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MAIN News Archives for August 2006

 08/31 -  California moves to end the electoral college
 08/31 -  Feeling morally or intellectually confused?
 08/31 -  While soldiers die, CEOs prosper
 08/31 -  When genetically modified plants go wild
 08/30 -  US executives cash in on war and oil bonanza
 08/30 -  Number of Americans without health insurance rises
 08/30 -  Bloggers help expose secret senator
 08/30 -  Benefit concert meets cross-border challenge
 08/30 -  Judge in domestic spying case under fire from right
 08/30 -  Bush crony continues abuses at second agency
 08/30 -  Seeking the deeper meaning of 9/11
 08/29 -  Privatizing disaster-response
 08/29 -  Times-Picayune editor speaks out on federal response to Katrina
 08/29 -  Has the Bush doctrine failed?
 08/29 -  With corporate profits high, US wages hit historic low
 08/29 -  Christian Nationalism's hold on the GOP
 08/29 -  Katrina's victims of ideology
 08/29 -  AOL slammed for intrusive software
 08/28 -  For mother and son, an immigration dilemma
 08/28 -  Where the car is not king
 08/28 -  Bush has fallen short in Katrina recovery, experts say
 08/28 -  NC water systems face lead tests
 08/27 -  Insider trading a 'systemic problem'
 08/27 -  Strange priorities at the IRS
 08/27 -  Behold the toxic regulator
 08/27 -  Checks link Black to Decker's legal bills
 08/25 -  GOP report hypes Iran threat
 08/25 -  BP warned of Alaskan pipeline corrosion two years ago
 08/25 -  Wanted: Scarier intelligence
 08/25 -  Millions wasted in Katrina contracts?
 08/25 -  US probes Israeli use of cluster bombs
 08/25 -  GOP senator urges Iraq withdrawal
 08/25 -  Waynesville Super Wal-Mart advances
 08/25 -  Pentagon playing politics with former skipper of USS Cole?
 08/24 -  Is the GOP helping terrorists?
 08/24 -  Minutemen are mad at the wrong guys
 08/24 -  Backdoor draft?
 08/24 -  Military recruiters cited for sexual misconduct
 08/24 -  Senator puts 'secret hold' on open-government bill
 08/23 -  Saving WNC's farms
 08/23 -  Democracy in the workplace
 08/23 -  Immigration attorney speaks out
 08/23 -  NC lawmakers tune in to Iraq views
 08/23 -  Report says US interventions strengthen Iran
 08/23 -  Poll: Most in US doubt link of Iraq to terrorism fight
 08/23 -  Edwards stumps for Shuler in Hendersonville
 08/22 -  Stealth help for super-wealth
 08/22 -  With elections looming, politicians aspire to middle-class status
 08/22 -  RNC ad cited for distorting Jack Murtha's words
 08/22 -  Make public school affordable for the public
 08/22 -  Teacher removed for burning flag in civics lesson
 08/21 -  NY Times cuts Wal-Mart a break
 08/21 -  Congress poised to unravel the Internet
 08/21 -  Preparing for the next war . . . slogan
 08/21 -  From OJ to JonBenet, are viewers tiring of cable news?
 08/21 -  Taylor's mailings spur critics and supporters
 08/20 -  Disaster profiteers pocket millions post-Katrina
 08/20 -  Conservative pens novel based on Jesse Helms
 08/20 -  When America's ruling class went to war
 08/19 -  Lou Dobbs' nightly nativism
 08/18 -  Judge finds Big Tobacco guilty of racketeering, conspiracy
 08/18 -  Will warrantless wiretap ruling stand?
 08/18 -  Who owns Christianity?
 08/18 -  Kurds flee homes as Iran, Turkey shell northern Iraq
 08/18 -  When did the kingdom of heaven become a red state?
 08/18 -  As Iraq unravels, Murtha's stature rises
 08/18 -  Wal-Mart responds to Democratic critics
 08/17 -  Edwards says his Iraq war vote was wrong
 08/17 -  The tyranny of fear
 08/17 -  Pension changes -- what you need to know
 08/17 -  Judge orders halt to NSA wiretapping
 08/16 -  Immigration hearings called 'a sham'
 08/16 -  Oliver Stone, 9/11 and the Big Lie
 08/16 -  Israeli army chief sold stock just before invasion
 08/16 -  Democrats don't need a new plan or more big ideas
 08/16 -  Politicians shying away from the center?
 08/16 -  Internet privacy group files complaint against AOL
 08/15 -  How low will Dick Cheney go?
