2007/The Year in Review
Sobran, Joseph
It was another bad year for liberals, as what had once been called "the New Right" consolidated its domination of American politics. The new tone was perhaps best typified on May 2, when President...
...Joseph Sobran/2007 THE YEAR IN REVIEW "Justice delayed is justice denied...
...This had dragged on way too long," said Associate Justice Jerry Falwell...
...The Washington Post was on the porch...
...July: •An explosion ripped through the New York headquarters of the American Civil Liberties Union, killing the entire national board of directors, who had convened for their annual meeting...
...We y blocking customary public health measures and providing political protection for a deadly, fast-spreading disease, the homosexual movement endangers the lives of all Americans...
...How legislation shaped by the gay activist ideology threatens family solidarity, parental authority and other institutions cherished by the nation...
...Chicago police issued an apology after raiding a Ku Klux Klan meeting, explaining that they had been misled by an anonymous tip that the gathering was socialistic...
...20002 (202) 546-3004 ert Bork, 80, announced his retirement from the Supreme Court...
...How the drive for religious legitimization of the homosexual culture has provoked crises in churches of virtually every denomination...
...We have a little New Year's surprise for the Soviets," he said, "and it isn't Guy Lombardo...
...The United States agreed to pay reparations to the government of Nicaragua for its role in toppling the regime of the late Anastasio Somoza...
...The new tone was perhaps best typified on May 2, when President Patrick Buchanan laid a wreath on the tomb of Senator Joseph McCarthy on the fiftieth anniversary of the once-despised Wisconsin senator's death...
...His wife was already dressed and ready to go to her law office...
...Managing editor Richard Cohen issued an apology for having publishedunauthorized Pentagon leaks and pledged never to do so again...
...Joseph Sobran is a senior editor of National Review and a nationally syndicated columnist...
...Harvard president Jim Bakker an...
...August: •A special prosecutor announced the indictment of six Democratic congressmen on charges of treason, citing "a clear pattern of pro-Communist discrimination" in their voting records...
...No, listen...
...This opens the way to a new era of cheap energy," exulted an agency spokesman...
...November: •Pope John Paul III excommunicated the entire Jesuit order...
...In my dream, Pat Buchanan was President, Jerry Falwell was on the Supreme Court, and you'll never guess who was FBI director...
...President Buchanan signed into law a mandatory church attendance act...
...he snorted...
...The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced plans to convert Boston Harbor into a nuclear waste dump...
...Other highlights of 2007: January: •President Buchanan explained that his decision to drop a hydrogen bomb on the city of Hiroshima was largely symbolic...
...It was 2007, the year 2007, and the right-wingers had taken over everything, and-2" "Where have you been...
...Milton swung stiffly off the bed and pulled on his robe...
...His pajamas were soaked with sweat...
...Since when do they think treaties are holy...
...In his first White House visit, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini congratulated the United States on its moral regeneration...
...Vatican observers predicted a similar move against the American Catholic bishops...
...We've got to get back to posed constitutional amendment bar-the original ideas of the founders," he ring the teaching of the theory of said...
...October: •The Supreme Court struck down all federal "social programs" passed since 1933 as invalid under the Tenth Amendment...
...The Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional the drunk driving laws of all 50 states...
...Oh Megan," he said, "I've had the most awful dream-' "I'm not surprised," she said, "the way you made such a pig of yourself at the Bradens' party last night...
...Speaking for the five-man majority, Justice Grover Rees held that drunk driving was protected by a "penumbra" of the Twenty-First Amendment...
...In a voice vote, the House of Representatives voted down a proposal to restore women's suffrage...
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...Brushing aside civil libertarian criticism of the law as "communistic," the President called the Constitution "a living document whose genius lies in its adaptability to current needs...
...Family friends said he had been despondent ever since his rejection by the voters...
...How gay activists seek the status of a specially protected class under the law...
...This factual, hard-hitting book is one every concerned American should read, to understand better the ways in which gay activism encroaches on the individual's right to protect himself against a grim, relentless killer...
...In Albuquerque, a routine police raid uncovered a huge cache of illega condoms, apparently smuggled in from Mexico...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 79...
...A city police official said the blast was "probably due to faulty wiring or something," adding that he saw no need for an investigation...
...He looked around the bedroom...
...Nicaraguan president Pedro Somoza termed the U.S...
...According to Washington insiders, the real reason for Justice Bork's retirement was his discouragement at being the last remaining apostle of judicial restraint in an era of conservative activism...
...June: •INS officials demanded the extradition of fugitive abortionist Dr...
...Not R. Emmett Tyrrell...
...M ilton Grimsby bolted up in bed...
...For the fourth straight year, FBI •The Supreme Court upheld the use statistics showed a sharp decline in the of torture against criminal suspects, number of crimes against wealthy provided that all other methods of people...
...I saw a vibrant, booming country," he said in a nationally televised address...
...It was still 1987...
...There was no need to release it," said an FDA spokesman...
