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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > W.A.C. Bennett
		William Andrew Cecil Bennett (September 6, 1900 - February 23, 1979) was a Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia who was born in Hastings[?], New Brunswick, Canada.
		Son, William was elected leader of Social Credit Party on November 24; 1975 and in the provincial election of December 11, 1979 the Social Credit Party was re-elected with a majority and William R. Bennett became the new Premier of British Columbia.
		W.A.C. Bennett died in 1979 and was interred in the Kelowna Municipal Cemetery, in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/w./W.A.C._Bennett (365 words)

	Why War? Keywords: William Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		William John Bennett (born July 3, 1943) is a formerly prominent conservative writer and former public official in the United States.
		Bennett's schtick as a self-appointed arbiter of virtue all but ended, and Bennett was widely ridiculed as a hypocrite, after he was exposed in 2003 as a compulsive gambler who had lost millions of dollars playing slot machines in Las Vegas.
		Bennett was born in Brooklyn and attended Williams College, the University of Texas, and Harvard Law School.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/william_bennett (524 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > William R. Bennett
		William Richards Bennett, (born August 18, 1932) was Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
		Known as "Bill Bennett," and born in Kelowna, British Columbia, he was the son of the former Premier, W.A.C. Bennett and following his father's resignation, Bill Bennett was elected on September 7, 1973 as the Social Credit Party Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly[?] for South Okanagan[?].
		In the election of December 11, 1979 the Social Credit Party was re-elected with a majority and William R. Bennett became the new Premier.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/wi/William_R._Bennett (143 words)

	William Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bennett resigned from this post in 1988 and, later that year, was appointed to the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy by President Bush.
		Bennett is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998 PNAC Letter sent to President Bill Clinton urging Clinton to remove Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power.
		Bennett was never accused of nor admitted to having a "problem" with gambling and has maintained that his habit did not put himself or his family in any financial jeopardy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Bennett (1238 words)

	William J. Bennett
		William J. Bennett is one of the prime movers of the conservative movement.
		Bennett was one of the creators of Empower America, an organization whose main function seems to be to give its co-directors, which include Vin Weber, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Jack Kemp, access to the nation's news media, talk shows and highest levels of government.
		Bennett and others of his ilk have specialized in the destruction of the Bill of Rights via their evil war on drugs and and they most especially hate and fear the 1st and 2nd Amendments of the Bill of Rights.
	www.mediatransparency.org /personprofile.php?personID=1 (1920 words)

	Encyclopedia: W.A.C. Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bennett had succeeded in convincing a Labour Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) to support the party, and so the Socreds were able to form a minority government.
		William was elected leader of the BC Social Credit Party on November 24, 1973, and in the provincial election of 1975, the Socreds were re-elected with a majority.
		W.A.C. Bennett died in 1979, and was interred in the Kelowna Municipal Cemetery, in Kelowna, British Columbia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/W.A.C.-Bennett (2532 words)

	William R. Bennett - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		William Richards Bennett, or simply Bill Bennett (born August 18, 1932) was Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia (1975-1986).
		Born in Kelowna, British Columbia, he was the son of the former Premier, W.A.C. Bennett and following his father's resignation, Bill Bennett was elected on September 7, 1973 as the BC Social Credit Party Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for South Okanagan.
		He was voted the leader of the Party in 1973, at a convention in Whistler, British Columbia and Premier of the province in 1975 defeating the NDP.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /William_R._Bennett (283 words)

	Bill Vander Zalm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Nicholas Vander Zalm, commonly known as Bill Vander Zalm (born 1934) is a politician and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada.
		He served in the cabinet of William R. Bennett as Minister of Human Resources from 1975 to 1978, where he continued his crusade against welfare "fraud".
		In 1986, premier William R. Bennett announced he was retiring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Vander_Zalm (849 words)

	William R. Bennett
		William Richards Bennett, (born August 18, 1932) was Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
		Known as "Bill Bennett," and born in Kelowna, British Columbia, he was the son of the former Premier, W.A.C. Bennett and following his father's resignation, Bill Bennett was elected on September 7, 1973 as the Social Credit Party Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly[?] for South Okanagan[?].
		In the election of December 11, 1979 the Social Credit Party was re-elected with a majority and William R. Bennett became the new Premier.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/William_R._Bennett.html (138 words)

	Dave Barrett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barrett called an ill-advised snap election in 1975, and was voted out of office after a short tenure, in favour of a resurgent Social Credit Party under W.A.C's son, Bill Bennett.
		Bennett successfully attacked Barrett over his government's handling of provincial finances.
		Once the dust had settled, the NDP had increased their popular vote but lost the government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Barrett (731 words)

