7/29/98 Silicon Valley Logic "The date was Monday, January 26th, 1998, and the hour was midnight. Bill Clinton gathered his aides and a Hollywood producer together to help him rehearse the lie he would tell the American people the next day: "I want to say one thing to the American people,'' he said, wagging his finger at millions of viewers. "I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." Clinton practiced his lie over and over again before an audience of his aides and Harry Thomason, the Hollywood producer who coached him through his political campaigns in '92 and '96... The goal, according to Clinton aide Harold Ickes, who attended the session, was to "look the American people in the eye and issue an unambiguous denial.""We'll stand or fall" with this version of events, another Clinton adviser said. Clinton was prepared. ."

Electronic Telegraph Hugh Davies ".Since Mr Starr began his investigation of the President on Aug 5, 1994, his aim has been to establish if the reckless womaniser and slick politician portrait of Mr Clinton was all there was to find, or was he guilty of abuse of power? As Arkansas governor he was notorious, according to state troopers, for offering them lucrative jobs in exchange for their silence about his late-night trysts with Gennifer Flowers, a nightclub singer, and others. When he failed to deliver on his promise to one trooper, the man said: "We lied for him and helped him cheat on his wife, and he treated us like dogs." The assumption is that Mr Starr is connecting the dots in a pattern of suspected cover-ups, armed with evidence from others who have either been burned by their association with him, or have told the truth of what they saw at the White House."

7/31/98 FoxNews AP Kelly Kissel "Paula Jones pleaded with a federal appeals court to restore "fundamental principles of decency, humanity and respect for the law" by reinstating her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton. In an appeal prepared for the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, her lawyers also asked that they be allowed to pursue evidence that Clinton had a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "Mr. Clinton's behavior toward Ms. Lewinsky is evidence of his habit of making aggressive sexual advances to young, low-ranking employees (those who were most vulnerable and easily exploited)," Jones' lawyers wrote..."

Washington Times 8/7/98 Bill Sammon "U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson, contrary to what he told Congress last month, did not have an opening on his staff when he offered to hire Monica Lewinsky last October, according to informed sources and documents obtained by The Washington Times. Mr. Richardson, who was recently confirmed as President Clinton's new energy secretary, planned to create a new position to accommodate Miss Lewinsky's desire for employment in New York City, said sources at the United Nations, the State Department and on Capitol Hill. He panicked when the scandal broke in January and scrambled to find a slot that he could claim had existed long before he interviewed Miss Lewinsky, the sources said.."

Readers Digest from The Wall Street Journal 12/98 Peggy Noonan ".For months I have kept on my desk a picture from a tabloid. It is of a close friend of President Clinton, Linda Bloodworth- Thomason, and the actress Markie Post. They are laughing and holding hands as they jump up and down in the Lincoln Bedroom. They are jumping up and down on Lincoln's bed. I thought: something's wrong with these people; they lack thought and dignity. But most of all they seem to lack respect, a sense of awe. Not the awe that can cripple you with a false sense of your smallness, but the awe that makes you bigger, that make you reach higher as if in tribute to some unseen greatness around you. That, it seems to me, is Mr. Clinton's problem-a fundamental lack of respect for his country, for its citizens, for his colleagues, for all of us. The pollsters have it wrong when, seeking to determine whether he can continue to govern, they ask, "Do you respect the President?" The real question is "Do you think he has any respect for us?" I think he has shown us, with chilling finality, that he does not. I believe he demonstrated that people and principles are, to him, objects to be manipulated.."

Weekly Standard 8/10-17/98 Noemie Emery "Linda Tripp, says Margaret Carlson, when she pressed the "on" button of her little tape recorder, "lost membership in the family of man." Read herself out of the human community. Lost contact with the whole human race. And for what crime? Not murder, not larceny, not even lying; but for recording and spreading truths others wanted kept secret. By most standards, this is not wholly lovely, but as grounds for damnation, it appears rather thin. Not so, it seems, in the Clintons' America, where Linda Tripp's offense and others like it have become mortal sins. And as this goes on, something still stranger is happening: Real sins- sins in the Bible, like adultery and bearing false witness, two of the activities captured on Tripp's tapes- are being defined down to meaningless pranks. Adultery is "just sex" and nothing to bother with. Likewise, lying about it is just "lying about sex" and also trivial. Even lying under oath about sex is no big deal. From all of this, the true dimensions of the Clinton Project- the Clinton legacy, one might venture to call it- have begun to emerge. The Clinton Project is not really about politics. It is about values. That is, it is about an inversion of values. Many have wondered whether the Clintons and their friends are truly immoral- engaged in knowing wrongdoing- or merely amoral, unable to tell right from wrong. Now, it appears neither is accurate. In the strange p.c. terms of their culture, the Clintons appear to be "differently moraled"- that is, they have morals, even quite strong ones, but ones of which no church or state has ever heard. This is the church of Bill, in the State of Bill, with its own mores and standards. There is the Bible, with its boring old Ten Commandments, where certain acts are simple no- no's. Then there is the Bible of Bill, in which Thou-shalt-nots are downsized to glitches, and trendy new sins are invoked in their place. We are at the verge of a meaningful moment.."

8/10/98 Carl Limbacher Washington Weekly ".on Tuesday of last week NBC brass went so far as to disavow a major Rivera blockbuster, issuing an all points affiliate bulletin warning that, "NBC News has not confirmed, and will not report, the information about test results from 'Rivera Live.'" That would be information about DNA test results -- as in, what may or may not have been left behind evidence-wise on Monica Lewinsky's blue dress..What had NBC brass pitching fits was Rivera's Tuesday night show opener, where he reported bombshell news that could rock Ken Starr's investigation as well as the FBI. The White House was already in after-shock mode. As Geraldo noted, "someone very close to the president" was his source for the story. "One lab says it's positive," Rivera's White House tipster told him regarding the confidential FBI lab tests for "human genetic material" on Monica's dress. "I fear the worst but I have no real knowledge of the worst," the source added. Translation: the White House doesn't yet know if Ken Starr has his smoking gun evidence, but they know he's one step closer than he was the day before..But Rivera seemed not to notice one particularly disturbing aspect of his own bombshell. That is, if his White House source already had the goods then there's something rotten in Louis Freeh's FBI. It was Freeh who promised, only hours after news of the Clinton sex dress had surfaced, that his FBI lab would analyze the purported semen stain under conditions of utmost secrecy. If Freeh's FBI is leaking the test results to the White House as each stage is completed, Clinton will have a pretty good idea of how solid the prosecution's case against him is when he goes before the grand jury on August 17.."

New York Times 8/18/98 ".While the issue of a sexual relationship between Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky has occupied most of the public commentary, Starr's view of the investigation, people close to him say, has always been that any untruthfulness about the sexual relationship was part of a wider pattern of deception on the part of the Clinton White House.."

NBC Lisa Myers 8/17/98 "The president may hope his new story satisfies a scandal-weary public, but legal sources say it has only emboldened prosecutors. Even lawyers who have sided with Clinton in the past doubt that he can now admit a sexual relationship yet claim he did not commit perjury in the Paula Jones case - when he not only denied an affair but couldn't remember even being alone with Monica Lewinsky..DEBRA KATZ, a sexual harassment attorney, says, "There was clearly an intent to deceive... I have taken hundreds of depositions in sexual harassment matters and I can tell you this response would not fly in court." ."

New York Daily News 8/18/98 Lars-Erik Nelson "Behind the smooth euphemisms and the wounded defensiveness, President Clinton confessed to the nation last night that he is both a liar and a sexual predator, confronting Americans with a stark reality that, up to now, an overwhelming majority managed to avoid. Yes, we could once say, he probably did it, but we don't care. Now we know beyond any doubt that he did it - that the President had sex in the White House with a 21-year-old intern. Do we still not care? Do we not care that our President lied to us for seven months and allowed his closest friends and administration officials, unwittingly, to lie for him?."

Capitol Hill Blue 8/18/98 Doug Thompson "All the son-of-a-b*tch had to do was look the American people in the eye and say: "I'm sorry." He couldn't do it..What a load of crap. Presidents who take sexual advantage of star-struck 22-year-olds can't expect, nor do they deserve, any privacy. The President of the United States, in the Oval Office, unzipped his pants and let a woman young enough to be his daughter get down on her knees and service him sexually and then lied under oath, to his wife, his supporters, and to the American people. And most of the "pursuit of personal destruction" came out of his own White House with slime masters like Sidney Blumenthal and James Carville investigating the private lives and issuing personal attacks on anyone they considered a Clinton enemy. And now he wants us to respect his privacy? Get real.."

Jewish World Review 8/18/98 Linda Chavez "IF EVER THE STORY IS WRITTEN of how America came to lose its moral compass, this week's grand jury testimony by President Clinton will mark the final turning point. The story is not merely about a president who couldn't control his sexual appetites and then lied about it repeatedly. No, this is the story about the American people and how we came to believe that lying, so long as it is about sex, is OK, and lying by a president, even if it's under oath, is no grounds to impeach him. This story began long before Bill Clinton became president. Once upon a time in America, we taught our children that lying was wrong, and the story we used to impart such virtue concerned another American president. Generations of schoolchildren learned the tale of the young George Washington, who chopped down his father's cherry tree and then admitted his sin. "I cannot tell a lie," the young George confessed. And children learned that a good and honorable person would rather face punishment than deceive another.Once we were a nation that believed no man was above the law. Today, we seem to believe that the president can interpret the law as he chooses and decide which ones he will obey. President Clinton's legacy will be one long series of moral dilemmas in which Americans chose an ephemeral healthy economy above truth and law"

8/20/98 Washington Times Bill Sammon "President Clinton's seven-month delay in acknowledging an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky added at least $2.5 million to the costs of the investigation, sources close to the investigation say. ..These figures do not include costs incurred by the government lawyers who pursued several unsuccessful appeals to quash subpoenas issued to Mr. Clinton's associates, aides and Secret Service agents, nor fees paid to David E. Kendall and other privately employed lawyers. In addition, the Nation magazine estimates that another $23 million has been spent on private legal fees by more than 100 current and former White House officials, at least 200 others in Arkansas and other places. A considerable portion of this sum was expended over the past seven months.."

Washington Post 8/20/98 Charles Krauthammer "It's the seven months, stupid. Not the sex. Not the perjury to cover the sex. Not even the witness-tampering to cover the perjury to cover the sex. The firestorm created by Bill Clinton's suicidal pseudo-confession Monday night reflects a nation's dumbfounded realization that he was entirely unapologetic about -- indeed oblivious to -- how he had mocked the country these past seven months… "

Sam Nunn Washington Post 8/23/98 "It is now clear that President Clinton is primarily responsible for dragging this nation through seven months of preoccupation with the Monica Lewinsky story."

National Journal Carl Cannon 8/22/98 "Clinton family loyalists quietly launched a second public relations offensive, in addition to the one undertaken by the president himself on national television. The second front centers on what Hillary Rodham Clinton knew--and when she knew it. Specifically, the White House was offering a simple explanation: The first lady did not know until a couple of days before her husband's national confession that he had engaged in sex with a former White House intern. For most wives, the precise timing of when they confronted their husband's infidelity would hardly be a primary concern. But Mrs. Clinton's very legacy as first lady may depend on when she knew the truth. If the first lady, along with everyone else, was consistently deceived by her husband, then she is an aggrieved and blameless wife who will be credited for her loyalty and pitied for her predicament. If, however, the public concludes that Mrs. Clinton knew all along what her husband had done, she will be seen in a very different light: as someone who prevaricated alongside her husband, possibly helping him cover up perjury, serving as an enabler for offensive sexual behavior and unfairly attacking those who she knew were telling the truth..''She's the one person who for the past seven months could ask the questions no one else could ask,'' says Rep. Anne Meagher Northup, a Kentucky Republican. ''I just do not believe she didn't know, and for them to say that she found out last weekend only makes me feel the lying has not stopped yet.'' . ."

Capitol Hill Blue AP/Reuters 8/25/98 "Independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress will accuse President Clinton of a sweeping abuse of presidential powers aimed at hiding his relationship with the former intern, NBC news is reporting... Examples may include: Alleged misuse of the Secret Service to keep agents from testifying. Alleged misuse of government-paid White house lawyers to coordinate testimony of friendly witnesses and help discredit unfriendly ones.. Starr's report also will contain possible perjury charges, the sources told NBC News.."

Arkansas Democrat Gazette Paul Greenberg 8/26/98 "Like the rest of the country, a friend who's also a CEO watched Bill Clinton's confession-and-pout Monday night, and wrote me about it afterward. Here is the nub of his message: "Whatever Clinton's future legal problems, I guess he will go down in my mind as as the president who looked America in the eye and lied to us. Forget for a moment that Clinton is President, and imagine that he is nothing more than a mere person just like all the rest of us. For a 50-year- old man to engage in oral sex with a 23-year-old woman on the job is totally outrageous behavior. It should not be condoned by anyone, and it would be grounds for immediate dismissal at any company in America. It is hard to imagine people who could have respect for such a person, or could feel good about working for someone like this.."

