WHO DOOMED A PARTIAL-BIRTH BAN?
Who Doomed a Parttat-Btrth Ban? On October 8, 296 members of the House voted to once more send a ban on partial-birth abortion to President Clinton. He promptly vetoed the bill, using exactly the...
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...Jaime-town_ Jaime Escalante, the famed math teacher depicted in the 1987 film Stand and Deliver, is joining California's anti-bilingual campaign "English for the Children" as honorary chairman...
...asks the first economist...
...The gruesome procedure involves delivering the body but not the head of a baby, and then vacuuming out its brains...
...Attention must finally be paid," runs the famous line from Death of a Salesman...
...It's a strange and haunting book, but don't judge it by its cover—certainly not by its back cover, where the fatuous Arthur Miller plugs it as "a kind of meditation on Garton Ash's personal experience with the Stasi, the dreaded secret police organ of the East German regime...
...A significant number of Garton Ash's best "friends" from his time as a graduate student in Berlin in the early 1980s turned out to have been secret-police informants for East Germany's Ministerium fur Staats-sicherheit, the notorious Stasi...
...He bumped into Justice Ginsburg at the opera, where Mozart's Cost fan tutte was playing...
...On the other hand, per capita income is so low in some countries—particularly in Africa—that dictators and ruling groups still find killing their own people in their self-interest...
...Needless to say, their gain is our loss, or partial loss...
...Oh, so that's how we explain Hitler...
...Ginsburg—looking at Rosen "indulgently with her unblinking eyes"—pointed out that the title was "in the third person plural," so that "'They are all like that' would be a more accurate translation...
...Scully argues that mass murder has declined of late as governments have begun to appreciate the cost...
...The Los Angeles Times recently released a poll showing that 84 percent of California's Latino voters favor dismantling bilingual education...
...Rosen grandly concludes that "Justice Ginsburg's elegant reconception of the 18th-century text epitomizes the vision of mainstream, equal-treatment feminism that she [has] championed...
...And they— along with President Clinton and 32 of the Senate's 45 Democrats—will deserve the blame...
...How are we going to get out of here...
...Here are their names: Jim Kolbe of Arizona, Tom Campbell and Steve Horn of California, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut, Connie Morella of Maryland, Sherwood Boehlert and Ben Gilman of New York, and Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania...
...We expect that his impact there, if at all comparable to what he has accomplished here, will be spectacular, and we wish him all the best...
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...The National Center for Policy Analysis recently sent out a press release with an astonishing headline: "World is Becoming More Peaceful Because Killing People is Becoming Too Expensive, Study Says...
...If these four men and women do not change their votes, then a barbaric and unnecessary surgical procedure may well continue to enjoy the implicit sanction of federal law...
...Who were these eight Republicans...
...It seems a real tragedy," he said, "that in many cases our public schools are not teaching English to 5- or 6-year-old immigrant children, who are at an age when they can so easily learn the language...
...Scully found that genocide doesn't pay: "Even ruthless dictators need tax revenue and you can't collect taxes from dead people...
...Cost Cosa Poor Jeffrey Rosen...
...Announcement_ In the good news/bad news department, our deputy editor John Podhoretz has been asked to take charge of the editorial and op-ed pages of the New York Post, a responsibility he will assume in a few weeks...
...Scurrilous Blurb of the Year Timothy Garton Ash's The File is an account of a crushing discovery the author made after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...Voters should seriously consider whether to return such irresponsible legislators to Washington...
...The Forstmann-Walton gift makes the WSF the second largest program of its kind in the country, topped only by the Bradley Foundation's PAVE program in Milwaukee...
...Pardon the pedantry, but if Justice Ginsburg "reconceptualizes" this 18th-century text so freely, what about that other 18th-century text that she has to interpret every day—the Constitution of the United States...
...Ginsburg and Rosen are both talking nonsense...
...This big-name addition should help build momentum for the ballot campaign, but the fact is that support for ending bilingual education is overwhelming, especially among Latinos...
...Supply-ctde Ever heard the one about the two economists who fall into a mass grave...
...Rosen continues: "And so, she said, there was no reason to assume from the title that Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, approved of male infidelity any more than they approved of female infidelity, or that they thought women inherently more or less trustworthy than men...
...Support is in the 75-80 percent range across the board, all races, ages, and income levels...
...But when the Senate passed its latest version of the bill, on May 20 of this year, it did so by a vote of 64-36, three votes short of a veto-proof majority...
...Imagine a ladder," says the second...
...The word tutte means all WOMEN, not all PEOPLE (that would be tutti...
...The "traditional translation of the title," writes Rosen, is "Never Trust a Woman...
...Local Heroes For the past four years, the Washington Scholarship Fund, a non-profit organization founded by two former Department of Education staffers, has provided scholarships for low-income D.C...
...He evidently thought he had a boffo lede for his cover story on Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the New York Times Sunday Magazine...
...Senior fellow Gerald Scully examined 31 nations in which dictators had killed over 10,000 of their own citizens...
...It is worth noting that 132 House members, including eight Republicans, joined the president in voting to keep the practice legal...
...They are: Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of Rhode Island, and Jim Jeffords of Vermont...
...In the House, the override will probably succeed, the GOP "gang of eight" notwithstanding: The vote margin there was enough to enact a law over the president's objections...
...Currently, the WSF pays between 30 and 60 percent of private-school tuition for 460 students...
...Thanks so much for the information...
...The Soviet Union and China reached the point where the governments couldn't afford to kill any more," Scully continues...
...The congressional leadership does not plan another attempt to override the president's partial-birth veto until sometime next year...
...Arthur, we're paying attention: You're a com-symp...
...That is why the "traditional" title is not Rosen's "Never Trust a Woman," but "All Women Are Like That...
...He will continue to write frequently for us as a contributing editor...
...Now, thanks to a $6 million gift from Ted Forstmann and John Walton ($3 mil' each), the WSF will be able to provide scholarships to an additional 1,000 children a year...
...One of the founders of The Weekly Standard, John has been an invaluable part of the magazine...
...No population was as closely watched for signs of dissidence, although Hoover's FBI came fairly close at times...
...Before Escalante began his fight to teach advanced-placement calculus to students in an East Los Angeles barrio, he was active in the fight to end bilingual education...
...This both achieves the abortion and, under existing law, allows the "doctor" to avoid being prosecuted for infanticide...
...He promptly vetoed the bill, using exactly the same discredited health-of-the-mother arguments as last time, back in April 1996...
...Still more proof, if any were necessary, that the Golden Rule of fellow-traveling anti-anti-communism is, It Takes One To Know One...
...We're glad you asked...
...Four Republican senators voted with the minority to uphold the legality of partial-birth abortion...
Vol. 3 • October 1997 • No. 7
