November 29, 2005 - Ex-Powell Aide Criticizes Bush on Iraq
"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff says President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of post-war planning, allowing underlings to exploit Bush's detachment and make bad decisions..."
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November 29, 2005 - Shake and Bake
"Let us pause and count the ways the conduct of the war in Iraq has damaged America's image and needlessly endangered the lives of those in the military..."
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November 28, 2005 - Derrick Z. Jackson: Alito: the masking of a conservative
"Pride must go before he falls. This is why Samuel Alito hopped to liberal burrows on Capitol Hill to proclaim the burial of his conservative ideology..."
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November 28, 2005 - U.S. Defends Decision Not to Join Kyoto
"The United States defended its decision not to sign the Kyoto Protocol on Monday, saying during the opening of a global summit on climate change that it is doing more than most countries to protect the earth's atmosphere..."
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November 28, 2005 - Congressman Resigns After Admitting He Took Bribes
"Representative Randy Cunningham, a Republican from San Diego, resigned from Congress on Monday, hours after pleading guilty to taking at least $2.4 million in bribes to help friends and campaign contributors win defense contracts..."
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November 28, 2005- 2nd 'Time' Reporter to Testify in Leak Case
"A second Time magazine reporter has agreed to cooperate in the CIA leak case and will testify about her discussions with Karl Rove's attorney, a sign that prosecutors are still exploring charges against the White House aide..."
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November 27 ,2005 - The Plight of Public Universities
"There's a crisis in this country in higher education--and the House GOP's reckless fiscal policies are making it worse. To pay for the rebuilding costs associated with Hurricane Katrina, House Republicans just last week passed $50 billion in budget cuts, eviscerating student loan programs, Medicaid and food stamps while simultaneously seeking to enact a five-year $57 billion tax break for millionaires and corporations..."
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November 27, 2005 - Canada confident of progress at UN climate talks
"Host Canada expressed hopes of easing a dispute between the United States and most of its allies on ways to combat global warming at U.N. climate talks starting on Monday.."
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November 26, 2005 - Editorial: American's shameful shift on torture
"Americans accustomed to taking their leaders' words at face value perhaps can be forgiven, at least until now, for believing the unbelievable. But enough details have recently come to light about the Bush administration's handling of terror suspects to make anyone aware of them thoroughly repulsed and deeply ashamed..."
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November 25, 2005 - Court Nominee Deals With Ethics Criticism
"Judge Samuel Alito has said he did not break a federal ethics law when he ruled in a case involving the company that handles his mutual fund investments..."
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November 23, 2005 - Double-digit property tax jump is looming
"A perennial partisan dispute over whom Minnesotans can thank for increasing property taxes flared anew Wednesday. Officials from Gov. Tim Pawlenty's administration embarked on a five-city fly-around to urge citizens to attend final budget-setting deliberations over the next month and push for more restraint by school boards, city councils and county boards..."
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November 22, 2005 - E.J. Dionne Jr.: Try bringing democracy to folks on Capitol Hill
"Perhaps we should redeploy the democracy experts we have sent to the Middle East and ask them to work on our Congress. The last few days have confirmed that our national government is dysfunctional..."
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November 22, 2005 - Editorial: Class size matters, and they're too big
"Even though Minneapolis voters raised their own taxes to hold down school class sizes, the student-teacher ratio has crept back up. A recent Star Tribune news story documented the troubling results -- including less individual attention for kids, fewer or reduced homework assignments, and overcrowded classrooms..."
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November 22, 2005- DFL gets another seat in Senate
"The DFL Party's majority in the Minnesota Senate grew by one on Tuesday when special elections held to replace two departing members saw a seat formerly held by a Republican go across the political aisle..."
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November 21, 2005 - Bruce Schneier: The erosion of freedom
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November 21, 2005 - Pawlenty calls special elections to fill St. Cloud legislative seats
"Voters in the St. Cloud area will be asked to go to the polls two days after Christmas for special elections to fill two legislative vacancies..."
