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...National Endowment for the Humanities. (The nea, you will remember, funded Piss Christ and the Mapplethorpe show. The neh, more recently, helped fund U.S. history standards that contained 19 references to Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism, and not one to Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison or the Wright brothers.) The endowments' grantees of progressive and independent vision live, of course, at the teat of the taxpayer, a parasitism the new Congress promises...
...articles on Clinton's formative experiences, Clinton decided against running for President in 1988 in part out of fears that rumors of extramarital affairs would scuttle his chances and destroy his Family. Maraniss quotes extensively from on-the-record interviews with longtime Clinton friend and aide Betsey Wright, who described sitting down with Clinton and ``listing the names of women he had allegedly had affairs with and the places where they were said to have occurred.'' They went over the list twice, Maraniss writes, trying to figure out which women might tell their stories to the press...
That does not exempt him from charges of hypocrisy. ``Newt Gingrich complained about the corrupt system when he was in the minority,'' says Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause, who six years ago gave crucial support to Gingrich's effort to oust Speaker Jim Wright for ethics violations. ``Now he's running that corrupt system, and it's politics as usual...
...American civilization than progress. It was a combination of patriotism and technological innovation that was instilled in Eisenach as a child. In the first grade, he and his classmates in Mrs. Bumstead's class in Dayton, Ohio, would regularly hear B- 52s flying overhead, heading back to nearby Wright-Patterson Air Base. Each time, the kids' response was the same. ``We would stop whatever we were doing in class and clap...
Skip Snyder Beacon, New York As an american living abroad, I can't agree with what Robert Wright wrote about the ``electronic dangers'' to American democracy. Using electronic communications is not against the intentions of the Founding Fathers, nor does their use create a substitute direct democracy. Discussion is the strength of democracy, and an increased amount of it cannot take the power of legislation out of the hands of the people's representatives...