Time is running out for Arkansas preservationists who are battling to prevent the destruction of an African-American landmark located on the grounds of the future Clinton presidential library.
I’m sure Rush Limbaugh would give anything to hear his critics taunt him now. The conservative icon recently announced that he’s almost totally deaf—perhaps the worst thing that could happen to a radio talk show host with 20 million listeners nationwide. Good for him. Then again, I would expect nothing less from such an American. Americans don’t quit when bad fortune calls. We never have and, as our response to the events of Sept. 11 proved, we never will. It’s just not in our character. Indeed, we’ve shown throughout our history that we can adapt to any situation. We view change as challenge. Rather than shrink from it, we embrace it, capitalize on it, turn it to our advantage. This attitude is what makes us American.
A bill creating a Congressional day of prayer and remembrance may have support on Capitol Hill, but groups committed to expunging prayer from public life don't like it.
The 50,000 families that will hit the five-year welfare time limit in December should be moved onto the safety net right away.
"Microsoft's approach regarding the spell checker dictionary and thesaurus is to not suggest words that may have offensive uses or provide offensive definitions for any words. The dictionary and spell checker is updated with each release of Office to ensure that the tools reflect current social and cultural environments." Was the world's foremost software designer worried about offending dullards, dunces and dolts? Are there actually people out there who identify themselves that way? Even if so, you wouldn't think they'd represent Microsoft's target demographic
Senator Hillary Clinton's inner circle is furious at MIRAMAX king Harvey Weinstein after the former first lady suffered through a public relations nightmare during Saturday's AMERICA: A TRIBUTE TO HEROES concert in New York City. Hillary Clinton was jeered and booed by thousands gathered at Madison Square Garden as she took to the stage -- unannounced -- to introduce a movie clip. VH1 cameras captured firemen and police heroes wildly booing Clinton, who attempted to raise her voice above the shouting crowd. "Get off the stage! We don't want you here!" yelled one New York City police officer just feet from the senator. Anti-Clinton slurs spread and intensified throughout the Garden, with many standing near the stage lobbing profanities. Event-planner and close Clinton friend Harvey Weinstein was visibly shaken as he heard the crowd erupt with boos and jeers, according to an eyewitness. The junior senator from New York ending up giving the shortest presentation of the evening, clocking in at under 20 seconds. "How could we not know this would be the wrong forum for Hillary?!" shouted one confidante. "These are cops and firemen who listen to right-wing talkradio. They still think she killed Vince Foster, for Christ sake!" Other New York politicians received warmer welcomes during the 5-hour concert which featured Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Elton John and others. Former President Bill Clinton, who took the stage minutes after his wife, worked over scattered boos with talk of the rescuers' heroism. Following the Clintons, James Taylor soothed the heroes with an acoustic FIRE AND RAIN. The concert raised millions of dollars for September 11 relief efforts.
A Pennsylvania lawmaker may try to financially punish Penn State University for allowing Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, to speak on campus.
MTV, the cable music channel, began running this week highlighting homosexual teens who say they're having problems at school, but conservative family organizations call the ads an attempt to legitimize and normalize homosexuality.
The Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation's largest homosexual activist groups, canceled the media event that would have publicized Thursday's "National Coming Out Day" because it fell on the one-month anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
John Walters, President Bush's pick as the next drug czar, comes before the Senate amid a lot of loose talk in our country about the war on drugs. Much of what its critics say about U.S. anti-drug policy is wrong and is put out by people whose true agenda is drug legalization, not better drug-control policy. Most Americans, when presented with the straightforward case for or against legalizing drugs, are very firm: They do not want these destructive substances legalized. Recognizing this, many legalization advocates have taken to disguising their arguments as something else. This lack of candor now passes itself off as concern that the war on drugs is the problem, and not the drugs themselves. Supposedly, our efforts to keep kids off drugs are futile, and our only rational choice is some version of what is called "harm reduction." Stripped of its sheep's clothing, this would mean teaching American kids how to use drugs "responsibly," and promising treatment for those who fail to do so. Call it what you will, this so-called harm-reduction strategy is really only harm redistribution. Imagine what such a national policy would mean in our homes, schools, neighborhoods, and on our streets: It would mean condoning drug use and it would increase drug use. It is de facto legalization.
MTV began running public service announcements Wednesday that highlight homosexual teens who are experiencing difficulty with their sexuality at school, but conservative family organizations call the ads an attempt to legitimize and normalize homosexuality.
