Gold's Fool
Gold, Victor
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Gold's Fool" not dress up what they were doing in legalistic language. They were brazen in their goals. They ridiculed church members at public meetings. They bragged about their ability to use...
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...1) the inability of the Republican Party to get wives to vote like their husbands...
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...It's "legal plunder," Greenhut writes, just like 58 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 2004 the historical experience of mercantilism, which featured "a powerful central state that worked in concert with established, private interests...
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...A nihilist was "a Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoy...
...Though Gold allows that liberals "can be a load of laughs" in the abstract, it is clear that he is more maddened than amused by the continuing dominance of progressives in the press, the academy, and certain slices of American society...
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...Much of Gold's shtick is predictable but probably worth saying...
...Looking at Bierce's Dictionary now, the tasty parts of the stew boil to the surface: its bile and wit, its misogyny, its digressions (poetry or snippets of dialogue follow many entries), its practiced cynicism...
...Although the courts have been more willing to enforce the provision requiring payment of compensation, they too often have allowed governments to take advantage of property owners...
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...That's why the framers of the Constitution included a limited power to take property in the Fifth Amendment...
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...Gold's Fools Liberwocky: What Liberals Say and What They Really Mean by Victor Gold (WND Books, 210 pages, $15.99) Reviewed by Jeremy Lott MOCK REFERENCE BOOKS go back a ways but the first really great practitioner of the art was newspaperman Ambrose Bierce...
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...But I've never heard a reporter pull the opposite trick: ask the Democrat why he is doing so lousywith the men...
...Gold didn't even bother with the normal word-usage indicators (n., v., adj., etc...
...Instead, more often than not eminent domain is now used as a form of corporate welfare, intended to enrich billionaire retailers like Costco and millionaire real estate moguls like Donald Trump...
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...Moving expenses, business goodwill, advantageous locations, as well as real values often are lost or minimized when figuring compensation...
...On closer inspection, the veneer of frivolity is very thin indeed...
...The 4,500-member interdenominational congregation fought back, aided by the Becket Fund, which specializes in defending religious liberty...
...Vera Coking, a widow, was unfortunate enough to live across from Donald Trump's casino...
...He asked the local redevelopment agency to take her property for a limousine parking lot for high rollers...
...Rather than attempt to make up for a small deficit of female voters by appealing to more men, Republicans try to smile more, talk often about education, and describe their 60 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 2004 policies as compassionate—in other words, they try to out-Kennedy the Democrats...
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...Eventually, Cypress, which lost a preliminary court ruling, agreed to a voluntary land swap which yielded the church more room for its new worship center...
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...They bragged about their ability to use eminent domain for whatever reason they chose, and they made it clear that the government's desires should take precedence over the desires of 'a narrow special interest,' which is how city officials repeatedly referred to the church...
...With the help of the Institute of Justice, Coking won: the term "blight" could be most accurately applied to Trump's enterprise, which has veered towards bankruptcy...
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...FAMINENT DOMAIN WAS LONG THOUGHT to be justi- fied for a genuine "public use," that is, something used by the public...
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...However, "by the time the Liberal revisionists had cosmetized the record, all that remained was the myth of Saint Woodrow and the legend of Give-'em-HellHarry...
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...The point, he explains, is that words "like ideas—even empty calorie words that pass for ideas— have consequences," and that liberals have been very good at molding the language to their own propaganda ends...
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...To its credit, the church rejected an offer by Cypress to trade for the property next door—which the city would seize from its owner through eminent domain...
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...The italics are his, which pounded the first warnings into my very thick skull that this is a serious book masquerading as a silly one...
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...Bierce poked at everything about society that seemed false to him, from organized religion to hypocritical social norms, but he also skewered the dissenters...
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...Adverse publicity helped derail an abusive taking by Atlantic City...
...So, while history was "an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools," non-combatants in the Civil War were written off as abunch of dead Quakers...
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