Archives for Best Web OpEds
August 2006
Thursday, August 31:
Joan Brunwasser: Question of the Week: Are you concerned about the reliability of electronic voting systems? (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: Why a Nuclear Weapon? (3 comments)
Rob Kall: A Lesson from Jill Carroll's Kidnappers: We Should Leave Iraq (3 comments)
Wednesday, August 30:
Rob Kall: DNC: America Needs Real Leadership From Rumsfeld, Not Political Attacks (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Federal Judge Finds Bush Admin Broke Law by Ignoring Scientists and Allowing Pesticides that Harm Endangered Species (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Video clip from Bleifuss/Freeman's new book: "Was the 2004 election stolen?" (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: (GA) No-Confidence vote earned by machines (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The Bush-Is-An-Idiot Camp Grows (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Human Rights and the Realities of Returning to New Orleans (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Rumsfeld's Enemies of the State: All Who Disagree With the Administration's War Madness (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: What Pilots Could Tell Us (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Hidden U.S. Plans for War on Iran: (3 comments)
Ezekiel: Watch Out All You Frogs (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: US & IRAN: If the unthinkable happens (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Katrina's Victims Of Ideology (3 comments)
Kathlyn Stone: Election Nullification 2: Speaker's Special Source (3 comments)
Tuesday, August 29:
tedbohne: Schieffer on Katrina: Hezbollah more efficient than Bush admin (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: "Cheated!" Just out! Novel of 2004 election in Ohio (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Zero tolerance for corruption in Ohio (3 comments)
Len Hart: Catastrophic and Reckless: How Bush brought America to the brink of economic ruin! (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Democrats must embrace, not fear, the "Lamont Wing" of the party if they want to win in November (3 comments)
Monday, August 28:
Amanda Lang: Putting Words in Ahmadinejad's Mouth (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Katrina's Second Crisis (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Four Bush Disasters: When Will the American People Hold the President and Republican Congress to Account (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Why the Republicans Can Win Elections -- Despite Their Poll Numbers, Scandals, and Awful Record (3 comments)
tedbohne: Bush's Disdainful Presidency (3 comments)
Sunday, August 27:
Joan Brunwasser: Help America Vote... On Paper (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Beware of the Armitage Red Herring (3 comments)
Rob Kall: The Unfinished War; Profiles of Hizbullah (3 comments)
John Perry: New 9/11 Pics Add to WTC 7 Mystery (3 comments)
Rob Kall: How to Make Tehran Blink (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Draft Gore Petition Tops 3400 Signatures: Sign here (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: The Cheney presidency (3 comments)
Saturday, August 26:
Rob Kall: Karen Armstrong: Our truth is just a bit-player in the tragic, conflicted whole (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The Trouble with Bush's 'Islamofascism' (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Inflation: Coming to an Economy Near You (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Stem Cells Without Embryo Loss (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: No Place for Cluster Bombs (3 comments)
Friday, August 25:
Amanda Lang: A Religious Movtive for Iraq War Deceptions? Revelations from the Watada Court Martial (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: JUAN COLE: "Folks, we are being set up again!" - Iran's Nuclear 'Threat' (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: How Washington Goaded Israel (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Bush: The Farting Voltaire? (3 comments)
Len Hart: Another Loser of Lebanon II: America (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Unbalanced, Over the Top, and Farting for Laughs -- Leader of the Free World? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: New Orleans' Housing Fiasco (3 comments)
Ezekiel: An Open Letter to Albert Einstein (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: Is Bush Practicing the Madman Theory? (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Will the Democrats Be Ready for Rove's 2006 October Fright Fest? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: RAIIMONDO: The Neocons Ride Again (3 comments)
Thursday, August 24:
Joan Brunwasser: The Ballot Box Revolution is Under Way: Get used to it! (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The 'New Middle East' Bush Is Resisting (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: FISK: Hizbollah's reconstruction of Lebanon is winning the loyalty of disaffected Shia (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: SOLOMON: The Mythical End to the Politics of Fear (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Bush closes door on open access (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: VIDEO: Stewart Slams Bush's "Desperate Soundbites" At Press Conference... (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: A Right to Food? (3 comments)
David Bloys: Think Your ID Is Secure? We Found It Online. (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The Pseudo-Science of Republicanism (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: America for Sale (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: FALSE PROSPERITY (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Does More War Require a Draft? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: BLUMENTHAL: Like father, like son (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Unhappily ever after (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: SCHEER: Truth Time for Democrats (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Mission Not Accomplished (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Sen. Byron L. Dorgan Sounds the Alarm on Corporate Greed and the Selling Out of the American Worker (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Over There, Over There, Send the Word, Send the Word To Beware (3 comments)
