The Continuing Crisis
• And so January passes and with it the eight years of Goldwaterism as interpreted by Ronald Reagan. The interpreter was not very impressive we are told, usually by commentators who themselves are...
...John W. Jenrette, Jr...
...In the second paragraph from the end he writes: The junior and senior classes at Annandale High School in Annandale, Minnesota, recently spent a day in a discussion of Central America...
...In New York City, Mr...
...Has Mr...
...It should have been clear all along that the guilt-ridden conscience of the THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1989 mist who could always be relied upon for elegant commentary even in conservative journals such as this one, died...
...Katherine Kerston (the "concerned Minnesota parent, who provided much of the documentation for this article") are not so naive as to expect anything else...
...That's politics...
...I grew increasingly uncomfortable as I read Mr...
...It was 84...
...But assuming the British were base and foolish enough to unilaterally abrogate the treaty, what then...
...The interpreter was not very impressive we are told, usually by commentators who themselves are not particularly impressive—at least in any of the higher forms of intellection save for making erroneous pronunciamentos en masse...
...It is well organized, well connected, and well financed...
...The left, if nothing else, is tireless in its pursuit of young minds...
...And in Minnesota's schools, as Mr...
...Brock, and Mrs...
...In international water sports, two F-14s from the USS John F Kennedy blasted two Libyan MiGs into the Mediterranean...
...President Reagan's last budget was submitted on January 9, and notwithstanding eight years of putative miserliness the budget is approximately twice as portly as the budget Congress enacted in Mr...
...Marx...
...Gandhi lives...
...Among the speakers were Anne Winkler, mentioned above...
...On foreign policy, national security, the economy, and social issues, Ronald Reagan's many critics have been stupendously wrong...
...But it does no good to whine about it...
...Kerston and Mr...
...That takes a kind of intelligence, namely the intelligence of the untutorable ass...
...Most of them still extoll the New Deal, do they not, and every subsequent essay into social engineering...
...Robert Lekachman, a left-wing econoCorrection Due to an editing error and a case of bad penmanship, Richard Gilder's company was misidentified in the text accompanying our display of Washington Club photographs (taken by Peter Kolk) in our February issue...
...Ward had been struck eight times with a blunt instrument behind the head...
...But they lost to a tiny far-off country...
...Brock's lengthy diatribe...
...Here is the lowly human forced to fend for himself, erratically consuming foods of dubious nutritional merit, harassed by imbecilic laws and onerous levies, reaching maturity, and then decaying painfully and slowly into a humiliating senility and cruel death...
...Davis was charged with attempted murder...
...Brock so sullenly points out, their efforts are paying dividends...
...Another mercy-killing is in the news...
...Now we shall have the years of Reaganism as interpreted by George Bush...
...Which side has been proved correct—the Bloomsbury guilt trip, or the sober French...
...The puissance and malign influence of the animal rights militants continue to spread...
...Mayor Yigal Bibi of Tiberias added an acrimonious tone to the proceedings, asserting that "the directors of the hotel are completely nuts...
...Khomeini's researches is "dead...
...In Lebanon, hundreds of Lebanese died of gunshot wounds after opposing factions of Shiite Moslems renewed their lively dispute regarding the true burial site of Muhammad alNafs al-Zakiyya's undergarments and who gets the related cotton candy concession...
...Foch, too, had remarked in 1919, "This is not a peace...
...Barnett describes Keynes's influence on the interwar period as "immense, far-reaching and catastrophic" and concludes that Keynes's basic tenet is "sentimental nonsense," particularly when one considers the terms Germany demanded of France (Frankfurt, 1871) and Russia (Brest-Litovsk, 1918...
...He was 87, and demand for Taiwan's white chrysanthemums, the flowers used in the ofCORRESPONDENCE Bloomsbury crowd was one step away from treachery (remember Strachey's famous reply to a tribunal's query, "What would you do if you saw a German officer attempting to rape your sister...
...RET...
...Edward Ward, who had called police to his home claiming that his wife had committed suicide, dropped that suicide claim when police noted that Mrs...
...It is an armistice for twenty years...
...Last month this column reported that three Miami policemen were reprimanded for covering up one officer's flatus into a police radio...
...but it wasn't until I reached the very end that I figured out why...
...Salvador Dali, dauber of the unconscious, died...
...I believe that was the last straw for Satan," the euphonious Rev...
...Dov Hikind is going through with his demand that the assembly investigate the use of tax dollars to finance an art journal carrying nude photos of children...