USA Today 8/26/98 Judy Keen & Kevin Johnson "… The sheer mass of the information Starr is preparing to deliver to Congress is intended to show that the independent counsel didn't selectively use evidence, and to avert charges by Democrats that the goal was to damage Clinton politically. .The report is expected to read like a detailed legal indictment outlining what Starr believes is evidence that Clinton committed perjury, obstructed justice and suborned perjury. Prosecutors are expected to lay out key dates and public comments made by Clinton and other key figures in the investigation. Starr is expected to describe a White House so preoccupied with delaying the inquiry that the tactics amounted to an abuse of power, the people with knowledge of his plan say. .."

Fox News Bill O'Reilly and Salvatore Mortoche (Former Federal prosecutor and US Treasury Dept/USSS Official) ".BILL O'REILLY: ...You were the secretary of enforcement for the Treasury department, which means that you worked with the Secret Service. Fox News has learned that one of the things that Judge Starr is investigating is that the president allegedly may have asked the Secret Service to falsify logs that showed Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office at certain times. Now, that's huge if that can be shown, right? He's gone, I would imagine. FORMER U.S. TREASURY OFFICIAL AND FEDERAL PROSECUTOR SALVATORE MARTOCHE: I don't think there's any way to save the president if that is truthful, if that is---what you heard is correct. Because it is absolutely... O'REILLY: We know he is investigating that; we know that's why the Secret Service was subpoenaed to go in. MARTOCHE: The Secret Service would never do that, and any agent who would, ought to be not only fired, but ought to be indicted himself. O'REILLY: Apparently, somebody did falsify something. Again, this is what we're hearing; we don't know for sure. But apparently that's what Judge Starr is looking at. MARTOCHE: That would be just awful. What you're saying is that Judge Starr knows a lot more than we do about the details, and I think that the American public is going to be very surprised by all the things that Judge Starr... O'REILLY: Do you? MARTOCHE: Absolutely. O'REILLY: You think Judge Starr has a lot more than the press has known? MARTOCHE: Tons more, and when they keep talking about leaks and Judge Starr, he hasn't leaked. A lot of the things that I think... O'REILLY: Well, we don't know... "

New York Post 9/1/98 Deborah Orin "Top Senate Republican Trent Lott said yesterday President Clinton's behavior in Sexgate was disgusting and questioned whether he still has the credibility to lead America.. As a husband and a father, I am offended by the president's behavior, and by the tragic example that he has set for the young people of this country, a stern Lott told reporters at a news conference."

Landmark Legal Foundation 5/2/98 Mark Levin " .The first President to actually deduct used underwear on his federal income tax return, calls working families in Virginia "selfish" for wanting to cut a car tax that costs most of them $1,000 each year. If that's "selfish," what about this: In 1978, the Clintons deducted $10,131 as an interest expense on their Whitewater property despite paying much less in total interest that year..In 1979, the Clintons paid $12,490 toward Whitewater, deducting most of the expense as interest when, in fact, $2,900 was not..In 1980, the Clintons made a rare principal payment of $9,000 toward Whitewater, yet they deducted the principal payment as an interest expense.Between 1984 and 1985, the Clintons seem to have improperly claimed a total of $5,133 in deductions for interest payments supposedly made themselves but actually made by Whitewater, resulting in the Clintons understating their tax obligation for these years by about $2,400..In 1993, the Clintons apparently failed to disclose a taxable $58,000 economic benefit they received as a result of a 1992 agreement that released them from a Whitewater-related debt they owed to Jim McDougal..In 1994, the Clintons became the only first couple to set up a legal defense fund for the purpose of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax-free contributions to help pay their legal bills. The Clintons themselves have paid only a few thousand dollars toward their legal expenses..During the last nearly 5-years, the Clintons have used scores of taxpayer- financed, government lawyers to subsidize their personal legal representation..And, of course, when Mr. Clinton first ran for Governor of Arkansas, Mrs. Clinton miraculously, in a 10-month period, turned a $1,000 investment in cattle futures into nearly $100,000 -- a 10,000 per cent profit.More to the point, what has the IRS done to ensure that these highly questionable and "selfish" activities comply with the law? Well, the IRS supposedly looked at much of this and basically found no wrongdoing -- no effort to evade tax obligations. Seems hard to believe, doesn't it? But the IRS has a different attitude and approach when it comes to conservative and libertarian organizations.

Capitol Hill Blue 9/2/98 "Dear Billy . Caught your act from Moscow this morning, complete with phony humility, eyes cast downward, hands clasped, pretending to answer two questions from reporters regarding your despicable behavior with Monica Lewinsky. Still couldn't do it, could you Billy? Couldn't apologize. Couldn't bring yourself to look directly into the camera and say "I'm sorry." .Your only "regret" is that you got caught. You say you want to get back to work. We've seen how you work, Billy. Your idea of work is to debase a star struck young woman who is stupid enough to service your sexual needs and play out your perverted fantasies. And you say you are heartened by the response of the American people.

The Rant MSNBC 9/2/98 Jay Severin "Imagine an international press conference between the presidents of two world superpowers. Just six questions are asked. And two of them concern the adulterous sex life of the president of the United States. Who wrote this script: Kafka? Woody Allen? Maybe it was Agatha Christie - because what the American president had to say is a real mystery.. Here are five big mistakes Clinton made in Moscow: The president said, "I have asked for forgiveness." In fact, he has not.. The president said, "I thought it (his Aug. 17 speech to the nation) was perfectly clear." You may think so, Mr. Clinton, but the audience that counts, American citizens, do not. .The president said, "reasonable people believe" the matter has gone too far. So anyone who recognizes he has not apologized, or believes it is legitimate to investigate possible presidential crimes, is unreasonable...."

Wall Street Journal 9/3/98 Martha Ackman "In recent weeks, I've been unable to get an image out of my mind: several Cabinet secretaries, including Madeleine Albright and Donna Shalala, standing in the White House driveway in January and putting their credibility on the line to defend President Clinton against sexual-misconduct allegations. That scene represents the two sides of Mr. Clinton that I, as a feminist, have been trying to reconcile: a man who opened a door to political opportunities for women, and a man who used women for base sexual gratification and stood by while other women unknowingly supported his duplicity..Mr. Clinton can't blame the dubious investigations of Kenneth Starr for his current predicament. He alone is responsible for making his private life a topic of public debate. Through his own reckless actions, his finger-wagging lie in January, and the seven months of deceit that followed, he has pushed his sex life onto the front pages.."

MSNBC Lisa Myers 9/3/98 "NBC News, quoting legal sources, reported that Starr's report on the scandal almost certainly will detail what Lewinsky says was a sexual liaison at the White House on April 7, 1996 - Easter Sunday. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Lewinsky testified before the grand jury that she had a sexual encounter with the president in his White House study, hours after Clinton attended Easter services with his family. An encounter on that day would cast Clinton on a particularly unfavorable light, since the president and first lady were mourning the death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and members of his staff days earlier in an airplane crash in Croatia. The sources also said that Secret Service Officer John Muskett offered supporting testimony for Lewinsky's account, saying he admitted her to the Oval Office that day and later saw her leaving the president's study."

Freeper Report WMAL Radio Host Chris Core 9/3/98 "Chris Core of ABC Owned and Operated talk station WMAL in Washington led his radio program today with the five following bombshells. Bob Woodward is set to deliver report as soon as tomorrow of 1-2 more interns Marsha Scott has told her lawyer that the reason Monica Lewinsky saved the dress is because she was very upset that she had moved out of the White House and the other girls were not Lieberman is getting set to call for Clinton to resign not be censured Gore has been told to get set for transition Major News Organization (read ABCNews) have been told "No More Vacations", get back to D.C. ASAP. Core is a liberal who nearly went to work in the Clinton White House. He's been a defender of Clinton until after the 4 minute speach. Since then he's said that Clinton "has to go." He and his babbling co-host Brook Stevens have worked the phones for three hours and have gotten no denials to any of this. The feeling Core said is that "something is about to happen."

Washington Post 9/4/98 John Harris "Despite a rising bipartisan clamor that President Clinton must accept some congressional sanction for his behavior in the Monica S. Lewinsky controversy, his defense team is embarked on a combative strategy in which the plan is to heighten their attacks on independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and concede no official wrongdoing.. Clinton's team of defenders - which has significantly expanded in recent days to include members of the White House congressional liaison office - is girding for a battle over Starr's expected report of possible impeachable offenses. They will try to convince lawmakers that the independent counsel has come up with nothing damaging beyond what Clinton has already acknowledged: an improper but consensual relationship with Lewinsky... Seeking to bolster the White House team, aides say Clinton is planning to hire a new senior adviser. The person would take a lead role in Clinton's defense, serving as a White House ambassador to Congress in the fight over Starr's report. .. Some advisers are fuming at Clinton's private lawyer, David E. Kendall, for allowing Clinton to declare that he had been "legally accurate" when he testified in the Paula Jones lawsuit that he never had sexual relations with Lewinsky..One area in which lawyers and senior political advisers are, at least for now, in agreement is on the strategy of aggressively fighting Starr's report and any congressional effort to punish Clinton as a result.."

Washington Times 9/4/98 Sean Scully about Senator Lieberman's speech ". briefly afterward. "This is not just inappropriate behavior, this is not just a private matter ... this threatens more than just his presidency," Mr. Kerrey said. "I had said [the president's speech] was inadequate," Mr. Moynihan said, "but it was not until just this moment that the full measure of that inadequacy was presented to us." .they called on the president to accept responsibility for his actions. Their combined voices increase the pressure on the president to offer a more detailed public explanation of his behavior. Mr. Clinton's behavior "not only contradicted the values he has publicly embraced over the last six years, it has, I fear, compromised his moral authority at a time when Americans of every political persuasion agree that the decline of the family is one of the most pressing problems we are facing," Mr. Lieberman said.."

Today Show 10/8/98 Freeper summary ".The Today Show is reporting that Bob Bennett sent a letter eight days ago to Judge Wright wherein he states that the affidavit filed by Monica Lewinsky in the Paula Jones case was false. Mr. Bennett noted that the judge could no longer rely on his own statements in Bill Clinton's behalf (he said there had been no sex of any kind...) during the President's deposition in January. He cited "Ethical Reasons" for the necessity of sending the letter."

AP 10/30/98 Alison Fitzgerald ".One of the nation's most influential women is blasting feminist groups for their support of President Clinton. New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman on Thursday said feminist leaders are suffering from a "trust gap'' because they continue to back Clinton while arguing that gender discrimination and sexual harassment are wrong. "Their reaction - or, more accurately, their lack of reaction - to the president's behavior has left many wondering just whose side these women are on,'' she said. In her speech at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Whitman said she will no longer give money to feminist groups unless they take a stand against Clinton. "It's time they remember how to speak truth to power, no matter how much it hurts,'' she said.."

Liberty 11/98 Sarah McCarthy ".It's more than a little ironic that so many liberal Democrats have been heard on talk shows recently pleading for a "sense of proportionality" regarding the Clinton- Lewinsky affair. The champions of sexual harassment law -- those who crusaded for million dollar punitive damage fines and jury trials for sexual harassers, those who strenuously argued that powerful males having sex with young subservient females was inherently exploitative -- are now telling us that it's okay for the president of the United States to be sexually serviced by an infatuated young intern. Liberals, lawyers and feminists who previously demanded that a crude joke or two should result in the rejection of a Supreme Court nominee are now arguing that it's not only acceptable to have power-imbalanced sexual relations in the workplace, but that it's also okay to lie about it under oath in a sexual harassment trial..For years, lawyers and judges have sat as silent witnesses, watching as these shamefests destroyed the privacy rights, free speech, property rights, workplaces and the very lives of American citizens, and have done nothing to stop them. If the destruction of marriages, reputations, jobs, businesses and privacy has not inspired the legal system into reforming the destructive and brutal process that it has devised, perhaps the destruction of a presidency will. If there is any good to come from the current presidential scandal, it is that the American people now have had an up-close and personal look at a fairly typical sexual harassment case."

Jewish World Review 11/24/98 Walter Williams "....this is the first time in our history we've had a president disgrace his office and receive widespread political and public support while doing so. Most Americans chalk up Clinton's behavior in the Monica Lewinsky scandal to "understandable lies and cover-up about sex." For them, a president committing clearly criminal acts like perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice are OK if it's "just about sex.".... Americans have cheered and supported the White House's scathing attack on duly appointed court officers investigating the president's criminal acts. Are we now ready to accept the principle that subjects of criminal investigations can use every means at their disposal to attack court officers and intimidate jurors and witnesses? ."

