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This is Karl Rove's worst nightmare: a large crowd has gathered in a restaurant in the small town of Montrose, Pa., on a sunny Sunday afternoon in February to listen to the Democratic candidate running in the 10th Congressional District, a rural conservative bastion considered "safe" for Republicans. The candidate, Chris Carney, is soft-spoken and well informed. The audience is enthusiastic and predominantly Democratic, but peppered with Republicans who seem every bit as angry about the Bush Administration as do the Democrats. One man, dressed in a jacket and tie, stands up and confesses he's a lifelong...
MARTINEZ: I realized the other day--I'm going to share this with the group--I'm taking longer showers. It dawned on me that I'm taking longer showers because that's the last bastion where I can think. A disproportionate amount of my thoughts now are in the shower, because it's the one place where I'm not hounded by my BlackBerry, my cell phone, the 24/7 news...
...calls from endless commentators to “Free Harvard!” and to overhaul our University once and for all, we print these words as a reminder of true bondage: being tied to Yale—the home of the Bushes, the Ivy den of crime, the bastion of perpetual disappointment, and your alma mater for the rest of your life...
...Republican Party has been a vehement bastion of economic freethinking for the past 25 years. This has been an extremely successful political strategy, and it rests on a basic truth: capitalism is the best way to create prosperity. But the strategy frays when taken to its extreme: the more untrammeled the capitalism, the greater the inequities. And with George W. Bush as freedom's ultimate exemplar, the G.O.P. has refused to acknowledge the new playing field-the severe dislocations and vexing security questions-created by a freewheeling global economy. But the Bush view has taken a serious...
...might think that I am crazy, or that I have been trying some of the LSD that is floating around campus, but Wisse is correct: the Harvard student body—normally viewed as a bastion of the liberal elite—has undergone a conservative conversion...