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THE CONTINUING CRISIS Nightmares and night crawlers; Sarah's drinking problem a S 0 O ii July has passed and with it The American Spectator's long national nightmare. For over a year this...

Correspondence: Connerly and sex, Florence's war, &c.

CORRESPONDENCE Unforgettable Mr. York's piece on corruption in the White House and likening it to the movie, Chinatown ("Forget It, Jake," TAS, July 1999), also reminded me of the movie version of...

On the Prowl

ON THE PROWL Ain't Got No Home Despite criticism that her trips to New York are costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to flaunt her use of...

Public Nuisances: Taking Issue/One Day at a Time

Tyrrell, R . Emmett Jr.

PUBLIC NUISANCES by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Taking Issue THE ISSUES — oh, glowing term, preeminent in the minds of all political commentators and of political junkies everywhere. Both groups yearn...

Capitol Ideas: Rip Van Winkle in England

Bethell, Tom

CAPITOL IDEA S1 by Tom Bethell Rip Van Winkle in England Even the cricket isn't what it used to be. I n an interview with an English journalist, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post recently...

Money for Nothing

York, Byron

ven though it was the early summer of i995, more than a year before he would be nominated for a second term as president, Bill Clinton had a critical campaign decision to make. For months he had...

Father Confessor to the President's Men

Olson, Theodore B.

THEODORE B. OLSON ATHER CONFESSOR TO THE PRESIDENT'S MEN Bob Woodward has been hearing the secrets of the mighty for almost three decades. But how much faith can his reporting inspire? Aside,...

Pinochet & His Enemies

Harris, Robin

NNW 30 September 1999 • The American Spectator I he British House of Lords is traditionally a model of fusty decorum, where worthy speeches by elder statesmen are heard in silence, punctuated only...

Term Busters

Killian, Linda

Tenth Buster KEY MEMBERS OF THE REPUBLICAN CLASS OF '94 SWEPT INTO CONGRESS PROMISING TO GET THE JOB DONE AND GET OUT. NOW THE TIME HAS COME TO LIVE UP TO THEIR PROMISES. TOO BAD THE ONLY ONES...

Culture Vultures: American Restoration

Steyn, Mark

CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn American Restoration 0 ne of the endearing features of the British press is their shameless lack of consistency. Having decided their angle on the story, they...

Presswatch: wwwar.reporting

Caldwell, Christopher

PRESSWATCH by Christopher Caldwell wwwarseporting uring the Sarajevo conference D on rebuilding the Balkans, a British editor asked me for an article on Tony Blair. The prime minister, then...

The Nation's Pulse: PCs in Our Time

Schwartz, Mark I.

THE NATION' S PULSE by Mark I. Schwartz PCs in Our Time 0 n July 8, the Commerce Department released a report pointing to a wide disparity of Internet access between the majority of the American...

Constitutional Opinions: Sovereign States

Rabkin, Jeremy

CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by Jeremy Rabkin Sovereign States T he Supreme Court stirred a surprising flurry of controversy as it ended its 1998-99 term last June with three cases on the seemingly...

Ben Stein's Diary: A House Divided

Stein, Benjamin J.

BENSTEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein A House Divided Friday T here is something about real estate that does not love a new owner. Property is different from stock or bonds or that best of...

The Public Policy: Render Not Unto Seizure

Bovard, James

THE PUBLIC POLICY by James Bovard Render Not Unto Seizure T he Justice Department last year confiscated 42,454 cars, boats, houses, stacks of cash, and other items of private property—booty...

Politics: What No One Expected

Norquist, Grover G.

POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist What No One Expected I t wasn't supposed to work out this way. One year ago the conventional wisdom was that Republicans would now be locked in a bitter and...

The Outdoor Spectator: Prairie Goats

Croke, Bill

THE O`U,TDO°R SP CTATO by Bill Croke Prairie Goats Where the antelope play—and men try to shoot them. We found the Antelope extreemly shye and watchfull insomuch that we had been unable to get a...

The Talkies: A Future That Can't Work

Bowman, James

'THE TALKIES by James Bowman A Future That Can't Work S ummer, as anyone who has ever sampled a blockbuster (or even a mere block-cracker) can testify, has become the season for post-modernist...

Eminentoes That Garofalo Woman

Vinciguerra, Thomas

EMINENTOESI by Thomas Vinciguerra That Garofalo Woman R ecently I tuned in to "The Tonight Show," where Jay Leno was holding forth with Janeane Garofalo. She was winding up a book tour and Leno...

Decision for Disaster

Lynch, Grayston L.

BOOKS IN REVIEW Camelot Cowardice Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs Grayston L. Lynch Brassey's / 185 pages / $24.95 REVIEWED BY Mark Falcoff I n April 1961 the United States...

Venona

Haynes, John Earl; Klehr, Harvey

Choosing Uncle Joe Over Uncle Sam Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr Yale University Press /487 pages I $30 REVIEWED BY Paul Johnson T he damage...

The Conservative Revolution

Edwards, Lee

Used and Abused and Here to Stay The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America Lee Edwards Free Press /391 pages / $27.50 REVIEWED BY Joseph Shattan I n the prologue to his...

Current Wisdom

Jackasses, Assorted

CURRENT WISDOM The Nation From Nation scribe Patricia J. Williams, a lapidary dropping that could have been laid upon faithful readers of this famed organ of progress at almost any time throughout...

Last Call: Give Me a Ring

Rocca, Francis X.

LAST CALL Francis X. Rocca Give Me a Ring WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN, I MUST CONFESS, I BRIEFLY wore a mood ring. The year was 1977, and if mood rings had ever been in any sense fashionable, that time...

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