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BEST PUNCH: Arnie's flacks surmised that the "crackpot" is "just mad at Republicans because he's afraid they're going to cut off his Social Security...
...contribution to 20th century demonology. Unfortunately for Wagener, fate continues to be unkind. His book drags him from the mercy of oblivion to play the part of history's fool. The Hitler he intended to re-create is not a tragic hero but a monumental bore. Gaseous generalizations and crackpot theories pour forth Like beer at an Oktoberfest. He thrills to something called the Odic force, "power rays" that flow from healthy bodies. He invokes Einstein's mathematics to justify his own mystical yearnings and "inner vibrations." He attempts to cross socialism with Darwin. He sees Jews as both "economic...
WHILE THERE ARE PECULIAR PEOPLE AND ideas among all groups, conservative Christians are not crackpot extremists. Evangelicals care about people from all walks of life and hope they will have a personal relationship with...
...governors and the congressional caucus matter more. Yes, the presidential nominee matters infinitely more. Yes, a party is a cacophony of many voices and many views—and 10,000 activist-junkies all of whom have a crackpot grand strategy for victory...
Thus President Bush’s promise to bring liberty and freedom to the Middle East should not be viewed as some crackpot scheme or the manifestation of a bizarre messiah complex, but rather a course of action that is exceedingly common-sense. Knowing what we know now about the nature of terrorism, it seems that Bush’s ideas are not only reasonable but are in fact the only long-term solution to the problem we face. Since only freedom has been shown to reduce the incidence of both domestic and international terror, doesn?...