Wednesday, August 23:
Amanda Lang: 'Artificial recovery, real job losses' US Govt employs more than manufacturing (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Ethics of War (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Despicable Breeders (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Bush Vacation: Dangerous Days (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Katrina's Bulldozer Politics (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Chatham House Report: Iran, Its Neighbors, and the Regional Crisis (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: HIGHTOWER: Where Bush's arrogance has taken us (3 comments)
Tuesday, August 22:
Amanda Lang: RJ Eskow: Dems Need to Make The Case: Lieberman's A Right-Wing 'Proxy Candidate' for Rove/Cheney (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: It's Not Disarmament That's "Naively Unrealistic," It's Nuclear Weapons Themselves (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Old arguments: President seems out of ideas on Iraq (3 comments)
Monday, August 21:
Rob Kall: Will New Hampshire "Pull a Lieberman" and Fight the Democratic Party's Decision to Make the Presidential Primaries More (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Why America Needs Hezbollah (3 comments)
David Bloys: County Website Worries Officials (3 comments)
Sunday, August 20:
Joan Brunwasser: Stunned, Silent and Scared by Molly Ivins (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Hezbollah 3, Israel 0 (3 comments)
Saturday, August 19:
Russ Wellen: Neocons, as with Yellowcake, Trying to Convince Public Africa Sells Uranium to Iran (3 comments)
Runner: Six Letters On The Relentless Tragedy Called Iraq (3 comments)
David Bloys: The Pilfering of the Public Record by Pirates of Privacy (3 comments)
Friday, August 18:
Len Hart: NSA case exposes blatant GOP hypocrisy (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Pull the Plug by Aviel Rubin (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Jeffords in Reverse: If Lieberman Wins, Will He Join the Republican Caucus?Jeffords in Reverse: If Lieberman Wins, Will (3 comments)
Rob Kall: DNC: Dean On Bush's Disappearing Credibility On Iraq (3 comments)
Thursday, August 17:
Joan Brunwasser: Why fight the hostile takeover of the Democratic Party? Here's why. (3 comments)
Runner: Democrats In America Have Utterly Failed To Counter Republicans Control Of The Language (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Flying While Muslim (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Is Chavez Cuba's kingmaker? (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: The Negative Impact on Women of India's (or Any State's) Decision to Become a Nuclear State (3 comments)
Wednesday, August 16:
Runner: Republican barrage aims to halt advance of Democrats (3 comments)
Runner: Republicans Casting Themselves As The Victims Of Lily-Livered Democrats (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Freeman/Bleifuss New Book on 2004 Elections Gets a Rare Review (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Has Bush v. Gore become the case that must not be named? (3 comments)
Dan Merica: North American Union - Canadian Viewpoint (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Stepping in "macaca" (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Between the Lines (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: From the Times (UK): If this was a defeat, the Israelis must be praying for a lot more of them (3 comments)
Tuesday, August 15:
Amanda Lang: Inside Job (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Bigotry pins blame on Jews (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Republicans beat the war drum - Next stop Armageddeon (3 comments)
Len Hart: Bush lost his proxy war on Lebanon (3 comments)
Monday, August 14:
Joan Brunwasser: Here's what Democrats need to say to show they're strong on fighting terror (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: So, Osama walks into this bar, see? (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: The Euston Manifesto (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: Forget Snakes: Semtex on a Plane! (3 comments)
Sunday, August 13:
Rob Kall: If you can't see that they are traitors in the White House, then you are risking your own lives and the lives of your fa (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: LA TImes: Take A Closer Look (at Faked Photos) (3 comments)
Rob Kall: UN Resolution 1701 isUnmitigated Disaster for Israel: resolution represents a near-total victory for Hizbullah and its s (3 comments)
Saturday, August 12:
Amanda Lang: Lobbying for Armageddon (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Learning from Richard Nixon About How to Frame the GOP on Iraq (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Bob Barr: Congress cuts out, wrecks cyberprivacy (3 comments)
Len Hart: The Bush Administration: a study in failure, waste, and needless death (3 comments)
Friday, August 11:
Joan Brunwasser: Fascists of all Varieties (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: It's Time to Start Profiling and Stop F***ing Around (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Documents show BP ignored pipeline woes for years (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Two Congressional Experts Explain What Has Gone Very Wrong With Congress (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: 'New Middle East' Out Of Control (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Neo-Con Madmen Strike Again - The London Fear Frenzy (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Lobbyists and lawmakers step lively in pay-to-play tango (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Tomas Young Goes to Washington with Phil Donahue (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Fascists of All Varieties (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: GOP 'borrow and spend' policy puts nation in jeopardy (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: From Home and Garden Magazine, 1938- the year of Krisstalnacht and Munich (3 comments)
