TILTING AT WINDMILLS

...But Hitler solved the problem by declaring war on us and thus signed his own death warrant...

...In return for installing and maintaining them, their French manufacturer gets the right to the advertising income from 86 kiosks it has placed around town...

...JUWAN HOWARD, THE BASKETBALL star, recently explained why in a matter of days he could switch his loyalties from the Washington Bullets to the Miami Heat and then back to the Washington Bullets...

...This is true of both the top 5 percent and the top 20 20 percent...

...He did not want to create violence between the kids who had the shoe and those who couldn’t afford it...

...Neither is the man...

...indeed...

...JENNY JONES MUST HAVE STUDIED how to be a witness at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Institute of Advanced Evasive Techniques...

...I hope it turns out that the real Bill Clinton has the passion I suspect he truly harbors for the great causes of education, health care, and jobs that can make real the great American promise of liberty and justice for all...

...The California Journal stood up to the big guys and went to court...

...All three of us remember McCarthy as a liar and a fool, who was dangerous because the Hiss and Rosenberg cases and the Korean War had produced a climate of fear of the Red Menace that made many Americans ripe for the kind of indiscriminate slander that was the senator’s specialty...

...What these doctors and many of their patients are realizing is that HMOs are cheapskating on care and not providing the free choice of physician afforded by the Canadian system...

...When you read the fine print, the changes aren't dramatic, but thet do represent progress of a kind that needs to be duplicated throughout the country...

...That hasn’t happened with Baker...

...When it was tiny back in the 30's '40s, and '50s, it was not a significant disincentive to emplyment...

...Why should a society permit its citizens to be enticed into addiction...

...So did I. Each of us viewed events from a liberal perspective...

...Baker tells about asking a waiter for some shrimp...

...ONE OF THE MORE SERIOUS DEFECTS of American civilization has been the total absence of public toilets...

...Assuming the kiosks are reasonably tasteful, this sounds like a very good deal for San Francisco...

...DICK DARMAN WAS NOT SOMEONE his colleagues in the Reagan and Bush administrations wanted to get on the wrong side of, a fact that Lee Atwater once used as the basis for a practical joke on Ed Rollins, according to Bad By, a new biography of Atwater by John Brady...

...Californians made a serious mistake, which I hope will not be repeated by voters and legislators in other states...

...IN THE 1930~A, MERICAN DISTILleries voluntarily agreed not to advertise on the radio...

...San Francisco has been experimenting with 19 automatic public toilets for the last 14 months...

...His father would be proud of him...

...The toilets cost just 25 cents to use and clean themselves automatically after each use...

...I remember thinking at the time “this guy must be out of his mind...

...But the evidence was that Alger Hiss and Julius Rosenburg were guilty...

...But I wonder if the left will ever unite in facing that the softness, even though it was exaggerated by the McCarthyites, did in fact existnot among all liberals all the time, but among varying groups of liberals from the ’30s through the ’80s...

...It's not paid on income that comes to the wealthy from their stocks and bonds and real estate...

...Canadian firms that trade with Cuba are less than thrilled by the bill...

...What the Times and all the other media that carried the story, and most particular The Atlanta Journal that broke it, are terrified of are libel suits by Richard Jewell that he has every right to win...

...Godfrey said he plans to press for the return of his family’s ancestral home in Carter’s Grove, Virginia.’’ Wouldn’t it be lovely if it turned out that the old Helms homestead is located on land taken from a Tory...

...Plus, there is little hint of the old plantation in the typical work situation in the household of a two career family...

...CIGARETTE SMOKING IS ON THE RISE in the movies, according to an article by David E. Kalish of the Associated Press...

...The shoes cost less than $5 to make, according to one of Hughes’s sources, who notes that Nike has recently been under scrutiny for allegedly using foreign sweatshops...

...A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL about the Richard Jewell case conlay not in the journalistic fallout from the FBI’s investigation but in the conduct of that investigation...

...SPEAKINGO F THE COMMUNISTS, IT’S good to hear that they are upset about the uncensored news that is being beamed into China by Radio Free Asia...

