney…took five deferments to stay away from the war Murtha volunteered to fight"

Bush-Blair War Row - "The attorney general last night threatened newspapers with the Official Secrets Act"

'Chemical Weapon' - "When Saddam used WP it was a chemical weapon...when the Americans use it, it's a conventional weapon."

7-Year-Old War Victim - "These are kids who've been hurt as a result of US military assaults"

Intelligence Kept From Panel - "No evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein"

War Crimes within War Crimes - "A war crime within a war crime within a war crime"

Bring Democracy to Congress - "We should cut the pork...not the poor."

Bush Nominates Anti-Union Lawyer to NLRB - "Showing his contempt for workers yet again"

Dread Takes a Toll on GIs - "Now we just want to go home"

Capitalism Trapped by Its Own Greed - "Companies are pushed to withdraw wealth as rapidly as possible"

Leaving Baghdad - "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Blair 'Convinced Bush' Not to Launch Strike - "It shows how dangerous his relationship with President Bush has been"

Threat of Federal Charges against DeLay - "He faces up to five years in prison and agreed to pay nearly $20m"

Corporate Excess Under Fire - "The public should be able to question the outrageous pay of CEOs"

DeLay - "It's likely that Abramoff has lots of dirt on Tom DeLay"

Protestors Halt Nuclear Convoy - "The radioactivity of these 12 containers is two and a half times higher than that of Chernobyl"

White House Used 'Gossip' to Build Case for War - "No longer could President Bush "hide behind empty rhetoric"

Getting Out of Iraq - "But the war has not gone wrong. It was always wrong."

Three Defy Dick Cheney - "The senators would not budge."

Police 'Killed Prisoners with Drills' - "The disclosure drags Britain firmly into the growing scandal of officially condoned killings"

How Bush Got Spooked - "Fear is no longer on the Bush administration's side. No wonder they're now afraid - very, very afraid."

Ending the Occupation - "I like guys who got five deferments and [have] never been there and send people to war"

Corruption Inquiry - "The investigation could end up costing several lawmakers their careers, if not their freedom."

Joking Around with Lives of Troops - "It is worse than meaningless. It is political clowning."

Spell of 'Curveball' - "Keep in mind that this war is going to happen regardless of what Curve Ball said or didn't say"

Congress Helps Self to $3,100 - "The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise"

Democrats and the War - "The reasons the Bush Administration gave...were all falsehoods or deceptions"

Ex-Aide to Plead Guilty - "The deal reveals a broadening corruption investigation involving top members of Congress."

A Private Obsession - "Private drug plans will have much higher administrative costs"

The Man Who Sold the War - "Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war."

Back to Grand Jury - "Hopes of securing a criminal indictment against...senior officials in the Bush administration"

The Greening of Italia Federici - "Abramoff's dealings have thrown ethical clouds over a number of Republican heavyweights"

Fallout Unlikely to Fade - "Clearly, there's someone at a senior level who hasn't fully cooperated"

Why John Murtha Is Right! - "The Bush chickenhawks already are impugning Murtha's patriotism"

Withdrawal - "The voices at the White House seem ever more puny and defensive."

Medicaid's Fragile Beneficiaries - "These cuts are being made at the same time as tax cuts are being made for the wealthiest"

Cheney 'Vice President for Torture' - "I am embarrassed that the USA has a vice president for torture"

Cheney Renews Attack - "Bush seems to be distancing himself from his Vice-President"

Bill to Shore Up Pensions - "If you've been promised a pension, we are going to make sure that you receive it"

A Timetable for Bush - "Bush has lost the confidence of the American people, and his own party"

Proof Pre-War Intel Was Manipulated - "Proof that the Bush administration...knowingly manipulated intelligence"

The Big Lie Technique - "57 percent of Americans polled believe that President Bush deceived them"

Iraqi Torture Practices - "What's really distressing is that we promised this would stop"

Senate Flexes Muscle - "We are not going to simply allow the administration to do what it wants on detainees"

Bush's Betrayal of History - "Bush blasts his truth-telling critics as traitors to the cause."

Immediate Iraq Exit - "The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion"

Medicare Helps Only Drug Companies - "The purpose of the plan is to bring more customers to the drug company"

Another Cheney Attack Speech - "The Vice President needs to stop stonewalling"

Inquiry into Frist's Stock Sales - "Questionable transactions lucrative to Frist family members"

Protection for Vaccine Makers - "The Republican leadership...is trying to do another special favor for the drug companies"

More Problems at Gitmo - "I can no longer be part of this lie."

Groups Sue over New Medicare Plan - "The groups filed the suit on behalf of about 6.4 million people"

Oil Chiefs Met with Cheney Task Force - "The task force's activities attracted complaints from environmentalists"

US Used Chemical Weapons in Iraq - and Lied about It - "Napalm and phosphorus bombs have been dropped on Iraqis"

Decoding Bush's Denials - "We agree, but it is Mr. Bush and his team who are rewriting history."

9/11 Body Attacks White House - "The report gives failing grades of 'insufficient progress' "

Bush Rewrites History - "Is ignoring history the same as rewriting it?"

Chief of Public TV Violated Federal Law - "Tomlinson repeatedly crossed statutory boundaries"

Candidate Cites Bush as Key to Loss - "Republican politicians are increasingly distancing themselves from Mr. Bush"

Politicizing Intelligence - "Bush's credibility will continue...to sink beneath the weight of lies"

Detainees Allege Torture - "Threatened with Lions, Mock Execution"

John Edwards - "It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002. I take responsibility for that mistake."

Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us - "How did American interrogation tactics...include...torture?"

Pombo's Poison Pills - "Pombo is a Republican in the DeLay mold."

Aid and Comfort - "George W. Bush's decision to invade and occupy Iraq - and it was his decision"

Torture's Terrible Toll - "Why we must, as a nation, do better."

'We Do Not Torture' and Other Funny Stories - " If it weren't tragic it would be a New Yorker cartoon."

Republicans Losing Control of Agenda - "They've spent everything that can be spent. It's hard to have any sympathy for them"

Let's Try Baloney - "The man-child who should never have been made president."

Consultant Claims Link to Cornyn - "The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff...along with his partner Michael Scanlon"

Rep. Davis Threatens Subpoenas - "Davis decried the failure of White House officials"

Forcing Bush to Honor Veterans - "The US invasion and occupation of Iraq is an unfolding disaster"

Honoring Veterans Includes Telling the Truth - "The Bush administration spin machine is in high gear."

...And Why it should Never Be One - "Cheney has been watching too many Hollywood flicks that glorify torture"

The Deadly Doughnut - "Can the drug bill be fixed? Yes, but not by current management."

Some Kind of Manly - "Spare me the tough talk. He didn't play football - he was a cheerleader."

Veterans Day Is upon Us - "The VA admitted to 393,000 discharges since the start of the War in Iraq."

House Budget Measure Is Pulled - "Why are we following these guys? They're taking us off the cliff."

Democrats and the War - "The reasons..for the American war in Iraq were all falsehoods or deceptions"

Bush Disputes Charges - "None of the president's three main justifications for the war turned out to be true"

Fallujah: A Name That Lives in Infamy - "The city's main hospital was selected as the first target"

Cornbread and Roses - "Edwards finally utters the words.."I voted for the resolution...It was a mistake"


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