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CURRENT WISDOM JSOnline (website of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Editorial writer Richard Foster displays the New Patriotism from his hammock: Am I the only person in the Milwaukee area who...
...We are only now beginning to assimilate these events because we are not talking about technical breakthroughs, intellectual achievements, gizmos in secret laboratories, but, instead, a new image of ourselves...
...June 19, 1985) OCTOBER 2005 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 73...
...For example: One day, we awoke to the crime of 9/11, which hit the tallest building in New York, the Empire State Building [hem, hem—ed...
...Air Force Major...
...Well, we do...
...What do you mean we, white man...
...July 18, 2005) Courtesy of Boris Berejan of Neenah, Wisconsin, a former U.S...
...AmProsp, the voice of liberal righteousness, cheers the arrival of a conspiratorial band on its side ready and able to compete with the dirty work of the diabolical Federalist Society...
...The plan was to take over the world's energy sources, and to achieve this control by force and not by agreement or negotiations, by interests, free trade, or anything like that...
...Can vigilante law be far behind...
...CURRENT WISDOM JSOnline (website of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Editorial writer Richard Foster displays the New Patriotism from his hammock: Am I the only person in the Milwaukee area who did not exactly find the Blue Angels' performance at the weekend air show a congenial experience...
...We shall stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch...
...Durant was...
...September 2005) New York Times Dr...
...August 2, 1985) New York Times Old Faithful, James S. Reston, erupts again in Pecksniffian extravagance: Still, there's a problem with this new Buchanan operation in the White House...
...The constitution he proposes has been drafted by political moderates with a strong belief in minority rights...
...Navy's Blue Angels are supposed to be exciting, but unexpected blasts of sonic boom, especially when you are trying, say, to snooze on a hammock or concentrate on a Brewers game can be a distraction, even a pain...
...The old romantic view of mankind, a vision of people as essentially good and on the path to getting better, has been vanquished by the data, by the number of victims and the reason for their deaths...
...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 Politics & More, a collection of AmSpec hits from the past decade...
...The American Spectator Dept...
...He thinks there's an ideological answer to all our problems though it's clear that the ideology of Communism, socialism, and capitalism are all in trouble...
...In the first place, as longtime fans [! —ed.] of this column know, I am mostly an admirer of Bill Clinton and still think, as I hope he still does too, that he was indeed set up by a vast, right-wing conspiracy...
...Emmons's marital history...
...How come these guys get a pass...
...He was not previously married and divorced...
...of Current Wisdom 1611 N. Kent St., Ste...
...Harold Ickes—Former Deputy Chief of Staff Clinton White House, Democratic Strategist...
...It was not a pretty picture...
...September 12, 2005)Washington Post Prize-winning columnist Richard Cohen suffers another self-inflicted embarrassment: I have, of course, mooshed my apples and oranges in a breathtakingly casual way...
...It's called the American Constitution Society (ACS), and it's rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with...
...Or does Cohen mean white-ring conspiracy?—ed.] (August 11, 2005) From the Archives And this is what this geopolitical oracle wrote of an eminent ayatollah back in 1979: The entourage around Khomeini, in fact, has had considerable involvement in human rights activities and is committed to a struggle against all forms of oppression...
...With the Federalist Society, the right's networking organization for law students and lawyers, back in the news due to the John Roberts membership kerfuffle, many liberals are wondering, Why don't we have one of those...
...This is what they wanted...
...The smoke of Auschwitz and the smoke of Hiroshima, so different in their causes and justifications, were nevertheless the smoke of mass murder...
...May 22, 2005) Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (October 1985): Washington Post Richard Cohen launches into another of his "We-as-a-people" pontifications, this time agglutinating the Nazis' extermination of the Jews with the American bombing of Hiroshima, and again demonstrates that his cerebrum is no more functional than his appendix: It took time for the world to come to grips with these twin horrors...
...Little wonder that we turned away from what we saw, from what the bomb and the Holocaust told us about ourselves...
...There is no doubt that not a single Arab or Muslim had anything to do with these events...
...Aren't there laws against noise pollution...
...August 14, 2005) 72 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2005 CURRENT WISDOM The Nation Professor Richard Falk speaks on the recent disengagement from Gaza: It is a remarkable feat of illusionary politics to present the 8,000 or so illegal Israeli settlers of Gaza as "victims" during the recent process of disengagement...
...The incident was fabricated as a pretext to attack Islam and Muslims...
...BE A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
...Maybe our self-image is the last victim of World War II...
...August 8, 2005) New York Times A correction published in the Times sets the record, dare we say, straight: A report last Sunday about the marriage of William M. Emmons III and Zachary Herbert Durant in Massachusetts misstated Dr...
...In its place has been substituted a sickening reality...
...After all, it is only relatively recently that we have faced up to the Holocaust, only recently that names such as Mengele have become widely known and then, too late, the search for them launched...
...One speaks to the other...
...Contrary to the superficial reports in the American press about his attitude toward Jews, women, and others, Khomeini's Islamic republic can be expected to have a doctrine of social justice at its core...
...901 Arlington, VA 22209 Saudi Channel 1 Cairo University lecturer Professor Abd Al-Sabour Shah in demonstrates the importance a Mohammedan scholar places on careful analysis, broad erudition, and avoiding both Western firewater and sexual relations with livestock in arriving at The Facts: Our enemies weave many lies about us, which we are not necessarily aware of...
...Frank Rich, former theater critic of the illustrious Times now serving as Op-Ed sage of the illustrious Times, tires of a very politically incorrect off-Broadway production: Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over...
...I know the U.S...
...August 21, 2005) American Prospect Whither goest the Republic...
...Foreign Policy, Spring 1979) New York Times Beyond hypocrisy—one of the Clintons' most ardent class warriors appears in an advertisement for the haberdashery of Paul Stuart, where every Lord Fauntleroy purchases his first cummerbund: "When I walk into Paul Stuart I immediately feel special—there's an elevated level of taste, quality, and expertise that is as assuring as it is stylish...
Vol. 38 • October 2005 • No. 8
