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Bush clobbered in first debate: Now what?

October 8, 2004

Opinion I must admit that I really enjoyed John Kerry clobbering George W. Bush in the first presidential debate last week. Bush “stayed on message,” as the advertiser like to say. As Pete Seeger used to...

NYC infant mortality up

October 8, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

In 2003, New York City’s infant mortality rate climbed to 6.5 percent, an increase of 8 percent above the previous year’s figure.

Border vigilantes scatter like roaches

October 8, 2004

TUCSON, Ariz. — Deaths of Mexican and other Latin American immigrants trying to cross Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, one of the deadliest deserts in the world, have soared. Since 1999, more than 3,000 people have died trying...

Halabi responds to Cato charges

October 8, 2004 By Wadi’h Halabi

Three weeks ago, this column identified George W. Bush’s “ownership society” as “actually a Wall Street expropriation, foreclosure-and-indenture scheme.” The column warned that Bush’s Wall Street masters, impelled by a crisis of their system, were using...

Bushs hometown paper endorses John Kerry

October 8, 2004

HOUSTON — The Lone Star Iconoclast, a weekly newspaper in Crawford, Texas (declared hometown of George W. Bush), has endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president. The newspaper’s editors endorsed Bush in 2000. The editors endorsed Kerry...