What's Weird About the Al Gore Sex Case | Portland Mercury

The Secret Service, the FBI, and the Oregon State Police all refused to take the case when approached by the alleged victim, a 54-year-old massage therapist. They passed her on to the Portland Police Bureau.

David Brooks: If liberals can't win us over in these times, when will they ever?

..And, indeed, everything Faustus wished for came to pass. Yet he watched events unfold with growing horror. Not in 70 years had there been a sequence of events so perfectly designed to fortify liberalism. Yet the country wasn't swinging to the left; it was swinging to the right!

Surveys showed public opinion drifting rightward on issue after issue: gun control, abortion, global warming and the role of government. Far from leading Americans, Democrats were repelling them. Between 2008 and 2010 the share of voters who considered the Democrats too liberal surged from 39 percent to 49 percent, according to Gallup surveys.

Prospects for the 2010 election are grim. Election guru Charlie Cook suspects the GOP will retake the House...