Thursday, August 10:
Amanda Lang: LOBE: Veteran Policy-Makers Fear Disaster in U.S. Course (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: "Fuck:" Legal implications of its use in 4 major areas of the law (4 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Israel, Not Hezbollah, hindered by conscience (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: War and Diplomacy (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: War Photos as Propaganda? See for yourself (Warning: Graphic Pictures) (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Lieberman's Defeat Threatens Pro-War Supporting Politicians (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Insider Risks in Elections (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: US neocons hoped Israel would attack Syria (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Is Lebanon the Trigger for U.S. War With Iran? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: RAIMONDO: Counting Kills (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Back From The Dead: Privatization (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: NATIONAL SECURITY: Defining Failure As Success (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Bush, Rove, & GOP Busy Politicizing the Terrorist Plot (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: HIRSCH: Did Lieberman violate Jewish law? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: People who watch the Sci-Fi Channel are actually more grounded in reality than Fox News viewers (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: That old GOP playbook ain't working no more (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Detective Story: Has Rove Been Guiding the Lieberman Campaign All Along? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: How big is the federal deficit REALLY? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: A Crude Awakening for Women (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: ALTERMAN: Neocon Dreams, American Nightmares (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: NEWBERRY: The City of Tomorrow (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Hightower: HOW THINGS WORK IN TEXAS (3 comments)
Rob Kall: The End of the Beginning (3 comments)
David Bloys: County for Sale - Investigative Report of the year (3 comments)
Wednesday, August 9:
Rob Kall: Bush is Trying to Scrap the War Crimes Act So He Can Violate the Geneva Conventions Legally from Now On (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: A Slanted Truce and Rice's Latest Obscenity (3 comments)
Rob Kall: John Nichols: Connecticut race shows Feingold's message resonates (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: BLUMENTHAL: Joe's fall from grace (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Hungry For World War III (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Daniel Ellsberg: Times Call for New Pentagon Papers (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Recession? Workers Ask "Where's the Beef?" (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: War on Terror (3 comments)
Tuesday, August 8:
Joan Brunwasser: When Even the Illusion is Gone: "Black Box" Voting and Faith-Based Elections (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Thank you Hezbollah (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The Rebirth of Bolivia in a Constituent Assembly: Is this what democracy looks like? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Could the Midterm Elections Spell an End to Military Follies? (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: John Hersey's Hiroshima Turns 60 (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Hydrocarbon Battlefields (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: When Doves Cry (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Norquist's Tax Ax (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: BUCHANAN: Condi's 'New Middle East'. (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Noam Chomsky on Israel, Lebanon and Palestine (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Time: Is Kos Really the Kingmaker? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: In case we all forgot, Americans are still dying in Iraq (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: BP: Beyond the Pale (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Into the Valley of Death (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: Looking Forward to Future Committee Chairmen Like Conyers if Democrats Take House? Don't Bet on It. (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The end of the beginning (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The Neo-Conservative Menace (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Suitcases Selling Well in Iraq (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: UN deal may come too late to end fighting as obstacles to truce continue to mount (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The working poor as political playthings (3 comments)
David Bloys: The Campaign Tool Chest (3 comments)
Monday, August 7:
Joan Brunwasser: Election strategy: Defeat Repugs with their own words! (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: An October Surprise (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Prop. 89: Clean Campaign movement comes to California (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: The strange morality of Human Rights (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Two crucial questions on Israel v. its enemies (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Labyrinthine Complexities of Fighting a Terror War (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Israel's Neocon Nightmare (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: U.S. and The Coming Financial Crisis (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: USA war crimes ... why do we allow these vultures to fetch us one by one? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Time to talk impeachment (3 comments)
David Bloys: The Role U.S. Counties May Be Playing in International Deed Fraud (3 comments)
Sunday, August 6:
