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Vol. 031 Issue 010 (October 1 1998)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS The aging process; a date with history; fresh-air highs August ends and impeachment begins! That is a fact. By the end of August Congress was taking its first formal steps to...
Correspondence: Y2K, Vermont, Texas, &c.
CORRESPONDENCE Trigger Happy Five words on the passing of Roy RogersM !! (The Continuing Crisis, TAS, September 1998)1 am absolutely shocked. Because if ever there was the epitome of a right...
On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL The Next Cisneros? Is a sixth Clinton Cabinet member on his way to acquiring a personal independent counsel? The Prowler has learned that federal agents are looking into complaints...
Editorials: Feeling His Heat/Corruption's Flip Side
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Feeling His Heat Whew! The heat has gone up in the kitchen, as President Harry Truman was wont to say. The Clintons had been planning to cook...
Capitol Ideas: The Ex-Gay Movement
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Ex-Gay Movement In July, full-page ads were taken out in national newspapers, proclaiming that homosexuals can change. The San Francisco Chronicle, alone among...
Our Military Condition
Lehman, John
M I TAR CONDITION America's armed forces have been diverted into "peacekeeping" and domestic policing, subjected to the egalitarian schemes of social engineers, aliented from civilian society,...
Roots of a Scandal
York, Byron
B Y R 0 N Y 0 R K FA DAL 1- _A TS While Janet Reno meditates en AI Gore's phone calls, congressional investigators are slowly uncovering a much bigger story: how the Clinton campaign finance...
California Take-Out
Timmerman, Kenneth R.
34 October 1998 • The American Spectator CHINA'S LARGEST AEROSPACE COMPANY, CATIC, HAS BECOME QUITE THE CALIFORNIA CONGLOMERATE, DEALING IN EVERYTHING FROM AUTO PARTS TO MISSILE PARTS—WHILE U.S....
Northern Fidelity
Falcoff, Mark
UNDER PRIME MINISTER DA HAS COME INTO FIDEL FASTRO“.••ALL ITS OWN AS A DEFENDER AND SPONSOR BECAUSE IT CAN'T STAND REMAINING LOYAL TO THE UNITED STATES. 42 Octoberey998 • The American...
Culture Vultures: Everybody Does It
Steyn, Mark
CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Everybody Does It E veryone does it. Everyone who calls up a radio station says everyone does it. Everyone who's stopped in the street by a TV reporter says...
Presswatch: The Everlasting First Couple
Cony, John
PRESSWATCH by John Corry The Everlasting First Couple N ow it is official: The president is a liar, even though he has not admitted it in so many words, and it is unlikely he ever will. Bill...
Constitutional Opinions: Courting Disaster
Rabkin, Jeremy
CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by Jeremy Rabkin Courting Disaster B ack in January, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was the first member of Clinton's Cabinet to endorse the president's implausible...
The Terrorism Spectator: Striking Out
Ledeen, Michael
THE TERRORISM SPECTATOR by Michael Ledeen Striking Out B ill Clinton's glorious war against international terror is cut from the same doily as his glorious victories against Saddam Hussein and...
Ben Stein's Diary: Sons and Fathers
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Sons and Fathers Thursday I spent the night at my house in Malibu for once in a great while for a dismal reason. This morning I had to get up early (for...
Eminentoes: Geraldo Exposed
Queenan, Joe
EMINENTOES by Joe Zueenan Geraldo Exposed D ear Tom: According to a recent report in TV Guide, CNBC's house stooge Gerald() Rivera now has his eyes on your job at NBC. Though widely dismissed by...
Spectator's Journal: To Die for Kosovo
Bandow, Doug
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Doug Bandow To Die for Kosovo The Balkans have been an ethnic cauldron for centuries. Only heavy-handed rule — by the Ottoman Empire and Tito's Communist dictatorship in...
Politics: Operation Breakout
Norquist, Grover G.
POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist Operation Breakout A t nine a.m. on Wednesday, July 22, more than 200 of the 228 members of the House Republican Conference filed into the Eisenhower Room of the...
The Nation's Pulse: Paranoia Politics
Troy, Daniel E.
THE NATION'S PULSE by Daniel E. Troy Paranoia Politics W e have heard much lately about how the Clintonites view their enemies. According to U.S. News 6 World Report columnist Gloria Borger,...
Among the Intellectualoids: Corpus Delicti
Kimball, Roger
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS by Roger Kimball Corpus Delicti F or a moment this past June, it seemed like old times. The excitement was palpable. Not since the Mapplethorpe and Serrano scandals in...
The Talkies: Be a Man
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES by James Bowman Be a Man T he e-mail that I received last month about my review of Saving Private Ryan, together with the scolding in the national press received by some of those who,...
Explaining Hitler
Rosenbaum, Ron
BOOKS IN REVIEW The Thinking Man's Hitler Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil Ron Rosenbaum Random House /444 pages / $30 REVIEWED BY Algis Valiunas A s much as we might...
Beyond Belief / Sir Vidia's Shadow
Naipaul, V.S.; Theroux, Paul
In Vidia's Debt: The Price of Literary Friendship Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples V.S. Naipaul Random House /408 pages / $27.95 Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship...
An Enterprising Life
Andel, Jay Van
The Amway Way: Seeking the Profit of Many very rich, but as he writes in An Enterprising Life, his "greatest pleasure comes not from the endless acquisition of material things but from creating...
Mackerel by Moonlight
Weld, William
A Bill Weld Even Jesse Helms Could Love Mackerel by Moonlight William Weld Simon & Schuster / 238 pages / $23 REVIEWED BY Geoffrey Norman T here are politicians who like to moonlight as...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Los Angeles Times The aging Gore Vidal, perennial champion of hedonism and paganism, driven to prudery: But Scaife does meddle. He gives money to such disreputable magazines as the...
Last Call: Holy Cows
Adams, James Ring
LAST CALL by James Ring Adams Holy Cows DEPENDING ON YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARD Indian prophecies, and on how you count white buffalo, the birth of a white bison calf in southern Michigan on July 29...
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