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...when he broke the law to perform gay marriages. He condoned late-term abortions. He had nothing to say about Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast flash. Unlike Al Gore, he did not even give a speech supporting faith-based social programs. To religious conservatives, he seemed a secular extremist. The Democrats have paid a heavy and honorable price for their support of equal rights-first for African Americans and now for homosexuals...
...inspecting cargo at ports and on airplanes and to create a single national terrorist watch list. He wants NATO to play a larger role in Afghanistan, where he says al-Qaeda is "regrouping and strengthening," and promises to get tough with Saudi Arabia, a source of terrorist funding and extremist teachings. Kerry supports the Patriot Act but wants to strengthen some measures in it, like those targeting money laundering, and ease others that restrict civil liberties...
...other Democrats shared more of Barack Obama's good fortune, they would have a better chance of recapturing the Senate. First, his G.O.P. opponent, Jack Ryan, dropped out after revelations of his alleged visits to sex clubs. Then Ryan's replacement, conservative agitator Alan Keyes, alienated his party with extremist rhetoric on abortion and homosexuality. Obama, a charismatic state senator, wowed the Democratic Convention, presenting himself as an optimistic coalition builder. The Senate shoo-in isn't just lucky, he's self-effacing about his success as well...
...pursued by essentially secular groups has been hijacked by Islamic radicalism. "In the post-9/11 world, there is no such thing anymore as a local Muslim struggle," says Rohan Gunaratna, author of the book Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror and who is assembling a database on extremist Islamic groups in Southeast Asia. "Be it al-Qaeda or one of its affiliates, some part of the international Islamic militant movement will move in with logistical help, training and, above all, money...
...right German People's Union won 6.1% of the vote and will have six seats in the state parliament. The far-left Party of Democratic Socialism, the heir to East Germany's Communist Party, won 28% of the vote and 29 seats - its largest share ever. The votes for extremist parties in Brandenburg and Saxony underscore popular discontent with both the SPD and CDU, a trend that could upset the country's traditional two-party system in the run-up to the 2006 general election. Until September, the NPD seemed like a spent force. But in 2000, after a series...