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...right-wing causes and in 1998 the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). At the 2000 NRA convention, he invoked his own Moses, hoisting a rifle above his head and proclaiming that presidential candidate Al Gore could remove the gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands...
...proletariat-friendly beer tour. Sure, there are downsides to brewery-touring: because barley and hops ship well, breweries are traditionally far from pastoral farms and close to ugly, industrial areas, and because artisanal-beer makers tend to be hippies, you're going to hear a lot of Grateful Dead. But there are some major upsides: you can visit breweries, unlike wineries, right in major cities; you're finished admiring the operations in 10 minutes; and instead of sipping and spitting in uptight tasting rooms, you down samples in attached bars, many of which have food--much of it fried...
...strategy team," Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said. And there are some on Clinton's own team who say that Penn's continued presence there is not a good idea. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, her most high-profile supporter in the state, told USA Today that Penn "was just dead wrong" when he accepted the Colombian government business. Asked whether Clinton should sever her ties with Penn completely, Rendell replied: "Oh, I would...
...motives of the Christian Zionists - and of the cynicism of Israelis who play along. "It's the worst kind of anti-Semitism," says the cleric, who asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity of the issue. "At the end, these Evangelicals say that all the Jews will be dead except those who become Christians. But in the meantime, the Israelis are happy to fill their hotels with them and use their help to get American weapons...
...years later, addressing an NRA convention, he mimicked Moses? gesture at the Red Sea by holding above his head one of the 400 firearms he owned - a handmade Brooks flintlock rifle - and proclaiming that the Democratic Presidential candidate could remove that gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands." It was as if Al Gore was Messala, or the Ape King, or the Omega man's marauders, or a band of Comanches who needed a comeuppance of defiant rhetoric plus massive weaponry. The declaration assured that popular history would now remember Heston not just as a movie axiom...