...Tilting at Windmills BY CHARLES PETERS Of Bullets and Nikes Hitler's Plan for America Jenny Rodham Jones David and the Journal The Worst Tax AT LAST DOUBTERS ARE GOING to have a chance to find out if there’s a real Bill Clinton with real beliefs...

...Atwater made up a memo to Rollins from Darman that, after highlighting the quote, concluded, “Perhaps, we should discuss this...

...FOR ME, ONE OF THE GREATESr Mysteries of World War I1 has been why Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States...

...The senator from Wyoming is right...

...Another possibility is housework...

...I also suspect that Hitler thought of the United States as a mongrel nation, without enough pure Aryan blood to constitute any serious threat to the Third Reich...

...Never has a pot been guiltier of calling a kettle black...

...That may well be a tribute to the effectiveness of the advertising ban-and a very good reason to maintain it...

...I hope we try it in Washington...

...How can I charge that [price] for my shoe when I speak to all those inner-city kids and preach to them...

...Kay Bailey Hutchinson, suggests that the top universities reserve 5 percent of their admissions for people who have served in the military...

...I have absolutely no doubt about their integrity...

...But the tax has now grown to the point that in total federal revenues, contributions for social insurance, of which the Social Security is by far the largest component, exceed the take from the personal income tax...

...Of course the behavior of the FBI was terrible, but the press was even worse...

...As for jobs, having signed the welfare reform bill, Clinton has taken on a special obligation to do everything in his power to provide the employment opportunities that will make it fair...

...Where we differ is that I remember there was a real menace, both from within and without, but because McCarthy inaccurately defined it, too many liberals of that time and thereafter have assumed the menace wasn’t there...

...Now at last comes an explanation from my old friend the biographer and historian Richard Goldhurst, who has delved into the matter and found two reasons for Hitler’s seemingly irrational act...

...ANOTHER REASON WHY WE shouldn't worry about income tax relief for the wealthy is that since 1980, their share of the nation's income has grown...

...When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, FDR asked Congress to declare war on Japan...

...SPEAKINGO F HMOs, I WAS DISAPpointed that voters in California defeated a measure that would have kept the HMOs from punishing doctors for giving their patients advice on effective treatments that the HMO doesn’t want to pay,for...

...And what about the antiClinton bias of the White House press corps during the first three years of the current administration...

...He withdrew his endorsement of a Nike shoe because Nike was charging more than $140 for it...

...Good for the judge...

...Incidentally, the rise in publicly subsidized day care, which responsible enforcement of work requirements for welfare mothers makes necessary, should itself provide a large number of jobs for these mothers...

...The waiter suggests shrimp petite vache, explaining: “The chef sauties the shrimp on a veal chop which has been marinated in a sauce of cumin and oil of cloves, then seared over a hickory fire and garnished with thinly sliced tangerine peels and tiny bits of aged spruce bark...

...THEN EWY ORK TIMESR ECENTLY ran an article on the retiring senators and the problems they will face out of public life...

...So did drinking...

...Some people, especially Hispanics, are taking advantage of this opportunity, but unfortunately many blacks have an aversion to returning to a role that once reeked of the old plantation...

...What is most depressing is that the misdeeds were not the responsibility of a few rogue agents in the field but of the top of the organization as well...

...But while that aversion was understandable in the past, it just doesn't make sense today...

...Both Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Bill Clinton have protested...

...On the other hand, the share of the rest of us, those on whom the burden of the Social Security tax falls, has declined...

...He can’t run for president again, so he will no longer have to act with one eye on the next election...

...WHY IS IT THAT WHEN BILL CLINton and the Republicans talk about tax reform, they never mention the worst tax of all...

...With the number of people who are 85 and over increasing every day and with most of them requiring some kind of home care, the opportunity here is immense...

...I bet it would work...

...But I believe in loyalty in the sense that it has to be done right and make sure that I don’t lose in no kind of fashion...

...One of the great obstacles encountered by the welfare mothers entering the job market is a lack of work experience...

...In Washington, $45 to $60 is the range for half a day-and halfdays are short,defined in practice as three hours...

...Wouldn't it be lovely if it turned out that the old Helms homestead is located on land taken from a Tory...

...But all of them have experience doing housework and caring for children...

