WASHINGTON — Facing an unstable economy and an unfinished war, President Bush used his final State of the Union address Monday night to call for quick passage of his tax rebate package, patience in Iraq and a modest concluding agenda that includes...

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President Bush"s last State of the Union speech echoed the empty rhetoric of the speeches that came before it. Bush refused to make the most basic connections with regard to the crisis he has created, The Nation...
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I think we can all agree that when it comes to agenda setting, President Bush is pretty much irrelevant, but what was so striking about yesterday's SOTU was the extent to which he is simply divorced from reality. I won't even touch on the domestic...
We are engaged in the defining ideological struggle of the 21st century. The terrorists oppose every principle of humanity and decency that we hold dear. Yet in this war on terror, there is one thing we and our enemies agree on: In the long run,...
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