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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series At the end of 432 pages chronicling the Clinton administration's eight-year concatenation of failure, mediocrity, lies, obstructions ofjustice, and...
...No matter how hip or square, Ivy League or street educated, religious or secular, political or apolitical, we are all racists...
...Where has Czarist Russia gone...
...901 Arlington, VA 22209 88 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY/AUGUST 2005 CURRENT WISDOM WashingtonPost.com (Howard Kurtz's Media Notes) Oh, for God's sake...
...Where did all these superpowers go...
...Unfortunately, I never met him, but I have spoken with many scholars and others who knew him, including some of his closest Vietnamese associates, and I have read a good deal about his life...
...Still, I cannot lose my sense of too many times when we should speak out but don't—of not enough resistance and too much conformity...
...And the reason is not just a shift in partisan control of the federal government...
...Foremost among these is that he assembled a competent policy record...
...If you come across published nonsense worthy of submission for this page send it on to us at "Department of Current Wisdom," and if we agree and entomb it on this page we shall send you an Atn.Spec desk calendar, printed in New Orleans, Louisiana, in an authentic women-owned, union print shop...
...April 22, 1985) JULY/AUGUST 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 89...
...However heedless he could sometimes be in his personal life, Clinton brought a dutiful sensibility to his public life...
...May 15, 2005) Brought to AmSpec's attention courtesy of John C. Driscoll of Bend, Oregon...
...The American Spectator Dept...
...Being a highly practical and often calculating and devious man as well as a sentimental one, he would, I believe, have tempered his love for children with an awareness of the serious problem presented by Vietnam's too rapidly growing population...
...May 30, 2005) BE A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
...The book's author, Paul Ruditis, wishes that booksellers and readers could value the book for what it can do: start a discussion...
...It's called a rainbow party because the party theme is oral sex, in which the girls each wear a different colored lipstick and the boys by evening's end, sport a chromatic spectrum...
...In the main, however, it was a record defined by responsibility...
...Where has Great Britain gone...
...Faced with a choice between sex and death, they choose death every time...
...Then my blood began to boil at the thought of the audience I was addressing, and I added, "to which American conservatism succumbed long ago:' (April 1985) New Yorker Professor Robert Shaplen affectingly ponders the late Ho Chi Minh, and in no time he is raised to the Board ofDirectors ofPlanned Parenthood...
...With the establishment of the state of Israel, the entire Islamic nation was lost, because Israel is a cancer spreading throughout the body of the Islamic nation, and because the Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers...
...He who made them disappear will make America disappear too, God willing...
...Publishers Weekly In austere language PW gives notice of a sudorific text about to appear in the "Teen Section" of every bookseller in America, and in this post-Clinton era sure to be a hit: Two high school sophomores plan a party...
...Kids are having sex and they are actively engaged in oral sex and think it's not really sex...
...So I'm happy to clarify that...
...If he were alive today, or even if he had lived through the years just after the war, he would surely have been the first to go out into the countryside and talk to the peasants about birth control, and what to do about it...
...No sex ed or contraception for teens, no sex for the unwed, no condoms [prophylactics—Eds.] for gays, no abortions for anyone [even handsome young men—Eds.]—even for that poor 13year-old pregnant girl in a group home in Florida...
...As ever in his life, there were contradictions and frustrating excursions...
...So I want to say something hard to accept but harder to deny...
...Grover Norquist is vindicated...
...Thou shalt find that the people most hostile to the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists!' Allah warned His beloved Prophet Muhammad about the Jews, who had killed their prophets, forged their Torah, and sowed corruption throughout their history...
...In Paul Ruditis's YA novel Rainbow Party, the invited teens...
...There has been a radical change in the relationship of ideology and power in America...
...The Jews are behind the suffering of the nations...
...he would have done this graphically, and, as he did with so many things, dramatized the issue with whimsical humor...
...from The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, by John E Harris, Random House, 504 pages, $29.95) The American Prospect Prof Paul Starr gives every right-thinking patriotic Americano reason to pop a cork and let the good times roll...
...I had to write about him when he left the Post after a big blowup with the editors, and again when Newsweek spiked his Monica Lewinsky story and his dealings with Linda Tripp became controversial...
...Having grown up in American society, we can't help but be racists...
...between those who have the power to act on their prejudices and those who don't...
...Liberalism is at greater risk now than at any time in recent American history...
...The article erred, however, in describing me as a "friend...
...A brief aside about me: I gave an interview to the New York Time yesterday for a profile of Mike Isikoff, whom I have known for 25 years and worked with on two newspapers...
...He who made Russia disappear overnight is capable of makingAmerica disappear and fall, Allah willing...
...In fact, in the 15 years I've been on the media beat, Isikoff and I have had a professional but sometimes contentious relationship...
...June 2005) Palestinian Authority Television Friday afternoon thoughts from the learned Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris, D.D., on Palestinian Authority (PA) TV-1, the West Bank's equivalent of our Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): Allah has tormented us with "the people most hostile to the believers"—the Jews...
...Part of me doesn't understand why people don't want to talk about [oral sex]," he said...
...Charles Peters on the occasion of another gaze into deepest, darkest America, circa 1926: Last month a conservative publication called The American Spectator asked me to contribute to a symposium on what ails liberalism...
...Look at modern history...
...The difference is between those who acknowledge and care to unlearn their racism and those who don't...
...And again when this story broke Sunday...
...You will find that the Jews were behind all the civil strife in this world...
...I began by saying "liberals have fallen victim to the politics of selfishness...
...Where has France gone—France, which almost ruled the entire world...
...April 25, 2005) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (July 1985): Washington Monthly Glossolalia as practiced by Mr...
...Where is Nazi Germany, which massacred millions and ruled the world...
...Reporter Chip McGrath graciously apologized for using that word...
...May 18, 2005) Eugene Register-Guard Out there in progressive Eugene, Oregon, a local nut, Sam Porter, takes to the Opinion page of the venerable ERG and begins the kind of Liberal Renewal Dr...
...I thought of the irony of Vietnam's birth-control problems, and reflected that Ho would have appreciated it...
...May 13, 2005)The Nation Sexy Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, just back from splurging once again in the garter belt section of Victoria's Secret, laments some disquieting developments on the sex front What is it with these right-wing Christians...
...And, understandably, Isikoff hasn't always liked what I've written...
...The risk is of political marginality, even irrelevance...
...CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series At the end of 432 pages chronicling the Clinton administration's eight-year concatenation of failure, mediocrity, lies, obstructions ofjustice, and impeachment, author John F. Harris arrives at this imbecilic conclusion: Clinton survived the crises of his presidency for three principal reasons...
...Howard Dean has been yowling for: During the 1960s, many of us woke up to the intolerable injustices done to African-Americans...
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