All mirrors are magical mirrors; never can we see our faces in them.
Logan Pearsall Smith:
Afterthoughts
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2006 Articles
| Let's have a Victory Party for Bush! ...And call it a day, a year and a war | 25-12-06 |
| How this latter-day Grinch became the Decider-by-the-faucet | 19-12-06 |
| Saint James of Plains, American politician-martyr | 14-12-06 |
| Saint James of Plains, American politician-martyr | 14-12-06 |
| No virtue in being pigheaded and great vice in being "busholute" | 09-12-06 |
| Neither criminals of war, nor criminals of conscience | 02-12-06 |
| Should an arsonist be allowed to put out his own fire? | 28-11-06 |
| Could Santa Claus come early this year... say, on November 8th? | 27-10-06 |
| Political Prestidigitation: The Illusion of a Two-Party System | 22-10-06 |
| Thank you, soldier, but you needn't fight for my freedoms | 17-10-06 |
| Foleys Bergère: Political entertainment "al'Americain" | 08-10-06 |
| Republicans' October Surprise: Keep harmful surprises under lock and key | 01-10-06 |
| Thugs we can call our own | 28-09-06 |
| "Shock and awe" diplomacy confronts American exceptionalism | 22-09-06 |
| Et tu, Benedicte? | 16-09-06 |
| Americans' unrealized "peace dividend" | 06-09-06 |
| How about "cut and walk" instead of "cut and run"? | 25-08-06 |
| A nation with an anesthetized conscience | 16-08-06 |
| So long [Joe Lieberman], it's been good to know you | 08-08-06 |
| Bush's international diplomacy goes "green" | 06-08-06 |
| Neither the power to act, nor to influence | 27-07-06 |
| Bush's "wimpification" of the UN (or, St. Petersburg's G-8 summer outing) | 18-07-06 |
| Inconvenient truths: Chaldea, Phoenicia... will Syria and Persia be next? | 16-07-06 |
| Like a De Beers' diamond, Bush's "war on terror" is forever | 09-07-06 |
| In search of identity: Citizens, nationals or subjects? [Fourth of July afterthoughts] | 06-07-06 |
| Knights and squires of the new millennium | 30-06-06 |
| We are those we help elect | 23-06-06 |
| We are those we help elect | 23-06-06 |
| The Decider has decided... not to be presidential lame duck | 17-06-06 |
| Guilt by Exoneration... or, Hypocrites "R" Us | 11-06-06 |
| The "few bad apples" alibi in business, military and political crimes | 01-06-06 |
| My Lai... Haditha... and America's whitewashers | 27-05-06 |
| America's love affair with "irrational exuberance" | 20-05-06 |
| Beware, Iran! A monosuperpower seldom does dialogue | 11-05-06 |
| Work ethic, work atrophy... and those "detestable illegals" | 08-05-06 |
| UCLA's radical professors of today... and of yesteryear | 03-05-06 |
| Realities intertwined with undocumented immigration | 14-04-06 |
| A letter to two chaplains | 06-04-06 |
| No yellow ribbons from this ex-marine | 29-03-06 |
| Marching together: The regretful and the contrite | 22-03-06 |
| America: From a truth-based, to a faith-based nation | 16-03-06 |
| Can America go "private," or is it too late? | 11-03-06 |
| Patriot Act II: Legislating Liberty as Currency | 03-03-06 |
| Dubai and Dubya: America's political free-for-all | 01-03-06 |
| Is it political conjunctivitis, lack of humanity... or both? | 24-02-06 |
| Is it political conjunctivitis, lack of humanity... or both? | 24-02-06 |
| Our Choice: Distrust and Hate, or Social Cohesion | 17-02-06 |
| Are budgets a true litmus test for politicians? | 12-02-06 |
| America's One and One-half Party System | 02-02-06 |
| Politics of Extreme Unction: Revolutionary Rights | 29-01-06 |
| A Preview of Coming Attractions | 22-01-06 |
| Au’voir Afghanistan: A debriefing | 15-01-06 |
| America's Pandemic Aristerophobia | 08-01-06 |
| America's Pandemic Aristerophobia | 08-01-06 |
| Americans in the Bubble | 01-01-06 |
| Peace, Truth… and Ramsey Clark | 11-12-05 |