	British Columbia Social Credit Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bennett at the helm shed its Social Credit ideology in favour of a mixture of populism and conservatism and became a political vehicle for opponents of the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to unite and keep the CCF and its successor, the New Democratic Party out of power.
		Bennett's Socreds took power in 1952 forming a minority government and, after changing the electoral system, swept to a majority the next year staying in power until 1972.
		Under the leadership of "Wacky" Bennett's son, William R. Bennett the party modernized itself putting populism behind and becoming an uneasy coalition of Liberals, Christian conservatives from the province's Bible Belt and fiscal conservatives from the corporate sector with the latter firmly in control.
	www.wikiverse.org /british-columbia-social-credit-party (857 words)

	Bill Bennett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Honourable William Richards Bennett, PC, OC, (born August 18, 1932) was Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia 1975–1986.
		To justify massive education cuts, Bennett blamed many of the province's difficulties squarely on the shoulders of public school teachers, an argument that deeply split the electorate.
		Though still reviled by the left, Bennett remains generally highly respected among conservatives in BC, who view his rule as a "golden era" before the corruption of the Vander Zalm government and the NDP that succeeded him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_R._Bennett (362 words)

	Bennett Under Fire for Remark on Crime and Black Abortions
		Bennett's comments, flagged by the liberal news media watchdog group Media Matters for America, were quickly condemned by Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who issued a statement demanding that Bennett apologize.
		Bennett's comments came Wednesday, during a discussion on his talk show "Morning in America." A caller had suggested that Social Security would be better funded if abortion had not been legalized in 1973 because the nation would have more workers paying into the system.
		Bennett said "maybe," before referring to a book he said argued that the legalization of abortion is one of the reasons the crime rate has declined in recent decades.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/29/AR2005092902126.html (449 words)

	"The Bookie of Virtue" by Joshua Green
		Bennett's crusading ideals have been adopted by politicians of both parties, and implemented in such programs as character education classes in public schools--a testament to his impact.
		Bennett commands $50,000 per appearance on the lecture circuit and has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from such conservative benefactors as the Scaife and John M. Olin foundations.
		Bennett is a wealthy man and may be able to handle losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2003/0306.green.html (1592 words)

	WorkingForChange-William Bennett: Education entrepreneur
		Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Reagan, and drug czar under Bush has launched K12, an outfit aimed at families who are home schooling their children.
		Bennett is an established pontificating presence on a number of television talking head programs, where hosts like Larry King, Chris Matthews of "Hardball," Tim Russert of "Meet the Press," and even Geraldo Rivera treat him like the Pope, lobbing softballs and genuflecting in his direction.
		Bennett is an unremitting critic of America's public schools and teachers unions.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=11515 (743 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| William Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bennett first rose to prominence in the early 1980s when he was appointed to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and then in 1985 as Secretary of Education.
		Bennett was appointed education secretary after he helped produce Heritage's "Mandate for Leadership," which argued that the creation of the Department of Education had been a "historic blunder, a combination of overweening federal ambition and pandering to interest groups.
		Bennett was sharply critical of post-9/11 thinkers who dared to question the Bush White House's handling of the war on terror.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1034 (1538 words)

	"Culture War Is Hell" - Salon.com
		Bennett failed as drug czar and as secretary of education and now wants to tell us how to be moral.
		I don't know anything about William Bennett's Jesuit associations, but I do know that in high school, much of the Jesuit religious study I got was VERY critical of the U.S., especially in our involvement in Central America.
		Bennett seems to ignore that world politics are too complex to assess with a "heroes and villains" mentality.
	www.salon.com /books/letters/2002/04/19/bennett/index.html (1196 words)

	SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT - LoveToKnow Article on SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bennett visited Leipzig a second time in 1840-1841, when he composed his Caprice in E for pianoforte and orchestra and his overture The Wood Nymphs.
		The principal charm of Bennetts compositions (not to mention his absolute mastery of the musical form) consists in the tenderness of their conception, rising occasionally to sweetest lyrical intensity.
		Observations conducted during several months have shown that, whilst the mean temperature at Fort William was 57 F., at the summit of Ben Nevis it was 41 F., and that though the rainfall at the fort amounted to 24 in., it was as much as 43 in.
	www.1911ency.org /B/BE/BENNETT_SIR_WILLIAM_STERNDALE.htm (1064 words)

	Rep. Diane Watson: William Bennett - Politics on The Huffington Post
		Bennett, who is the former Secretary of Education and an educator himself, should be more aware than most that his analogy would be inflammatory.
		Bennett, who is a nationally recognized conservative critic, should be more aware than most that words are ideas that can take on a life of their own.
		Bennett, a crusader for the importance of morality and character in public life and the author of The Book of Virtues, should be most aware that thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, and habits become character.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /rep-diane-watson/william-bennett_b_8504.html (634 words)

