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Even legalization advocates are for the most part scared to defend drug use as a legitimate pleasure or the right to alter your own consciousness as a civil liberty; they just talk about "harm reduction."
( This Week 's George Stephanopoulos and Fox 's Juan Williams defend her, however, arguing that she was in the Mideast on a diplomatic mission as First Lady, not as a New York senatorial candidate.)
Next, left-wing historians rose up to defend black culture against Moynihan's characterizations.
Reporters' appetites have been whetted by 1) ever-louder grumbling among House Republicans that the GOP leadership botched the fight with Clinton on disaster relief and the budget; 2) an anonymous "Dear Colleague" letter urging a no-confidence vote on Gingrich; 3) a demand by 50 House conservatives (on Gingrich's birthday) that the Republican caucus halt the leadership's drift to the center; and 4) House Majority Leader Dick Armey's failure to defend Gingrich.
On the bright side, Bennett's attack compelled the New York Times editorial page to defend and praise Gingrich.