Archives for Best Web OpEds
January 2006
Tuesday, January 31:
Amanda Lang: The Party of Davos
Amanda Lang: Analysis: State of the Union Agitated
Joan Brunwasser: Jesse Jackson Jr.: Bush's failures are hurting us all on every front
Joan Brunwasser: Bernard Weiner: Reforming the Democrats--Or a Third Party?
Joan Brunwasser: John Edwards: The America We Believe In
Amanda Lang: Bush's legacy of budget debt
Joan Brunwasser: The Silence of the Scams, Psychological Resistance to Facing Election Fraud, by Diane Perlman, PhD
Monday, January 30:
Amanda Lang: A New Intelligence Failure?
Amanda Lang: What Bush Will Say, What You Should Know
Amanda Lang: STATE OF THE UNION: We Are Fu*ked - Headline on Largest Progressive Blog
Amanda Lang: Health Debtor Accounts
Joan Brunwasser: Judge Abner Mikva: Why Bush Needs a New Lawyer
Amanda Lang: Fox News Fans the Hysteria: The Coming War on Iran
Amanda Lang: Louisiana in Limbo
Amanda Lang: Palace Revolt
Amanda Lang: Why evangelicals are mastering the art of college debate
Amanda Lang: STATE OF THE UNION: National Security
Amanda Lang: Bush's track record: Some hits, many misses
Amanda Lang: Polls Show Many Americans are Simply Dumber Than Bush
Amanda Lang: Beating Around the Bush By the Bourse
Amanda Lang: KRUGMAN: A False Balance
Amanda Lang: The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
Joan Brunwasser: Eleanor Clift: The Great Divider-Bush's SOTU Speech
Joan Brunwasser: Robert Parry: Alito Filibuster and Word Games
Joan Brunwasser: Washington Post Editorial critical of Bush's Wiretapping
Joan Brunwasser: 10 Questions that no one asked Americans about Sam Alito
Joan Brunwasser: Frist Skewered by Russert on Meet the Press
Sunday, January 29:
Joan Brunwasser: More on Alito: Mr. Smith Comes to Washington by Paul Savoy
Rob Kall: The Myth of the American Political "Center" and the Nomination of Radical Sam Alito
Saturday, January 28:
Amanda Lang: Nicholas Kristof's Brothel Problem
Friday, January 27:
Joan Brunwasser: An Alito Filibuster Would Make the Democrats "Look Bad?"
Thursday, January 26:
Amanda Lang: STATE OF THE UNION: The Economy
Amanda Lang: STATE OF THE UNION: Health Care
Amanda Lang: STATE OF THE UNION: Energy and the Environment
Amanda Lang: The Fact-Challenged, Spin-Filled, Easily Debunkable Universe of Scott McClellan
Amanda Lang: Former NSA Director Hayden Lied To Congress And Broke The Law
Amanda Lang: In 2002, Bush administration OPPOSED legislation to make it easier to wiretap under FISA
Amanda Lang: FIORE: 'iRepress'
Amanda Lang: If Reid Can't Cajole And Bluster 41 Democrats Into Saving Democracy, He Should Resign His Position.
Amanda Lang: You've Got Jail
Amanda Lang: IVINS: Not Backing Hillary
Amanda Lang: President Jonah -- A Dig led by Gore Vidal
Rob Kall: This Isn't A "Vote Of Conscience" Concerning A Filibuster;
Rob Kall: NY Times: Senators in Need of a Spine; Time to Filibuster
Wednesday, January 25:
Joan Brunwasser: Bush: Back to the Bubble
Rob Kall: Who are the 8 Turncoat Dems Holding up the Alito Filibuster?
