I read a very effective piece in the American Spectator in 1992/3 by Tom Bethell arguing that the United States steadily moving to the Left was going to happen--I wish I could find it and read it again--and recently this compelling editorial by L. Brent Bozell, again very effective, showing the difference in media coverage of two politicians acting similarly in each going against his party's political interest--Anthony Adams, a Calif. Republican assemblyman, and Joe Lieberman. One goes against his campaign pledge to enact tax increases and is very sympathetically treated in the Washington Post for the understandably angry response. The other temporarily stops acting like a fetchin'-step statist and gets The Treatment: Joe's all about Joe, the selfish bastard. Of course as Mark Levin has said on his radio programme, it was all a dog-and-pony show.
We're doomed. Even Reagan couldn't shrink gubmit. No one is coming to restore traditional American values. Publik Edyacashun prolifies* many. *A back formation word meaning "to make into a proletarian, easily led ignoramus in search only for bread and circuses or the modern equivalent."
I really liked reading Robert Novak's impossible-to-put-down autobiography--he was a pessimist like me, which is why he refrained from entering politics. (He was astonishingly ignorant about his Jewish roots, his birth religion, making his switch to Catholicism a lot less impressive to me as it is for other people. David Klinghoffer, agreeing with me, deals incisively with it as I've come to expect from him.)
I tried to upload a photo of me indeed reading Novak's text with great scrutiny on a friend's hammock next to Lake Winnipesaukee, but the photo is too large.
We're doomed. Even Reagan couldn't shrink gubmit. No one is coming to restore traditional American values. Publik Edyacashun prolifies* many. *A back formation word meaning "to make into a proletarian, easily led ignoramus in search only for bread and circuses or the modern equivalent."
I really liked reading Robert Novak's impossible-to-put-down autobiography--he was a pessimist like me, which is why he refrained from entering politics. (He was astonishingly ignorant about his Jewish roots, his birth religion, making his switch to Catholicism a lot less impressive to me as it is for other people. David Klinghoffer, agreeing with me, deals incisively with it as I've come to expect from him.)
I tried to upload a photo of me indeed reading Novak's text with great scrutiny on a friend's hammock next to Lake Winnipesaukee, but the photo is too large.
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