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• Washington State High School Students Include Strip Club on Senior Trip

• Robert Novak Recounts History of His Column

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• Kerry Was Member of Skull and Bones at Yale

• JFK Had Affair With Intern Too

• 6,000 Human Languages in Risk of Extinction

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“High school class trip to Seattle includes stop at strip club.” Seattle Times (AP). May 15, 2003.

When nine students at Sprague High School took their senior trip to the big city recently, the stops in Seattle included Pike Place Market, the Space Needle and a strip club.
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Some parents in the small Eastern Washington farm town are outraged that six boys and three girls from the class of 2003 went to Deja Vu Showgirls in Seattle to view exotic dancers last week. Some students went to the club twice in the same day.

All the students were at least 18, so the detour was legal, but Principal Pat Whipple was not amused.

Novak, Robert. “40 years of columns.” TownHall.com. May 15, 2003.

Bashing McGovern did not endear us to President Nixon, who put Evans (but not me) on his enemies list. …

One wonders why Nixon would be sticking up for McGovern.

Aversa, Jeannine. “Wholesale Prices Fall Record 1.9 Percent.” Washington Post (AP). May 15, 2003.

Wholesale prices plunged by a record 1.9 percent in April as the end of the Iraq war removed pressures on energy costs, which posted their largest drop in nearly 17 years. Operating capacity at big industry nosedived to the lowest ebb since 1983.

The big drop in the Producer Price Index, which measures the prices of goods before they reach store shelves, marked an about-face from March when higher energy prices, stoked by the war, helped to catapult wholesales prices up by a hefty 1.5 percent, the Labor Department reported.

Miga, Andrew. “Kerry made his Bones in secret club - like Bush.” Boston Herald. May 15, 2003.

Sen. John F. Kerry expounds on many issues in his presidential campaign, but he's completely silent on one topic: his membership in Skull and Bones, Yale's infamous secret society.

Democrats have been denouncing the Bush’s membership in Skull and Bones for over a decade, but now it turns out that their boy was one, too. Typical Leftist hypocrisy.

Katz, Celeste, and Goldiner, Dave. “JFK intern admits all.” New York Daily News. May 15, 2003.

Long before Bill and Monica hit the headlines, Kennedy's affairs were common knowledge in the White House, but reporters kept quiet about what was considered the President's private life.

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A year later, Mimi was awarded a prestigious internship in the White House, though she couldn't even type.

A church lady turns out to have been a slut. Isn’t that special!

Connor, Steve. “Alarm raised on world's disappearing languages.” the Independent (UK). May 15, 2003.

The number of "living" languages spoken in the world is dwindling faster than the decline in the planet's wildlife, according to a new study. A comparison of the factors affecting the loss of languages and the demise of wild animals has found that the world's 6,000-plus tongues are facing the biggest risk of extinction.

Languages have become extinct throughout history, and many extant languages have changed over the years, including English.

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Beach, Milo C. “Bridging the Cultural Gap: Look to museums to teach Americans about other peoples.” OpinionJournal.com. May 15, 2003.

One wonders whether the several hundred thousand people who visited the exhibition "The Legacy of Genghis Khan" at the Metropolitan Museum in New York last winter might well have expected a historical survey of terrorism in the Islamic world. Genghis Khan, after all, is best known for making towers from the skulls of his defeated enemies. Instead, the public saw some of the noblest, most powerfully expressive and purely beautiful works of art ever created.

The art is an interesting aspect of Genghis Khan’s rule, but he was still one of history’s cruelest and most bloodthirsty rulers.

Many historians say that it was Tamerlane rather than Genghis Khan who built pyramids of human heads.

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• Jesse Jackson Uses Spectre of George Wallace in Hiring of Alabama Football Coach

• South Korea and America Vow to Resist North Korean Nuclear Blackmail

• Ann Coulter: New York Times No Longer a Newspaper of Record

• Tammy Bruce Argues Against Giving Government Power to Legislate Morality

• Ford Foundation Helps Fund the Left

• Humor: Radio Baghdad’s Top Hits

• Daniel Pipes on Conflict Between Saudi Islamic Extremists

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Hitting a low point in what was once—long, long ago—a proud career, Jesse Jackson raised the specter of George Wallace to protest a new injustice in Alabama: the hiring of an eminently talented white head football coach at the University of Alabama. Jackson has long since steered away from real civil rights issues and real victims—and now pimps himself out for the highest-profile causes, often where there is no victim to be found.

Jackson has learned that people will still look to him as a “leader” in spite of his outrageous behavior.

