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...When he was 16, The nazis occupied his native Hungary. Years after escaping death camps and fighting Nazis underground, Tom Lantos became the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress. The visible, sometimes blunt 14-term California Democrat, whose mother perished in the war, proudly ruffled feathers as a loud, consistent advocate for human rights. In one year as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Lantos demanded Japan apologize for wartime sex slavery and declared Turkey's World War I mass killing of Armenians genocide. Lantos...
...civic leaders. Among them was Ahsan, who has been under house arrest (and briefly in jail) since Nov. 3. It's a telling comment about the state of political freedom in Pakistan that, with the country set to vote in a Feb. 18 general election, its most respected democrat is confined to his home in Lahore's Zaman Park neighborhood. Ahsan, a Cambridge-educated lawyer and former Law Minister, has dropped his own plans to run for Parliament, saying that Pakistan's political system will remain compromised so long as the country lacks an independent judiciary. "The ballot will...
...lifelong Democrat, I have wallowed in the luxury of voting against some of the most unappealing politicians in American history, starting with Richard Nixon and ending (so far) with George W. Bush. I am surely going to vote against McCain, but it is going to take work, and there will be moments of doubt. This will be no fun. Doubts are for independents...
Only a couple of years ago, there were noises that McCain might admit he was much too nice to be a Republican and might run for President as an independent--or even as a Democrat. Democrats swooned and said they would vote for McCain because he was "honest." McCain is perceived as authentic, which is a deeper form of honesty than mere truth-telling. He says he's antiabortion? Oh, he doesn't mean that. Among current or recent figures in American public life, only Colin Powell shares McCain's mystical ability to make liberals believe he secretly agrees with...
...critical of the Democratic nominee. Will you continue to hold McCain's feet to the fire as this goes forward? Well, probably. But it's not personal. I firmly believe that conservatism - genuinely articulated, passionately articulated - wins in national elections most every time it's tried. I tell people, "Go back to the '80s." Ronald Reagan did not have talk radio or an alternative media supporting him. What was he down - in the House of Representatives - the Democrat margin then was what, 130 seats or something? And [the Republicans] were led by a guy named Bob Michel, whose objective every...