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RUSH: You know poor old Otto Warmbier, the student that went over to North Korea and they tortured so severely that he died within days of being returned? You would not believe the hate being written about this guy by people on the left and by supposed comedians, who are just raking this guy over the coals. They just can’t come to criticize a bunch of communists for committing murder or manslaughter against an American citizen. They have to blame this guy, and they blame his whiteness. “Yeah, he was some rich white college kid who thought he would go...

Robert Reich’s Religion Problem Witless rhetorical oppositions. Liberals tend to take umbrage when it is suggested that they are hostile to religion, or to religious people, or to some subset thereof. They have nothing against evangelical Christians, they respond, so long as they do not seek to use the state to impose their faith on others. Some liberals go further, saying that they are religious progressives who advocate a bigger welfare state as an outgrowth of their religious values. (A number of my fellow contributors to the new Brookings Institution book One Electorate Under God? take this approach, including Paul...

July 2, 2004 -- A SHOCKING image of a blood-spattered President Bush devouring a headless child is causing an uproar. The drawing by sculptor Richard Serra, based on a painting by Goya, is being used to promote pleasevote.com, billed as "a call to vote the Bush administration out of office." It appears on the back cover of The Nation's July 5 issue. Ironically, Serra, a past recipient of NEA grants, was once praised by First Lady Laura Bush in a White House press release about one of his pieces at a Texas museum. His "Tilted Arc" once graced (or defaced)...