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...Barr of Georgia--the member of the House Judiciary Committee who wanted President Clinton to be impeached even before the Monica Lewinsky matter surfaced--thinks he knows what real America is about. When I testified before the House Judiciary Committee, Barr contrasted me (as well as three other law professors two with Jewish names and the third a black former judge) with "real America." Judge Higgenbotham and I both expressed resentment over being deemed something other than a real American. It reminded me of the bad old days of McCarthyism, where people who disagreed with the Senator from Wisconsin were...
Just who does Barr regard as "real Americans"? Some clue can be discerned from his close association with a group called the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), to whose national board meeting and conference he gave the keynote address on June...
...arena Starr enters Thursday is nothing like the well-mannered setting of the courtroom. The hearing could look more like a World Wrestling Federation match, a forum where Starr's words could be drowned out by jousting between, say, Barney Frank, Democratic maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions...
...users of supplements want the agency to tell them what they can and can't take. "I would be horrified if this little bit of autonomy were taken away," says Teresa Tudury, 48, who has been taking vitamins and other diet aids since a 1986 bout with Epstein-Barr virus left her with "unbearable fatigue...
...done a good job of attracting true believers from both sides. "We're terribly polarized," says a staff member with a tinge of pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties to the National Rifle Association. On the left are some of Congress's strongest civil rights partisans, including Waters and Texan Sheila Jackson Lee. The committee has had some low-key bipartisan successes in areas such as court reform and defining intellectual-property...