Month May 2003

New England Journal of Medicine publishes all-SARS issue From the excellent new SARSwatch comes: “The New England Journal of Medicine published an issue today devoted to SARS. As the editors of the journal document in their editorial, SARS, the Internet,…

Corporate Democrats organizing against Dean The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is opposed to Howard Dean as a Presidential candidate, and will no doubt do everything they can to torpedo his campaign. This in the name of being “New Democrats”, which…

Sell a bong, go to prisonTommy Chong, of Cheech & Chong, has pled guilty to selling “drug supplies”, bongs and pipes, to be exact. Federal guidelines call for a sentence of six months to one year. In a nice Orwellian…

Letter from former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to President Bush May 14, 2003 Dear President Bush, The authorization to U.S. military personnel in Iraq to shoot looters reported in the press today must be rescinded immediately. Neither the laws…

Iraq Disorder Worries Senators “Veteran senators from both parties, expressing some of the strongest congressional concern to date about the civil disorder in Iraq, appealed to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday to quickly bring the situation under control. “I…