Politics

Rally the Faithful, Annoy Everyone Else

With 85 days to go until Election Day, two odd stories from the campaign trail: In Davenport, Iowa, President Bush bought ears of raw corn and took a bite out of one, telling a reporter that "it's really good." After witnessing this culinary oddness, a Reuters reporter asked for a reaction from an expert who majored in corn: Raw corn is typically fed to livestock, but Irvin Anderson, a professor of corn physiology and biochemistry at Iowa State University, said some people liked it raw. "Most ... (read more)

2004/08/10

Bush's Taxing Day in Ohio

Energized by the Democratic National Convention, I'm going to spend more time following the frenetic presidential campaigns during the last days of the race (93 and counting). During a stop in Canton, Ohio, on Saturday, one of the swing states hit hardest by the sour economy, President Bush tried to cast doubt on Kerry's plan to roll back the tax cuts for Americans earning over $200,000 to invest in health care, education, and job creation: "He said he's only going to raise taxes on the ... (read more)

2004/08/01

On PalestineChronicle.Com, Editor Ramzy Baroud takes heart in world-wide anti-war demonstrations, quoting Chomsky: "There's never been a time that I can think of when there's been such massive opposition to a war before it was even started." ... (read more)

2003/02/19

Brendan Steinhauser, a University of Texas at Austin student journalist, calls Chomsky a seditious, deceitful "ayatollah of anti-American hate" in an article for David Horowitz's FrontPage magazine: About a thousand or so radical students appeared to be in an almost hypnotic state as they listened to Chomsky's anti-American statements. ... [H]e seems to be advocating "direct action" to bring about a radical change in the nature of the U.S. system of government. Many young people certainly ... (read more)

2003/02/19