Word: unfitting
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MIKE TYSON Board says he's mentally fit to box, can now let men hit him in the head. O.K.--what's unfit...
...American Birth Control League (another predecessor of Planned Parenthood) was "racial progress." She used her magazine Birth Control Review to promote White Supremacy and Nazistyle eugenics. She once wrote of her goal of creating a "race of thoroughbreds" by encouraging "more children from the fit, and less from the unfit." In 1932, the magazine outlined Sanger's "Plan for Peace," which called for coerced sterilization, mandatory segregation and rehabilitative concentration camps for all "dysgenic stocks." In 1933, the magazine even published an article by Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society...
Have President Clinton's actions violated those "tolerable limits," as good a standard for impeachment as any offered by the Founding Fathers? Clearly the answer is no. The president is not unfit to continue in office while maintaining the safety, security and integrity of the nation. Clinton may be making little progress on his domestic agenda, and global threats persist. But the nation is, without doubt, not on the brink of collapse...
...people in his official capacity, he can play by his own rules. For this assumption, our collective outrage should grow every time we see our president apologize in one instance and deny in the next. It is this disrespect for the people that makes the president fundamentally unfit for the high office which has been entrusted to him. And it is for this disrespect that he must either resign or be removed from power so that our nation can take that high office back...
Joel Stein wrote that baseball is "a game full of the fat and unfit." Granted, baseball players are not conditioned to run up and down a basketball court or soccer field, but I would like Stein to go to a baseball game and calculate the percentage of players who are "fat and unfit." It is probably about the same as the percentage of people in the U.S. who have a Mohawk haircut--not counting the Berkeley area. EDDIE FORD Berkeley, Calif...