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...Donor Logic "I'm assuming, since we've supported him throughout his gubernatorial career, that we'd have an opportunity to go visit if we wanted to." -Austin construction lobbyist Thomas Johnson...
...annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree-lighting ceremony (I mean, imagine if those balloons don't all drop just as the nominee finishes his speech...). As TV, conventions make "Little House on the Prairie" look like "Melrose Place." And if Americans aren't going to watch, the logic of TV "democracy" holds that the networks won't show them...
...slightly perverse logic, but Americans sometimes have a political impulse to play hunches, to cast the part contrary to conventional expectation, and to grant immunities even when they might seem irresponsible. It's the impulse that, in part, explains Ronald Reagan's success. With the economy doing well, voters may now feel it is safe to indulge the impulse...
...while on the surface, the vote seems like a no-brainer (not to mention a slap in Al Gore's face), there is a great deal about the bill that makes many abortion rights advocates very nervous. The logic of the bill (an innocent life should not end because someone else commits a crime) leads neatly into basic pro-life theory: If we suspend a pregnant woman's execution out of respect for the "innocence" of the fetus, how can we justify any abortion? Because after all, one fetus is as "innocent" as the next...
...That seemed to be the logic of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when she told "60 Minutes" in 1996 that even if sanctions against Iraq cause the death of half a million Iraqi children, "the price is worth...