President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun vowed yesterday that they "will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea" and threatened the use of "further steps" to deal with the Stalinist regime's nuclear ambitions.

This column has a good short history of the diplomacy that led up to the meeting.

The Times has now willingly abandoned its mantle as the "newspaper of record," leapfrogging its impending technological obsolescence. It was already up against the Internet and Lexis-Nexis as a research tool. All the Times had left was its reputation for accuracy.

As this episode shows, the Times is not even attempting to preserve a reliable record of events. Instead of being a record of history, the Times is merely a "record" of what liberals would like history to be – the Pentagon in crisis, the war going badly, global warming melting the North Pole, and protests roiling Augusta National Golf Club. Publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger has turned the paper into a sort of bulletin board for Manhattan liberals.

My comment

"After dinner, as the two men walked in the Boston Common, Punch asked what his son later characterized as ‘the dumbest question I’ve ever heard in my life’: ‘If a young American soldier comes upon a young North Vietnamese soldier, which one do you want to see get shot?’ Arthur answered, ‘I would want to see the American get shot. It’s the other guy’s country; we shouldn’t be there.’"
       — from the July 26, 2003 issue of The New Yorker

All of this stems from a case known as Bowers v. Hardwick, with which 17 years ago the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Georgia’s anti-sodomy law and consequently enshrined the idea that the government had an interest and a right to make illegal what are considered immoral acts. Make no mistake: I’ve made clear my concern about the moral vacuum perpetrated by the Left onto society. And yet, if we surrender to theocracy-lite we are abdicating what I think is one of our more important responsibilities as private citizens: the participation in the development of our culture and social structure, especially when it’s going in the wrong direction. The bottom line is: it’s our job, not the government’s.

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While a few morally corrupt individuals are attempting to kill right and wrong, the last thing we need is government deciding it will legislate morality. That is the ultimate abdication of a free people. It also happens to be impossible, and we know it.

Ms. Bruce fails to recognize that regulation of sexual behavior by government has been the traditional practice and that the best way to remove this concept from American law is by a constitutional amendment.

Ms. Bruce falsely says “that adultery wasn’t a crime;” I believe that several states have laws criminalizing adultery on the books.

Ms. Bruce gets in a high dudgeon about Texas only criminalizing sex acts between persons  of the same gender. Several states have incorporated this concept into their laws, including Arkansas.

One of the most disturbing realities in American society today is that the Ford Foundation, which is supposed to represent the love of America and of American values, finances the far Left. Ford is especially financially generous, for instance, to radical entities such as the anti-War, neo-Com movement. It also provides substantial grants to the Tides Foundation and its sister non-profits: The Tides Center, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Groundspring.org, the Tsunami Fund, Tides Canada Foundation, and Highwater, Inc., a for-profit real estate firm that manages Tides’ properties including its home office in San Francisco’s Presidio.

The [Tides] fund also provided support to Islamic Networks, Inc., a public relations organization which has attempted to convince Americas that Islam doesn't oppress women, in spite of the evidence. The Council for American Islamic Relations received significant funding from the Fund as well. Other recipients of Fund aid included our old friends the National Lawyer's Guild and other "social justice" and neo-Com "independent media" groups.

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As a direct effort to fund the anti-war movement, Tides established an Iraq Peace Fund which has granted about a half-million dollars to various anti-war groups, including MoveOn and the radical leftist National Council of Churches.

Saudi Arabia's origins lie in the mid-eighteenth century, when a tribal leader named Muhammad Al Saud joined forces with a religious leader named Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab. The first gave his name to the kingdom that (with the exception of two interim periods) still exists; the second gave his name to the version of Islam that still serves as the kingdom's ideology.

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The current iteration of the Saudi kingdom came into being in 1902 when a Saudi leader captured Riyadh. Ten years later, there emerged a Wahhabi armed force known as the Ikhwan (Arabic for "Brethren") which in its personal practices and its hostility toward non-Wahhabis represented the most militant dimension of this already militant movement. One war cry of theirs went: "The winds of Paradise are blowing. Where are you who hanker after Paradise?"

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• University Environment Conducive to Socialism

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If you wish to learn facts, the university can be a great place. If you wish to study the natural sciences, the university is a great place. But if you want to acquire wisdom or to become a mature adult, the university is usually an impediment.

… The university, for a tenured professor in particular, is closer to a socialist utopia than any place on earth. …

… In fact, for more than a few students, the university environment is not all that different from that of a cult. …

… If you have gone from kindergarten to graduate school to teaching in college without serious time in the non-academic world, it takes a major effort to be an adult. Spending your entire life with minors is a recipe for permanent immaturity.

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