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Anybody rememember this powerful article on Partial Birth Abortion from a few years ago on the WSJ editorial page? I am pretty sure it was entitled "Who are the Extremists?" by Robert Bartley and I thought it was here in the archives but cannot find it. Can anybody help a poor Red Sox fan with the text of the article or a link perhaps? Thanks

<p>Suddenly the historical debate over Vietnam is sprouting all through the current debate over Iraq. Howard Dean, leading the Democratic pack, told Dan Rather: "We sent troops to Vietnam, without understanding why we were there. And the American people weren't told the truth and it was a disaster. And Iraq is gonna become a disaster under this presidency."</p>

<p>A couple of disparate events sent ripples of satisfaction through our editorial-page offices last week. A Massachusetts parole board at long last recommended Gerald Amirault for parole, and a Food and Drug Administration panel recommended that silicone breast implants be returned to the market.</p>

<p>Peace, in setting presidential reputations, far outranks its brother prosperity. I didn't realize how completely war and peace define our presidents until I was asked to think about their economic leadership.</p> <p>Our OpinionJournal.com1 and the Federalist Society sponsored a new rating of the presidents, and in June an expanded print version will be published in collaboration with Simon & Schuster. I was asked to join William Bennett, Richard Brookhiser, Robert Dallek and others in contributing. Asked about leadership on economic policy, I couldn't find much.</p>

<p>Having won a splendid military victory in Iraq, President Bush now faces the tedious process of mopping up hit-and-run guerrillas. And having won overwhelming public support, he now faces home-front guerrilla assaults as well.</p> <p>The latter problem is the serious one. With press coverage starting to balance the good news and the bad, we're coming to understand that on the ground in Iraq the guerrillas are isolated. The Baathist remnants and Arab militants have nothing like the external sanctuary and superpower support that sustained the North Vietnamese and anti-Soviet Afghans. For the moment terrorists can still ambush Americans and assassinate pro-peace Iraqi leaders, but exhausting them is only a matter of time and patience.</p>

<p>Having won a splendid military victory in Iraq, President Bush now faces the tedious process of mopping up hit-and-run guerrillas. And having won overwhelming public support, he now faces home-front guerrilla assaults as well.</p> <p>The latter problem is the serious one. With press coverage starting to balance the good news and the bad, we're coming to understand that on the ground in Iraq the guerrillas are isolated. The Baathist remnants and Arab militants have nothing like the external sanctuary and superpower support that sustained the North Vietnamese and anti-Soviet Afghans. For the moment terrorists can still ambush Americans and assassinate pro-peace Iraqi leaders, but exhausting them is only a matter of time and patience.</p>

Would it be too controversial to disagree with Rush Limbaugh on one small point? Last Thursday, Rush was talking about a conversation he had with Robert L. Bartley, editor emeritus of the Wall Street Journal. Bartley apparently repeated his view – which he recently expressed in a WSJ editorial, titled "The Press: Time for a New Era?" – that the recent journalistic scandals at the BBC and the New York Times have demonstrated that "objectivity is dead." That may be true, insofar as the BBC and the Times is concerned, but he went on to suggest in his column and...

<p>To protect democracy, three judges of the far-left Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have just canceled elections in California. The last horselaugh, I'd hope, for the Democratic charge that Republicans are subverting democracy. As we saw in this space last week, the charge was already a pretty silly explanation of the patent anger surging through the Democratic primaries.</p>

<p>Rep. Dick Gephardt castigates President Bush as "a miserable failure," and Sen. John Kerry calls for "regime change" in the White House. Even while distancing himself from the rest of the dwarves over Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman calls George Bush a "cowboy," echoing Sen. Mark Hanna's description of that miserable failure Theodore Roosevelt.</p>

<p>The American collective memory being notoriously short, it's hard to remember that it's only been two years. Perhaps this week's ceremonies--and President Bush's speech last night, not yet given as I write--will revive and implant the lessons we learned on that fateful September 11.</p>

