Between the Lines: Bailing On Bush

by | Jul 19, 2007 | News

A recent CNN poll had a lot of eye-popping numbers. But one was particularly striking: 38 percent. That's the number of self-identified Republicans who now put themselves down as against the Iraq war. This all sums up in stark terms the anxiety now causing...

Hitchens Is Not Great

by | Jul 19, 2007 | News

Christopher Hitchens, the bilious Brit, has bagged a bestseller. Give Chris a big hand and a mug o' Guinness. Good show, old sport! His latest vowel movement is called God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. It has everyone's knickers in a twist....

FirstShot: SiCKO's Critics

by | Jul 19, 2007 | News

The health care industry is having palpitations over SiCKO. "I don't think Michael Moore set out to make a balanced movie," said Karen Ignagni, president of the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans, regurgitating the industry's key...

What Do You Think?

by | Jul 19, 2007 | News

Sell, Springfield, Sell <br><br>I grow weary listening to Springfield bellyaching about its financial woes. Springfield does not have a financial crisis. It has a crisis of management which fails to make bold, necessary decisions to solve the problems. For...
Coming in From the Cold

Coming in From the Cold

by | Jul 19, 2007 | News

Karen Powell has little use for the unwritten rules that govern "acceptable" political behavior.Take, for instance, the time in 1998 when she and her husband, Bob, tried to launch a recall election to unseat then-Springfield Mayor Mike Albano. The Powells...