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...strange world. Conservative critics (Robert Bork, for example) have said that it originated in the Big Bang of the '60s. But in a new book called "HOW WE GOT HERE - The 70s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)" (Basic Books, 418 pages, $25), David Frum offers a more interesting and more nuanced thesis...
...view that this is kind of a clean break with the past," said Levin. "I don't see a regulatory problem." He is undoubtedly right as a predictor of government (in)action. Which is to say the takeover will probably be the beneficiary of the Robert Bork-Chicago School efficiency theory of antitrust, which bloomed with Reagan and his deregulators...
...Class Day address should go to an alternate speaker who embodies their values. And if we at Dartboard may be so bold, we'd like to offer a suggestion: a fellow political jiltee, who also saw the objections to his views intensified by his unfortunately unsympathetic mien. Robert Bork, come on down...
...they're popping corks. Party leaders are united in defense of this man--their guiding principles of moral and legal relativity have been elevated to an art form (one standard for liberal Presidents, another for everyone else). The politics of personal destruction that they invented (with attacks on Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, et al.) has, on Clinton's behalf, been perfected by pornographers and private eyes...
...Democrats, meanwhile, were aware that if Clinton could not get a fair trial in a G.O.P.-controlled Senate, it would be in part because of what the Democrats did to Robert Bork and John Tower, and to the methods the Democratic majority had long used to undercut Republican administrations. "If we can't do this," an off-message Democratic Senator said Thursday night, "we're all to blame." And so they agreed to try one last time to pull back from the brink...