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Nat Hentoff: Journalists have been the enemy before
- In the more than half a century I’ve been a reporter, there has never been as systematic an operation to intimidate and then silence the press as is now taking place under the Bush-Cheney-Gonzales administration.
Nat Hentoff: We must end the black holocaust
- Shortly before Christmas, there were tidings of the possible beginning of the end of the so-called civilized world’s most abject betrayal since the Nazi Holocaust of its so-called values — justice, human rights, the intrinsic worth of every individual. The black holocaust, the genocide in Darfur, now extending from Sudan into neighboring Chad, might at last, be stopped.
Nat Hentoff: Putting God in His place
- Shortly after school began in September, the teacher told his students at the [public] Kearny High School in New Jersey ... that only Christians had a place in heaven — according to audio recordings made by a student. – “Talk in Class Turns to God,” The New York Times, Dec. 18.
Nat Hentoff: Mandate for the new Democratic majority: Curb the president’s power to torture
- The congressional Democratic leadership, eager to start investigations into the failures and cover-ups of their Republican predecessors have a list; but so far, the “black sites” of the CIA are far from a priority. But the president — who gave the CIA “special license” in 2002 to operate outside the law in kidnapping suspected terrorists and sending them to torture prisons abroad for interrogation — has already protected its interrogators with provisions he and Dick Cheney inserted into the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Nat Hentoff: Keeping jazz musicians alive
- In 1918, the New Orleans Times-Picayune declared jazz “an atrocity in polite society,” and fulminated that “we should make it a point of civic honor to suppress it. Its musical value is nil, and its possibilities of harm are great.”
Nat Hentoff: Mugging the Minutemen
- On Oct. 4, at a Columbia University event sponsored by the College Republicans, Jim Gilchrist, leader of the anti-immigration Minutemen — as has been reported far and wide — was physically and furiously prevented from speaking by a mob of righteous gauleiters, some of whom were roaring, “He has no right to speak!”
Nat Hentoff: Hillary Clinton wakes up
- Having often criticized the junior senator from New York for her tepid and too rare responses to Bush administration attacks on the Constitution’s “sacred fire of liberty,” I must credit her now for a Sept. 28 speech on the floor of the Senate.
Nat Hentoff: An instance of ‘compromise’ going too far
- The civil war between three Republican senators and the president over his treatment of imprisoned suspected terrorists has resulted in a public break with George W. Bush’s own former secretary of state, Colin Powell. But in all these stories about Powell’s mutiny, I’ve seen no mention of an angry, prophetic memorandum he wrote on Jan. 25, 2002, protesting the administration’s pending decision to scrap the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan.
Howard Nemerov
Austin Gun Rights Examiner
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More evidence that concealed carry benefits Blacks
Austin Gun Rights Examiner
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More evidence that concealed carry benefits Blacks
