The Continuing Crisis

...We've Got What It Takes I place myself securely in the left-wing camp when it comes to political thought, but I am not so preoccupied with the disturbing differences between "American" society and "ideal" society that I cannot have a good time...

...Barnes, "Several prominent mayors and city council members in Mississippi who switched to the Republicans were defeated in local elections last June (although the total number of local Republican elected officials in that state increased slightly...

...Bhagwan's behest, the votaries sang and danced around a campfire as they burned more than 5,000 copies of their guru's seminal work, Book of Rajneeshism, a concession that the followers greeted with great relief although there was no indication that Mr...

...Dean is correct in noting that only three Democratic officials who switched parties were defeated in Mississippi's local elections last June...

...NA7ll and Peregrine Worsthorne...

...Reading TAS is fun...

...America's elites demonstrated once again that their favorite sport is to make the average American feel uncomfortable for little or no reason when 114 syndicated comic strip artists said they would devote their Thanksgiving day strips to "the issue of hunger, to draw attention to the problem'-the words of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, who sells his precious creations as shills for everything from Wonder Bread to Dolly Madison cakes...

...Dean cites may have upped that number a bit...

...We help women learn how to value being feminine, how to honor that and bring that to a relationship with a man," said program director Emily Lyon as the Steel Magnolia, who hears it at home, nodded off...

...Next he might want to turn to the Opportunity Society of Japan, where Mr...

...As for the "slight" increase, the best figures I have show the number of Republican local elected officials in the state going from 89 to 113 (the subsequent election Mr...

...Gulistan Koru, of Ankara, Ttlrkey, put up for sale his fourteen-room brothel, already outfitted with twelve working girls, for $150,000...

...Barnes implies...

...Ron Reagan, Jr...

...Chicago may want to consider something along the same lines after word came that Mr...

...Pending the outcome of his trial Mr...

...American conservatives quickly dropped their opposition to the resumption of regular flights between San Francisco and Moscow when Mr...

...The spirit of d&tente reigned in Washington as the President prepared for his summit with the suave Love God, and it also lifted the heart of Miss Regina Merrical, of Salem, Oregon, who let bygones be bygones and gave her hand in marriage to her erstwhile stepfather, Mr...

...Orson Welles was laid to rest...

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...One reason that conservatives have grown less conservative is that the ma jority of the American people have...

...Still better, Mrs...

...In fact, of the fifteen incumbent Democratic municipal officials who switched to run as Republican this year, twelve won re-election...

...Democrats hoping to retain their majority in the Senate were stunned when the Hon...

...Never mind that a Soviet economist is as useful as a rainmaker at a lung transplant...

...Why does TAS refresh me so...

...Ryzhkov is not a Communist party official but an economist...

...Indeed even our conservative politicians are less conservative than they used to be...

...Even book reviews (dangerous stuff to a poor college student...

...In Satellite Beach, Florida, Mr...

...Rosalynn Carter was the apposite choice to dedicate "Northern California's first psychiatric hospital run by women exclusively for women" when it had its grand opening in San Francisco...

...Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, announced that henceforth "all communicants would be required to wash with pure alcohol before sex and wear rubber gloves" during the act itself...

...Mathias, considered a shoe-in for re-election, announced he would not seek another term...

...Wright might want to consider moving to Australia, where Defense Minister Kim Beazley announced that his army had purchased 541,000 condoms because tests had proved the versatile devices were large enough to "waterproof such items as the gun barrels of tanks...

...Gallup, Harris, AE1, and other polls show that Americans are more liberal on racial, sexual, and social matters than ten years ago, even if they are still less liberal than TV news announcers or many college professors...

...Heavenly Dolls, Inc., of Littleton, Colorado, a subsidiary of Super Dolls Corp., of Brooklyn, New York, announced the sale of its Baby Jesus Dolls this holiday season as its way of putting the Christ back into Christmas...

