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Congress votes today on the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act, a $2.3 billion military aid package which, many believe, will reduce the flow of illicit drugs into the U.S by 80 percent. In all likelihood, the bill will pass; with the strong support of the Republican leadership, and with midterm elections weeks away, no Senator or Representative will want to appear "soft on drugs" by opposing it. Unfortunately, it appears that a catchy name and the appeal of counter-drug legislation have concealed the content of a bill full of disastrous foreign policy...
...Bill Clinton is not guilty of anything remotely like "high crimes and misdemeanors." And the only treason he is guilty of concerns his wife and daughter, not the national interest. What he is guilty of is having had an illicit affair with a woman half his age and then trying to cover it up by misleading us all and letting his friends and allies go to bat for him. All of these actions are truly reprehensible. But they are surely no justifiable cause for the removal of a sitting President...
...partly because they know the big hits generated by big muscles will earn them big bucks. Ruth knew that too, but he was able to belt taters while defiling the temple of his body. He indulged in illegal drugs (alcohol during Prohibition) and occasionally the illicit honey of a hooker's caress. No one seemed to mind. The Babe was a swaggering kid, a genius and a naif, having fun being the best. McGwire took some time reaching that state of athletic nirvana known as "the groove." For his good and the game's, he seems to be there...
...record executives illegally buying off disc jockeys with envelopes full of money and drugs. Those days have mostly gone, along with the deejays who were caught taking under-the-turntable payoffs during the payola scandals of the 1960s and '80s. (The Justice Department, however, recently began a probe of illicit payments allegedly made to radio stations by Latin-music giant Fonovisia Records.) Pay-for-play is done out in the open, with the money going to the station, not the deejay. And it's all perfectly legal. Under FCC rules, such payments are O.K., so long as the station identifies...
...credible miscreant," guilty of behavior that deserves to be picked on. But the natural suspicion and swings in sentiment that always affect U.S. attitudes toward China have been hyperamplified by a convergence of election-year politics, Republican interparty fissures, and a string of unfortunate events, like the allegations of illicit Chinese campaign contributions, Indian and Pakistani nuclear blasts and reports of a possible national-security breach in U.S. satellite sales to China. Some of the steam in Washington rises from real issues, but a lot is the hot air of partisan politics...