We Pick Governors From States Where Governors

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.

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.

I Teach At Usc, And It's Obvious To Anyone Who Teaches College Students That They Don't Cover Much Modern History And Certainly Not The Modern Presidency.

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.

Alternative Media Is No Longer Really Alternative, And We're No Longer That Dependant Upon Newspapers, Like The Los Angeles Times, For Our Information.