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November 19, 2005 - Full schools may be reshuffled
"Overcrowding at two Woodbury elementary schools is prompting South Washington County Schools officials to redraw the lines that determine which schools students will attend next year..."
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November 19, 2005 - Next battle at Northwest: outsourcing
"Union leaders say bankrupt airline wants to shift 9,000 jobs to outside contractors. What will it be like to work for the new Northwest Airlines, now under construction in bankruptcy? About a quarter of the Eagan-based carrier's current employees may never know..."
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November 19, 2005 - Kennedy casts key vote on budget bill
"Early Friday, the vote for the U.S. House budget bill was tied, 215-215. Then U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy, the three-term Republican running for the U.S. Senate, cast his vote for the bill, putting it over the top..."
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November 18, 2005 - Editorial: Ideological corruption is finally getting its due
"A culture of ideological corruption that has infected Washington since 2001 is coming unwound, and it's about time."
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November 18, 2005 - Your tax dollars at work
"$223 Million. Few construction projects have become so famous so fast as Alaska's planned "bridge to nowhere."
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November 18, 2005 - Editorial: Proud Marine wants troops brought home
When Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., gave his impassioned speech Thursday calling for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, spokesman Scott McClellan pronounced the White House "baffled" that Murtha "is endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party."
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November 18, 2005 - House Republicans Eke Out Budget Cut
"House Republicans basked in triumph after razor-thin passage of a sweeping budget cut plan in the wee hours of Friday morning..."
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November 17, 2005 - George F. Will: How not to be a conservative
"Federal spending -- most of it unrelated to national security -- has grown twice as fast under President George W. Bush as under President Bill Clinton..."
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November 17, 2005 - Hawkish Democrat seeks Iraq pullout
"When he came home from Vietnam, John Murtha had two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and -- unlike many other vets -- no desire to protest the war..."
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November 17, 2005 - Morning-after, months later
"Everybody knew it anyway, but it's worthwhile to have a respected government office make it official: Anomalies surrounded the decision to refuse over-the-counter status to the morning-after pill. All of them point to top managers at the Food and Drug Administration who expressed more concern about the moral views of religious conservatives than the questions of health and science that are supposed to guide their decisions..."
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November 16, 2005 - Editorial: The Senate finds its voice on Iraq
"Tuesday was not a good day for the Bush administration. Senate Republicans, pushed by Democrats and worried about the midterm election in 2006, voted overwhelmingly to demand that the White House set out a strategy for getting the troops home from Iraq and provide quarterly updates on progress in following that strategy."
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November 16, 2005 - Tentative Deal on Patriot Act, Sources Say
"House and Senate negotiators struck a tentative deal on the expiring Patriot Act that would curb FBI subpoena power and require the Justice Department to more fully report its secret requests for information about ordinary people, according to officials involved in the talks."
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November 16, 2005 - Minnesota Education: Cooking with beans
"I have a friend who recently made the tough decision to give up a lucrative job to stay home and raise her two children. When asked how the family was making ends meet on just one salary, she said, “Well, I’m learning to cook with beans.”
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November 16, 2005 - Oil company officials accused of lying to Congress
"Democrats asked the U.S. attorney general on Wednesday to investigate whether top executives from big oil companies lied to Congress when they said their firms did not take part in Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force..."
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November 16, 2005 - America's Future Is Stuck Overseas
"ACCORDING to a recent survey, more foreign graduate students enrolled in American universities this year than last, but their numbers remain far lower than they were in 2002. That international graduate student enrollment is no longer declining is welcome news. But it should not distract us from the obstacles the United States still faces in attracting top talent to its shores..."
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November 16, 2005 - Can I Get a Little Privacy?
"WILL Estelle Griswold ever be able to rest in peace? Although she died in 1981, the poor woman gets kicked up and down the block whenever someone is nominated to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. But few people remember who Griswold was or what she did..."
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November 16, 2005 - Ignore the Man Behind That Memo
"Judge Samuel Alito Jr.'s insistence that the Constitution does not protect abortion rights is not the only alarming aspect of a newly released memo he wrote in 1985. That statement strongly suggests that Judge Alito is far outside the legal mainstream and that senators should question him closely about it..."
