Day August 18, 2003

The California Recall and Greens From Marc Cooper’s L.A. Weekly article on the recall election “Myth No. 4: The Green Party is a viable alternative. This should be a historic opportunity for Green candidate Peter Camejo, who got 5 percent…

Bare-knuckled pragmatism Katha Pollitt on Howard Dean “Every time the press pooh-poohs his chances, every time they gloat over some trivial misstatement, every time they make fun of Vermont and describe his supporters as “Birkenstocked” “Deanyboppers,” I think about the…

ANSWER infiltrated! From the truly loony right wing comes a ludicrous “expose” of those devious Lefties of the ANSWER coalition. “The international Communist front A.N.S.W.E.R. recently held their worldwide conference in New York City to plot their diabolical ‘Action Plan’…

FirstEnergy, Enron Of The East Millions for baseball, little for maintenance From reader Timothy Perch of Mentor, Ohio (emphasis mine) “On Thursday August 14, 2003, fifty million people lost electricity in the largest blackout in North American history.  New York…

Wave of sabotage hits Iraq “A fresh wave of sabotage and violence took its toll on Iraq on Sunday as a second blaze hit a crucial oil export pipeline, a water pipeline was blown up and six Iraqis were killed…