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Scrapbook Clinton Revisionism The Clinton Presidential Center's website is up and running, and while the foundation's virtual library tends to the lofty business of conflict resolution and racial...
...In other Clinton news, a tip of the cap to the Reason editors who spotted this gem from New York's junior senator...
...Unfortunately, however, too much else in the Times story about Walters is malicious...
...Press reports both here and in Taiwan indicate that Doug Paal, former NSC official in Bush I and Asian policy wonk, might be tapped to be the next head of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S...
...We're dependent on the Americans for so many things, why be dependent on them for sperm as well...
...Not the hockey fans in cosmopolitan Vancouver and Edmonton, whose exercise in self-esteem it was last week to roundly boo The Star-Spangled Banner before NHL playoff games involving (ultimately victorious) teams from visiting American cities...
...Any self-respecting grown-up will want to buy a copy immediately...
...Scrapbook Clinton Revisionism The Clinton Presidential Center's website is up and running, and while the foundation's virtual library tends to the lofty business of conflict resolution and racial reconciliation, it's also good for a couple of yucks...
...ambassador to Taiwan...
...Barry McCaffrey, the Clinton administration appointee whom John Walters would replace in the drug czar's office—and whose feckless service in that post Walters has several times subjected to gentlemanly but devastatingly accurate criticism...
...McCaffrey should be ashamed of himself...
...The guidelines state, "We will not accept materials of a prurient quality...
...We checked out the entries for "1998...
...Alert readers may remember that period as 365 days of Clinton lying to reporters, a grand jury, and his cabinet, while becoming the only president in the modern era to face impeachment...
...To keep their storerooms stocked, instead, they now rely on a single, wholesale supplier...
...But, then, maybe it would be good for Paal to be head of AIT...
...Paal, one of the architects of the post-Tiananmen Square "let's put this behind us" policy, has consistently counseled giving Taiwan only the most minimal defense assistance, lest we offend Chinese nationalist sensibilities...
...If this piece of news proves true, the president will have chosen his "drug czar" well...
...ugh, America...
...The site, however, suffers from its subject's selective memory...
...Maybe just a wee bit...
...In 1999, a Canadian fertility-clinic client brought home her purchase of 100 percent, unadulterated Maple Leaf sperm...
...Oh, Canada There's hockey and beer...
...It is most unusual for an outgoing, cabinet-rank federal official to campaign against his successor like this...
...By past experience and present dedication to the issue in question, Wal-ters—a Weekly Standard contributor whom several staffers at this magazine are privileged to call a friend—is matchlessly qualified for the job...
...It runs under an "America Remembers" link...
...That would be an outfit called the Zytex Corporation...
...Before one eagerly logs on, anticipating, say, the snapshot of stewardess Debra Schiff sitting in the jump seat of Clinton's campaign plane, "Longhorn One," with his meaty paw lodged between her knees, one should consult the "submission guidelines," first reported by MSNBC...
...A-Paaling...
...Our favorite section, however, is the one encouraging visitors to send in a "photograph that captures an interaction you had with President Clinton...
...Americans, apparently, are trying to forget...
...Book Notes THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to report the publication of a fine new book by WEEKLY STANDARD...
...Who, you ask...
...And there's snow...
...And the Times should be ashamed for abetting him...
...Still, running that headline directly under the famously short former Labor secretary's byline seems rather nasty, doesn't it...
...And that guy who painted those beautiful pictures of beavers and moose...
...And promptly caught a venereal disease...
...contributor and weapons-technology expert Henry Sokolski...
...Trouble is, the Zytex Corporation is located in Georgia...
...Seems we've polluted their national semen supply...
...Nothing like sitting in Taipei, facing several hundred Chinese ballistic missiles aimed your way, to straighten out one's views of what's really provocative and what's not...
...Best of Intentions is a significant work of scholarship: the first comprehensive history of American efforts to stop the global spread of strategic weapons capabilities since World War II...
...This sounds like a secret American plan to finally take over Canada," Canadian member of parliament Jason Ken-ney told the Calgary Sun on April 20...
...Small-mindedness The final-paragraph kicker in Robert B. Reich's Washington Post op-ed piece last Monday urged Democrats to "stand up—loudly and clear-ly—for the little guy" during forthcoming congressional debates about health care policy...
...Whereupon Health Canada imposed screening regulations so stringent that most clinics have since been forced to stop collecting local donations...
...In nearly 1,000 overheated words, Marquis manages to cite only a single worried man...
...Should an infertile Canadienne make use of semen from...
...Here, 1998 is fondly recalled as the year in which Clinton launched his class-size reduction initiative...
...It's one of the things that decides whether you're going to be patriotic or not," says Dr...
...Reporter Christopher Marquis leaves unsuspecting readers with the impression that Walters is a remorseless zealot, a "law-and-order conservative" whose advocacy of "severe prison sentences for violent felons" and other such apparently bizarre ideas has "raised the concerns of some that he will not focus enough on treatment and prevention...
...He seems to have been joking, but other people quoted in the same story were deadly serious...
...And that man is: retired Gen...
...He happens also to be uncommonly decent and honest...
...And Canadians have recently discovered that Georgia is in the United States...
...So who says our neighbors up north in Canada have no national identity worth preserving...
...Take the presidential timeline...
...The concerns of some...
...This ought to please Beijing...
...Which phrase, appearing in Reich's own words, was no doubt the Post's ostensible justification for the headline it gave his essay...
...Some Canadian health experts, like Jean Haase of the Hamilton (Ontario) Life Sciences Centre, are also concerned that exclusive reliance on Zytex-provided American semen might increase the incidence of accidental inbreeding...
...Which is already a major problem in Canada, judging from their hockey fans...
...No one should have to leave their hometown, their families, and their roots to find a good job in America," Hillary Clinton—former resident of Illinois, Connecticut, and Arkansas— announced on the Senate floor on March 1. Our Kind of Czar A story in last Thursday's New York Times reported that President Bush intends to nominate John P Walters to the directorship of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy...
...Roger Pierson, past president of his country's Fertility and Andrology Society...
...And driving with your lights on in broad daylight...
...Perhaps because of these restrictions, only one photograph is featured...
...And not that group of igloo patriots up in arms about another, even graver Yankee threat to Canadian independence...
Vol. 6 • May 2001 • No. 32
