If The War On Terror Is Endless,

The Death Of American Liberalism As A Significant Moral Force Can Be Traced To The Point In When President Bill Clinton Signed Legislation That Effectively Ended The Main Federal Anti-poverty Program And Turned The Fate Of Welfare Recipients, 70 Percent Of Whom Were Children, Over To The Tender Mercies Of The States. With A Stroke Of The Pen, Clinton Eliminated What Remained Of New Deal-era Compassion For The Poor And Codified Into Law The "tough Love" Callousness That His Republican Allies In The Congress, Led By Newt Gingrich, Had Long Embraced.

It Had Run As A Column - I Had Worked At The Paper Since 1976, But The Column Had Been Running For 13 Years, And I Think It Was A Strong Column, Criticizing The War When The Paper Was Supporting It.

Everybody Says, "well, If It's A Democracy, Let Them Have Nuclear Weapons." America Is The Only Country That Has Ever Used Nuclear Weapons. We're The Only Ones, This Democracy, Our Great Democracy.

I Happen To Be One Of Those In The Antiwar Part Of Things Who Actually Supported Bill Clinton When He Sent The Cruise Missiles In To Take Out Bin Laden. I Had Thought We Had The Right To Use Special Forces To Go In For Bin Laden. He Had Attacked American Embassies. He Attacked Ships. And So, I Didn't See Any Need To Coddle The Taliban.

He [reagan] Likes To Tell Jokes And That's Why He Told The Ethnic Joke That Got Him Into Some Trouble. Perhaps If Reporters Didn't Overreact To A Politician's Telling The Very Same Joke They Routinely Hear And Tell In The City Room, We'd Get More Humor.