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...former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young points out, Connerly and his ilk quote King on a highly selective basis. They tout the passage from the "I have a dream" speech about judging his children not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." But they ignore an earlier passage in which King angrily declared, "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black...
...honestly like to study dead white males. Melville and Hawthorne and their ilk...
...values and democratic practices is embedded in the party's genes. With a communist President in the Kremlin and a red-led parliament, the future of opposition parties and the independent Russian press would be bleak. The most threatening outcome of a free election that brought Zyuganov and his ilk to power could be the end of free elections...
...reason for their popularity is that awards shows are filling a gap left by the old TV variety shows. With Ed Sullivan, Danny Kaye, Dean Martin and their ilk gone, awards galas are pretty much the only place in prime time where viewers can see splashy musical numbers, stars being "themselves" in a relatively spontaneous setting--and a (dubious) picture of show business as one big happy family. These shows can also be fun. "It's the only live thing on television where you'll see the unexpected," says Dick Clark. "People wait to see somebody's dress fall down...
...code that the flat tax might erase. For example, would he do away with all the deductions for business travel and the highly-touted investment tax credit? Or just the Earned Income Tax Credit that gives people below the poverty line extra incentive to work? Forbes and his ilk find such complexities distasteful, but they exist for very good reasons...