...But President Reagan is cautious even about opposing minority quotas...

...Budget cuts continue to outrage the Mondale clan, although this time the belt-tightening was at the Los Angeles news gathering operation of KABC TV, where aspiring actress Miss Eleanor Mondale was given the axe...

...Bhagwan would give any ground on the damn rubber gloves...

...Also sent sailing through this earthly vale was Mr...

...Jane Smith, widow of Arthur and mother of the late Samantha, announced that she is creating the Samantha Smith Foundation to "foster international understanding in the spirit of [the late] Samantha...

...He is accused of violating the immigration laws...

...all twelve of them summoned up their courage and went public with a threat to boycott the festivitiesa painful decision given the free drinks involved-if the university awarded the degree...

...Faced with such irrefutable argumentation, the university compromised and said it wouldn't award the President a degree after all...

...At age 59 Mr...

...October passes into November, and as the first frosts fall across the land the news is mixed, particularly for our nation's engaging Soviet lobby...

...In how many thick, unreadable journals had he published...

...On the legal front, the idealism of the New Frontier claimed another casualty when a jury rejected the insanity defense of Mr...

...As a seasoned college student, I have been conditioned to view reading as a real chore, but (ignoring the selfreferential problems inherent in this clause) every rule has an exception...

...A suggestion by a resident Latin scholar to change the motto to Homo, Veritas, Vox was quickly voted down because, according to Mr...

...Samantha lives...

...Bhagwan's gal Friday, Miss Ma Ananda Sheela, denounced the guru and took off for West Germany with a dozen of his commune's highest ranking officials...

...Li Yung Cheung, in front of a New York subway train...

...Cardinale had served in Thailand with the Peace Corps and said that ever since he has been followed "by Asian demons who wanted to take his masculinity because he had dated Asian women...

...And the Associated Press reported that unseasonably warm weather in Brussels had caused thousands of fish to choke to death in the Meuse River...

...The leftist news media and the bias of educators and other intellectuals have begun to tell...

...A few days later, Mr...

...However, Democrats did defeat several Republican mayors who had been elected in their own right, causing the GOP a net loss of two mayoralties in the state's twenty largest cities, from five to three...

...In still another sign of American academia's sensitivity to the eternal values, Miss W. Ann Reynolds, chancellor of the multi-campus California State University, proposed the university change its motto from Vir, Veritas, Vox to Vox, Veritas, Vita in deference to the thousands of female students at the school...

...This is progress, another small step toward the fulfillment of the Soviet promise after an unfortunate Stalinist detour...

...Finally, Mr...

...An ensuing election, which had been delayed because of the courts, has yielded a clean sweep for the Republicans in yet another small town, demonstrating that, in Mississippi, realignment is doing quite well, thank you...

...You folks are usually wrong, but you're always entertaining...

...Hasn't he seen "Dynasty...

...John Cardinale and 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1985 convicted him of murder for pushing a Chinese woman, Mrs...

...remains active on the station's more crucial entertainment beat-just another of the many jobs by which Ron has struggled to escape the long shadow of dad...

...Note my use of the term "seems," since I am not sure whether Rabkin believes that there is a conservative majority-or whether he is simply advocating the tactic of conservatives' appealing to one...

...Rock Hudson crossed the bar, leaving behind him no offspring but many friends and countless worried acquaintances...

...Romantics who cling to the sweet notion that whales are intelligent animals received another bit of distressing counter-evidence when a 40-foot male adult humpback meandered through the Golden Gate and up the Sacramento River toward the town of Rio Vista, a resort community frequented by homosexuals...

...Barry Goldwater opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act-as did Ronald Reagan...

...Yul Brynner, and many of California's finest piano movers shifted to the pallbearer business when Mr...

...7 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1985...

...Gorbachev's young turks whose untrammeled masculinity is so pleasing to the New York Times editorial board...

...I could've been hurt," the equable Mr...

