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...have dissented against what can only be seen as totalitarian methods and paranoid, hostile demogoguery advanced by the leadership of the Republican Club. The name "Republican" has been selfishly invoked in an attempt to legitimize caustic and deeply personal crusades against gays, abortion, Liberals, moral relativists, etc. In their blind, unqualified support of rightist, truth-proclaiming organizations like Peninsula and Association Against Learning in the Absense of Religion and Morality (AALARM), however, Anderson and his majority have undermined the club's legitimacy and credibility. They have isolated themselves in a monolithic, polarized extreme. Of course, they...
...board of the Republican Club have a right to say what they want and as loudly as they want. These groups thrive on publicity, and each new criticism of their actions inevitably brings with it a wave of smug denunciations. They viee each criticism as another proof of their paranoid claim that a hostile, unified left is out to get them...
...REACH-OUT ALBANIA PLAN. Paranoid, reclusive Albania is beginning to reach out and touch someone. The nation opened telephone links with 54 Western countries earlier this year, and this month a direct U.S.-Albania link is being inaugurated by AT&T. This week the National Assembly begins meeting to consider a number of -- for Albania -- revolutionary proposals. Among them: reinstituting the Ministry of Justice, which was abolished in the '60s on the pretext that it was no longer needed, and the right of the accused to have a defense lawyer...
...version, a raunch artist taps into the grudge a white working-class male may hold against the beneficiaries of affirmative action and liberal sympathy: minorities, the handicapped, gays. They get all the breaks, he figures; now what about me? His counterattack is to bad-mouth them with paranoid intensity. And that's where the sick threat and thrill come...
...problem is that the authors--despite their claims to be "job interview experts"--actually have no jobs. After being rejected by hundreds, perhaps thousands of employers, they hatched a sinister strategy: They would make the rest of us completely paranoid about making eye contact, shaking hands and "dressing for success," and then they would tiptoe behind our backs and take our jobs...