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...great find is Hell-Bent for Election, a 13-minute cartoon sponsored by the United Auto Workers to promote Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 re-re-re-election. Joe, a burly blond workingman, must assure that the Win the War Special (a high-speed train with F.D.R.'s smiling profile on the engine) gets to Washington ahead of the G.O.P.'s 1929 Defeatist Limited. Directed by the immortal Chuck Jones, with music by Earl Robinson and E.Y. Harburg, Hell-Bent for Election is visually imaginative and giddily unfair (for a moment the Republican villain metamorphoses into Hitler). It anchors a smart...
...thugs intent on killing him, he calmly asked for a moment to make his peace with God--a fearless request that virtually disarmed them, allowing him to go free. Though he had enemies on all sides, he regularly traveled without escort in a country where the two tribes are hell-bent on destroying each other, where more than 150,000 people have been killed since 1993, where in July the last elected President had to flee for his life into the U.S. embassy, where he remains to this day. The Roman Catholic cleric would give no quarter to the murderers...
...Virgin usually wins because Branson can do the mundane spectacularly well and because he has an almost unerring ability to connect with consumers, particularly younger ones. Those business instincts are matched by an ability to motivate people who work for him. And who wouldn't want to--Branson seems hell-bent on making sure that everybody, but everybody, is having as much...
Equally condemned by God is homosexuality, according to Buchanan. "With 80,000 dead of AIDS, 3,000 more buried each month, our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide...
...those wounds and pour salt in them. In 1992 he talked publicly about the problems a million immigrant "Zulus" might have assimilating in Virginia, compared with a million "Englishmen." He has expressed some doubts about the Holocaust and has said of the AIDS epidemic that "promiscuous homosexuals appear literally hell-bent on Satanism and suicide." His past attacks on gays, Jews and minorities make him a scary prospect, particularly as his rhetoric becomes more nuanced and his codes more subtle this time around...