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To: KLP who wrote (276680)	7/16/2002 11:05:44 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

<<...McAuliffe's Shady Business Past -- Why the DNC chairman can't preach about business accountability...>> IMO, McAuliffe should be fired -- he was in bed with Global Crossing and is tainted...Both parties have some baggage to deal with.

To: KLP who wrote (276680)	7/17/2002 1:57:20 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 769667

KLP; You'll love this: Someday is Today U.S. Term Limits Daily Radio Commentary #621 Release Date: July 2, 2002 Someday, if all this politically correct nonsense continues, why, our public education system will wind up altering great literary works just to be politically correct. Then, hoping to test our way out of a collapsing educational system, students will be forced to learn an imposter literature twisted to match the approved pieties of the moment. In the end, the great works of literature will be flushed down the memory hole. That's what could happen . . . someday . . . if we follow this utopian, politically correct course. Well, welcome to "someday." Jeanne Heifetz, a New York mother, found that the State Regents Exam used literary passages that had been changed by educational bureaucrats — "sanitized" of references to things like race and religion. In some cases, the meaning of the passage was destroyed. And in many cases, the numbskull test-makers required students to write essays using information that — you guessed it — had been removed from the literature. Sure, many changes were minor, but still ridiculous. For instance, in a book by Ernesto Galarza, entitled Barrio Boy, the term "gringo lady" was changed to "American lady" and the terms "skinny" and "fat" became "thin" and "heavy." Talk about thinly-sliced sensibilities. Oh, sure, these are fun stories to talk about; they keep pundits supplied with ample material, but there is a reality here, too. It's not that we're going to be living in a stupid utopia of politically correct nonsense someday soon. We're living there now! And we need to do something about it. This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob.