In 2002, according to White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, America watched the mid-term congressional elections “making history.” Even though the Republicans gained only six seats in the House and two seats in the Senate, the election supposedly heralded the conclusion of a major partisan realignment that started with the Reagan landslide of 1980. As...

You should all know by now that what the national press says about the elections just doesn’t matter. Everybody from The New York Times to CNN to The Indianapolis Star proclaimed first that only Lieberman could win, then that Bush was unbeatable, and then that Dean was going to be the nominee, come Clark or...

“…What with the general fear of a war now being prepared by all nations and the specific fear of murderous ideologies, who can deny that we live in a state of terror? We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible… “…To come to terms, one must understand what fear means: what it implies...