	W.A.C. Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Because Bennett only had a minority government, he engineered his own defeat with a schoolfunding proposal, and forced an election in 1953.
		His son, William R. Bennett wonthe South Okanagan by-election in September and W.A.C. Bennett retired as leader of the Social Credit Party on November 15th.
		William was elected leader of Social Credit Party on November 24, 1973 and in the provincial election of 1975 theSocial Credit Party was re-elected with a majority and William R. Bennett became the new Premier of British Columbia.
	www.therfcc.org /w.a.c.-bennett-39355.html (539 words)

	William Bennett: The Pusher by Gary North
		Bill Bennett has spent his career refusing to resign on principle from offices and personal practices that cry out: "Quit!" He is too proud to resign.
		This was the same old line: Bill Bennett not only could beat the numbers, he did beat the numbers.
		Again, Bennett is saying, "I can beat the numbers." Gamblers Anonymous members have a lower recovery rate than AA members, or so the unofficial grapevine says.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north175.html (2024 words)

	Kurschner and Meyers Family History - pafg179 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		William R. Parents] was born on 14 Jan 1796 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
		Trineacy Merens BENNETT was born on 24 Jul 1825 in near Brown, Sardis District, Harrison Co., (W.) Va..
		Quintilla Aletla BENNETT was born on 4 Oct 1839 in near Brown, Sardis District, Harrison Co., (W.) Va..
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~familiesareforever/pafg179.htm (1229 words)

	William Bennett: Next Viceroy of Iraq
		Bennett does look to have as much a chance as anyone to find the weapons of mass destruction, even though the odds have soured along with the Bush administration’s still legless justifications for all-out war waging.
		Bennett, who oversaw the flow of drugs into the US but never really stemmed it, still has the civilian administrative background that retired lieutenant general Jay Garner cannot bring to Iraq’s empty table.
		And though Bennett’s voice sharpened the the point on that moral spearhead, it always spoke in frank, not frenzied tones.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0508-13.htm (1192 words)

	William J. Bennett - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		William J. Bennett is co-director of Empower America and EMPOWER.org.
		Bennett is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century (PNAC Letter (http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm)) sent to President William Jefferson Clinton.
		Bennett is senior advisor and founder of Americans for Victory Over Terrorism, serves on the advisory council of Center for Security Policy (CSP), is the Washington Fellow for the Claremont Institute, and a distinguished fellow in cultural policy studies at the Heritage Foundation.
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=William_Bennett (707 words)

	Jenner & Block LLP - DAVID R. BENNETT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bennett has represented clients in a wide range of intellectual property matters including: patent litigation; trade secret litigation, trademark litigation; trademark prosecution; licensing; and providing intellectual property counseling and opinions including patent infringement and validity opinions.
		Bennett has also prosecuted numerous trademark and service mark applications, counseled clients on the licensing of registered and common law marks, and enforced marks through litigation and negotiations with alleged infringers.
		Bennett is a member of the Illinois Bar and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
	www.jenner.com /people/bio.asp?print=true&id=1311 (389 words)

	The bigotry of Bill Bennett's low expectations. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
		Bennett didn't say you could cut the crime rate by practicing abortion "in other places" or "any other community." He said you could cut it by aborting fls.
		Bennett understands the psychological effect of negative assumptions in the context of affirmative action: To suggest that "fl young people couldn't get into college unless we gave them points for their race is to be involved in the bigotry of low expectations," he argued two years ago.
		Bennett implies he got the idea from Slate: "The author of Freakonomics, Steve Levitt, engages the theory that abortion reduces crime, and he also discusses, as I did, the racial implications of abortion and crime.
	www.slate.com /id/2127378 (1254 words)

	William Bennett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		William J. Bennett is one of America’s most important, influential and respected voices on cultural, political, and education issues.
		Bennett is also the host of a national radio show from called "Bill Bennett’s Morning in America" which is syndicated by the Salem Radio Network.
		Bennett was named by focus groups and leading analysts the "Best Communicator of 2002," the most well-received public commentator on the issues of "pride, patriotism, faith, and moral conviction.”
	www.ashbrook.org /events/memdin/bennett2 (675 words)

	Broadway Books \| The Broken Hearth by William J. Bennett
		From the dramatic rise in illegitimacy, divorce, and single parenthood to the call for the recognition of gay marriages, the traditional nuclear family is being radically challenged and undermined, along with the moral and legal consensus that once supported it.
		Bennett displays his ability to combine fearless conviction, acute insight, and respect for his adversaries in thorough, balanced, and enlightening discussions of single parenthood, cohabitation, gay marriage, and other trends that are undercuttingthe ideal of the family as the essential foundation of society.
		William J. Bennett is codirector of Empower America, and founder and chairman of K12, an Internet-based elementary and secondary school.
	www.randomhouse.com /broadway/catalog/display.pperl?076790513X (323 words)

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