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eading the New York Times coverage of the school-choice decision, I noticed something striking, and fortuitous. Recall, first, a couple of facts: that the teachers’ unions, leftists, and Democrats generally continually portray the school-choice movement as “far right”; and that increasingly important to that movement are black activists, particularly single moms. This embarrasses the Democrats — or should. So, on one page of Friday’s Times, there was this (fairly typical) quote from Bruce Reed, president of the Democratic Leadership Council: “This decision is going to make it impossible for President Bush to hold off the far right any longer.” And...