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ashcroft
Wiktionary
n. 1 (surname) 2 A village in British Columbia, Canada 3 A ghost town in Colorado
Wikipedia
Ashcroft may refer to:
Ashcroft is a historic home located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. It is a -story brick home with a high pitched slate roof with projecting eaves. It is a large Gothic Revival style country house set deep in the midst of once carefully landscaped grounds. The house and property were designed by Calvert Vaux in 1862.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Usage examples of "ashcroft".
Frank Rich demanded that Ashcroft stop monkeying around with Muslim terrorists and concentrate on anti-abortion extremists.
Among many other widely accepted apparitions, Attorney General John Ashcroft is absurdly said to fear calico cats and Dan Quayle was alleged to have apologized to an audience in Latin America for not studying his Latin more.
In fact, as a senator, Ashcroft was a co-sponsor of the Violence Against Women Act, which was such a feminist lunacy that it had already been struck down by the U.
Probably 90 percent of all registered Republicans are with Ashcroft on those three issues.
And Ashcroft was on track to get the most plum government job out of the whole lot of them.
She tried to move a third step, but General Ashcroft fixed her with his deep yellow eyes, and it was as if she were shackled to the floor.
This would be like President Bush instructing Attorney General John Ashcroft to hold a press conference announcing that President Clinton had appointed Mohammed Atta to be secretary of the Department of Transportation after being told Atta was a Muslim terrorist.
While braying about what Bush knew and when he knew it, liberals had nothing but contempt for Ashcroft, the man in the Bush administration doing the most to ensure another act of domestic terrorism did not occur.
Liberals were angrier at John Ashcroft for questioning Arab visitors to this country than they were about the terrorists.
No one could name one thing Ashcroft had done that would alarm any normal person.
By contrast, in the months following the most devastating terrorist attack in world history, in which 3,000 Americans were killed, John Ashcroft detained 766 non-citizens, many on immigration violations.
Liberals took the position that unless Ashcroft told them everything and destroyed the effectiveness of his investigations, they would refuse to believe him.
Many of the senators who attacked Ashcroft because he was a Pentecostal Christian were the same bunch who rushed to support Lieberman, an Orthodox Jewish practitioner.
All this pharmaceutical funding may also explain why Ashcroft has voted against including prescription drugs under the Medicare program.
In January, as John Ashcroft waited in the wings, the government dropped the charges first from 97 to 11 and then to a mere nine.