Houston Chronicle 11/23/98 Dan Thomasson ".Dash and Linda Tripp have something in common. Both are into betraying friends. The only difference is that, unlike Dash, Tripp has yet to make any money out of the Monica Lewinsky taping escapade."

Washington Post 12/1/98 ".Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr has threatened to indict a minor player in the White House sex scandal for allegedly lying to a grand jury in what would be the first criminal charges to emerge from the 10-month Monica S. Lewinsky investigation. Julie Hiatt Steele, who disputed former White House volunteer Kathleen E. Willey's account of an unwelcome sexual encounter with President Clinton, faces possible federal counts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice in connection with her testimony in the Lewinsky case. Starr deputy David Barger outlined the potential indictment in a Nov. 20 letter to Steele's lawyer, inviting her to explain why she should not be charged. Steele's attorney, Nancy Luque, said prosecutors gave her until today to come in and address their allegations, but that will not happen because Luque is traveling out of the country. Steele would be the first, though not necessarily the only, secondary character in the Lewinsky saga to be charged.."

Independent Women's Forum (IWF) Press Release 12/15/98 ".The Independent Women's Forum calls on the National Organization for Women and the Feminist Majority to support reform of sexual harassment law in keeping with their position espoused today at the National Press Club against the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton. In response to the extreme feminist criticism that the House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry is a "side show," the Independent Women's Forum asks N.O.W. and the Feminist Majority to join IWF in reforming sexual harassment law. Given that President Clinton lied merely about sex in his deposition in the now-settled $850,000 Jones sexual harassment suit: 1. Perjurious statements by a defendant in a sexual harassment suit shall be demoted from a felony to a misdemeanor. 2. Past instances of sexual harassment shall not be admissible evidence in a civil suit. 3. Holding elected office will immunize an individual from political or legal jeopardy involving perjury in a sex- related suit. 4. The "hostile environment" standard will not apply to firings , demotions or transfers of plaintiffs, close colleagues, or corroborating witnesses. 5. Sexual harassment plaintiffs must prove tangible harm. The IWF calls on N.O.W. and the Feminist Majority to demand that: The President pardon the drill sergeants from Aberdeen Proving Grounds, and all other Federal employees who have been punished for consensual sex with an employee, volunteer, or intern in their charge. Congress pass a "Sense of Congress" resolution forgiving all defendants who perjure themselves in cases involving sex-related offenses, and admonishing plaintiffs who continue to seek justice where perjury by the defendant is provable. Once again, while the feminists purport to speak for all women, they have proven that their national leadership lacks the common sense and integrity to even identify women's best interests."

Washington Times 3/24/98 Wes Pruden ".The truth is this: the feminist movement is dead. It has no independent principles. What remains is merely a partisan interest group within the Democratic Party. Its members love this president. They believe that he is best thing since sliced bread on women's issues, and because of that love and devotion, supposed principle is out the window. Suddenly, sexual harassment, the degradation and subjugation of women, the treatment of women as sex objects --all these sins are tolerable, if indeed they are not virtues, when it comes to President Clinton. Obviously, the contortions are having an effect; the oxygen supply to the feminist brain seems to have been cut off.."

New York Post 1/21/99 Bill Sanderson ".President Clinton worried about being asked under oath whether he had sex with former Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal, former Clinton political adviser Dick Morris said last night. Speaking on Fox News Channel, Morris said Clinton asked him in May 1994 what to do if he was asked, in testimony during the trial of then-Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, if he had sex with McDougal. "I just replied, 'If you had sex with her, admit it, tell the truth,'" Morris said on the "Hannity and Colmes" program."

Washington Times 2/15/99 John McCaslin ".As far as Gwendolyn Mink, professor of politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, is concerned, "Clinton made trashing women the national pastime." "Every woman with a story to tell became a woman with a foul motive or a questionable mental state," says Miss Mink, author of "Hostile Environment," a forthcoming book on sexual harassment. "Clinton also manipulated everyone, including leading feminists, into changing the subject from his obligation to tell the truth in a civil rights case to his right to sexual privacy." The professor says what worries her now "is the fallout of Clinton's defense and 'triumph' on women who need sexual harassment law." ..."

Judicial Watch 2/18/99 ".Judicial Watch today filed with Judge Susan Webber Wright a motion for order to show cause why President Clinton should not be held in criminal contempt for perjury and obstruction of justice in the Paula Jones civil lawsuit. The motion was filed on behalf of Dolly Kyle Browning, a key witness in the Jones case. Mr. Clinton followed through on earlier threats to her and lied under oath about her during his deposition in the Jones case. He falsely testified that he did not have a sexual relationship with Mrs. Browning and tried to destroy her by defaming her. Mr. Clinton also introduced his own manufactured and fraudulent handwritten notes which, among other falsehoods, contained a flagrantly false account of the 1994 high school reunion. Henry Hyde's staffers investigated Mrs. Browning's testimony and obtained affidavits verifying material parts of her account - thereby adding additional proof of presidential perjury and obstruction of justice. These affidavits have been presented to the Court as well. "Civil contempt is meant to force remedial behavior -- it is useless in addressing past unlawful behavior," stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman.."

http://www.nando.net/ 2/18/99Associated Press ".More than half of children aged 8 to 14 polled last weekend by the Nickelodeon television network said Clinton should have been removed from office following his impeachment trial. Only 40 percent of parents surveyed by Nickelodeon believed that, compared to 52 percent of their youngsters.."

Capitol Hill Blue 2/22/99 The Rant "...Sooner or later, in spite of the bungled impeachment efforts by Republicans, the American public is going to have to face the fact that the President of the United States is a criminal. Past Presidents in both parties have been guilty of isolated lapses of judgement and legality, but none approach William Jefferson Clinton's complete disregard for the rules of law, decency and morality... Clinton should remember, however, that this is Washington, a town where karma has a nasty habit of coming back around to bite you in the ass. Bill Clinton can only find so many third-world shitholes to bomb back into the stone age or trot his wife out so many times to divert public attention from the fact that he is a sexual degenerate who views women as objects to be assaulted and battered. Even a gullible public will come to realize that the President of the United States is a criminal. A smart, charming criminal perhaps, but still a criminal...."

Washington Post 2/23/99 Richard Cohen "…Take the rape charge. It is that -- get it? I feel I have to emphasize it: The president of the United States is accused of raping a woman back when he was attorney general of Arkansas. An account of this alleged rape ran on Page 1 of The Washington Post. Get it? Page One! The Washington Post! Do you want to know what happened next? Nothing. No. That's not entirely true. Both Newsweek and Time ran cover stories on Hillary Clinton and whether she would run for the Senate from New York state. Time's main piece never reported the rape charge, although a separate article did, and Newsweek gave it only a glancing mention. As for the Sunday talks, it seemed they all did Hillary and the Senate race. Was the purported rape mentioned? Not that I can tell from the morning papers. The matter apparently never comes up. It is, as I suggested before, staggering. Here is a president who has been like no other. If I told you three years ago -- even two years ago -- that the president was having sex in the Oval Office with a young intern, you would not have believed me. In fact, I would not have believed it myself. The rumors, I thought, were the work of his worst enemies -- crazies, mentally unstable. And yet, look where we are now. If I told you that the woman had kept a sex-stained dress, you would have called me deranged, a perverted pundit. No one does that. Indeed, when I first heard of the dress, I rejected it as the body does someone else's organ, and then, after reports of it initially faded, I thought I must have dreamed it. But then it came back -- and so did reports about Yasser Arafat kept waiting, and chats with congressmen while Clinton was . . . You can look any of this up. But you could not make any of this up…."

Rush Limbaugh 2/24/99 Freeper Newsman reporting re Juanita Broaddrick "…Clinton, of course, cannot be tried because the Arkansas statute of limitations expired years ago. And because the Senate recently acquitted him in his Senate impeachment trial, the president himself would not be in any jeopardy and is probably not all that much concerned about it, the talk show host said. But it could prove quite a different story for the Democrats in the House and in the Senate. They are the ones, Limbaugh added, "who are quaking in their boots today. That's who's going to be watching this closely tonight and worried silly about the public's reaction to it."…."

Original Sources 2/26/99 Mary Mostert "...The Clinton Impeachment Trial was not about sex. It was about perjury and obstruction of justice. While Clinton and his supporters in the media tried mightily to MAKE it about sex, one of the criticisms of the House Managers was that their presentations were "tedious" and brought out "nothing new." But, it didn't take long. Every effort was made to short circuit a real trial. Senator Arlen Spector, for example, voted against having witnesses. Now, who ever heard of a trial without witnesses? Then he voted with the Democrats because, he said, the House Managers "didn't prove" beyond a reasonable doubt that perjury and obstruction of justice had been committed. For a few days we had a bit of media driven "bipartisan" talk, sprinkled with a reports, first in the Drudge Report and then in "respectable" newspapers about the Juanita Broaddrick story. Wednesday, we heard Juanita tell her story of being raped by Bill Clinton, then the Attorney General for the State of Arkansas. Actually, this turn of events isn't simply about sex either. It's about violence...."

Judicial Watch Press Release 2/26/99 Judicial Watch "...The new, credible allegation that Juanita Broaddrick was raped by Bill Clinton adds great significance to the RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) civil suit filed by Dolly Kyle Browning. In Count VI of her complaint, Mrs. Browning sues Bill Clinton and his agents for their pattern of conduct of abusing and threatening women in order to obtain and maintain hold on the office of the presidency, among other grounds. Obviously, Ms. Broaddrick is one of the many women that fall within Clinton's pattern of conduct. "Those commentators and analysts who say there won't be a legal proceeding or justice concerning Ms. Broaddrick and the other women are just plain wrong. As with O.J. Simpson, a civil suit will provide justice to rectify this sad pattern of abuse of women," stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman. "The White House has become a veritable 'Rockingham Palace,' another place of infamy, with its occupant as isolated as O.J. Simpson."..."

WorldNetDaily 2/26/99 Joseph Farah "...Interesting, isn't it, that not one member of Congress has come forward to call for the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton for moral turpitude in light of the accusations of Juanita Broaddrick? So, let the chorus begin here: It's way past time to throw this bum out of office. He's a disgrace to his office. He's a detriment to his country. And he's an embarrassment to the human race.... "It doesn't rise to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor," we heard repeated on every talking head show night after night, week after week. Well, how about rape? Does that rise to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor, Barney Frank? It's time to put on trial those clowns who stood by their man despite overwhelming evidence of perjury and obstruction of justice. What are they going to say about Juanita Broaddrick? That the statute of limitations has run out? What's a little rape between friends? I'd love to hear the rationalizations this time...."

Roll Call 2/25/99 Morton Kondracke "...Conservative moralists are dispirited by the public's reaction to the Clinton scandals, but polls indicate that American culture may not have collapsed after all. Even though President Clinton's job approval ratings remain stratospheric, his ratings for personal trustworthiness are subterranean. ...What's this dichotomy all about? To moralists like former Education Secretary Bill Bennett and conservative activist Paul Weyrich, it's evidence of cultural confusion, callousness or collapse. Bennett vows to continue speaking out. Weyrich is tuning out....Even if it doesn't affect Clinton's political standing, Americans should come as close as possible to understanding just what kind of person Clinton really is. In the Lewinsky case, the public seems to have bought the argument of Clinton's supporters that the sex involved was consensual and that, in the end, nobody was hurt -- especially not the U.S. constitutional system. The idea that Clinton would have sexually assaulted a woman, biting her lip to impose himself on her, totally alters the general impression of him as merely an amiable lecher and turns him into a monster..... "

Freeper LYNXCry 2/26/99 reports "...Bob Dornan is doing the Ollie North radio show right now. He just said that clinton raped Jaunita, then while she was laying there crying and bleeding, he raped her again. He also said that reporters are over in England right now looking for the Oxford rape victim, Eileen. He is outraged, why haven't any cabinet members jumped ship in protest..."

Hyde on ABC Radio News 2/26/99 Freeper Birdman "...On Harkin, he violated his oath by calling the case a dung heap before hearing ANY evidence. On Byrd, he calls himself the conscience of the senate but tried to shut the trial down prematurely. On Lieberman, he talked a big game but wimped out in the end. WIMP statement was a quote...."

Freeper williams reports on CBS Radio 2/26/99 "...The supposedly Clinton - solid Left Coast erupted in shouts of "Rapist" and "Protect Your women and children!" as protestors jeered a Clinton visit. The report was surprisingly carried by CBS Radio today. I heard it rebroadcast on a local Philadelphia station. Women interviewed said "Clinton is no good," and that he should be punished just like other rapists. ..."

