Ben Stein's Diary: Without Really Trying
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Without Really Trying Saturday H ere I am hurtling along the Boardwalk in Santa Monica on my bike. I am here with Tommy. He's rollerblading at blinding...
...She has never bothered to learn any valuable skills...
...She greets me with a slapping of palms, introduces me to her pal, and then off she goes, zooming south while we zoom north...
...The jury in the O.J...
...This is where I am trying to sleep...
...The goal is to save lives, not to endorse any particular candidate...
...She has never bothered to help anyone who was in need...
...And that goal is not being cancelled for any agreements between Israel and the Palestinians...
...In the whole pack, there are two Webelos, three Tigers, and two Cubbies...
...Certainly the billionaires around me don't...
...Instead, expect someone else to take care of you—but never even consider taking care of anyone else...
...I wonder if they'll do that," I said...
...As I sat in the Scout meeting watching Tommy walk around on his hands and feet, I could not avoid thinking that the first case might have turned out differently if the prosecution had been done not by civil servants but by seasoned trial pros like the ones who did the civil case...
...I'll look after you and someone else can look after him...
...My father's telling me about some pamphlet he has about taxation of IRA's and Keogh Plans when they are in an estate...
...You're my son...
...What is life all about...
...There are cute girls telling the men next to them that they're strippers "because it's really good exercise...
...Does anyone think Bill Lerach is going to leave legal practice...
...Isn't the free selection of workers part of basic freedom...
...And this was all paid for by a worldwide web of bribe-taking to keep the Democratic Party rolling in foreign dough so they could keep themselves in office...
...With the "peace agreement" between Israel and the PLO, the Middle East and Israel have entered a new phase...
...Eventually, everyone has to see how morally right it is...
...However, enough of that...
...I guess not, now that I think of it...
...I asked the driver...
...Some of us talk a lot about the bad incentives to behavior generated by Hollywood...
...Not what you'd call a good part of town...
...Then, about six months ago, out of the blue, she got a job at a great salary...
...This isn't your office," I said to her...
...I don't want them checking the airplane, guiding it to the gate, making my reservation, not anything...
...I want you to take me to Morton's on Monday night so I can meet my old boss and flirt with him so he'll give me a job...
...They'll do it," she said...
...Ben Gurion airport, every incoming and outgoing flight, would be subject to mortar fire or shoulder-held Stinger attack...
...You were only there about six months...
...Three class service...
...And who do they go to...
...7 As long as the federal government just keeps its icky paws off my little family, all will be well...
...I parked in a lot right next to the Forest Lawn cemetery...
...Then back through the union gauntlet and into my car for the ride home...
...But you know what...
...The Oakland school district, to teach Ebonics...
...That's what I say...
...And for very big bucks, too...
...I want only surgically trained geniuses doing that...
...therefore, neither the purposes of Israel nor those of the United States are served by Israel's relinquishing control of the 'West Bank...
...The segment I caught had Bill talking about how he was going to study the development of the child's brain from birth, gear education to the development of the child's brain, and make damned sure that we guarded the little, delicate brain of the child from bad influences and hooked it up to computers for early development of its potential...
...The parking crew hustled me into a van with darkened windows and a curtain between me and the windshield...
...They enable us to pursue these goals and to publish these meccages in national newspapers and magazines...
...This is L.A., where everyone is on the move, even if only on roller blades...
...Nap time...
...Maybe protecting innocent life at every level, from conception to old age, could be their stand for the next century...
...There'll be some picketers at the gate yelling things at us, and Idon't want them to see you and find your car and break the windows...
...I need for you to help me get into Pepper-dine Law School so I can earn more money...
...Without another word, he gave Tommy his cone, and everyone was happy...
...Now she has lost the best job she ever had, at a company that was actually founded by Michael Milken...
...We're asleep here in America...
...In sum, make sure you are selfish, inconsiderate, contemptuous, lazy, alcoholic, and dishonest, and I can almost guarantee you that you, too, will soon be living a life of near total desperation...
...She is poetry, an ace, a ballerina on skates...
