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Scrapbook The Borking of Pickering (cont.) As reported in these pages last week, Judiciary Committee Democrats are going hard and heavy after U.S. District Judge Charles Pickering, selected by...
...For an application and further information about this year's contest, which once again features a $10,000 award, please contact Sheila Malecki of the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation at (212) 930-8692...
...These opposed extremists seek to heal the wounds of the past, to acknowledge those voiceless victims forgotten by a harsh and unfeeling world: the German people...
...One item in particular stood out—a stick of lip balm whose label we have reproduced here...
...For those who missed the story, the Washington Post reported last Monday that there is now a movement afoot to help the German people come to terms with the unconscionable suffering inflicted during World War II...
...But there is something unsettling, to say the least, about Germans' wallowing in their own suffering, in seeking to inspire feelings of guilt in their "tormentors" and evoke sympathy from the rest of the world under the mantra, "We're Victims Too...
...previous winners were columnist Tom Flan-nery of the Scranton, Pa., Carbondale News, and columnist Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe...
...In any event, they'll probably want to consider a quick redesign...
...For instance, a frequent-flying friend of THE SCRAP-BOOK's recently received some complimentary personal care products for flying business class on U.S...
...More specifically, they want to raise consciousness on behalf of the "13 million Germans who were expelled from Eastern Europe in 1945 and 1946...
...Circuit Court of Appeals...
...We're guessing (hoping...
...Rather than seek acknowledgment of their suffering, it would be healthier for the German people—who let us not forget did not begin to confront in any serious way the crimes of Hitler until the late 1960s—to ask what it was that induced their eastern European neighbors to treat them so harshly in the first place...
...The recipient will be announced in June...
...It fell—or perhaps it was assigned— to Edwards, who made millions as a plaintiff's lawyer, to cross-examine Judge Pickering about his handling of a case from 1994...
...Killing Israelis is just too important to be left to men only...
...Now that the documents have been made available to everyone, including the judge, it appears at the least that there is another side to the story...
...District Judge Charles Pickering, selected by President Bush for the Fifth U.S...
...The Scrapbook cannot but be moved by this masterful display of self-forgetting moralism—one unmitigated by anything resembling a sense of proportion...
...Here's columnist Samiya Sa'ad Al-Din in the government daily Al-Akhbar: "Palestinian women have torn the gender classification out of their birth certificates, declaring that sacrifice for the Palestinian homeland would not be for men alone...
...Reviewing the issues at the request of Senate Republicans, Michael Krauss, professor of legal ethics at George Mason School of Law, writes, "One is hard pressed to see any violation of Judge Pickering's ethical duties here...
...it was produced before Sept...
...Edwards, who has presidential aspirations, may not have established himself as the equal of the established borkers in his party, but he shows promise...
...The pertinent one—a Nov...
...Yes, let us stipulate, many innocent Germans suffered, some horribly, in the aftermath of World War II...
...But Berry's memo doesn't say that Pickering said he would call for this trial "on your own motion...
...Deadline for submissions is April 26...
...Edwards accused Pickering of conduct violating the Code of Judicial Ethics...
...Ineptitude The airlines may no longer be able to treat their upscale passengers to real silverware, but that doesn't mean they don't still try to pamper their best customers...
...In case you wonder, there's documentation for that...
...The redoubtables leading this charge are the "leftist, Nobel Prize-winning German novelist Günter Grass" and the "Austrian hard-right politician Jörg Haider...
...Were it not for this fact, one could be excused for thinking that the momentous mating of the German left and right this past week was a parody of the cult of victimization...
...Drawing on the same documents, Edwards also said Pickering had told "the government lawyers [in the case] that you would on your own motion order a new trial...
...The award is named for longtime New York Post editor and columnist (and Weekly Standard contributor) Eric Breindel, who died in 1998 at the age of 42...
...We still remember those ads when he ran for the Senate in 1998, which suggested he was born in North Carolina though in fact he came into the world in Seneca, South Carolina...
...Haider built on his regained prominence by going on a pilgrimage to Iraq last week to meet with fellow humanitarian Saddam Hussein...
...Delight in the January 27 suicide bombing in Jerusalem by a Palestinian woman, Wafa Idris...
...We've seen the law firm of Biden, Kennedy, and Leahy engaged before in various forms of borking...
...And here's Adel Sadeq, the head of the psychiatry department at Ein Shams University in Cairo: "If it was the Holy Spirit that placed a child in Mary's womb, perhaps that same holy spirit placed the bomb in the heart of Wafa, and enveloped her pure body with dynamite...
...Nominations Requested Applications are invited for the fourth annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism...
...But the Pickering hearings have introduced the nation to a new borker: John Edwards of North Carolina...
...And: "[The] documents reveal nothing more than a determined effort by Judge Pickering to discharge, faithfully and competently, his judicial duties under the Constitution...
...on the contrary, all Palestinian women will write the history of the liberation with their blood, and will become time bombs in the face of the Israeli enemy...
...Working from Clinton-era Justice Department documents he had in his possession but which Pickering had not seen (how about that for due process, Your Honor...
...Annals of PR...
...Pickering denied saying that...
...Victims über alles The Germans are known for good sausages, dangerous philosophy, goofy hiking outfits, and a few other things besides, but not, last time we checked, for the comedic gift...
...New Frontiers in Feminism Courtesy of the translations done by the Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org), we can report that the government-controlled papers in Egypt (as elsewhere in the Arab world) are having second thoughts about feminism...
...Last year's winner was National Review managing editor (and WEEKLY STANDARD alum) Jay Nordlinger...
...So much for the idea that jihad is a man's task...
...Airways...
...It is presented each year to the columnist, editorialist, or reporter whose work best reflects the spirit of Breindel's too-short career: love of country, concern for the preservation and integrity of democratic institutions, and resistance to the evils of totalitarianism...
...And he certainly has the character...
...And the documents back him up...
...29, 1994, memo by prosecutor Brad Berry—said that Pickering had asked whether the Justice Department would agree not to oppose a motion for a new trial on a certain charge...
Vol. 7 • February 2002 • No. 23
