ticket of Colin Powell and Bill Bradley: at last, a third party WallrnStreet and the Pentagon can love!)rn1should like to see, instead ofrnan America First Party, arncluster of 75 or 180 smaller entities:rna West Kansas First Party, a RhodernIsland First Party, a SouthernrnOregon First Party, and so on,rnrepresenting every nook andrncranny of all 48 states.rnThe...

Foundation Vile Center—I should like to see, instead of anrnAmerica First Party, a cluster of 75 or 180 smaller entities: arnWest Kansas First Partv, a Rhode Island First Partv, a SouthernrnOregon First Partv, and so on, representing every nook andrncranm of all 48 states. I say 48 because the revolution’s got tornstart somewhere, so at...

port provided the foundation for political parties. This, in turn,rnled to the development of a system of political spoils. Underrnthis system, a large number of federal patronage positions werernestablished, and the beneficiaries of these positions were requiredrnto “donate” a percentage of their wages to the party inrnpower. These mandatory contributions were outlawed in 1867.rnAlthough the...

substantially enhanced the 1971 act by reinstating overall ceilingsrnon each candidate’s campaign expenditures, b- imposingrnstrict new contribution regulations, and by strengthening disclosurernrequirements. The amendments also encouraged contributionsrnfrom political action committees (PACs) by repealingrnthe Hatch Act provisions prohibiting unions andrncorporations with federal contracts from creating PACs.rnThese strict provisions brought together opponents fromrnboth ends of the political...

contributions on behalf of specific candidates and to creditrntheir campaign accounts for the amount of the contribution.rnThe firewall is similar to a blind trust and is constructed so thatrnfor an single contribution no person, other than the contributor,rnknows with certaint- both the name of the contributor andrnthe name of the recipient.rnOne uav of producing the...

Lastly, I wonder whether there remains any reason for makingrna contribution directly to the candidate rather than throughrnthe Bank. The reasons for making such contributions are: to influencernlegislation, to gain privileged access to the officeholder,rnto gain privileged access to information, to thank a legislator forrnsupporting or promoting a particular piece of legislation, and tornsupport a...

The Waco holocaust brought the message home. Ahiiostrnhalf the Branch Davidians killed at Mount Carmel were minoritiesrn—28 blacks, six Hispanics, and fi’e Asians. So there wasrna good reason for militants of different races to start cooperating:rnmore and more, the seemed to be fighting the same fight.rnAs Fletcher put it, “As things get worse, blacks and...

the government, the police and councilmen, to live right herernin the community,” concludes Al-lkhlas. Moor goes further,rnstriking an almost Tolstoyan note: “If we’re all following andrnsubmitting to the will of God . . . then you don’t need government.”rnHilder, a philosophical anarchist, is quick to agree.rnThis is not to sav that any of this will...

gear up once more to insure economic prospcritw and an anticrimerncrackdown will restore order. Like most vile racists, thernneo-Nazi “national revolutionaries” deify the Russifiedrn”Ar’an” race, attributing special mystical qualities to it, whilernhating true religion, particularlv Christianity, though some celebraternancient Russian paganism and black magic as a sort ofrnNew Age alternative, and others see an emasculated...

liigh—that is to say, in the best way to dornso—bv first aiming low. The storv ofrnRavmond Chandler’s life and literary careerrnis one of the most remarkable in thernhistor’ of American literature; andrnthough it is familiar, it is worth repeating.rnConceived in Laramie, Wyoming,rnand born in Chicago in 1888, RaymondrnThornton Chandler was soon exiled byrnhis parents’ divorce...

on another limiting and contradictoryrntruth—namely that the Marlowe booksrnwere “realistic.” Considering their contrivance,rntheir status as lurid melodramas,rntheir conventional coincidences,rnwe must find it hard to accept them asrnrealistic. But he probably meant two particularrnthings by his use of the categoryrnof realism; first, that his books were hardboiledrnand not cozy; and second, thatrnthey reflected the truth about...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnCaucasiarnby William MillsrnGeorgia on My MindrnGetting from the Crimea to the Republicrnof Georgia presents several problems.rnI had been told that one way was to getrnto Trabzon on the Black Sea Coast ofrnTurkey, and then take a boat to therncoastal town of Batumi in Georgia. Arnguidebook had warned that foreignersrncould not cross the Georgian-Turkishrnborder.rnThere were...

dcr the direction of the well-known arehaeologist,rnDavid Khakhutaishvili. Hernstopped what he was doing and took usrnon a tour. What one ean see are levels ofrnRoman, Bvzantine, and Ottoman. 1 herngreat walls, I believe, were built duringrnthe Ottoman period. All of this was builtrnon I lellcnistic ruins of the fourth or fifthrneentur. Once again our mcrehant...