Rob Kall: Secrecy as a Spoil of Victory
Joan Brunwasser: Why Democrats Are United against Alito
Tuesday, January 24:
Joan Brunwasser: Evidence? We Don't Want Your Stinkin' Evidence! by Ernest Partridge
Rob Kall: Warriors and wusses
Joan Brunwasser: "Hacking" and the paper ballot-optical scan voting system
Joan Brunwasser: Why the Democrats Should Filibuster Alito
Joan Brunwasser: My Father's Abortion War: by Eyal Press
Joan Brunwasser: EJ Dionne Jr.: Rove's Early Warning
Joan Brunwasser: Buzzflash Editorial: The Power of One
Monday, January 23:
Amanda Lang: Cheney's War Workshop Plots Another Attack
Joan Brunwasser: While Senate Dems crumble, pro-life zealots are already celebrating a new anti-woman Supreme Court
Rob Kall: Oceans in Peril
Sunday, January 22:
Rob Kall: Iran's really big weapon
Rob Kall: Al Jazeera: Bin Ladens propaganda- Valuable gift to Washington
Rob Kall: Paul Krugman: The K Street Prescription
Rob Kall: Maureen Dowd; Googling Past the Graveyard
Rob Kall: Frank RIch: Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito
Amanda Lang: Experts: 'Decapitation' May Not End Terror
Amanda Lang: How Close Are We To Democracy's End? Marcus Garbus
Amanda Lang: Bush-Linked Florida Company and the Katrina Evacuation Fiasco
Amanda Lang: Abortion Before Roe: How the Coat Hanger Became the Symbol of the Abortion Rights Movement
Amanda Lang: NADER: Congressional Ethics After Abramoff
Amanda Lang: DOWD: Googling Past the Graveyard
Rob Kall: Fighting the Theft of New Orleans
Saturday, January 21:
Joan Brunwasser: Joe Conason: A tip for the cowardly press corps
Joan Brunwasser: The Right to Vote by Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Rob Kall: Dennis Kucinich: The Big Fix
Rob Kall: Maureen Dowd: Looking for a Democratic Tough Guy, or Girl
Friday, January 20:
Joan Brunwasser: In the age of ballot-box stuffing, the mechanical voting machine promised accurate election tallies. Sound familiar?
Rob Kall: Filthy Frist, Beyond Dirty, Did Frist Abet Day Traders Operating in His Office
Amanda Lang: Sam Alito and the End of Constitutional Checks and Balances: The Senate Dems are About to Hang Themselves
Thursday, January 19:
Amanda Lang: HUFFINGTON: Dems Pick Kaine for State of Union Response; What the Hell Are They Thinking?
Joan Brunwasser: Republicans Gone Wild by Sidney Blumenthal
Joan Brunwasser: Loot the Vote: The Bush Faction's Future Victories are already in the Bag
Joan Brunwasser: Debunking the myth of the "liberal media" by Eric Alterman
Joan Brunwasser: Evidence of a Stolen Election by Paul Craig Roberts
Joan Brunwasser: Who's Afraid of Bush?
AmeriPundit: A First-Rate Country Run by Second-Rate People
Joan Brunwasser: Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: "The NeoCon fantasy becomes reality: Alito and his clones are coming, coming, coming..."
Joan Brunwasser: How the Press played dumb about the K Street project
Amanda Lang: Lieberman again proves he is most "tone-deaf" politican in DC
Amanda Lang: Drug Addled -Why Bush's prescription plan is such a fiasco
Amanda Lang: Fudging The Numbers
Joan Brunwasser: How long will the media let Bush hide the Abramoff meetings?
Rob Kall: Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo Cites PA rep. Fitzpatrick as Bamboozler of the Day
Rob Kall: Breaking Ranks
Rob Kall: Americablog: How long will the media let Bush hide the Abramoff meetings?
Amanda Lang: Key presidential advisor used non-profit to launder Abramoff money.
Amanda Lang: Denis MacShane: US should talk to Iran, before it's too late
Amanda Lang: Nobody's laughing now
Wednesday, January 18:
Joan Brunwasser: Let's Expose Diebold's Potemkin Offices
Amanda Lang: President's power grab threatens rule of law
Amanda Lang: GOP housecleaning must be thorough
Amanda Lang: Iran Crisis: Cheney Plays the Egypt Card
Amanda Lang: Is It Warm in Here? We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest Story in Our History
AmeriPundit: No Remorse
Amanda Lang: Another Undeclared War?
Amanda Lang: Scandals are bleeding GOP
Amanda Lang: Buffett: U.S. Trade Deficit Is a Threat
Amanda Lang: Murdoch's $1 Billion Bet
Amanda Lang: The rape of Darfur
Amanda Lang: Nuclear power 'cannot tackle climate change'
Amanda Lang: Beyond K Street
Amanda Lang: Health care solution
Amanda Lang: They've got your number - FOR SALE!!
