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INSIGHT
"Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice." --William Lloyd
Garrison {} "The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the
State, including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers, is
to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State."
--Murray Rothbard {} "Nothing recedes like success." --Walter
Winchell {} "As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be
driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." --John
Lancaster Spalding {} "I know no class of my fellowmen, however
just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted
absolutely with the liberties of any other class." --Fredrick Douglass
{} "It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed,
when that little wisdom is its own." --W. R. Inge {} "Before the
gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road
thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are
reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning."
--Hesiod {} "Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed
off their earthly pedestals." --Agnes Repplier
"The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no
proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same
level." --Theodore Roosevelt {} "I do not feel obliged to believe
that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect
has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei {} "We make
men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh
at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst." --C.S. Lewis
{} "Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am
tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could
ever serve, and when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to
ask him if he believes there's a cook." --Ronald Reagan
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UPRIGHT
"Above all, we need to preserve and renew the principles -- the
religion and patriotism -- of the founding generations." --Jeane
Kirkpatrick {} "[Clinton] degraded virtually everything he touched:
the White House, the Oval Office, the staff, the cabinet, the country,
the legal process.... He is a symbol of decadence." --William Bennett
++ "Soon we can, like Hercules, clean out the Clinton equivalent of
King Augeas' legendary stables." --Doug Bandow {} "Prosperity and
economic recovery have their greatest friend in free markets, but
their second greatest friend is paralyzed government." --Lew Rockwell
{} "We are running out of tests that we can afford to fail. Gun
registration may be the last one. If we let them do this to us, we
deserve what we get." --Michael Peirce {} "Like psychoanalysis,
constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By
defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and
using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything
you like." --Joseph Sobran {} "Today's marginalization of
Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith
as a total worldview." --Charles Colson
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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"If memory serves, it was only five short years ago that a similar
$4.5 million book deal by Newt Gingrich set off a paroxysm of
moralizing from Democrats and the Clinton crowd, with charges of a
political payoff to Mr. Gingrich from HarperCollins owner Rupert
Murdoch, culminating in an investigation by the House Ethics
Committee. Boy, have standards changed over the past eight years.
'The White House claims the deal raises serious ethical questions,'
reported CBS then. 'This is the first guy who tried to cash in before
he was sworn in,' yelped James Carville. Said Dee Dee Myers from the
majesty of the Clinton White House: 'I think that it raises some very
important questions. I think it needs to be looked at.' ... So here we
are five years later, and the bonfire this time is a little Hillary
vigil candle by some watchdog group." --Wall Street Journal **That's
why we call 'em "Democrites."
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SECOND OPINION
GOOD GRIDLOCK!
"The current mania for bipartisanship is wrongness with a purpose, a
not so subtle attempt to strip George Bush of his victory. ... [I]t
amounts to an invitation to political suicide. ... Bipartisanship?
Sure. Bush should talk the talk. Reach out, assuage, hold hands,
conciliate. Lovely. But when it comes to policy and legislation, he
must not walk the walk, or he effectively concedes his legitimacy and
forfeits his presidency." --Charles Krauthammer
Now that Albert Arnold Gore's Coup de Tort has been turned back, the
airwaves are full of liberal politicos and their media talkingheads
proclaiming that comity and bipartisanship must now dominate the
American political colloquium. Because Mr. Bush narrowly failed to win
a plurality of the popular vote, they reason, he must institute a
coalition government. (How quickly they "forget" that Bill Clinton
never won a majority, and was elected to his first term with only 43%
of the popular vote.)
The Demos argue that because neither presidential candidate won a
decisive victory, the nation is not divided along decisive ideological
lines. That assertion, which has been repeated ad nauseum, is patently
false.
>From the earliest days of the Republic, there have been calls for
bipartisanship -- always from those not in power. Some things never
change.
As noted by Cal Thomas, "It's not that we haven't seen this before
when Republicans have won the White House. Candidates for the losing
Democrat side -- in this case Gore/Lieberman, but in previous
elections, Mondale/Ferraro and Dukakis/Bentsen -- say that the winning
Republicans should abandon the issues on which they ran and adopt the
positions of the people they defeated. ... Did Democrats ever follow
their own advice when they controlled the White House and Congress?
.. When Democrats win the White House and/or control of Congress
there is no talk of bipartisanship, inclusion, or power-sharing.
Democrats understand that power is something to be used, not
negotiated away. ... If Democrats win back one or both houses of
Congress in 2002 -- a distinct possibility -- and the White House in
2004, Republicans can look forward to the back-handed treatment they
used to receive from Democrats when Democrats ran the show." --Cal
Thomas
Fred Barnes adds, "This 'reaching out' issue seems only to apply to
Republicans and conservatives. When did anyone say that Bill Clinton
or Al Gore should reach out to pro-lifers, or...to the NRA, or...to
white males who voted heavily against them?"
The Founders proposed a constitutional government dependent on strong
debate, and even gridlock, should one party to that debate undertake
to infringe upon the liberties of the people by expanding the limited
role of the central government as established by our Constitution.