...Henry Coombs from Sweden, to stand trial in this country for crimes against humanity...
...The law is very clear as to sodomy," said FBI director John Lofton...
...It was-," "Milton," Megan sighed, "I've got to get to work, and you're going to be late yourself...
...We used to think of the U.S...
...Secretary of State Howard Phillips responded harshly to Soviet charges that the United States is hatching plans for a new escalation of the arms race, in violation of formal and informal arms control agreements...
...as 'the Great Satan,' " the aged ayatollah smiled...
...These systems are based on the outmoded premise that poverty is a function of environment," the commission's report said...
...World history has witnessed devastating plagues before, but never one in which a narrowly focused ideological group was able to overrule common sense, jeopardizing the general population...
...nounced that the venerable universit3 would change its name to Boston Bi- •Seven more states ratified a proble College...
...The long-suppressed full text of the Warren Commission Report on the assassination of President John F Kennedy was finally released to the public, along with a purported correspondence between former Chief Justice Earl Warren and Nikita Khrushchev, apparently confirming charges that Warren, gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, and several others were acting under direct orders from the Soviet strongman...
...Yes...
...The Washington Post resumed publication after a six-month interruption...
...December: •President Buchanan refused to rule out a re-election bid...
...We helped doom the Nicaraguan people to more than a decade of Communist tyranny...
...We hope to have a first-strike capability b3 Christmas," said General Howarc Tripp...
...evolution in publicly funded schools April: and universities...
...We know now that heredity and race are the key factors...
...President Buchanan returned from a state visit to South Africa, during which he conferred with South African leaders about a mutual defense pact...
...Where are they now, those prophets of gloom and doom who said apartheid would never work...
...The year ended on a dramatic note as President Buchanan hinted that the United States was about to take a major new initiative against the Soviet Union...
...That was just the beginning...
...We must rededicate ourselves to his ideals," the President said, "and see to it that never again is a patriotic public servant hounded to an early grave...
...The problem was taking care of itself...
...Torture must never be an end in itself," wrote Justice Gilead Simms for the 8-to-1 majority...
...May: •Citing health reasons, Justice RobTHE CHILD & FAMILY PROTECTION INSTITUTE 721 Second Street, N.E...
...The Presidential Commission of Poverty and Sloth recommended that states follow the federal government's lead in abolishing all welfare programs...
...securing confessions had been exTHE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 77 hausted...
...Not an irrational diatribe against homosexuality, it is an objective treatise that covers such vital topics as: • How a strongly defined subculture has grown into a powerful political bloc...
...The main beneficiaries of this bill will be young blacks," he explained, "but that's unavoidable...
...Washington, D.C...
...How gay activism seeks to harness the power of American liberalism to further its aims...
...How times do change...
...Under the nev, plan, those earning less than $10,000 a year will pay 50 percent of their gross income to the federal government, while those earning more than $1,000,000 will pay no taxes at all...
...No, worse...
...That happened in 1980...
...As the last known homosexual, Percy Piper of Los Angeles, died of AIDS, officials of the Food and Drug Administration acknowledged that they had been sitting on a cure for the deadly disease...
...No, Megan, no...
...He also listed ten more cities, including Tokyo, Mexico City, and Stockholm, as targets for future blasts...
...September: "The FBI formally established a new department of Vice Control, popularly known as "bedroom cops...
...Santayana said that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," he told a crowded press conference...
...It also sends a clear message to those states still inclined to elect liberal politicians...
...February: •Former Senator Edward Kennedy, 75, drowned, an apparent suicide, after driving off a Massachusetts bridge...
...The positive side is that white employers will profit too...
...The world was starting to seem normal again, but he had to make sure...
...It means all forms of sodomy, and it doesn't make exceptions for husbands and wives...
...In the great majority of cases wiretaps, raids, informants, and threats should suffice to extract information leading to conviction...
...She snatched her purse from the dresser and marched out...
...He hurried into the living room and opened the front door and looked down...
...action "gracious and generous...
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...Those who are tempted to use sharp trading practices against this country cannot choose between Santayana and sayonara...
...Our approval ratings are sky-high," he said, "so as commander-in-chief I don't see any immediate need for a coup...
...Being married doesn't put you above the law...
...Please rush me copies of GAYS, AIDS & YOU Paperback - 54.95 ^ Check ^ Visa ^ MasterCard (Please add S1.00 for Number shipping and handling) Expiration Date Total Signature Name (please print) Address City/State/Zip 78 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1987 hope this will remove one of the darkest stains in our national record," said President Buchanan...
...Pornographer Hugh Hefner, 81, was electrocuted in California after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay of execution...
...The excesses of the Miranda era cannot be invoked to justify excesses in the opposite direction...
...President Buchanan signed a major new tax reform bill establishing a sliding scale of taxation...
...March: •Air Force officials announced the removal of a final hitch preventinf deployment of the long-awaited "Star Wars" missile defense system...
...President Buchanan signed a bill abolishing the minimum wage...
Vol. 20 • December 1987 • No. 12
