Last Friday the media billionaire Haim Saban, former owner of the Fox Family Channel, sent a concerned e-mail message to friends about Mr. Gibson and his father.
The message forwarded an article by the journalist Mitch Albom calling on Mr. Gibson to repudiate his father's denial of the Holocaust. Mr. Saban sent the article to, among others, Roger Ailes, who heads Fox News; Norman Pattiz, who runs the Westwood One radio network; and Michael R. Milken, the securities felon turned philanthropist.

Republicans have a 228-to-205 advantage in the House, which means that Democrats need a net pickup of 12 seats to win back the House, something most handicapping puts firmly in the long-shot category. Redistricting in Texas alone could add seven seats to the GOP column

Prior to the certification of Florida's votes, Gore held 267 electoral votes out of a possible 538. If you do the math, you'll find that even without Florida, Gore was less than 1/2 of 1 percent shy of the electoral majority needed to win.

It's almost too obvious a scandal to even be believed. Is the Bush family really so arrogant as to believe that they can get away with literally anything? Can they in fact get away with it? Are Americans so thoroughly conditioned to accepting their media-supplied points of view that they will allow this to stand?

The corruption evident in Volusia County alone is enough to warrant not just a recount, but a re-vote and a thorough investigation. At one point on the night of the election, Gore was leading Bush by 21,000 votes in the county. Within a half an hour, Gore's tally had dropped by 16,000 votes, while candidate David McReynolds had somehow picked up 10,000 of his own. In the final tally, McReynolds - a Socialist Party candidate - was credited with a grand total of just nine votes.

Of these five Justices who would dare to appoint our next president, at least four of them are seriously compromised. It has been reported that two of Justice Scalia's sons are attorneys working for the formidable Bush legal team, one of them a partner of the reprehensible Ted Olson. It has also been reported that Justice Thomas' wife has been working on the prematurely formed Bush transition team, screening applicants for positions within the illegitimate administration.

Saving the best for last, Stevens closes his dissent with the already infamous: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."

David McGowan
September 16, 2001
The funny thing is, this country's military response will look for all the world as though it has been carefully planned and mapped-out over many years. But we will all know that that isn't the case, because no one knew these attacks were coming until a few days ago.

In December of 1998, the Atlantic Monthly reported that in just 20 years the inmate population in California had grown from 19,600 to 159,000 - an eight-fold increase - and that the "state holds more inmates in its jails and prisons than do France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the Netherlands combined."

Brain Fingerprinting is rather preposterously claimed by its inventor to have a "99.99% confidence" level. The argument can then be made: if we can determine a person's guilt to a scientific certainty, why bother with the archaic ritual of a trial? Has that not become an outdated concept? It will surely be argued that adversarial trials are a relic of the past -- a necessary evil to protect the rights of the falsely accused in the days of yore, but entirely unnecessary in an era where technology renders objective decisions.

For an American raised on a steady diet of propaganda painting the United States as a benevolent giant - a model to the world of those cherished principles of freedom, equality and justice - confronting evidence that tends to indicate that our esteemed leaders were directly complicit in the slaughter of some 3,000 native sons and daughters as a staged provocation to justify a long-planned war and mount a long-planned frontal assault on civil liberties ... now that's something that would likely evoke a considerable amount of cognitive dissonance.

ust as we caused only limited collateral damage in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia - where collectively as many human lives were exterminated as in the Nazi concentration camps.