Freeper williams reports on Larry King Live 2/25/99 "...Larry King tried to serve up softballs to his guests last night, but all of them, including David Gergen, ate only humble pie. Gergen told King that the people who have defended Clinton have a "nagging suspicion" that his "problem" goes further than they imagined. Gergen said soberly that he previously thought they were dealing with "consensual" situations...."

Freeper Interesting Times 2/26/99 Larry King Live "...To the contrary, Gergen's obvious discomfort as he spoke about Juanita's rape charge to Larry King is to his credit. And he connected the dots, saying what troubled him the most was the "pattern of predation." As William Bennett put it, "It fits the M.O.". This is not the response of someone reflexively trashing accusers and minimizing their claims. It is the response of a man who is starting to understand an appalling truth...."

newsmax 2/26/99 "...Vermont's Jim Jeffords, the first Republican Senator to announce he would vote to acquit President Clinton on impeachment charges, weighed in on Rapegate Friday morning -- calling it "a private matter". Appearing on the Mark Johnson radio show, heard on WKDR in Burlington, Jeffords was asked if he believed Juanita Broaddrick's charge that Clinton had raped her two decades ago...."

2/26/99 Freeper eleven reports "...Sen. James Jeffords has apologized for saying Juanita Broaddrick's allegations that President Clinton sexually assaulted her are a ``private matter.'' ..."

Wall St Journal 3/5/99 Editorial "…Monica Lewinsky's long-awaited interview ran for two hours--hours that evidently took a lot more out of Barbara Walters than they did out of Monica. While Monica seemed most of the time to be having a fearfully good time chirruping on about her sensuality, about the extra special excitement of--how to put it?--sexual engagement with the President even as he was talking on the phone to a member of Congress, Ms. Walters didn't appear to be taking part in the fun. s her interviewee rattled on about herself, about her conviction that her "little relationship" was private and certainly not the business of any of the meanies at the White House who tried to put a stop to it, Ms. Walters began looking decidedly grim. For those connected to that part of society still capable of feeling shock and revulsion, the Lewinsky interview must have induced feelings similarly grim…"

Investor's Business Daily 3/5/99 Freeper heyduke "…Seventy million Americans watched Monica Lewinsky's public confessional Wednesday night. No doubt many came away shocked by the salaciousness of it all. We did too, but we also came away with something else. The Monica interview was more than a tale of a young woman confused about life. It was more than a revelation. It went beyond sordid details. What we saw is what happens when a society begins to lose its moral compass. Just 20 years ago, it would have been unthinkable for Americans to arrange their midweek evening entertainment around a young woman who carried on an affair with the preside nt. How did we get here?…"

Creators Syndicate 3/9/99 Linda Bowles "…One of the defenses of Bill Clinton spun out by his apologists is that the people of America have always known what they were getting when they voted for him. Everything about him was in full view from the beginning. I challenge these defenders to produce one politician or one ordinary citizen who knew before voting for him that Clinton was a cheat, a sexual predator, a chronic liar and believably a rapist. But now, there is no longer the excuse of ignorance or reasonable doubt. When Democrats honor and applaud Clinton, they do it knowing what he is and what he has done…."

Creators.com 3/9/99 Linda Bowles "…What is also becoming clear, and will soon become even clearer, is that Bill Clinton not only soiled the presidency, he endangered the nation. If the president wasn't blackmailed, it was luck. He made 50, late-night phone calls on unsecured lines to Monica. Many of these calls were for the purpose of phone sex. There are reports that the Israeli spy agency Mossad tapped 30 hours of these phone sex calls, as did the FBI, as part of its counterintelligence operations. The fear is that others, including the Chinese, were also listening…. Clinton knew he was playing with disaster. Monica testified under oath that Clinton told her "he suspected that a foreign embassy was tapping his telephone." Our national security has been jeopardized, and our foreign policy decisions made suspect by the wanton irresponsibility and recklessness of a proud and practicing sociopath…."

U.S.News & World Report 3/29/99 Paul Bedard "…Morale in the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service has plummeted anew amid unusual staffing changes ordered at the top. Insiders tell Whispers that the brass have eliminated several key posts inside the White House and ordered supervising sergeants to stand guard. "They're dismantling the rank structure," says one officer who blamed the changes on agency leaders anxious to please the Clintons, who have shunned Uniformed Division members ever since several testified in the Monica Lewinsky scandal…."

Manchester Union Leader 3/22/99 Richard Lessner Freeper Liberty "…Last week's disgusting Radio and Television Correspondents' Washington soiree, featuring a jocular Bill Clinton, called to mind Oscar Wilde's biting description of fox hunting: "The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible." There was a shameless Bill Clinton yuking about his sexcapades and impeachment, while the 2,200 assembled "journalists" guffawed. Gomorrah on the Potomac. Revolting. Mr. Clinton even cracked jokes about Red China's spying at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory, as though this breech of national security were a laughing matter. If any yet entertained doubts about Washington's isolation from the rest of the America or this President's moral flabbiness, then this was the occasion on which both were floridly on display…."

Wall Street Journal 1/18/99 by Freeper gg188 ".Last Monday's WSJ reports that AOL and Merriam Webster shut down their online Thesaurus last FRIDAY (as I write this, it is Thursday morning and the site is still "temporarily unavailable.") How the heck long does it take to expunge any word found offensive to the gay community? Seems that a radio talk show host in Seattle typed in "homosexual" and the synonyms returned were offensive to him. "I'm not for censorship." he averred, as he began his crusade for, er, ah, CENSORSHIP. I mean, we now must have politically correct definitions of words. This IS 1984, right? Homosexual: a downtrodden minority whose lifestyle is perfectly normal and a group that, if you say anything bad about, you are guilty of hate speech. (Don't ask when SPEECH became a crime; that's for another discussion. Just know that in this instance, the "speech" referred to is more egregious in the eyes of the law than about 90% of all felonies committed against non-minorities) .Isn't the dictation of the MEANINGS of words by politically correct and politically motivated special interest groups who act to forward their agendas----isn't this an assault on truth, on education, on academia?."

USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/ 2/22/99 Jessica Lee Freeper A Whitewater Researcher "...EXCERPTS: "...fights already are brewing over presidential nominations...Even though the Republican-controlled Senate refused to confirm many of them last year, Clinton is resubmitting the names of a dozen people he wants to put on the federal bench, at U.S. missions overseas and in other top jobs....Clinton is scheduled to meet Tuesday at the White House with congressional leaders, including several Republicans who voted to remove him from office. It will be the first such meeting in 19 months...But 10 days after the Senate acquitted Clinton on two articles of impeachment, partisan strife is in the air...For Clinton, resubmitting stalled nominations allows the president to show liberal Democrats, whose steadfast support helped save his job, that he will not forsake them to curry favor with the GOP....For Republicans, standing firm against Clinton's liberal nominees is a way of showing core supporters the party will not abandon the conservative positions on affirmative action, homosexuality and other issues...."

American Center for Law and Justice Fall 1998 "...Thanks to your support, the ACLJ has stopped an appalling attempt to make homosexuality part of a Connecticut high school's program for "minority students." Vince McCarthy, our ACLJ Northeastern regional counsel, appeared before the Brookfield High School board to denounce the Pink Triangle program, which encouraged "sexually confused" teens to discuss their feelings with designated faculty members. Following his presentation, the school board voted to ban the program. Pink triangle decals, posted on several classroom doors, would have designated "safe zones" for students who are homosexual, bisexual, or confused about their sexuality. That was the shocking message that a public schoolteacher delivered to her class of teenagers in announcing the program. The Connecticut school was literally going to provide sexually troubled kids with adult counseling that condoned and encouraged the homosexual lifestyle...."

Drudge 2/23/99 "... On Wednesday night at 8 pm ET [Family Hour?] NBC NEWS will broadcast an exclusive television interview with Juanita Broaddrick, a woman who has accused Bill Clinton of rape.... The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that NBC NEWS Washington Bureau chief Tim Russert got sick to his stomach when he viewed the five hour session between NBC NEWS reporter Lisa Myers and Broaddrick., Russert told associates that Broaddrick's story left him speechless and upset him physically after he viewed raw tapes of her interview. Broaddrick tells NBC NEWS, in graphic detail, how Bill Clinton raped her back in 1978.... "NBC is just trying to compete with the GRAMMY AWARDS," one White House source told the DRUDGE REPORT on Tuesday afternoon...."

MSNBC-Laura Ingraham's Watch-It! Freeper report 2/25/99 Lisa Myers "...On Laura Ingraham's Watch-It! show just ending this morning, Lisa Myers tells Laura that she "finds it amazing and unreal that a story has come out about the President raping a woman 21 years ago and the reaction border's on 'ho-hum'". Lisa delivered her interview with Laura with extreme confidence about Broaddrick's credibility. She also had a visible sense of alarm and urgency that something HAS to be done about the charges. At the end of the show Laura revealed an MSNBC telephone poll that said that 84% of those polled AGREE with Juanita's version of events..."

The WASHINGTON TIMES 3/1/99 Joyce Howard Price "…President Clinton came under heavy fire yesterday to respond more fully to charges he raped Arkansas nurse Juanita Broaddrick 21 years ago. Sen. Fred Thompson, Tennessee Republican, and other lawmakers who appeared on Sunday talk shows said that Mr. Clinton must stop hiding behind the terse denial of his attorney David Kendall and tell voters what he knows…Added Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican: "Clearly, President Clinton has to offer some explanation, other than to say, 'Talk to David Kendall.'" Mr. McConnell spoke on "Fox News Sunday." Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles, Oklahoma Republican, weighed in on CNN. He called Mrs. Broaddrick's charge "very, very serious" and said she is "very, very credible." "This is the most serious allegation, this is more serious than anything that was ever alleged about [former Oregon Sen.] Bob Packwood, or [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas. ... I think the president is going to have to give some answers, as unpleasant as it is," Mr. Nickles added. A New York Times editorial Saturday echoed the calls from Republican senators, calling on Mr. Clinton to speak out on the charges. But Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, in an interview on ABC's "This Week," said no one should expect to hear personally from Mr. Clinton about this issue…."

Augusta Chronicle 3/03/99 Becky Goetz / Letter to Editor Freeper newsman "…It becomes possible to be perceived as ``virtuous'' because of a professed position on some social issue, while leading a wicked personal life. This strange twist is seen in an American society that is perfectly willing to note a president's personal decadence, but still wants to keep him in office because of his professed position on ``moral'' issues...."

Daily Oklahoman 3/3/99 Jeff Jacoby Freeper hope "…DIFFERENT reactions are possible to Juanita Broaddrick's accusation that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, but stunned disbelief isn't one of them. No one is sputtering, "Clinton? Force himself on someone? Impossible!" We know by now that with Clinton, anything is possible…."

Weekly Standard 3/15/99 Charles Krauthammer Freeper JeanS "…LIKE THE CARELESS BUCHANANS of The Great Gatsby, Bill Clinton is known as the man who leaves friends wounded and bleeding in his wake. But of all the casualties littering his trail--the jailed business partners, the disgraced aides, the character-assassinated former lovers--the most serious by far is feminism: Feminist leaders, feminist groups, feminist ideology, and the Democratic party, once the party of women and women's rights, will never recover…."

EWTN 7/16/99 NEW YORK (CWNews.com) 7/19/99 "... A UN committee focusing on women's rights has pressured governments to stop promoting motherhood and called on religions to change the interpretation of their sacred texts as part of a campaign to promote radical feminism, according to a Catholic pro-family group on Friday. The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute said the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has used the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to put pressure on the 163 countries that have ratified it to implement their vision of feminism. The committee recently directed the government of Libya to reinterpret the Koran, the sacred text of Islam, "in light of the provisions of the Convention." ....The Committee criticized Croatia for allowing "church-related organizations to adversely influence" women's rights. It told the Dominican Republic that an "intermingling of the secular and religious spheres" is a "serious impediment to implementing the Convention." .....The group also admonished Armenia to "use the educational system and electronic media to combat the traditional stereotype of women 'in the noble role of mother,'" and the Czech Republic was criticized for "over-protective measures for pregnancy and motherhood." ..."

Jewish World Review 7/20/99 Don Fedor "...AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL and the Zionist Organization of America are fuming over Hadassah giving its Henrietta Szold Award to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Personally, I think Hillary and Hadassah are a perfect match. Today, members of the pro-Israel groups will burn their Hadassah membership cards at the organization's New York headquarters. They urge Hadassah to remember its Zionist roots and reconsider the honor. Unfortunately, the Jewish women's group has subordinated Zionism to feminism..."

