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The Works of Harry V. Jaffa In Re Jack Kemp v. Joe Sobran on Lincoln By Harry V. Jaffa There has been an uncivil war between Joe Sobran and Jack Kemp on the question of the character of Abraham Lincoln as man and statesman.  In many recent utterances Sobran has repeated things Lincoln said, mainly in the 1850’s, which are presumed to show Lincoln as less of an advocate of the rights of black people than he is commonly supposed to be.  Many of these quotes were used by the White Citizens Councils in the 1950’s in their rebellion against ...

Good Morning!! Free the Senate! No Senate, no justice, no peace. Well, the saga of my computer woes at home continue. The computer is fine, but someone in the neighborhood forgot to "call before you dig," and took out phone service for a few days - at least till Thursday night. Ugh. Well, from all reports the Internet is working fine this morning, despite an anticipated worm attack last night. After an Israeli attack against Palestinian targets, that country remains on alert for retaliation. For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.

By the time he came to the United States in 1999, Gerson Platero, 29, had had his fill of life as a gay man in Latin America. He had been attacked by the police in El Salvador because he is gay, he said, and shot at after moving to Guatemala. He fled to the United States, to attend an AIDS conference, and applied for asylum based on his sexual orientation. His application was granted last March. But Mr. Platero, like many other gay men and lesbians from abroad, found that even in the United States there was antigay animus. As ...

August 1, 2001BY ROGER EBERT The first lady has asked the news media to leave her twin daughters "totally alone." She said on CNN Monday night: "If we never saw their pictures in the paper again, we'd be a lot happier. I think it's selling magazines and newspaper articles and television at the expense of my children, that's what I think it is." She is correct in asking for privacy for the girls. I regret that I have been one of the violators. Last week I wrote an opinion piece based on two reports in the Times of London ...

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Direct Missile Hit in Nablus Settles Tel Aviv Disco Score 31 July: While Jerusalem tensed for the seventh day running of Palestinian terrorist hits, Israeli helicopters fired missiles through the window of the third floor of a seven-story, straight into a strategy conference of top Hamas leaders. Among the eight killed were Jamil Mansour, the organization’s most ardent advocate of suicide bombings against Israel, and Jamil Salim, a senior officer of the group. Their deaths closed the books on the June 1 Tel Aviv disco killing eight in which 22 Israeli teenagers died, That atrocity and nine other attacks ...

David S. Broder:Rock concert a small skirmish in the culture wars dominating politics THE LARGEST city in the Granite State, Manchester, is blessedly free of Presidential candidates this summer, but it is not devoid of controversy. A rock concert that drew an estimated 10,000 young people to a city park the night of Sunday, July 22, produced more than 80 complaints to police and touched off what Mayor Robert Baines told me was for him an unprecedented furor. As late as Thursday, the Page 1 headline in The Union Leader, New Hampshire’s biggest paper, read, “Concert war rages.” A ...

Philip Morris' Chilling Report Hartford Courant Editorial August 01, 2001 Philip Morris has hit a new low in its baleful campaign to defend smoking.The giant cigarette maker has prepared a report touting the economic benefits of tobacco, noting that smokers' early deaths help offset increased medical expenses. The chilling report was prepared for the Czech Republic, where Philip Morris products account for 80 percent of all cigarettes sold. The study weighed health care costs against increased tax revenues and concluded that the government had a net gain of $147 million in one year because of smoking. As one economist ...

A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public Jonathan Swift It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their ...

(~~Groan!~~) Sorry for the awful pun.... here are links in more-or-less chronological order, to "articles" ( mainly links to further links with some commentary ) I have posted here on Free Republic. They cover an eclectic range of subjects, and the only guarantee I make is you will find a lot to read if you follow the "links within links...." Secret Holes in the Ground*** A Whiff of Rot & Corruption Civil War-- Finland 1918! The Poor-Boy Nuke-- Bioterrorism*** The Samson Option-- what is known about Israel's Nuclear Weapons? DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the ...

Defenders of the Faith by Joseph Sobran Newsweek recently ran a cover story on the controversy over stem-cell research. Did I say story? It was really a propaganda screed, one of its authors being Eleanor Clift, whom you may remember as Bill Clinton’s adoring Olive Oyl. Its theme was that scientific research shouldn’t be inhibited by religious fanatics (namely, Christians). The cover featured a color photo of a cluster of human stem cells, hugely magnified. The point was obviously that these things don’t look like what we think of as a human being, so what’s the harm of killing them? ...

