Who knew and When did they know it?

Mike Sproul
Does anyone remember that just a few months ago the MSM story was, “Rove is guilty of ‘outing’ an undercover CIA operative, Valerie Plame, and should go to jail?” Now we know that story was the real smear and all a lie. Go here.The above link is the best summary of the case that I have yet read.

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Dean of Liberal Media advises apology for Rove!

Mike Sproul
The Dean of the Liberal media, David Broder, is advising the MSM to give Rove an apology for their treatment of his reputation. Go here for the article.I wonder if some who write on SI will be willing to do as Broder suggests and give Rove an apology. We now know that Armitage over at the State Dept.

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God's Country?

Greg Linscott
Walter Russell Mead looks at Fundamentalists, Liberals, and Evangelicals and their impact on US politics in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs

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A Short History of American Exceptionalism in Letters and Speeches

Mike Sproul

American Exceptionalism is a concept that has been long debated, but by and large only men who have believed in such a concept have received the vote of their fellow countrymen to be their leader. Below are documents that proclaim the “exceptional” experience that is America. Anyone who has never read all of these documents is poorer by far, but those who have read them and thought on them are greatly enriched.

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