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The Democratic party I grew up in was unafraid to make moral judgments about the world beyond our borders.[Today's Democrats] are inclined to see international problems as a result of America's engagement with the world and are viscerally opposed to the use of force - the polar opposite to the self-confident and idealistic nationalism of the party I grew up in.•   •   •   "The Democrats' guiding

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The war crime perpetrated by American and British commanders this week compels a comment.Risking the lives of American and British soldiers to rescue members of the so-called "Christian Peacemaker Teams" from Iraqi insurgents should shock the conscience of any reasonable observer. Predictably, the Christian Peacemaker Teams organization greeted the news with open contempt for the rescuers:"We

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Some support for the theory discussed here recently on the Democrats' "message" problem.James Traub writes in today's New York Times Magazine:"Perhaps, in short, the problem is with the song, not with the way the Democrats are singing.""When I went to see Mike McCurry, Clinton's former spokesman, he said, 'I see a lot of wishful thinking that we can return to an earlier day, that the thinking of

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Hurricane Katrina looks like a birthday party next to this astonishing natural disaster, as reported in The Onion.  And Bush knew about it beforehand!

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Jeff Jarvis and his correspondents react to a BBC commentary about mainstream media bias and the message of the U.S. Democratic Party in relation to it. Jeff focused on media bias. He's right, but beyond certain aspects it's difficult for me to become too engaged in the subject of left/liberal media bias -- no doubt for the same reason I don't get intellecually excited about the sun rising in

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The administration of George Bush the Elder was notorious for its thoroughgoing political tone-deafness. The best remembered incident is the tax cave-in to Congressional Democrats which, on one melancholy afternoon in August of 1990, irreparably split the Reagan coalition and delivered the '92 presidential election to the Democrats.Justice Souter is another example -- perhaps more of political

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