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John Kerry has fought this election campaign as a political moderate. Certainly his main foreign-policy advisers are moderate Democrats. But that campaign posture disguises his 34-year record in public life which produced no legislative achievement, but featured a well-documented obsession with Vietnam and Cambodia that continues to the present day. [...] But what has been largely overlooked in Kerry's 1971 speech is that he also supported the Vietnamese Communist cause, mouthing every plank of their political platform as his own. He not only favored immediate unconditional withdrawal of American troops, and creation of a coalition government. He also denounced the...

National Character: The Quest for Sainthood. By Robert Wolf There is a theory that national behavior is an amplification of the aggregate behavior of its individual citizens, i.e., that the political macrocosm is a reflection of the microcosm. The theory should not startle anyone, historians and public leaders have spoken and written about ‘national character’ for a centuries and have concluded that individual responsibility and morality can not be divorced from good government. Transubstantiation Does government transform society or is it society that transforms government? When Progressives and others lovers of the collectives chide government over its inability to transform...

Early this month, Bill Moyers, the zillionaire PBS contractor, implored a gathering of Democratic faithful to Take Back America. His speech generated applause far greater than those of any of the presidential hopefuls on the program. Mr. Moyers's version of US history is cockeyed, his diagnosis of social ills is absurd, and his prescription for their cure is preposterous. Moyers claims to be a populist, but he has contempt for the people. We have been duped, see, and are captives of the "ruling class" who exploit and immiserate us. We are unaware of the depredations of the oligarchy, have been...

"Woman as victim" is one of the Great Lies of our time. Those who care about women's welfare should correct the damage done by this lie because, today more than ever, women need to acknowledge their power and take control of their lives. Nothing has felt secure since 9-11. Global tensions spin out of control, terrorism means that no one is safely a civilian, the news is filled with photos of Iraqi children who break your heart and leave you feeling powerless to affect anything. You can click off the TV for time-out but another uncertainty is more difficult to...

DLC/PPI | Fact Sheet | June 1, 1998 About The Third Way America and the world have changed dramatically in the closing decades of the 20th century. The industrial order of the 20th century is rapidly yielding to the networked "New Economy" of the 21st century. Our political and governing systems, however, have lagged behind the rest of society in adapting to these seismic shifts. They remain stuck in the left-right debates and the top-down bureaucracies of the industrial past. The Democratic Leadership Council, and its affiliated think tank the Progressive Policy Institute, have been catalysts for modernizing politics and...