Joan Brunwasser: What happens when the Dream dies? (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Disarming Hizbullah is key to Lebanon's peace (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: The media war against Israel (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Enemy Eyes (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Hot enough yet? (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Losing the Media War (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The draft UN resolution (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Voices across the divide (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Control Alt Delete Democracy (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: How to Inspire (Even More) Fear and Loathing in the Press Room (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Lobbying Scandals? They Can't Slow This Juggernaut (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Barbarians With Wings (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Gary Hart: An October Surprise (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Robert Fisk: A terrible thought occurs to me - that there will be another 9/11 (3 comments)
Saturday, August 5:
Amanda Lang: If the housing boom goes bust, so do illegal workers (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Oh God (redux) (3 comments)
Friday, August 4:
Amanda Lang: The Left Gets Real (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The Sound of One Domino Falling (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: GALLOWAY: Blair, Olmert and Bush are murderers (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Eye on Iraq: Facing Iraqi realities (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Condi Cartoon (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Israel and the U.S. are losing the Three-Front War (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: LOBE: US Losing Arab 'Hearts and Minds' (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: RAIMONDO: War - The Great Clarifier (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: The New Gonzales Standard for Torture? No Standards, No Accountability (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: 'Daily Show': Rapture Watch 2006 (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Liberal Advocacy Groups Who Support "Moderate" Republicans Enable GOP Tyranny (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: BLUMENTHAL: The Neocons Next War (3 comments)
Thursday, August 3:
Joan Brunwasser: The Rules of War (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: The World is Mel Gibson (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: We need a fair up-or-down vote on minimum wage (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Video Made the Terrorist Star: Hezbollah has a chillingly effective media strategy (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Thug Gonzalez Strong-Arming the Vote (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Will Your Vote Count in 2006? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: THE LOW POST: The Mansion Family (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Are electronic voting machine vendors paying disabilities advocates under the table in NY? And elsewhere? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: They Just Keep Doing It (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: The Key Distinctions Between Israel's Action in Lebanon and the Busheviks' Support of it (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: BOROWITZ: Gibson Converts to Judaism - Satire (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Interview with Gore Vidal (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Thank you, Israel (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: HUG: We're All Enemy Combatants Now (3 comments)
Wednesday, August 2:
Joan Brunwasser: Mel and Hezbollah: A quartet of political cartoons (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Our Opinion: Security of vote machines still in doubt (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Don't blame the messenger! by Avi Rubin (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Hizbulla's real goal is racist: to free the Middle East holy lands of Jews (3 comments)
Rob Kall: The Bush Administration is a threat to our national security in and of itself. You need look no further than 9/11 (3 comments)
Tuesday, August 1:
Joan Brunwasser: Passing judgment on Israel-Hezbollah (3 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Guess who's "Shocked and Awed" now? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Beginning of the End for Israel? (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: "Why are the Democrats having trouble getting elected even though their opponents lie, cheat and steal with bewildering (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: BUCHANAN: Syria Emerges Front and Center (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: LOBE: Republican Realists Call for Major Course Change (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Making a Killing on Faith - Boycott the Braves (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Fisk: A Nato-led force would be in Israel's interests, but not Lebanon's (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Blair at bay as the bombs fall on Lebanon (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Sunni, Shia and US Middle East politics (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon On the Intensifying Israeli Attack, Qana, Tony Blair, Bolton., and a Ceasefire (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: US policy alienates all the Lebanese (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: MONBIOT: The king of fairyland will never grasp the realities of the Middle East (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: House Judicary Report on Potential Bush Crimes (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Fueling The Arms Race (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Jihad -- a global fad (3 comments)
Amanda Lang: Capital Crimes (3 comments)
Russ Wellen: Lords of Havoc (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Yet Another Way Iraq Has Made Us Less Safe: Billions More Needed to Restore Army Readiness and Equipment (3 comments)