The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2007 -- Volume 13, Number 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Molly Ivins p. 1
Molly says ‘goodbye’

EDITORIAL p. 2
Go for single payer; War games

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Molly lives; Bush’s health-care tax; Bush seizes more power; Rhetoric on renewables; Clean-money pols win; Support wounded vets.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Raise hell for Molly

DISPATCHES p. 5
Obama hits the road; Bush’s cynical budget; Dems see Senate gains; E-vote reform ...

Dr. DENNIS KEENEY p. 6
Global warming threatens ag
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 6
Weeds take precedence over workers
ALLEN BEST p. 6
Underbelly of prosperity in West is illegal labor
GENE LYONS p. 7
Libby probe short on theatrics
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Farmers can’t eat rhetoric

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 8
Good golly, we’ll miss Molly
JIM CULLEN p. 9
Molly never ‘sanded down’
More tributes to Molly
TONI McELROY & KEVIN WHELAN p. 10
Rebuild New Orleans, rebuild America
JOHN NICHOLS p. 10
Drinan set example for today’s Dems
ISAIAH POOLE p. 11
Health care cure worse than disease
JOHN BUELL p. 11
Reflections on poor, minimum wage

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 12
The Pentagon’s not-so-little secret
RUTH ROSEN p. 12
Challenge market fundamentalism
JOE CONASON p. 13
An irrepressible American
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 13
God bless Molly
MUCKRAKER/Lisa Hymas p. 14
Feeling the heat
DEAN BAKER p. 14
Bring back the old George W. Bush
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
War privatization is public scandal
GREG PALAST p. 15
Big Oil, Big Brother big winners with Bush
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Battling fat in America

ART CULLEN p. 15
Time to get serious about oil addiction
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Suppose we just left

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Numbers game

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 16
US cash flows to the wrong Gulf
CHRISTINE AHN p. 17
New fast track for unfair trade
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
‘Democracy’ US-style

AMERICAS/Patrisia Gonzales p. 18
Heart medicine
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Bush: It’s over
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 18
Groundhog Day and media time loops
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Unused democracy
TED RALL p. 19
Iraq fiasco exposes faith-based reasoning
THOMAS I. PALLEY p. 20
They’re trying to kill Sarbox
MATTHEW RANDAZZO V p. 20
Rayburn points the way for Pelosi

SAMUEL URETSKY p. 20
Bad penny

GENE C. GERARD p. 21
Worker safety not on Bush’s agenda
J. QUINN BRISBEN p. 21
Howard Hunt, CIA’s odd man out

POET/Michael Silverstein p. 21
The federal budget poem
ANTHONY ZURCHER p. 22
Goodbye, Molly I
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Bang pots and pans for Molly
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Consolidating control of the Titanic


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