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Could the left be any clearer about its intensions? Why don't liberals just put on brown shirts and arm bands and march around bonfires, consigning radios to the flames, to the rousing strains of "Hillary Uber Alles"? Since the left can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, it wants to shut it down. The aborted push to revive the misnamed Fairness Doctrine, and apply it to talk radio, is but the latest example of liberalism's drive to gag the opposition. Late last week, the House of Representatives - Nancy Pelosi's House - voted 309-115 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission...

Now, Santorum has compiled his views into a newly released book that his opponents are embracing as 449 pages of ammunition for the battle over his Senate seat in 2006. In "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good," Santorum finds fault with two-income families, cohabitation before marriage and working women, who have chosen not to stay home with their children, he contends, "because of the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders." He also compares abortion to slavery. ... Santorum is a favorite among evangelical voters and conservatives who cheer his outspokenness,...