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Richard Milhous Kerry? As he prepares the public and himself for a possible second run for president, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., is taking a page from the Republican playbook. During a meeting Monday with the Eagle-Tribune newspapers' editorial board, Kerry cited Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as examples of men who lost presidential elections before they won them. "I am the only person running — thinking of running — who's been totally vetted," he said. "I learned a lot about how to do it. ... Other people have run several times, like Ronald Reagan, who ran three times, and...

I don't want to see "Brokeback Mountain." Normally that would mean nothing. There are hundreds of movies I haven't wanted to see and nobody cares, which is how it ought to be. But we do not live in normal times. According to the ultra-sophisticated movie critics who double as social engineers, I'm supposed to be consumed with guilt about being a homophobe. I guess I'm in good company, or at least much more liberal company. Hollywood is about as welcoming as it gets for what we are required to call "alternative" lifestyles. You can be homosexual, bisexual, transsexual, transgender or...