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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2007
COMMENTARY
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Crime in
Philadelphia and most other major cities. A recent issue of
Philadelphia Magazine sets forth the horror of murder in
many neighborhoods in the city of brotherly love. The
article also suggests that there is a solution, and it
further asks, why isn’t it tried? Philadelphia Police
Lieutenant Taylor says the victims and the shooters are
getting younger and younger in Philadelphia….
COMMENTARY
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Crime in
Philly and most other major cities. More on the murder in
Philly as we reported previously. The University of
Pennsylvania Professor Lawrence Sherman, who is Director of
the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the university, is
speaking out…
COMMENTARY
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Crime in
Philadelphia and most other major cities. Philadelphia’s
Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson recently announced the
formation of a special unit to implement some of Professor
Lawrence Sherman’s suggestions. That is going after the
guns. With no teeth in this proposal, the commissioners
unit is accused of only handling 911 backlog calls and not
being dispatched to the bad neighborhoods and seizing the
guns from individuals who should not have them in the first
place….
COMMENTARY #4
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Jean
Kirkpatrick, authoritarian v. totalitarian. Yes, it was one
of President Reagan’s favorite democrats, Jean Kirkpatrick,
who became his ambassador to the United Nations. And we all
know her for her separation from the George McGovern wing of
the Democratic Party… Jean was well-connected to some
individuals connected with the Lincoln Institute…
COMMENTARY #5
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Smith
Hempstone recently died at age 77. Hempstone was the former
editor and chief of the Washington Times and also ambassador
to Kenya. His family were part owners of the old Washington
Star and its broadcast affiliates. Dolores and I were good
friends of Smith and his gracious wife of 52 years, Kitty.
We loved being invited to their wonderful and charming home
in Chevy Chase, MD. He was a character in every sense of
the word….
COMMENTARY #6
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More on
Smith Hempstone the former editor and chief of the
Washington Times and ambassador to Kenya. Smith Hempstone
was to the diplomatic core, that Pat Moynihan, Jean
Kirkpatrick, and John Bolton were to the U.N. Smith was
appointed ambassador to Kenya in 1989 by the first President
Bush, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall….
COMMENTARY #7
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In an
effort led by good friend William Barclay Allen, professor
of government at Michigan State University, and Ward
Connerly, former Chairman of the Board of Regents in
California’s higher education system, the voters of Michigan
last November 7th passed proposition 2, which
disallowed the state and local governments in the state from
preferring a group of individuals because of race, gender,
ethnicity or national origin for public employment,
education or getting contracts….
COMMENTARY #8
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Lamar Hunt
and William Murchison in Dallas, Texas. The recent death of
Lamar Hunt, the founder and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs,
reminds us, who are old enough, to remember the expansion of
the National Football League in the late 1950’s. To the
consternation of the Washington Red Skins, the City of
Dallas received two – count them – two NFL franchises the
same year….
COMMENTARY #9
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Lamar Hunt
and William Murchison in Dallas, Texas. Both teams, the Dallas
Cowboys and the Dallas Texans, played in the old but famous
Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The city promised to fully renovate
the relic, but in a couple years only piece mail changes
were made to the bowl. Kansas City offered Lamar Hunt a new
state of the art stadium and Lamar took it and moved his
team to Kansas City…
COMMENTARY #10
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Lamar Hunt
and William Murchison in Dallas, Texas. Lamar Hunt, who’s
father was known as H.L. Hunt, which stood for Haroldson
Lafayette, was the staunch anticommunist in the 1940’s, 50’s
and 60’s. I met the old man in the lobby of The Deauville
Hotel in Miami during the GOP convention in 1968….
COMMENTARY #11
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Jamestown 1607 to 2007, celebrating America’s 400th
birthday. After 7 years the contract between the Virginia
Company in London and the hired men expired in 1613. Some
of the men chose to stay and farm. A result of their
motivation to reap a return on their investment of money,
time, and talent, and risk, settlers discovered the value of
tobacco for export…
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