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What We Learned from Molly Ivins & Anna Nicole Smith

Weekly Alibi | February 27, 2007

These two uppity Texas women shared a willingness to challenge convention, an attitude in such short supply today that we will miss both of them sorely.

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Will the Democrats Blow It in November?new

Lately I've been having one of those anxiety dreams, the same one over and over. I'm glued to my recliner on election night, unable to move my eyes from the screen. As the results are posted, the outcome becomes clearer and the unthinkable has happened: John McCain has won and the long, painful national catastrophe that is the Bush administration will assuredly spiral downward for at least another four years.

Weekly Alibi | Jerry Ortiz y Pino | 07-01-2008 | Commentary

Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, 2008 presidential elections

Terrorism Wins the War?new

The decision by Congress not to override President Bush's veto of the bill outlawing waterboarding by our government and its agencies makes it unanimous: All three branches of our government have now weighed in on the subject and agree that torture is just fine ... as long as we are the torturers.

Weekly Alibi | Jerry Ortiz y Pino | 04-01-2008 | Commentary

Tags: Congress, War on terror, torture, Bush, waterboarding

Calling Obamanew

Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton: a tough choice for me, as each would make an excellent president. (Of course, compared with the current occupant of the White House, so would Mike, my barber, but I digress.) What swung me behind Obama, in the end, was the energy he seems able to ignite in a citizenry long afflicted with political ennui.

Weekly Alibi | Jerry Ortiz y Pino | 02-12-2008 | Commentary

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama

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