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William Rivers Pitt: The Millstone
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 12:44 am | William Rivers Pitt
I have trouble imagining what it must be like to be a Republican these days. The party of Lincoln and TR, the party of fiscal responsibility and small government, has become so profoundly separated from its roots that it is barely recognizable ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Criminals Belong in Prison
Monday, 9 May 2005, 10:59 am | William Rivers Pitt
The document almost reads like satire. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam," reads the leaked secret British intelligence memo dated 23 July 2002, "through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Stand Up Next to a Mountain
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 12:15 am | William Rivers Pitt
An interesting thing happened to me last week. I got heckled while giving a speech. Now, don't get me wrong, I've been heckled before. I've given speeches in most of the Red States across the country, and have gotten quite adept at the call-and-raise ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Crawling King Snake Returns
Monday, 2 May 2005, 11:27 am | William Rivers Pitt
The news media is reporting, with much fanfare and praise, that the new Iraqi MPs have appointed people to several cabinet posts, ending months of acrimonious fighting between factions. The New York Times reported it this way: "Almost three months after ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Hostile Information
Thursday, 28 April 2005, 11:53 am | William Rivers Pitt
In this mean and meager time of pre-packaged, pre-processed, corporate-controlled infotainment that passes itself off as 'news, it is a rare and refreshing experience to see and hear a true journalist reporting the facts. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Filibusted?
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 10:50 am | William Rivers Pitt
The GOP leadership is still going to talk about "activist judges." They're still going to flood the talk-show airwaves with talk of a "judiciary that is out of control." They're still going to ally themselves with the worst elements of the extreme right ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Theocrats
Wednesday, 20 April 2005, 1:25 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Ten years ago today, an anti-government extremist named Timothy McVeigh parked a Ryder truck filled with fertilizer and fuel oil in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. More >>
Will Pitt FYI: George W. Bush, the Frightened Man
Friday, 1 April 2005, 2:56 pm | William Rivers Pitt
When I went to New York City this past summer to cover the GOP convention, I remember being awed by the degree of security surrounding Madison Square Garden. There were fences to control the fences, fifty cops on every corner, none of whom knew what ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Shelter from the Storm
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 12:19 am | William Rivers Pitt
I attempted at the outset of the month to encapsulate the entire history of the Bush administration in one sentence. The frightening part isn't how long the sentence turned out to be, or how damnably infuriating the content of the sentence turned ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Dictators, Tyrants and Fools
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 12:56 am | William Rivers Pitt
The greatest strength of the Republican majority in Congress and their allies in the White House is their unfailing ability to say and do anything, no matter how hypocritical or brazen or wrong, in order to win. More >>
Will Pitt's FYI: The Darkness Drops Again
Friday, 18 March 2005, 10:42 am | William Rivers Pitt
So...to recap: Neocon warlord Paul Wolfowitz will head the World Bank ; The White House illegally puts out fake news reports , and the Justice Department does nothing; Another $81 billion of your money and mine is to be poured onto the Iraqi sand ; More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Exiting Iraq
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 12:43 am | William Rivers Pitt
Cindy Sheehan had a son. His name was Casey, and he served in the 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Casey Sheehan's unit came under fire in Baghdad on April 4th, 2004, from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Prophecy Of Oil
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 5:23 pm | William Rivers Pitt
On August 27, 1859, Edwin Drake's oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania struck a gusher, making him the man credited with drilling the first commercially successful oil well in America. In the time between then and now, the world has burned through about ... More >>
BREAKING: Blackwell Seeks Depositions of Kerry and
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 8:12 pm | William Rivers Pitt
In a filing today in the Ohio recount case in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, the Ohio Attorney General and Ohio Secretary of State asked a federal judge to allow them to take depositions of Senator John Kerry and former Senator John Edwards. Ohio ... More >>
Another Bloodbath in Iraq
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 9:26 am | William Rivers Pitt
William Pitt writes: A suicide bomber detonated a car near a crowded marketplace south of Baghdad Monday, killing 115 people and wounding 148 in the single bloodiest attack in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The bomber rammed the car into a ... More >>
NY Times Ed: "The Major Press is Under Attack"
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 3:03 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, was the keynote speaker at Columbia University's Blue Pencil Dinner on Friday night. In his talk, he made it abundantly clear that the flagship of American journalism doesn't think much of the rise of ... More >>
You Want To Win A War Against Iran?
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 2:59 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Scott Ritter got everyone in a twist this weekend by announcing Bush has June plans to bomb Iran. More >>
Hunter S. Thompson: The Proverbial 'Live Boy'
Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 2:56 pm | William Rivers Pitt
William Rivers Pitt: "Hunter Thompson is the reason I write politics. Period. He was the most honest man in the business. Everyone else had and has an angle, a reputation, or a source to protect. Hunter stripped it down to the raw throbbing nerve and let ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: One For All
Monday, 14 February 2005, 3:43 pm | William Rivers Pitt
When I was ten years old, a man attempted suicide by fire in the front seat of my mother’s car. Back then it was me and mom and the cats in a house near Boston College. She was putting herself through law school at night while working various jobs by ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The News Is Broken
Monday, 14 February 2005, 3:37 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Once upon a time, working the White House Press Briefing Room was the crown jewel of mainstream political journalism beats. That was it; short of reporting live from under the President's desk or nailing down an interview with the ghost of Abraham ... More >>
