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Peering into a webcam, her face intermittently frozen over an iffy Skype connection in Medellin, Colombia, Lizz Quain was explaining not long ago why she uprooted her 9-year-old twins almost a year and a half ago to travel the world. Ms. Quain, who is in her 40s, owned a children’s play cafe and preschool near Seattle before she renounced her American middle-class existence in August 2016, fed up with what she described as a stifling, consumerist culture.

WASHINGTON — Democrats have the money and reach to add substantially to their House majority in November, but public sentiment is moving in Republicans’ direction, according to a poll that suggests the GOP could limit those gains. An Associated Press-GfK poll conducted Sept. 5-10 found Republicans trailing Democrats by just 5 percentage points when likely voters were asked which party they want to control Congress next year. That is a substantial improvement from the double-digit disadvantage Republicans were suffering in most public polls so far this year, although the boost could prove fleeting.

The other day I wrote that Bush threw us a curve ball by nominating Harriet Miers to the high court. I think I was wrong, as Bush's curve ball was actually a boomerang that is headed straight back at his skull. Reaction to Miers has been swift and unkind, but It seems that most of it is coming from the right instead of the left. Two days ago, Rush grilled VP Cheney about the nomination (I didn't hear the whole thing, but the big man was not happy) and George Will's piece on townhall.com was scathing to say the least....