...She has a maddening habit of calling me, asking herself out for dinner, then negotiating with44 O.J...
...I asked...
...I am here only because my son asked me to do it...
...Ai...
...Tommy and his pals are done, and now he is folding the flag, and it's been a good night after all.44 If there are a lot of very young girls on the tube talking about sex, it must be sweeps month...
...But I can't cross a SAG-sanctioned picket line...
...Lots of talk about how terrible it is, but also a lot of talk about it altogether...
...Maybe the Birchers had something there...
...And Then there are Clinton's ideas about the problem with education...
...Perhaps a national inspection service of women's dorms in state colleges and universities, run out of the Executive Office of the President, might be high on his wish list...
...Too good to be true...
...There are little kids barely able to stand up on skates...
...What's this all about...
...Anyway, he says he did business a big favor by reforming welfare...
...By the way, I don't know if I like the idea of recently active welfare recipients doing anything at all on my United Airlines flight...
...Is the FBI now going to be responsible for monitoring and pursuing the millions of deadbeat dads in America...
...That is a vital concern with me...
...Uh-oh...
...Where are the other middle-class men...
...No death threats...
...Isn't this the same Bill Clinton who is the foremost protector of the murdering of small children through abortion...
...I'll make them give me a year's severance pay...
...It's so cute...
...Monday ack at Morton's with some nice B folks from the National Right to Life Committee...
...I mean it...
...Israel's strong defensive posture makes it most inadvisable for Israel's enemies to attack hex But once this defensive strength is removed, a coordinated war against Israel can only be a matter of time...
...But even she is happy today...
...Fuggetaboutit...
...We learned scouting songs, scouting principles (the main one, apparently, is that we're not supposed to have sex with the scouts), and how to wear our scout-master uniform...
...No screaming...
...I want quiet...
...The Root of the conflict...
...She is probably about as good on skates as anyone now living...
...The story of her work life is instructive to us all...
...What a smooth liar you are, Miss Billy...
...C-Span, the best thing on television, was showing the State of the Union speech again...
...Certainly the billionaires gathered around me don't...
...Just eat it and be quiet...
...Saves and scrimps...
...In case of war against Israel, these troops could be helicoptered in minutes to their positions, with armored forces reaching them within the same night...
...A State Department that coddles the North Koreans even as they land assassins and murderers and saboteurs inside one of our closest allies...
...Is everything all right...
...But this is not the case...
...It calls for first creating a Palestinian state on any territory vacated by Israel and then using that state to foment a final allied Arab assault against the truncated Jewish state...
...Just as Tommy is leading the Pledge of Allegiance ("I pledge allegiance to Bill Clinton, as President and catcher of deadbeat dads...
...Does anybody doubt that the Arabs would not exploit that irresistible opportunity...
...I don't want him to be demanding, but he has to know I am his number one ally...
...But when she gets a headThe American Spectator • April 1997 59 hunting job, she never does any work, charges huge amounts of meals and travel to her expense account, often has affairs with her fellow workers, complains about her salary, spends all day talking to her friends on the phone—and then wonders why she is not able to keep the job...
...I did my small part in front of the camera: I was a grocer handling tomatoes...
...So, why not mandate that you hire former welfare recipients...
...I sure hope I did the right thing today...
...Then another stewardess came up and sat down across from me and turned on her light and began shuffling through some papers...
...This is the plane...
...But how do you do it...
...Labor dispute...
...We are supposed to argue and differ...
...In fact, with a lag time of about forty years, fluoride has obviously soothed the nation into a state of near narcotic bliss, such that nothing can wake US up...
...They don't own it...
...Not that the civil servants didn't try their little hearts out...
...This sounds a little too much like "ein Volk, ein Reich, eM Fiihrer...
...I said a few words and then ran away from the camera...
...The good teachers are already teaching their little hearts out...
...Nice stuff...
...Anyway, off I went to do a small part in a movie about ghosts...
...Off we go in a blur down Outpost to Temple Israel for his pack meeting...
...6. Have an affair with your boss or with your boss's best friend...