gians to remind the Russians that thernformer were Christian and civilized forrncenturies while the Russians were stillrnbarbarians. Despite Tbilisi’s many pillagesrnand occupations, the Georgian OrthodoxrnChurch has been a centripetalrnforce. One Sunday I visited severalrnchurches, all full. Even for a visitor, beingrnin fifth-century churches is awesome,rnespecially while hearing a Georgianrnchoir. The Georgian Church was heavilyrnpersecuted by...

feet from the valley floor. For thernGreeks, the Caucasian Mountains werernprobably the limit of the known world.rnThis area has given them numerousrnmythical stories, that of Jason and thernGolden Fleece down by the coast, thatrnof the Amazons, and here on Mt. Kazbegi,rnthe story of Prometheus. A Caucasianrnmyth re’eals a character, Amirani, and arnplot with many points...

all to curry favor and maintain power.rnThese taetics, I should add, had nothingrnto do with whether a statue of ArthurrnAslie eventually ended up somewhere onrnMonument Avenue, or whether he meritedrna plaee there. For most partisans,rnthat objeetive and that eonsiderationrnwere secondary or irrelevant, a mere pretextrnthat enabled them to exploit the situationrnfor their own ends, to...

VITAL SIGNSrnI M M I G R A T I O NrnWelfareniks of thernWorld Uniternbv Don BarnettrnYuri Petrov (not his real name) immigratedrnto America from tlie SovietrnLhiion ten years ago. Now Yuri wants hisrnmother to move to America, but there isrnone problem. Ihs mother doesn’t wantrnto leae her life and the rest of her familyrnbehind...

due to refugees from earlier waves, principallyrnfrom Southeast Asia. But thernmigration from the former Sox-iet Unionrnbegan relatively recently, and as thernexodus continues, the yearly cost of thernprogram can only go up. Watch for thernrefugee industry’s campaign to “privatize”rnthe resettlement process. It hasrnnothing to do with limiting access tornpublic assistance and requiring sponsorsrnto foot more of...

the day by playing to the best in the earlyrnfilms (perhaps the best scene in Goldeneyernis Bond’s hilarious visit with thernvenerable “Q,” once again played by veteranrnDesmond Lleweylan), creating engagingrnvillains, and by giving this Bondrnfilm a theme, something entirely newrnto the series. Xenia Onatopp, plavedrnwith over-the-top gusto by FamkernJanssen, is one part Pussy Galore and...

Interracial sex is also prohibited.rn(Would you want “our son to marrv arncolored boy?) There seems to be no objectionrnto interspecies sex. Novels mustrnhave “a minimum of 50 percent eroticrnaction. (We prefer cxcnlv spaced, fiveto-rntcn-page sex scenes.)” They must alsorncontain four-letter words in dialoguernand narrative. (“Never use medical,rnanatomical, or euphemistic terms.”)rnKeep it simple, stupid. And enclose...

prestige of the left, which has producedrnsuch tliinkers as Georg 1 .iikacs, AntoniornGramsci, b’.mst Bloch, and Miloan Djilas,rnno matter what direction their evolutionrneentuall’ took, still bolsters Marxistrnintellectual respectability abroad andrnprestige at home, since they represent arnthin enccr of urban intelligentsia inrnKastern Europe’s largely agrarian societies.rnTheir successors, often their veryrnstudents, now of mature age and originatingrnfrom...

ful murderers often are punished lightlv.rnThus those most likely to commit furtherrnfelonies are also those most likelv tornberel eased earlv. Crime would certainKrndiminish and become manageable if wernconfined young offenders bent on becomingrncareer criminals until, at age 45,rnthey are likely to give up crime.rnWon’t imprisonment until age 45 berntoo harsh for young criminals? Man-rnperhaps did...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnTwelve Westerners?rn”The Sahara of the Bozart,” more thanrnanything else Mencken wrote about thernSouth, won him the undying hatred ofrnthe former Confederacy and its spokesmen.rnThe essay, which first appeared inrn1917 as a newspaper column and wasrnsubsequently expanded for inclusionrnin the next volume of the Prejudices series,rnwas attacked at the time—and hasrnbeen...

born Westerners like Eugene ManlovernRhodes, I larvey Fergusson, A.B. Guthrie.rnJr., and Wallace Stegncr hae been succeededrnby a generation of literary carpetbaggersrnthat includes McGuane, RickrnBass, Grctel Ehrlich, Richard Ford, andrnRichard Brautigan.rnMuch more significant in the immediaterncrisis is the West’s failure to developrna body of political and constitutionalrnliterature to support it in its confrontationrnwith an aggrandizing federal...

