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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
Regarding all those "Earth in the Balance" alternatives yuppie greens
harp about, Manhattan Institute fellow Peter Huber concludes, "Wind,
solar and other 'alternative' energies sound great in theory, but they
rarely make much economic or environmental sense in practice. They
require a lot of expensive, unreliable hardware. And they generally
use more land to deliver less energy."
The "Dumb and Dumber" Department...
"You know, Tom Delay, and Trent Lott, sent staff down to Miami-Dade to
intimidate those who were counting. Now, that's a bit far for seasoned
congress people to go to alter the outcome of an election." --Jesse
Jackson, who, by our calculation, actually traveled much farther. So
did Al Sharpton, et al. Who is paying their per diem?
Culture comment...
Debunking the Politically Challenged: "We are once again in the midst
of a great wave of overheated racial rhetoric. Jesse Jackson, of
course, is out in front. Black voters didn't double-vote, mismark
ballots or run into any normal election day foul-ups. No, they were
victims of 'a systematic plan to disenfranchise black voters' and 'a
clear pattern of voter suppression.' Attempting to repair his
relationship with Jews, Jackson identified three targets of ballot
oppression: Holocaust survivors, Haitian boat people and American
descendants of slaves." --John Leo
Faith Matters...
A federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled that a Cleveland school
voucher program, which gave needy families with children in
kindergarten through sixth grade up to $2,500 in tuition vouchers,
violates the same doctrine as prayer before football games, because
parents could use the voucher money to place their children in
religious schools -- God forbid!
In economic news...
It has been up and down. (If you need a graphic, see Dick Cheney's
last EKG.)
Around the world...
Israel is still a mess. Russia is worse, and China wants to annex the
U.S. The veritable absence of any reasoned foreign policy in the last
eight years is begging for some attention.
And last, researcher Tony Siegel came up with this quote from a 1964
article entitled "College Entrance Tests Fail To Ruffle Students'
Aplomb" from the Washington Post. "Similarly poised was Albert Gore,
16, another St. Albans 12th-grader whose father of the same name is
the senior U.S. Senator from Tennessee. Young Gore, who aims to study
liberal arts and pre-law at Harvard University, said he'd found some
of the questions 'pretty tricky.' But he seemed mainly concerned that
he might have left a few stray marks on his papers that would mislead
the 'dumb machine' that scores them electronically."
Perhaps he should have been more concerned about the school janitor
trying to divine the intent of any stray marks...!
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INSIGHT
"More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this
Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of
interior treasures." --Ronald Reagan {} "Liberty lies in the hearts
of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no
court can save it." --Justice Learned Hand {} "Real friendship is
shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends." --Abraham
Kuyper {} "Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry
with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the
right purpose and in the right way --that is not easy." --Aristotle
{} "Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow
old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give
up wrinkles the soul." --Douglas MacArthur {} "I think we should be
men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a
respect for the law, so much as for the right." --Henry David Thoreau
{} "Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America
than oil embargoes." --V.S. Naipaul {} "If we make peaceful
revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable." --John
F. Kennedy
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UPRIGHT
"Mr. Bush won't enjoy the traditional honeymoon granted presidents.
Democrats won't wait long to unsheath the long knives." --John Fund
++ "You've got to hand it to those Democrats and other liberals.
They just never give up. It's like the pit bull that sinks those
fangs in, locks 'em down, and won't let go until you beat it to death
with a bat." --Thomas Jipping ++ "Al Gore did not want a fair
recount of the Florida votes. He wanted to win by any means necessary.
In his unseemly lust for power, Al Gore has damaged the credibility of
the electoral process, the legitimacy of the presidency, the authority
of the courts and, with the help of Jesse Jackson...has done immense
damage to race relations as well." --David Horowitz ++ "Throughout
the presidential election controversy, we have been bombarded with
references to our sacred 'democracy.' The problem, of course, is that
our country is not a democracy. Our nation was founded as a
constitutionally limited republic, as any grammar school child knew
just a few decades ago." --Ron Paul ++ "Count first, and rule upon
legality afterwards, is not a recipe for producing election results
that have the public acceptance democratic stability requires."
--Justice Antonin Scalia ++ "When George W. Bush becomes president
of the United States on Jan. 20, he is going to have a more than
usually difficult job to do. No president in this century will have
come to power under such extraordinary circumstances." --Bruce
Bartlett **Except, perhaps, Jerry Ford! ++ "The Democrats of Florida
have given 'take a number' an entirely new and expanded meaning in
Wonderland." --Wes Pruden ++ "Based on the results of the 2000
election, it's clear many voters are so deeply disturbed that -- for
their own good as well as the national welfare -- they should be
confined to an institution." --Don Feder ++ "Al Gore's national
concession speech was gracious, respectful and conciliatory. And if
you have a short memory, you might even have fallen for it...."
--Chuck Muth {} "Every victory for the environmental lobby is a
victory for big government, which means more control of your life,
less liberty to do what you want to do, and lower standards of
living." --Lew Rockwell {} "Christ always has been, still is, and
always will be too much for the human race at large to accept or
assimilate. Exactly as he said he would be. The world keeps proving
the truth of his words." --Joseph Sobran {} "Slavery to sin leads
inexorably to slavery under the yoke of some despotic government."