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November 15, 2005 - Senate seeks '06 Iraq pullout plan
"Frustrated by the pace of progress in Iraq, the Senate voted 79 to 19 Tuesday to ask President Bush to spell out the conditions for withdrawing U.S. troops beginning next year..."
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November 15, 2005 - State Sen. Lourey makes second run at governor's office
"State Sen. Becky Lourey, who elevated her profile by speaking out against the Iraq war that claimed her son's life, embarked Tuesday on a second run for governor..."
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November 15, 2005 - Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials
"To avoid having to account for his administration's misleading statements before the war with Iraq, President Bush has tried denial, saying he did not skew the intelligence. He's tried to share the blame, claiming that Congress had the same intelligence he had, as well as President Bill Clinton. He's tried to pass the buck and blame the C.I.A. Lately, he's gone on the attack, accusing Democrats in Congress of aiding the terrorists..."
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November 15, 2005 - Senate Republicans Block Iraq Timetable
"The Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday easily defeated a Democratic effort to pressure President Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It then overwhelmingly endorsed a weaker statement calling on the administration to explain its Iraq policy..."
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November 14, 2005 - Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us
"How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include abuse rising to the level of torture? Much has been said about the illegality of these tactics, but the strategic error that led to their adoption has been overlooked..."
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November 14, 2005 - It should go without saying: 'We do not torture'
"Well, I guess that settles that. "We do not torture," President Bush said last week..."
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November 14, 2005 - The Battle for the Exurbs
"For some time now, conservatives have tended to see America's exurbs - those fast-growing counties at the fringes of metropolitan areas populated by legions of young families - as a source of Republican strength that will, over time, turn the Democrats into a permanent minority party..."
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November 13, 2005 - Schools pay the price in property-tax shell game
"Why? That was his only question. Why? He had just gotten the news that property taxes might be going up more than 22 percent to pay for schools in St. Paul. Why, in the land of no new taxes could such a thing be happening? He supported schools he said, but a double-digit increase. Why?"
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November 13, 2005 - Life-saving science threatens agenda of 'values conservatives'
"There was a time when only the loony left believed the loony right favored death over sex. Not any more..."
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November 13, 2005 - A Tent Divided
"ONE thing we used to know for sure about the two political parties was that only one was really a party. That was the Republicans. They were a distinct minority in the country, but they did have a certain cohesion and a more or less consistent view of the world, built on a faith in limited government..."
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November 12, 2005 - Cut student loans? It's a big debate
"Congress is sparring over a Republican plan to cut spending on student loans, a proposal that could lead to sticker shock for thousands of students in Minnesota and across the nation..."
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November 12, 2005 - God's Pat Problem
"It cannot be easy being God these days, what with so many of His self-proclaimed followers launching wars in His name..."
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November 12, 2005 - Bush steps up attacks on war critics
"President Bush on Friday castigated Democrats who suggest they were tricked into going to war in Iraq 2½ years ago and denied critics' allegations the administration manipulated prewar intelligence..."
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November 12, 2005 - Mortensen quits 6th District race
"A Woodbury man has dropped out of the race for the DFL Party's nomination in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District race. Scott Mortensen, an Internet sales manager, withdrew this week, the St. Cloud Times reported. He cited a lack of financial contributions and support..."
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November 12, 2005 - Carter 'Disturbed' by Direction of U.S.
"Former President Jimmy Carter, on a tour to promote his latest book, is sharply questioning the direction the Bush administration has taken the country..."
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November 12, 2005 - GOP's Legislative Agenda Losing Steam
"A year's work hangs in the balance for the Republican-controlled Congress, its conservative agenda sketched confidently last winter: cut taxes, open wildlife refuge in Alaska to oil drilling, and hold down the cost of health, education and nutrition programs that serve millions..."
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November 11, 2005 - Editorial: A revolution for evolution
"Citizens in Dover, Pa, did the right thing this week by voting out most of its school board for its anti-science, pro-intelligent design stand. Voters there rejected a school leadership group that had tried to discredit the theory of evolution and teach students intelligent design (ID), the notion that lifeforms are so complex that a higher being must have designed them..."
