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Photo November 3, 2004

Funny Things Start To Happen To You

Funny things start to happen to you when you start questioning the validity of a Presidential election. For example, you might look at an impending large scale assault on a couple major Iraqi cities, and wonder how the White House could invest such conviction in this forward an operation...

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About Face: 2004 Election Final

I have only two words to say:  Civil Disobedience. send this cartoon to a friend in pain

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Bush Focus Photo November 2, 2004

Bush … For a Day

If Bush wins, he’ll be his old self again tomorrow. For today, however, facing the prospect of defeat, Bush is displaying a real humanity. It’s a tragedy (for him, but more so, for the country and the world) that he has been unable to access anything close the past...

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Uncategorized Photo November 1, 2004

The Known Soldier

Larry Holdaway is an artist and photographer who created this haunting, nearly recognizable face by combining the available portraits of every American soldier killed in Iraq from March 2003 to September 2004.  As Larry writes: “This is the face of America’s sacrifice, the face of more than a thousand...

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Setting Out the Pumpkins

Of course, the Kerry hunting trip was something of a farce. But it was political farce. And, as silly as it was, at the political ground level, it probably helped balance out an image of Kerry that had been overly distorted in the other direction. Who would understand this...

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Party’s Over?

I’ve been hard on the NYTimes for their election photo coverage, which has tended to give Bush a free ride. Why, at this point, however, would the trend suddenly shift. Reverse bias? More likely, with strong vibrations in the air about the mood of the electorate, this shot is...

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Rage Against the Machine

“Votergate” is a video that tells the story of Bev Harris, and how she exposed Diebold’s highly fallible voting technology. It also recounts other abuses, including the story of Republican Susan Bernecker, a local council candidate in Lousiana whose 1996 election was thrown by electronic voting system fraud. (Above,...

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