U.S. News Online 8/9/99 John Leo "...Santa Cruz, Calif., which has banned just about every form of discrimination, including lookism (i.e., hiring a pretty receptionist when a homely one is available) is ready for its next leap forward. Activists are gathering petitions for a vote to outlaw all hate in Santa Cruz and declare the city a hate-free zone. "Leave your hate at the city limits," said campaign spokesman David Silva. But what about all that hate piling up in the suburbs?.... "

U.S. News Online 8/9/99 John Leo "... Walt Whitman wasn't a bad fellow, but he didn't understand that words like mankind, man, and his are sexist, so editors at Bandanna Books (Santa Barbara) decided to alter his poems, eliminating man and inserting new unisex pronouns (hu, hus, hum) for he, his, and him. "Hu will never sleep any more and hu did in the cot in hu's mother's bedroom," says one of Whitman's refurbished poems. Hu's sorry now? ..."

Boston Herald 8/3/99 Margery Eagan "...There are several theories on why Hillary Clinton has blamed her husband's chronic philandering on the dead: ....Hillary is after the adulterers' vote, significant in New York. Thanks to Hillary, husbands caught in flagrante can now claim that after flashbacks of Mother chasing Nana with the frying pan, they had no choice but to seduce intern after intern after intern after intern..... ``And if she knew all along he had this `weakness' caused by his poor dead mother and the grandmother who loved him, why allow James Carville and his ilk to trash Paula Jones? Why go on the `Today' show (after the Lewinsky story broke) and blame a vast right-wing conspiracy? ``You know, everybody makes mistakes,'' says Milton, author of ``The First Partner.'' ``But the Clintons don't feel they should ever pay a price for their mistakes . . . It's so dispiriting.'' ..."

WorldNet Daily 8/3/99 Joseph Farah "....Impeachment hearing hero David Schippers told Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Network that former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary gave marching orders to halt all scheduled promotions of white males in her vast federal bureaucracy. "Now you know something about Hazel O'Leary in your capacity as -- looking over everything, and ... that there was an ongoing ... conspiracy to make certain that no white males got promoted to any offices of responsibility and got -- indeed got no promotions at all," he said. "Really?" questioned O'Reilly. "So Hazel O'Leary, then the chief of the Department of Energy, you're saying that your client told you, was knocking out all white males that -- when they -- when they were up for promotion?" "As I understand it -- this is secondhand. As I understand it, when Hazel O'Leary got into the office, she asked for the promotion list and then asked them to strike the names of all white males," charged Schippers. "That's against the law," observed O'Reilly astutely. "Well, this information's been furnished to the -- to the Congress. They have it," said Schippers. Is it hard to believe? Not with the bunch in this administration -- not with what I know about the political nature of Hazel O'Leary, who personally targeted me and my organization for extinction as well. She's the former Cabinet official who made phone calls to my news organization's donor base threatening individuals with government retribution if they continued to support the Western Journalism Center, parent company of WorldNetDaily.com...."

USA TODAY Life Section pg. D-1 (print edition) 8/12/99 Cesar Soriano "...Angered by reports of rape and other sexual assaults at last month's Woodstock 99 festival, the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women plans a demonstration today at the Manhattan office of concert promoter John Scher. "The promoters' attitude has been dismissive of the very serious trauma that was suffered" by victims, chapter president Galen Sherwin says. New York State Police say they are investigating eight allegations of sex crimes at Woodstock, including five rapes. No one has been arrested in connection with assaults on festival grounds. ..."

The American Enterprise, a National Magazine of Politics, Business, and Culture 9/10 1999 "...Ithaca, New York is a typical college town. A hotbed, in other words, of left-wing Big Brotherism. At Ithaca's Boynton public middle school, all students were recently indoctrinated in a day-long "celebration" of homosexuality. For four school periods there were videos, lectures, and panels featuring gay teachers, parents, and students. "I did not know that I was a lesbian in the seventh grade, but I have since learned to like 'doing it' with a girl," explained one student panelist. "Now that I have 'done it' with both boys and girls I find I like both." At one point, all students were asked to stand in solidarity with homosexuals. When roughly one-third of the 11- and 12-year-olds did so, parents in attendance observed adults and student peers putting pressure on the rest to conform. After lunch, all students returned to their rooms for the remainder of the day for small group discussions led by teachers who organized the presentations. When a number of aprents registered concerns about the all-day seminar with Ithaca School Board President Steve Shiffrin (who is a Cornell law school professor in his day job), he told them that if they didn't like the district's "multicultural" policy they should put their children in private schools. The same school district has just proposed banning the Boy Scouts (and other single-sex groups) from distributing any literature on school property, on the grounds that they are intolerant organizations...."

Intellectual Capital 8/19/99 Alicia Colon "…Until talk-show host extraordinaire Jerry Springer recently declined to enter the Ohio Senate race, Ohio Democrats had considered asking him to be their candidate in the year 2000. Is this the best they can think of in Ohio? Can't they locate one viable candidate with good taste? What on earth has happened to this once great party? ….The Democratic Party of the 1950s and 1960s never would have selected a man of such dubious repute as Clinton as its standard bearer…...I strongly suspect that the party began its decline in good judgment when Democrats decided to embrace the banner of militant feminism in the early 1970s. The party leadership reasoned that women comprised a strong voting bloc, so their issues became the party's platform. Thus began the great divide between the two major parties. The great Democratic senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the phrase "defining deviancy down," and this describes perfectly what has happened to his party. When Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson and many other politicians first spoke on the issue of abortion, all were against it. Then faced with the rise of outspoken feminist leaders and the political and monetary clout of the National Organization for Women, they changed their positions. When one can rationalize that abortion is a constitutionally protected right, then one can rationalize anything. Perjury or subornation of perjury is not a crime as long as the offender supports women's issues. Talk-show hosts of vile and despicable programs are ideal candidates because they will attract media attention. Above all, style over substantive issues is the way to attract the attention of the soccer moms because they are not deep thinkers anyway…..Am I being too cynical? No, I just have this horrible habit of speaking the truth that no one wants to hear. I am proud to be a woman, but I have to admit that so many of us are politically obtuse and susceptible to attractive candidates….."

WORLD Magazine 8/28/99 Roy Maynard "… Showtime makes a mockery of the battle over Clarence Thomas's elevation to the Supreme Court When the book Strange Justice by Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson came out in 1994, The Washington Times accurately described it as a "low-tech lynching" of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The book tried to spin Mr. Thomas's 1991 confirmation hearings as a conspiracy of dunces, in which evil conservatives and spineless liberals put a bad person on the high court. Another lynching takes place next week, when the premium cable channel Showtime debuts an original movie based on the book. ….. The only interesting aspect of the movie is its embrace of the axioms that feminists abandoned during President Clinton's most recent scandal: Men have power, women don't. Men abuse their power even in a consensual sexual relationship (subordinate women don't have the power to say no). Women who don't come forward immediately are prevented from doing so out of fear. When different stories arise, believe the woman! A man who harasses women is unfit for any public office. Feminists abandoned each of these points when Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick accused Bill Clinton. Anita Hill herself said in March 1998, as the Clinton crisis reached a critical phase, "We live in a political world, and the reality is there are larger issues than just individual behavior." …."

Agence France-Presse 9/8/99 "....At school, teachers say girls are outshining boys. At work, employers note that women are seizing more top jobs. In the media, young dispossessed males are blamed for society's ills. Now advertisers are warning British men that they'd better shape up. But help is at hand for the beleaguered British male as an army of feminist writers rush to their defence. "I like men, I just hate their guts," a sultry-looking woman snarls from a hoarding to advertise Bud Lite low-calorie beer. "I don't chase men who can't run away," quips a feisty blonde in the same campaign seen on billboards, in bus stops and in the subway. A Lee Jeans advertisement takes the predatory theme further still. Urging women to "Put the boot in", the photograph shows a woman's stilletoed foot poised on a man's naked bottom. Such advertisements, argue feminists, do nothing more than reverse old sexist stereotypes for the benefit of neither sex. Columnist Ros Coward, in the Guardian newspaper, points out that there is no need to demean men. "There is no longer an overarching system of male oppression where men always benefit and women always lose out... globalisation and recessions have dealt men a number of blows. "Combined with changed status in the family, this has made them especially vulnerable to unemployment, homelessness and depression," she wrote. ...."

Sydney Morning Herald 9/4/99 Bettina Arndt "…IT'S a fitting end to the 20th century. After the recent decades of public soul-searching about the female condition, Susan Faludi, a leading feminist author, has discovered men. Even more surprising, having spent the past six years listening to them talk about their lives, she's concluded that men have been stiffed. The world now awaits startling revelations - given the cool $US1.5 million ($2.35 million) advance the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is reputed to have been paid for her new book. Don't hold your breath. When the book, Stiffed - The Betrayal of the American Man, is published at the end of this month, it will reveal a somewhat kinder, gentler Faludi with rather more sympathy for the male of the species, but little to break new ground. Still, it's a promising end to an era when the woman who once saw men only as the yoke around women's necks learns that the lives of many men ain't nothing to write home about. Such an insight was sorely lacking in Faludi's previous blockbuster, Backlash - The Undeclared War Against American Women….. ln Backlash, men were seen as the problem. Faludi's backlash was fuelled by threatened men, men fearful of the loss of economic and social power. Her thesis was that the periodic flare-ups of resistance to women's progress were founded on "a bedrock of misogyny". According to Faludi, women's progress is inevitably "interpreted by men, especially men grappling with real threats to their economic and social wellbeing on other fronts, as spelling their own masculine doom". …."

San Diego Union-Tribune 9/5/99 Louise Palmer "…The percentage of young women who believe abortion should be legal has dropped every year for nine years, setting off alarm bells in the graying leadership of the abortion rights movement. Support has softened in the very group that historically has powered the movement, from a high of 65.5 percent approval in 1989 to 49.5 percent in 1998, according to an annual study by UCLA of more than 350,000 students entering colleges nationwide. This statistical free fall has spurred a series of advertising, education, and recruiting campaigns across the nation aimed at young women who, abortion rights advocates say, have no sense of a world without access to legal abortion and birth control. The Pro-Choice Public Education Project, for instance, is running an edgy, in-your-face ad campaign using provocative images to get the "post-Roe generation" -- those born after the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973 -- thinking and talking…."

Chicago Tribune 9/22/99 Geneva Overholster, Washington Post Writers Group "....Back in the 1970s, to breathe the air of women's liberation was--well, liberating. The company you kept was marvelous: living rooms full of eager, hopeful people humming with energy and discovery, reaching for the future that opened before us. The inequities were starker then. To stand for progress was only reasonable. To fight for it took courage and was perhaps a bit risky, but it was also likely to amount to something...... What had been courageous now became strident. Young women disavowed any interest in the movement. Once-proud veterans sprang leaks of self-doubt: Did I get this job because I'm a woman? Do I come off as too shrill?...... And so began, for many women of my generation, an era of living our feminism rather than talking about it--or so I explained it to myself. We'd moved up in the world, in any case, and had more responsibility. We could shine light in dark places simply by being there, living our balanced lives, embodying our hopes for equality. Somewhere along the way, however, it became hard to distinguish this effective, if not voluble, sort of feminism from, simply, giving out. Or giving in. The effort lost its vigor. "Feminist" was no longer a dirty word. It was worse than that: It was passe. Oh, feminism is still good for a swift kick every now and then, or as fodder for some shallow judgment: It undermined the family and ate away at America's moral fiber; or it revolutionized society, and its work is done. In any case, feminism is over...."

FrontPage Magazine 9/29/99 Cleveland Free Times Laua Demarco "....Kopp is the executive director of the Ohio chapter of Feminists for Life of America, a self-described pro-woman, pro-life activist group that, due to their pro-life politics, was rejected from receiving booth space in the Lilith Fair Village, an area where assorted activists and vendors set up tables to inform/enlighten/sell products. In protest, Kopp and two other FFL members took a different approach this day: They bought tickets, put on gags and assumed their position in front of several pro-choice groups' booths. In spite of Lilith Fair's lofty goal of wanting to "raise consciousness about issues that affect women's lives," it's apparent not every viewpoint is permitted. The sight of a gagged woman standing in front of a National Organization for Women booth on a day meant to celebrate the female spirit couldn't make this point any clearer..... The barring of certain women from Lilith reflects issues affecting the whole movement. What does it mean to be a feminist in 1999? Can you censor other women and be a feminist? Is abortion the litmus test for feminism? Are minorities-racial or ideological-welcome? Are younger women welcome? Do they even want to join? Essentially, is there room for all women in the women's movement? ...... This one issue disqualified the group from the Lilith Village. But do FFL's views on abortion also disqualify them from feminism? It's a tough question. Whether or not pro-life and pro-woman are compatible inspires vehement debate in women's groups, nationally and locally. ...... It's hard to miss the hypocrisy of feminists censoring other women like this. Not only do such anti-woman actions buy into the idea that all women must think the same to belong to the girl's club. The logic behind them patronizingly assumes women aren't smart enough to hear all sides on an issue and decide for themselves. This view also fails to take into account recent studies, including one by former Planned Parenthood leader Faye Wattleton's Center for Gender Equity, that have found decreased support for abortion rights among women (Wattleton's group found the number of women supporting restrictions on abortions rose from 45 percent in 1997 to 53 percent in 1999). While this study has been dismissed by women's groups simply as evidence that devout and conservative women are becoming more politically vocal, the implication that the beliefs of these women don't matter as much as those of mainstream feminists doesn't diminish the findings. Obviously, not all women do think the same, nor should they have to. Younger women seem to grasp this idea more readily than their older peers....."

