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Hil: Wanted to wring his neck.”  New York Daily News. June 4, 2003.

Sen. Hillary Clinton writes that her husband lied to her about Monica Lewinsky until the very end and that she wanted to "wring Bill's neck" when he finally came clean about the affair.

 

Hillary is trying to perpetuate the myth that Ms. Lewinsky was Slick’s only paramour. Given that she know about Slick’s other paramours this is as phony as Jesse Jackson bringing his pregnant mistress to the sessions in which he “counseled” Slick.

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Peterson, Karen S. “Study links depression, suicide rates to teen sex.”  USA Today. June 3, 2003.

The Heritage study taps the government-funded National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The Heritage researchers selected federal data on 2,800 students ages 14-17. The youngsters rated their own "general state of continuing unhappiness" and were not diagnosed as clinically depressed.

The Heritage researchers do not find a causal link between "unhappy kids" and sexual activity, says Robert Rector, a senior researcher with Heritage. "This is really impossible to prove." But he says that study findings send a clear message about unhappy teens that differs from one portrayed in the popular culture, that "all forms of non-marital sexual activity are wonderful and glorious, particularly the younger (teen) the better," he says.

 

This article does not contain the word “race.” If the reports of black illegitimacy are correct then black adolescents should be the most sexually active. If there was a direct link between adolescent sexuality then black adolescents should have the highest incidence of suicide.

Unless there is a higher suicide rate among sexually active black adolescents then there must be more factors involved.

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Taranto, James. “Best of the Web Today.” OpinionJournal.com. , 2003.

Big-Headed Bloggers Parade on Raines

 

 

 

 

Dennis the Menace
 

There is some legitimate dispute about just what happened when Lynch was captured and later rescued. In April Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler acknowledged that the paper had cited probably false claims by unnamed "U.S. officials" that Lynch had gone down shooting after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. On the other hand, much of the Lynch revisionism has been based on a patently silly report from the BBC claiming, among other things, that the soldiers who rescued Pfc. Lynch were firing blanks.

For the sake of the historical record, it would be worthwhile to clarify what actually happened rather than rely on accounts produced during the fog of war. But there's also a political agenda at work here: Far-left critics of America are arguing that if there were errors in the original account of Lynch's capture and rescue, it somehow illustrates that the Bush administration, the nation and the military are fundamentally evil. (See this typically bilious Robert Scheer column for an example.)

 

Rulon, Malia “Lawmaker Seeks Videotape of Lynch Rescue.” Kansas City Star (AP). June 3, 2003.

 

To the Left, March
 

John Kerry may be positively middle-of-the-road when compared with Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean, but The American Spectator Online makes clear that these things are relative. Last night, TASO reports, the haughty, French-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by the way served in Vietnam, "appeared on Park Avenue where a former Goldman Sachs partner hosted the likes of grand lefties Robert Downey, Sr. (the one who taught his kid how to smoke pot), Erica Jong, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, movie director Robert Altman (who has still not moved out of the country), Carly Simon, and Candice Bergen."

 

The Prowler. “Kerry And The Comrades.” The American Spectator. June 4, 2003.

The Weapons Mystery
 
 

Brookes, Peter. “When Weapons Go Missing.” New York Post. June , 2003.

Notice how you don't see any of the governments that opposed the use of force saying: "I told you so." That's because no one disagreed that Saddam had an arsenal of WMD. In fact, in the fall of last year, the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously that Baghdad had WMD and must disarm. The disagreements with Paris and Berlin came over how to disarm Saddam of his WMD, not whether he had it.

Eponymous Dowdification
 

"Me . . . has no intelligence."--Maureen Dowd, New York Times, June 4

 

Dowd, Maureen. “Bomb and Switch.” New York Times. June 4, 2003.

Life in the Vast Lane
 

Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose husband was president for eight years prior to her election to the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, has a White House memoir coming out next week, and the Associated Press has a sneak preview. In the book she reveals that her husband is--brace yourself--a liar:

The AP doesn't say if the senator offers an apology to those she smeared as part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy," but certainly one is due.

 

Woodward, Calvin, and McDonough, Siobhan. “Hillary Clinton's Book Details Betrayal.” Yahoo! News (AP). June 4, 2003.

   
   
   
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Malkin, Michelle. “Not Too Long Ago, Some Begged for an Income Tax.”  Wall Street Journal. June 4, 2003. p .

Less than a century ago, the U.S. Congress, responding to pressure from its constituents, voted to start collecting taxes on people's income.

Many Americans, especially small-business owners, farmers, trade unionists and people who lived in the Midwest, West and South, cheered the new tax. Finally, with this new tax, they might get some relief from their financial struggles.

 

This article fails to point out that Abraham Lincoln’s income tax was unconstitutional and that high tariffs were a Republican policy that were one of the causes of the Civil War.

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Crossen, Cynthia. “Not Too Long Ago, Some Begged for an Income Tax.”  Wall Street Journal. June 4, 2003. p .

Less than a century ago, the U.S. Congress, responding to pressure from its constituents, voted to start collecting taxes on people's income.

Many Americans, especially small-business owners, farmers, trade unionists and people who lived in the Midwest, West and South, cheered the new tax. Finally, with this new tax, they might get some relief from their financial struggles.

 

This article fails to point out that Abraham Lincoln’s income tax was unconstitutional and that high tariffs were a Republican policy that were one of the causes of the Civil War.

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Malkin, Michelle. “Who Let 'Enrique Sosa Alvarez' Loose?”  FrontPageMagazine.com (Townhall.com). June 17, 2003.

The story made headline news all week. Now, here is the story behind the story that the liberal media has failed to tell.

