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COVER/Jim Cullen p. 1 Dems hope to paint the town blue EDITORIAL p. 2 Rethink trade; Cons go Green; Weakness ... JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3 Protecting us from fair drug prices; Another Bush front group; Bush’s backfire; Locking down our right to know; IRS goes after poor folks; Where’s Osama? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4 RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5 Save the planet whichever way you can DISPATCHES p. 5 Dems unveil ‘New Direction’; Health care proposals, Bush broke two dozen laws ... STAN COX p. 6 Cooling the mall, heating the planet THOMAS D. ROWLEY p. 6 ‘Mobile’ home owners need help ROB SHAUL p. 6 Booming anger GENE LYONS p. 7 No problem here CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7 Transportation policy runs off the rails SAM WARDLE p. 9 Waiting for change in North Carolina JOE CONASON p. 10 When cowards attack: GOP vs. Murtha ART CULLEN p. 10 Edwards seeks to restore Dems’ backbone RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 10 World War III: GOP’s trump card JOHN BUELL p. 11 Democrats and the new axis of evil MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 11 Signs of the times ART CULLEN p. 11 Obama weighs in LUCKY DOG p. 12 Katrina Diary: ‘They are not coming’ SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 13 Neocons’ next war MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14 The gas menagerie JESSE JACKSON p. 14 Bush’s NAACP speech only a start DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 14 Banking on Wal-Mart BOB BOROSAGE p. 15 Bush’s Miami vices HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15 General Motors assumption, revisited SAM URETSKY p. 15 Imagine affordable drugs WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16 Bringing on the rapture GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16 Specter’s schizophrenia KENT PATERSON p. 17 Mexico’s moment of truth looms CHARLIE CRAY p. 17 Halliburton’s good deal AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18 War, lies, immigration and scapegoating ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18 Hezbollah’s top ally in Israel MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 18 Measuring Bush’s credibility gap PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19 Taking greed to a new level TED RALL p. 19 When you care enough to do the very least ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 20 Gibson apology: take 2 ROGER BYBEE p. 20 Frank Zeidler’s remarkable legacy LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION p. 20 Backtracking on equal employment ROB PATTERSON p. 21 MTV and the damage done JOYCE MARCEL p. 21 Are you the maker or the tool? MOLLY IVINS p. 22 No guts, no grace; Reality-based candidate; Politics as comic relief DONALD KAUL p. 23 Opposing stem cells is sophistry POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23 Condi goes forth to save Lebanon

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