...In a part of the world in which our country has the most far-reaching geopolitical stakes, Israel is the guarantor of American interests in the area...
...The Arab state possess large arsenals of chemical and biological weapons, and all of them work feverishly on the development of their nuclear potential...
...How is that, my lad...
...Note: both Marcia Clark and Chris Darden are no longer prosecuting cases...
...Or at least I'm renting it...
...Saturday you'll never guess where I am, so I'll tell you...
...Then there's that stuff about stopping the partisanship...
...2. Do not ever do anything nice for anyone else, while all the while demanding only unselfish service and generosity from others...
...Fulfill and over fulfill Tommy's plan...
...This is exactly why the private plaintiffs' bar gets cases won or settled for big bucks while the SEC is still filling out forms...
...The mountainous territory of Judea/Samaria (the 'West Bank") is an indispensable line of defense...
...A White House geared to be a giant influence bordello for visiting Asians...
...That is why, despite the heady prospect of "peace in our time," neither the purposes of Israel nor those of the United States would be served by Israel's relinquishing control over the 'West Bank" This ad has been published and paid for by FLAME Facts and LocjcabouttheMidie East P.O...
...So, here she is, almost 35, quite pretty, but with no money (and monthly payments for a new Jaguar she had to have when she got her last job), no husband, no education, almost no friends—all because of her incredibly bad attitude...
...Mostly Hispanic women, but also one black woman and one white man (if you call me white...
...4. Always maneuver so that you spend time only with people with money and power, and totally ignore long-time friends unless they are actually giving you money or a job right then and there...
...58 April 1997 • The American Spectator He's got a point...
...It is becoming clear every day that the fears were correct...
...People will walk all over you if you give them the slightest chance...
...He says that some businesses (did he just mention United Airlines...
...This is IA or the Teamsters, but it's not SAG...
...I am determined that my boy remember that I am always on his side when he's right...
...Plus, they obviously had some funky personal problems with child care, sexual identity, and general anxiety that seasoned pro Daniel Petrocelli did not have...
...Not that they didn't really feel committed...
...Time to get rid of the bad teachers...
...Hey," I said...
...Send the professionals in for the hard jobs...
...This takes men and women off the welfare rolls...
...Wanda and her colleague Richard looked intrigued...
...Sunday L ong ago and far away, in the lazy, hazy Eisenhower days, "science discovered" that fluoride prevented tooth decay...
...The voters didn't choose a Republican Congress and a Democrat Chief Executive because they wanted everyone to get along...
...But one parent has sagely brought a mini-TV...
...3. When in social situations, talk only about yourself, ask everyone at the table, even people you barely know, for a job, then get totally drunk and talk incoherently...
...Decisions about Tommy are the hardest ones I make...
...Can Israel survive this dismemberment...
...All but two sullenly moved away...
...This is another lesson I want to teach to Tommy...
...Simpson civil trial is about to announce their verdict...
...But wait just a minute...
...There you are," she says in a loud, deep voice...
...I awakened this morning, minding my own business, not hurting a soul, just lying in bed, and then I flipped on the TV...
...Here's a news bulletin...
...And sure enough, alongside me in this horizontal tower of babel, Mary Muff Maguire appears, wearing shades and a black rollerblading bodysuit, a shark on skates...
...Now, to put this all in a perspective that I can understand—this is exactly why it's good to have a private plaintiffs' bar...
...Obviously not," I said, gesturing to her light and her papers...
...If the rich and powerful treat you with contempt, act even more servile toward them...
...This is good news for the legal system...
...All of those weapons have only one single target and one single purpose: the destruction of the state of Israel...
...7. Be as cheap as you can to everyone around you, but expect gifts from them...
...In fact, her boss told her to clear her gear out by close of business, gave her one week's pay, and now she's hysterical...
...Just as you would expect, she has no money saved and many debts...
...For both "conventional" war and for war of mass destruction, territory and topography are critical for self-defense and deterrence...
...A president who exposes himself and sexually harasses a state employee— no problem...
