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CURRENT WISDOM Rivera Live Another unfortunate incident with Professor Alan Dershowitz, who simply will not take his medication: This is truly the first battle in a great culture war. And if this...
...98 Terry Eastland PAGE(S) WHICH MEET DISAPPROVAL CRITERIA 22-27 DESCRIPTION OE MATERIAL THAT MEETS DISAPPROVAL CRITERIA, INCLUDE CCR, TITLE,5 SECTION VIOLENCE—ARTICLE ON THE FORMULA FOR GENOCIDE, MASS DESTRUCTION OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES #009, SECTION V-IA "Inciting murder, arson, riot, or any form of violence or physical harm to any person or any ethnic gender racial, religious or other group...
...Then I'm sent a picture of my turkey—that's what goes on the table, not a dead bird...
...20, Joel Simon responded and defended killing as a sport because, "My family eats every bit of the doves we hunt" and that he kills them mercifully...
...I never thought—not last January and not in August— that Monicagate was much of a scandal...
...He's just history...
...I feel the same way about Saddam as I do toward Davis...
...Gingrich heading the House would have recognized that the case developed by Representative Henry Hyde and the Judiciary Committee was not impeachable...
...To reduce Rita Hester's life and dignity to the level of "a man in women's clothes" is disingenuous and disappointing...
...He played guitar in a band for several years before starting work as a manager in local government...
...It is his desire to follow in the literary foot steps of his mother, Dr...
...GEORGE KIERSTEIN Cambridge [DECEMBER 3, 1998] Salon More spasmodic thought patterns from Salon columnist Anne Lamott, as monitored by her drug-free editor: It's so confusing...
...PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR'S (OR ABOVE) SIGNATURE DATE FORWARDED TO INMATE [illegible] 9-16-98 [AUGUST 28, 1998] 80 February 1999 • The American Spectator New York Times The greatness of Newt embalmed in an editorial in the incomparable Times, but a little late in the game, fellows: We have to believe that the much-maligned Newt Gingrich, had he continued to function as Speaker, would have exerted statesmanlike leadership...
...and that if this were a Republican who had behaved the same way Bill Clinton behaved I'd be up in arms...
...And if this president is impeached, it will be a great victory for the forces of evil—evil—genuine evil...
...I'm a Clinton supporter and I'm totally opposed to war...
...Speaker Newt Gingrich is not the Speaker anymore...
...It's fun to watch the Republicans' suppressed rage because usually they take so much pleasure in things militaristic...
...People like Congressman Barr, Senator Trent Lott, Senator Jesse Helms, who support white supremacist organizations, will claim victory over decency and decent people...
...He has been writing poetry and prose since he was eighteen years old...
...though at heart I'm really opposed to war...
...Yes, Mr...
...DECEMBER 16, 1998] The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, California) More evidence that moral superiority can cause insanity: A couple of months ago I wrote to The Desert Sun protesting dove season and shooting near a major highway that seemed to be glorified by a five-column picture in the newspaper of a hunter with his finger on the trigger...
...Senate...
...Until election night, in November, that view was considered eccentric in Washington...
...On Nov...
...the poison is draining out of the system...
...You basically think they should be issued suicide tablets and coerced into taking them, although you don't actually support capital punishment...
...You don't get to sanction their murder, you don't get to take them out, but I tell you—the more I read about what UNSCOM knows about Iraq, then I reallydo think, Bomb...
...I don't actually know what I think...
...It was such a brilliant coyote-trickster thing for Bill to do...
...Because they genuinely hate the President...
...He graduated from high school in Egypt and completed college in Ghana...
...They think he's a dishonest, immoral, issue-stealing, spoiled, selfish child of the '6os...
...That's how strongly so many of us feel about this...
...As a scholar of history, Mr...
...He has worked on the oil rigs in Kuwait and driven overland from Bulgaria to Afghanistan...
...Any way you rationalize it, hunting in this day and time is killing animals for fun—very dangerous fun...
...And I hope that moderates out there realize even if they don't like Bill Clinton, to vote for impeachment is to vote to give their party over to the mad dogs of radicalism...
...DECEMBER 18, 1998] Late Night With Conan O'Brien Moral pronouncements from Hollywood cosmopolitan Alec Baldwin, who longs for the good old days in Peking when he ran with the Red Guards, or perhaps the Holy City of Qum, where, a towel wrapped round his head and a five-day growth on his chin, he studied the democratic disease with the Ayatollah: If we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death...
...He's not even a history professor anymore...
...Random House, 432 pages, $24.95] The American Spectator • February 199 9 81...
...I know I don't believe in war...
