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IssueVol. 033 Issue 009 (November 1 2000)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
lr HE C O N T I N U I N G C R ! : S I ~ Rat control; the big September came and vamoosed, with Campaign aooo in high gear and Black Cat news stories in abundance. The Black Cat news story is...
Paid articleCorrespondence: Insulin Al, Judge Norma &c.
C O R R E S P O N D E:N:C E Insulin AI Not more than ~o minutes before I started to read my copy of the October 2000 TAS my doctor confirmed that I had diabetes. Imagine my joy when I read...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances: Welcome, the Gilder Effect/Speedway Spectating
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Welcome, the Gilder Effect Living with the incoming fire of sumlTlonses and press rebukes, as we have now these last several years, has sharpened my sense...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas: Bay Area, Abridged
Bethell, Tom
[ , 4 r • ~ INII u N I i l l ~ i . I :NNP'• by Tom Bethell Bay Area, Abridged Life is more difficult when no-growthers get their way. T he economy of the San Francisco Bay Area has been...
Paid articleSpace Defenders
Gold, Philip
K ine years ago, as Americans watched live coverage of Tomahawk cruise missiles changing lanes in downtown Baghdad and government-supplied video of smart bombs ringing bunker doorbells before...
Paid articleSay Goodbye to Hollywood
Gaffney, Frank J. Jr.
n a rnovie theater near you, Clint Eastwood and a retinue of aging supporting actors are struggling to prevent a Soviet-era satellite based on stolen, but obsolete, U.S. technology and armed...
Paid articleBlinded by Science
Gahr, Evan
p hysicist Richard Garwin is a naysayer. Ever since President Reagan unveiled his Strategic Defense Initiative on March 23, 1983, Garwin has been its leading critic, proclaiming it too costly,...
Paid articleNational Missile Defense
London, Josh
employ about 65 million lines of code. "That argument," says Graham, "has gone away." Though most of the arguments against missile defense are disappearing, the same cannot be said of its...
Paid articlePigs in Space
London, Josh
34 ~o t, ~:~'rl ~ c 1 2 o o o , The American S~ectator 1) i i n he laws of government, like the laws of physics, apply everywhere-whether on earth or in the dark reaches of outer space. When...
Paid articleBuild It and They Will Come
Gilder, George
38 No v e m b e r 2 o o o " The American Spectator I magine gazing at the web from far in space. If your eyes could see like a spectroscope, taking in the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the...
Paid articleThe Lynching of Bill Dembski
Heeren, Fred
~ athematician William Dembski stands accused of bringing shame upon a major university. Not only that, say his colleagues, he has managed to disgrace the entire scientific...
Paid articleAntitrust for Dummies
Levy, Robert A.; Reynolds, Alan
~ he good news about the Microsoft case is that it is no longer in the hands of one Thomas Penfield Jackson. Jackson, you may recall, is the federal judge in Washington, D.C., who ruled...
Paid articleCulture Vultures: Take Back Vermonters
Steyn, Mark
by Mark Steyn Take Back Vermonters Ruth Dwyer is one of them, and Republicans are nervous. T he Republican Party has never lacked for gutless wussies, especially when election day...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids: Little Brainos
Moore, Stephen
and so does Ward's Garage, the best wrecker service in the area. It's not about flatlander sodomy so much as Yankee impotence. They voted against gay unions at Town Meeting, and their...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse: Don't Disable the Web
Sager, Ryan H.
nl , n I n ~ [np,_,,llu un lLroll I "": a l l i l m~l-by Ryar~ H. Sager Don't Disable the Web Americans with disabilities need access, not diktats. T his August, before the Sydney OlF~npics,...
Paid articlePresswatch: Corrections From the Edge
Corry, John
pages for accessibility. Subtitles for video, once an unwieldy thing to program into a video clip, are being automated by software available as shareware. As it gets better, speech...
Paid articleConstitutional Opinions: Australia's Real Moment
Rabkin, Jeremy
~ O N S T I T U T I O N A L O P I N I O N : by Jeremy Rabkin Australia's Real Moment Why did its government tell the U.N. to get lost? T wo weeks before Australia hosted the September Olympics,...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary: Austin Power
Stein, Benjamin J.
|:1 [:1 III H L=II !:t III " ~] [~ ~'al |:t IJ5 by Berzjamir~ J. Stein Austin Power Time, time, time, See what's become of me, While I looked around for My possibilities .... Tuesday A...
Paid articleThe Public Policy: Our Phoniest Drug War
Bandow, Doug
by Doug Bandow Our Phoniest Drug War The pharmaceutical "crisis" is a Washington invention. p residential election }.'ears are good for political consultants and bad for the rest of us, who...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal: Songs for a Saturday
Chapman, Steve
that Medicare recipients most need. Finally, as the Institute for Policy Innovation points out, the federal government could help everyone by loosening FDA control of pharmaceutical...
Paid articlePolitics: No More Surprises
Norquist, Grover G.
II alEoll I I I I I i I E . l J e l l by Grover G. ~orquist No More Surprises This election year is proving not to be 1992 or 1996. A s this column went to press in earl}' October, daily...
Paid articleThe Talkies: What Do Women Want?
Bowman, James
| | | i Ir,_.g I [ I i | ~ by James Bowman What Do Women Want? Since there's no answer, better not ask. W omen are different from men. Or so we may surmise from the "gender gap" which has been...
Paid articleFull Bluntal Nugety: Sam Ryan Interviews
Nugent, Ted
IrJlgl: g Full Bluntal Nugety B orn middle-finger first in ~948, Ted Nugent came into this world like a lion on catnip. He started bowhunting at the age of four and was strumming a guitar at...
Paid articleHunting Aerobics: An excerpt from
Guns, Ted Nugent's God; Rock'n'Roll
I would not want to have lived a life without Johnny B. Goode--or without compositions of the Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds, Hen&ix, Cream, Aerosmith, Van Ha]en and Christina Agnilera--I love...
Paid articleA Personal Odyssey
Sowell, Thomas
Profile in Courage A Personal Odyssey Thomas Sowell Free Press/308 pages /$25 REVIEWED BY Lino A. Graglia T homas Sowell's A Personal Odyssey tells the remarkable story, of a remarkable man....
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CU R R E N T W I S D O:M: Washington Post At a state dinner for the leader of India one of Our President's foreign policy advisers speaks truth to microphones: Said model and...
Paid articleLast Call: A Farewell to Suds
Schulz, Max
.AST CAI A Farewell to Suds by Max Schulz BEER MAY HA\,~E _~L~DE MIL\\AUKEE Eu but Count, Stadium made Milwaukee great. So, as one might expect of all good things, they're ~earing it down....
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