Opinion: In today’s pages
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Writer Zev Chafets remembers the late Rev. Jerry Falwell:
No chicken was safe within Falwell’s grasp, and he liked them deep-fried. I dined with him several times, and he ate with the aplomb of a fellow whose cardiologist was Jesus. A pre-millennial Baptist, he believed that God sorted things out in God’s own time. He also expected to go to heaven. Falwell was a theological fatalist but a political activist. If this seems like a common combination today, that is largely due to Falwell himself.
Columnist Ronald Brownstein and Ian Kershaw of Britain’s Sheffield University offer different reasons why British Prime Minister Tony Blair ruined across-the-pond relations.
The editorial board commends former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for telling it like it is to the GOP base on his pro-choice views, chastises politicians for making impractical promises on global warming, and does a bit of both to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his revised budget.
In letters, Los Angeles’ Carole Myers, a descendent of the Jamestown settlers, begs to differ with President Bush’s comparison of the settlers’ mission to spreading freedom in the Middle East: ‘The only comparison is that the early settlers were no more looking to spread freedom than Bush is. Both the settlers and Bush planned to exploit the riches of someone else’s land, only the settlers admitted it.’