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November 11, 2005 - Ex-GOP chief denies charges
"Former Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Ron Eibensteiner emphatically denied Thursday that he helped a Florida insurance company make $15,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions in 2002..."
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November 11, 2005 - DeLay Team Weighed Misdemeanor Plea to Save GOP Post
"Lawyers for Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) tried unsuccessfully in late September to head off felony criminal indictments against the then-majority leader on charges of violating Texas campaign law by signaling that DeLay might plead guilty to a misdemeanor, according to four sources familiar with the events..."
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November 11, 2005 - Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees
"The Senate voted Thursday to strip captured "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of the principal legal tool given to them last year by the Supreme Court when it allowed them to challenge their detentions in United States courts..."
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November 11, 2005 - Forcing Bush and Senate Republicans to Honor Veterans
"Former U.S. Senator Max Cleland, the Georgia Democrat who lost his right arm and both legs in the quagmire that was Vietnam, explained a few years ago that, "Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says 'Bad war, good soldier.' Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior."
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November 11, 2005 - House Republicans Vow to Revive Budget-Cuts
"Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are vowing to revive a sweeping budget-cut bill despite an embarrassing setback this week. But they won't have an easy time of it considering divisions within the GOP and a revolt by party moderates over cuts to social programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and student loans..."
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November 11, 2005 - Senate Bars Detainees From Filing Lawsuits
"The Senate voted Thursday to bar foreign terror suspects at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from filing lawsuits in American courts to challenge their detentions, despite a Supreme Court ruling last year that granted such access..."
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November 11, 2005 - Poll: Most Americans Say Bush Not Honest
"Two crucial pillars of President Bush's public support — perceptions of his honesty and faith in his ability to fight terrorism — have slipped to their lowest point in the AP-Ipsos poll..."
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November 10, 2005 - State's general funds should be directed to education
"What do record budget deficits, the need for new school funding, and increased property taxes all have in common?"
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November 10, 2005 - Republicans abuse fiscal discipline tool
"If the average American family handled its finances the way President Bush and the Republican-led Congress operate the federal government, it would be spending far more than it earns, with no end in sight..."
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November 9, 2005 - House leaders drop Arctic drilling from budget bill
"House leaders late Wednesday abandoned an attempt to push through a hotly contested plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling, fearing it would jeopardize approval of a budget bill today..."
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November 9, 2005 - 'Intelligent-design' school board ousted in Penn
"Voters on Tuesday ousted a Pennsylvania local school board that promoted an "intelligent-design" alternative to teaching evolution, and elected a new slate of candidates who promised to remove the concept from science classes..."
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November 9, 2005 - St. Paul: Coleman sweeps Kelly out of office
"In a race dominated by partisan payback, St. Paul voters swept former City Council Member Chris Coleman into office Tuesday with a 69 to 31 percent victory over Mayor Randy Kelly..."
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November 9, 2005 - Democrats Win Elections in N.J. and Va.
"Democrats cleaned up big in off-year elections from New Jersey to California, sinking the candidate who embraced President Bush in the final days of the Virginia governor's campaign. They also turned back all four of GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to reshape state government..."
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Novemner 8, 2005 - Social Security overhaul unlikely before 2009
"President George W Bush's failure to win support for individual Social Security investment accounts means the U.S. Congress is unlikely to address the retirement program's long-term financial problems before 2009, a senior senator said on Tuesday..."
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November 8, 2005 - Poll: Libby Indictment Hits Major Nerve
"The recent indictment of Vice President Cheney's top aide has struck a nerve with the American public. Four in five, 79 percent, said the indictment of former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on perjury and other charges is important to the nation, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press..."
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November 8, 2005 - GOP's best friend could be its nightmare
"Lobbyist Jack Abramoff was not at the Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing last week, but he was the central topic, as Congress continued to probe what some call one of this generation's most outrageous political scandals..."
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November 8, 2005 - Jury chosen for ex-GOP chief's trial
"Opening statements will be heard today in Rochester, Minn., in the criminal trial of former Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Ron Eibensteiner..."
