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We're Good at Killing

From a letter to the editor in the San Francisco Chronicle: "I loved Shakespeare in Love, but like most Americans, I felt Saving Private Ryan was more deserving of a best-picture Oscar. I think what happened was that all the liberals in the Academy could not stomach the fact that America is the greatest country on Earth. The fact is that one of the things that makes America great is that we have won wars. In the process of winning wars, America has effectively and aggressively killed lots of other humans. That most of those humans were evil and out to kill as many Americans and other democracy-loving people as possible is immaterial to liberals. Saving Private Ryan blatantly demonstrated a bunch of heroic Americans killing Nazis by the bushel. All those Academy lefties could not handle it, so they chose denial in the safe environs of the Bard."

Trickle Down Politics I

From an article in the Tuscaloosa News of Tuscaloosa, Alabama: "Steve Windom has already earned a place in Alabama history by becoming the state's only Republican lieutenant governor this century. But will he earn a new spot by urinating in a jug during a marathon session of the Senate? ... The `jug,' as Windom called it, was actually a water pitcher and a five-gallon cooler hidden under the presiding officer's podium in the Senate. When the Senate met on Palm Sunday for a marathon session, Windom did not leave his presiding officer's seat for fear the Senate's Number Two official, Democrat Lowell Barron, would grab it and the Senate would pass new rules taking away all of his authority. To keep from going to a restroom located about ten feet from the podium, he used the pitcher to urinate in. Windom's actions were hidden from public view by the chest-high podium. But it was perfect fodder for drive-time disc jockeys on Monday morning. State Republican Party Chairman Winton Blount blamed Governor Don Siegelman `and his extreme band of radical, leftwing Democrats' for `reducing the Senate to a laughing stock.'"

Fifty-eight Years of Peace

Madeleine Albright, explaining to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee why the President has no intention of seeking a declaration of war from Congress for U.S. military action in Kosovo: "The President welcomes the support of Congress, but his belief is that he does not need a declaration of war. We don't consider ourselves at war with Yugoslavia.... Since 1941, there has not been a declaration of war."

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