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BILL CLINTON’S MAN IN LONDON Afew weeks ago in this space, THE SCRAPBOOK reported on remarks delivered by the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain at a luncheon in London hosted by the American Chamber...
...Shirley has now released a printout from the Federal Election Commission showing that Flynt tried to donate $10,000 to the Clinton/Gore campaign on Aug...
...The money appears to have been refunded because Flynt, in his eagerness to help his allies, violated the $1,000 limit on such contributions...
...AFFIRMATIVE DISHONESTY Remember President Clinton’s slogan on affirmative action, “Mend it, don’t end it...
...Pattno was resentenced by a different judge to four years’ probation.s Asked by an AP reporter about what message the higher court was sending, Judge Thompson said, “I guess it’s ‘Don’t quote the Bible.’” The question this seems to raise is, who will save this honorable court...
...Well, now we know what the meaning of “mend” is...
...The foundation will present an annual prize of a minimum of $10,000 to the columnist or editorialist whose work best reflects the spirit that animated Breindel’s writings: love of this country and its democratic institutions and the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism...
...And that really was that...
...The ambassador in question, by the way, is the Honorable Philip Lader, longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton and founder of the annual New Year’s gabfest in Hilton Head, S.C., known as Renaissance Weekend...
...Under the new regulations, every audited firm would have to pony up the sensitive detailed data on its employees...
...As reported last week by Glenn Burkins in the Wall Street Journal, the Clinton Labor Department is planning to require thousands of companies that do business with the federal government to submit the name, race, age, sex, race, and salary of all their employees to Labor Department auditors...
...Specifically Romans I: 20-27, though he didn’t say where the quotation was from...
...THE SCRAPBOOK is willing to stipulate the accuracy of Wills’s account, especially since it is far more embarrassing to the ambassador than ours...
...Those interested should write to the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10036...
...On Jan...
...Maybe more of them need to be invited to next year’s Renaissance Weekend...
...He just quoted the Bible...
...Supreme Court refused without comment to hear the appeal...
...Ambassador to Great Britain at a luncheon in London hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce (UK...
...Nebraska state attorney general Don Stenberg rather foolishly tried to appeal, arguing that the decision will allow any participant in a legal proceeding “to investigate and inquire into a judge’s religious beliefs in order to disqualify the judge or to have a conviction or sentence set aside...
...The winner will be announced in June...
...And that, as they say, was that...
...It means a huge expansion of federal power to enforce hiring quotas on American companies...
...News Corporation, Breindel’s employer and the corporate parent of this magazine, has pledged $250,000 to the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation, sponsor of the new award...
...Similarly, contrary to your report, the Ambassador’s light-hearted remark about Thanksgiving and the Puritans was simply a turn-ofthe- century quotation from the American journalist Finley Peter Dunne...
...FLYNTONISM Washington publicist and one-time Dole adviser Craig Shirley caught Larry Flynt in an interesting lie last week...
...The ambassador, according to our estimable source, had remarked on the problems of governing multiethnic societies and told a joke about the Puritans that seemed to be critical of Kenneth Starr...
...Number 5 was, “Have you personally or has your company ever given money to President Clinton or the Democratic Party...
...Submissions, accompanied by a $25 entry fee, are required before April 15...
...THE BIBLE Two years ago, in the courthouse of Sarpy County, Nebraska, a 25-year-old man named Aaron Pattno admitted that he had sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy...
...Contrary to our report, writes Wills, “the Ambassador said neither that ‘the United States must find a way to govern a multiethnic nation’ nor that ‘African-Americans make up one third of the population.’ His point was the importance of promoting Anglo-American values, such as the rule of law and parliamentary democracy, among citizens whose heritage is non-British...
...Flynt gave a one-word response in a January 7 letter to Shirley: “No...
...Those who wish to be considered should submit no more than five editorials or columns written in 1998...
...The government audits about 4,000 companies every year to enforce compliance with the affirmative-action programs imposed on federal contractors...
...Or rather, that wasn’t that, because Judge Thompson happened to quote the Bible while delivering the sentence...
...The announcement of the prize was made by News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch, who hired Breindel as editorial page editor of the New York Post in 1986...
...THE BREINDEL AWARD THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to note the establishment of the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, in memory of the New York Post columnist and WEEKLY STANDARD contributor who died last March at the age of 42...
...Does anyone—either at the Clinton OMB or on Capitol Hill— have the political will to rein in Labor’s quota police this time...
...19, 1996...
...Following an exchange with the president’s favorite pornographer on a cable talk show, Shirley mailed a letter asking Flynt a number of questions that probed his ties to the White House and the Democratic party...
...Back in the Carter years, when the Labor Department tried to engineer a similar expansion of its enforcement powers, it was thwarted by the Office of Management and Budget...
...And he emphasized this goal’s importance by noting that, soon in the next century, the majority of California’s population is projected to be Hispanic and non-white and almost one-third of his home state, South Carolina’s population, African-American...
...Well, THE SCRAPBOOK is happy to hear that speechwriters are still mining Finley Peter Dunne for anecdotes...
...He wasn’t instructing a jury or speaking to anyone who might be swayed against the defendant by hearing those dangerous words...
...THE SUPREME COURT VS...
...I regret that the Ambassador’s statements were misreported...
...We can’t think of a better way to honor him than to encourage the kind of excellence in newspaper opinion journalism he exemplified...
...Eric Breindel was a passionate and courageous conservative voice at a time when it was distinctly unfashionable,” Murdoch said...
...But about the other point that Mr...
...11, 1999, the U.S...
...Wills raises: Can it be true that Bill Clinton’s ambassador to the Court of St...
...Not so, protests a letter from Nicholas Wills, vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce (UK) and chairman of the luncheon...
...George A. Thompson, the district judge hearing the case, sentenced Pattno to serve 20 months to 5 years in prison...
...The Nebraska Supreme Court promptly swished back its skirts in horror, rescinding the sentence and declaring, “If a judge’s comments during sentencing could cause a reasonable person to question the impartiality of the judge, then the defendant has been deprived of due process and the judge has abused his or her discretion...
...James believes the African-Americans of his home state and the Hispanics of California, being of non-British heritage, have special difficulty appreciating the values of democracy and the rule of law...
...A confidential panel appointed by the foundation will judge the entries...
...The Breindel Award will be the most lucrative prize in the field of opinion journalism in the United States...
Vol. 4 • January 1999 • No. 18
