People who think like me, but write better

Eric Margolis, Toronto Sun columnist, on "Robertson's fatwa." Clever, that.

Reverend Pat Robertson took time off last week from promoting a new protein pancake mix and scourging "ungodly" sodomites, Muslims, and Democrats to suggest the U.S. should assassinate Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez.

Robert Parry of Consortium News on the stolen 2000 election (yes, still bitter), the media and the Iraq war.

Under traditional news judgment, the lead paragraph in American newspapers on the morning of Nov. 12, 2001, should have read something like: “If all legally cast votes in Florida were counted in Election 2000, Democrat Al Gore would have carried the state and thus won the White House, according to an unofficial tally of disputed ballots.”