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Scrapbook Free Gene Scalia! The one-year anniversary of Bush v. Gore arrives December 12, and Senate Democrats have conjured up a curious way of commemorating it: They're blocking the appointment...
...Yet when they hear of some atrocious deed they will exclaim—"An Afghan job that...
...The Afghans are eternally boasting of their lineage, their independence and their prowess...
...THE SCRAPBOOK won't be satisfied until we see a fitting sequel to Patton...
...Hollywood Enlists (sort of) Post-September 11, Hollywood has trumpeted its patriotism and its willingness to aid the war on terrorism just as it promoted America in World War II...
...The one-year anniversary of Bush v. Gore arrives December 12, and Senate Democrats have conjured up a curious way of commemorating it: They're blocking the appointment of Eugene Scalia, son of Justice Antonin Scalia, as President Bush's Labor Department solicitor...
...Rumsfeld...
...Fine, but what about a movie touching on America's tolerance of all religions, including Islam...
...So far, though, no movies are planned, no Sands of Kandahar or 30 Seconds Over Kabul...
...At some point, Daschle is liable to give the real reason for hijacking Scalia's appointment: petty, vindictive partisanship...
...It makes more sense to try to humanize the American people through good cross-cultural collaborations...
...I think the more you learn about his record, the more concern there appears to be for the way he would function in that position," he argued...
...It does...
...The repression of crime and the demand of taxation he regards alike as tyranny...
...And that, of course, is why he's blocking a vote...
...Hmm...
...Anyway, what Hollywood has in mind is playing up stories like Muhammad Ali's love of Islam...
...Rule Britannica, cont...
...Meanwhile, here is Col...
...But Daschle is wrong...
...Instead, your local multiplex will be filled with Hollywood Embraces Multiculturalism, parts I, II, III, IV, and V. "You can't spit out a patriotic pro-American message in the hopes everyone will get it," Hilary Rosen, president of the Recording Industry Association of America, told the Los Angeles Times after a meeting with White House officials last week...
...After all, even Ted Kennedy has called Scalia an "outstanding lawyer...
...Just like it's happy with the Saudis, we bet...
...Moments after his dissembling about vote counts, he offered a second bogus explanation for the delay...
...The Bush White House says it's happy with Hollywood's offerings...
...You know, I have to be convinced that the votes are there, and I don't think the votes are there for Mr...
...For the rest, you will have to get your own copy of The Fall...
...Keep asking...
...Since when do Americans need to be "humanized...
...They are capable of enduring great privation, but when abundance comes their powers of eating astonish an European...
...The music industry wants to pair American singers with Muslim stars for music to be aired in the Middle East...
...But there the Scalia nomination stopped, and there it remains...
...If from habit and tradition he respects a stranger within his threshold, he yet considers it legitimate to warn a neighbour of the prey that is afoot, or even to overtake and plunder his guest after he has quitted his roof...
...In his honor, we will breach our principle long enough to share the shortest of his verses, and one of The Scrapbook's favorites: On Publishing His Memoirs The confidences of my lovers Were bound to end between these covers...
...Henry Yule, C.B., rather than to Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich...
...their aversion to the Persians being aggravated thereby...
...How about the true story of an officer called back to Washington for one last heroic tour of duty...
...But Daschle's justification of Democrats' obstruction is more disgraceful...
...Retaliation for the father's vote in that case is the only plausible explanation so far for the Senate's obstruction of Scalia, who is in all respects that should matter superbly qualified for the job...
...Yule said his description of the Afghans was drawn in part from Ferri-er's Journeys, which he refers to as "recent...
...a fin-de-siecle plagiarism scandal, or was it expected that each successive Britannica edition would crib from the one before...
...William Coleman, longtime presidential adviser and former head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, agrees, saying Scalia is a "bright, sophisticated" attorney, who would be "among the best lawyers who have ever held that important position...
...Hollywood can take credit for Behind Enemy Lines and a three-minute patriotic montage by director Chuck Workman, but these were in the can prior to the terrorist attacks on America...
...Yule's further description of the Afghans, from the 1891 edition: The Afghans are Mohammedans of the Sunni or orthodox body, with the exception of a few tribes, perhaps not truly Pathan, who are Shiahs...
...Burnell) of Hobson-Jobson: a Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases...
...That's a very important position carrying out the rules and regulations of safety for working people, and I think the more you look, the more skeptical you become...
...Contributions are invited from earlier editions of the Britannica as well...
...But the truth is Hollywood could produce patriotic movies quickly if it wished to...
...The majority leader can't even keep tabs on his own duplicity...
...Two weeks after a sometimes-contentious confirmation hearing on October 2, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee passed the nomination to Majority Leader Tom Daschle to schedule a floor vote...
...Reader Steve Sorensen compared last week's passage on Afghanistan from the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica with his copy of the 9th edition (copyright 1891...
...The delay itself is outrageous...
...Writer Aaron Sorkin instantly put together a West Wing episode on September 11...
...But it turns out Hollywood Goes to War: The Sequel won't amount to much...
...But to those of another faith they are more tolerant than most Mohammedans, unless when creed becomes a war-cry...
...THE SCRAPBOOK urges reporters not to give up...
...The words were almost identical, he notes, but the 1891 version is attributed to one Col...
...Not because we don't like poetry—to the contrary— but because it's such a thankless chore to strip-mine a mountain of bad submissions in search of the rare nugget...
...There won't be encomiums to America's military, respect for individuals, or mass prosperity...
...The president nominated the younger Scalia in April...
...It has a nice ring to it, and might even do well at the box office...
...Augustine's Press), and it contains only nuggets...
...They look on the Afghans as the first of nations, and each man looks on himself as the equal of any Afghan, if not as the superior of all others...
...And Holdich had deleted some passages...
...Here is part of the Holdich version, with the Yule portions added back in and italicized: The Afghan is by breed and nature a bird of prey...
...Yeah, right...
...and have a stronger feeling against the Shiah heretic than against the unbeliever...
...That would help the cause more...
...That said, you should know that our Books & Arts editor, J. Bottum, has just published his first collection of poetry, The Fall & Other Poems (St...
...the votes are there...
...Wouldn't Ali's expression of love for America be more to the point...
...Scalia today," he claimed last week...
...Yule was also the author (with A.C...
...They are much under the influence of the Mullahs, especially for evil...
...Anyone who can clear this up should e-mail us at scrapbook@weeklystandard.com...
...Poets Need Not Apply This is not a doctrinaire magazine, but there is one bedrock editorial principle we've adhered to for six years and counting: no poetry...
Vol. 7 • December 2001 • No. 14
