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Vol. 033 Issue 010 (December 1 2000)
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The Continuing Crisis
October and headed into November end- ing with the usual series of death threats from Democrats- all in all not ve D" edi~'- ing. Gov. George W. Bush smiled his way through the campaign,...
Correspondence: Love, Hate & c.
Still Breathing Fred Sanford used to hold his hand over his cheaper and more reliable way of get- job, when in power, to act as caretakers ting into orbit--meaning a reusable launch vehicle....
Public Nuisances: Sea of Hate/Boss Hillary
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
Sea of Hate The recent blood- shed in the West Bank and Gaza reminds me of an adventure of mine some 2 5 years ago. What made that adventure sud- denly vivid in memou's eye was...
Capitol Ideas: Failing Grades
Bethell, Tom
by Tom Bethell ~ have years--every written this issue column of the for magazine-- the last 2t true. education The relative an}.way. advantage But that of is...
Survival of the Fakest
Wells, Jonathan
t you had asked me during my years studying science at Berkeley whether or not I believed what I read in my science textbooks, I would have responded much as any of my fellow students: puzzled...
No Time for Science
Bethell, Tom
losophy. But they do not have the right to teach it as though it were science. In science, all theories--including Darwinian evo- lution- must be tested against the evidence. Since Gould knows...
The Deed Is Done
Heeren, Fred
A T E P D U Bill Dembski is fired as mob rule quashes free scientific inquiry at Baylor University. III- -N 28 The FED ;SD NE December 2000 / January 2oor - TheAmerican Spectator m...
Campus Justice Goes Ape
Hemingway, Mar
CAMPUS JUST Like every other college this fall, Columbia University has thousands of returnin g students running to and fro, frolicking and gamboling and skipping and capering and romping and...
Holiday Gift Guide
till shopping for that civi- lized (okay, semi-civilized) person in your life? If you are a giver with unlimited resources, the musical gift of the millennium is the R O BER Edition...
Constitutional Opinions: Developers Nail Free Speech
Rabkin, Jeremy
city council members had opposed pub- lic subsidies and zoning permits for a low-cost housing project. The Affordable Housing Development Corporation (AHDC) sued everyone around, includ-...
Ben Stein's Diary: Only the Lonely
Stein, Benjamin J.
Only the Lonely Monday T he Internet is a puzzling beast. It's amazingly versatile in terms of conveying information. It is a great, even super-great way of selling total- er and slept in...
Eminentoes: North Korea's Dear Leader
Dealey, Sam
of that week's Economist said it all: "Greet- four sons at every chance. Kim himself did ings, Earthlings." It was the world's first not share a close relationship with his glimpse in a long,...
The Nation's Pulse: Fido Goes to Court
Gahr, Evan
achusetts home. No sooner were the predators appre- hended, however, than the cultural elite offered its familiar litany of excuses and rationalizations for the crime. The per-...
Nugent Fires Back: Xtreme States of America
Nugent, Ted
ulating rock-n-roll concerts in the Year of pukeqnspiring chemicals. Even the great our Lord zooo.Tbe primal scream reeking Jimi Hen&ix laughed at me for not taking sonic bombast flames at an...
The New York Spectator: Delouse the White House
Mason, Jackie; Felder, Raoul
ing but the extreme, so help me God. ;~ roll road. I'll be the tall extreme guy with at one of my extreme Nuge huntcamps for rear. Good, now we've got 'era sur- the extreme guitar, extreme...
The Talkies: Exorcising Good and Evil
Bowman, James
by James Bowman has fulfilled all the requirements for the post by being the child of an incestuous priest and a non-believer, one Peter Kel- son (Ben Chaplin). But here the church is...
The Red Scare Was Real
McGroarty, Daniel
Tales From Decrypts The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and another. In 1995, just less than 3,000 Venona mes- sages that had been partial- ly or fully decrypted were...
Telecosm
Gilder, George
www.gildertech.com. So, I owe him big- time. But that's not all. Telecosm is where my very own Met- Goodbye Malthus, Hello Metcalfe calfe's Law got its start. Now, thanks to Gilder, my...
The Courage to Be Free
Heston, Charlton
The Rifleman Cometh-- and He's Not Tuming Back Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and indeed Charlton Heston depart via buzzard. That is frightful enough, but Heston's warning goes much deeper. He...
Trinnietta Gets a Chance
McGroarty, Daniel
Fi htin for the .g g Right to Leam Trinnietta Gets a Chance: Six Families and Their School Choice Experience Daniel McGroarty Heritage Fou~datio~ I5o pages / $9.50 (papeO REVIEWED...
The Art of Political War
Horowitz, David
The pity is that McGroarty, an excel- and asked her what she was doing. After lent writer who handles the complicat- all, he knew she wouldn't live long "In political warfare, the aggressor...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New York Times Rolling Stone Tammany is restored! The incomparable Another unfortunate misunderstanding Another Olympian feat--the idealistic Times endorses Hillary, noting her leaves Vice...
Last Call: The Pope, Politics, and Christmas
Rocca, Francis X.
PROSPECTS FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS IN St. Peter's Square dimmed a bit at news that ]6rg Haider would be bringing the tree. A visit by the Austrian politician infamous for his praise of the Third...
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