Democrats Can Give Us Wars, You Know?

Today Anyone On The Internet Can Find Out More About What You Read, Think, And Earn Than The Secret Police Of Stalin Or Hitler Could Have Learned.

We've Had The Trivialization Of Our Politics Going On Ever Since We Had Electronic Media.

It Had Run As A Column - I Had Worked At The Paper Since 1976, But The Column Had Been Running For 13 Years, And I Think It Was A Strong Column, Criticizing The War When The Paper Was Supporting It.

The Publisher, Jeff Johnson, Who Has Offered Not A Word Of Explanation To Me, Has Privately Told People That He Hated Every Word That I Wrote. I Assume That Mostly Refers To My Exposing The Lies Used By President Bush To Justify The Invasion Of Iraq. Fortunately Sixty Percent Of Americans Now Get The Point, But Only After Tens Of Thousand Of Americans And Iraqis Have Been Killed And Maimed As The Carnage Spirals Out Of Control. My Only Regret Is That My Pen Was Not Sharper And My Words Tougher.

The Death Of American Liberalism As A Significant Moral Force Can Be Traced To The Point In When President Bill Clinton Signed Legislation That Effectively Ended The Main Federal Anti-poverty Program And Turned The Fate Of Welfare Recipients, 70 Percent Of Whom Were Children, Over To The Tender Mercies Of The States. With A Stroke Of The Pen, Clinton Eliminated What Remained Of New Deal-era Compassion For The Poor And Codified Into Law The "tough Love" Callousness That His Republican Allies In The Congress, Led By Newt Gingrich, Had Long Embraced.