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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
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INSIGHT
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the
press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of
speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us
the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag,
who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag." -- Charles M. Province ++
"Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" --John Paul Jones ++ "The
patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most
reliable soldier on earth." --Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson ++ "So,
as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your
descendants." --Tacitus ++ "Breathes there the man with soul so
dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!"
--Walter Scott ++ "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of
mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is
loyalty to that principle." --George William Curtis ++ "There exist
only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the
poet. To know, to kill, to create." --Charles Baudelaire ++ "I hate
war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen
its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." --Dwight D. Eisenhower
++ "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many,
to so few." --Winston Churchill ++ "There never was a good war, or a
bad peace." --Benjamin Franklin
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UPRIGHT
"Let there be no mistaking what happened Tuesday: Our system of
constitutional democracy worked well. It is a system of
representation, and it has, with splendid precision, represented the
strengths of the parties, and hence the division in the public mind."
--George Will ++ "In the main event, we have in Vice President Gore
and Hillary Clinton two representatives of an already powerful class,
the commanding class. The members of the commanding class feel
entitled, by credentials and facility (they would say, by training and
intelligence), to rule the rest of us. Their ideology is dirigiste,
their temperament arrogant and their morals spotty." --Richard
Brookhiser ++ "Left candidates always resort to class warfare and
the politics of envy." --Don Feder ++ "The resurrection of
liberalism in America has been greatly exaggerated." --Robert Novak
++ "You know what will be the most immediately satisfying thing about
voting for George W. Bush today? Knowing that I've done everything I
can to ruin Rosie O'Donnell's tomorrow." --Rod Dreher ++ "Dispensing
other people's money, whether in the form of prescription drugs or
federally funded (read: controlled) education is the agenda of
European socialists, not the philosophy of America's Founders."
--Balint Vazsonyi ++ "...[T]he American left has always been awed
and enamored by 'revolutionary' tyrannies and liberation movements,
regardless of their methods and goals." -- David Bar-Ilan ++ "Quick
and dubious fixes, whether legislative or judicial, clearly undermine
faith in any democratic system. The motives of the fixers are often
the highest, but we should know by now that noble sentiments can do
just as much damage as tawdry ones." --John Leo ++ "We may well soon
be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result
will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect
the principled judgment of their own citizens. ...And as our Founders
taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the
establishment of tyranny in America." --Alan Keyes ++ "View and read
everything with skepticism. Remember that truth and information are
not synonyms. And do learn to think for yourself. There already are
more than enough sheep in this world." --Charley Reese ++ "A list of
congressional violations of the letter and spirit of the Constitution
is virtually without end." --Walter Williams {} "The closest the
West gets to a proper concept of evil is Halloween costumes depicting
evil characters in which sophisticates do not believe." --Cal Thomas
{} "Personal actions speak louder than political words." --Michelle
Malkin {} "We would be much worse without Christianity; but we
wouldn't know it." --Joseph Sobran
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"The next U.S. president will be the candidate who is certified as
receiving the most popular votes in Florida. That candidate will thus
be entitled to all of Florida's 25 electoral votes, which would be
sufficient to catapult either George W. Bush or Al Gore over a
constitutionally mandated threshold that requires the winning
candidate to capture a majority (270) of votes in the Electoral
College. ... Now, as it happens, Mr. Gore has in the past expressed an
inclination to interpret the Constitution flexibly. During the first
presidential debate, for example, Mr. Gore declared, '[T]he
Constitution ought to be interpreted as a document that grows
with...our country and our history.' In other words, the Constitution
can mean whatever its interpreters want it to mean, irrespective of
however explicit and specific its declarations may be. Mr. Gore's
flexible attitude toward the Constitution could be problematic."
--Washington Times
"The Founding Fathers, of course, designed a system that would be slow
and resistant to change. Their purpose was to force advocates to
persuade more than a passing majority, but to forge something nearer
consensus on important issues. ... The system the Founding Fathers
devised reminds us to look beyond today to history. The Electoral
College, by allotting each state a vote equal to its Representatives
plus its two Senators, gives some weight to geography when the popular
vote advantage is marginal." --Wall Street Journal
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SECOND OPINION
ALBERT'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Yet another version of Al Gore emerged late last week -- but amid the
media feeding frenzy about a DUI citation George Bush received 24
years ago you most likely did not hear the allegation about young
Albert Gore.
