[fight_truth_decay]

Charles Murray argued the "Great Bell Curve IQ" debate that "the War on Poverty was failing because the poor, being clever enough to respond to the incentives generated by government programs, were reducing their work effort and increasing their dependency." (1984)

Murray was considered or termed "America's Most Dangerous Conservative".

Murry (quote)"Hillary Rodham Clinton is the personification of what worried Dick Herrnstein and I about the cognitive elite. I'm sure she has a high I.Q. score. She, and for that matter her husband Bill, are both examples of people who by the age of 18 had been siphoned off into elite colleges and have spent the rest of their lives interacting with other people very much like them--the cognitive elite."

"What happened in the Helm's bill( was an attempt to make sure that President Clinton was not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, 'to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964').. is a classic example of what happens when the cognitive elite has been talking to itself too long, and thinks it knows what's best for everyone. "

[r9etb]

Commie or not, wrong or not, you have to love the way Cockburn writes. He nails the D's but good in this one.

[RLK]

The article wasn't worth much, but the comments following were excellent.

[T'wit]

Democrats, not Republicans, promoted and defended segregation in the South. It was called the "solid South" in that era, precisely because the Democrats controlled all the southern states. Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats were, of course, Democrats. For that matter, Klansmen were Democrats.

In contrast, in the post-segregation era, the South has been strongly Republican and a bastion of conservatism. And that, of course, is why the Democrats nowadays drum up these idiotic attacks on the confederate flag or any other traces of their old turf.

For a Democrat to criticize Trent Lott on the issue of race should win a Nobel Prize for hypocrisy.

[Taliesan]

framing drug laws that will ensure that by the year 2002 (when it is scheduled that you will reach 100 years), many young black people will live in the certainty of spending long periods of their lives locked in prison.

Black men are going to jail because of the drug laws the White Man wrote. Not because they actually use and sell each other massive amounts of cocaine.

Cockburn is just another hallucinating idiot.

[Publius6961]

True, as George Bush likes to point out, his administration is adorned by Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, which is like saying that all Nubians were doing well under the Roman Emperor Augustus because a Nubian eunuch stood at his elbow.

Hmmmmm.

I may be jumping to conclusions here, but the implication is clear, seeing the way it is phrased. Is Mr.Cockburn implying here that Secretary of State of the United States and Security Advisor to the President of the United States are on the same level as court eunuchs?

[PRO 1]

The only thing missing from the title is the beloved FR

**BARF ALERT**

[El Gato]

his administration is adorned by Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, which is like saying that all Nubians were doing well under the Roman Emperor Augustus because a Nubian eunuch stood at his elbow

Wonder how Colin Powell likes being called a eunuch? This guy better pray he never meets up with Powell or Rice in a dark alley somewhere. He really better hope that if he does, it's General Powell and not Condi in that alley.