Amanda Lang: Swiftboaters are 'Gangs' in a Moral America
Amanda Lang: Purple Heartbreakers - Bush & Neocon Chickenhawks Attack War Heroes
Amanda Lang: Covering their butts
Amanda Lang: DIONNE: Murtha and the Mudslingers
Amanda Lang: Plantation by Kos
Joan Brunwasser: Ernest Partridge: The Gulliberal Problem
Amanda Lang: The (Backdoor) Draft Returns Quietly
Amanda Lang: Real Men Go to Tehran
Amanda Lang: Target: Iran; here we go again
Amanda Lang: Bush as the 'Mad Hatter'
Amanda Lang: Big Brother is watching you (and blowing it)
Amanda Lang: Strange Bedfellows v. Bush and Cheney
Rob Kall: The Rapture of America
Rob Kall: CT-Sen: Lieberman freaking out about Lamont
Tuesday, January 17:
Joan Brunwasser: Bush's Warrantless Spying: Does the President Really Know Best?
Amanda Lang: The toughest job - Heading up BushCo Trial of Saddam a Thankless Job
Amanda Lang: So Much Corruption, So Little Time, So Here's an Update
Amanda Lang: Senate and Citizens: Save Our Constitution
Amanda Lang: Bugging America: The Liberties of the Subject
Amanda Lang: Supreme Court allows death with dignity
Amanda Lang: Exclusive: Selling the Amazon for a Handful of Beads
Amanda Lang: Bush Has Crossed the Rubicon
AmeriPundit: War's stunning price tag
Joan Brunwasser: The Ostroy Report: Gore "Not Running" in '08? Get Real!
Monday, January 16:
Joan Brunwasser: How to Rig An Election
Joan Brunwasser: Marjorie Cohn: Alito Threatens Dr. King's Dream
Joan Brunwasser: Jonathan Alter: A power outage on Capitol Hill
Joan Brunwasser: Feinstein Wimps out on Alito. Dems Still Have a lot to learn about Winning
Joan Brunwasser: Still Seeking A Fair Vote
Joan Brunwasser: The perils of electronic voting by Emanuele Lombardi
Sunday, January 15:
Amanda Lang: Cronkite: Time for U.S. to get out of Iraq
Amanda Lang: Lobbying: The Web Widens -- Ney In VERY DEEP DOO DOO
Amanda Lang: CLIFT: GOP is full of 'closet' pro-choicers, Alito Overturn of Roe v. Wade could crack party
Amanda Lang: Know Your Creationists
Joan Brunwasser: Mark Crispin Miller Connects the Dots on Election Problems
Amanda Lang: NYTimes Ed. WARNS of Bush's Imperial Presidency
Amanda Lang: Ariel Dorfman on How Bush Makes Fiction of Us All
Amanda Lang: Rotting Within, Tremors Without The State of the Empire, 2006
Amanda Lang: What the FBI Repairman Wore When He Tried to Bug Edward Said
Amanda Lang: Don't Blame Israel
Joan Brunwasser: Filibuster Alito, Impeach Bush by Paul Rogat Loeb
Amanda Lang: Iran, Blogging Against the Regime
Amanda Lang: Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror'
Saturday, January 14:
Joan Brunwasser: Alito's Ugly Association by Joe Conason
AmeriPundit: Men Intoxicated with Power and Courtiers Who Serve Them
Rob Kall: Bob Herbert:: The Law Breaker in the Oval Office
Amanda Lang: The BUSH Songbook - For When You Just Gotta Sing
Friday, January 13:
AmeriPundit: Bush on Bin Laden's Satellite Phone: Wrong Again
Amanda Lang: BAGEANT: Revenge of the Mutt People
Amanda Lang: Fighting shy
Amanda Lang: For lack of body armor, troops die. Why the delay?
