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Following apologies from the U.S. Government, the British government, the Episcopal Church, and others, NATIONAL REVIEW Would Like To Apologize On Behalf of the American People To White Males for ignominies inflicted on them over the last few years.

Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld is right on medical marijuana. So, judging by Proposition 215, are most of the voters in California. But that doesn’t entitle any of them to be ambassador to Mexico. When Sen. Jesse Helms voiced his first objections to the nomination, Weld could have tried to bring him round quietly (the kind of thing diplomats do). Instead he posed as a martyr struggling for the soul of the GOP. Is it a set-up for a party switch? For a run in the Republican primaries in 2000? No matter-Weld doesn’t have much of a future in either direction. In the meantime he should be sent, not to India (one of the world’s most important countries), but to someplace obscure and difficult to spell, so that political reporters will have to look the name up every time they file a story.

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Following apologies from the U.S. Government, the British government, the Episcopal Church, and others, NATIONAL REVIEW Would Like To Apologize On Behalf of the American People To White Males for ignominies inflicted on them over the last few years.

Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld is right on medical marijuana. So, judging by Proposition 215, are most of the voters in California. But that doesn’t entitle any of them to be ambassador to Mexico. When Sen. Jesse Helms voiced his first objections to the nomination, Weld could have tried to bring him round quietly (the kind of thing diplomats do). Instead he posed as a martyr struggling for the soul of the GOP. Is it a set-up for a party switch? For a run in the Republican primaries in 2000? No matter-Weld doesn’t have much of a future in either direction. In the meantime he should be sent, not to India (one of the world’s most important countries), but to someplace obscure and difficult to spell, so that political reporters will have to look the name up every time they file a story.