In the poorest county in America, you can take over the government and the media won't even notice. The Palestinian verses The teaching of lyrical poetry by a former PLO leader throws Israel's government for a loop.
Conduct unbecoming A new report details the sharp increase in harassment of gays in the military.
But it is equally true that many members of the chattering classes feel such a visceral aversion toward guns that they are inclined to accept shaky anti-gun arguments and to disregard any evidence that, perish the thought, Charlton Heston may sometimes have a point. By Beth Broeker What a few good women can do On Mother's Day, a million mothers will march for gun control. By Jean Hanff Korelitz For the record, I'm not a member of the National Rifle Association and the only gun I've ever owned was a childhood toy. Although my politics are generally of a libertarian bent, I don't buy the notion of an armed citizenry as a safeguard against tyrannical government. Nor do I have a problem with some of the new gun laws championed by President Clinton.