Thirty years of Republican tax policy have now completely eliminated federal income taxes on the poor and lower middle-income Americans, and almost eliminated them on middle America.

IN JUNE 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly held that the Boy Scouts of America is free to exclude open homosexuals from the ranks of Scout leaders, even where a state anti-discrimination statute would otherwise prohibit the organization from doing so. Ever since, the American Civil Liberties…