The conservative group is suing a Florida public transit authority for refusing to allow an advertisement of an upcoming anti-homosexual conference.
Reparations, so popular a topic in black-radio discussions and in black newspapers, masquerade as a bonus check for being black. They are a Trojan horse full of devastating consequences for the future of black America. Reparations are a dangerous, evil idea that has to be derailed now before emotions and momentum take American race relations on a crash course that will have its worst impact on those who can least afford it: impoverished black people.
If the rule of law were not more honored in the breach than in the observance, that hulking creature now paddling around Florida would not be running for governor; she would be in jail. That Janet Reno is considered a "viable" candidate to become the chief executive of the state of Florida is scary testimony to how far we have fallen. The American standard for public office has been set so low, a snake could crawl over it.
A top aide to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) told other leadership offices yesterday that Hastert wants to adjourn for the year by Oct. 30, but even some Republicans are dismissing that revised date as overly optimistic and think the budget fight could well drag on until Thanksgiving.
Democrats are circling, sensing blood in the political waters. Right now, everyone thinks it's the Republicans who are in peril, including the Republicans. But the Democrats are in the same hole as the Republicans, and here are a few of the ways Democrats might squander their current advantage.
Stories you didn't hear at this circus: How the (white) British navy did more than any other one institution to end the trade in human beings. How the approximately 30 million American blacks have a greater combined wealth than the 30 million Canadians
Strange ending to a strange UN conference on racism
The UN conference against racism ended with the delegates offering Africans a near-apology for slavery and colonialism. With no agreement possible, delegates voted 51-38, with 75 abstentions, to set aside anti-Israel language, and the president of the conference declared the rest of the platform adopted and closed the proceedings before anyone could object or walk out.
The International Criminal Court will spend $15.7 million in its first year, even if no defendants are charged and no trials are held under the court's auspices. That expenditure will double if the court does get a case. Even with nothing to do, each of the court's 18 judges draws a salary of $160,000, not counting bonuses. (It's very important, of course, for the U.S. to hurry up and pay its "back dues" to the UN, so these valiant fighters for justice can continue to live in the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed.)
New prison initiatives in Texas, Iowa and Kansas are changing the way some convicts complete the final months of their sentence by offering them religious training.
An abrupt walk-out by US and Israeli delegations today rocked the first annual United Nations Global Symposium Against Colonialism, Genocide, Zionism and Parking Tickets, prompting harsh criticism from the international diplomatic community and calls for increased American monetary aid and 'Baywatch' videos.
New prison initiatives in Texas, Iowa and Kansas are changing the way some convicts complete the final months of their sentence by offering them religious training.
According to congressional historians, no one has ever been forced to leave a committee because of personal misconduct. Of course, a party's got to have some principles, and the Democrats came through when they booted Phil Gramm, then serving in the House as a Democrat, off the budget committee because he backed President Reagan's budget.
Despite an unintentional slip by his secretary of Labor, George W. Bush made progress Labor Day in splitting unions from an iron alliance with the Democratic Party. His biggest target is the Teamsters, and he moved closer to advocating what the big union wants most: freedom from government control.
In the latest issue of American Experiment Quarterly (www.amexp.org), Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe ask a key question: How do we reconnect marriage and childbearing?
Meticulous Comstock Helps RNC Skewer the Opposition
Raise the price of school lunches 25 cents and congressional liberals go catatonic. Raise the price of gasoline a quarter and conservatives demand gas-tax cuts. But raise the price of milk by 20 cents? Fine, what's new with Gary Condit today?
Where labor unions are stronger, taxes are higher, according to a new study released by the Public Service Research Foundation. At the same time, wages were slightly higher in states with below-average union membership.
After 30 years of losing ground in a region they dominated for more than a century, Democrats are beginning to battle their way back in the South – and nowhere more effectively than in North Carolina.
Taxpayers get stuck with the bill for more than $250,000 in expenses from a trip to Europe on a military jet by House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and Rep. Charles Rangel. Of this, reports the New York Post's Deborah Orin, "$4,788.76 went for on-board supplies for the jet-setters, including a chocolate mousse tower, filet mignon, chicken stuffed with mushrooms and suntan lotion." (Stuffing a chicken with suntan lotion prevents it from getting burned in the oven.) In London, the congressmen stayed at Grosvenor House, where the corporate rate is $425 a night, the Post reports.
