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BOOKS IN REVIEW 1948, just before the elections, which most people expected the CP to win. The British and Americans thought they would have to intervene to prevent an immediate coup. When I got...

LAST CALL (April 2001)

The EnquirerWay BY DAVE SHIFLETT The National Enquirer has pushed its way to the front of the journalistic pack, and those eating its dust are not happy. It is no fun for professional journalists,...

Jericho, Tennessee (February 2001)

BY DAVE SHIPlETT l all the empty dreams inspired by Election 2000, surely the most loolish was Al Gore's expectation that he would win his home state. Gore is about as popular in...

The America We Deserve (February 2000)

Trump's No Chump The America We Deserve Donald J. Trump with Dave Shiflett Renaissance Books /286 pages /$z4.95 REVIEWED BY Dave S h i f l e t t Editors' note: No, your eyes aren't...

The Bunker Millennium (December 1999)

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The Children Strike Back (July 1999)

The Chi dr Strike lack DAVE SHIFLETT Littleton has drawn vast attention from press and experts. Their explanations of the killings are inadequate—and none has captured the author's former...

Gambling and Its Discontents (March 1999)

40 March 1999 The American Spectator Columbia, South Carolina hose who doubt the existence of dark powers might reconsAer their position after a midafternoon visit to Fast Freddies, a poker...

Eat the Rich (January 1999)

P.J. Peaking on the Laugher Curve Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics P J. O'Rourke Atlantic Monthly Press / 246 pages / $24 REVIEWED BY Dave Shiflett he ongoing CNN series on the T Cold...

Taking Back Their Church (November 1998)

TAKING BACK THER Conservative Southern Baptists have spent two decades fighting relativism, liberalism, and modernity in general—which makes them not quite so conservative after all. DAVE...

When Country Wasn't Drivel (March 1998)

When Count Wasn't Drivel NASHVILLE GET S IN STEP WITH THE TIMES BY SELLING ITS SOUL BY DAVE SHIFLETT Nashville T ootsie's Orchid Lounge is paradise this Saturday afternoon. A trio of...

Among the Intellectualoids (December 1997)

AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS by Dave Shiflett Take a Fish to Lunch "Let them that desire peace prepare for war." —Winston Churchill eff Thomas, managing editor for the j New England Military...

Shopping for Churches (December 1996)

"Shopping for Churches" Shopping for Churches Our religious free market offers plenty of choice—if not much spiritual quality. By Dave Shiflett. DAVE SHIFLETT is a writer living in Northern Virginia. always...

Here's to Your Health (October 1996)

"Here's to Your Health" For years, government busybodies have been insisting that drinking is bad, heinous, vile, stinko..Now that science indicates otherwise, guess who won't face the music. Said...

Great American Saloons: Hooters Gals (July 1996)

"Great American Saloons: Hooters Gals" by Dave Shiflett Hooters Gals 1 t is the genius of our times that transforms the innocent practice of drinking beer and eating hamburgers in the company of quasi-naked...

Alabama Jury Booty (April 1996)

"Alabama Jury Booty" The juror, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says that the jurors talked about awards between $100,000 and $8.5 million before arriving at the $10 million figure. "Quite...

Rocky Mountain Hire (December 1995)

Dave Shiflett Rocky Mountain Hire Supporters of "diversity" talk about their mission in terms of "equality" and "fairness," when what they mean is that white men need not apply. One white man's...

The Papal Spectator/Doom in Denver (October 1993)

As Pope John Paul II descended from his plane at Denver's Stapleton International Airport (leaving his dog in the cabin, for some unknown reason), it was clear to even us non-Papists that a powerful...

The Nation's Pulse / The Hate State (July 1993)

Denver W hen the Colorado Rockies opened their first homestand at Mile High Stadium on April 9 (Good Friday, as was pointed out with varying degrees of horror and glee), President Bill Clinton was...

The Great American Saloon Series / The Sprucewood Inn (April 1993)

A t a remote crossroads in the Pike National Forest, forty-five miles southwest of Denver, stands the Sprucewood Inn, a small tavern in the log-cabin style, the sort of establishment the...

The Great American Saloon Series/Dry Run (November 1990)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES DRY RUN by Dave Shiflett W here can a man drink a beer in peace? This is an ever-important consideration for those of us who have, for whatever reason (pounding...

Great Possessions, by David Kline (September 1990)

might have wondered what he was uninvited guests." Again, something thinking about as he bounced along in most of us probably didn't know. Kline's his buggy, serenely stroking his hairy book is full...

The Great American Saloon Series/Crawling Through the Clouds (May 1990)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES CRAWLING THROUGH THE CLOUDS Organist, are you asleep on the keys? And you, Reverend, must you glare from the pulpit as you ring my head with thorns? The...

The Denver Spectator/First Impressions (December 1989)

THE DENVER SPECTATOR FIRST IMPRESSIONS D enver is a great place if you're a dog. They haven't got many fleas here, and heartworm's unheard of. But it goes beyond that. Denver makes a dog feel at...

The Washington Spectator/Farewell to All This (August 1989)

FAREWELL TO ALL THIS I first came to Washington in the summer of 1978, setting myself up as a house painter—interiors and exteriors, five dollars an hour, gratuities accepted. My boss was the...

The Great American Saloon Series/Papagayo (April 1989)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES PAPAGAYO by Dave Shiflett I nhospitable planet! Winter blasts up the pantlegs. Falling icicles through the feet. Split lips and lungs full of furnace fumes. The...

The Great American Saloon Series/A Redneck Inn (November 1987)

THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES ~Illlln 14: 1111 11111111 . $11 2limaJ jaikar-m11 .4.0.1244m54 `,4 a c _ 111111 A REDNECK INN by Dave Shiflett W hen America bombed Libya, no one in the...

Eminentoes/Jude the Semi-Obscure (September 1987)

EMINENTOES JUDE THE SEMI-OBSCURE Jude Wanniski's hacked off at the nation's hacks. He says they love to read and gossip about his MediaGuide,1 but when it comes to writing about the 372-page...

The Nation's Pulse/Plagues and the Common Life (August 1987)

THE NATION'S PULSE PLAGUES AND THE COMMON LIFE G reat gallopin' trouser snakes, look at them gals!" Those were the days, sitting in the park while your sexual opposites (or otherwise, if you were...

Deer Hunting in America (March 1987)

Dave Shiflett DEER HUNTING IN AMERICA The buck stops here—or was that a doe? „ T urn down the volume, Floyd. I think one's coming.” That's how you hunt deer in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In...

Shiflett, David

Shiftlett, Dave

Shipman, Pat

Shirley, Craig

Shlaes, Amity

Shnayerson, Michael

Shogan, Robert

Shorey, Kenneth P.

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Shrier, Abigail

Shulsky, Abram N.