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Bush budget assailed as war on people
February 11, 2005WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.” The 2006 budget...
Read morePablo Neruda: One poet, many lessons
February 4, 2005OPINION“As the first bullets ripped into the guitars of Spain, when blood instead of music gushed out of them, my poetry stopped dead like a ghost in the streets of human anguish and a rush of...
Read moreDont take away Social Security
February 4, 2005OPINIONAfter reading a column in her local paper, the Albuquerque Journal, calling Bush’s Social Security privatization plan “a step in the right direction,” PWW reader Rose Shaw didn’t just get mad – she wrote a response!...
Read moreLETTERS
February 4, 2005Boxer rebellion Hats off to California Sen. Barbara Boxer for being the only senator to join with several representatives of the House, standing up for thousands of Ohio disenfranchised voters. More kudos to Boxer for raising...
Read moreUnderground Railroad
February 4, 2005ST. LOUIS — The history of slavery and racism is a horrible, shameful part of American history. It is a scar on the face of the ideals that our democratic nation holds dear. Before the Civil...
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