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Garrison Keillor tries to enjoy Memorial Day at the National Gallery, honoring our fallen heroes by going to an art exhibit ... ...on we went to show our patriotism by looking at exhibits at the Smithsonian or, in my case, hiking around the National Gallery, which, after you've watched a few thousand Harleys pass, seems like an outpost of civilization. There stood Renoir's ballerina in pale blue chiffon and Monet's children in the garden of sunflowers. And Mary Cassatt's The Boating Party, which I stood and stared at for a long time. A lady in a white bonnet sits in...

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Head Slovak Bishop: Fighting Western Liberalism is "a Major Task of the Church" By John-Henry WestenKONIGSTEIN, Germany, June 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Chairman of Slovakia's Bishops' Conference gave a talk at Aid to the Church in Need headquarters in Germany Tuesday saying that the defence of Gospel values against an increasing influence of Western Liberalism is "a major task of the Church."Bishop Frantisek Tondra of Spis in East Slovakia, explained: "Liberalism is predominant in Slovakia's mass media, thus infiltrating and subverting Christian values, family values and the values of life in the public opinion. This happens in particular...

THE ANTI-DOGMA DOGMA. Fact Finders by Jonathan Chait Post date 02.22.05 | Issue date 02.28.05 Imagine that God were to appear on Earth for the unlikely purpose of settling, once and for all, our disputes over economic policy. And suppose that, to my enormous surprise, he announced that every empirical claim advanced by conservatives was correct. Cutting taxes produces such great economic growth that even the poor benefit. Privatizing or eliminating social programs like Medicare and Social Security will cause the elderly to save more money and enjoy higher living standards. Slashing regulations, by eliminating unintended side effects, actually does...

According to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, a liberal is someone broad-minded who is not bound by authoritarianism or orthodoxy. Ah, brings to mind benevolent images of the ever-tolerant Paul Begala, doesn't it? Did someone say open-minded, independent, and understanding? Must be talking about that moderate James Carville -- when he's not interrupting, berating, and screaming at people who disagree with him, that is. You see, Begala and Carville are liberals in not the dictionary sense but the political sense. They are liberals: leftists who are known as liberal, but are really dogmatically rigid about imposing their interventionist views on everyone...

Did Wellstone's Death Foretell Defeat Of Liberalism? Yes, Gov. Gray Davis won reelection in California, Frank Lautenberg took (as in “stole”) a senate seat in New Jersey, and the Democrats claimed several governorships, but without a doubt the Republicans easily carried the day in historic proportions last night. Conservatism, albeit “Bush Style,” swept through America from coast to coast in a way not seen since Ronald Reagan became the standard by which all conservatives are judged. And while there remains a few smoldering bastions of liberalism left, one defining event may have served as a foretelling of last night’s rout...