In the wake of the 11th-hour revelations about George Bush's 1976 DUI
record, a Tennessee man, Ray Hudson, has come forward with a firsthand
account of a night in 1971 when Gore, then a reporter for the
Nashville Tennessean, was assigned to do a story on a Nashville
motorcycle gang, the Death Angels, in which Mr. Hudson, then known as
"Buzzard," was a member. Admittedly, a factual account of an
uncontested DUI arrest is different from a loosely corroborate
anecdote, but the story about Gore's "eventful youth" is compelling
enough to retell -- and further investigate.
Hudson, now 55 years old, who turned his life around in 1980 and now
ministers to the poor and homeless, said he voted for Gore when he was
a Tennessee Senator, but only later made the connection that Senator
Gore was the former Tennessean reporter who spent several days "in the
bikers' crib." Hudson says that, although he mentioned this story to
close friends, he thought taking it to the press was the wrong thing
to do -- until Gore's operatives "Bush-wacked" W. with the DUI story
in the closing days of Campaign 2000.
Hudson says the gang decided to cooperate with Gore on the article
"because at that time, we were getting a lot of hassle from the
police," and they wanted to improve their public image.
"[Gore] hung around a couple of days and we wanted some good press so
we treated him well. He spent one night with us, or a big part of the
night, partying with us. ... We were all sitting around, getting
fairly well-loaded, talking, joking. [Gore] was not overly talkative.
.. And during that party he smoked dope with us, he drank a lot. We
had a door there that had some weird trim up over the door and [Gore]
took a couple of pot shots at it [with a handgun.] And he missed. He's
not a straight shooter. ... He was not one of us. He would never be
one of us. It was something completely foreign to his makeup.
"[Gore] portrayed himself [at the national convention] as this great
family guy, great husband and all of that. [But the night Gore spent
with us] he was given one of the club girls there and took her into a
back room. You know, I'm sure we all have some things we wish we
hadn't done. I don't know how he is now. I don't know him now other
than what I see on TV and some of the stories he tells. But I do know
this is one incident I know about firsthand. I think that it's a shame
that people try to make a big deal out of something that isn't but
then ignore some more serious things in the news and it just seems,
well, one-sided to me. I think both sides need to be heard."
As for the article Gore wrote, Hudson says, "It was great. We loved
it. We bought a good article there." Gore's article contains comments
about two of the motorcycle gang's women, some of which, such as, "As
evening passed into morning, [she] was saying...," imply that he spent
some part of that night with at least one of the women, whom he called
"Cortez." (Hudson's account of Gore's "indiscretions" coincides with
Gore's article on the biker gang published in November of 1971 -- 18
months after his marriage to Tipper on May 19, 1970.)
Gore admitted early last week on the "Queen Latifah" show that in his
younger days he drank lots of alcohol and would sometimes outrun
police on his motorcycle. No member of the "tag-along" press corps has
asked Gore about Hudson's account of Gore's "biker days."
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BODY POLITIC
Enough already -- we thought this section could be retired this week!
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DEZINFORMATSIA
"CBS is declaring the state of Florida for Albert Gore." --Dan Rather
++ "ABC is now declaring the state of Florida for Albert Gore."
--ABC's Peter Jennings ++ "CNN is declaring the state of Florida for
Albert Gore." --Judy Woodruff ++ "NBC is declaring the state of
Florida for Albert Gore." --Tom Brokaw **Later, summing up the media's
calls, Brokaw said, in an unusual moment of candor, "We don't just
have egg on our face. We have an omelet."
