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Apparently, Republicans are supposed to hang their heads, accept the unacceptable, and resign themselves to a minimum sentence of four years under the single party rule of liberal Democrats. We are expected to be "good losers" and rise above our base instinct to lash out at the new icon of the socialist dream, unlike the way that these self-same Democrats hysterically lashed out at George W. Bush for eight long years. Conservatives have been cowed into watching silently as Obama takes the oath of office while the media recites the litany of their new deposit of faith in this...

Herndon voters yesterday unseated the mayor and two Town Council members who supported a bitterly debated day-labor center for immigrant workers in a contest that emerged as a mini-referendum on the turbulent national issue of illegal immigration. Residents replaced the incumbents with challengers who immediately called for significant changes at the center. Some want to bar public funds from being spent on the facility or restrict it to workers living in the country legally. Others want it moved to an industrial site away from the residential neighborhood where it is located. The labor center forced the western Fairfax County town...