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...been traveling the country making powerful speeches and accepting awards from conservatives who hail him as a hero fighting for his vision of a color-blind society, a black man whose rags-to-riches story suggests that preferences aren't necessary for black achievement. He has been lobbying Newt Gingrich and other G.O.P. leaders to back an antipreference bill in Congress (maybe next year, says Gingrich) and helping groups who are organizing similar initiatives in six other states. But only one of those groups, an effort in Houston, has begun the arduous task of gathering qualifying signatures. To succeed, such...
Whenever these grisly abandonments occur, right-to-life proponents argue that we've arrived at the bottom of the slippery slope they've been warning us about since Roe v. Wade in 1973. As usual, Newt Gingrich goes too far when he talks about a culture of Dumpster babies, but why couldn't Melissa have wrapped the baby in a cloth and left him, as panicked girls used to do, someplace safe like the church steps, or turn to the Yellow Pages, filled with "pregnancy counseling" and "abortion alternatives...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The GOP revolt against Newt Gingrich ended in a whimper as House Republicans vowed to put their differences aside, but dissent still divides the party even at the leadership level. The uprising fizzled last night after a small group of disgruntled Republicans met for less than 20 minutes without the company of the GOP leadership to voice their disenchantment with the Speaker. The poor showing led organizers to downplay the significance of the unrest. "I don't think the Speaker is in any trouble in any sense of the term trouble. This is politics," said Lindsey Graham...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Revolutions, it is said, eat their young. But sometimes they eat their leaders, and that is the issue on the table today in a closed-door meeting of House Republicans as they decide whether to challenge Newt Gingrich's leadership. Disgruntled sophomore Representatives, many of whom owe their election to Gingrich, are calling for his head out of a growing feeling that he has led them down several politically disastrous blind alleys. An anonymous letter on Congressional stationary, circulated after last week's disaster relief bill debacle, called for a vote of confidence in the GOP's leadership...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Christian Coalition has tapped two naturals to follow Ralph Reed: Randy Tate, a 1994 Gingrich House soldier, will replace Reed as director, and former Reagan Cabinet member Don Hodel will assume Pat Robertson's post as president. The message: to thine own self be true. "The last shred of the non-partisan fig leaf has been destroyed," says TIME's Laurence Barrett. "Both of these guys are even more partisan, and more explicitly so, than Reed." Putting Reed's torch in such hands suggests the coalition is ready to concentrate on its natural constituency -- white, Protestant, conservative...