Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rather than be caught off guard, the Dole campaign began to gently probe Powell's vulnerabilities. At the same time, a confidential memo written by Terry Jeffrey, Pat Buchanan's campaign manager, labeled Powell "a perfect foil for our campaign" and urged Buchanan to attack him immediately...
...sure, the kind of moral contortionism on display in West's piece is hardly the exclusive province of the Left. In a recent article in Commentary, Norman Podhoretz argued that Pat Robertson's vocal support for the State of Israel more than compensates for the overt anti-semitism that is to be found in Robertson's books...
There is a difference between institutional racism and institutional oppression. Institutional racism, in the guise of Pat Buchanan, inherent in the rhetoric of Charles Murray, and implicit in the image of Willie Horton as the quintessential criminal in America, are words geared at demonizing the black race, provoking other Americans to think of black people as stupid and predisposed to criminal activity. The tools of institutional oppression, in the form of police brutality in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Saint Louis and Chicago, are the sticks and stones which actively hurt the black community and keep it from achieving everything that...
Last week, the Expository Writing Program received a $2 million pat on the back from the Sosland Foundation. Interest from the gift will endow the directorship of the program and fund the Sosland Prize to reward outstanding first-year writing. While we welcome the gift, we think that the money could have been better spent...
...that Farrakhan and his followers pose any serious threat to Jewish lives or influence. The real danger of Farrakhan's anti-Semitic fulminations is that they divert blacks from their real enemies--in much the same way that right-wing Republicans like Pat Buchanan blame immigrants and liberals for the declining living standards of average workers--and keep them from taking a clear-eyed look at what the Nation of Islam has done, or not done, to advance racial justice. The simple truth is that the Jews Farrakhan so often reviles contributed more in lives, money and effort...