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Gateway Pundit: From 1864 to 2006... Democrats Haven't Changed a Lick

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OpinionJournal - Featured Article"Journalists in the 1940s, '50s and early '60s tended to believe they had a duty to buttress Americans' faith in their leaders and their government. Journalists since Vietnam and Watergate have tended to believe that they have a duty to undermine such faith, especially when the wrong party is in office."

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RealClearPolitics - Articles - Harry Reid & The End of Liberal Thought: "One-word put-downs of opponents' ideas and motives were substituted for thoughtful rebuttal. Though liberals regard themselves as intellectual -- their views, after all, are those of nearly all university professors -- liberal thought has almost died. Instead of feeling the need to thoughtfully consider an idea, most liberal

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A once-great American political party has become a pesthole for socialist radicalism. The whining of its principals, people without princples, is now incessant. Take the so-called "outing" of a CIA employee, for example ...

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Kerry: ‘I Was Wrong' On IraqHe voted for a bill before voting against it, because he was "misled".With analytical and decision-making skills of that caliber, its a good thing he's not POTUS.

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The Gruel is Hot - Grab a Spoon. Leopold Scoops the Blogosphere and MSM on Rove Indictment

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Rantingprofs: Who You Gonna Believe -- Me, Or Your Lyin' Eyes?: "Visual Evidence and other lies"

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The facts surrounding Joe Wilson's earlier mission to Niger will end up cratering the U.N. and the organizations that support its lies: the liberal media, and by extension the democratic party.

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"Democrats deserved what they got for promoting a fabulist with wild and sensational claims, simply because he, like they, wanted to win the election."

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"'We don't own the news any more,' Sambrook said. 'This is a fundamental realignment of the relationship between large media companies and the public.'"

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Emotional Rather blasts 'new journalism order' Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Monday that there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career. Might it be well-deserved? "They were willing to speak truth to power," Rather said ...while choking back tears. But "speaking truth" until recently went only in one direction:

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A Bushian Laboratory - New York Times "Bush proposed an Urban Homestead Act, which will draw enterprising people to the area, giving them an opportunity to own property so long as they're willing to work with private agencies to put up their own homes. He proposed individual job training accounts, so much of the rebuilding work can be done by former residents. Children who have left flooded

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Senate Kills Bid for Katrina Commission"Reid has instead vowed that any bid by Republican leaders to establish a special bipartisan committee involving lawmakers from both House and Senate will go forward only if Democrats have equal represention."This is good news:- the democrats are realizing they're the minority,- they have to whine about representation means the Republicans are being

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USATODAY.com - Hurricane exposes issues of class, race: "But lawlessness is the inevitable companion of mass poverty, and a threat to civil order should have been anticipated." Wrong. A guy called Blackeagle got it right: "Mass poverty is the inevitable consequence of lawlessness." In a much broader context than just the hurricane: It's atheistic communists who faithfully believe that

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Jonah Goldberg: Voodoo meteorology: "Environmentalists, it seems, need their own Book of Job. Because, as it stands right now, Mother Nature's ways are not mysterious, but entirely contingent on the output of fossil fuels. And, ironically enough, all of their hopes lie in George W. Bush. Which sounds just a bit like their version of Satan worship." Hmmm... Jonah's idea has red meat on those

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Birdnow, American Thinker: "the left tries to use Darwin to fight an either/or battle over the validity of the Bible, and by extension the existence of God."

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TNR Online | The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name: "the Oxford English Dictionary defines a scientific theory as 'a scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts.'" And yet the faithful

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My Life as a Drug Dealer - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com: "Former meth seller discusses how he got into the business"

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America's Most Dangerous Drug - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com: "cheap and easy death"

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The American Spectator: "Undo Darwinism"

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Punitive Liberalism: "From the time of John Kennedy's assassination in 1963 to Jimmy Carter's election in 1976, the Democratic party was gradually taken over by a bizarre doctrine that might be called Punitive Liberalism. According to this doctrine, America had been responsible for numerous crimes and misdeeds through its history for which it deserved punishment and chastisement. "

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PREVIEW: The Mother of All Connections: "The Mother of All Connections"

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Commentary - Culture in the Age of Blogging: "... a collective end-run around a liberal establishment ..."

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Keller Says 'N.Y. Times' Must Look Beyond Its Urban, Liberal Base: "The aim, he wrote, is 'to stretch beyond our predominantly urban, culturally liberal orientation, to cover the full range of our national conversation.' " Finally the NYT admits it only presents one side. QED. No more quibbles about media bias. First down, 10 more yards to go.

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The American Spectator asks: "What impact will the New Media have on human liberty?"

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Howard Dean's abortion myth - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - June 09, 2005There must be a name for this kind of rhetorical device, where you toss out a tangential lie while talking about something else.I heard Biden do do it recently on the radio. Hannity asked him some question, but before Biden answered if he threw out the False meme that Republicans were trying to undo 217 years of

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The American Spectator: "In those days, Americans actually trusted the Mainstream Media."

