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Vol. 023 Issue 011 (November 1 1990)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • September has elapsed, but the war clouds spread. And it is not just war between President Saddam Hussein and the outside world. The American press has found another theater...
Correspondence
vice chairman of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, came under criticism for bringing along his buddies to watch convicts try to elude prison dogs on the hunt. Mr. Hodge dubbed the event the...
Editorials/The Unfinished Congress/Jesse Who?
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS THE UNFINISHED CONGRESS I" he House of Representatives and 1 the Senate are back in session after their month-long holiday. This unfortunate occurrence could not be prevented, as it is...
Capitol Ideas/A New World Struggling to Be Born
Bethell, Tom
press conference on the savings and loan mess. There was a Washington Post story analyzing the Rev. Jackson's complaints that "news media are ignoring his activities." And there was a brief news...
Shoot the Wounded
O'Rourke, P. J.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1990 P. J. O'Rourke SHOOT THE WOUNDED The first annual update of the Joe McCarthy Memorial New Enemies List! W ell, fellow witch hunters, a lot...
The Rainbow Lobby Storms Congress
Brock, David
David Brock THE RAINBOW LOBBY STORMS CONGRESS A psychotherapeutic cult led by an ex-disciple of Lyndon LaRouche is becoming the most powerful voice on Africa policy in Congress. T ast April, one...
What Kind of Fuel Am I?
Fumento, Michael
Michael Fumento WHAT KIND OF FUEL AM I? On shaky scientific evidence, Congress is forging ahead to mandate the use of alternative automobile fuels. It's probably going to make no difference in...
The Nation's Pulse/Late Boomers
Wolfe, Tom
THE NATION'S PULSE LATE BOOMERS by Tom Wolfe A s Bruce Bawer has written, no generation in history has ever been more lavishly analyzed, dramatized, mythologized, and agonized over than the Baby...
Presswatch/Desert Air
Eastland, Terry
tive codes of dress and decor (and language), and thereby to create styles of life in precisely the sense that Max Weber originally intended that term. The money came from home—many hippies and New...
Spectator's Journal/Seoul Long
Bandow, Doug
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL SEOUL LONG by Doug Bandow Fr he upheavals in Eastern Europe 1 have not been without their impact on the Far East. China is keeping its distance from the USSR despite the...
Soviet Presswatch/Suicide Solution
Young, Cathy
SOVIET PRESSWATCH SUICIDE SOLUTION A dd a new syndrome to the annals of psychiatric literature: "perestroika-related suicide." The term was coined by Dr. Ivan P. Dikiy and his colleagues at the...
The Talkies/Wild Metropolitan Fools
Bowman, James
on the council, representing a no-longer-existing voting district. Thanks to "Protocol No. 3 of the February 27, 1924 emergency session of the Moscow City Council," it was explained, "1) V. I. Lenin...
The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency / See How They Run / Our Country
Lichtman, Allan J.; DeCell, Ken; Barone, Michael
BOOK REVIEWS T f Allan J. Lichtman and Ken DeCell are correct, President Bush may be a lot more vulnerable than he thinks when he runs for re-election in 1992. The economy will almost certainly...
Rabbit at Rest
Updike, John
arring the appearance, at the 17 millennium, of Rabbit Risen this will be the last appearance of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom. Thirty years have passed since he ran from his wife Janice after she...
Preferential Policies
Sowell, Thomas
W by have race relations on the uni- versity campus worsened so dramatically? For many Americans, insults, obscenities, and occasional violence, directed primarily at black students attending...
Elvis Don't Like Football / Tom Landry
Glanville, Jerry; Landry, Tom
From the publishers of MediaWatch, a new book. And That's the Way It Is(n't) provides 350 pages of summaries, excerpts and reprints of more than 45 studies that demonstrate the media's liberal bias....
Acts of Recovery
Hart, Jeffrey
J effrey Hart has achieved distinction J as a scholar, editor, teacher, historian, and conservative thinker. Central to all of his attainments, however, and key to the value of his work in...
The Great American Saloon Series/Dry Run
Shiflett, Dave
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...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Cat Lovers Against the Bomb What happens when one stops reading newspapers and changing the kitty litter: CAT LOVERS AGAINST THE BOMB is an informal network of cat-loving peace...
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