Greenwich, Connecticut, July 31 (Bloomberg) -- Rosie O'Donnell, a talk show host and film actress, has sold her mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, her publicist said. The listing price was $8.75 million. Publicist Jennifer Glaisek didn't disclose the selling price or name the buyer. O'Donnell bought the property for $6.5 million almost two years ago, according to the deed. The house, built in 1988, has six bedrooms, eight baths, a step-down living room, a formal dining room, a paneled library, and a master bedroom suite with a whirlpool tub, according to the description on the Greenwich Multiple Listing Service. Outside, ...

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe. And what I believe ... I believe what I believe is right." --George II, son of George I and Queen Barbara "I believe, do believe, I believe--yeah, believe pretty baby. Believe you're goin' steady with nobody else but me." --Rick Nelson, son of Ozzie and Harriet Like TV evangelists, today's Republican thinkers are never more acute than when they're haranguing us about "character." Which pretty much amounts to sex, as they see it. Also like the preachers, nothing turns them on like other people's sins. Recently, ...

Michelle Malkin (archive)(printer-friendly version)August 1, 2001MTV: No thanks for the memories "Gross." That was the reaction my high school friends and I had to one of the very first music videos we ever watched on MTV. It was the 1984 debut of Madonna's "Like a Virgin." We gasped in disbelief as she writhed on the ground and panted shamelessly about being "touched for the very first time." Madonna repeated her solo porn act during an MTV concert in which she sang -- well, moaned -- "Like a Virgin" while simulating masturbation on a bed. The most horrifying Madonna-inspired spectacle, though, ...

Michael Kelly (archive)(printer-friendly version)August 1, 2001We Americans are some kind of fat I have been for some days at the shore, in the company of many of my fellow middle-aged Americans who are wearing not a lot of clothes, and I have a report. My fellow middle-aged Americans, we are some kind of fat. I don't mean we are getting a bit thick around the middle, or that we are pleasantly plump, or that we are zaftig, or Rubenesque (we are Reuben-esque), or settling into our bodies. I mean we are fat, fat, fat. It's true: as a people, we ...

Southern Baptists ending talks with Catholic Church The Neverending Story (The Christian Chronicles) - Threads 1-70 Thread 71 Thread 72 Thread 73 Thread 74 Thread 75 Thread 76 Thread 77 Thread 78 Thread 79 Thread 80 Thread 81 Thread 82 Thread 83 Thread 84 Thread 85 Thread 86 Thread 87 Thread 88 Thread 89 Thread 90 Thread 91 Thread 92 Thread 93 Thread 94 Thread 95 Thread 96 The Neverending Story (The Christian Chronicles) - Thread 97

Globe-trotting naturalist David Attenborough is off again to see what Mother Earth is up to. The object of tonight's very personal journey of discovery -- on Discovery Channel -- is to assess humankind's impact on the world we live in. It's Attenborough's own State of the Planet report, and it is -- quite predictably -- not nearly so pretty as this documentary's fine photography of the natural habitats, animals and plants that humans are endangering around the world. "We have the ability to make a difference today, and what we do in the next 50 to 100 years will ...

Tuesday July 31 02:53 PM EDT Ford-Carter Election-Overhaul Panel Makes Recommendations By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE The New York Times A commission headed by the former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford today recommended a major overhaul of the nation's election system in response to last year's electoral turmoil in Florida. WASHINGTON, July 31 A commission headed by the former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford today recommended a major overhaul of the nation's election system in response to last year's electoral turmoil in Florida. The report, presented to President Bush in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House, ...

July 29, 2001 The power behind a president David Boaz      Senior presidential adviser Karen Hughes may be the most powerful woman ever in U.S. politics, but the major media don't treat her that way. They spilled a lot of ink on politicos such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosalynn Carter and Eleanor Roosevelt and still do. Yet the woman from Texas is largely ignored. How come?     Mrs. Hughes was one of three top aides to George W. Bush in the Texas governor's mansion. Along with Karl Rove, she has shaped President Bush's agenda, political strategy and communications. She wrote his autobiography. During ...

GOP closes in on political deal for a `patients' bill of rights' BY JACKIE KOSZCZUK Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- The White House neared a deal Tuesday with a key Republican lawmaker on a ``patients' bill of rights,'' raising hopes that the legislation might pass the House before Congress shuts down Friday for the summer. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President Bush and Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., a longtime champion of rights for patients in managed healthcare plans, were close to a compromise that should be acceptable to Democrats and the handful of House Republicans who have pushed ...