...Imagine two thoughtful Herefords seated, say, in the faculty club at Stanford University, explicating the 8 THE CONTINUING CRISIS superiority of their existence over that of the assembled profs...
...And now the vegetarian cabal is insinuating that cattle flatulence is a significant cause of the dread "greenhouse effect...
...Yet let us look at the life in the barnyard from the point of view of the intelligent bovine...
...Szamuely been to Hong Kong...
...Gilder is affiliated with Gilder, Gagnon and Company in New York City...
...One expects, or should expect, committed ideologues to pursue their various agendas with whatever force and fervor they can muster...
...There has been an outbreak of head lice in the research rooms of the Library of Congress...
...Ward's repeated attempts at euthanasia, and he has been indicted on one count of first-degree murder...
...Dennis Davis's beautiful rendition of the old Billie Holiday song "God Bless the Child" set off a mêlée on a 9:00 a.m...
...Jim Wright's "civic achievement" program to a munificent $3.3 million...
...should try to interpose my own body...
...and it is honorable, if occasionally dirty, work...
...Were they allowed to speak freely, doubtless these hoofed sophisticates would make the one-sided comparison...
...And on January 7, Japan's Emperor Hirohito reached room temperature...
...Our apologies...
...The Hong Kong treaty of 1897 has been accepted as valid since its signing...
...I believe the devil said, 'I have to smash Jim and Tammy Bakker.' " Here is the po' whites' J. J. Jackson...
...There has been another report of a policeman expelling gas in a discourteous manner while on duty...
...The idea of comparing the freely contracted debt obligations of today's Third World countries to the reparations exacted on Germany after the First World War is, in itself, patently absurd...
...Farly in the month the Rev...
...It is true America forced its poor and illiterate to fight its battles there, and it is also true that, heirs to a great tradition, those men fought well though reviled and sneered at by those whose way of life they were defending...
...The Hon...
...Pilar Franco, sister of the late Spanish reformer General Francisco Franco, died...
...Now Mr...
...In Austin, Texas, activists prevented the Skyline Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center from slaughtering the surviving turkeys from a trucking mishap and feeding them to Skyline's zonked patients...
...And there is the vastly more intelligent life of the barnyard aristocrat, raised on the most nutritiously advanced diet, attended to at every turn by gifted agriculturists who genuinely care whether he lives or dies...
...J'min Porcha, who was sleeping late after a hectic night and did not want to be disturbed...
...For allegedly pilfering a much more modest sum, former South Carolina representative Mr...
...I've always wondered how Keynes's book was taken seriously as an objective account when he admitted to Virginia Woolf, regarding the German spokesman at Versailles, Melchior, "I was rather in love with him," and described his own prime minister as "half-human," one British admiral as "a most surly and ignorant sea-dog," and the Supreme Allied Commander Foch and his spokesman Weygand as, respectively, "narrow and impervious . . . a peasant," and "his attendant sprite...
...Ward contends that Mrs...
...Thus the move toward the prohibition of red meat gains momentum...
...Russell Desmond New Orleans, Louisiana Brit Bashes Back In your issue of November 1988 . . . George Szamuely [in "The Brits Boot Hong Kong"] says: "For the first time in history, a ruling elite will, without even a show of struggle, relinquish its dominance over society in favor of Communists...
...Szamuely wants the British to take on China, does he, and a bloody fool he is...
...She was 94...
...In Sri Lanka, where a peace-keeping force from the Indian army has lost more than 600 soldiers to land mines secreted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, 1,000 goats are being deployed to explode mines and an Indian army spokesman is bragging that "it was better for the goats to die for the cause of peace than be killed for the table...
...Bakker averred...
...What may we expect...
...Lt...
...While on the subject of cattle flatulence, note that on January 3 the 101st Congress convened—and, notwithstanding all the honorable members' remonstrances against the federal deficit, promptly called for a 17 percent spending increase for Congress for fiscal 1990, including an increase from last year's $685,000 for the Hon...
...The redoubtable Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, D.D., has counseled President Mikhail Gorbachev, D.E., "to seriously study and research Islam" as an ideological replacement for Communism, which according to the Rev...
...Jim Bakker resurrected his television show complete with his grotesque wife sobbing incontinently (Quoth she, "Jim, I think this is probably the happiest day of my life") and a numinous explanation of his recent misfortunes...
...After fastidious nurturing, he arrives at the peak of health and well-being, and then before the organs degenerate and beauty departs—bop bop—it's curtains and one's loved ones never see Uncle Elmer decompose into a pathetico...