...Well, that’s related to the second reason: Hitler looked forward to exterminating America’s 5 million Jews, which he thought he would only have a chance to do as Japan’s ally...

...One problem, noted Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas, is that as she walked through airports people kept coming up to her and saying, “Oh my God, what are you doing with yourself...

...Now both are making a comeback...

...This means that for many workers, the amount paid for Social Security exceeds the amount of their income tax...

...So two Canadian legislators, John Godfrey and Peter Milliken, have come up with a bill of their own...

...INH IS NEW BOOK RZGHITN THE OLD Gazoo, Alan Simpson asks, “Is there anyone among us who did not detect a strong anti-Bush bias [in the media] during the 1992 campaign...

...On the stand during the trial of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed Scott Amedure after learning at a taping of Jones’s show that Amedure had a crush on him, Jones echoed the “I don’t recall” and “I don’t know” that the First Lady seems to favor in legal proceedings...

...And we have some new allies...

...there was such a bias...

...But on some important points, our views of the truth differ...

...Not an unreasonable point...

...daily...

...The cigarettes and liquor may occasionally be there for arguably artistic reasons, but when you see readily identifiable brands on the screen, you might consider the possibility that L‘promotional consideration” has passed from the maker to the movie producer...

...When Atlanta agents lured Jewell to the FBI’s office without his lawyer-under the pretense that they wanted help with a training video-they were acting, according to Daniel Klaidman and Marc Peyser of Newsweek,"under extraordinary pressure from agency officials in Washington...

...In the ’70s and early %Os, cigarette smoking by attractive characters almost disappeared from the movies...

...He’s free to be himself...

...ONE OF OUR READERS HAS AN answer to the shortage of the meritocratic elite in the military that Amy Waldman discussed last month in her article “GIs: Not Your Average Joesl’ The reader, David Davis, who is on the staff of Sen...

...HAVING LAID INTO THE TEACHERS’ unions for their resistance to getting rid of the bad apples in their midst, I must acknowledge a notable exception...

...If we are to have tax reform, this is where we should start...

...I have one idea-providing home care for the elderly...

...So were a good many others, according to recent revelations of what are called the ‘Venona” breaks of Soviet codes, which according to Michael Dobbs of The Washington Post, “proved that Moscow had recruited dozens of agents in the White House, the State Department, the Office of Strategic Services (a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency), the Treasury Department and the Justice Department...

...The good news is that relief is in sight...

...YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE Helms-Burton law, under which Cuban-American citizens whose property was confiscated after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 can file suit in American courts against any foreign business that does business with Cuban firms using the property...

...The workers are free to do their jobs at a comfortable place, belting out songs or thinking about whatever it's fun to think about without having their train of thought disturbed by someone ordering them about...

...Webber asked Frank Hughes of The Washington Times...

...According to David Crary of the Associated Press: “Mr...

...Rollins, displaying early on a tendency to inflate his role, had given an interview to his hometown paper that exaggerated his importance on the Reagan White House staff, saying he “works right next to the president as one of his top 20 assistants,” and noting, “I’m with him about every day...

...FINDING OUT FOR WELFARE mothers is going to be great challenge of welfare reform...

...The problem is familiar to anyone who, while walking along a city street, experiences an urge to go and searches despairingly for a suitable venue...

...Of the possible solutions to the health care problem, as our regular readers know, we favor the Canadian single-payer system...

...In 1948, they extended the ban to television...

...Rollins was pushing the panic button when Atwater confessed it was a prank...

...What the paper did was unquestioningly accept a tip from the FBI that was obviously leaked because the FBI did not have enough evidence against Richard Jewell and hoped that the story could panic him into an incriminating act...

...Top FBI executives, Newsweek‘s investigation revealed, “even monitored the phony interview from the command center in the Hoover building and funneled questions while it was in progress...

...The lady of the house isn't hovering over the houseworker as my mother used to do, saying "do this" or "do that" or "don't forget to dust...

...I was against the war in Vietnam but was troubled by how many of my colleagues in that movement insisted on romanticizing the Viet Cong...

...The lady isn't home...

...I like the idea...

...It is the Social Security tax, which is a heavier burden on workers than the income tax...