--Michael Peirce {} "For all the present sensitivity over
correctness, we seem to have lost our sense of shame as a society.
Nothing seems to embarrass us; nothing shocks us anymore." --Colin
Powell
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"The closer George W. Bush comes to winning the presidency, the more
apocalyptic and disingenuous the liberal media become." --Washington
Times
"Until now, it was virtually impossible to believe that Vice President
Gore could have more cavalierly betrayed the interests of American
military men and women than they were by President Clinton, who once
discussed on the phone with a senior Republican lawmaker the
life-and-death issue of dispatching thousands of American soldiers to
the Balkans while he was receiving oral sex from a White House intern.
Through his recent actions (trying to throw out military absentee
ballots) Mr. Gore has accomplished the unthinkable: He has trumped
Bill Clinton in his contempt for the men and women who keep us free."
--Wall Street Journal
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DEZINFORMATSIA
Gore's print media sob...
"The United States Supreme Court has brought the presidential election
to a conclusion in favor of Gov. George W. Bush, but its decision to
bar a recount in Florida comes at considerable cost to the public
trust and the tradition of fair elections." --New York Times ++ "In
its immediate effect, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday evening
would seem to deal a crushing blow to Vice President Al Gore's
flickering presidential hopes. But longer term, the extraordinarily
bitter set of decisions this case has generated will taint this court
with disquieting questions about its distance from the partisan fray."
--Los Angeles Times ++ "Last night the United States Supreme Court
offered a disheartening end to a dispiriting campaign with a murky
decision.... Despite its obvious labors to broaden the agreement among
its members, the court yesterday was revealed in its naked division
and partisanship. ... The greatest casualty of the court's midnight
decision may be the public's belief in the judiciary's ability to be
an impartial judge of the law. Today, it has left the presidency
compromised and its own reputation sullied." --The Boston Globe ++
"Cynical doesn't begin to describe the decision by the U.S. Supreme
Court. Instead of clarity, we got muck. Instead of courage, we got
equivocation." -- Philadelphia Daily News:
None of these rags suggested that Gore's 7-0 ruling by 7 Democrats on
Florida's Supreme Court in the first case set aside by the U.S. court
was "partisan."
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
This week's "Tyranny of the Few" Award: "I share his dreams
completely. I, too, am a dreamer who has seen his dreams turn into
reality." --Fidel Castro, honoring John Lennon as a "revolutionary" on
the 20th anniversary of the singer's death {} This week's "Village
Ignorati" Award: "I think Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep
in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from
a very deep place if it's true lightness." --Alicia Silverstone, star
of the movie Clueless {} From the "Village Academic Curriculum"
File: Baylor University mathematics scholar and director of the
university's Michael Polanyi Center, William Dembski, because of his
attempt to research "intelligent design" in nature. Baylor's
president, Robert Sloan, sided with angry faculty members protesting
Dembski's questioning of Darwinism.
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SHORT CUTS
"We don't use that word too often down here in Texas." --George W.
Bush on Al Gore accusing him of being "snippy." ++ "Ground zero for
the Counterculture of the '60s was Haight-Ashbury. Ground zero for
the Haute-culture of the '00s is Adams-Morgan. Who are the protest
singers of this era? Joan Baez and Bob Dylan have been replaced by
Britney Spears and...Yanni." --Rich Galen on the "protests" in Florida
++ "I heard Al Gore had trouble sleeping last night. So he started to
count sheep. And then he had to recount sheep." --Andrew Wisot ++
"Florida must now carry on its shoulders the reputation of
incompetence, corruption, racial demagoguery, stupidity, arrogance and
ignorance of the law. ... Of course, there is one state that isn't so
sad to see Florida sink into the depths. Arkansas just became the 49th
best place to live in America." --Kimberly A. Strassel ++ "A lawyer
with a briefcase can steal more than 100 men with machine guns" --Don
Corleone {} "They bloody well did not pay the bill. I wouldn't quite
say [Clinton] did a runner. I just don't think it occurred to him to
pay." --London pub owner Mike Bell on Clinton's exit from his
restaurant without paying the bill. **It must run in the family. You
recall, HILLARY! has a habit of stiffing single-mom waitresses in New
York. {} "When I joined the military it was illegal to be
homosexual, then it became optional. I'm getting out before it
becomes mandatory." --General J. Wickam, USA (Retired) {} "The city
of San Francisco is taking steps to reduce the number of pedestrians
who are killed by motorists each year. They may want to start by
banning driving on the sidewalks." --Ira Lawson
Night Lines:
Leno.... If you still haven't picked out a Christmas present for Al
Gore, you can't go wrong with moving boxes! .... Gore keeps on
talking about the will of the people. We need to trust the will of the
people. Yeah, that's the same will of the people that made Charlie's
Angels the number one movie in the country. .... One of the issues
that the Supreme Court considered was that there were no standards
when it came to counting votes. Now we are worried about standards? If
we had any standards, [Bush and Gore] wouldn't have been the
candidates!
Letterman.... Good news about the election is it's about over. The bad
news is one of these guys will be president! .... The problem is
this: We got two guys that really want to be president ... Al Gore and
Dick Cheney! .... Dick Cheney has been really busy! He's been so
busy that he skipped a mild heart attack last week. .... Al Gore is
just a mess! He's gotten fat through all of this. Today he stepped on
the scales and he demanded a recount.
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