FrontPage Magazine 9/29/99 Cleveland Free Times Laua Demarco "....Clinton also hurt the women's movement in more straightforward ways. Women's groups enamored by his ardent pro-choice politics seem to have made a trade-off with the president, ignoring his actions (policy and personal) on other issues since he gave them this break. But overlooking the fact that the great protector is also a great womanizer-even when that womanizing included an intern putting out for the boss and getting a great job for her efforts-highlighted the hypocrisy in the established women's movement, giving fuel to its detractors and turning off many more thoughtful or moderate women...... And the brutal treatment Paula Jones received at the mouths of many in the women's movement only reinforced its image as elitist. Despite NOW President Patricia Ireland's assertion that their lack of support for Jones was based on her ties to right-wing groups, not her big hair, the message sent to poor women was loud and clear: "trailer trash" not welcome. ....."

Intellectual Capital 10/7/99 James Pinkerton "....I am Beltway Woman, hear me roar! But first some background on me. It is true what feminists say: The personal is political. We gave President Clinton a pass on his passes, but that was a special case -- the exception that, er, probes the rule. And gender is political, too. Which explains my difference from Beltway Man...... But I have to admit that now that I am a mother, the work of two other artists on display, Jake and Dinos Chapman, bothers me a lot. Their pieces show naked-girl manikins, the kind you see at the juvenile shop of a department store, disfigured with erect penises on their faces, as well as pubescent vaginas and gaping rectums. They claim it is their dystopic vision of a world gone twisted by pollution and genetic misengineering, but the captions on the exhibit say different: "Do we falsely deny the existence of sexuality in children?" one sign asks. If a woman had created these works, maybe I could see the transgressive logic of their work. But these are men, and they look like pedophiles to me. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has denounced the whole exhibit and wants to pull the museum's public subsidy. Maybe not such a bad idea, I think to myself. But alas, Hillary has come out against Giuliani, her likely Senate opponent, and so I am trapped. I cannot say anything against her pro-funding position..... But now feminist correctness and a mother's duty have come into conflict. You see, my one perfect child is a girl, and I do not want to worry for the rest of my life that some psycho man will get a sick idea from a government-funded show that causes my kid harm....."

Reuters 10/13/99 Jane Sutton "....A Florida woman hailed as a victory for women's rights a court ruling that cleared her of disturbing the peace when she bared her breasts during a camp-out in a state forest. ``Who decided that women's breasts are more obscene than men's?'' Kayla Sosnow asked at a news conference Tuesday in Gainesville. ``By going top-free, we are rejecting the criminalization of our breasts and reclaiming control of our bodies,'' she said. ..."

Corpus Christi Caller 10/11/99 Jennifer Stump "....The eighth graders at Bishop Garriga Middle School, 3114 Saratoga Blvd., don't have to worry about competing with the guys on the courtfeeling intimidated about raising their hands in class or thinking about their looks in the classroom. Although they see boys in the hallways at school and visit with them at lunchtime, when it comes to science projects and English papers, these girls are in a class of their own. ...... It's an idea that has gained momentum across the country in light of research that shows adolescent girls and boys learn differently and excel in different subjects. Traditionally, studies show, boys tend to outshine girls in math and science while girls do better in reading. This fall in Long Beach, Calif., Jefferson Leadership Academies became the first public school in the country to segregate its entire student body by gender. It's something Bishop Garriga, a private Catholic school for sixth, seventh and eighth graders, did four years ago. Parents and teachers say the experiment has worked. Children still socialize during class breaks and in elective courses such as band, art and journalism but aren't distracted by each other during the core curriculum classes, they say....."

CNSNews.com 10/14/99 Nicholas Sanchez "....Well, since Mr. Mfume and the NAACP are in a suing mood, I have the perfect target for their next lawsuit. This is an industry that has made millions and millions of dollars a year by killing millions and millions of black children over the years. You may ask what this pernicious enterprise that exists and legally eradicates America's black youth is. It is not the gun industry. Nor is it the drug industry. It is not even the KKK, Inc. It is the abortion industry. Yep. The reports are in that show that, although black women make up 12% of the total number of females in the United States, they have 33% of all abortions. So, basically, even though Hispanics make up roughly ten percent of the population and whites make up the super-majority of U.S. citizens, for every three children aborted in the US, one of them is black. The nasty effects of abortion have not been limited to loss of young life in the black community. Howard University completed a study in 1993 that shows that black women over the age of 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer compared to mothers that had not had abortions. Well, I'll be. This report clearly shows that feminists have been right all these years and that abortion is a "woman's issue." Although, Mr. Mfume has thus far failed to act on this major public policy issue, there have been other leaders in black community that have not been so hesitant to speak out against this attack on black babies and black mothers. And in the grand tradition of the old civil rights movement, the one that was born out of truly American ideals like life and liberty, this one comes not from a subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee, but from the cloth. A group of 12 black pastors recently led a march from Newark, New Jersey, to Washington, D.C. These pastors sought to rally 1,452 people to march with them to signify the 1,452 black children that are aborted daily. ...."

10/15/99 Associated Press "….A high school girls soccer coach has been fired for alleged male bashing and allowing a conversation about male anatomy on a team bus. The Lakewood School Board voted 4-1 Wednesday night to affirm its dismissal of coach Jodee Anderson. Anderson, who started the girls soccer program in 1996, acknowledged that she often told her players, "Boys are bad." She said the phrase "stands for, 'these girls have better things to think about than guys,' like soccer. As a coach, I discourage intimate relationships among young teens."…"

Inside Cover 10/18/99 Carl Limbacher ".....NOW Feminists Burn Bras and Defect to Republicans We almost couldn't believe our eyes. "Yes to a Republican Majority in Virginia" headlined a press release from a National Organization for Women's chapter in Virginia. Declaring that for the first time in 20 years, the Dulles Chapter of the ultra-left NOW announced it was dumping the Democrats to "endorse the prospect of a Republican majority . . ." The unusual action by the NOW chapter can be summed up in two words: Bill Clinton....."

Jewish World Review 10/19/99 Betsy Hart ".....I'LL NEVER FORGET meeting a woman who billed herself as a "child-advocate" but who became visibly horrified when I mentioned to her (jokingly?) that my husband and I eventually wanted six children. I'd rightly suspected she didn't really advocate kids. I thought about her and her like-minded friends when the world recently marked the addition of its 6 billionth person...... The Wall Street Journal summed up the world view of these folks when it editorialized, "Let a chicken or pig be born in Delhi or Shanghai and the bean counters at the U.N. and World Bank will tell you that the nation is wealthier. But let an Indian or Chinese mother give birth to a son or daughter, and it goes down in their crabbed little ledgers as a liability"............ "

WorldNetDaily 10/22/99 John Doggett ".... Eight years ago, Anita Hill unleashed an unprincipled attack against the man who hired her just before she was fired from her first legal job. Anita's attack on Clarence Thomas offended most Americans. However, once Judge Thomas became Justice Thomas, most Americans moved onto other issues. That wasn't the case in Oklahoma. This is a story that the mainstream press has ignored. It is a story of how citizens can make a difference. It is a story about how telling the truth and honor are important outside Washington, D.C. ...... When word of an attempt to create a permanent memorial to Anita reached Oklahoma, many tried to get the University to reject the chair. They were partly successful. The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents said that its rules required it to accept the funds. They also said, however, that the donors couldn't tell them who to appoint. In 1995, Anita's supporters finally raised the $250,000 to endow the chair. The state matched this contribution, as required by state law, with $250,000 in state money. That is where things stood for the next four years. That is because those who believed that Anita's act of treachery should not be honored in Oklahoma kept up the fight. ..... The attacks against Professor Hill were vicious. State Representative Leonard Sullivan called Hill a "cancerous growth" on the law school. Sullivan stated publicly that establishing an Anita Hill Professorship for the Study of Sexual Harassment was akin to establishing a "Jeffrey Dahmer Chair in the School of Cooking."......... In October 1996 Professor Hill resigned from the faculty of the Oklahoma College of Law when it became apparent that she would never be appointed to the endowed chair. She now teaches law, social policy and women's studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts....... Four days after E. Z. Million made his threat, the university decided to scrap the Anita Hill chair. The $250,000 raised by Hill's supporters for the chair would be refunded to the donors. The university also lost the $250,000 in matching funds the state had contributed to the Hill chair. The University of Oklahoma has now rid itself of any connection to Anita Hill. ....."

INSIGHT Magazine 10/22/99 Suzanne Fields ".....Stiffed is the brave new word to describe the betrayal of the American man. Poor babies. The pressure of postmodern masculinity is too much for them. The American male suffers from premature emasculation....... This is an idea that only could be written by a woman who dismisses personal responsibility as a guide to action. Susan Faludi, in her best-selling book Stiffed, seeks to put the blame everywhere but at the center of a man's character. She accuses both feminists and the family-values folk for cutting the male down to size........ . . . One of the problems of modern feminism is that in pushing for legitimate rights of women in the workplace, women as mothers are denigrated and downgraded. The sexual revolution, coinciding with the feminist revolution, allowed men to become selfish lovers, to live out irresponsible dreams, abandoning women with children without acquiring the traditional stigma exposing them as the bounders and louts they are....."

Investors Business Daily 11/1/99 "....It could have been worse. Assassins didn't spray the chamber with automatic rifle fire, as in Armenia. But the congresswomen who disrupted a Senate hearing the other day created an appalling spectacle. Their premeditated tantrum raised portents about our deliberative system of government. Led by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., the Democratic congresswomen marched to the Senate office building in search of Sen. Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee. Their mission: protest Helms' opposition to a U.N. convention calling for an end to sex discrimination. They found Helms chairing a hearing to consider an ambassadorial appointment. So they filed into the room with placards proclaiming their fealty to global feminism. What happened next, according to reports, was noisy, vocal disruption. Helms pleaded with them to act like ladies, then ordered their expulsion/ The congresswomen knew what they were doing. They expected Helms to look like a male chauvinist, though he correctly minded the need for order. Of course, he obliged them by using the politically incorrect word ''ladies.'' They also cynically portrayed themselves as injured womankind, which ill serves women's authentic quest for equality......"

Las Vegas Review-Journal 10/31/99 Vin Suprynowicz "....But today's brand of "multiculturalism" goes much further, doesn't it? Our children's textbooks are increasingly filled with the historically bankrupt fantasy that Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher had as much to do with winning the American Revolution as Washington and Jefferson; that the American Indian was some kind of mystically enlightened ecological steward; and that today's black American is directly descended from an ancient race that built the pyramids of Egypt and had already developed electrical storage batteries before the birth of Jesus. What gives? The answer, of course, is that today's "multiculturalism" is in fact a sharply limited political agenda sold under false colors. The goal here is for a small segment of the academe with giant chips on their shoulders to monomaniacally strip the pictures of dead white males out of our history books and replace them with pictures of blacks, Indians and women. ....And if you really want to upset a modern "multiculturalist," point out that he or she seems curiously intolerant of some "cultures" within modern America -- cultures with documentable thousand-year pedigrees -- where the cultural divisions are not discernible by skin color, at all. As I recently read the introduction to the 1994 Barnes & Noble edition of the esteemed archaeologist Ewart Oakeshott's "The Archaeology of Weapons," I was struck by the passage where he describes the attitude of the ancient Greeks and Romans toward their arms as being totally different from "that extraordinary romantic veneration for their arms so characteristic of Teuton, Celt, and Indian -- and on the other side of the earth, the Japanese." ...."

The Orlando Sentinel 10/31/99 Charley Reese "…. Affirmative action, for example, which is based on racial, ethnic and gender quotas, is an elaborate evasion of the basic truth that people are not equal. Thus, give everyone a truly equal opportunity, and the results will be unequal. But unequal results don't match the ideological belief that humans are equal in all respects except circumstances. Therefore, a racist and sexist system is imposed to evade the reality by simulating equal results. If you define sanity as being in touch with reality, this is a form of insanity. Another example is the use of double standards. Women are equal, ideology says, so they must be admitted to the service academies. But, oops, women can't compete physically with the men. So a double standard goes into effect -- one for men and one for women, which, ironically, puts you right back where you started: facing the fact that women and men are not indeed interchangeable human beings with only minor anatomical differences.