<p>Why can't Americans have the same health care coverage as Congress?</p> <p>Our solons are just now scattered around the country far from the Beltway conventional wisdom, so they may be in an educable mood. If you have the opportunity, dear reader, sidle up to a Congressperson and ask: On this health care business, why not give the rest of us the same choices you've given yourself?</p>

Washington -- Robert L. Bartley, the esteemed former editor of the Wall Street Journal, writes in his WSJ column that a "Stop-Dean Campaign" is emerging from the smoke-filled rooms of the Democratic Party, or is that the room-freshener-filled rooms? You know what hypochondriacs the Democratic panjandrums have become. Says Bartley, "The chance of a Dean nomination warms the hearts of the party's faithful, but chills the bones of its professional pols." They fear that Dr. Howard Dean will be another George McGovern, and they remember the grisly fate of their party under the leadership of that glassy-eyed gasbag. Apparently their...

<p>As we march into August the political question of the moment is, who will emerge as the candidate to stop Howard Dean? Castigating his rivals as insufficiently quixotic, the former Vermont governor bids to pitch the rest of the dwarves out of the ring.</p>

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton is the only Democrat who can save her party from the impending disaster that would be a Howard Dean presidential campaign. That's the assessment from Wall Street Journal sage Robert Bartley, who argues on the paper's editorial page today that unless Sen. Clinton comes to the rescue in 2004, the wreckage left behind in the wake of a Dean debacle may not leave her much to work with in 2008. With the ex-governor of Vermont adorning the cover of this week's Time and Newsweek, experts now say Dean is now the Democrats' bona-fide frontrunner. Bartley...

<p>If Mrs. Clinton wants to save her party, 2008 may be too late.</p> <p>As we march into August the political question of the moment is, who will emerge as the candidate to stop Howard Dean? Castigating his rivals as insufficiently quixotic, the former Vermont governor bids to pitch the rest of the dwarves out of the ring.</p>

<p>With the New York Times and the British Broadcasting Corp. both in the soup, something big must be going on in journalism.</p> <p>Let me give you one view of what that is, based on watching my craft evolve over 30 years as a senior editor. I think we're coming to the end of the era of "objectivity" that has dominated journalism over this time. We need to define a new ethic that lends legitimacy to opinion, honestly disclosed and disciplined by some sense of propriety.</p>

<p>The BBC and New York Times scandals show that "objectivity" is dead.</p> <p>With the New York Times and the British Broadcasting Corp. both in the soup, something big must be going on in journalism.</p> <p>Let me give you one view of what that is, based on watching my craft evolve over 30 years as a senior editor. I think we're coming to the end of the era of "objectivity" that has dominated journalism over this time. We need to define a new ethic that lends legitimacy to opinion, honestly disclosed and disciplined by some sense of propriety.</p>

<p>"It's time to tell the truth," the Democratic National Committee urges in an Internet ad, complaining about something President Bush said about uranium. Yes, this is the same DNC headed by Clinton apologist Terry McAuliffe; you'd think the president proclaimed, "I did not have sex with that yellowcake."</p>

<p>The New York Times and The New Yorker go off the deep end.</p> <p>"Just weeks after the LaRouche in 2004 campaign began nationwide circulation of 400,000 copies of the Children of Satan dossier, exposing the role of University of Chicago fascist 'philosopher' Leo Strauss as the godfather of the neo-conservative war party in and around the Bush Administration, two major establishment publications have joined the exposé."</p>

<p>The New York Times and The New Yorker go off the deep end.</p> <p>"Just weeks after the LaRouche in 2004 campaign began nationwide circulation of 400,000 copies of the Children of Satan dossier, exposing the role of University of Chicago fascist 'philosopher' Leo Strauss as the godfather of the neo-conservative war party in and around the Bush Administration, two major establishment publications have joined the exposé."</p>