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GOP slime machine targets AARP

March 4, 2005

WASHINGTON — Defenders of Social Security angrily demanded that President George W. Bush disavow a right-wing attack ad that targets the AARP, the nation’s largest organization for people 50 and older, for its opposition to Bush’s...

LETTERS

February 25, 2005

Negroponte’s history a horror It is difficult to express the degree of revulsion, contempt, and moral horror that I experience with the nomination of John Negroponte to be director of national intelligence. But I feel that...

Poisons at Cintas laundry

February 25, 2005

Commentary NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Workers at the Cintas plant in Branford, Conn., and across the country are taking their lead from co-workers in Long Island, N.Y., who are standing up for their health and safety...

NATIONAL CLIPS

February 25, 2005

ST. LOUIS: Coalition forms to rescue health care Over 200 residents joined members of the clergy and elected officials Feb. 20 to kick off a campaign to salvage health care for 89,000 people set to be...

John Negropontes bloody baggage

February 25, 2005

John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, has been nominated by President Bush to head the new super-spy agency set up by last year’s intelligence reform legislation. Negroponte’s baggage contains a shocking amount of dirt and...