20 Dec 2004

Locked Up

By Cheryl Phoun
On Thursday, December 9, two River Cities' Reader staff members participated in the Moline animal shelter's "media lockup." The program was meant to attract people to the shelter to adopt animals, as well as raise awareness through articles in the media.
30 Nov 2004

The Iraq War and the Election of 2004

By Christopher Preble
Were it not for the war in Iraq, political junkies could have gone to bed early on election night, because by all other indications, President Bush should have been re-elected in a walk. While Democrats point accusatory fingers at those supposedly responsible for their defeat, Republicans should be breathing a huge sigh of relief and pondering the political implications of foreign policy in the Bush administration's second term.
14 Sep 2004

Talking About God: Rev. Clinton Vs. Rev. Bush

By Paul Kengor
It was quite telling that the strongest religious statement made at the Republican convention came not from a Republican but from a Democrat, Georgia Senator Zell Miller, who claimed, among other things, that the current president is the same person on Saturday that he is on Sunday morning.
07 Sep 2004

More Than Two Choices on Casino Hotel

By Jeff Ignatius
Davenport City Administrator Craig Malin casts the debate over a new riverfront casino/hotel as an either/or proposition. Either you accept the new hotel, or you're stuck with the status quo. "Some folks in the community have the [mistaken] feeling that there's this third or fourth or fifth option," echoed DavenportOne President and CEO Dan Huber.
17 Aug 2004

Why Homeland Security Fails

By Stephen Handelman
On any given day 15 million shipping containers are in transit around the world, the workhorses of a global bazaar that most of us depend upon for the goods that prop up our lives. Could one of those containers carry a secret nuclear device? Would anyone find it? If you don't enjoy losing sleep about such questions, you probably don't want to spend much time around Stephen Flynn, a former U.
11 May 2004

The Media, Politics, and Censorship

By Bill Moyers
The war in Iraq has become also a war of images. A few weeks ago, we were troubled by pictures of tortured Iraqi prisoners. Earlier, it was photographs of American soldiers who have given their lives there. On April 30 on Nightline, Ted Koppel read the names of the dead and showed their photographs.
11 May 2004

Nightline Snub

By Timothy Karr
Sinclair Broadcast Group on April 29 ordered its eight ABC affiliates to pre-empt April 30's Nightline broadcast of the reading of the names of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq, saying the program is "motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq.
30 Mar 2004

Testifying and the Power of Love

By Shellie Moore Guy
Several years ago, after reading books by Angela Davis and several other black women regarding the role of black women in the suffrage and civil-rights movements, I was asked to be a part of a women's history celebration at one of the local colleges.
03 Feb 2004

Primary Numbers: Questioning the Nomination Process

By Ian Williams
It could be worse. Remember, Willy Horton was originally Al Gore's inventive way of beating up on co-Democrat Mike Dukakis in the 1988 primary - but even so, the perennial spectacle of Democrats rooting in each others' dirty-linen baskets and waving their soiled finds in public looks like unnecessary party-political harakiri to outsiders.
27 Jan 2004

Ungodly Politics

By Cathy Young
I was recently reading an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in Newsweek when I had to stop and check that it was indeed Newsweek and not, say, Christianity Today. Yes, it was indeed Newsweek.

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