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
"Thank you, New York!" --The Village Matriarch, Ms. Rodham-Clinton {}
This week's "Gender Disorientation Disorder" Award: "Start by learning
the basics of flirting and how to have fun while sending the right
message to the right guy...regardless of HIV status." --Description of
the University of California at San Francisco's AIDS Health Project
workshop on "flirting." {} From the "Village Academic Curriculum"
File: Marijuana use among U.S. college students rose 22% from 1993 to
1999, according to a Harvard University study of 119 colleges. Among
more than 14,000 students surveyed, 15.7% in 1999 said they had used
marijuana recently, up from 12.9% in 1993. **Yes, but did they inhale?
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SHORT CUTS
Breaking News.... Just in case there is a new vote called in Palm
Beach, the Florida Election Commission has issued a new ballot. We
highly recommend you take a look at it --
http://www.federalist.com/floridaballot.html
"Here is my Palm Beach plan. Anyone who voted on Tuesday can vote
again if, and only if, they first agree to take a driving test. About
three people will show up...." --Rich Galen {} "Famous for his
reversals on abortion, gays, and guns, Gore is now hoping for the
mother of all flip flops." --National Review Online {} "The new
'Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth' just came out: About 92%
of the teenagers surveyed lied to their parents, roughly 78% lied to a
teacher and more than 25% lied to get a job. So, it looks like the
phrase, 'Anyone can grow up to be president' is still alive and well
in our fine country." --R.J. Johnson {} "[John Ashcroft] is not
running against one opponent, he's running against three: Mel
Carnahan, now a legend; Jean Carnahan, the bereaved widow; and the
media. You just have to ask -- what can the guy do?" --University of
Missouri political-science professor Rick Hardy {} "But it's over.
Soon Clinton joins O.J. in his endless search for the Real Killers.
They don't care how many golf courses they have to play...." --Howie
Carr {} "Now, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a
double-standard in Washington...." --Thomas L. Jipping
Night Lines:
Leno.... One more day, one more day and Gore can finally take that
makeup off. (Not so fast, Jay!) .... Did you hear about the Bush
DUI? The officer who arrested Bush is now retired, he was on the news
the other night and he said when he arrested Bush he was slurring his
words, he was incoherent and he wasn't making any sense. That doesn't
mean Bush was drunk, he's like that all the time. .... Of course,
Bush's handlers tried to put a good spin on it. Like today they said
he was proud to be drinking a domestic beer in an American-made car on
a holiday honoring the American laborer. .... You know the Democrats
are behind this, what a nasty business this is. Now the Democrats, did
you see the scandal they pulled about Ralph Nader today? The
Democrats' fingerprints are on it. It turns out back in the
mid-seventies Nader once took a cold medicine then operated heavy
machinery. .... The election comes down to the state of Florida.
Florida hasn't been this nervous since O.J. moved there.
Letterman.... That's all you heard about over the weekend was Bush
and the DUI charge. A candidate that has been charged with DUI? Maybe
we should take another look at Ted Kennedy. .... Gore says that the
election is a choice between good and evil ...Well, thank you,
Superman! .... Top Things Overheard Last Night at the Florida
Election Commission: "The first vote goes to Gore...call CNN and tell
them Gore won." "Wait, my wet laundry is in the ballot box...! Stop
the dryer!" "If someone voted for 'the jerk,' do I give it to Gore or
Bush?" "Let's be extra careful, because every single vote counts...ha,
ha, ha, ha, just kidding!" "120... 121... 122! Yes! I'm the
ballot-eating champion!" "This is much easier than my last job
designing tires for Firestone." "America must never know Ralph Nader
actually won the election." "Discard all these votes for Bush --
they're obviously left over from 1992." "I'm sure gonna miss you guys
when this is over. If only there was a way to make it last a few more
days...." "Heads Bush... Tails Gore." .... George W, was up all night
long waiting and waiting ... now he knows what a death row inmate
feels like! .... I hear the Republican Party has hired O.J. to hide
ballot boxes.
Hamilton.... The Baltimore Sun did an expose on George W. Bush's
childhood. He used to put firecrackers down frogs' throats, throw them
up in the air and watch them explode. So, when you think about it,
those guys on death row got off pretty easy. .... Goodyear announced
that its tires are having the same explosion problems as Firestone
tires. American tire buyers have no choice but to choose between the
lesser of two evils. It's like they never left the voting booth.
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