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November 7, 2005 - Another Bush crony deserves rejection
"This fall the world saw not only the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina but the devastating effects of incompetence in FEMA. This week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a chance to show it has learned from political appointee Michael Brown's abysmal performance..."
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November 7, 2005 - Political drama goes to court
"If the long-delayed criminal case against former Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Ron Eibensteiner were a political movie, its plot line would have as many twists and turns as "The Candidate" or "All the President's Men."
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November 6, 2005 - GOP senator calls administration opposition to torture limits 'a terrible mistake'
"A leading Republican senator said today that the Bush administration is making "a terrible mistake'' in opposing a congressional ban on torture and other inhuman treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody..."
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November 6, 2005 - Cheney fights restrictions on handling terror detainees
"The vice president is working in growing isolation against adding safeguards to the Defense Department's rules on treatment of military prisoners..."
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November 6, 2005 - Rybak, Coleman hold big leads
"Two big cities. Two DFL mayors. Two very different elections. Minneapolis and St. Paul face mayoral votes Tuesday that could set the direction of the metropolitan area for years..."
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November 6, 2005 - College aid cuts would hurt America's future
"It is hard to imagine anyone believes college should be more expensive. Yet this is exactly what will happen if some members of Congress have their way. This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a budget package that will cut $14.5 billion in higher education programs. This is simply unacceptable..."
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November 6, 2005 - District backs off bus policy
"Students in the Stillwater school district who live between one and two miles from school will be able to again ride the bus for free beginning Tuesday..."
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November 5, 2005 - Growth a topic in board race
"South Washington County schools' burgeoning student population doesn't appear to be slowing its growth any time soon. And almost all seven candidates vying for four spots on the district's school board agree it isn't a bad problem to have, given that Minnesota's overall student population is declining..."
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November 4, 2005 - Democrats looking to revamp presidential nominating schedule
"A plan to shuffle the 2008 Democratic presidential calendar -- placing several states between the traditional Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary -- is gaining momentum on a commission studying the party's nominating process..."
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November 4, 2005 - Editorial: A mean and reckless budget in the House
"Last week Sen. Norm Coleman faced a crucial test on a Senate vote involving oil drilling and the federal budget. This week the moment of truth occurs in the House, where lawmakers will take up a truly odious budget bill that deserves a "no" vote from every member of the Minnesota delegation..."
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November 4, 2005 - The road to Wellville
"A memo prepared for the Wal-Mart board of directors and leaked last month to the New York Times provides an extraordinary glimpse inside a company under fire for its employment practices..."
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November 4, 2005 - Pilot union leaders agree to interim pay cut of 23.9%
"Northwest Airlines pilot union leaders endorsed an interim contract Thursday night that would slash hourly pay rates by 23.9 percent..."
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November 3, 2005 - Kennedy's vote on endangered species act a dissapointment
"I was extremely disappointed to read that Congress and our own Rep. Mark Kennedy voted to gut the Endangered Species Act..."
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November 3, 2005 - Editorial: U.S. must dismantle its secret CIA gulag
"Not many months ago, Amnesty International and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., got in hot water for respectively calling Guantánamo Bay prison "the gulag of our times" and comparing America's treatment of terror-war detainees to the kind of treatment one would expect from the Soviet gulag, Pol Pot, Nazis and others. Durbin apologized..."
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November 3, 2005 - Kansas evolution vote nears, scientists fight back
"At the new "Explore Evolution" museum exhibit in Kansas, visitors pass a banner showing the face of a girl next to the face of a chimpanzee for a lesson on how the two are "cousins in life's family tree."
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November 3, 2005 - Cheney aide pleads not guilty
"Vice President Dick Cheney's former aide, Lewis Libby, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges in the CIA leak probe, and his lawyer promised to fight it out in a public trial that could put a spotlight on how the White House made its case for the Iraq war..."
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November 3, 2005 - EU to Investigate Allegations of CIA Jails
"The European Union and the continent's top human rights group said Thursday they will investigate allegations the CIA set up secret jails in eastern Europe and elsewhere to interrogate terror suspects, and the Red Cross demanded access to any prisoners..."
