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The Nation -- Don't bring your pitchforks. This is to be our "last stand" to stop health care reform, it's Alamo time.

It's been a long time since Republicans savored the day after.

RICHMOND, Va.-- Democrats in Virginia had been bracing for a losing hand on election night, and voters dealt them just that.

Washington - Every once in a while, a television character seems to slide effortlessly off the screen to take up residence in the Zeitgeist.

LOS ANGELES -- Was George Santayana right when he said that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it?

Creators Syndicate - In the earliest days of television, shows were often supported entirely by one sponsor. There was the "Texaco Star Theater" with Milton Berle. Remember "General Electric Theater" with Ronald Reagan? The corporate patron was held responsible for the content within the program. More to the point, the corporate patron wanted the association with the show it was sponsoring.

Creators Syndicate - For the Blue Dogs, Tuesday was a fire bell in the night.

Creators Syndicate - In 2006, the minority party in Congress issued a dire report on the "unprecedented erosion of the democratic process." Democratic Rep.

Creators Syndicate - President Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor.

Creators Syndicate - Democrats are having a hard time explaining away their big losses on Tuesday. First, the White House let it be known that President Obama wasn't actually watching election returns, choosing instead to tune into HBO's puerile documentary about his own presidential campaign. Talk about ego; the man just can't get enough of himself.

Creators Syndicate - Everything and nothing happened on Tuesday. I could have predicted that. Whoever "wins" says it means everything. Whoever "loses" says it means nothing. That's how off-off-year elections work. History supports both sides.

Failure on H1N1 Highlights a Bigger Crisis

WASHINGTON -- A new term is making the rounds in foreign policy circles in Washington these days. It is undeniably clumsy. The term is "the un-Vietnam," referring to a war that has been over for 34 years yet still comes back like an arrow gone wrong when we talk about Afghanistan.

Creators Syndicate - I spoke at a recent town hall forum. The many issues discussed included the Obama administration's attack on Fox News. Later, one of the audience members came up to me and sneered, "Well, even you must admit that Fox News is biased in favor of Republicans."

Creators Syndicate - When Newt Gingrich warned Republicans that they were making a grave "mistake" by driving out moderates and enforcing the angry orthodoxy of the far right, the sober tone of his remarks was stunning.

On Election Day this past Tuesday, the people of Maine voted to repeal gay marriage, 53 percent to 47 percent.

MSNBC, Aug. 31, 2009, Keith Olbermann on Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia:

Creators Syndicate - Here is one of the loudest messages of the 2009 off-off-year elections: Conservatives in America will no longer let their opponents define them as outside of the mainstream. They will not submit to Democrats. Or to the media. Or to Beltway Republican capitulationists. They will not "rebrand." They will not sit down. They will not shut up.

Creators Syndicate - The most idiotic thing being said about America's involvement in Afghanistan is that the best way to protect the 68,000 U.S. troops there now is by putting an additional 40,000 in harm's way.