THE DIANNE FEINSTEIN APPEASE-CHINA AWARD
The Dtanne Fetnstetn Appease-Chtna Award Dianne Feinstein regained top honors in our Appease China Sweepstakes last week—and put in a bid for the Moral-Equivalence Lifetime Achievement Award as...
...Given that Gergen was one of the racial "good guys" actually administering Texas's affirmative action program, isn't it arresting how similar his language ("could not compete") is to Graglia's ("are not academically competitive...
...Benjamin Netanyahu's "concept of peace," Brzezinski said, "is essentially a very close equivalent of what the white supremacist apartheid government in South Africa was proposing at one point for the Africans—a series of isolated lands, broken up, not contiguous territory, essentially living in backward villages, surrounded by white islands of prosperity...
...Among the 711 groups the Office of Personnel Management has deemed acceptable for this federal subsidy are the Brookings Institution and the NAACP Conservative groups, needless to say, don't pass muster with OPM...
...In other media developments, Jonathan Last, our research associate, is moonlighting as editor-in-chief of a new webzine called Squire: The Magazine for Washington's Water Carriers...
...Americans] who don't always practice it themselves...
...Notorious Z-B-T-G It was neck and neck there for awhile...
...In response to efforts to recruit minorities after the Hopwood case outlawed UT Law School's affirmative action program, Graglia said that blacks and Hispanics "are not academically competitive with whites...
...The Dtanne Fetnstetn Appease-Chtna Award Dianne Feinstein regained top honors in our Appease China Sweepstakes last week—and put in a bid for the Moral-Equivalence Lifetime Achievement Award as well...
...But wait, there's more...
...Don't Tell the Truth University of Texas law professor Lino Graglia, a distinguished scholar, caused an uproar a few weeks ago at his school...
...You can read it yourself at www.squiremag.com...
...Appearing together on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on September 12, Zbigniew Brzezinski and James Baker competed ferociously to see who could pile up the largest number of anti-Israel cliches and moral-equivalence fallacies in the briefest amount of time...
...Normally, Baker is unbeatable at this sort of thing, but suddenly, heading down the stretch, Brzezinski pulled ahead and cruised to victory...
...Take for example, the private March 10, 1989 memo from Mark Gergen, one of the professors involved in the admissions process...
...As China throws millions into unemployment, in other words, who can blame its dictators for wanting to make sure these poor souls keep their mouths shut and their fannies out of Tiananmen Square...
...LULAC Time Two years ago, House Republicans sought, unsuccessfully, to place restrictions on the lobbying carried out by nonprofit groups that receive federal funds...
...So special that The Scrapbook herewith renames our ongoing sweepstakes the Dianne Feinstein Appease-China Award...
...Why, she exclaimed, "More people vote in China today than do in the United States...
...Baker looked slightly stunned at this masterly display of what is, in truth, his own specialty of Israel-bashing...
...This is the Likud image of a solution for the palestinian problem...
...Don't wait for an apology...
...At a Senate hearing, California's senior senator noted that some 300 million Chinese have taken part in village-level elections, in which there are no opposition parties and the overwhelming percentage of available candidates are selected by the ruling Communist oligarchy...
...But Republicans might want to set their sights on another target: the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, which allows federal employees to work for non-profit groups— and have their salaries paid with taxpayer dollars...
...This is reminiscent of her ludicrous comparison of the Tiananmen square massacre to Kent State—the display of moral equivalency, readers will recall, that inaugurated The Scrapbook's Appease-China Sweepstakes earlier this year...
...papers released as part of the Hopwood case include numerous memos that show virtually the whole of the Texas faculty in agreement with Graglia...
...Masthead Notes_ We note the publication of, and the ecstatic reviews for, contributing editor David Gelernter's new book Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber (Free Press...
...This program might not be so objectionable if federal employees were engaged in charitable endeavors...
...The school's Faculty of Color Caucus condemned him, state legislators called angry press conferences, a member of the university's board of regents called for his suspension, and presidential spokesman Mike McCurry said, "Those kind of remarks don't go down well with the president, period...
...Fein-stein also expressed her view that Beijing would not take steps toward democracy when "they're preached to by others [i.e...
...All he could say was, "I think Zbig was right on...
...A fitting example of the old Washington adage which states that a gaffe occurs only when you tell the truth, not when you tell a lie...
...Instead, it looks like just another way to politic on the public dime...
...Thank Douglas Holt of the Dallas Morning News for bringing this issue to light...
...Graglia, for his part, has sent a conciliatory letter to the school to try and quiet things down...
...Customs Service to lead LULAC and then used the Intergovernmental Personnel Act to preserve her Customs paycheck...
...Experience proves many of those I voted for could not compete...
...In prior years I could rationalize what I did as admitting all who had a decent chance of succeeding in law school...
...To his great credit, Roth replied that even if Chinese leaders were thinking this way, "It's not an argument that I think we should be particularly receptive to...
...Well, not most of us, anyway...
...Seems Robles took leave from the U.S...
...The Scrapbook thinks they should both be ashamed of themselves...
...He found, for example, that Belen Robles, the national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)—a group that burned the Contract With America at its 1995 Texas convention—is paid an annual salary of nearly $67,000 with federal money...
...And finally, in an exchange with assistant secretary of state Stanley Roth, Feinstein again managed to out-appease the State Department by suggesting that China's brutal crackdown on dissent—or as she put it, their "human rights pos-ture"—might be necessary for maintaining stability during economic reform...
...It is impossible to make meaningful distinctions between Black and MA [Mexican-American] applicants without some sort of quota as a reference, for compared to our Anglo applicants, virtually none would get in," Gergen wrote...
...Congratulations, Senator...
...Feinstein, on the other hand, is a special case...
Vol. 3 • September 1997 • No. 3
