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THE WASHINGTON TIMES

By Alan Nathan
Published April 1, 2008

The saddest trait strangling both Democrats and Republicans is their mutual refusal to execute any capacity for self-appraisal. Worsening this shortcoming is their respective application of moveable standards whenever their behavior is challenged. Consequently, each party gives a pass to their own for offenses they would never tolerate from others. Enter the centrists, who can embrace the best of both, reject the worst of each and consider solutions surmised by neither because they’re not obligated to carry the water of either party’s orthodoxy.

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

By Alan Nathan
Published February 4, 2008

A few months ago, Barack Obama rightly accused fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton of “hiding behind her gender.” Of course, she can now argue that Mr. Obama is similarly hiding behind his race. Had they and their advocates practiced half the equality they preach, their bad-faith arguments might have been as quickly abandoned by them as they were immediately scorned by us.