Jewish World Review 10/29/99 Cathy Young "…..Not only does NOW champion affirmative action, it clings to the notion of equal pay for "comparable" work -- the comparability to be determined by gender "experts." The resolution asserts that many traditionally female jobs "require skills and training equivalent" to better-paid traditionally male jobs, with two ludicrous examples: bookkeeping vs. truck driving and data entry vs. welding. Does it matter that the women's jobs offer far more agreeable physical conditions, while the men's jobs have a far greater risk of injury and death? Why doesn't NOW encourage more women to seek higher-paying non-traditional jobs instead of calling for salaries to be set by bureaucrats?…."

Jewish World Review 10/29/99 Cathy Young "…..But the first and longest of NOW's 1999 resolutions is a screed against "fathers' rights" and a call for action on behalf of women in divorce and custody cases. That's ironic because even many feminists who believe that sexism against women is rampant in our society admit that when it comes to child custody, the bias is against men. Karen DeCrow, president of NOW from 1974 to 1977, is an outspoken fathers' rights advocate. Of course, NOW doesn't openly support gender-based maternal privilege….. Sure, some women get the shaft in custody cases; but all the studies show that, by and large, the odds are against men, regardless of their involvement in parenting….."

National Review On-Line 10/18/99 Michael Potemra "….Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, the editor of Commonweal, has a fascinating reflection in the current issue of Dissent on the capture of the Democratic Party by a monolithic pro-choice orthodoxy. She points out, for example, that "no prolife candidate will get Party endorsement or campaign funds." She concludes: "I am loath to say it, and I say it with great reluctance, but I am coming to think of the Democratic Party not as the party of the people, or the party of the poor and vulnerable, but as the party of death....Roe v. Wade is here to stay: the right to abortion is constitutionally protected. That will not change. And because it will not change, perhaps it is time for the liberal-left to stop making it the lens through which candidates and issues must be scrutinized....Isn't it time for the Republicans to be deprived of their cynical use of abortion politics? Isn't it time for Democrats to stop being held hostage to prochoice politics?" …."

San Diego Union Tribune 10/26/99 Kathleen Parker The Orlando Sentinel "…. You no longer have to read between the lines to divine the National Organization for Women's agenda. In a way, it seems refreshingly simple: No Men. That's the only conclusion one can draw upon reviewing NOW's objections to proposed federal legislation, popularly known as the "Fathers Count" bill (HR 3073)….. But NOW really doesn't like the bill because, well, it seems helpful to men. The fact that helping men might result ultimately in helping women and children is irrelevant. Anything that purports to help men is suspect. In the case of the "Father Counts" bill, NOW claims that it's unconstitutional……"

Atlanta Journal 11/12/99 Bill Murphy "….Sometime after the 1960s something changed. Women became empowered and started exchanging their aprons for timecards. It could have been they were sick and tired of avocado-hued appliances. I mostly suspect women realized that their husbands were as dorky as Sonny and they were as cool as Cher, and it was time to get appreciated. Ward Cleaver would soon be spinning in his grave, or at least in his cardigan. ….. It's not that women are some evil Darth Maul trying to wreck the Federation, but simply put, husbands and wives have made the home money-centric rather than family-centric and this is what forces the woman to work (obviously single mothers and lower income families are part of a completely different dynamic). Two people need to work today, not to make ends meet, but to stay at the levels we have set for ourselves in our society. It's not about bread on the table, it's about two cell phones, a bedroom for each child --- one to spare, big-screen TVs and the newest model of a sports sedan and an SUV --- one of each. Really, how far will we go? We're not just trying to keep up with the Joneses, we are the Joneses. …."

Insight on the News Online 11/12/99 Catherine Edward "….When Kathleen Ward Atchason left Wicca, or witchcraft, to join the Roman Catholic Church she never dreamed she would encounter witchcraft wit-hin the walls of Christendom. Atchason lives in Salem, Mass., and still encounters practicing Wiccans in the community and on the street -- but in the church? . . . . In fact, Atchason positively identified for Insight a Wiccan practice gaining currency in many churches. It is documented in two articles in Wellsprings, a defunct journal for Methodist clergywomen. The articles, "A Croning Ritual" and "Reflections from a New Crone," were written by the Rev. Nancy Webb, minister of education and children's education at Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington -- which the Clintons attend -- and by the Rev. Mary Kraus of Dumbarton United Methodist Church in Washington. Webb and Kraus provide details of the Wiccan croning ritual in the articles from their own eyewitness accounts. . . . . "I am surprised that they are doing that," Atchason tells Insight. "A croning ritual is a Wiccan rite of passage." According to Atchason, "the Goddess" worshipped by Wiccans takes on three forms: maiden, representing sexual ripeness; mother, representing birth; and crone, representing old age……. Most Wiccans worship a feminine deity called "the Goddess" and her consort, "the horned God." According to Wiccan high priestess Phyllis Currott, the goddess takes on many forms such as the mythological Greek deities Artemis, Gaia and Sophia as well as Roman, Celtic and Norse goddesses. Some Wiccans meet in groups called covens or circles, while others prefer to practice Wiccan rituals and cast spells alone. …."

Insight on the News Online 11/12/99 Catherine Edward "…. Connie Alt, a former Methodist cleric, is one of those concerned. Alt left her church partly because of what she perceived to be a lack of discernment in the matter of witchcraft by the church's leadership. . . . . When Alt read the Wellsprings article she telephoned Foundry Methodist to speak with Webb. Alt tells Insight that Webb informed her that she found Northern European practices of Wicca very helpful. She then recommended that Alt read a book called The Spiral Dance, by a Wiccan high priestess who calls herself Starhawk. . . . . Disturbed that a professing Christian and Methodist minister would admit to any relationship with witchcraft, Alt called her friend Karen Booth, pastor at Long Neck United Methodist Church in Delaware. They had reason to believe that their bishop, Susan Morrison, herself had taken part in the croning ritual. When questioned, however, Booth tells Insight that Morrison said she could "neither confirm nor deny having taken part in the croning ritual, but that she had witnessed many croning rituals." . . . . Although disturbed by this response, Booth did not bring up the matter for several years until last fall when she found out that one of her parishioners' daughters was reading Teen Witch: Wicca for a New Generation, by a Wiccan high priestess called Silver Ravenwolf. Alarmed that Wicca was influencing young women in her own congregation, Booth, along with Long Neck's lay leader, Elaine Wood, reluctantly filed charges against Webb and Kraus for practicing a spirituality contrary to the teaching of the Methodist church.. . . . Of particular concern to Booth was a blessing mentioned by Webb at the end of the Wellsprings article which she noted bears a striking resemblance to a blessing mentioned in Starhawk's The Spiral Dance, except that Webb's blessing omits a line about "the Goddess." When May asked Webb why she left this line out, says Booth, Webb told him she had said the blessing from memory and she would have inserted the line about the goddess had she remembered it.

Insight on the News Online 11/12/99 Catherine Edward "….. . . . Much of the media attention about goddess worship in churches first focused on an event held in Minneapolis in 1993 called the Reimagining Conference, but more-isolated incidents such as the "croning ritual" have not received a great deal of coverage. Most mainline denominations sponsored the Reimagining Conference, at which a group of Methodist clergy, among others, encouraged participants to reject traditional notions of Christ's death to atone for sin because "in light of women's experience, such as slavery and female sexual abuse, understandings of sacrifice, atonement and martyrdom are being re-examined." . . . . According to a report by Methodist clergy who attended, as many as 2,200 conference participants shared in a communion of milk and honey and recited a feminist liturgy: "To our maker Sophia, we are women in your image, with nectar between our thighs we invite a lover, we birth a child, with our warm body fluids we remind the world of its pleasures and sensations." Sophia was honored at the conference as "our creator Sophia." "Sophia" is the Greek translation of the Old Testament word for wisdom. Some feminist philosophers claim that wisdom is portrayed as a woman in the book of Proverbs……."

Insight on the News Online 11/12/99 Catherine Edward "….. . . . Mary Hunt is a feminist who does not share Dooling's concern and is pleased with the growth of feminist philosophy in the Christian church. Hunt is a Roman Catholic and codirector of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, or WATER. An editorial on the front page of Waterwheel, WATER's quarterly newsletter, reads, "Starhawk gets it right in her new introduction to the twentieth-anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance, the book that launched Goddess religion into the contemporary mainstream. 'How do I learn this ... how do I pass this on?' " . . . . Hunt tells Insight that while her newsletter quotes Starhawk, a Wiccan high priestess, that she and codirector Diann Neu consider themselves to be Catholic, although WATER is not affiliated officially with the Roman Catholic Church. "We seek to influence it however and receive funding from some Catholic bishops," she says….."

Providence Journal 11/30/99 "….The Washington Post recently published a glowing profile of Donna Brazile, the no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners campaign manager for presidential candidate (and Vice President) Albert Gore. Ms. Brazile, who is best known for being fired from Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign for publicly accusing George Bush of having an affair, had a lot of interesting things to tell the Post reporter: She's tough, she said, she gets things done, and she has provocative things to say about her fellow humans. Take male Caucasians, for example. Ms. Brazile told the Post that she is determined not to "let the `white boys' win" this election. She did not mean to indict all white boys, she explained, since she was describing an "attitude. [The] white-boy attitude is `I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind.' They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture. It is the sense of entitlement," she added, and that, concluded the Post, "she will not have." ….."

The Orlando Sentinel 11/24/99 Linda Kleindienst "…..The "Choose Life" license tag won the go-ahead from Gov. Jeb Bush and the Cabinet on Tuesday and should go on sale within 60 to 90 days. But the saga of the tag that has pitted abortion-rights and anti-abortion factions against each other is far from over. One federal lawsuit has already been filed to stop the plate from being distributed, and a separate state challenge is expected to be filed in Palm Beach Circuit Court today. The yellow plate with childlike crayon drawings of two children's faces was approved in a 5-2 vote. Attorney General Bob Butterworth and Insurance Commissioner Bill Nelson, both Democrats, voted against the plate, saying it carries an inappropriate political message. "I don't think we should have a political statement on a license plate," Butterworth said after the vote. "I think it's a horrible, horrible policy. I doubt very much this plate will survive the ultimate legal test." ….. Opponents contend the tag's message is blatantly anti-abortion and unconstitutional, and they promise to fight it in court. "This isn't about anything other than controlling women and women's lives," said Toni Van Pelt, head of Florida's chapter of the National Organization for Women. "We think the Legislature has been irresponsible." She said NOW is prepared to file a legal challenge with the help of Boca Raton attorney Barry Silver, a former state legislator who knocked down a 1997 law requiring doctors to provide women seeking abortions with a check list of options……"

Newsmax 11/28/99 L Dean "…. When the women's movement came along as a result of the "Sexual Revolution" of the early 1960s, the housewife was told that she no longer had to tolerate changing diapers, wiping noses and cooking and cleaning all day long -- in fact, she was mocked for doing so. Why, she could have a career too! In fact, she could have it all and she should. So women started asking, "If men can have careers, why can't we?" They left behind the caring of their children and homes and invaded the workplace. Since they were now bringing home their own bacon and baby sitters and nannies were taking care of their children, it seemed that they did have it all. What did they need men for? …..So, as Dr. Laura points out, the women's movement told men that they were no longer needed. The result was that men became irresponsible because their traditional responsibilities were taken away from them. In short, they were told their services were no longer needed. After a time, these same women woke up and realized, "Hey, wait a minute! I'm doing all the work here! I never asked for this." But, oh yes, ladies, you did….."

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 11/23/99 Greg Pierce "….The New Republic, which is not exactly unfriendly to Vice President Al Gore, is a bit perplexed by his campaign manager. Here's how the magazine put it in the Dec. 6 issue: "Among the many remarkable statements Al Gore's campaign manager, Donna Brazile, made to The Washington Post on November 16 was the following blanket description of Caucasian males. '[Brazile] will not let the "white boys" win,' the Post reported. Brazile said that was not a description of 'gender or race, it's an attitude. A white-boy attitude is "I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind." . . . They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture.' 'It is the sense of entitlement,' explained the Post. 'And that she will not have.' Since when, we wonder, is the phrase 'white-boy attitude' not about gender or race? …."

Washington Post 11/25/99 Steven Mufson "….Seeking to defuse anger among women's groups, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright vowed yesterday that President Clinton's next budget proposal would sharply increase U.S. funding for international family planning programs. Albright, who attended a luncheon with leaders of women's groups and family planning organizations, said the administration "remains deeply dissatisfied" with restrictions on aid to family planning groups that it reluctantly accepted in order to obtain money to pay U.S. debts to the United Nations in the fiscal 2000 budget. Taking aim at members of Congress who insisted on those restrictions as a condition for U.N. funding, Albright said "it is unwise, illogical and wrong to hold our obligations to the United Nations hostage to an extremist agenda on international family planning." …."

