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...court found that cross burning is also protected by the First Amendment. A Minnesota teenager, Robert A. Viktora, burned a cross on the front lawn of a black family in St. Paul and was charged under a city ordinance that banned any action "which one knows . . . arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." Scalia called the ordinance unconstitutional on its face "in that it prohibits otherwise permitted speech solely on the basis of the subjects the speech addresses." He was quick to add, "Let there be no mistake about...
Democrats charged that Bush's opposition to the House bill and a similar Senate version stems from fears that more new Democrats will register than new Republicans, and pointed with indignant alarm to statistics showing that only 36% of the adult population voted in 1990 elections -- a situation that may have as much to do with disillusionment with endless Washington politicking as with obstacles to registration...
...break down entrenched sex roles, the feminist movement has achieved nothing. That women have learned nothing. That women still bask in a sense of worthlessness that sounds ominously like Betty Friedan's "problem with no name." If all of this is true, feminists should regard this book with considerable alarm and demand that the problem be explored systematically (Heyn readily admits that her sampling is not scientific) to diagnose the cause and extent of the problem...
EACH TIME AN INDEPENDENT PRESIdential prospect rises above asterisk standing, an alarm shrieks on Capitol Hill. Sure enough, Ross Perot's strong showing in polls has prompted dozens of legislators to ask the Congressional Research Service for a memorandum on the roles the House and Senate play if no ticket wins a majority of the 538 electoral votes. The dry legalisms make that process sound easy: the House would pick the President from the top three candidates, while the Senate would select the Vice President from the leading two. But the politics of the issue are more complex and potentially...
What should instead give voters some pause is Perot's sincere let's-go-back-to-the-way-it-was-in-my-civics-book naivete, a primeval patriotism that is a pivotal part of his political appeal. Each time Perot says a political question has a "simple answer," alarm bells should go off. Each time Perot promises to get "world-class experts" together to solve a national problem, warning lights should flash. There is, alas, nothing simple about governing today's America; there is nothing easy about solving pressing problems when the government is nearly $4 trillion in debt; world...