By Paul Rogat Loeb, SoulOfACitizen.org

Even if you’ve heard more than enough about Terry Schiavo, it seems useful to consider why Bush’s political grandstanding backfired…

For twenty years, gradually increasing majorities have agreed that for all our technological inventiveness, what some people need most is the right to die in peace.

You’d think that this belief--that the most difficult intimate decisions must be our own--would also raise support for maintaining the right to abortion. But it hasn’t. In the 30 years since Roe v. Wade, support for keeping abortion legal, and without onerous restrictions, has stayed even, at most, and ...   more »

By Hesiod, The American Street

Nothing gets my blood boiling faster than Democrats who completely miss the real reason why the American people prefer Republicans to our party on terrorism and war issues.

Fools like the Democratic Leadership Council, and other so-called “centrist” Democrats think that adopting tough rhetoric and positions on foreign policy will convince the public that we mean business.

Or worse, that we should practically adopt Republican foreign policy goals and tactics.

The problem the Democrats face on terrorism and foreign policy is not based upon rhetoric. It’s a psychological visceral reaction by the public. They sense ...   more »