...The pay is good...

...If you doubt me, consider his recent column on the dilemma confronting a lover of simple food in today’s trendier restaurants...

...He may have wanted to add Germany but he didn’t because it was doubtful he would have had the political support to do so...

...Both of these men lived through the OS, O OS, and ’SOs, the period involved...

...The District of Columbia Medical Society-yes, we’re not kidding, the doctors themselvesrecently came out in favor of single-payer...

...It is the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, which, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "has agreed to contract changes it long resisted that aim to identify inept or subpar teachers and prod them to improve under an increased threat of firing...

...ALMOST ONE IN FIVE AMERICAN adults were without health insurance in the past year, according to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health, and 17 million insured adults had trouble getting needed health care or paying their medical bills...

...WHEN YOU HAVE ADMIRED A writer for as long as I have admired Russell Baker, you can’t help worrying about the day he loses his stuff...

...Although most soon saw the evil of Stalinism, many were also at various times soft on the Chinese, the Cuban, and the Vietnamese communists...

...Now Seagram Co...

...The court, in an opinion by Judge Earl Warren Jr., told The Wall StreetJournal to stop being such a jerk...

...The liberal softness on communism finally ended with Tiananmen Square...

...Seagram defends itself on the grounds that beer and wine advertising is permitted on TV...

...It didn't require a lot of sophistication about law enforcement to understand this, so one has to conclude that many reporters were cynically letting themselves be used simply because the story eas so big...

...What’s more, they don’t cost the city a dime...

...THEG REAT BIG WALSLT RE~ JOURnal tried to steal the name of the tiny California Journal for WS’s California edition...

...But the answer is not to permit liquor ads, but to prohibit all ads for addictive substances...

...One is that Hitler thought Japan could win and he wanted a seat at the peace table...

...But what about the pro-Bush tilt of the White House press corps, led by Bush‘s tennis partner Brit Hume, during the first three years of the Bush administration...

...The truth is that the press is very tough on presidents who are wounded, but very kind to presidents who are riding high...

...We now know how much our broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union meant to people who were being oppressed by communist dictatorships, so let’s make sure that we adequately fund Radio Free Asia so that it can expand its schedule, which now consists of half-hour broadcasts at 7:OO a.m., 7i30 am, and 1130 p.m...

...The reason distillers say they need to start advertising is that hard liquor sales have decreased by 25 percent...

...They seem to have been spectacularly successfbl, having been flushed 359$31 times, according to The San Francisco Examiner...

...TWO OF THE GREAT MEN OF h E R - ican liberalism have reproached us for giving the Monthly Journalism Award to Nicholas Von Hoffman for a piece that appeared in The Washington Post’s Outlook section last summer in which Von Hoffman argued that while McCarthy was wrong, there were communists in the American government of that era and that liberals had been as wrong not to face the real facts as McCarthy had been to misstate them...

...When Meryl Streep accepts a cigarette from Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County, a signal is given that cigarettes are acceptable...

...The episode was for me a dramatic revelation of the difficulty of writing history and getting it right...

...Richards says she learned to answer, “I’m studying dental hygiene...

...This is another development that has to worry those of us who are concerned about the glorification of addictive substances...

...It gives Canadians compensation for lands seized from their Tory ancestors during the American Revolution...

...It discourages work because it is a tax both the worker and the employer must pay...

...On a happier note, Howard’s teammate Chris Webber recently took a stand that I very much admire...

...Because we have so many working couples, the need for someone to come in and do the cleaning is great...

...Yes, indeed, I believe in loyalty...

...Although the great majority of American liberals were not communists, some of them-and I was briefly in their number in 1945’46 -were sufficiently sympathetic to Marxism to blind themselves to what was bad about the Soviet Union...

...Astor on October 27, November 10, and November 17...

...WE HAD JUST GONE TO PRESS WITH our last issue, in which we noted another recent example of what had sruck us an odd obsession with photos of Brooke Astor on the part of the Styles section of The New York Times, when the Times did it again, again, and again, displaying pictures of Mrs...

...has decided to break the agreement and has begun TV advertising of two of its brands, Chivas Regal and Crown Royal, and other distillers have announced that they too will advertise on television...