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To: two23
Liz is a sharp thinker.

She has a doctorate, is former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a longtime fellow of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where Bork and Gingrich also hang their policy hats. In the mid-90s she published Telling the Truth, a scholarly book of sociopolitical criticism about creeping political correctness and moral relativism. Dr. Cheney has also quite a few children's books in print about conservative themes.


Telling the Truth: Why Our Culture and Our Country Have Stopped Making Sense, and What We Can Do about It (1996)

"America is in the middle of a vast experiment, says Lynne V. Cheney, testing whether a society can thrive when more and more of its citizens doubt the importance of truth - or even whether such a thing as truth exists. Schoolchildren are being taught that the ancient Egyptians flew in gliders. University students learn that science is a white male conspiracy. In fields ranging from history to law, scholars and practitioners alike argue that their goal is not truth but the advancement of politically useful views. Journalists fall into the same pattern when they disdain objectivity and use the news to advance their viewpoints, as do psychologists who help their patients "recover" memories of events that never happened. Public figures tell us one thing today and another tomorrow and blithely accuse those who point out their inconsistencies of an "excess of literalism." In our postmodern world, everything has become relative. "Truth," according to a film at the Whitney Biennial, has become nothing more than "what is believed"..."

17 posted on 08/04/2009 7:27:55 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Media: quit making things up." --Sarah Palin)
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To: Albion Wilde

Liz went to Colorado College, where the liberal professors kept thinking that the Economist was the manna of intellectualism and that conservatism was a failing of education.

The profs who I knew are probably pulling their hair out at her being an alum.


22 posted on 08/04/2009 7:44:31 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Thrasymachus: justice is whatever is in the interest of the stronger party in a given state)
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To: Albion Wilde
She has a doctorate, is former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a longtime fellow of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute....

That's Liz's mother Lynne V. Cheney, you're talking about -- another very real sharp cookie.

23 posted on 08/04/2009 7:45:13 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (There is not enough combined intellect in the beltway to jumpstart a moron.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Lynne V Cheney is Dick Cheney’s wife.
Liz is their daughter.


35 posted on 08/04/2009 11:05:36 AM PDT by two23 (czars ar for commies)
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