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In fact, his campaign owes a debt to Gingrich, who in 1994 did the most to convince people that the government had replaced the Soviets as their mortal enemy: it overtaxed its citizens, divided families, squandered the nation's resources and disseminated softheaded values. But a year after their declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: KNOCK 'EM FLAT | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

Buchanan, 53, has not trimmed his verbal sails since beginning his effort to oust the traitorous George Bush, whose cave-in on taxes was "the Yalta of the Republican Party." He uses Bushspeak a la Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey to lambaste the President for breaking his tax pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans The Thorn in Bush's Right Side | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Around the country, prosecutors and state legislators have lost patience with what they regard as the softhearted and sometimes softheaded approach of social-service workers. Nineteen states now have laws that allow child-abuse charges to be pressed against any woman who gives birth to a child with illegal drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We Take Away Their Kids? | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Human rights advocates in the Administration blamed "militarists" and "cold warriors" for turning a blind eye to the Shah's repressive policies. The corridors of the Pentagon reverberated with bitter denunciations of the "softheaded liberals" who had blinded President Carter to what self-avowed hardheads call "the realities of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Who Lost Iran? | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

A quick bit of history: Billy Jack (Laughlin), a Viet Nam veteran and ace of the martial arts, is part Indian, part ambulatory social conscience. He first showed up in Born Losers (1967), a B picture in the motorcycle-gang genre, hit his stride, and the jackpot, in Billy Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bigots and Bromides | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

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