Thinking about some of the radical changes in our society over the last several decades made me remember that frog. Here are a few things that would have been unthinkable when I graduated from high school in 1966.
America is run by 280 million individual Americans, not by the government, and we determine whether it's a good day for each other --- or not.
America should act unilaterally more often. In fact, it is amazing how seldom the United States acts unilaterally. Other countries routinely act unilaterally when they believe it to be in their best interest. So, too, should the United States.
The court said. "If a university cannot even articulate a basis for the amount of the numerical bonus it awards nonwhite candidates, then it has no right to award such a bonus.
Two reports prepared in part for similar cases involving the University of Michigan-- from the National Association of Scholars and the Center for Equal Opportunity (both links in PDF format)--demolish the "diversity defense.
Hint: It's a state that's so conservative it doesn't have an income tax or a sales tax, and its state government is one of the weakest in the nation. Yet (or because of that) a study of civic participation places it first in the nation. Some say the study results support a longstanding conservative contention that small government is good government because it encourages broader community participation.
- In Mike Isikoff's Newsweek interview with Gary Condit, the California Congressman said:
I never had a cross word with her. The kind of conversation we had would be—[when Timothy] McVeigh was executed and Juan Garza was executed. She seemed to have a lot of interest in those two things and a lot of more interest in them than I did. So she would talk about that.
That's hard to figure, since Levy disappeared on May 1st and McVeigh and Garza were executed on June 11th and 20th, respectively. - Some guys have it --- and some just don't
- The draw of Condit
- My Condit Interview - By Maureen Dowd
And if you don't like it, go back where we came from.
At long last, Congressman Gary Condit goes public. But he leaves as many mysteries as he solves
If Condit is telling the truth, everyone else is lying--including his own lawyer.
The historically black Carnegie Library in Justice Clarence Thomas's hometown of Savannah, Ga., will name a wing after Thomas, despite efforts of some black Savannahns, who, it seems, want their library to have only left wings.
And we thought Bill Clinton came from a dodgy family. Who knew Hillary married up?
When George W. Bush was asked during last year's presidential campaign to name his favorite philosopher, and he replied Jesus Christ, he was rewarded with titters of contempt from the sophisticated elites
But now it turns out that the president has a lot of company. In a poll of 1,022 Americans who were asked to name their favorite hero, Jesus Christ headed the list
Decisions of Some Incumbents, Potential Challengers May Prove Pivotal in 2002 Battle for Control
Twenty years ago today, with only $200 and a makeshift studio in her convent garage, a nun named Mother Mary Angelica started what would become a global Catholic media presence.
Eight years ago, Vince Foster’s body was found near Washington. He was a Clinton pal and Deputy White House Counsel. Two special investigations manipulated evidence that he was murdered and accepted his death as a suicide. Here is an outline of the murder evidence. The new Administration should reopen the case.
The Democrats, in an effort to capture the votes of the 19% of Americans who oppose religion in America's political life, want to ban all public references to God. But they don't want to alienate Middle Americans who are their main support base. So they decided on a stealth campaign to quietly expunge all government references to God.
If the economy doesn't recover, Republicans will lose in 2002
PETA Condemns Home Invasion and Murder of Defenseless Bull Shark
Bill Clinton left the presidency in post-pardon disgrace but is returning from exile to a hero's welcome from Democrats.
Al Gore left the public stage with dignity, but his return is being greeted with sneers, sniping and even taunts about his vacation beard.
The contrast explains a lot about the current psychology of the Democratic Party.
Joe Lieberman can’t win the nomination without the hard Left, and the hard Left’s view of tax cuts is like the Pope’s take on abortion.
Most presidents retreat to the bully pulpit after suffering a setback, but George W. Bush has done the opposite. Following the Jeffords defection, President Bush went down into the trenches, conducting detailed negotiations with members of Congress, and visiting the Capitol building to personally move legislation.
- Vacation
- A Vacation Bush Deserves
- Time Out - In praise of presidential vacations.
- The Media's Unhappy Texas Vacation
- That's my Bush: Dubya at six months
- Republican reality check: The President at 6 Months
- Bush says his working vacation is working
- Give 'Em Hell, George - How to defeat Congress's liberals
- Time Magazine How I earned my summer vacation
- Additional Post Election Interesting News Reports
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