Hear Them Roar . . . Not!
Scrapbook Hear Them Roar . . . Not! You may remember Christina Hoff Sommers’s powerful indictment of the feminist establishment that was featured on our cover last May, “The Subjection of...
...That kind of battle can only have one ending, as Abraham Lincoln understood...
...Larry Phillips of Schenectady’s Emmanuel-Friedens Church [who] declared the ground ‘sacred and holy . . . where women’s voices and stories are welcomed, valued and affirmed...
...We have to confess that the goal of “at least 1,000 signatures”—for an open letter circulated on the Internet—sounds underwhelming...
...strategy in Iraq to the counterinsurgency doctrine of Gen...
...Well, Katha Pollitt certainly remembers the piece...
...Hey, what about the “just plain feminists...
...We were reminded, though, of the moment in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery when international archvillain Dr...
...Also amusing is the class-consciousness of the feminist elite...
...Preoccupied with their own imagined oppression, they can be of little help to others—especially familycentered Islamic feminists...
...We found Sacramone’s version decidedly more, um, inspired...
...Send just enough soldiers and guns and tanks to do the job, and you may soon find you have sent too few...
...It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, preemptive attack on Iraq...
...Bush: An Oliver Stone Film First there was JFK...
...Here, I’m the referee, and I want a fair, true portrait of the man...
...They need not inflict a military defeat (which would be impossible, given the strength of the American military)—all they need to do is survive until American voters decide to throw in the towel, which might happen at any moment...
...How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world...
...withdrawal in the aftermath of the debacle for Bush’s party in the 2006 elections...
...Doubling Down in Iraq’ Elsewhere in this issue Fred Barnes reports in captivating detail on George W. Bush’s decision a year ago to change the U.S...
...Her stirring conclusion: “The women who constitute the American feminist establishment today are destined to play little role in the battle for Muslim women’s rights...
...We won’t bore you with the rest...
...Instead, he doubled the bet—and won the war...
...At least that is what the crackpot filmmaker hopes to do and have ready sometime after the election...
...Why do insurgent gangs, who have vastly smaller resources and manpower than the American soldiers they fight, continue to try to kill those soldiers...
...Through the long, bloody summer and fall of 1864, the South had hung on only because of the belief that the North might tire of the conflict...
...David Petraeus...
...You may remember Christina Hoff Sommers’s powerful indictment of the feminist establishment that was featured on our cover last May, “The Subjection of Islamic Women and the Fecklessness of American Feminism...
...sacred ground where women are treated with dignity, supported in their role as moral decision-makers . . . sacred ground where the violent voices of hatred and oppression are quelled.’ ” No, we’re not making this up...
...Southern soldiers began to desert in droves...
...The proper response to that calculation is to make emphatically clear that the fight will not end until one side or the other wins, decisively...
...On the other hand, send vastly more soldiers and materiel than required to the battlefield, and the enemy soon decides that the fight is hopeless...
...of Vt Madeline Kunin and lots and lots of writers, activists, public-health experts, representatives of feminist organizations, and ‘just plain feminists.’ I am hoping to get at least 1000 signatures...
...But, if we can toot our own horn just this once, one person who quickly grasped the logic of the surge was William J. Stuntz, the distinguished criminal procedure expert at Harvard Law School...
...Now comes, you guessed it, George W. Bush: The Motion Picture, directed by Oliver Stone...
...Including Gloria Steinem, Lily Tomlin, Ursula leGuin, a sous-chef, a sergeant in Iraq, former gov...
...The Blessing of Abortion The Albany Times Union reports on a unique ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade...
...It’s like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but I’ll also cover the demons in his private life, his bouts with his dad and his conversion to Christianity, which explains a lot of where he is coming from...
...But before we get carried away at what could be an unbelievably bad hit job against the president, the director tells Daily Variety that “I’m a dramatist who is interested in people, and I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much the same as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great...
...for example: writer, curator, Prof (with dept and U), activist, movie star...
...The Katha Pollitts and Eve Enslers, the vagina warriors and university gender theorists— these are women who cannot distinguish between free and unfree societies, between the Taliban and the Promise Keepers, between being forced to wear a veil and being socially pressured to be slender and fit...
...But Lincoln did not tire...
...In a speech delivered a month after his reelection, Lincoln carefully surveyed the North’s resources and manpower and concluded that the nation’s wealth was “unexhausted and, as we believe, inexhaustible...
...As for his current thoughts on Bush, said Stone, “I can’t give you that, because the filmmaker has to hide in the work...
...It was called “Doubling Down in Iraq” (www.weeklystandard.com/ Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/ 933jaydy.asp...
...According to the Times Union, the blessings included one from “Rev...
...She has been organizing a response for lo these many months— an “Open Letter from American Feminists” that begins: “Columnists and opinion writers from the Weekly Standard to the Washington Post to Slate have recently accused American feminists of focusing obsessively on minor or even nonexistent injustices in the United States while ignoring atrocities against women in other countries, especially the Muslim world...
...Their moral obtuseness leads many of them to regard helping Muslim women as ‘colonialist’ or as part of a ‘hegemonic’ ‘civilizing mission.’ It disqualifies them as participants in this moral fight...
...Evil, having been frozen for 30 years, announces his fearsome plan to “hold the world ransom for . . . ONE MILLION DOLLARS...
...Over at the First Things blog, Anthony Sacramone pondered the question of “who or what” the clergypersons would be blessing, and “decided to help them out, in the event they were at a loss for words...
...His prescient short essay arguing for a surge appeared in the first issue we published after the midterm elections...
...Here was the heart of his argument: Willingness to raise the stakes often wins the game...
...Then came Nixon...
...What’s amusing is the email Pollitt, a columnist for the Nation, is circulating, trolling for signatures: “In only four days, over 650 people have signed the letter...
...The answer is, because they believe they only have to kill a few more, and the soldiers will leave...
...But maybe that’s a good turnout for the feminist movement these days...
...Writes Pollitt: “If you’d like to sign, send me your name and how you would like to be identified...
...It would be hard to overstate how radically this course veered from the Washington establishment’s expectations of a U.S...
...It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors...
...A sample: O Ba’al, God of Thunder: We beseech Ye in the name of science In the name of self-actualization and personal autonomy That the procedures and terminations wrought on this choice piece of real estate Permit no hope Silence all screams And leave no child behind...
...We can only imagine...
...The Planned Parenthood chapter in Schenectady invited several local members of the clergy to bless its new 18,000 square-foot “clinic...
Vol. 13 • February 2008 • No. 20
