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Treating Adults Like Kids
Went to the Pro-Bowl yesterday at Honolulu Stadium. Didn't drive; took a
cab. Great weather, good game, packed stands, very salty popcorn. Got
thirsty. Held baby while spouse ventured down to pick up two beers. Only
brought one back. Then had to go back down for the other. Lots of stairs.
Lots of walking. Lots of nanny-state stupidity.
Seems Hawaii's Democrats determined that a 36-year-old adult mom living in a
supposedly free country can't responsibly purchase two beers at a time. So
Gia was only allowed to buy one beer. She then had to walk all the way back
up to our seats, drop off the first beer, walk all the way back down, buy
the second beer and then walk all the way back up again. Did I mention our
seats were in the top row at the top of the stadium? To quote the immortal
words of 4th-grader and political philosopher Eric Cartman of "South Park":
"Democrats piss me off."
Good thing Gia's not pregnant again ... or I might have had to make the beer
run MYSELF. Then I'd have REALLY been mad!
- Chuck Muth, Editor
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Hillary's Hair
"The cry of the unkempt echoes across town, wafting into the Senate chambers
where the loss of one of her White House perks has left former first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton looking a bit less perky these days - at least when
it comes to her hair. While she exuded a polished look during her Senate
campaign, New York's junior senator has sent tabloids and tongues a-wagging
of late with her sagging commitment to her image. Without the help of a 24-7
stylist, one of the world's most visible women is slogging it alone,
displaying her own very public version of wash and wear that has some
political observers shouting frump. 'There's no fingernail polish on the
nails. There have been Senate sessions without even any lipstick. It's
pushing it to the Janet Reno, Donna Shalala crowd,' opines Internet scribe
Matt Drudge, who weighed in on Mrs. Clinton's style crisis in a recent
column. 'Even Patty Murray is more glamorous than Hillary,' giggles Mr.
Drudge, on the phone from his Miami newsroom."
- Washington Times, 2/2/01
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Three Stooges: Bill, Jesse & Mel
"Columnist Michelle Malkin blasts Clinton for commuting the sentence of
former Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had two years to go in his prison sentence on
a 1997 fraud conviction. Two years earlier an Illinois jury convicted
Reynolds of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child
pornography. Earlier this week the New York Post's Rod Dreher reported that
Jesse Jackson has hired Reynolds 'as a Rainbow/PUSH consultant for--are you
ready for this?--prison reform!' Reynolds's old congressional seat is now
held by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr."
- OpinionJournal.com, 2/2/01
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Gipper's Stock Continues to Rise...
"As the family of Ronald Reagan prepares to mark his 90th birthday Tuesday,
'the former president's stature and his influence in the capital seem to be
growing rather than fading away,' USA Today reports. 'The national missile
defense plan championed by the newly inaugurated President Bush? It's a
version of an idea that Reagan unveiled to considerable skepticism. Partial
privatization of Social Security? Reagan was hammered for hinting at the
notion, now supported by most Americans. Welfare reform and the expanded use
of religious institutions to provide social services? Reagan themes that
were embraced by both presidential candidates last year,' reporter Susan
Page writes. Presidential biographer Richard Norton Smith told the
reporter: 'There is a growing perception of Reagan as an historically
important president. There are legitimate debates about Reagan the
administrator, but in terms of the large historic challenges he confronted,
I suspect he'll only go up in history's estimation.'"
-Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 2/2/01
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... As Clinton's Continues to Fall
"One of the more noteworthy effects of Bill Clinton's grubby, larcenous, and
practically locust-like exit from office - that pomp-clinging,
furniture-pinching, pardons-for-crooks-dispensing, office-ransacking,
Air-Force-One-stripping processional into private life - has been to ignite
a white-hot outrage on the part of many of the former president's
to-the-death defenders in the media. Clinton-o-phile talking heads, who for
eight years were at-the-ready to spin themselves into contortions of logic
from which they still haven't unraveled, now find themselves in a righteous
funk over Mr. Clinton's pardon racket - er, procedures.
"Columnists and editorial writers who once programmed their laptops to spew
out the words 'doesn't rise to the level of impeachment' with a single
keystroke are now in a froth over the almost $200,000 worth of gifts the
Clintons carted away from the White House to houses in Chappaqua and on
Embassy Row. It's not that these scribes and commentators aren't perfectly
correct in their fits of pique. You might even say, to take a line from John
Wayne, they look beautiful in their wrath. But talk about too little too
late."
- Washington Times editorial, 2/2/01
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Sleaze Continues to Trail Clinton's Exit
"When, oh when, will Bill Clinton go away? Answer: Not soon. Unfortunately.
... From the dubious pardons to the parting 'gifts' from friends - all
rushed through at the last minute in order to circumvent Senate ethics
regulations - Bill (and Hillary) have dramatically lowered the bar for
future departing presidents. Consider some of the latest revelations:
* One year after the Treasury Department fined country musician Ry Cooder
$25,000 for recording in Cuba without permission, he suddenly obtained the
necessary license just three days before Clinton left office. This, after
the personal intervention of then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and
National Security Adviser Sandy Berger - and after Cooder (surprise!)
donated $10,000 to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.
* In what The Washington Post called 'an unheard-of last-minute gambit,'
Clinton reappointed a close friend and benefactor, Ronald Dozoretz, to a
prestigious spot on the board of the Kennedy Center. Dozoretz's term was to
expire next year; instead, he resigned and was promptly named to a NEW
six-year term. Last year Dozoretz gave nearly $14,000 to various Democratic
committees, including the Hillary campaign; his wife has donated $30,000,
plus $10,000 to Clinton's legal defense fund. They also kicked in $7,000
worth of gifts for the Clintons' Chappaqua home."
- New York Post editorial, 3/3/01
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