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...Senate bill to provide a three-year authorization of $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels money to PBS and its member stations, was delayed early this month after conservative Senators railed against the alleged leftward tilt of the shows. Republican John McCain of Arizona blasted Maria's Story, the profile of a peasant woman who joined the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador, which aired last summer. Minority leader Robert Dole criticized PBS election commentators Bill Moyers and former Washington Post editor William Grieder -- "two excellent journalists who also / happen to be two excellent liberal Democrats...
...bench. Blackmun moved to the left from his first days on the court. On the whole, O'Connor has drifted toward the center. Souter, who voted the same way as O'Connor in dozens of cases this term, may yet do the same. But the possibility of gradual leftward movement is cold comfort to liberals who realize their two aging champions, Marshall and Blackmun, may eventually be replaced by George Bush appointees. And that would almost certainly turn the conservative bloc into a juggernaut that will dominate the court well into the next century...
OPPOSITION to a popular war alone won't devastate their presidential prospects. But coupled with the Democrats' crippling reputation as the "peace party," it probably will. The leftward lurch of the party since Vietnam has eroded public confidence in its ability to lead. The same party that once championed national strength and self-assertion under Wilson and Kennedy now embraces, to varying degrees, the non-interventionism and pacificism of George McGovern and Walter Mondale...
During his nearly six years in power, Gorbachev has zigzagged repeatedly / between right and left, trying to stay in command of a center that he kept moving slowly leftward, toward greater democracy. At the same time he was steadily expanding his own powers, at least on paper, but implicitly pledging to use those powers to force reform on a backward bureaucracy...
...extent of Jesuit influence exacerbated past papal mistrust, especially during the 1970s, when the order appeared to many to take a pronounced leftward tilt. Tensions broke into the open when Pope Paul VI decided that too many of the members were involved in secular matters, including politics, to the detriment of their priesthood. Whenever a papal teaching was questioned, Jesuits always seemed to be in the thick of things, whether the topic was birth control, homosexuality or female priests. Soon after he became Pope, John Paul picked up Paul's refrain, denouncing the order's "regrettable shortcomings...