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Democratic strategists, seeing this election as the best opportunity for the party since the 1974 post-Watergate blowout, are urging party leaders to go for broke. James Carville called it a “twicein-a-lifetime environment” that could give Democrats “gains large enough to affect congressional control over this decade.” The Democratic National Committee has already said it is taking out a loan of up to $10 million to plow into hot Senate races in Tennessee, Virginia and New Jersey. And the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wrote checks for at least $12 million last week, primarily for ad buys targeting 30 at-risk Republican districts...

by Mark Finkelstein December 31, 2005 - 07:56 In their heart of hearts, do the liberal media believe that when it comes to the struggle against terrorism, we are truly at war? To judge by liberal Newsday columnist Ellis Henican's performance on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend, you would have to conclude not. Thankfully, fellow Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton was there to remind his colleague of some cold, hard facts. The topic was the Justice Department's investigation into the leaks behind the New York Times' publication of the highly-classified program of NSA surveillance of possible Al-Qaeda-related phone calls. Henican...