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Based on a thorough examination of the historical record, I have concluded that the prototypical modern liberal wasn't Norman Thomas, Dr. Spock, Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern, but the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Through The Looking Glass." Consider the following exchange: "I can't believe that," said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for a half-hour a day. Why, I've sometimes believed...

When MoveOn rallied at the White House, things didn’t go exactly as planned. The next time MoveOn.org's political team in Washington schedules a protest at the White House, they will undoubtedly check to make sure there are no competing demonstrations scheduled for the same place at the same time. If nothing else, that was the lesson of MoveOn's Hurricane Katrina protest today. The rally — designed to "tell President Bush to stop blaming local officials for his mistakes and acknowledge that budget cuts and indifference by his administration led to disaster in New Orleans and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast"...