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Germany Rediscovers Religion | Germany | Deutsche Welle |: "Countering 'depression and pessimism'"

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Leaving the left / I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity: "One aspect of my politics hasn't changed a bit. I became a liberal in the first place to break from the repressive group orthodoxies of my reactionary hometown."

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BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis: "Tipping point (continued) "

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BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis: "It's wonderful watching what I think is a global warming in mainstream media toward citizens' media. We may just be at the tipping point."

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Why Blogs Are Like Tulips: "Blogs aren't mainly about money, not yet. They're about taking power and control away from the old brand names, tipping the bloated sacred cows off their pedestals. Just as establishment media outlets have always dreamed about bringing down presidents, bloggers dream about bringing down editors-in-chief and news anchors." Not just blogs, though. The "establishment"

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: "Mr. Howard, those sources said, has hired a lawyer to develop a breach-of-contract suit against the network. Ms. Murphy and Ms. West have likewise hired litigators, according to associates of theirs, and all three remain CBS employees and collect weekly salaries from the company that asked them to tender their resignations."

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At My Way News, Democrats Elect Howard Dean As Chairman and some people acknowledge they've now hit the bottom: "'We only have one way to go, and that's up,' said a Georgia Demcratic delegate". "Democrats are not pro-abortion, but 'we are the party in favor of allowing women to make up their own minds about their health care,' Dean, a physician, said." Even though that means always being

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My Way News: "CNN News Executive Eason Jordan Quits"

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"Bush's triumph came as the Senate voted 72-26 to shield businesses from class-action lawsuits by funneling most cases out of state courts and into the less receptive federal courts." See New York Post Online Edition

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HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: What's Wrong with These Democrats? by Cary Eldred: "'Would they have voted for the War for Independence if they had been a representative to the Continental Congress?' "

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Fantastic article asks "What do Democrats stand for? The real question is, what do they stand against?"

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He's a worldbeater, all right: "If Kerry's elected, abortions will continue and gay marriage will happen and he'll be cool with both. Joyce Smith understood that. Von Drehle seems vaguely resentful that she wasn't dumb enough to fall for the spin cooked up by Kerry's hairsplitters and enthusiastically promoted by his media cheerleaders."

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MSNBC - The 'Media Party' is over

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Reality Check: Era of Free Pass for Liberalism Is Over

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Christopher Chantrill, by way of American Thinker, writes a brilliant article. It supplies liberals with a plan they must acheive to regain relevance (i.e. move right) and also highlights the extended foot over which they'll trip themselves (elitist arrogance.) Political evolutionism is turning the democrats into dinosaurs.

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Kristof discovers compassionate conservatism. here.

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VDH 'splains it, but i know they're not gonna listen.

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A New RevolutionEven the farmers in the square get it -- Ukraine has outgrown socialism.

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Even the U.N. publicly fails in a big way. No governmental body is equipped to provide personal care for individuals.

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Beam. James Beam.

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Cartoon Nazi: Is This A Religious War? Hell, Yes! Try to name one global hotspot not involving Muslims.

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Switzerland trapped in economic "slow lane"

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The media is wearing no clothes.

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Rather: Another sign of a wider crack-up - 09/26/04

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Victor Davis Hanson on Dan Rather and Liberal Hypocrisy on National Review Online From the article: Commentators have envisioned Rather's fall as symbolic of a "paradigm shift" and the "end of the era" — an event that has crystallized the much larger and ongoing demise of the old establishment media. Allegories from the French Revolution and the emperor without any clothes to the curtain scene in

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OpinionJournal - Wonder Land: Dan Rather And the Decline Of Media Power -- CBS is missing the story of its own decline.

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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - Service to Country

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Out of compassion - pure compassion - we should encourge Kerry get the help he needs.

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This is why President Bush's opponents can't find his pay records from the National Guard.

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How the guys sitting at their computers in pajamas humiliated the suits at CBS News.

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Contribute slogan suggestions for Kerry here.

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Rather went on faith, not facts: Even nihilists have faith in something. Usually they just marvel at themselves...

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CBS eye wide shut: "Every day in this country, thousands of journalists try hard to earn and keep the trust of their readers, listeners and viewers. Now, with what looks like shoddy reporting on George W. Bush's career in the Texas Air National Guard, anchorman Dan Rather and his colleagues at CBS News have made it harder for all those other journalists to earn and keep trust."

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Published at The American Thinker I am very amused at the turnabout of fortunes on two levels. Of course Dan Rather, CBS, and the liberal media are finally starting to experience justice served. To them. At them. But the broader issue of their self-righteous ignorance is what I find so amusing. My perspective as an elementary school student in the sixties, and son of a WWII vet, was that my

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