The Continuing Crisis
THE CONT NUING CRISIS • Through much of October the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas proceeded normally, harassed solely by the dyspeptic inquiries of various poseurs on the Senate...
...In public it is a matter of free expression...
...America's population center continues to shift towards the southwest as it has done since 1790...
...We hope to hear from Rep...
...Senator Joseph Biden, seated on Senator Kennedy's right, delivered a little homily on the benefits of cold showers and the dangers of warts —he of course refused to acknowledge the original text...
...Some 300 congressmen have stiffed the House restaurant for nearly $300,000, and more than fifty of the deadbeats owe the restaurant over $1,000 apiece, mostly for junk food...
...Her name was Miss Anita Hill, and her testimony to the Committee was the dirtiest ever heard in the United States Senate...
...Whilst Miss Hill continued her lewd discourse, the wheeler dealer seated to Senator Kennedy's left, Senator Howard Metzenbaum, discreetly asked Senator Kennedy to keep his hands above his desk...
...The co-founder of the Hemlock Society, the nation's preeminent suicide lobby other than the Americans for Democratic Action, took her own life...
...Sullivan on our Amnesty in Academia Hot Line (1-800-783-6707...
...At least she had the decency not to report what he was shaking, but then she was not appearing live in the United States Senate...
...His most recent contretemps began when the cops of greater Indio, California, pulled him and a woman seated next to him off the road when they spotted his car weaving erotically through traffic...
...No one was injured and none of the handful of legitimate scholars who remain at the Palo Alto institution were endangered, despite a really frightening harangue from the university's outgoing president, the dubious Mr...
...The lady, Miss Rosemary Garcia, a somewhat bookish-looking woman whose appearance puts one very much in mind of the lady sociologists called in by major network news shows to comment on the Thomas hearings, explained to police that the reason for the Rev...
...The Census Bureau now places it in remote Steelville, Missouri and moving steadily towards Mexico City...
...By the end of the month Mr...
...Eugene McCarthy, a poet, and a Mr...
...The comedian Mr...
...Eventually Judge Thomas came forward and lent a modicum of dignity to the proceedings, but not before progressives almost foisted on the American system a new rule in fairness, to wit, guilty until proven innocent...
...Donald Kennedy...
...In its protest the Faculty Senate proclaimed that Ambassador Kirkpatrick put "Cold War politics ahead of human rights," for instance the human right to live in constant fear of imminent incineration...
...The Rev...
...They have asked a federal judge to bar a former pastor, the Rev...
...An Oklahoma state legislator, Representative Leonard E. Sullivan, is seeking to oust the foul-mouthed Professor Anita Hill from her tenured position at the University of Oklahoma...
...Then on October 11 there arrived a bombshell...
...He asked for sex...
...And at the World Bank meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, the world's economists met Mr...
...And more than one observer noted that Senator Edward M. Kennedy became visibly sexually aroused...
...Redd Foxx passed on, as did Mr...
...RET...
...He handed out hundreds of condoms in his "World Bank Survival Kit," and very few could avoid his charm...
...Here is one for you," he notified a British journalist...
...And, the idealistic solon added, "We must get this left-wing extremist influence off the campus before it spreads further...
...Ann Humphry was the ex-wife of Derek Humphry, executive director of the Society and author of the self-help guide to suicide, Final Exit, which has been a national bestseller and is my personal Christmas book recommendation to the man who hounded Elliott Abrams for five years, menacing him with millions of dollars of legal bills unless he confess to fighting one of the last battles of the Cold War...
...The Hon...
...Marilyn Quayle came forward and admitted that, yes, she too had been a victim of sexual harassment—twice...
...Graves suffered his unwelcome disturbance, it was caused by the baking soda he used as an antacid, not his two vespertime martinis, his glass of wine, or his homemade chili...
...Swaggart's irregular driving was that upon spotting the cops he attempted to hide his choice collection of pornographic magazines...
...Abrams with two misdemeanor counts...
...European size...
...If one follows what passes for reasoning from the Liberal lynch mob that pursued Judge Thomas, the problem for him was that he had not uttered the alleged indecencies in public, where they are protected by law and aesthetic standards...
...It is all too horrible to contemplate, and with some 52 percent of the population still to be heard from we face a long winter...
...Jimmy Swaggart has been hounded into temporary retirement by what he identifies as "demon spirits," though he assured the 500 galoots remaining in his 7,000-seat Family Worship Center that he "will not quit...
...He is called the "Condom King," and during the World Bank meeting he kept interrupting the proceedings with his calls for "safe sex...
...Bill Clinton, a governor, Mr...
...Leo Durocher...
...Lawyers for National Geographic magazine's editor, Mr...
...Sullivan is raising funds to "buy out or otherwise remove [?] Professor Hill from the campus and hopefully the state...
...Democrats were incensed...
...THE CONT NUING CRISIS • Through much of October the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas proceeded normally, harassed solely by the dyspeptic inquiries of various poseurs on the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...Giants continue to step forward from the Democratic ranks to challenge the tyrant Bush...
...Many faculty members at Drexel, and for that matter elsewhere across the Republic, of course, miss the Cold War, with all of its drama over "Nuclear Winter" and the arms race...
...Brown, 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1991 who writes science fiction, had joined four other contenders whose names we do not have on file to contest the Democratic presidential primaries...
...Apparently the car was a mobile bathroom, and Mrs...
...Robert N. Meyers, from disrupting Sunday services with his trademark bullwhip, his bullhorn, and a mercenary army of homeless people whom he pays to commit indescribable acts nearby...
...Thirty thousand heavily armed supporters of Stanford University showed up at the university's stadium to commemorate the notorious institution's 100th anniversary...
...The very same soi-disant liberators who a generation ago in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement dissolved the legal standards that dissuaded Americans from using foul language in public are now attempting to dissolve the legal standards that protect us from unsubstantiated charges of using foul language in private...
...He was shaking...
...William Graves, have finally shed light on the cause of that mysterious explosion that rocked his stomach back in 1979...
...Of course, I have in mind independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, who with all the police power of the state behind him could only smack Mr...
...We want to know more about his plans to "otherwise remove" this new martyr to American feminism...
...Mechai Viravaidya, a minister in the Thai government who would make an excellent contender for the Democratic nomination...
...Think of it...
...Hundreds of faculty members at Drexel University opposed the university's decision to have as guest speaker Former Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, owing to her service to the Reagan Administration during the 1980s...
...On October 12 Mrs...
...Republicans were shocked...
...If anyone has those other four names, please send them on...
...In religious notes, the pastor and members of the Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.'s Foggy Bottom have had enough...
...The day after that disclosure, House Speaker Thomas S. Foley admitted that he and many of his colleagues had indeed floated bad checks at the House's exclusive bank, and that, owing to public outcry, the bank would shut down by the end of the year...
...Early in the month it was disclosed that the very same congressmen who cannot get the federal government's bills paid are failing to pay their own bills at the congressional restaurant...
...Garcia had been invited aboard, as she divulged to Los Angeles's KNBC-TV: "For sex, I mean that is why he stopped me, that's what I do, I'm a prostitute...
...They are suing Church and Dwight, Inc., producers of Arm & Hammer baking soda, claiming that on that far off evening when Mr...
...The importunity that the feminists call sexual harassment is possible only in private...
Vol. 24 • December 1991 • No. 12