Amanda Lang: Ahmadinejad: Not Crazy, Cunning
Amanda Lang: RAIMONDO: War, Lies, and Videotape
Amanda Lang: Murtha: Situation in Iraq is a CIVIL war - Global war on terrorism, a 'myth
Amanda Lang: Executive Orders that would allow Bush to suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Rob Kall: Toxic Right Wing Anti Paper Ballot Propaganda: "Don't Strangle E-Voting With Paper"
Rob Kall: Meek, mild and menacing
Rob Kall: THE (Broken) TRIANGLE: Progressive Bloggers in the Wilderness
Thursday, January 12:
Joan Brunwasser: Embattled Lobbyists Face Their Watergate
Joan Brunwasser: It's been a long trek since Nov. 2, 2004 -- now getting shorter: by Robert Lockwell Mills
Joan Brunwasser: Preventing Vote Fraud
Joan Brunwasser: Ending Legal Bribery: The case for public campaign financing
Amanda Lang: Alito Almanac: Right-Wing Revelation
Amanda Lang: Tracks of Her Tears: The Swift Boaters and Sam Alito
Amanda Lang: SIROTA: Newt's New Con
Amanda Lang: U.S. law professor : Iraq war is "Pure Evil" - An American "Killing Field"
Amanda Lang: The Impeachment of George W. Bush
Rob Kall: Presidential Maybe Biden Can't Even ask Alito Questions Effectively
Joan Brunwasser: Alito Hearings: Not Buying the Sob Story
Joan Brunwasser: Alito & the Ken Lay Factor
Rob Kall: John Nichols: Alito's nod to executive power looms as dangerous
Wednesday, January 11:
Amanda Lang: Conservative mag: Abramoff Scandal IS a Republican Scandal
AmeriPundit: (The lack of) Fairness in the Alito Hearings
AmeriPundit: The Alito testimony you won't hear
Amanda Lang: A Formula for Slaughter
Amanda Lang: JAMAIL: 'Democracy' Brings Bleak Days to Iraq
Amanda Lang: RAIMONDO: Abramoff and the Israeli Connection
Joan Brunwasser: The Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio's Connection to Electoral Fraud
Tuesday, January 10:
Amanda Lang: Bremer's New Memoir Is Scathing Attack on Rumsfeld
Joan Brunwasser: Encounter in Hadassah Hospital: "A Hospital Meeting" by Mike Levine
Joan Brunwasser: One Dog, One Bite: The Demise of the NY Times by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
Amanda Lang: Bush Con Jobs: Will the US Need an IMF Bail Out?
Amanda Lang: Bush: Alito will bring "a lot of class to that court"
Amanda Lang: IVINS: Not Proud to Be an American
Amanda Lang: Figuring Out Alito -- Just See Disgraceful BUSH v. GORE
Amanda Lang: Bush's Unlikely Co-conspirators
Joan Brunwasser: Is Philly Public Radio Censoring Ads?
Joan Brunwasser: Censorship, NPR and Miller's New Book: "Fooled Again"
Rob Kall: Cracking The Alito Codebook
Joan Brunwasser: Did the NSA help Bush hack the Vote?
Monday, January 9:
Joan Brunwasser: Martin Garbus: Angry and Furious at the Collaborationist Democrats
Joan Brunwasser: Daily Kos: More King George
Joan Brunwasser: With Democrats Like Harris Miller, Who Needs Diebold? (Or Republicans for that Matter)
Rob Kall: Frank Rich: The Wiretappers That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Joan Brunwasser: New Book by Lance deHaven-Smith: Al Gore really did beat W in 2000
Rob Kall: How the GOP disciplined K Street and made Bush supreme.
Sunday, January 8:
Joan Brunwasser: Rigged Elections Not Taken Seriously Enough
Joan Brunwasser: Boston Globe: Alito May Be The Worst Choice
Joan Brunwasser: Reach Out and Touch No One by Maureen Dowd
Joan Brunwasser: Reviews of What Went Wrong in Ohio & Black Box Voting
Saturday, January 7:
Joan Brunwasser: Newspapers Urge President to Quit!
Amanda Lang: Analysis: GOP Woes Don't End With DeLay
Amanda Lang: The NYT's Unconscionable Decision to Sit on the NSA Story for a Year
Amanda Lang: Libby, Franklin, the OSP and Sibel Edmonds - What's It All About?
Amanda Lang: Analysis: Iraq's dark realities
Rob Kall: Ted Kennedy: Alito's Credibility Problem
Friday, January 6:
Amanda Lang: RIAMONDO: Sharon's Epitaph - He made Israel into a world power
Amanda Lang: Primal smirk
Joan Brunwasser: Latest Update from Black Box Voting
Amanda Lang: Dems and Privacy Politics
Amanda Lang: Prosperity in George Bush's Economy?