...With the dirtiest of looks, she shuffled off...
...The American Spectator • April 1997 61 torium (named, and I am not kidding, the Michael Jackson Auditorium...
...And this is one that Clinton and Gore can't possibly take away from us...
...Do they know something I don't know...
...Now I am going to be sick...
...A first lady who hides documents from federal investigators...
...There he is, big as life, laying out one new plan about every ten seconds...
...I can see a spout where a whale is breathing or whatever they do through spouts...
...Tuesday essons from the working world...
...What are the facts...
...From the example of Dotty's life, I have made a list of some very bad habits that guarantee failure in life: i. Do not ever bother to learn anything useful...
...Just a few weeks ago, she proudly told me that her goal was to do absolutely no work at all on her new job —just to go to work, close her door, and sleep or talk on the phone...
...For example, he's talking about welfare reform...
...People are eating pizza, bagels, hamburgers, hot dogs on a stick, cheese on a stick, ice cream, fried chicken, shaved carrots...
...The Republicans won the moral high ground for a century by attacking slavery, the worst moral evil of the previous century...
...If I can get him to politely but firmly defend what's his, I'll feel stronger...
...My father sounds very sad as he tells me about it "I guess that one duty of fatherhood is to leave a tax-free estate, so far as possible," he says...
...The guys and gals in that bar are experienced, highly committed, motivated by the best motivator of all for lawyers (money), and have a tenacity that civil servants can only dream of...
...I own it...
...I have a job interview with them next week...
...That is the professional opinion of over 100 U.S...
...We're a republican democracy...
...How many FBI men will it take to catch the deadbeat dads...
...It's really fascinating how people just blithely get into your space as if they owned it...
...If they love you, why did they fire you...
...Would the "West Bank" be demilitarized...
...she asked me, as if I were a lunatic who just happened to slip onto her plane...
...Also, in social situations, order very expensive wine and food, and leave some or most of the food uneaten...
...Because the Palestinians will have thousands of trained soldiers, camouflaged as their police force...
...In any case, it is highly doubtful that the surrounding hostile Arab nations would allow such a military vacuum to exist...
...Box 590359 ^ San Francisco,CA 94159 FLAME is a tax-exempt, non-profit 501(c)(3)organization...
...She's been discharged from every job she has ever held since graduating from college...
...Sunday ack to L.A...
...But not a single one followed through and actually joined...
...I happen to think that men who do that should be shot...
...I could not help but think of how many of the people at Morton's this evening shared our views...
...And how about the plan to make crossing state lines to avoid making child support payments a federal crime...
...After much fussing, the man brought him a tart vanilla in a cup...
...The Democrats mercilessly torment Gingrich for doing things that they do every day...
...Frankly, I'm just as happy...
...The example and fate of Czechoslovakia, which preparatory to the Second World War was dismantled and shorn of its defensive capacity, insistently come to mind...
...I am sick of buying you things all day and then having you specify every detail that's wrong or not up to your royal specifications...
...Where 62 April 19 97 • The American Spectator You deserve a factual look at...
...By the way, no, I did not return any of those calls...
...Judgment Day W ell, here I am lying on my bed, watching TV, with my dog Ginger lying on one side of me...
...I need for you to go on line and find out all about X, download it, and print it for me...
...It's a lovely scene except for one big irritant: the show I'm watching is Bill Clinton's State of the Union message...
...This is a truly great flight...
...The Arab states have acquired over $50 billion of the most advanced armaments since the end of the Gulf War And those are not just "conventional" weapons—enormous quantities of tanks, aircraft and much more...
...How dare they fire me...
...We have virtually no overhead...
...Oops...
...But they should be shot by the state governments...
...And where does he get the idea that he's a monarch, granting favors to his subjects...
...I'm in Fort Marcy Park, right off the George Washington Parkway in Northern Virginia, where Vince Foster supposedly committed suicide...
...This is good news for the American legal system...
...Middle-aged men in shorts on blades...
...And finally, there is the matter of terrorism...
...I had the nicest dressing room I have ever had...