Is Charles Murrayrnnow “the mostrndangerousrnconseruative?”rnThe New York Times is worried:rn”has he gone too far?”rnIntelligence and Class Structurernin American LifernHouu to getrnthis massivern847-page,rn$30 volumernUp to $30 inrnstores – yoursrnFREErnWhy? Because Murray and the iate RichardrnHerrnstein prove something threatening tornPolitically Correct Liberalism:rnIntelligence – not environment, povertyrnor education – is at the root of our v/orstrnsocial problems. And...

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system, the actual numbers are likely tornbe much higher. Unemployment and anrnaging population put enormous pressurernon the industrialized trations’ social safetyrnnet. Goldsmith presents a chart thatrnillustrates the Gross Debt (1994) plusrnthe Net pension liabilities (1990) of majorrnindustrialized nations as a percentagernof their GDP. These two figures showrnthat the United States owes 130.6 of itsrnGDP, while...

judge for beginning court with thernLord’s Prayer. The chain gang issue marnup the ante for Alabama: some civilrnrights groups arc threatening to sue thernstate for violating international humanrnrights guaranteed by United Nationsrnconventions.rnThe main influence on GovernorrnJames’ decision was money: the cost ofrnincarcerating and “reeducating” prisonersrnhas been rising steadily all over thernUnited States, and by the...

once sang of the illegal coke, “It’s thernpause that refreshes in the corridors ofrnpower,”)rnWall Street was always pulling a servantrnout of its hat at the last minute torndeny the GOP nomination to Taft. Ifrnthe part’ holds to its wretched form, thernRepublicans will nominate Povv’cll for VPrnto deflate the rising black nationalismrnand run him with Dole...

PERSPECTIVErnTalking to Strangersrnby Thomas Flemingrn^^Tjlack History Month, sometimes called February . , ,”rn±J Sam Franeis’s witticism has been repeated ad infinitum,rnby friend and foe alike, usually with little appreciation of thernbroader implications. Ever since the French Revolution, Jacobinrnreformers conceived it their duty to redesign the calendar.rnIf they cannot always get away with dating the history...

generation dated their lives by what they were doing when thernJapanese attacked Pead Harbor; for their children, the dramaticrnmoments were the Kennedy assassination, Kent State, andrnWoodstock. In future years, the grandchildren will probably askrneach other; “What were you doing when O.J. Simpson wasrndeclared not guilty?”rnI referred to these spectacles as “show trials,” not becausernthey arc...

victims of oppressions in countries whose names we can hardlyrnpronounce. Here the media have to accept some of the blamernfor the worsening American character.rnI made this point, obiter dictum, some vears ago, and it isrnworth going into again. For se’eral decades the primary pointrnof the arious “media” has been the arousal of strong feelings inrntheir...

the next step into virtual rcalit}’, but before I could think aboutrnraising the question the step had already been taken. Now wernare being told that the solution to our woes, publie as well asrnpersonal, is to be found somewhere on the Internet.rnWhat ean you sa” to people who think that every da’, whenrnthc wake up,...

publishers as a clandestine cartel, intimately bound up “withrnthe power and paper trusts, with all the banks, and with all thernpowerful financial institutions which control the country.”rn\’hile much of the book reflects the peculiar political circumstancesrnof the age, Seldes is devastating on the constraints tornfree reporting that automatically arise from the commercial interestsrnof the media...

channels and nothing on.” Though the dial appears to offer arnbewildering range of choices, actual control and direction isrnvested in very few hands.rnFinally (and the largest such marriage to date), Time-Warnerrnallied with Ted Turner’s media empire to create a powerhouserncontrolling magazines, books, records and compactrndiscs, sports franchises, film production, and a cable complexrnthat includes Turner...

several lines of text may be required to determine who ultimatelyrnbegat which subsidiary.rnThis does not mean that legislatures need only concernrnthemselves with regulating the content and control of news andrnON’crtlv political media, while thcv can be left uncheckedrnin such harmless and nonpolitical areas as video games, music,rnor sport. W’hen a single conglomerate like Disney dominatesrnsuch...

rejuvenating month in the forest.” Were Mrs. Clinton less intentrnon name-dropping {Look Grandma—global splendorsl)rnand more concerned with communicating, she might realizernthat the image of Helmut Kohl rejuvenating in the forest is onernthat many of us would just as soon skip.rnHillary Clinton followed her vacation memories withrncolumns devoted to her conviction that American womenrnshould exercise their...

as they wish to be seen.” I’m not sure whether Mrs. Clintonrnwas saing that we should perceive others in the way we ourselvesrnwish to be perceived, or that we should perceive others inrnthe way they themselves wish to be perceived; but either wav, itrnis a perversion of the Golden Rule into nothing less thanrnthought control.rnThis...