Amanda Lang: A Manhattan Project on IEDs? Simple is Dangerous
Amanda Lang: Looking for a Bad Idea? Visit 1600 Penn
Rob Kall: The Democrats' Silent Spring
Amanda Lang: Dissecting Sam Alito
Joan Brunwasser: Bush Family Values Photo Album
Thursday, January 5:
Amanda Lang: JAMES MOORE: "Branded" - No-Fly List Grows to 80,000 + 1
Amanda Lang: Abramoff, the GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do
Amanda Lang: Take It Back, Jack: the Abramoff Scandal Inspires a Flood of Charitable Giving
Amanda Lang: The new Gilded Age
Amanda Lang: Could publication of the domestic-spying story lead to indictment of the New York Times?
Amanda Lang: Bush's Vets: Losing their minds
Amanda Lang: PITT: Incoming
Amanda Lang: A Cult of Presidential Power: The Unrestrained President
Amanda Lang: PILGER: The Quiet Death Of Freedom
Amanda Lang: COLE: Abramoff and al-Arian - Lobbyist's "Charity" a Front for Terrorism
Amanda Lang: Abramoff Fed Washington's Outstretched Hands
Amanda Lang: The comptroller: Washington's prophet of fiscal doom
Amanda Lang: Scandal's sordid stain
Amanda Lang: Cronies At The FEC
Amanda Lang: There is Nothing to Fear but Cheney Himself
Joan Brunwasser: Bush's War on Professionals: by Sidney Blumenthal
Amanda Lang: An Atheist Manifesto
Wednesday, January 4:
Amanda Lang: The Bush Family Coup
Amanda Lang: 9-11 Families Pan NSA Snooping
Amanda Lang: 2nd Scandal To Potentially Implicate Hastert in Year
Amanda Lang: The Abramoff Scandal Is a Republican Scandal
Amanda Lang: The man who bought off Washington
Amanda Lang: Miller's Moment - Unsung Hero of Congress Stopped Bush in Tracks
Amanda Lang: HUFFINGTON: Congressional Oversight 2006
Amanda Lang: W, fear — together again in yet another campaign
Joan Brunwasser: Loser McCain's Torture Amendment Gutted
Joan Brunwasser: The Abramoff Matter from TPM (Talking Points Memo)
Tuesday, January 3:
Joan Brunwasser: Media New Year's Resolutions
Joan Brunwasser: In 2006, Voting Fraud is the Keystone Issue
Amanda Lang: Analysis: Abramoff plea may rock GOP boat
Amanda Lang: A Life, Wasted -- Who Will Be Asked To Be The Last To Die In Iraq?
Joan Brunwasser: Abramoff Will Sing, and Many Corrupt Republicans Will Finally Get Their Due
Joan Brunwasser: LA TImes: Voting System Results Still Out
Joan Brunwasser: Question for Judge Alito: What about One Person One Vote?
Amanda Lang: Eminent domain now big business
Joan Brunwasser: Our Worrisome MDP by Robert B. Reich
Amanda Lang: Speculation After Seeing (Yet Another) Bush Photo With A Cut On His Face
Amanda Lang: Top Ten Anti-War News Stories of 2005 and the Underreported Stories of the Year
Amanda Lang: The Political Folly Awards of 2005
Amanda Lang: "Old Half-Witted Sheep" - A New York Times Editorial Contemplates Iraq
Rob Kall: A Nation Under Siege by Liars and Law Breakers in the White House
Monday, January 2:
Joan Brunwasser: Cast ballots... Into the Trash
Joan Brunwasser: David Wallechinsky: What is the Bush Administration Trying to Hide?
Joan Brunwasser: None Dare Call It Stolen: Ohio, the Election and America's Servile Press
Sunday, January 1:
Amanda Lang: Dollars to doughnuts, Bush's drug benefit is no bargain - Year of Reckoning...
Amanda Lang: The Army, Faced With Its Limits
Joan Brunwasser: Democratic Underground: Coalescing Evidence of Massive Voter Registration Fraud in Ohio 2004
Amanda Lang: MAHER: Thoughts on 2005
Amanda Lang: House That Jack Built Comes Tumbling Down on Tuesday
Amanda Lang: The Incredible Bush Double-Standard on Classified Leaks
Amanda Lang: KRUGMAN: Heck of a Job, Bushie
Amanda Lang: It was a heckuva thing to say
Amanda Lang: Abramoff ready to rat on members of Congress
Amanda Lang: Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence
Joan Brunwasser: What's All the Fuss About Diebold in FL and CA? by John Washburn for Vote Trust USA
Joan Brunwasser: A Law That Counts
Joan Brunwasser: Paper Backup for Voting Worth Cost: The Morning Call Online