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November 3, 2005 - DeLay's Staff Tried to Help Abramoff
"Investigators have unearthed e-mails showing Rep. Tom DeLay's office tried to help lobbyist Jack Abramoff get a high-level Bush administration meeting for Indian clients, an effort that succeeded after the tribes began making a quarter-million dollars in donations..."
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November 3, 2005 - Focus on ANWR diverts attention from conservation
"Congress is once again debating whether to drill for oil in the United States' last great arctic wilderness — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The Izaak Walton League of America — a national conservation group of hunters and anglers with equal numbers of Republicans, Democrats and independents — does not support this drilling proposal..."
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November 3, 2005 - Alito will take Supreme Court back to the Dark Ages
"There was a moment in Samuel Alito Jr.'s introduction when he tipped his hat to the justice he hopes to succeed. As a rookie arguing his first case before the Supreme Court, Alito remembered, Sandra Day O'Connor's first question was a gentle one..."
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November 3, 2005 - Group calls for special session
"Minnesota must do something soon to avert the coming crisis created by soaring fuel costs, a group of lawmakers and advocates said Wednesday..."
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November 2, 2005 - NWA flight attendants agree to 20%-25% cuts
"Hoping to shield its members from greater harm, the Northwest Airlines flight attendants union said Wednesday that it expects to sign an interim contract that would slash wages by 20 to 25 percent..."
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November 2, 2005 - Reid takes on stonewalling GOP
"What a guy is Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. He did exactly what he needed to do to get the Senate to investigate the Bush administration's manipulation of intelligence in making a case for war with Iraq. Now Reid and his colleagues -- including Republicans who put loyalty to country over loyalty to the White House -- must work to ensure that investigation is comprehensive..."
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November 2, 2005 - Coverup got Bush team past '04 election
"Has anyone noticed that the coverup worked? In his impressive presentation of the indictment of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby last week, Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and "we would have been here in October 2004 instead of October 2005."
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November 2, 2005 - Editorial: Coleman must keep Arctic refuge pledge
"The moment of truth returns as early as this morning for Norm Coleman, as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote again on oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge..."
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November 2, 2005 - CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
"The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement..."
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November 2, 2005 - Student protesters attack Iraq war
"Like many area high school students Wednesday, Andrew Worrall, 17, asked his parents if he could attend an anti-war rally and march at the University of Minnesota. His parents said, "No."
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November 2, 2005 - Secret session riles Senate Republicans
"Senate Democrats staged a stunning parliamentary ambush yesterday, using the "closed session" rule to force enraged GOP leaders into moving ahead with a long-delayed probe into possible manipulation of prewar intelligence..."
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November 2, 2005 - Remember That Mushroom Cloud?
"The indictment of Lewis Libby on charges of lying to a grand jury about the outing of Valerie Wilson has focused attention on the lengths to which the Bush administration went in 2003 to try to distract the public from this central fact: American soldiers found a lot of things in Iraq, including a well-armed insurgency their bosses never anticipated, but they did not find weapons of mass destruction..."
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November 2, 2005 - Tax panel wants to cut deductions, simplify
"A presidential commission has recommended an overhaul of the federal income tax that would lower rates, reduce paperwork and eliminate or scale back most tax breaks, including deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided health insurance..."
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November 1, 2005 - Some conservatives question Rove's future
"Breaking with the White House and fellow conservatives, Republican Sen. Trent Lott and the head of the Cato Institute questioned on Tuesday whether top White House adviser Karl Rove, who remains in legal jeopardy in a CIA-leak probe, should keep his policy-making job..."
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November 1, 2005 - Another Lost Opportunity
"The nomination of Samuel Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court raises a lot of questions about the judge's attitudes toward federalism, privacy and civil rights. But it has already answered one big question about President Bush. Anyone wondering whether the almost endless setbacks and embarrassments the White House has suffered over the last year would cause Mr. Bush to fix his style of governing should realize that the answer is: no..."
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