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DIED. MIKE MANSFIELD, 98, low-key but resolute Montana Democrat and longtime Senate majority leader; in Washington. A high school dropout and "mucker" of mines in Butte, Mansfield got his college degree at the urging of his wife Maureen and went on to a five-decade political career, including 24 years in the U.S. Senate. He changed that institution, encouraging everyone, especially junior Senators, to speak out. At the end of World War II, as a junior Congressman, he advised Truman to allow Japan to keep its Emperor when the country surrendered. At his retirement from the Senate, he served...
Personally, I think Bush is doing no better than any Democrat would be doing right now. Yes, he made a good speech, and he hasn’t made any rash decisions. But that alone isn’t enough to justify our unfailing dedication to his policies. At the root of the current administration’s shortcomings lie a host of problems Bush hasn’t fixed and probably never will...
...Laden may even have his own legitimate bank that he uses to bankroll terror. At a Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, presented evidence that bin Laden used a Sudanese bank called al Shamal Islamic Bank, of which he may be the largest shareholder, to distribute funds used in the 1998 terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (The Sudanese bank denies it has any connection with bin Laden...
...casualties at home. "We are in a fight for our principles," the President said, "and our first responsibility is to live by them." America is most proud of qualities that proved most vulnerable: its embrace of people of every faith and color, its appreciation for dissent as essential to democratic wisdom. Barbara Lee, Democrat of California, was the only lawmaker to vote against the bill authorizing the use of force; her office began receiving death threats. When dissent is made to seem unpatriotic, a little sliver of democracy is dying...
...very different test of this nation’s willingness to defend its values at any cost, a Democrat by the name of Stephen Douglas approached Republican Abraham Lincoln with the words, “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I’m with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.” The two were hardly friends, and yet there are times when the most bitter of political foes become brothers allied against a common enemy...