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Wed. 12/27: Gerald Ford’s Legacy: Cheney & Rumsfeld

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Gerald Ford died yesterday, but he lives on in two of his key appointees: Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Their impact on America today is greater than Ford’s. JOHN NICHOLS comments: he’s Washington correspondent for The Nation, and writes The Online Beat at TheNation.com.
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Wed 12/20: The Last Lennon File

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No show today, but some news: the FBI yesterday agreed to release the last ten documents from the John Lennon FBI File, which had been withheld for the last 25 years on the grounds that they were “national security” documents and that releasing them could cause “foreign military retaliation.”
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Wed. 12/13: The U.S. v. George Bush et al.

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A 20-year prosecutor lays out the case against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and Colin Powell. The charge: conspiracy and fraud in taking the country to war. ELIZABETH de la VEGA is the author of U.S. v. George W. [...]

Wed. 12/6: Politics in God’s Country

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90 percent of Americans say they’ve never doubted the existence of God. 80 per cent say they are certain they will be called to answer for their sins on Judgment Day. But says EYAL PRESS, the same religious zeal that pushes some [...]