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There is an ugly set of accusations and counter-accusations going on between Sen. John Kerry and an author who claims that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. In Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them), Mark Crispin Miller argues that a conspiracy of GOP officials, voting-machine companies, and shadowy political operatives created, in the words of Miller's publisher, "a new Republican electoral strategy...not one overwhelming fraud but thousands of little ones" that gave the election to George W. Bush. Last Friday, Miller took to the left-wing...

Ex-President Bill Clinton, who collected FBI files on political opponents, targeted witnesses against him with IRS audits and hired private detectives to intimidate his ex-girlfriends, complained Tuesday that the Republican Party had a political "destruction machine." "They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine," Clinton told the Democratic Leadership Council in an address at New York University. The ex-president charged that "extreme right-wing elements in the media" were responsible for smearing Democrats on national security issues, saying he was particularly dismayed by attacks on Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. "What was done to Tom Daschle was...