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There is a paradox in all of this, in a world where by their actions, both incumbents and challengers have turned conventional thought topsy-turvy. Experience in government is a liability nowadays, not an asset. Contempt for Congress is a virtue, not an unpatriotic vice...
...Court has cleared the way for Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry's jailing. Terry's problems date back to the 1992 Democratic National Convention, when a member of his group displayed a fetus to candidate Bill Clinton, in flagrant violation of a court order. Terry was subsequently convicted for contempt of court and given a five-month jail sentence. Terry appealed, but today the Supreme Court left Terry's conviction and sentence intact...
...asked Fine about the grant Wednesday night. He reacted with contempt, pointing out that I had the amount of the grant wrong (I thought it was for $8,000; it was actually for $24,000). He sought to blame The Crimson for misreporting details of the story. And he refused to acknowledge that he had done something wrong. (What exactly happened to the $24,000 is still not clear. Fine admitted Wednesday that he spent it; he didn...
...profoundly self-destructive. Despite my respect for the church and my contempt for some of the overstimulated moral idiocy of the secular world, I think that in two areas -- 1) contraception and 2) ordination and the role of women -- the church has gone needlessly, dangerously astray. John Paul II, who should be one of the greatest Popes, has settled for a curiously stolid "Here I stand." Strangely unevolved, he seems thus diminished in what should be a triumphant time...
...spend my time moralizing about the problems," he said. "I'm going to spend my time changing government policy that has assaulted people's incentives to be productive." But at the convention he was the brusque, twangy Texan who knew how to play on the crowd's utter contempt for Clinton, while sidestepping the social issues they care most about. "Phil gets up every morning, asks himself what he can do to get himself closer to the White House, and then he goes out and does it," says a former House colleague...