...Not long...
...This ain't the dormitory of your college...
...That was it...
...Wicked but beautiful Dotty, my neighbor and long-time pal at the Shoreham Towers, was unemployed for many years...
...Looked at properly, there are many occasions each day to build my boy into a solid human being...
...This is really rich...
...You can hear English, Ebonies, Japanese, Mandarin (or is it Cantonese...
...But that would be useless...
...This is L.A...
...Then, a few days ago, she was fired...
...There would be a constant rain of Katyusha rockets launched into the Tel Aviv area and into the entire coastal plain, which contains 80% of Israel's population and of its industrial and military potential...
...The high ground allows Israel to detect missiles while they are still in the launch stage and to destroy them...
...Wednesday argh...
...Didn't Congress pass that law at the furious insistence of the voters...
...That was just a re-shuffle," she said...
...I don't know him...
...she huffed...
...Is this a SAG thing...
...I want you to call Y and tell him he needs to hire me...
...It totally controls access to Israel's heartland from the east...
...There are Mexicans, Asians beyond number, Russians, Orthodox Jewish families with skullcaps...
...Also, openly show contempt for your fellow workers and let them know you have friends who are farmore important and rich than they are...
...She thinks of herself as a whiz at headhunting...
...The greater the wish, the greater the taboo," said Freud...
...We are supposed to be angry at each other much of the time...
...How long until FBI snipers start shooting at deadbeat dads...
...Gets taxed through the eyeballs...
...in the capacious cabin B of American Airlines flight 75...
...They absolutely love me there...
...Tommy's in the living room watching a re-run of "The Simpsons...
...She is always too busy to talk about anything else but herself...
...There are only two of us in this particular part of the plane...
...A man works hard...
...I do not want him to grow44 Probably the Mexicans in the kitchen believe in right to life...
...Right on...
...Here's a card from SAG with a number to call if you have any questions...
...I looked at him...
...I jumped and was so frightened that I squeezed two tomatoes so hard they squirted tomato juice and seeds all over my glasses...
...Looked at the very busy man running the shop...
...Almost all of eur revenue pays for our educational wodc., for these darifying messages, and for related direct mai I want to help in the publication of these ads and I in clarifying the situation in the Middle East...
...Why haven't you called me back...
...Many believe that in this age of missiles, territory is of little importance...
...We got about two dozen Russian immigrant families to show up...
...Then he manages to scrape together some savings for his kids...
...It will inevitably lead to the creation of a Palestinian state...
...We are having fun talking about the rich exploiters gathered around us...
...Whatever...
...Our other dog, Susie-Moo (called that because she's half Dalmatian with spots like a Holstein cow), is lying on my other side...
...Right on...
...Or maybe it's the stock market...
...Saturday U p at 7:oo a.m...
...How long before there are "medical" and "psychological" shows that have teenage girls on 24 hours a day talking about sex before "horrified" counselors and doctors...
...The news was greeted with anger and fear in some circles, usually described as "right wing," because of a fear that fluoride in the water was a Communist plot...
...I paid good money for my seat...
...The proprietor was harassed, buried under a weight of customers...
...Tommy," I said, "this man is very busy...
...Even those who want Israel to retreat to her pre-1967 borders are agreed that the evacuated areas must be demilitarized...
...5. When you do get a job, cheat your employers by not giving an honest day's work for a day's pay...
...If they wanted everyone to get along, they would have elected a one-party government...
...It's about life, stoopid...
...up as a doormat, the way I've been most of my life...
...Instead, rely on manipulating other people...
...The Justice Department, to sue to make sure there can be same-sex girls' schools but not boys' schools...
...I include my I tax-deductible contribution in the amount of /47A My contribution is in the amount of $75 or more...
...That's what I say...
...The goal is to protect life...
...It's January...
...Then Casper appeared...
...Does anyone think that Petrocelli, the Goldmans' lawyer, is going to leave law practice...
...Packed, packed, I tell you...
...Sunday I took Tommy, Alex, and Rachel to Humphrey Yogart, a good yogurt store in a part of the immense Beverly Center complex...
