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When Republicans surrender, it is called bipartisanship. A while back, Patrick Ruffini gave the world some solid proof of liberal bias in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Basically, Ruffini showed that these two venerable institutions were two or three times more likely to label someone as a conservative than they were to label someone as a liberal. I copied Ruffini's idea and showed that the Arizona Republic had a similar level of liberal bias. Tonight, I want to offer more proof of the liberal bias. Someone (I think it may have been ConLaw professor and radio talk-show...

McAuliffe cleans house and Gore's out Last year there was a relatively major dispute in the Democratic National Committee regarding the election of Terry McAuliffe as chairman. In particular, some African-Americans objected to electing a white leader and supported former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. There was quite a fracas for a couple of days before a compromise was reached and Jackson was appointed to lead something called the Voting Rights Institute in the DNC. This article at NationalReview.com describes the struggle pretty well. Well, here we are about a year later and Jackson is out as the head of the ...

The silver lining to McCain-Feingold? Proponents of campaign finance reform keep trying to tell conservatives how much McCain-Feingold is going to hurt Democrats. The latest, and possibly best, effort comes from Michael Crowley of The New Republic. Crowley offers strong evidence that Democrats in D.C. are unprepared and unhappy with campaign finance reform, but unwilling to suffer the press backlash that would come if they backed away from supporting it. But, behind the scenes, Democrats aren't grinning at all. "It's going to be ugly for us. It's pretty devastating," says an experienced party operative. "It's very possible we've consigned ourselves ...