...As for the "slight" increase in the total number of Republican officials on the local level, in June we increased their number by thirty percent...

...Where was his curriculum vitae...

...Essie Stella, also of Chicago, when he discovered that Essie, whom he had been dating, was not in fact a woman but a "very good looking" transvestite...

...Bhagwan was arrested aboard a rented Lear Jet bound for Bermuda...

...Louis airport, and government scientists destroyed yet another colony of Killer Bees near Lost Hills, California...

...How many faculty committees had he chaired...

...It is highly doubtful that anyone with Jesse Helms's views would advance very far in Illinois politics...

...Charles McC...

...Joseph D. Thompson, a surfer in Lihue, Hawaii, saw his ability to "Hang Ten" reduced by precisely one-half when a homeless shark nibbled off one of his hands and part of his forearm as he paddled seaward to catch a wave...

...Roger Kuhn, the school's unilingual director of public affairs, "if we used homo in our name, there would be an outcry...

...In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, cultists devoted to the Bhagwan Ralph Nader plugged their ears and ducked for cover when they learned that Unit 1 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was cranked up and would soon be in service...

...Patrick Dean Communications Director The Mississippi Republican Party Jackson, Mississippi John A. Barnes replies: Mr...

...Mrs...

...Wright's penis, which he claims is nine inches long "in the flaccid state...

...This time the family left him unburied for two days, just in case, but Mr...

...I don't believe this error undermines the thrust of my argument that the GOP's gains in the South remain tenuous and subject to change...

...and the three who lost all ran in the same city-which means that only one mayor lost, and not several, as Mr...

...Imagine, the Times said, Mr...

...More important, where the hell was all that grant money that had been lavished under his solicitous predecessor...

...The thirteen-inch doll that Miss Edler wants us to believe in comes with a "detachable non-toxic glow-in-the-dark halo," is wrapped in a blue blanket-called "swaddling clothes" outside marketing circlesand is available in "Anglo, Hispanic and black models...

...He told me that the fourth time would be for good," his brother said...

...I read it cover-to-cover...

...the court reasoned inscrutably that the evidence was neither "material or probative...

...On three previous occasions Mr...

...As we go to press...

...In Telford, England, a Taiwaneseowned electrical company, Tatung, banned laughter in the work place for its 800 employees, and the annual Oktoberfest in Munich concluded after revelers drank 5.5 million quarts of beer and 4500 fun-lovers were treated at the first aid station for "loss of consciousness...

...Laymen were puzzled by a Florida appellate court's refusal to allow attorneys for rape defendant John Ted Wright to introduce as evidence a wooden model of Mr...

...Mututa had been declared dead only to prove himself a kid der of the first rank by rising from the coffin at his funeral and demanding a drink...

...The Liberal Majority Although I enjoyed Jeremy Rabkin's spirited attack on the conservative as well as liberal appeals to victimized minorities ("The Vacant Majority," TAS, October 1985), one of his premises is open to question...

...Martin later acknowledged to reporters...

...Koru says he is repenting after a numinous visit to Mecca, where in prayer he was reminded of the Islamic injunction to "Buy Low, Sell High...

...Nikolai I. Ryzhkov, another of Mr...

...A.FF...

...Like conservative populists until recently, Professor Rabkin seems to believe that the majority of Americans hold sounder moral and social views than the liberal politicians and judges who claim to speak for them...

...discouraged aides are still wandering the streets of Tehran, Instamatics in hand...

...Paul Gottfried Rockford College Rockford, Illinois Mississippi Realignment John A. Barnes's excellent article, "The New New South," in the September American Spectator paints rather too bleak a view of municipal politics in Mississippi...

...Whether this gain was modest or impressive in the context of hundreds of such officials statewide is for the reader to decide...

...Mututa didn't crack a smile...

...William Brady, the state of Oregon's medical examiner, was threatened with dismissal when it was learned that he had been selling pituitary glands from cadavers in his care to raise money for office parties...