...Now Los Angeles Police Commander William Booth has suspended patrolman Juan Gomez for long-time subscriber) does get tiresome, you know, and at least you could deal in facts, not malice...
...subway train when it awakened Mr...
...Mary Ttirck, a CARC board member...
...According to the Rev...
...The latter predicted twenty years before the fact that Germany would inevitably be tempted to "fish in the troubled waters" of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland...
...In Lagos, Nigeria, Justice Commissioner Betu Mamuno unexpectedly discovered twenty Moslems who had been locked away in the Yola calaboose five years ago pending indictment for rioting...
...Has he any idea of the defensive possibility if China decided to attack...
...It has never been questioned in international law...
...has been charged with felonious acquisition...
...The congressman should be made aware that Keynes's holy rhetoric is not without its share of critics...
...The Chief Rabbi of Tiberias revoked the Tiberias Club Hotel's kosher food license upon being informed that the hotel allowed a naked couple to copulate in a helicopter as it hovered inches above the hotel swimming pool...
...A. R. Wythe Walberswick, Southwold Suffolk, England Globaloney in Annandale It may well be, as David Brock suggests, that Minnesota students are under siege by "committed political cadres accomplishing their task through emotional manipulation, indoctrination, and exploitation of school children" ("Selling Globaloney in the Schools," TAS, December 1988...
...Reagan's first year in office, 1981...
...According to Professor Donald Johnson, a Colorado State University expert in animal nutrition who has spent twenty years studying bovine flatulence, the average hoofer raised for agricultural purposes emits 200 to 400 quarts of methane per day compared with the average person's daily discharge of about a liter...
...The Brit bashing in TAS (I am a ficial mourning celebrations, was so colossal that Taiwanese growers could only meet 30 percent of their orders...
...Such is the superbly rational life of beef cattle, and how could the Stanford profs deny its superiority...
...If Mrs...
...And there is evidence that the author Alexander Cockburn is at work on a scholarly revision of his mentor, Dr...
...Despite the decidedly unsavory beard that he affects, New York State assemblyman Mr...
...Political burlesque will remain confined to Capitol Hill and sneering ignorance to the sour critics—in other words, four more years...
...After repeated nightmares that her mother, who had been missing for over three years, "was in a place where she couldn't move," 20-year-old Miss Kelly Tyburski of Plymouth, Michigan, took the logical course of prying the lock off the family freezer where she found her mother's battered body, thus occasioning the arrest of Miss Tyburski's father, dean of students THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MARCH 1989 at Detroit's very strict Mackenzie High School...
...Its adherents actually work at their cause...
...Brock wish to stop the leftist indoctrination that they perceive in Minnesota's schools, they'd do much better to emulate the tactics of their opponents than to complain to each other about those bad people in Minnesota...
...And Raymond Aron, in his preface to the French edition of Etienne Mantoux's attack on Keynes, The Carthaginian Peace, openly declares that we should reject Keynes, and re-read Jacques Bainville...
...Officials had apparently forgotten about them, but life in the Yola prison could not be any worse than life in metropolitan Yola...
...On the evidence of President Reagan's January 11 Farewell and President Bush's January 20 Inaugural we may expect mere prudence, civic responsibility, and civilized leadership from a civilized man...
...But his use of Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace to support his ill-founded analogy makes it worse...
...I believe the devil was mad that something so beautiful was being built...
...Let us remember Vietnam...
...Colonel Muammar Qaddafi has notified French television viewers that Shakespeare's works were actually written by an Arab, Sheik Zbere...
...In Rockville, Maryland, activists responded to House of Chinese Gourmet's installation of a lobster tank by purchasing seven of the restaurant's live lobsters for $240 and flying them to a new home somewhere off the coast of Maine...
...Dick Bancroft, a member of CARC's speakers' breaking wind in front of two handcuffed prisoners after intoning, "Check this out...
...He was 68...
...In Sun City, Arizona, Mr...
...Ward's death came about during Mr...
...Modern British historians Paul Johnson and Corelli Barnett both question the validity of Keynes's judgments...
...Keynes and the Congressman It is a pity that Congressman Stephen Solarz decided to use your invitation to a bit of bipartisan Christmas cheer as a platform for a rather perverted polemic ("Books for Christmas," TAS, December 1988...
...Bakker, he was trying to break ground for his Crystal Palace Church at historic Heritage USA when Beelzebub got wind of it...
...Jenrette was arrested for lifting a pair of shoes from a Virginia department store and tampering with price tags, that being a time-honored congressional activity...
...But surely the editors of TAS, Mr...
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