They intended to make the conservation of our Constitution's
prescription for limited government paramount, and any contravention
of that prescription a deliberate and contentious process.
Unfortunately, since FDR's New Deal, when Americans were divided up
into constituencies and encouraged to vote themselves largess from the
federal treasury, gridlock has failed to stem, with a few exceptions,
the erosion of liberty and the unmitigated growth of the central
government.
Thus, the most prevalent and immediate danger to our liberty is not
"gridlock" but this notion of bipartisanship. In the absence of strong
debate among parties with broadly divergent views, liberty and free
enterprise suffer great peril. The call for bipartisanship would be
answered wisely with great skepticism.
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DEZINFORMATSIA
"That's probably the most crippling blow I've ever seen to a new
president, ... [who has] been denied or robbed of the romance that we
have that we associate with the selection of a new president, the
crowning of a new president." --Republicrat media wonk David Gergen
{} "My trade of journalism is sodden these days with practitioners
who seem incapable of admiring others or anything." --Roger Rosenblatt
{} Bad news from the "couch potato" index: An average of four million
more people have watched the NBC, ABC and CBS news programs each
evening since the election, compared with the first 10 months of the
year, according to Nielsen Media Research. CBS averaged 12.3 million
viewers in prime-time (8.4 rating, 14 share), ABC averaged 12.1
million (8.2, 13), NBC averaged 11.7 million (8.0, 13), and Fox had
9.6 million (6.1, 10). A rating point represents 1,022,000 households,
or 1% of the nation's estimated 102.2 million TV homes. The share is
the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
"You know, pushing that cart through the supermarket and standing and
talking to -- I had a long conversation about clementines with the
produce manager because it's been a long time since I bought a crate
of clementines. You know, standing over there in the dairy department
trying to decide what Skim Plus meant. Because, you know, I'd never
seen Skim Plus. And having a man come up to me and kind of do a
double-take and kind of say, 'Is that you?' and I said, 'I guess so,
it is me.' It made me feel like I was re-entering the real world."
--HILLARY!, the Village Matriarch **Apparently this comment got a
little less publicity than the media 1992 claim that President Bush
had never seen a laser scanner at a supermarket checkout counter.
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SHORT CUTS
"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as
the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."
--Arthur C. Clarke {} "Well, first of all, there was the humbling
aspect of constantly being the butt of everybody's jokes. The good
news was I wasn't the only butt in the race." --George Bush {} "If
horse manure were music, then statements like that would be a
symphony." --Civil rights leader Ward Connerly on charges that blacks
were "disenfranchised" in the last election {} "More Christmas gift
ideas for the outgoing prez: It's hard to shop for a 'man who has
everything.' So imagine Bill's joy at getting something he's never
had: A job in the private sector! I recommend McDonald's, where he'd
be surrounded by two of his favorite things ... fast food and teenage
girls." --Bruce Tinsley's "Mallard Fillmore" {} "Life wouldn't be
worth living if we didn't have pretty women. That's natural. Any
normal man likes to be around pretty women." --Sen. Strom Thurmond on
his 98th birthday {} "Senator Helms is not sick. He is not in the
hospital. He is not on life support. He does not have terminal
prostate cancer. He does not have pancreatic cancer. He is absolutely
fine and will, God willing, be around to torment you for a long time
to come." --Marc Thiessen, press spokesman to Sen. Jesse Helms, on
rumors Sen. Helms had a health problem. {} "Shortstop Alex Rodriguez
gets a $252-million contract [with the Texas Rangers]. Over 10 years,
that works out to more than $166,000 per game--or roughly about what
it would cost a family of four to attend one." --Kenny Noble Cortes
Night Lines:
Leno.... The Clintons have bought a new home in Washington, D.C. A
new three-and-a-half-million-dollar home! It looks like they'll be
selling their home in Chappaqua, New York. How sad, so many memories.
They spent over three nights in their home. .... A new study finds
that women use their whole brain when listening and men only use half
of their brain. You see, men use the other half of their brain to come
up with excuses. I don't think women use their whole brain when
listening. I think they use half of it and the other half is used to
memorize what men are saying so they can use it against them 10 years
later!
Letterman.... Letterman's Top Ways Gas Stations Are Trying to Keep
Customers Happy: Buy 10 gallons, get 11th gallon for only $8.50.
Restroom keys now on even bigger cumbersome sticks. Finally admitting
"ultra" is the exact same stuff as "regular." Want to smoke by the
pump? Go nuts! Allow customers to pay for tank of gas in just 19 easy
payments. Kids can jump around in the pit full of old spark plugs.
Doesn't paying $40 for gas make you feel sort of like Bill Gates?
Texaco features gas pumped by one of the goofballs kicked off the
"Survivor" island. On request, they'll squeegee you.
Hamilton.... President Clinton said he's sure Democrats will give
George W. Bush a honeymoon. Let's hope so. The GOP refused to give
Bill Clinton a honeymoon and he spent the last eight years in the Oval
Office trying to have one.
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