NEW BOOK PROVIDES INTERESTING INSIGHTS INTO AMERICA'S FIRST LADY

There are those of us who believe that First Lady Hillary Clinton is the original woman who believes, in the immortal words of Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, that she was born "booted and spurred, to ride mankind." Confirmation of this view, and of just how radical Hillary's background and instincts are, comes from the current National Review, which features a profile entitled "Hillary Clinton, Perfect Liberal."

Writer Jay Nordlinger describes Gail Sheehy's new book on the first lady, "Hillary's Choice":

"This is the Hillary Clinton we think we know: manipulative, paranoid, ferocious, power-mad, self-pitying, vindictive, willful, ideological, undemocratic, dishonest -- chilling."

Nordlinger on Hillary's education: "While at Yale Law School, Hillary spent a summer working for Robert Treuhaft, the communist attorney and defender of the Black Panthers in Oakland, Calif. ... 'Hillary was only mildly interested in the Black Panther cause,' Treuhaft says, 'but she did want to work for a left-wing law firm. Anyone who went to college or law school would have known that our firm was a left-wing law firm.'"

"As for the Clinton marriage, it seems barely fathomable ...

"What kind of wife is she? The wife of Bill Clinton's wildest fantasies, that's what kind. She seems never to have held him responsible for anything."

Quoting author Sheehy's description of the 1992 campaign during which "bimbo eruptions" increased: "Mrs. Clinton hired an old acquaintance, Jack Palladino, a private detective from the Bay Area who had worked for the Black Panthers. His job was to track down various of Clinton's women and ensure, through the black arts, that their mouths stayed shut. Mrs. Clinton might have been the first wronged wife in history to hire a detective for the purpose, not of unearthing the truth, but of burying it.

"... during the Clinton's first presidential run, the future First Lady and super-feminist protested that she was no Tammy Wynette, 'standing by my man.' But would even Tammy allow herself to be so used? Would Bess Truman have? Would Nancy Reagan?"

Of course, none of these shared Hillary's absolute and barely unquenchable thirst for power. From health care plans, to the travel office fiasco, to lying about making a killing in cattle futures, to hiring detectives to ruin innocent people who stand in her path, this woman is nothing less than a threat to our liberties.

It's a conspiracy for life: The skills of highly devoted surgeons and marvelous new technologies are combining to reveal the wonders of God's gift of life. And this at ever-earlier stages of life in the womb. You might even call it God's little pro-life conspiracy. Consider this from a recent Washington Update, titled "A Gripping Truth":

"Samuel Armas was born healthy and without complications on Dec. 2, 15 weeks after his surgery. As a 21-week-old unborn child, Samuel had surgery at Vanderbilt University to repair his spine, damaged by spina bifida, and spare him from brain damage. Reaching through the incision in his mother's abdominal wall, little Samuel's hand grasped the finger of a surgeon. A picture of that scene has been published around the world. A spat between Internet journalist Matt Drudge and executives from Fox News began after Fox refused to let Drudge show the photo on their network. One of Samuel's doctors says that, although Samuel needs to be examined more later, the surgery appears to have worked."

~Peter Kinder is assistant to the president of Rust Communications and a state senator from Cape Girardeau.