What do you do with a man who has successfully evaded paying child support to kids from two different relationships? Make him head of D.C.’s child-support enforcement agency! Colbert King has the details. The kicker: D.C. collected payments in 12 percent of its child support cases in 2000. The national average is 42 percent.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY: “This thoughtful, searching tone is in keeping with the journal’s aspirations to objectivity. ‘The key to the journal is that it’s middle of the road,” said the editor, Dan Leab, a history professor at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., and a leading member of Historians of American Fascism, the organization sponsoring the journal. “It covers the waterfront but leaves the fringes out.'” – from a jovial New York Times piece on a new journal covering the history of American communism. (Yes, I changed the term to fascism to show the double standards here.) This is a great concept: a “middle-of-the-road” analysis of a monstrous totalitarianism and its sometimes treacherous allies in the United States. Of course, among the “middle-of-the-road” assessments, “an essay on the party’s activities in California during the early 1930’s that draws on newly opened Comintern archives to show how local Communist leaders often exercised considerable independence from the Soviet Union on tactics and policies” and the usual screed against informers. I knew the academy and the New York Times were soft on Stalinism, but this soft?
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