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--> --> Posted Friday, November 22, 2002 Editorial The `Toilet Bowl' is brimming over Hundreds of Civil War football parties hung in the balance as Oregon State University and Eugene television station KEZI squabbled over announcers for Saturday's showdown and possibly not broadcasting the game live. The horror! Commentary What's wrong with supporting renewable energy? AUSTIN, Texas - Readin' the newspapers anymore is eerily reminiscent of all those bad novels warning of the advent of fascism in America. "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis was a bad book, and the genre shades off into right-wing paranoia about black helicopters, including the memorably awful "Turner Diaries." I don't use the f-word myself - in fact, for years, I've made fun of liberals who hear the approach of jackbooted fascism around every corner. But to quote a real authority on the subject, "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. Guest forum Republicans strike gold President Bush has struck gold - the perfect formula to guarantee re-election, and even better to complete the groundwork, began some fifty years ago, for a permanent Republican plutocracy (government by and for the wealthy) in which the Democratic Party is at most a minor annoyance. We are being exposed to the ultimate horror: nuclear war A writer to the Tidings claims that "The U.S. is not an aggressive nation." Let me douse you, sir, with a dose of reality. Note this list of U.S. government assassination plots, failed or successful, since World War II against world leaders: Letters Disagreeing with Tidings editorial Thanks Ashland Email your... Technical questions & comments to: WebMaster Daily Tidings editorial comments & questions to: Editor Visit our other Oregon Newspapers... | Albany Democrat-Herald | Ashland Daily Tidings | Corvallis Gazette-Times | | Lebanon Express | Newport News-Times | Springfield News | Cottage Grove Sentinel | Ashland Daily Tidings 1661 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR 97520 Telephone 541-482-3456 © Copyright 2001 Lee Northwest Publishing