Bush Tells Ministers of Plan to Expand Churches' Role
"In addition to creating a federal Office of Faith-Based Action, Mr. Bush has said other plans include working to end regulations that prohibit religious groups from participating in federal programs; making it easier for churches, charities and other nongovernment groups to get taxpayer money to operate federal programs; and creating tax breaks to increase charitable donations."

"Faith alone won't sustain us anymore" -- Bad Religion
posted by James at 12/21/2000 10:08:21 AM

TNR Online | Disgrace by Jeffrey Rosen
"Those of us who have consistently, if perhaps naively, opposed liberal and conservative judicial activism throughout the years can now point to Roe and Bush as two sides of the same coin. (How fitting that Bush is now a dubious president and a dubious precedent.)"
posted by James at 12/16/2000 03:01:48 PM

The 2000 Election
"In serving in a George Walker Bush administration, General Powell will serve a president who avoided service in Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard. And yet General Powell, in his memoirs, condemned as 'an anti-democratic disgrace' the way America's political leaders chose who would and who would not serve in Vietnam.

He wrote: 'I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed' managed 'to wrangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units.'

'Of the many tragedies of Vietnam,' he continued, 'this raw class discrimination strikes me a the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country.'"
posted by James at 12/16/2000 02:29:14 PM

"Tramp the Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello
And now the cynical ones say that it all ends the same in the long run
Try telling that to the desperate father who just squeezed the life from his only son
And how it's only voices in your head and dreams you never dreamt
Try telling him the subtle difference between justice and contempt
posted by James at 12/14/2000 09:27:59 PM