Luddites. Scientific numbers defeat informed acrimoniousrnpublic debate and activity.rnThe consequences of this shift are profound. Simply put, nornpublic opinion exists without it being collected and displayed.rnThe poll, not what people say among themselves, is publicrnopinion; it is manufactured, not spontaneously revealed. Thernpriestly Oracle attendants look suspiciously like ventriloquists.rnCitizens could be thinking about mass insurrection, but...

pacted into “yes” and “no” boxes. As in the selection of jurors,rnthe process is biased towards the unsophisticated at leisure. Arnrepublic of not-too-busy T^ watchers.rnCleariy, even the most ardent defenders of polling acknowledgerna degree of untruth in their product. Surely peoplernlie, especially on sensitive matters, and surely surveys occasionallrnv employ ill-defined terms that elicit nonsense....

times.” Another article asserts: “This time, a horrified worldrncommunity responded. Led by the United States, Western nationsrnissued a stark warning to the Serbs.” While there are referencesrnto all sides committing atrocities, over and over againrnthere are assertions that the Serbs were the main culprits.rnThere are repetitions of the charge that 200,000 persons hadrnbeen killed and...

goslavia, which they succeeded in doing.rnThe abandonment of Mihailovic was a hard blow to Americansrnof Serbian descent, one which they could not understand,rnespecially given the known antidemocratic position of internationalrncommunism. In fact, they were not told until the 1960’srnthat in March 1948 President Truman had posthumouslyrnawarded Mihailovic the Legion of Merit, but at the insistencernof...

bian population of Yugoslavia, had lived together in one staternsince 1918 and believed that they had a right to remain a partrnof Yugoslavia. Or, if not, they believed that they had a right tornereate their own mini-states on territories that they have inhabitedrnfor centuries. After all, they thought, if self-determinationrnwas right for the secessionists, why...

for the El Paso Herald-Post, has traveled to Bosnia and surroundingrnareas and written a number of informative, objectivernreports. He has also written two lengthy articles for magazinesrnspecializing in foreign affairs, detailing the anti-Serb bias of thernmedia, and he is currently writing a book on the civil war.rnMoreover, David Binder of the New York Times has...

Government and the Pressrnby Jeremy Blackrn. – • • . • • • • • = « « . ,rnS^^”h ^’^^fefei;- • rrn? • • • • • • % ••••• •’••• f I ip^w**^-‘-^rnSX-:^rn• Jf…rnV . . . ; . ^ , * S 9 ^rn• M ^ -rnIn comparison with its modern rivals,...

disseminating news. These can essentially be described asrncommunity agencies: families, kindred, localities, confessionalrnand economic groups.rnThe capitalist press is bestrnunderstood in a competitivernlight, though at present therernis a worrying tendency towardrnmonopoly positions forrncommercial, rather thanrnideological, reasons.rnThe relationship between the two is obviously not one ofrnsimple competition. Community agencies can serve for the assessmentrnand transmission of news...

tions between parts of the media and government or politicalrnparties, most obviously in France and Italy. Unfortunately,rntechnological developments and the efforts to create multimediarnempires only encourage regulatory supervision and governmentrninterference.rnThe media arc undergoing centralization, not least becausernit is financially easier to make money by arranging mergers andrncreating quasi-monopolies, rather than by creating and investingrnin new...

sense of particular identity was sharpenedrnh the confrontation of whiternand red men on the violent edge of thernAmerican states. As is so often the case,rnthe clash with the “other” helped to fusernthe Christian, English-speaking, northernrnEuropean eommunities along thernAtlantic seaboard and beyond into arnnation, a nation that would remain thernvital core of what we now call...

percent of those who responded to onernsurvey conducted in Northern Irelandrncalled themselves “Irish,” while thernlargest remaining group of respondentsrnchose to identify themselves as “British,”rnor “Ulstermen.” Since those who callrnthemselves “Irish” appear to be the samernpeople who identify with Catholicism,rnand the “Ulstermen” those who are—rnnominally at least—Protestant, Connorrnasserts that many analysts, confused byrnmodernist assumptions, tend to...