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CURRENT WISDOM Associated Press The Reagan Administration's most effective espionage agent ever has a change of heart: Mikhail Gorbachev's magnetic brown eyes shine as brightly as ever, and...
...The American Spectator Dept...
...He once told Senator Patrick Leahy to perform a crude act upon himself...
...Harry Whittington is Dick Cheney's Monica...
...At a meeting with foreign reporters this week, Gorbachev blamed the United States for losing a chance to build a safer and more stable world following the Soviet demise...
...Michael Takiff's BILL: AN ORAL BIOGRAPHY OF AMERICA'S CHARISMATIC, CONTROVERSIAL, CONFOUNDING 42nd PRESIDENT, in which Bill Clinton is revealed through the recollections of friends and foes, high school teachers and secretaries of state, to construct a mosaic that covers his youth, university years, governorship, and presidency, ending with his role today as the world's First Citizen and his potential role tomorrow as America's First Gentleman, to Christopher Rogers at Yale University Press, by Craig Kayser at the Kayser Pierce LiteraryAgency...
...This sea of change is not simply a reflection of some students' increasingly right-wing views...
...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 AmSpee hits from the past decade...
...The winner's complex is worse than an inferiority complex, because it's harder to cure...
...KEVIN BYALL (January 24, 1986) Ms, Miss Ellen Thompson, the Canadian Harvey Cox, gets off one last letter seconds before the thunderbolt strikes: The American Administration is currently trying to get prayer back into schools...
...Dale E. Elliott of lovely Lovington, Illinois...
...We were right next to Armenia and Iran, and it was so cool just to meet those athletes," Ruggiero recalled yesterday...
...Everyone, gay and 72 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 2006 CURRENT WISDOM straight, is welcome...
...Cheney like Krazy Glue, and that's bad news for the Bush administration...
...Will the anal biography be next...
...It's a lot harder now" says Bradlee, "there are so many of these asshole watchdogs now...
...February 26, 2006) New York Times A modern American Gibbon laments ourpresent condition and summons up visions of the Clinton Era, when phone sex was really sex: Thomas L. Friedman disregards America's culpability in helping steer the world into religious conflict...
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...I can't make a speech in public now without being confronted...
...I am not particularly in favor of abortion, but when comparing the life of an endangered species to the life of the species endangering it, I found myself choosing the eagle...
...There are no political alliances in the village or religious tension [sic] to divide, just common ground...
...This service will be a safe and loving experience for those who are still struggling with coming out...
...February 16, 2006) New York Times From the Winter Olympics, the very embodiment of the dumb jock as reported on by the Times' Selena Roberts, the very embodiment of the dumb reporter: In the athletes' village, the American contingent was raising the flag on its appointed pole when the hockey player Angela Ruggiero witnessed a defining Olympic moment before the Winter Games began...
...The service is sponsored by the parish's PFLAG group for gay men, lesbians, transgender persons, and their friends and families...
...When Mr...
...February 13, 2006) From the Archives Timeless Tosh From Current Wisdoms Past (April 1986): Iowa State Daily In the correspondence section of a great collegiate daily, Mr...
...America at its best" hasn't been seen since the end of the Clinton era...
...It was a day after Iran announced its nuclear program...
...It defies common sense...
...March 1, 2006) B E A SPECTATOR ACTIVIST...
...I point this out to God every day and so far I haven't received any wrathful objections...
...21 [advertisement] comparing the life of an unborn eagle to an unborn child, I had to stop and think...
...10 in the parish chapel...
...But in reality, since the 1970s the conservative movement has become the dominant political force on many American campuses...
...They pay for right-wing speakers, underwrite scores of student papers, provide free leadership training and cushy internships, and equip thousands of new activists with talking points, discipline, and missionary zeal...
...This tale will stick to Mr...
...If this happens, girls, big and small, will be mouthing words to an almighty "He" Whoever created the world can't possibly be exclusively male...
...Not only has our administration used every subtle means available to inflame religious hatred, but a third of voters seem to fit his metaphor of "pitchfork-wielding xenophobes...
...Kevin Byall (possibly a philosophy major) dares to part company with his Reaganite generation: As I looked at the Jan...
...This is a time for those who are out to celebrate and to offer support to those who are still in the coming out process," says the Rev...
...The theme is "Now I become myself...
...Not just human life, but all life...
...BRYAN HOLLISTER Seattle, Feb...
...Wilfrid of York Parish in Huntington Beach to observe "National Coming Out Day" at 7pro on Monday, Oct...
...Cheney is arrogant, defiant and at times blatantly vulgar...
...Whittington dies (hopefully manyyears from now, and from natural causes), he will be remembered as the hunting companion who was shot by the vice president of the United States...
...Fall 2005) Courtesy of Mr...
...Lee Walker...
...For information, call the parish at 714.962.7512 or email to Walker at pastoralcare@stwilfridchurch.org...
...Publishers Lunch Across the Internet to literary types everywhere comes word of a forthcoming must-read, Bill Clinton's oral biography...
...Life is precious...
...Ending the Cold War was given as a gift" to the United States, but it only strengthened its arrogance and unilateralism, he said...
...24, 2006 (February 25, 2006) Episcopal News News of a supernatural nature with whiffs ofpiety and goo in the earnest pages of the Episcopal News, printed on recycled paper, recycled by flower children: A service will be held at St...
...The man who ended the Cold War and launched democratic reforms that broke the repressive Soviet regime continues to enjoy the limelight, globe-trotting on behalf of his political foundation and environmental group and taking part in charity projects...
...Each year, conservative groups pour more than $35 million into hundreds of college campuses...
...ELLEN THOMPSON Montreal, Quebec, Canada (March 1986) Washington Journalism Review Disturbing evidence that the revolution is eating its children: [Ben] Bradlee still answers his own telephone the first hour of each day and says he replies to every letter he receives, but admits that keeping in touch with readers has become more difficult as the Posfs national reputation has grown...
...CURRENT WISDOM Associated Press The Reagan Administration's most effective espionage agent ever has a change of heart: Mikhail Gorbachev's magnetic brown eyes shine as brightly as ever, and he speaks with the same passion about the collapse of the Soviet Union as he prepares to mark his 75th birthday on Thursday...
...of Current Wisdom 1611 N. Kent Street, Suite 901 Arlington, VA 22209 New York Times From the dirty mind of Times columnist Bob Herbert (aka Herbert Bob to the dyslexic), more libidinous madness: This story is never going away...
...February 28, 2006) The Nation From the hysterics at TN, more evidence that it has happened here-all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding: The assumptions that America's campuses are impenetrable bastions of liberalism-where left-leaning faculty predominate, progressive student activism flourishes, and conservatism is fiercely marginalized-still rules the day...
Vol. 39 • April 2006 • No. 3
