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A Less Limited Definition of Values -I, II, III from Tom Paine (I), The Nation (II), and the Washington Post (III).

House Fails to Limit Patriot Act's Surveillance Powers from the Washington Post.

A Marshall McLuhan Moment from The Nation.

Bush's Environmental Smokescreen from Salon.

Kerry Should Run With Edwards' Message, Too -I, II, III, IV, V from The New York Times (I), the Baltimore Sun (II), The Nation (III), the Boston Globe (IV), and the Washington Post (V).

Their Own Political Jesus from the LA Weekly.

Missile-Defense's Expense Is Matched Only By Its Uselessness from TomPaine.

Administration Pushes Pakistan to Make Al-Qaeda Captures Before the Election from The New Republic.

They Couldn't Have Timed It Better. Literally -I, II from the Washington Post (I) and TalkingPoints Memo (II).

Panel: CIA Omitted, Distorted WMD Evidence -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX from The New York Times (I & VIII), the Boston Globe (II), Salon (III), the Washington Post (IV & VII), The Nation (V), TalkingPointsMemo (VI),  and Slate (IX).

Welfare Programs 'Paralyzed' By Congressional Inaction, States Say from The New York Times.

Four More Years For Bush Could Mean Four More Scalias from the Boston Globe.

Radical: In the End, Jefferson Trusted In the People from Time.

A Usable History from the LA Times.

Envisioning A Democracy In Which Corporations Do Business, and Nothing More from TomPaine.

As Electoral Prospects Shift, Norquist's K-Street Takeover Plan Sputters from the Washington Post.

For the Fourth, Six Patriots to Honor from the LA Weekly.

The 'Liberal Elite' Is A Canard; the 'Conservative Elite' Is Redundant from The New York Times.

There's 700 Bases For Calling the U.S. An Empire from the LA Weekly.

By Making Iraq A Playground For Ideologues and Cronies, the White House Has Done Terrorists A Favor from The New York Times.

Actual Reporter Slips Through Bush Handlers' Protective Net from the Madison Capital Times.

The Doctor Wants to Know: 'Is It Safe?' from CommonDreams.

Conservatives' Stock Responses to Employment Problems Are Being Proved False from Slate.

Just Call Them Shameless
-I, II, III from Mother Jones (I), The Nation (II), and the Washington Post (III).

High Court Shields Cheney Task Force Records, For Now -I, II from the Washington Post.

Rejecting Exceptionalism from The New York Times Magazine.

How Does the Right Make Its Self-Serving Philosophy Look Legitimate? Misdirected Blame -I, II, III from TomPaine (I), the Cape Cod Times (II), and AlterNet (III).

Why Does the Heartland Vote Masochistically? -I, II, III, IV, V from the Washington Monthly (I), Salon (II), PBS (III), TCFrank (IV), and Mother Jones (V).

Court Repudiates Administration Claims Over Terror Prisoners -I, II, III from Salon (I), the Washington Post (II), and the Boston Globe (III).

Clinton Takes Off the Gloves from Salon.

We Get Nowhere Near Our Money's Worth From Big Pharma from The New York Review of Books.

There's Something About Obama from the Washington Post.

Escaping Bush's Fiscal Trap from the Boston Globe.

Renewing the Assault-Weapons Ban Is A No-Brainer. Guess Who's Against It from Arianna Online.

Court Rejects FCC Rewrite of Media Ownership Rules -I, II from The Nation (I) and Salon (II).

Hammering 'The Hammer' -I, II, III, IV from The American Prospect (I), The Nation (II), the Washington Post (III), and The New York Times (IV).

The Autistic American from Salon.

FDR's Unfinished Revolution -I, II from Salon.

The Administration's Language Games Show How Little It Respects Us from The American Prospect.

9/11 Panel: There's No Proof of Iraq-Al Qaeda Collaboration -I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII from the Washington Post (I & VIII), the Boston Globe (II), The Nation (III & IV), Slate (V), AlterNet (VI), and the New York Observer (VII).

A Pessimist Would Have Known Better from the Washington Post.

Working-Class Poverty Is America's Hidden Issue from The American Prospect.

Who Polarized Our Politics? It's the Elephant the Media Strain to Ignore from the Washington Monthly.

Before the War and After, Mistakes Were Compounded By Misconceptions -I, II from the LA Times (I) and the Washington Post (II).

The Great Experiment from The New York Times Magazine.

For Evangelicals, A Broader Moral Reckoning from the LA Times.

Worth Getting Mad About: For More Americans, Life Has Grown Less Secure from AlterNet.

Who Pays For Today's Executive Extravagance? We Do from TomPaine.

Conservatives Would Take Us Back to A Dismal Past from CommonDreams.

The Advertisers' Ambition? To Own Your Child For Years to Come from The American Prospect.

Granny D. Goes to Washington from The Nation.

Politicians Should Have No One to Dance With But Us from WorkingForChange.

Court Sets Aside Constitutional Question, Leaving Exclusionary Version of Pledge In Place -I, II, III from The New York Times (I), Salon (II), and Slate (III).

Decoding the Straussians' Secret Language from Logos Journal.

Taking the Wal-Mart Challenge from The Nation.

At Some Point, Americans Will No Longer Pay the High Price of Being the World's Policeman from The American Prospect.

John Ashcroft: Worst AG Ever -I, II from The New York Times.

In A Second Bush Term, the NLRB Could Make It Harder For Workers to Join Unions from the Cleveland Morning Journal.

Workers Have Contributed Greatly to Our Improved Economy--But It Hasn't Returned the Favor -I, II from The American Prospect.

Why Not Pick A Different Maverick? -I, II from News-Star (I) and The New Republic (II).

Upbeat Terrorism Report Was Flawed, State Department Concedes -I, II from Salon (I) and The New York Times (II).

Fear Factor: Police and Politicians Are Cracking Down On Dissent from Salon.

'Stepfordization' Stops Being Funny When It Starts Getting Political from AlterNet.

For Some Commentators, Minority Votes Seem Something Less Than Equal -I, II from Talking PointsMemo.

Study: Bush Pollution Plan Is the Dirtiest from The New York Times.

They Put the 'FU' In FUBAR from The American Prospect.

Even Conservatives Get Nothing From Conservative Talk from The Atlantic.

Investors Expect Corporations to Behave Selfishly. Is It So Surprising When They Do? -I, II, III, IV from The New York Times Magazine (I, II & III), and AlterNet (IV).

The Original Teflon President from Salon.

Rightly Remembering Reagan -I, II, III, IV, V, VI from The Nation (I & IV), the