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Sam Smith: A November 3rd Movement
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 12:01 am | Sam Smith
The [story of the] American left for the past three decades has been one of subdivision, fragmentation, and splitting into smaller and weaker cells of action and opinion with, of course, no diminution of certainty in the righteousness concerning each ... More >>
Sam Smith: Apology Re. Iraq Casualty Figures
Monday, 11 October 2004, 12:21 am | Sam Smith
We were deeply moved by a comment by Richard Cheney to John Edwards during the recent debate concerning the relative contributions made by members of the ''coalition.'' More >>
Sam Smith: Halfway To Nowhere
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 1:52 pm | Sam Smith
We are now well over halfway through this dismal presidential campaign during which more money has been spent to less purpose than in any election contest in our history. More >>
Sam Smith: The Return Of Marion Barry
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 1:32 pm | Sam Smith
The return of former DC mayor Marion Barry to a city council seat that represents the poorest ward in the nation's capital is a reminder - albeit one that will be widely ignored - that not everyone in urban America is a member of the creative class ... More >>
Sam Smith: Sycophants To Sociopaths
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 12:11 am | Sam Smith
Few things get the conventional media more riled up than one of its own who doesn't play by the rules, such as the requirement demanding sycophancy towards whatever sociopaths currently lead the country and, coincidentally, provide the propaganda ... More >>
Sam Smith: An Alternative 9/11 Report
Wednesday, 28 July 2004, 1:25 pm | Sam Smith
It is now almost three years since the World Trade Center attack. During this period we have invaded two Muslim countries and moved far closer to the apartheid regime of Ariel Sharon. More >>
Sam Smith: Halfway To Nowhere
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 5:47 pm | Sam Smith
We are now well over halfway through this dismal presidential campaign during which more money has been spent to less purpose than in any election contest in our history. At least some of Bush's expenditures can be credited to effective damage control ... More >>
Sam Smith: Before The Pilgrims / Liberals
Wednesday, 23 June 2004, 12:11 am | Sam Smith
A marvelous new book by Colin Woodward, The Lobster Coast, further undermines the myth that the Pilgrims – in the words of Plymouth Memorial State Park – ''founded the first New England colony.'' And that they are people worth celebrating. More >>
The True Cost Of Reagan And Extreme Capitalism
Monday, 21 June 2004, 11:56 am | Sam Smith
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of that remarkable moment when this country began to turn its back on values that had sustained it throughout its first two centuries – values that included balancing power and wealth with concern for, cooperation with, ... More >>
Sam Smith: Reagan Lie Detector
Friday, 11 June 2004, 1:58 pm | Sam Smith
Reagan conducted one of the most absurd invasions of American history, targetting the tiny island of Grenada. His invasion against Panama was directed against a dictator who at one point was earning more from the CIA than the president's salary. More >>
Sam Smith: Anti-Semitism When It’s Useful
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 2:02 pm | Sam Smith
For a newspaper run by those who like to prattle at length about journalistic ethics, publishing an uncorroborated charge of anti-Semitism against a congressman five days before a primary election seems a little strange. More >>
Sam Smith: The Language Of Cruelty
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 12:01 am | Sam Smith
LISTENING TO DIANE REHM the other morning as she and her panelists turned the horrors of Abu Ghraib into just another matter of politics, policy, and process brought to mind the question: what if the prisoners had been Jewish and the time 70 years ago ... More >>
Sam Smith: Morning Line
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 11:40 am | Sam Smith
JOHN KERRY IS THE MOST lackluster presidential candidate the Democrats have had since Michael Dukakis. That he is their candidate is due in no small part to Terry McAwful’s successful efforts at frontloading the Democratic primaries. More >>
Sam Smith: Bush Outsources Foreign Policy To Israe
Friday, 16 April 2004, 1:48 pm | Sam Smith
GEORGE BUSH, with the concurrence of his purported opponent, John Kerry, has effectively outsourced his major foreign policy to Israel, thereby creating a substantially increased risk of further attacks on the U.S. mainland. More >>
Sam Smith: The Election Is Over, We Lost
Friday, 5 March 2004, 1:44 pm | Sam Smith
The winner is a supporter of three of the worst government decisions of our time: the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, and the Bush education law. More >>
Sam Smith: Throwing Out The Library
Tuesday, 2 March 2004, 2:45 pm | Sam Smith
The best course your editor took in college was covering the local city council for the campus radio station, sitting at the press table as three crusty old Boston reporters conducted a sotto voce seminar in urban politics and journalism. More >>
Sam Smith: The Democrats - Open Up Or Shut Up
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 10:57 am | Sam Smith
For the past four years, the only thing the Democrats and their media enablers have had to say about Ralph Nader is that he was to blame for their troubles. More >>
From Possible Evil Doer To Likely Victim Of Terror
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 12:07 am | Sam Smith
This report is coming to you direct from a laptop computer that scant hours ago was in the custody - along with its owner and his wife - of the Transportation Security Administration at MacArthur Airport in Islip, Long Island. The computer and by inference ... More >>
Sam Smith: The American Idol Election
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 11:37 am | Sam Smith
ONCE AGAIN, the pollsters were way off. Some of this is the fault of the trend towards what we have come to think of as American Idol elections in which superstars are selected by an audience that has only observed their talents for a few minutes with ... More >>
Sam Smith: Why Skull & Bones Matters
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 1:20 pm | Sam Smith
As we learn more of the strange little society called Skull & Bones, it is useful to remember that what we know already is enough: More >>
