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Happy (Belated) 4th

By Ross Douthat
July 5, 2008
I'm back from Aspen, but Megan has ably taken my place, and there's more video coming in all the time, featuring everyone from Michael Chertoff to Sandra Day O'Connor to our own James Bennet and Robert Kaplan. Here's the rest of the party-politics Table (continued below the fold):