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<p>I’m going to do my part to lead a constructive and civil debate on these issues.</p> <p>Constructive and civil debate — like the one Obama initiated just four weeks ago on deficit reduction? The speech in which he accused the Republicans of abandoning families of kids with autism and Down syndrome? The debate in which Obama’s secretary of health and human services said that the Republican plan would make old folks “die sooner”?</p>

The integrity of the United States Census may be at risk. That’s certainly what some Republicans are concerned about in the Obama era. For years, liberals have rightly pointed out that the decennial census undercounts certain groups — minorities, illegal immigrants, transients. An internal Census Bureau analysis from 2003 also determined that the last census overcounted whites and Asians. The liberals’ solution? Statistical sampling, in which census workers would study closely the populations of selected sample areas and use the resulting numbers to correct the numbers obtained by direct enumeration. Statistical sampling was a hot political issue in the late...

Hyping The Looting Story By Notra Trulock May 1, 2003 No sooner had coalition forces routed the Iraqi military in record time, silencing media critics in the process, than the New York Times editorialized that it wasn't really our military prowess that won the war. The Times thinks it was more the case that Iraqi military incompetence made the quick victory inevitable. That sounds hollow coming from those who earlier were warning that coming battles with the Republican Guard would show how long and how difficult the war would be. Now the leftist media is complaining about the failure of...