Category: Controversies

Sandy Berger, Clinton’s National Security Advisor. Here is part of his statement to the AP.

“In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration in connection with requests by the Sept. 11 commission, I inadvertently took a few documents from the Archives,” Berger said.
“When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded,” he said.

Discarded, eh? Accidentally? Right. Mr. Berger has a bridge to sell us – who’s buying it?

Once, within living memory, it was a day apart in many places: a 24-hour stretch of family time when liquor was unavailable, church was the rule, shopping was impossible and — in some towns — weekend staples like tending the lawn and playing in the park met with hearty disapproval. But America changed, and it dragged Sunday along with it.

And such an article wouldn’t be complete without a quote like this:

“We’ve erased a lot of the distinctions between night and day, between weekday and weekend,” says Susan Orlean, author of “Saturday Night in America,” a 1990 book. “Our notions of time and space are collapsing.”

Yes, space and time are collapsing to one point in time, now, and one lonely microcosm, where, as David Hume said, “we never advance a step beyond our selves.” Did I use too many commas in that sentence?

More on the collapse of space and time later, if I have space and time enough to blog something I read today about Stephen Hawking.

A letter to the Editor of the Washington Times form Laurie Letourneau, President, Life Action League of Massachusetts and Mass Voices for Traditional Marriage. You have to scroll down the page a bit.

Don’t miss the the other letters on the Federal Marriage Amendment. A pro-homosexual marriage advocate says Bush’s job “is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, not to change it and abuse it.” A premise he in no way substantiates or justifies.

Another reader says the defeat of the amendment is a victory for states’ rights. I think Eric mentioned there is litigation pending to recognize Massachusetts same-sex marriages in other states. Of course I could be mistaken. Regardless, the question of homosexual marriage is on an inexorable course for the federal judiciary system if it is not there already. What is left up the states now anyway? I think states’ rights ended with the War of Northern Aggression.

No, not in Mass, in the public schools.

I’m attempting to look up the abortion voting records or positions of all the prominent speakers at the Republican National Convention. I’m righteously steamed that the most notable ones, Schwarzenegger, Pataki, and Guiliani, are all pro-abort Republicans who call themselves Catholic. What about McCain? Not Catholic, but pro-abort, right?

Please post in the comments if you can point me in the right direction to find their stance on abortion, and let me know if I’m leaving any names out. I have never been a card-carrying Republican, and this is one of the reasons. The tent is too big if pro-lifers are marginalized in such an important forum.

Kate O’Beirne has some thoughts on the topic. Again, on NRO.

At the Big Apple convention, three Kerry Catholics will be representing the millions of faithful Catholics being aggressively courted by the Bush campaign. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will likely be heard from as a congressional leader, but haven’t senators who have been on point on crucial issues like abortion, cloning, same-sex marriage, and international human rights earned primetime placement alongside their tormentor John McCain? Conservative Republicans should be asking why senators like Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback aren’t enjoying the same public embrace as the New York Times’ favorite Republican.