"... one British visitor was chatting to CIA Director George Tenet about the European's role (as to Iraq). `I'll tell you exactly what the President said the other day on that very subject,' said Mr. Tenet. `He said, "I don't give a shit what the Europeans think." (The U.K. is not considered `European' in the President's geography book.)

Bet Colin's colon got all sphinctered up on hearing that one. Remember that dinner party in London where the wife of a famous `diplomat' referred to Israel as "... that shitty little country"? Wonder what she/they think now that the President has essentially said what we all know to be true about the Euro countries. It's only America's faux elites who wring their uncalloused hands over what their counterparts in Stockhlom, Madrid or Antwerp think.

How about this: let Lindh make his case directly to us, the people. Dress him up in his al Quaeda uniform, let his beard grow back and take him to Ground Zero. There, let him ask for “mercy” to the assembled families of the Twin Towers victims. After that, he walks, under Marine guard, to the Pentagon via the Pennsylvania crash site, pleading his case to Americans who have gathered along his route to hear his pleas. From D.C., he continues his walk across America to Berkely where he makes one more oration. Berkeley loves traitors; it’s their natural lair. Then we lock his sorry ass in a non-air-conditioned Marine brig cell in Barstow, California. Every 20 years or so, we trot him out to deny parole. All Americans could then pray that he lives a long, long life in federal prison and that the son-of-a-bitch never sees the sun, stars or sky again. Ever.

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"WHITE NIGGERS" Los Angeles 03-13-01 If anyone needs further proof or any proof at all that the mainstream media is 1. an adjunct of the Democrat party; 2. liberal;3. determined not to derail any agenda of 1. and 2., then answer this question: Where are the followup stories expressing anger, outrage and sadness at Democrat U.S. Senator Robert Byrd's televised remark containing the phrase "white niggers"? It is now a non-story. No followup; no N.Y. Times Magazine article; nothing from Joe Conason, Robert Scheer, Michael Kinsley, Richard Reeves, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post; no demands for Byrd to resign from the NAACP, Julian Bond, the Democrat party hacks or the allegedly Reverend Jesse Jackson, nothing from that California loudmouth Rep. Maxine Waters; nothing from New York's Sen. Clinton and, pardon me, nothing from our first black ex-president Clinton. Why not? If you don't know the answer to that question, move to Palm Beach Florida with the other morons.

THE WAY IT WAS 02-21-01 Los Angeles For those disgusted by the avarice and sleaze of the Clintons, their coterie and assorted scummy sycophants, a breath of fresh air from a different Democrat president of a different era. Harry Truman was never a rich man; he wasn't even close to well off. When he left the presidency, he was functionally broke. Here, though, is what David McCullough says in his splendid new book, Truman, on the erstwhile president leaving office:

         Truman had neither wealth to sustain him nor any particular prospects at the moment, no plans for future employment. His only intention, as he said, was to do nothing - accept no position, lend his name to no organization or transaction - that would exploit or "commercialize" the prestige and dignity of the office of the President.

One hopes Liddy and Bob are listening; to their credit, Tipper and Al are.

"JESSE JACKSON'S GREAT BETRAYAL" 02-19-01 Los Angeles Andrew Sullivan, the British columnist with whom we have had differences (see: A Colloquy with Andrew Sullivan) lays into the allegedly Reverend Jesse Jackson, calling him "teflon black". Sullivan castigates JJ for betraying the civil rights movement and says that, were he white, JJ would be out of business. Sullivan describes JJ's busiiness as raking in vast fortunes from corporate America for his laughable Citizenship Education Fund. (Our readers know that CEF received $12 million, tax free, from which it paid out $47 thousand to educational recipients.) Imagine the outrage had Rev. Jerry Falwell paid his mistress and child out of tax exempt funds - or any funds at all. Or even his wife.

TOM DASCHLE AND THE LEXUS 02-12-01 Los Angeles Tom Daschle, Democratic party leader of the Senate, has been telling all who would listen that the Bush tax cut is unfair. Why? The rich man could buy a new Lexus with his share while the average Joe could only buy a muffler for his used car. How clever. Daschle, of course, doesn't drive; he's chauffered around Washington as befits his noble position. Guess who pays for that? But let's take a look at the federal surplus expected over the next 10 years; a staggering $5.6 trillion. That would buy 160 million Lexus autos or one for every adult American. But don't expect Daschle to want to return your money or any other taxpayer's money. Why not? Because he loves to spend your money, endearing himself to the recipients, and keeping himself in limos.