CURRENT WISDOM
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CURRENT W I S D O M New York Times During another of the _Ritualistic Liberals" pious conclaves on the martyred _Rosenbergs (Ethel and Julius), the Rev. E.L. Doctorow makes an astonishing...
...Our time has come...
...It's not worth our law enforcement to waste their time and lives on these petty robberies...
...He is a storyteller, a fabulist, and presents as truth and facts stuffthat is totallyfictive...
...Thus, the emerging genre of movies that are cinematic representations of the ultra-conservative Id...
...Yes, we should send a car or two-but not the whole squadron...
...It's time to restore America's soul...
...It is because the corporate, political and religious right ganged up on it in the back alleys of power...
...New York Times From world-famous Chappaqua, New York, Mr...
...January 2006) Austin American-Statesman Bill Moyers burnishing his credentials as a sensible voice of mainstream liberalism, despite all the conspiracies arrayed against him by George W. Bush, the Chamber of Commerce, and Alcoholics Anonymous: If the Green Revolution is abloodypulp today, it is not just because the environmental movement mugged itself...
...901 Arlington, VA 22209 80 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 2006 CURRENT i i WISDOM Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) Maureen Dowd explains the musky fragrance of Bill Clinton's mendacity on her personally, as a young girl: Olbermann: Who has enabled this...
...Political ideologues launch countless campaigns to strip from government all its functions except those that reward their rich benefactors...
...Paula, Gennifer, Monica, Connie, Sally, Dolly, Susan--they're all there, the "WOCS," the "women of the Clinton scandals," Miss Arkansas, the women who aren't quite whores, the ex-cover girls turned into married women...
...And homegrown ayatollahs are more set on savaging gay people than saving the green Earth...
...October 16, 2005) This was sent to us by Douglas Owens of Cedar Park, in the great state of Texas...
...It's time to be on the march again...
...January 26, 2006) The Nation Thanks to the careful research of Nation columnist Patricia J. Williams, we too may someday be blessed with a Princess Di: Since it has come to light that George W. Bush, through the National Security Agency, has been snooping on telephone and Internet communications without benefit of warrant or oversight of any kind, there have been quite a few worried, if tentative, complaints that we are edging toward a monarchy...
...December 19, 1985) MARCH 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...I see that the Weekly Standard is a paper in which you can read, under the byline of Matt Labash, a text crammed with the vilest gossip about the private life of the former president...
...It's time to get America on the move again...
...Harper's A young Clinton sycophant explains that even as he shrinks at home Bill Clinton grows abroad, especially as a prospective United Nations Secretary General: Clinton would have no need to ingratiate himself with world leaders but would serve as a mentor to them...
...We have more important crimes to attend to...
...He would let you know he was lying, and then the right wing would come down so hard on him and over-punish him...
...I mean, in a perverse way, is it almost necessary to say that Bill Clinton paved the way for George Bush to conduct a kind of fingers-in-his-ears, shout La-la-la-la-la, presidency...
...February 1, 2006) B E A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
...Big companies hind a relentless assault on green values and policies...
...February 6, 2006) The Great Books Series The grim mood that befalls young Bernard-Henri Ldvy, France's "celebrated philosopher and journalist" (and apparently a surviving member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union), during a visit to the offices of the Weekly Standard unaccompanied by an adult: Then there's the copy of the Weekly Standard I found in the waiting room and had time to leaf through before our interview...
...January 21, 2006) The Desert Sun On the correspondence page of a great desert gazette, Gil Alvarez takes all the fun out of petty crime: I have noticed petty crimes of small cash amounts in local store robberies and banks...
...Dowd: No, they're two entirely different things, because when Bill Clinton would deceive, he would throw in a semantic clue that let you know he was deceiving...
...Garth Anderson writing in the correspondence section of the Times takes the long view of our geopolitical condition after the 9/11 hullabaloo, a tempest in a teapot if ever there was one: Kudos to Joseph J. Ellis for pointing out what's been obvious but politically suicidal to date: that a man operating out of a cave in Pakistan (or wherever) has never posed a threat to the survival of the American Republic...
...Maybe $100 or $200 dollars [sic] will stop these poor hungry devils from scaring and robbing innocent bystanders...
...Doctorow makes an astonishing revelation: "Our justification and our salvation is that people know we're liars;' Mr...
...Joseph R. Biden Jr., earnest striver and leading Democratic presidential candidate, addresses the issues: "It's time we hear the sound of our country singing and soaring in the dawn of a new day," he told the Iowa Democrats last month at their Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner...
...from American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville, by Bernard-Henri Ldvy...
...I f yOU come across p u b l i s h - ed nonsense worthy of submission for this page send it on to us at "Department of C u r r e n t 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...
...This new genre usually features an actor such as Schwarzenegger, Stallone or some other symbol of the American y-chromosome bounding about blasting anyone with an accent or a darker skin tone...
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...I suggest big business here in the valley have a"Crime-Prevention Day" three times a month and give away small amounts of material things and cash itself...
...The capitalists in Tinseltown want to cash in on the rising tide of cultural bias...
...Doctorow said...
...I did not have sexual relations with that woman," we knewwhat he meant by that...
...So, it was sort of poignant and endearing...
...GIL ALVAREZ Indio (January 8, 2006) Submitted by Dr...
...The kind of genre-blurring done by the president of the United States is quite different...
...Ste...
...November 8, 1985) New York Times The Hon...
...Around the world, Clinton is viewed as a peacemaker and someone so great that he has outgrown the United States...
...While the 9/11 attack was vile and a shock to Americans' sense of p e r s o n a l security, it never threatened the real security of the country or the government...
...You know, I didn't break the laws of this country...
...Random House, 287pages, $24.95) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (March 1986): Harvard Crimson The Pauline Kael of the colossal Crimson weighs the aesthetic worth of Reagan Art: Commando is a movie-industry manifestation of Reagan era jingoism...
...Nancy Creek of Indian Wells, California...
...Commando is such a byproduct of political isolationism and flat-out hate...
...The American Spectator Dept...
...It's the most recent issue, the one that talks about the inauguration of the Clinton Library, in Little Rock...
...They're all set down in ink, slammed, denounced, in this cartload of filth and accusation that presents itself as an article...
Vol. 39 • March 2006 • No. 2