...My TAS subscription was the only one to survive renewal time intact...

...According to Mr...

...Howard Phillips may be right in trying to claim victimized status for those groups whom conservatives wish to help...

...Hilton Martin was saved by the bell when a ringing telephone called him away from the family thunder mug seconds before the thing blew itself to smithereens, for reasons as yet unknown...

...Although a longtime critic of the New Deal, as President he has made only minimal changes in phasing out Democratic social programs...

...In other animal news, an unnamed but distraught chicken hawk ended it all by diving headfirst into the windshield of a six-seater Beecraft Baron airplane over Missouri's Spirit of St...

...This was too much for those members of the Harvard faculty not distracted by sexual harassment proceedings...

...The 1200 members of the Bhagwan International commune in Oregon should have known it would be a bad month when their leader, Mr...

...At month's end, the chilling effect reached the deep freeze with news that Mr...

...His replacement will be the cowfaced Mr...

...Early in the month Harvard University announced plans to celebrate its 350th anniversary and as a pro forma gesture asked President Reagan to attend, dangling the possibility of an honorary degree as an irresistible blandishment...

...Whatever the case, I suggest that he is overly optimistic about the present soundness of popular moral and political judgments The American people have voted for a liberal Congress...

...Nikolai A. Tikhonov announced that he would retire as the Soviet Union's prime minister after six years of personal sacrifice and dizzying achievement...

...Pyotr N. Burgasov, the Soviet Deputy Minister of Health, announced that there had been no cases of AIDS reported in the USSR-the disease, said Mr...

...Loveless Austin of Chicago bludgeoned Ms...

...The publicity-shy Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his aides to remove his picture from all Iranian mosques and replace it with pictures of "assiduous peasants and diligent officials...

...It may be the only tack left to us...

...I think that people are getting to the point where they want something to believe in again," said the founder of Heavenly Dolls, Miss Rita Edler, although she made no mention of the Bhagwan's hard luck...

...The left-wing views to which I adhere are almost invariably presented in a desperate tone engendered by the refusal of the real world to behave ideally...

...A majority of my fellow-Illinoisans who voted last year elected an openly liberal Democrat as U.S...

...Rainer Kaminski of West Germany broke one of the civilized world's few remaining color barriers by becoming the first taxi driver of Western extraction to brave the streets of Tokyo...

...Some of that spirit was made flesh on October 24 when a Soviet seaman jumped from a Soviet ship near Belle Chasse, Louisiana, and the United States Border Patrol promptly returned the potential defector to his crew...

...You people are even smug in your discussions of conservative America's supposed doldrums...

...By the end of the month, Humphrey-so the residents of Northern California have dubbed him because of his resemblance to the late Minnesota Senator-turned back toward open sea after hearing tales of Gay Bowel Syndrome...

...And devotees of comparable worth whipped up a celebratory brew of cat's tails and bat's teeth in honor of the announcement by Governor Lauro Ortega Martinez of Morleos state, Mexico, that the state's 300-man transit police force would be fired and replaced by 300 senoritas, who the governor thinks "will be less susceptible to graft and corruption...

...Burgasov, is "connected with social dissolution," which explains everything...

...First a toe-dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, then a freelance journalist with Rolling Stone and Playboy, now a TV reporter in the nation's second-largest television market-when will this kid get a break...

...A week later, at Mr...

...I was suckered last year by the "American Educational Services" mass-subscription outfit into subscribing to a number of well-known but eminently boring publications...

...Musyoka Mututa, known in his native Kenya as the "man who cheated death',' was caught short this time and actually gave up the ghost...

...Senator...

...Nowhere in liberal literature does one find the brazen smugness which peppers the pages of each TAS installment...

...Matthew G. Hannah College Park, Maryland (Editor's note: See pages 34-38 for "Special Correspondence" on the future of Europe...

...James Henry, currently residing in Oregon State Penitentiary for raping her...