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Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies 4/23

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Palestinian Gunmen Execute Alleged Collaborators with Israel 4/23

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Bush's slide into the brambles 4/23

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South of the Border, Democracy Works 4/23

Italian Leader Warns Critics on TV to Toe the Line 4/23

Barf Warning! Katherine Harris Takes Her Campaign To TV. Here's the Kicker: She Says She's "Respected by Democrats." What Amazing Gall. 4/23

Gore Says Enron, Exxon Vetted Bush Picks on Panels 4/23

Butler, Georgia Students plan county's first integrated prom 4/23

GOP Attempts to Replace Phil Gramm Before Election. 4/23

Anger at Canadian soldiers' deaths 4/23

Pace Slows On Enron 4/23

The day the music dies: A death knell has been sounded for independent internet radio stations 4/23

Gay African-American pioneers: Groundbreaking progress of homosexual minorities 4/23

Gore Criticizes Bush's Environmental Policies 4/23

Moral Clarity: Bush Gang Can't Lose What It Never Had, by Molly Ivins 4/23

From Camelot to Crawford: Did "people in high places put out the word to stand down and let [9/11] happen?" 4/23

"Blinded By The Right" by David Brock

Prevent religious electioneering 4/23

Democrats see chink in Bush's foreign policy armor. Chink? More Like A Sucking Chest Wound. 4/23

US finds strange bedfellows in UN vote on torture 4/23

"The state of South Carolina has declared war on labor," said Bill Fletcher, a fellow at the AFL-CIO's George Meany Center, "and on Black workers in particular." 4/23

A Wintry Reminder on Earth Day: Bush Photo Opportunity Turns Into Parade of Errors 4/23

Faith-based fantasy-island: Government fiddles while poor get burnt 4/23

REPOSTED: The Real Reason the Grand Hypocrisy Party Slime Machine is Now Demonizing Senator Patrick Leahy 4/23

Not your father's energy policy. Actually, Worse. 4/23

Our Own Worst Enemy? As the FBI seeks the source of last year's anthrax letters, it finds itself investigating the very laboratories that do its testing. 4/23

Alaska oil's supply-side follies 4/23

Not On Our Side: The Right Blames God and Bush for Sept. 11? 4/23

Omar Sheikh, who is being tried in Pakistan for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, may have been an agent for both the ISI and Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda 4/23

Defining roles in the wars we fight 4/23

U.S. fails to support claims against leader of chemical weapons monitor 4/23

The Other Deficit: America's ballooning trade deficit may be the worst economic problem we face—and no one wants to talk about it 4/23

Kryptonite Dose of Reality for Bush 4/22

Bush Rebuffs Clinton Because the Big Dog Would Just Show How Incompetent Boy George is -- and Bill Might Actually Bring Peace, Which Would Mean Bush's Military Suppliers Might Not Get as Many Orders for War Supplies 4/22

FROM THE BUSH FAMILY VALUES ARCHIVES: "Gov. and Mrs. Bush still don't seem to get it. Columba Bush's decision to mislead U.S. Customs officials was not merely "bad judgment" or a "mistake." It was an attempt to defraud the government." 4/21

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The FBI Wanted to Talk with Orrin Hatch, but the Justice Department Wouldn't Let Them 4/22

85% of Canadians Want U.S. to Pay Compensation for Friendly Fire Casualties 4/22

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From the Archives: How Some Arab Nations Have Dealt with Terror and Insurgency 4/22

Bush Faces Sustained Dissension on the Right. Now, All We Need to See is Sustained Dissension from the Democrats and Progressives. 4/22

Friends, Foes Find Lack of Coherence in Bush Foreign Affairs 4/22

White House Hasn't Sought Money to Guard Atomic Plants, Energy Official Says 4/22

Throwing cloak over presidential records is hardly gallant 4/22

Moussaoui: Lawyers in Conspiracy 4/22

Where the Right Wing Fringe Meets the Gun Nut Militias: Axis of Bizarredom 4/22

List of New York Sweatshops Vanishes Under Bush 4/22

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The questioning of al-Qaida prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has descended into farce 4/22

Canadian Anthem Booed by Detroit Basketball Fans, Just Days After the Death of Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan. How Crude. 4/22

THE SELLING OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY,
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Fetch Me Barney, by Maureen Dowd 4/22

Are Guns Sacred Objects? The House Republicans Think So, at the Behest of the Gun Lobby and Its Contributions 4/23

FANTASY ISLAND ALERT: Katherine Harris Claims She is "Respected" by Democrats 4/22

Real Security is Hard to Find, by Jimmy Breslin 4/22

Emily's List Makes a Name for Itself 4/22

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Justice Vs. John Ashcroft 4/22

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