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COVER/Tom Engelhardt p. 1
Permanent bases in Iraq?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Kool-Aid Republicans
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Price of Cheney’s hunt; Big Oil windfall; Too many leaks?; Old friends; Keep Arizona elections clean; Jerry Lewis, clown.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Time for citizenship
DISPATCHES p. 5
Bush hands US ports to Dubai management; If it’s Sunday, TV’s conservative; ACLU still working on PATRIOT cleanup; Hatch—liar or moron?; Dem vets lack support ...
THOMAS D. ROWLEY p. 6
Rural America fights rear-guard action
DENNIS HINKAMP p. 6
Is Brokeback Mountain about West?
PAOLO BACIGALUPI p. 6
It’s true: guns don’t kill people
GENE LYONS p. 7
Will real conservatives stand up?
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Rocky road to justice
RUSS BAKER p. 9
FEMA’s unholy trinity
ANDREW KORFHAGE p. 9
Oil independence: all rhetoric so far
JOE CONASON p. 10
Rx for GOP doom
JARED BERNSTEIN p. 10
Medicare, don’t go there
CHRISTOPHER COOK p. 10
If you can’t take a joke, you’ll hate cartoon
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 11
Corporations and homicide
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
On fear, lizard brains and ‘1984’
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 12
Shoot first, avoid questions later
NATHAN NEWMAN p. 12
How corporate right lies about unions
DAVID CORN p. 13
Dereliction of duty
ANDREW LEONARD p. 14
Mining for corporate gold
BEN COHEN & R.W. LANGLEY p. 14
Run US like a business
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Too bad right wing didn’t listen
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Taxpayer plea: spend more on health care
GENE C. GERARD p. 15
Tax shelters disguised as health reform
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Social policy by other means
JOHN BUELL p. 16
There they go again?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Tale of two elections
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber p. 17
Pentagon is untouchable
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 17
Power of images
JOHN NICHOLS p. 17
Boehner part of the problem
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
Migrant caravan of justice
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
How not to spot a terrorist
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Fed chief should cut the double talk
TED RALL p. 19
The shootist: What is Cheney covering up?
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Cheney’s dodge: taking responsibility
JAMES EGGERT p. 20
Capitalism out of balance?
JAMISON FOSER p. 20
Media McCain
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Political folk
JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
Thanks, Betty Friedan
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 21
Smugman (A Dick Cheney poem)
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Dick Cheney goes hunting; Destruction of the Constitution; Corruption goes unchecked.
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Few ‘good guys’ in cartoon flap
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