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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (133799)	3/28/2001 9:21:27 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

A review of Horowitz's book "Radical Son": From Kirkus Reviews , November 15, 1996 A sharply detailed, panoramic memoir of a ``red diaper'' baby and leftist activist who converted to political conservatism. Born in 1939, journalist and biographer Horowitz (The Fondas, 1992; with Peter Collier, The Roosevelts, 1994; etc.) here turns in a study of intellectual development in a troubled time. He writes lovingly, but with some exasperation, of having been brought up by two Communist Party minor operatives; of a father physically and emotionally scarred by his own impoverished childhood, blacklisted and forced to leave teaching in the 1950s; of a mother who was trained as a lawyer but worked as a typing instructor, fearful of competing for work during the Great Depression. Horowitz continued their revolutionary tradition through the '60s and '70s, finally rejecting the left during the beleaguered Carter presidency. Along the way he recounts his years as an antiwar-movement leader and journalist (he was an editor at Ramparts magazine) and as an active sympathizer of the Black Panthers, with whom he later broke. Horowitz traces his disaffection to multiple causes, including the lunatic acts of violent groups like the Weather Underground and the lunatic rhetoric of the late-era Huey Newton, who called for the extermination of the ``fascist insects'' who stood in his way. He protests, however, that he did not, as one writer has charged, ``escape into conservatism,'' and that, like Norman Podhoretz, he had to accept the label ``neoconservative'' because his preferred term, ``liberal,'' had been coopted by the left. Horowitz is usually generous in his description of peers in the movement, although he clearly dislikes Tom Hayden and Todd Gitlin, and he is more likely to engage in self-criticism than to deride those who, in his view, have not yet seen the light. Regardless of one's opinion on his present politics, Horowitz's searching reminiscences are a valuable contribution to the literature of dissent. amazon.com Incidentally, I am slightly acquainted with Horowitz. He still has too much of a 60s radical style, which can be obnoxious, but he is no dummy........

To: TigerPaw who wrote (133799)	3/28/2001 9:33:21 AM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The rest of his ramblings are built upon this false foundation. Your party has been taken over by the stupid. TP Your non-sequiturs are hilarious!

To: TigerPaw who wrote (133799)	3/28/2001 10:21:40 AM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Tiger I have no problem with you disagreeing with and attacking the ideas. However shouting people down and refusing to allow them to speak has its roots in everything that is evil. Nazi, Commie, Totalitarian and Religious extremists all use this to stifle debate. I hope that you are not one of those who believe that you have the right to speak but others dont

To: TigerPaw who wrote (133799)	3/28/2001 11:30:09 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

David Horowitz shows the danger of supressing the teachings of evolution (as well as logic) S.F. State paper won't run ad on slavery reparations SAN FRANCISCO In an about-face, a San Francisco college newspaper will not run a controversial ad denouncing slavery reparations. Instead, the San Francisco State University student paper will run articles and editorials examining reparations, free speech and political correctness. Golden Gate Xpress editors voted 14-7 to reject the advertisement by conservative columnist David Horowitz. Horowitz's ad argues, among other things, that no one group is responsible for slavery, and that blacks should be grateful that Americans warred to end the slave trade. Horowitz, considered a political provocateur, sent the ad to 52 college campuses nationwide; at least 27 have rejected it. Who's doing the suppressing? LOL