Word: insurgentes
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While most of the American political universe spent the week focused on Howard Dean?s ill-advised comments on guys in pickups with confederate flags - Dean was making one of the most pivotal decisions of his run for the White House: He has decided to forgo federal matching funds and...
At the opening of a spirited gathering in Dallas last week that often felt more like a tent revival than the rump caucus of a denomination sometimes known as "God's frozen people," Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh Robert Duncan wished Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, "the wisdom of Solomon...
Every hopeful but Dean either voted to invade Iraq or supported aggressive regime change as long as the U.N. tagged along. Multilateral might, they seem to think, would have made war right. And every insurgent has spun with the subtlety of a pre-teen ballerina around the question of how...
The SPDC’s human rights abuses continue to this day. Amnesty International believes that at least 1,200 political prisoners remain in detention, where they are denied adequate food, medical care and sanitation. The SPDC has been especially brutal in its persecution of ethnic minorities; needing land and...
At this early stage it's likely that Dean enjoys support from those to his left who don't know the fine points of his proposals as well as they know the fine volleys of his rhetoric. In that sense, it's hard to imagine Dean's glorious season ending...