FrontPage.com 11/22/99 Chris Weinkopf "….THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE SPECIAL….. until last week, he had never wronged feminists….. And they were good to him. They conveniently forgot everything they had said about Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill when word got out that the President had seduced a young intern in his office. They revised their position on sexual harassment, allowing for one free self-exposure, or an unsolicited grope, after Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey complained of unwanted advances. When Juanita Broaddrick brought forth credible allegations of rape, they kept quiet. Sacrificing their credibility, they thought, would produce reciprocal loyalties from the Commander-in-Chief…… His legacy is now what concerns him most, and that means shoring up his standing with the UN, which had been threatening to strip the US of General Assembly voting rights if Washington did not pay up by the end of the year. So this time around, he nominally conceded to Republican demands, much to the chagrin and embarrassment of his feminist defenders. But as far as Clinton betrayals go, this one is small potatoes. Since 1993, the President has skirted around US law prohibiting the direct funding of overseas abortions by sending money, earmarked for non-abortion expenses, to groups that promote and perform abortions. (Thus enabling them to free up their own funds for that purpose.) Under his new agreement with Congress, he can continue to do so, if he accepts a small cut in total American funding for international "family planning" efforts, and spends no more than $15 million on pro-abortion causes-which is less than such groups received last year….."

The Washington Times 11/19/99 Wesley Pruden "…. Here's a tip for Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Jiang Zemin or any other big-time cowboy yearning to make trouble for America: send an army of women. We scared. They could even come unarmed, since unregistered guns frighten feminists. The National Organization for Women would declare fighting back as "sexist" (and maybe sexual harassment besides) and the only thing left to do, for Bill Clinton or whoever succeeds him, would be to arrange a suitable surrender. Our mighty military, no longer designed to be a war-fighting machine, has already surrendered to the ladies and the lady-men in Congress. Several politically incorrect officers at the Pentagon concede that the signs are ominous. The Army, in one straw in the wind, is investigating allegations that two recruiting officers in Little Rock -- must Arkansas be resigned to always being ground-zero? -- have given the required aptitude tests to surrogates acting for recruits who couldn't have made it into the Army……Some of the most vehement objections to women in combat come from women in the Army, who understand their limitations and who understand how these limitations would contribute to getting themselves and the men killed when war comes, as war always will. One day a foe of our own size will teach us this lesson, and the blood of a lot of young men and women will be on the hands of the feminists and the congressmen, Pentagon warriors and other cowards they have so easily emasculated….."

Frontpagemag.com 12/4/99 Stuart Taylor Jr. ".....BRAZILE ... WILL NOT LET THE "WHITE BOYS" WIN. And that's not a description of "gender or race, it's an attitude. A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind,' " Brazile says. "They don't see or think about it. It's a culture." It is the sense of utter entitlement. And that she will not have. That is how Washington Post reporter Robin Givhan quoted Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager, deep in a glowing Nov. 16 profile. Imagine the same statement-but with "white boys" changed to "black girls"-being made by George W. Bush's campaign manager. It would have touched off a national sensation. Legions of Democrats would have demanded-and promptly received-apologies, but these would not have stilled the clamor. The campaign manager would have been banished from public life, perhaps forever. And Bush's candidacy would have been severely damaged, with dozens of follow-up stories probing every corner of the Bush camp for other signs of infection by racism. So how did Donna Brazile's little slur play? Well, the authors of two letters to the editor of the Post found it offensive. So did The New Republic, in a brief item (republished in the Washington Times): "Since when, we wonder, is the phrase 'white-boy attitude' not about gender or race?" So did the Providence Journal-Bulletin. And that's about it: As of Dec. 1, I can find no other mention, in any publication, of Brazile's comment. One reason for this, of course, is that "white boys" and other slurs directed at white males are habitually shrugged off, based on a double standard that is understandable in light of our history of racial oppression, but far too forgiving if we want a future of racial tolerance....."

The New Republic 1/31/2000 Jeffrey Rosen "…. Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a constitutional challenge to the Violence Against Women Act……. Although the effects of violence against women on interstate commerce are open to question, Congress's careful consideration of the issue would have been enough to persuade the deferential Supreme Court for most of the twentieth century. Between 1937 and 1995, the Court refused to strike down a single law on the grounds that Congress had exceeded its power to regulate interstate commerce, no matter how remote the interstate effects in question--even in cases involving backyard wheat farming or racial discrimination in Southern motels. This long period of judicial restraint was defended by liberals and conservatives alike who objected to the way the Court, during the Progressive and New Deal eras, had second-guessed the political branches by stretching and extrapolating from the constitutional text. In 1995, however, for the first time in nearly 60 years, the Supreme Court struck down an act of Congress, the Gun-Free School Zones Act, holding that its effects on interstate commerce were too remote…. Violence against women is not an economic activity or an instrumentality of commerce, the argument goes, and, even if gender-motivated violence affects the economic activities of women within a state, its effects on interstate commerce aren't substantial enough to pass constitutional muster. But, if the Supreme Court strikes down the Violence Against Women Act on that basis, it will call into question scores of other federal laws and embolden states-rights judges on lower courts to declare war on Congress…… In a harbinger of things to come, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has refused to enforce certain federal environmental laws, such as the Clean Water Act's protection of wetlands, in cases where the wetland has no obvious effects on interstate commerce……. "

St. Louis Post Dispatch 1/22/2000 Ellie Dillon "…. Abortion was supposed to reduce teen pregnancy. But the unmarried teen pregnancy rate has risen from 49.4 per thousand in 1972 to 99.2 per thousand in 1990. Abortion has encouraged irresponsible behavior and sex without any consequences. Our young daughters don't have a good reason to say no to sex as long as abortion is an option. And abortion is a great way for men to pursue their sexual pleasures. One study of 46,500 school-age mothers found that two-thirds of the girls were impregnated by adult fathers with a median age of 22. These are men who prey on young girls and then try to hide their crimes with abortion. Child abuse rates were to drop due to the elimination of unwanted children. But the figures show a 331 percent increase in child abuse in two decades. Sanctioning and even encouraging parents to kill their offspring has clearly devalued children born or unborn. We were told abortion would "empower" women and let them make their own choices. But research has shown that 80 percent of women are pressured by their husbands or boyfriends or by their parents to abort their baby. Is this empowerment? Abortion is not a true "choice" for a woman; it is an act of despair. The psychological impact of abortion is so profound because women are acting against their maternal instincts and consciences. They react with guilt, anger, depression, substance abuse and suicide. The only people who are empowered are men. They can have sex without any responsibility to their partner or their unborn children……"

Chattanooga Free Press 1/22/2000 "….. Everyone recoils with horror over the Nazi extermination camps that killed 6 million Jews and millions of others during the hideous reign of Adolf Hitler. Fewer people are aware that the Communist rule of Lenin and Stalin brought the deaths of perhaps 30 million people in Russia. And there was the horrible Communist conquest of China that eventually cost as much as 60 million lives. Because of the shocking pictures of piles of human skulls, we are aware of the more recent horror of Cambodia's "killing fields" (2 million dead). But America has its Holocaust, too -- and too many of our people simply ignore it. It has taken 35 million innocent babies' lives -- and the death toll is still rising! …… Most of the abominable problem began with sexual irresponsibility. All of it has resulted from a decision that the life of a baby is of less importance than the convenience of the mother who conceived the little one -- or, more commonly than most people know -- the convenience of the irresponsible father, who presses abortion on a woman he's used sexually without commitment or support. Proponents of killing babies through abortion have campaigned as favoring "choice" -- carefully avoiding explanation that the choice is between life or death of babies….."

The Washington Times 1/21/2000 Philip Gold "… As communicators, we too often love what we're saying more than we love those we're talking to. They know it. You can't connect with people you're angry at." The words belong to Jim Hanon, president of a small non-profit advertising and film production agency in Grand Rapids, Mich., a brilliant, pioneering, prophetic man who has crafted a new strategy for what he calls the art of communicating virtue. It works. …… The pro-life commercials are unique in several ways. First, they are based on serious communications and marketing research. This research determined that, although most women regard abortion as wrong, an unplanned pregnancy is often felt as a deadly assault upon a woman's very self. Being pregnant becomes the enemy; abortion, an act of self-affirmation and self-defense. …. The spots targeting women in crisis are superbly produced: soft, mellow, subdued, much in the Hal Riney style - Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America" campaign commercials come to mind. There's a number to call at the end, but the spots tell women to trust their own inner voices; to remember who and what they are; and that life's detours happen, but need not damage them….."

Washington Times 1/11/2000 Bill Pryor "…. Today, the nation's highest court will consider the constitutionality of a key provision in the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Aimed at the twin evils of domestic abuse and sexual assault, VAWA's Subtitle C allows victims of gender-motivated violence to sue their attackers in federal court…. Having regrettably concluded that Subtitle C is both unconstitutional and misguided, the state of Alabama has urged the Supreme Court to strike down the provision. Because the Founding Fathers understood the danger of concentrated power, they limited Congress' authority to those powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution. All other power was reserved to the people and the states. Thus, even the most commendable federal statute is unconstitutional if it is not authorized by one of Congress' enumerated powers. As a result, Subtitle C's supporters - including the Clinton Justice Department - have labored to fit the provision under both Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce and its power to enforce the 14th Amendment. The fit is so forced, however, that even this Supreme Court - with its sympathy for women's issues - is unlikely to buy the argument….."

Associated Press 1/11/2000 Laurie Asseo "…..The Supreme Court confronts crucial questions of federal versus state authority in a case that asks whether rape victims can sue their attackers in federal court. Lawyers for a former Virginia Tech student who says she was raped by two football players are asking the justices in arguments today to reinstate a key provision of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act….. The law ``displaces state prerogative in areas of traditional state authority,'' lawyers for one of the football players contended in court briefs. Allowing Congress to regulate non-economic conduct would ``authorize Congress to regulate virtually anything,'' they added. The Clinton administration and 36 states are siding with Christy Brzonkala and asking the court to reinstate the federal law……. The court in 1995 threw out the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act, which made it a crime to possess a gun near a school. The justices said the law was insufficiently linked to interstate commerce and usurped states' authority over such crimes. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals relied heavily on that ruling when it threw out Brzonkala's lawsuit against the two football players. The appeals court said Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce and assure all citizens of equal protection did not authorize it to enact the portion of the Violence Against Women Act that let rape victims sue their attackers….."

Scripps Howard News Service via Albuquerque Tribune 1/00/00 Lawrence Spohn "....Rape is not typically the crime of male domination as it has been portrayed by sociologists and feminists in recent years, says a University of New Mexico biology professor. Instead, UNM's Randy Thornhill and Colorado anthropologist Craig T. Palmer have developed a new theory that rape is a complex sexual crime with strong roots in human evolution. Moreover, contend Thornhill and Palmer, rape "prevention efforts will founder until they are based on the understanding that rape evolved as a form of male reproductive behavior." "We have to get real about rape," Thornhill said in a recent interview. The two scientists have co-authored an article entitled "Why Men Rape" in the current issue of the journal The Sciences..... In the article, Thornhill and Palmer take aim at the prevailing societal notion that rape isn't about sex but about male power and is "a symptom of an unhealthy society in which men fear and disrespect women." ...... But they do not equate "natural" as good and agree that their public mission is to make rape extinct as a trait in human beings...... In an interview, Palmer said the article aims to convince "those who accept evolution but don't see it as applying to the brain and behavior and particularly the behavior of rape....... The two scientists contend that current thinking about what causes rape is so bankrupt that it ignores the reality that by definition rape requires sexual arousal of the rapist....... "Nothing in our approach means that rape is inevitable just because it's biological," Thornhill said. "In no way does it imply that (rape) is morally correct or acceptable....."

The Wall Street Journal 1/9/00 William Bennett Charles Colson ".... Over the past few months the Clinton administration has lobbied for the United Nations to adopt a protocol that would lend legitimacy to prostitution and hard-core pornography...... It's been estimated that each year some two million women and children world-wide are sent into lives of sexual bondage, usually as prostitutes....... Yet in Vienna a week from today--when the U.N. Convention on Transnational Organized Crime votes on its protocol to combat international trafficking in women and children--White House representatives will take the first step toward legitimizing the sexual-trafficking business. Negotiations on this Vienna Protocol have been going on for the past year and a half. Since December, however, the White House delegation has worked to narrow the definition of sexual trafficking, in a way that would allow certain prostitution rings to flourish. It has done so despite the objections of a majority of the G-77 countries and other developing nations, whose women are the principal victims of sex trafficking..