...I guess this is just plain old big Democrat government...
...Simpson is liable on all counts...
...I'm with my father, and we're on our way to buy him and Mom a new TV...
...But there were about two dozen of us...
...It's being shot on the Warner lot and I have to be there at a ghastly early hour...
...Isn't the Bill Clinton who's worried about children's brains the same guy who upheld the abortion industry's right to murder already born babies by mashing up their brains with scissors...
...The idea was that fluoride would act as a sedative on the American mood, act as a giant national tranquilizer, and soothe the American people into a mood so mellow that we would not react to the dangers we faced at home and abroad...
...The conflict between Israel and the Arabs is not about borders and not about the Palestinians...
...Health and Human Services, to pay for hundreds of thousands of kids to pretend to be mentally ill so they can get added welfare payments...
...Come to think of it, that's why I do almost everything these days...
...Or better yet, I'll just pay him something to make it right" I very politely called the man over and explained the problem...
...The verdict is about to be announced...
...BENJAMIN J. STEIN is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Hollywood and Malibu...
...A White House and FBI joint operation to illegally pry into the lives of hundreds of Republicans...
...The flight attendants looked at me as if I were joking...
...Out to sea, there are a few sailboats...
...generals and admirals...
...Isn't it up to the individual business to pick the best workers they can get, for the lowest price to the stock60 April 1997 • The American Spectator holders...
...She was furious...
...It's a lovely, leafy spot even in the dead of winter...
...So, what's new...
...How long...
...Probably the Mexicans in the kitchen and the parking lot believe in right to life...
...It's a gorgeous day and the Boardwalk is packed beyond words...
...I was tempted to say, "Look, just live with it...
...Gay couples holding hands on blades...
...And what about putting a computer in every classroom...
...The voters (sensibly) want the government hobbled...
...Yiddish, Spanish, many languages I have no idea about...
...Israel needs this high ground for defense and to be able to peer deeply into enemy territory...
...You would think they would pay more attention to a group that basically put them in control of Congress," says I. "You would think so," agreed my pal Wanda Franz, chair of the NRLC...
...My guest complains that there is far too little attention being paid to the right-to-life issue by the GOP at this point...
...That's why the only meaningful recoveries for stockholders who get ripped off come from the plaintiffs' bar...
...Then I also recalled that Tommy was my son and that he would probably remember every single thing that ever happened to himwhen he was a child, including who was on his side...
...Better to put a birch rod in every classroom...
...Anyway, what I am really seething—popping out of my skin—about is Clinton's idea that we should all work together, Republicans and Democrats, because surely the voters put us here to be one people, one government, one leader...
...While waiting to go on, I watched some talk show about older men who date girls under 16 and why they do it and what their parents have to say about it...
...Here's a thought," I said...
...The Importance of territory...
...But someday, everyone will see the situation more clearly...
...there's another bulletin...
...8. Make no economic provision whatsoever for your future...
...It's okay, but I did ask for a cone," Tommy Stein said...
...Each proposal will require a gargantuan expansion of federal power and spending or imposing an unfunded mandate on the states or business...
...There are lean, angry-looking women on blades...
...But they were under all kinds of political pressures, such as to try the case downtown in front of an all black jury...
...In the entire life of Dotty, as far as I can recall—and I have known her for ten years—she has never done anything nice for me or for anyone else without demanding payment...
...Apparently, in a little known wrinkle that can just about wrinkle your heart out, the taxation on items in an IRA or pension plan, if the sums saved are large enough, can be at a level of about 99 per cent...
...This was a boss she had talked about suing for sexual harassment...
...A secretary of labor–designate who is little more than a machine for defrauding government about equal opportunity contracting...
...Even if it's not the popular stand right now, it will be recognized as just as right someday as abolition is today...
...This, after one of the most negative, slimy presidential campaigns of all time, when they tarnished the name of a genuinely good man, Bob Dole, and scared voters to death with phony lies about Medicare...
...He's rollerblading at blinding speed...
