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There is something Kiplingesque about the modern American warrior. He is a volunteer and a professional, as the long-serving regular of Rudyard Kipling's day was. He is a patriot; his modern British comrades, patriots themselves but shy of admitting it, express surprise at the American warrior's outspoken devotion to flag and homeland. He feels a personal relationship with his Commander in Chief, the President, as Kipling's archetypal soldier, Tommy Atkins, seems to have done with his Queen. Above all, like Tommy, he ships out. Ordered to a strange corner of the world, often at the ends...
...less a liberal than Ted Kennedy gave his imprimatur to Bush's No Child Left Behind education bill, only to find that the money he expected to fund the program had been left behind. Democrats also enabled Bush to pass his tax cuts, his Medicare prescription-drug plan, the Patriot Act--and, the most egregious case, the Iraq war resolution. When Howard Dean made his landmark speech to the Democratic National Committee last February, he opened by asking, "What I want to know ... is why in the world the Democratic Party leadership is supporting the President's unilateral attack...
...News borrow from all three factions, but they most resemble the radical liberals. They are defined by their opposition to the war. They are militant on most civil rights and civil-liberties issues, especially support for gay rights and opposition to the Patriot Act. They are overwhelmingly secular. Indeed, they seem to have replaced religion with cybercommunity; the monthly Meetup is their church. One of the strangest but most telling passages in Dean's recent stump speeches comes when he indulges in a romantic vision of 1968--a terrible year when America seemed to be falling apart but a time...
...charges for two years, last week was finally allowed to meet with a lawyer for the first time. Australian David Hicks became the first of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay to gain access to lawyers, one military and one from Australia. Meanwhile, the chief author of Ashcroft's controversial Patriot Act, Viet Dinh, a former Justice official who is now a professor at Georgetown University, has called for providing more legal rights to those in custody in the U.S. who are deemed "enemy combatants...
...didn’t come out strong to start out with,” Stehle said. “But we just played solid defense and did a real good job on the boards. We kept them out of their game by holding [preseason All-Patriot League guard Mark] Linebaugh to four [first-half] points. It was a real defensive effort...