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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post The ill-conceived nomination of Miss Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court drives contemporary columnist George Will into another flurry of17th-century prose: Such is...
...July 1985) Sunday Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) Environmentalism marches into the New Age and picks up some exciting culinary tips along the way, as reported in the pages of a great American daily: A harvest celebration and national convention for members of a Bloomington-based folklore and ecology group has touched off rumors that satanic rituals and devil worshiping took place last weekend at Yellowwood State Forest...
...Lieberman, according to Rush Limbaugh, was seated at the table of honor with Buckley and Limbaugh himself...
...His reputation for disloyalty is unlikely to be undone by his decision to attend an October 8 party celebrating the 50th anniversary of the conservative magazine National Review and honoring its founder, William F. Buckley Jr...
...A moral idiot never learns: But Mao's legacy is not all bad...
...And it is a fact that they find opportunities to disseminate their evil seeds among immature youth...
...November 2005) Lansing State Journal From progressive Lansing, Michigan, a reader offers the kind of Big Idea around which the Democratic Party can rally to wrest Congress from the barbarians: In my humble opinion, President Bush should bring home our men in Iraq and put them to work raising soybeans...
...Ecology and a healing of the Earth—eradicating pollution, restoring damaged forests, cleaning up toxic waste—is core to what we're about," said E.L.F...
...before scrupulously acknowledging Chairman Mao's good government side...
...Dear Mrs...
...Officers of E.L.F.—Elf Lore Family Inc.—say they're angered by the negative publicity surrounding their "Wild Magick Gathering" Sept...
...October 23, 2005) The Nation Miss Sharon Olds, a poet from one of America's grand and enlightened universities, having received from Mrs...
...But I could not face the idea of breaking bread with you...
...25 Brown County Democrat, the officers reported they saw emblems associated with devil worship and observed ceremonies that resembled satanic rites...
...Indeed, Mao's entire assault on the old economic and social structure made it easier for China to emerge as the world's new economic dragon...
...The account told of "witches and warlocks," of people dressed in hooded robes and devil-like costumes and making animal noises, of marriage ceremonies and naked women dancing around a fire, and of E.L.F...
...I knew that if I sat down to eat with you, it would feel to me as if I were condoning what I see to be the wild, highhanded actions of the Bush Administration...
...They exert constant ideological diversion through the broadcast industry, parcels, advertisements and visitors...
...It now seems possible that we could energize our technocracy by means of the soybean as an alternative to fossil fuel from the Middle East...
...New York Times Book Review In reviewing the latest Mao biography New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof expresses his strong personal disapproval of Mao's slaughter of 70 million souls...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post The ill-conceived nomination of Miss Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court drives contemporary columnist George Will into another flurry of17th-century prose: Such is the perfect perversity of the nomination of Harriet Miers that it discredits, and even degrades, all who toil at justifying it...
...A weakening of our striking power suffices for long hair and tight trousers to begin to seek citizenship rights...
...The officers quoted in the article and other representatives of the sheriff's department could not be reached for comment...
...Of those that can be, some reveal a deficit of constitutional understanding commensurate with that which it is, unfortunately, reasonable to impute to Miers...
...I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it...
...Or did Miss Olds mean to write "break wind...
...Laura Bush an invitation to dis80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 CURRENT WISDOM play her execrable table manners at a White House function, declines as she quaintly puts it to "break bread" with Mrs...
...October 31, 2005) The American Prospect Go to a Politically Incorrect birthday party and get charged by AmPros with "disloyalty"—that is the sad fate of poorJoe Lieberman, an Adlai Stevenson Democrat in the Democratic Party's era of Robespierre Democrats: Joe Lieberman may not have the voting record of a Republican, but he's often irked liberals with his unfortunate habit of playing one on TV...
...Bush in a formal letter published by the good old Nation The source ofMiss Olds' complaint is "this undeclared and devastating war"—not the Vietnam war for which the template was created but the war against Saddam Hussein, the American left's conception of an Arab Ho Chi Minh...
...Many of their justifications cannot be dignified as arguments...
...What kept coming to the fore of my mind was that I would be taking food from the hand of the First Lady who represents the Administration that unleashed this war and that wills its continuation, even to the extent of permitting "extraordinary rendition": flying people to other counties where they will be tortured for us...
...October 23, 2005) Washington Times Evidence of drug use at the Texas Book Festival: Former President Bill Clinton criticized journalists and authors at a weekend book fair for allowing politicians to get away with lies...
...Other arguments betray a gross misunderstanding of conservatism on the part of persons masquerading as its defenders...
...treasurer Terry WhiteFeather, who helped organize the group in May1983...
...members drinking blood and eating raw fish...
...Sincerely, SHARON OLDS (October 10, 2005) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (December 1985): Rruge e Partise (Tirana, Albania) From the stalwart party organ of Marxist-Leninist Good Government, Albanian alarums apropos the stringent pantaloon and other dark intrigues: Our enemies are numerous...
...Washington Yellow Pages Discovered by an AmSpec reader in the Tri-Cities telephone directory of central Washington state: Mosques Islamic Center of Tri-Cities 2900 Bombing Range Rd West Richland 967-6695 (2005) Courtesy of Andrew M. Martin of Sunnyside, Washington...
...September 29, 1985) DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...Land reform in China, like the land reform in Japan and Taiwan, helped lay the groundwork for prosperity today...
...20-22 at the forest in western Brown County...
...The emancipation of women and end of child marriages moved China from one of the worst places in the world to be a girl to one where women have more equality than in, say, Japan or Korea...
...Bush, I tried to see my way clear to attend the festival in order to bear witness—as an American who loves her country and its principles and its writing—against this undeclared and devastating war...
...MARGARET HUFFMAN Lansing (September 7, 2005) From Theodore R. Kennedy of East Lansing, MI, who noted, "Somebody is full of beans...
...So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire...
...Clinton drew roaring applause during his speech from the several hundred people gathered Saturday in the Texas House chamber in Austin to kick off the 10th annual Texas Book Festival, an event started by first lady Laura Bush when her husband was governor...
...According to an article in the Sept...
...The former president explained that public officials often get away with lying because of a desire on the part of journalists to get comment from both sides of a story, the Associated Press reported...
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