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The nationwide ethical breakdown continues: Hundreds of public schoolchildren, some as young as 11, are taking time out of regular classes to canvass neighborhoods in Milwaukee, Madison and Racine in a get-out-the-vote effort organized by Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund - a group whose umbrella organization has endorsed John Kerry for president. The coalition says the effort is non-partisan, but because the group is targeting minority neighborhoods and those with historically low voter turnout - overwhelmingly Democratic areas - Republican operatives are crying foul amid the highly charged political atmosphere in the state. Kerry and George Bush are virtually tied in...

On Criticizing A 12-year-old Girl Dennis Prager No column I have written has elicited more hate mail than my last one on the 12-year-old girl who spoke at the Democratic National Convention and publicly ridiculed Vice President Dick Cheney. I have written against same-sex marriage; on behalf of the president's international policies, capital punishment and Israel; argued for the superiority of the Judeo-Christian value system; and even defended divorce. Yet no column has elicited so much anger, use of expletives and foolish thinking. It is clear I hit a deep nerve among many liberals and Democrats. I wrote that this...

After spending the week at the Democratic National Convention broadcasting my radio show, it was not easy to choose which aspect of the convention I would devote my column to. Would it be the discussions I had with delegates, nearly all of whom I liked and none of whom thought clearly about our nation's issues? Or about the Potemkin Village the Democrats erected — a convention where almost nothing the Democrats really believe was on display? I decided on the speech given during prime time by a 12-year-old girl from the San Francisco Bay Area. In my view, this talk...

After spending the week at the Democratic National Convention broadcasting my radio show, it was not easy to choose which aspect of the convention I would devote my column to. Would it be the discussions I had with delegates, nearly all of whom I liked and none of whom thought clearly about our nation's issues? Or about the Potemkin Village the Democrats erected -- a convention where almost nothing the Democrats really believe was on display?I decided on the speech given during prime time by a 12-year-old girl from the San Francisco Bay Area. In my view, this talk was...

I just checked out the kidsforkerry.com website. Frankly, this seems low to me, to have kids propagandize leaving out arguments different from these listed here. This looks like a cry for government to provide everything for kids. Where do they get taught that government should provide everything for kids? Who tells them they can't go to a doctor when they are sick? If this is what they are learning in schools, it's a good enough reason to keep them homeschooled.

Twelve-year-old Ilana Wexler was hanging out at home in Oakland's Rockridge district Wednesday when her friend called to invite her out next week. Her friend: Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The invitation: To address the Democratic National Convention -- and the nation -- during prime time Tuesday night. "I was like, 'Oh, my God,'" she recalled Friday during a telephone interview from her grandmother's Brookline, Mass., home, where the national media were beating a path to her door. "I don't know what to think. I'm just totally blown away." Ilana truly will have something special...