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Broadcast November 8, 2001 The trade talks starting this weekend are a side show to the main trade event. That’s a bill that the White House has been pushing to give the president what’s now dubbed “trade promotion authority.” It would allow Congress to vote yes or no on any new trade treaty, but not […]

Post September 11 flying-off-the-handle has already derailed the career of one previously unaccountable female GOP pundit — Ann Coulter. In an apparent fit of rage, Coulter infamously wrote of those celebrating the World Trade Center attacks abroad: “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.” The comment eventually resulted in […]

Broadcast August 16, 2001 Just about the only thing George W. Bush and Al Gore agreed on during that interminable campaign last year was a prescription drug benefit for the elderly. Well, the first 100 days of the Bush administration came and went and still no prescription drug benefit, which isn’t surprising. Prescription drugs are […]

The first casualty of war is said to be truth, and a close second is civil liberty. As we necessarily become more alert to terrorist threats, we should be just as vigilant of our own liberties as Americans. If the defense against terrorism makes us a police state, terror will have won. America is now […]

Lear: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button: Bulgari-made, Gorgeous, surprisingly affordable, Thank you sir. Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look there, look there! Dies Lear, Act […]

“It is scandalous that a few hijackers with knives were able to hold scores of airline passengers at bay. As a good first step towards making commercial airplanes dangerous for hijackers, pilots should be issued handguns…..Cabin stewards who wish to carry concealed weapons should likewise be authorized to do so….And passengers? Forty years ago, sportsmen […]

In Washington, it could have been much worse. As a military strike, while the terrorists’ attack succeeded in New York, it failed in the capital — but for reasons that we cannot depend upon to protect us in the future. The bravery of a few passengers on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania prevented it […]

Aired September 12, 2001 Before yesterday, national security was mainly a matter of protecting our borders and containing foreign aggressors. We assumed that with enough border guards, a large enough missile defense shield and a sufficiently equipped military, we could keep bad things out. Inside `Fortress America,’ we could lead our private lives pretty much […]