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...thing the Council for National Policy (CNP) is never supposed to do is make news. The invitation-only club, whose aggressively vague name is an invisibility cloak for some of the most influential economic and social conservatives in the country, meets three times a year to plot the vast right-wing conspiracy's next moves--and remind its members not to talk to reporters or even refer to the group by name. Those attending the three-day September meeting in Salt Lake City got to hear Vice President Dick Cheney talk about the war and Mitt Romney testify...
...anyone who reads The Crimson’s comments section knows that many users of the internet cloak their cowardly selves in anonymity, posting comments that show everyone how their parents, preachers, or school system failed to teach them courtesy and good values. That’s a given. But in the above instances, making fun of a person’s speech impediment seems to be a privileged category of hate. The IvyGate moderators declared that they would delete “hateful personal attacks,” and thus imply that the three comments I cited are something...
...compares the experience to hell and at one point says it has driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She is acutely aware of the discrepancy between her inner state and her public demeanor. "The smile," she writes, is "a mask" or "a cloak that covers everything." Similarly, she wonders whether she is engaged in verbal deception. "I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God - tender, personal love," she remarks to an adviser. "If you were [there], you would have said, 'What hypocrisy.'" Says the Rev. James Martin, an editor...
...power only three times in six years (none of them on spending bills), makes his threats even more serious. Hoyer pointed to a letter signed by 147 House Republicans as of June 13 vowing to sustain the President's veto as evidence of a concerted party effort to re-cloak themselves with the mantle of fiscal responsibility. "They signed that letter without even knowing what the numbers in the final bills are going to look like," Hoyer said. "It's demagoguery...
...waged against Turkish tyrants or English rivals. Smith met his match in a smoke-filled lodge of bark and skins, when he was captured and made to stand trial before the most powerful man in Virginia, an aging Algonquian chief the English knew as Powhatan. He wore a raccoon cloak, long strings of pearls and was attended by women, warriors, shamans and priests, Smith wrote, recalling that Powhatan projected "such a grave and majestical countenance as drew me into admiration to see such state in a naked savage...