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Scrapbook Got to Give It Up What's next in Congress? An answer may not come until the end of March. That's when congressional Republicans are planning to convene in Philadelphia to consider their...
...When the Secret Service closed off Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House last year, rollerbladers immediately claimed the abandoned roadway as their own...
...A few weeks ago, he visited Colonel Moam-mar Gadhafi, who pledged up to $1 billion...
...Since then, he has been engaged in the traditional chores of electoral politics like fundraising and political outreach-in untraditional places like Libya, Iraq, and Iran...
...You'll laugh, you'll cry, and all for just $13...
...The spokesman tells us: "If Chelsea is making a peanut butter sandwich down in the kitchen at 3 a.m...
...Now two Washington architects, Doug Michels and James Allegro, have come up with a better idea: the National Sofa...
...Republicans fear getting bogged down in negotiations with the White House and then getting blamed again for the likely failure to reach agreement...
...From there, it was on to Iraq...
...Some highlights: "The Islamic Revolution is a perfect example of a government based on the Koran...
...Wishful thinking, say some congressional aides, who predict the Livingston/Stevens strategy will prevail...
...If he adds a big can of beer, he'll probably pull this thing off...
...Laxalt passed the letter on to Sen...
...Entirely predictable-roaches do the same thing to vacant apartments...
...Republicans will then devote themselves to blaming the White House for its veto of a balanced budget and using this as an argument for electing a GOP president...
...Running ads showing Ronald Reagan warmly applauding Forbes's efforts as an executive for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty...
...Bob Livingston and Sen...
...That's when congressional Republicans are planning to convene in Philadelphia to consider their policy agenda...
...and she wants to switch on the TV and talk to the American people, she can...
...This week, however, let us commend to you a new book, just out in paperback from Vintage Books...
...All in all, it looks like the great defining issues of the day- balanced budget, tax cuts, etc.- will have to wait until the election...
...and Charles Krauthammer...
...Interactive, of course: Cameras would be placed around the White House, so that the First Family, when they wish, could talk to the tourists, crack addicts, flashers, and anti-nuclear head cases who frequent the park...
...And Laxalt has the gall to attack Forbes for misusing Reagan...
...Thus we need your spiritual aid...
...Reagan always said he had to remain neutral during the primaries and consistently refused to endorse other candidacies...
...There's debate over this: Newt Gingrich prefers a strategy of repeated 30-day continuing resolutions in order to keep the pressure on President Clinton, and House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich remains convinced a deal can be struck between Republicans and moderate Democrats...
...Reagan (or whoever actually did the writing) wrote that he was "pretty steamed about the false statements coming from Oliver North" on the subject of Iran-contra...
...A big sofa and a big TV reflect the same pointless creativity...
...David Frum, Andrew Ferguson (twice...
...Take a Laxalt-ive Former Nevada Republican senator Paul Laxalt used the Manchester Union Leader to lay into Steve Forbes the morning after the Iowa caucuses...
...We [Farrakhan] live in the center of corruption and struggle in the heart of the Great Satan...
...Forbes's sin...
...Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing is an anthology edited and with an introduction by our very own David Brooks...
...On the heels of his visit to the home of the butchers of Pan Am 103, Farrakhan then paid a call on a government that funds and directs the Islamic terrorist group Hizbol-lah-you remember them, the ones who massacred 241 U.S...
...He's the designer of Cadillac Ranch, an "auto-monument" along Route 66, in which the backsides of upended old Cadillacs rise up from the barren earth...
...And the media and politicians (with the honorable exception of the Clinton State Department) who participated in the rehabilitation of Farrakhan in October are unnaturally quiet...
...But Does It Come with a V-Chip...
...The answer: Next week...
...Ted Stevens, is simply to wrap the remaining appropriations bills into a continuing resolution that would last through the end of 1996 and to forget about the entitlement reforms needed to get to a balanced budget...
...In Teheran, Farrakhan actually addressed the Iranian parliament...
...There's one fight many top Republicans think should be avoided: trying once again to win passage of a balanced budget in seven years using Congressional Budget Office numbers...
...We shall utilize American Muslim unity as a lever of pressure against the United States' arrogant policies...
...O'Rourke (twice...
...The goal of the Philadelphia conference, says a House leadership aide, is to "remind people why they voted for Republicans...
...Our Reading List The Reading List is still on strike, pending your collective advice on whether to keep it or not...
...She's a lucky girl...
...And it is...
...Well, if Reagan always urged neutrality, he has been ill-served by his friend...
...The sofa would seat 100, and a "jumbotron" TV screen would be built for their viewing pleasure...
...Farrakhan's Money Men, Yet Again Following the success of the Million Man March in October, Louis Farrakhan announced the formation of a "third political power" in American politics to elect candidates who have "the interests of our people and the poor and the vulnerable of this nation" at heart...
...Shame on him," Laxalt told the paper...
...The preferred strategy of many top Republicans, including chief appropriators Rep...
...Marine peacekeepers in Beirut in 1983...
...During Virginia's bitterly fought Republican senatorial primary in 1994, Laxalt, a supporter of candidate James C. Miller III, solicited a letter from the failing ex-president in order to scuttle the candidacy of Miller's chief rival, Oliver North...
...So Louis Farrakhan has befriended nations that have promoted the terrorism of Abu Abbas, Ahmed Jibril, and Abu Nidal...
...John Warner (another Miller ally), who distributed it on the floor of the Senate...
...The architects hope to talk the National Park Service into accepting their design of a curved, 300-foot marble sofa in Lafayette Park, which is separated from the White House by Pennsylvania Avenue...
...It features 41 essays from the likes of Mark Helprin, Christopher Buckley, Paul A. Gigot, James Q. Wilson, William J. Bennett, and Robert Bartley Readers of The Weekly Standard will find a (suspicious) number of other familiar names in its pages as well: William Kristol, Fred Barnes (twice...
...John Pod-horetz, P.J...
...This is serious," says a spokesman for the Sofa...
...Architect Michels has experience in persuading bureaucrats to let him do crazy things...
Vol. 1 • February 1996 • No. 23