...BARBARA BOXER United States Senator [DECEMBER 6, 1998] Notification of Disapproval—Publications The state of California's Department of Corrections overreacts to our September issue's report on Rwanda entitled, perhaps recklessly, "A Formula for Genocide": INMATE'S NAME CDC NUMBER [Name withheld] [withheld] TITLE OF PUBLICATION (INCLUDE ISSUE/DATE) PUBLISHER The American Spectator— Sept...
...If it were Newt Gingrich or George Bush I'd be really sickened...
...Why are the Republicans so hell-bent, when everyone in his right mind agrees that impeachment is an outlandishly over-the-top punishment for Mr...
...In The Desert Sun a few days ago, there was a story about a 16-year-old who shot and killed a fellow hunter because he thought the other guy was a squirrel —he probably took classes, too...
...JANUARY 1999] Santa Barbara News-Press As a public service to our readers, we hereby reprint the famous letter that induced vomiting across the entire Golden State sometime after November 3: I want to express my deep appreciation to everyone who voted on November 3. I was so pleased to have such widespread support in Santa Barbara County and across the state...
...Throughout your coverage of the incident you refer to Hester as "he" and a transvestite...
...Can Cokie Roberts be far behind...
...And if it were George Bush or Newty Gingrich who had had his way with Monica Lewinsky and then gone to war the day before impeachment proceedings, I would take to the streets...
...I love to see the consternation on the faces of the Republicans...
...DECEMBER 11, 1998] The Great Books Series On the dust jacket of a certain Worst Seller, name-dropping from a fantasist: ABOUT THE AUTHOR Guy Johnson has traveled widely in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East...
...His first collection of poetry was published in 1982 in a book entitled In the Wild Shadows...
...Several years after college he managed a bar on Spain's Costa del Sol during the summers and ran a photo-safari service from London through Morocco and Algeria to the Spanish Sahara during the off-season...
...DECEMBER 14, 1998] New York Times After months of haranguing the Boy President for practicing full frontal nudity in the Oral Office and speaking with forked tongue, Miss Maureen Dowd reverses field and puts the hellish Republican Party on the therapist's couch: On Friday evening, we had the frightening scene of Republicans so crazed with hatred of the President that they were railroading through an impeachment even though the United States was at war with Iraq, even though the House chamber was mostly empty, even though Republicans were huddled in a glass house on the issue of sex and lies, even though Americans were sensibly refusing to be drawn into the madness, even though the White House was still pitching a tent and planning sleigh rides for a Winter Wonderland press party on Monday...
...strongarmers...
...If Hester was known socially and to neighbors only as a woman, it is not likely that she was a transvestite but rather was probably a transsexual and should have been referred to using female pronouns...
...Now, everyone knows that the crisis has passed...
...Clinton and a self-destructive course for the country...
...I look forward to going back to the Senate to work on the important issues that Californians care about—quality public education, a woman's right to choose, environmental protection, sensible gun control, campaign finance reform, and a Patient Protection Act...
...I was raised on a cattle farm and know all about hunting and slaughtering...
...His poetry has been published in Essence magazine and in various poetry quarterlies...
...Maya Angelou...
...It's not...
...A significant number of people live as the opposite gender and are socially perceived by all they meet as that gender...
...I donate $15 to the Farm Sanctuary to adopt a turkey that's been rescued from slaughter...
...Simon, you and your 16-yearold grandson have to get a license, and some, like your grandson, take classes...
...I've always hated both...
...Bomb...
...from Standing at the Scratch Line, by Guy Johnson...
...After working more than twenty years for the city of Oakland, California, he has recently taken a medical retirement...
...You smugly asked how my turkey was being killed for Thanksgiving...
...JACK R. KUNKEL Palm Springs [NOVEMBER 28, 1998] Boston Globe It depends on what the definition of"he" is: I found your characterization of Rita Hester ("Stabbing victim a mystery to many," Metro/Region, Nov...
...Bomb...
...Livingston did, before the G.O.P...
...Thank you again for the opportunity to represent you in the U.S...
...At last, it's possible to just sit back, relax, and enjoy, as the spectacle runs its preordained course...
...I find it all as confusing as s--t...
...The only question now is how much more damage these two groups will inflict on themselves...
...As a practicing bully, he would not have cowered, as Mr...
...3o) degrading and potentially misleading...
...DECEMBER 20, 1998] George More bad timing—political forecaster David Brock sounds the death knell for us Clinton skeptics just days before his hero is impeached: It's over: The uneasy alliance between the political right and the Washington pundits to drive Bill Clinton from office has failed...
...He has also been included in the anthology of black male poets called My Brother's Keeper...
...I will do my very best every single day to make you proud of the decision you have made...
...Saddam is heinous, like Richard Allen Davis, who killed Polly Klaas...
Vol. 32 • February 1999 • No. 2
