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Saturday, in Pittsburgh, a Sabbath celebration at the Tree of Life synagogue became the site of the largest mass murder of Jews in U.S. history. Eleven worshippers were killed by a racist gunman. Friday, we learned the identity of the crazed criminal who mailed pipe bombs to a dozen leaders of the Democratic Party, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. From restaurants to Capitol corridors, this campaign season we have seen ugly face-offs between leftist radicals and Republican senators. Are we more divided than we have ever been? Are our politics more poisoned? Are we living in what...

If you’ve read many of these columns you know I’m addicted to politics. My spouse, among others, tells me to cut it out from time to time. You may also know I live in a restored farmhouse, at the end of a half-mile gravel road, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There IS a connection between those two facts. Consider what happens to anyone in a high position in American politics – or running for such a position. I’ve observed the behavior of many men and women who are – or are running to be – Members of Congress, Senators, or...

Roeser Blog 12/27/2005 One More Thing About McCarthy Now That We Mark His Death One important remembrance I have of Gene McCarthy came to mind after I wrote my impressions of this man of whom I was so fond for many years. As you know, he ran for president also in 1972 and as an independent in 1976. It was in 1976 when the Republican nominee was President Gerald Ford that his staff called me and said that he would appreciate getting away from the grind and having dinner at my house. It so happened we were entertaining two couples...

The reporting on the life and death of my friend, Gene McCarthy, has been woefully inadequate to the truth of the man, especially in his last three decades. Gene was an intelligent and honest man, who had the courage of his convictions. That included the courage to change his convictions when the facts required. The news media brought on a number of classic tax-and-spend liberals like Eleanor Clift to talk about Gene as if he was one of them. Of course, he was that, as a professor first elected as a Senator. But in his final maturity he was much...

Interesting and funny post by someone at redstate.org Nice Wad; Got a Brain to Go With That? By: Thomas Section: Democrats Ladies and gentlemen, I give you George Soros. I give you MoveOn.org. I give you America Coming Together. I give you the Media Fund. I give you Howard Dean's resurrection of Gene McCarthy's campaign, with a thousand well-funded baby soldiers, and the transformation of the modern Democrat campaign. I give you Democrat voters so terribly fired up -- and they mean it!! -- that they'll give 'til it hurts, and vote, and stamp, and stomp, and rally, to toss...

On the 27th of August, I went in print and in electrons to predict that the Kerry Campaign was over. Most other political pundits, except those whose income depends on the pretense that Kerry has a chance, have since reached the same conclusion. In the meantime, Dan Rather has ceased to exist (though no one has told him yet), and CBS and the “old media” may also go down in flames. But that’s not what I came to talk about. I came to talk about the election of 2008. Last weekend I was sitting on a dock by a TVA...