...Your tax-deductible contributions are welcome...
...If I tell her that her behavior is not acceptable, she sulks...
...The PLO still adheres to its infamous "phased plan...
...And they are complaining about partisanship...
...What does all this mean to the United States...
...17 me to take her only to the most expensive of restaurants, and only at the most chic hours...
...With Israel in a position of weakness, the role of the United States in the area would collapse and radical states such as Syria, Iraq and Iran would dominate...
...There are over fifteen Palestinian terror organizations that neither Yassir Arafat nor any other Palestinian authority can control...
...I'm not joking," I said...
...Tommy ordered a "tart" vanilla in a cone...
...My name is I live at Ln State Zip Mail to FLAME P.O...
...They are here visiting, roaring along on bike and rollerblade respectively...
...But what's this...
...RIGHT ON...
...to get dressed to go to a Scout Den leader training session in a part of town I'd never been to before...
...Nothing personal...
...If there are a lot of very young girls on the tube talking about sex, it must be sweeps month, the month when Arbitron and Nielsen closely measure the ratings of all the shows...
...Liable on all counts...
...Also with us are Alex and Rachel Feierabend, the adorable kids of the late, great Peter Feierabend of Sandpoint, Idaho...
...And if they do, then that's even better...
...No threats to "call the cops on you...
...Then I recalled that Tommy had in fact asked for a cone...
...I have to leave right now with the little Webelo for his meeting...
...Box 590359 San Francisco, CA 94159 are the other men...
...I don't get it...
...He's saying that he did business a favor by reforming welfare (and I don't get that part at all—why did he do business any more of a favor than he did anyone else...
...Its purpose is the research and publication of the facts regarding developments in the Middle East and exposing false propaganda that might harm the interests of the United States and its allies in that area of the world...
...Too much work...
...But what about the bad incentives created by the tax system...
...Our scoutmaster, Ross, makes us leave to watch it in the hall...
...Absolutely not," said the driver...
...As if the problem were the best teachers...
...As I think of it, this is a recurring theme on TV talk shows...
...I Please send me your 1-hr videotape dealing with three important aspects of Israel's strategic situation...
...So now he "challenges" business to hire these people...
...Is it in the best interest of the United States...
...This really is too much to bear...
...What's the big deal...
...There's a man telling another man that he works in risk measurement for Ernst & Young...
...Don't bother us with any talk about the law or the Constitution...
...Hey...
...I will keep you posted on how it goes...
...Without Judea/Samaria (the 'West Bank') Israel would be totally indefensible...
...Clinton wants it to be a leviathan, unfettered, united in purpose (under him, of course) to do everything he feels like doing...
...It is about Israel's very existence...
...Without the 'West Bank' Israel would be totally indefensible...
...Lavish couch, TV, stereo, shower, excellent heater...
...The government can mandate that you hire workers of a certain race or sex...
...Isn't that chunky lovable guy up there supposed to be the "New Democrat" who said the era of big government is over...
...I love the idea of "master teachers...
...Just bear this in mind: I will not, not, sleep in a tent, no matter what...
...The flight attendants, as usual, are gathering in the galley, laughing and giggling, and disturbing me...
...We are not supposed to be united, one people on every issue...
...Suddenly, here's my old assistant, Susan Gayle Reifer— still young, but she was my assistant long ago, in the Milken-hunting days...
...Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank") Can Israel survive without it...
...I am sick of all your complaining about every detail of life...
...Oh well...
...Today, she called me four times and left messages...
...I don't want them to do it either," I said...
...We had a recruiting session at the nearby public Gardner Street School audiaccidentally hitting the kids...
...Therefore, many states and localities proposed to add fluoride to drinking water to prevent those icky dental things...
...In cash...
...If the feds are now going to be in charge of enforcing child support, isn't this the end of any limit at all on federal police powers...
...There's a grandmother on blades holding a huge plastic sail, getting pulled through an empty parking lot...
...have already responded by saying they would hire welfare people...
...Aren't they Clinton's best pals...
Vol. 30 • April 1997 • No. 4
