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Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race? 

Obama has failed not because he is a progressive in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt but because he is not. 

Barack Obama is staying far away from the political hotbed of Wisconsin.

The die has been cast. Obama’s deal to raise the debt ceiling is a disaster in the making.

Support for democracy is the province of ideologists and propagandists. In the real world, elite dislike of democracy is the norm.

A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government’s time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the goal of homeownership.

Human rights emerged not in the 1940s but the 1970s, and on the ruins of prior dreams.

Rand Paul is a distraction. The real question is: why did Clinton leave responsibility for the poor to the states while letting the federal government maintain a lavish welfare system for bankers and corporations?

Barack Obama may turn out to be the best pure politician we've seen since Ronald Reagan, but he's also head honcho for the globe's single great garrison state that lives off war and the preparations for future war.

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.