All 17 articles by Dave Mulcahey

  • 15 May 06

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    Hooray for Hookergate!

    On April 27, Republicans awoke to a PR disaster. Tucked away on page A6, a brief Wall Street Journal... MORE »

  • 17 Aug 04

  • Culture

    Another World, Possibly

    Shortly before he died in 1918, the American critic Randolph Bourne penned an incendiary essay laying bare the monstrous... MORE »

  • 06 Jul 04

  • Culture

    The Wise Many

    Connoisseurs of the Strangelovian may recall last summer’s dustup over a plan hatched by Iran-Contra felon John... MORE »

  • 02 Jan 04

  • Culture

    Design Flaw

    On the edge of the Chicago suburb of Barrington is a massive edifice known as a megachurch. Looking... MORE »

  • 02 Nov 03

  • News

    APPALL-O-METER

    In a sanguinary reprise of their age-old antagonism, jock and nerd skirmished last month on the parched plains... MORE »

  • 26 Apr 02

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    Appall-o-Meter

    Dead Peasants 8.1 Back in 1994, Wal-Mart launched a program promising its employees a $5,000 death benefit. The company was so... MORE »

  • 15 Mar 02

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    Harsh Toke! 3.9 In March, thirtysomething go-getter Chris Hill was named one of the 500 Businessman of 2001 by the National... MORE »

  • 01 Mar 02

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    Appall-o-Meter

    >Any Volunteers? 4.3 The University of Tennessee’s Daily Beacon reports that the Kappa Alpha fraternity on campus is... MORE »

  • 29 Oct 01

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    APPALL-O-METER

    Convert 'Em All 9.4 When American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, one of the leading lights of Clinton... MORE »

  • 22 Oct 01

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    Appall-O-Meter

    Operation Infinite Spin 5.4 Who knew that the Voice of America was part of some anti-patriotic liberal conspiracy? You... MORE »

  • 15 Oct 01

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    APPALL-O-METER

    Two sheriff's deputies from rural Maryland are breaking new ground in the field of frivolous litigation. They're suing... MORE »

  • 01 Oct 01

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    The Liberal Media 6.9 In These Times readers need no convincing that our news conglomerates are ethically compromised. It... MORE »

  • 28 May 01

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    Appall-O-meter

    BVM or ATM? 4.5 In addition to the countless statues around the globe she causes to wiggle and weep,... MORE »

  • 14 May 01

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    Appall-O-meter

    That's Entertainment 9.3 In what is possibly the most metaphorically suggestive case in the history of jurisprudence, two California... MORE »

  • 30 Apr 01

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    Appall-O-meter

    The Old Switcheroo 3.9 These days, with presidents selling pardons and fugitive money-launderers sitting on senators' fundraising committees, the... MORE »