Chronogram Magazine

Victory for Bush!

In the past few months, against all odds, Bush has scored two incredible victories in Iraq. They are, of course, over his favorite enemies, the media and the American public.

Lies, Lies, and More Lies, in History Illiterate America

By Larry Beinhart 08/29/07

George Bush – and other Iraq War supporters – have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters – the killing fields –in Cambodia.

Coming Out of the Republican Closet

By Larry Beinhart 07/06/07

It is true that people tend to flock to groups that are like themselves. In their choice of neighborhoods, associations, and cliques.

Springtime in Guantanamo

By Larry Beinhart 06/27/07

The Producers meets Lindsay Graham

The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Mitt Romney

By Larry Beinhart 06/07/07

Will facts ever matter? Or will American politics remain a contest of bedtime stories for children?

Bushenomics

By Larry Beinhart 06/04/07

The number one industry in America today is the money business—debt swapping.

I called Senator Hillary Clinton’s office to ask how she was going to vote on the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill without benchmarks. The staffer at the other end of the line said was studying the bill.

A Modest Proposal

By Larry Beinhart 05/07/07

I will fight tooth and nail and move to Canada, before I let my daughter and my son become cannon fodder in a war that has been morally outrageous and ethically repugnant from the beginning.

The Republican Disease vs. Reality

By Larry Beinhart 04/30/07

State Senator John Bonacic turned a small, tragic, local event, into a microcosm of the Republican disease. Like an opportunistic virus, when they sense a weak moment in possible hosts – us – they want to jump in and spread their infection, fear.

War Dispatches from the War on Stupidity

By Larry Beinhart 04/19/07

General Petraeus, the man in charge of the initial failure, has been put in charge of a new plan that requires his original failure to magically reverse itself and which is also guaranteed, according to the mathematics of own theory, to fail.

A Secret Dispatch from the War on Stupidity

By Larry Beinhart 04/17/07

If we knew today’s secrets, we would “know” that all the intelligence and Pentagon assessments are that the war in Iraq is already lost. And that the war in Afghanistan is being lost, too.

Short Shots 4

By Larry Beinhart 04/10/07

Do not refer to the George Bush Library as a library.

Short Shots 3

By Larry Beinhart 04/09/07

It’s time for a Failure to Find Osama Commission.

The Sex Lives of Presidents

By Larry Beinhart 04/04/07

There was something deeply kinked in Nixon. Would more sex – even more adultery – have humanized him? Did his sex life – currently unknown – connect to his murderous cynicism? If the sex lives of presidents are to be a campaign issue, that’s a question to ask.

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