The man arrested and charged with nine felony counts related to the terrifying abduction and sexual assault is an illegal alien. As of this writing, not a single newspaper covering the story has bothered to report on the accused attacker's immigration history. …

 

If these cities refuse to obey Federal law they should have their Federal funds stopped.

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Radosh, Ronald. “An Open Letter to the Rosenberg Son.”  FrontPageMagazine.com. June 18, 2003.

 

 

For your own sake, I hope you are mentally prepared for the inevitable day when the KGB’s own archives reveal that your parents were guilty. Get ready, because it’s going to be soon.

 

Radosh points out that the Venona transcripts show:

  • “the Venona decrypts conclusively prove that American Communists were indeed agents of a foreign power”

  • Julius Rosenberg “put together a network of seven primary sources and two active liaison-couriers, as well as three others who carried out support work. All of these people were recruited, as was your father, from the ranks of the American Communist Party.”

  • Julius Rosenberg “stole top secret military data, including the proximity fuse that years later the Soviets used to shoot down Major Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 plane. Klehr and Haynes refer to the fuse as “one of the most innovative advances of American military technology,” for which Moscow awarded your father a $1,000 bonus in March 1945.”

  • The government didn’t want the Rosenbergs to be executed; it wanted to use the threat of the death penalty to break the Soviet spy ring Julius Rosenberg had created.

  • The Rosenbergs could have saved their lives by confessing but chose to die to protect the Party.

 

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Paglia, Camille. “How Far Will Good Intentions Take Hillary?”  FrontPageMagazine.com (The Times). June 18, 2003.

Hillary’s overwrought account of her shock at this revelation has been rightly received with disbelief and scorn in the US. It has been widely reported that Hillary had for two decades acted as overseer and disciplinarian in stifling rumours about Bill’s “bimbo eruptions” — the inconvenient popping up of gal after gal claiming to have been wooed by the Arkansas Lothario. That Hillary was under few illusions about the Lewinsky affair from the start was suggested by her legalistic parsings in a notorious early interview where she blamed “a vast right-wing conspiracy” for the Clintons’ woes.

… Despite its status as a crucible of feminism, the US has oddly lagged in producing viable female candidates for the top job — partly because American presidents are also commanders-in-chief and most women politicians (like Hillary) have been overly concerned with caretaking issues at the expense of military expertise.

… The book is targeted to readers around the world, where Hillary has been seen not as a controversial, sometimes capricious or vindictive backstage in-fighter, but as an outspoken defender of women’s rights.

 

 

 

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Schaffer, Michael Currie. “When Monica takes to the streets, Iraqis notice.” Jewish World Review. June 4, 2003.

In Iraq, no set of wheels is held in higher regard than the large, mostly white Toyota Land Cruiser sport utility vehicles long favored by government officials, intelligence agents and VIPs from Basra to Kirkuk.

Locals call the vehicles "Monicas," as in Lewinsky, after the former White House intern whose appearance meets Iraqi standards for both feminine and automotive beauty.

"They are a very tempting car," said Marwan Shaban, a car dealer in the nearby northern city of Mosul. "Just as Monica tempted Clinton, they will tempt you."

 

Curiously, this article doesn’t say whether the Iraqi Muslims are put off by Ms. Lewinsky being Jewish.

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Hamilton, Argus. “And now for the important news .....” Jewish World Review. June 4, 2003.

Howard Dean called John Kerry a copycat for stealing his applause lines. The crop of Democratic candidates is just pitiful. If these guys don't get more interesting, Hillary Clinton could be the first member of her family to be drafted.

Hillary Clinton promotes her White House memoir on ABC's 20/20 Sunday. Is this necessary? In this time of war and recession, the last thing the country wants to read is another tell-all by a woman who claims that she slept with Bill Clinton.

 

 

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In the news.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. June 4, 2003. (p 1A)
  • Benjamin James Johnson, pled guilty to stealing paintings from Odai Hussein’s palace.
  • 32-year-old Shannon Denney was charged with “outraging public decency and public morals” for breastfeeding an infant at a Stigler, Oklahoma day care center without the parents’ permission.
  • Danish Lutheran Pastor Thorkild Grosboel was suspended for saying “there is no heavenly God, there is no eternal life, there is no resurrection” in a recent interview.
 
 

These charges seem overblown as if Ms. Denney had sexually abused the child. It could make for an interesting trial.

An atheist has no business being a Christian minister; he should have resigned when he started believing this.

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Runk, David. “2 found guilty of terror conspiracy: Arab immigrants in ‘sleeper cell’ that potentially targeted Disneyland.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (AP). June 4, 2003.

DETROIT — Two Arab immigrants accused of gathering intelligence on potential targets from Disneyland to an air base in Turkey were convicted of conspiring to support Islamic terrorists Tuesday, the first guilty verdicts involving a "sleeper cell" uncovered after Sept. 11, 2001.

A third man was found guilty only on a fraud charge, and a fourth was acquitted of all counts.

 

 

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Kaufman, Marc. “Surgeon general favors banning tobacco goods.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Washington Post). June 4, 2003.

Surgeon General Richard Carmona said Tuesday that he supports the banning of tobacco products — the first time that the government’s top doctor and public health advocate has made such a strong statement about the subject.

Testifying at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on smokeless tobacco and "reduced risk" tobacco products, Carmona was asked if he would "support the abolition of all tobacco products."

"I would at this point, yes," he replied.

 

Is Carmona a Clinton appointee? If not, why is an allegedly conservative administration doing promoting nanny-state fascism?

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Roger Pauly of Conway writes to point out that the “stars and bars” is different from what is now known as the Confederate battle flag, which he says was the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
 
 
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