Kentucky Democrats are abuzz over their party’s chances to grab Sen. Jim Bunning’s seat next year. “Bunning is widely considered the most vulnerable incumbent of the cycle,” wrote John McArdle in Roll Call. The Kentucky senate race will doubtless attract national attention next year. It’s big news when a Republican senator seems to be in big trouble in a Red State. Bunning is also feuding with the GOP Senate minority leader, who happens to be Kentucky’s senior U.S. senator....

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Do you see how important it is that we frame our speech precisely? If we say it one way, there is no excuse. But, stated the way it now stands, it almost seems (if your views run that way) that Paul Hill might have a case for shooting two unarmed men in the back with a shotgun. (How noble!) – HW, 1995 Andrew Sullivan provides the most elegant (in the mathematical sense) lede: The abortionist, George Tiller, was shot...

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