 08/15 -  New book critiques US media coverage of Bush presidency
 08/15 -  John Dean on 'Conservatives Without Conscience'
 08/15 -  America's one-eyed view of war
 08/15 -  Misconduct by military recruiters cited
 08/15 -  Molly Ivins: 'No shortage of fear'
 08/15 -  Senators question hedge fund probe involving Bush donors
 08/15 -  Surging UNC tuition may risk lawsuits
 08/14 -  Staying the course via denial
 08/14 -  FCC asks 77 stations how they used video news releases
 08/14 -  The myth of activist judges
 08/14 -  Why the terrorists need Bush, and he needs them
 08/14 -  Pioneering lab turns to solar research
 08/14 -  Seymour Hersh on Cheney, Israel and attacking Iran
 08/14 -  Bush's belief in global Islamist conspiracy is foolish and dangerous
 08/14 -  GOP scrambling to save the House
 08/14 -  Murals in federal building spark debate over censorship
 08/13 -  Lieberman, Cheney and the war in Iraq
 08/13 -  Edwards gets traction in Iowa
 08/13 -  Neglect cited in NC retirement home deaths
 08/13 -  Solar power to the people
 08/13 -  WNC to rally against racism
 08/11 -  If terrorism doesn't scare you, maybe Bush will
 08/11 -  Veteran policymakers fear US disaster in Middle East
 08/11 -  Local couple reap benefits of solar power
 08/11 -  NC pioneers on death-penalty reform
 08/11 -  Review: 'Take This Job and Ship It'
 08/11 -  Lieberman links British terror plot to Iraq
 08/11 -  The war Bush isn't fighting
 08/11 -  AOL privacy breach puts Web on notice
 08/11 -  Study: Immigrants not hurting US jobs
 08/10 -  As college costs rise, student aid is cut
 08/10 -  Ralph Nader on Lieberman's corporate ties
 08/10 -  Lamont's victory is a defeat for Big Media
 08/10 -  Bush seeks retroactive war crimes immunity
 08/10 -  US neocons hoped Israel would attack Syria
 08/10 -  Latinos coming together politically
 08/10 -  Ads aim to lure young voters with humor
 08/10 -  Solar energy use lags in NC
 08/09 -  Why Lieberman can't win as an independent
 08/09 -  AOL's 'ticking privacy time bomb'
 08/09 -  Crackdown on immigrants splits NC family
 08/09 -  ABA urges halt to Bush 'signing statements'
 08/09 -  Anti-immigration billboard defaced in Asheville
 08/09 -  Asheville launches free bus service Aug. 14
 08/09 -  Daniel Ellsberg calls for new Pentagon Papers
 08/09 -  NC state auditor fingers naughty nonprofits
 08/09 -  Angry voters, not bloggers, lifted Lamont, activists say
 08/08 -  Lieberman concedes defeat
 08/08 -  Cheney's pipeline politics
 08/08 -  Is Exxon behind 'amateur' video spoofing Al Gore?
 08/08 -  What prompted the attack on Lebanon?
 08/08 -  Why the media ignore election fraud
 08/08 -  US threatens suit if Maine probes Verizon ties to NSA
 08/08 -  Journalism scholars ask White House to abandon 'anti-press policies'
 08/08 -  Misogyny in music may alter teen behavior
 08/08 -  Edwards says Iraq withdrawal should begin now
 08/07 -  Ending the neoconservative nightmare
 08/07 -  Had enough? Yes, of the misinformed
 08/07 -  Bush seeks wider war
 08/07 -  AOL under fire for revealing subscribers' search records
 08/07 -  Haywood County paper mill celebrates 100 years
 08/07 -  Global warming made visible
 08/07 -  Half of America still believes Iraq had WMD
 08/07 -  Critics say politics driving immigration hearings
 08/07 -  US troops say Iraq civil war has already begun
 08/07 -  In early polls, Democrats take the House
 08/07 -  Decker gave 'opportunist' signals
 08/06 -  Deal maker details the art of greasing the palm
 08/06 -  Does Big Media need to get any bigger?
 08/06 -  Governors attack expansion of president's power
 08/06 -  Conservative asks: 'My country, right and wrong (but why so wrong?)'
 08/06 -  Constitution Day should spotlight power grab
 08/05 -  Why conservatives can't govern
 08/05 -  Opponents of sewage treatment plant speak out
 08/05 -  The day the system worked
 08/05 -  Is this the end of conservatism?
 08/05 -  Media ignore religion's role in Bush foreign policy
 08/05 -  In firing kid-show host, did PBS kowtow to the Right?
 08/04 -  Bill Clinton tackles global warming
 08/04 -  Heat converts Pat Robertson on global warming
 08/04 -  Shuler gets boost from ex-Gov, Hunt
 08/04 -  Nature caught in the crossfire
 08/04 -  Protesters disrupt Mexican stock market
 08/04 -  Leaked memo predicts break-up of Iraq
 08/04 -  Panel moves on pre-war Iraq intelligence reports
 08/04 -  US Navy officer held in secret for four months
 08/03 -  Net neutrality may derail telecom bill
 08/03 -  Poll: One third of Americans believe 9/11 was an inside job
 08/03 -  Top general admits Iraq on verge of civil war
 08/03 -  Iraq reconstruction an utter failure
 08/03 -  9/11 panel doubts Pentagon's veracity
 08/03 -  Israel's dependency on the drug of militarism
 08/03 -  Easley says scandal is a blight on NC
 08/02 -  Lebanese-Americans disagree with US and Israeli policy
 08/02 -  Where the next Castro might take Cuba
 08/02 -  Mining company faces $1.3 billion in environmental cleanup claims
 08/02 -  US wins access to reporters' phone records
 08/02 -  Evolution opponents lose Kansas board majority
 08/02 -  GOP robs the poor, gives to wealthy
 08/02 -  America struggles with its own evangelical Taliban
 08/02 -  Black caucus ponders new House Speaker
 08/01 -  GOP minimum wage con
 08/01 -  Asheville launches public access TV
 08/01 -  Jimmy Carter on Bush's 'strange policy'
 08/01 -  Iowa farmer arrested for flying flag upside-down
 08/01 -  GOP leader breaks with Bush, calls for immediate ceasefire
 08/01 -  Decker pleads guilty in Black probe