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MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Miss Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the callipygian editor of the Nation, is queried on the Weekly Standard and whipped into delirium: I think that we need to continue, as Bill...
...August 6, 1995] Hillary's Deep Thoughts A harvest of The Immensities heaved up by the Eleanor Roosevelt of our time in her nationally syndicated column in September...
...Hooray, I further thought, for a city where women don't need a man's hungry looks to give them self-esteem...
...I hate Gingrich...
...I know I will spend a lot of time thinking about the children I met in Mongolia, and what education means for them and their nation...
...They must walk the streets, hoping to find a shady spot in a park somewhere...
...Nice butt," said a guy as I was leaving Muni on my way home from work...
...After all, Nixon was not a quitter...
...My wife says come on, after all he's still a human being...
...September 19, 1995] Washington Times Evidence that the president of Zimbabwe is sadly bereft of a knowledge of basic biology: HARARE, Zimbabwe—President Robert Mugabe has dismissed an appeal from U.S...
...The shirt reads: "Tanned, Rested and Ready—Nixon in '96...
...Hooray, I was saying to myself, for a city where women can walk down a street or into an office without being leered at...
...You've got to come to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda...
...In the gift shop of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, along with the Nixon fridge magnets and the videotape "Airforce One: The Planes and the Presidents, hosted by Charlton Heston," along with the presidential seal, ties and cufflinks and the First Ladies Coloring Book and the Nixon Birthplace Birdhouse, they have another, more ominous item for sale...
...August 20, 1995] San Francisco Chronicle (Letters to the Editor) Beth Pforr of San Ramon poetizes: Editor—I lie in the dark, comfortable on my bed with fresh, clean sheets, and feel the breeze through the window, wafting over me...
...It's no longer enough for him to parody left-wingers: They must be demonized and crushed with abusive epithets...
...Mugabe's recent statements against homosexuals, and said it was wrong to discriminate on the basis of sexual choice...
...He then highlighted the internal problems the United States faced in relation to equity, race, gender and the environment though he blamed most of them on Republicans...
...If we take bold steps to better the lives of women, we will be taking bold steps to better the lives of children and families, too...
...These thoughts disquiet me this serene summer night as the cool breeze caresses me to sleep...
...The library was built in 1990 and some say it was the bunker from which Nixon planned his comeback...
...If I could get my hands on him I would break his body into little pieces with iron rods," Merrill said...
...Pundit," boldly enters Fascist America and travels to the very heart of the Empire to report back to all his readers entranced forever up in Vancouver, in an eternal 1972: It's now more than just an American phenomenon...
...But who gives thought to these souls in summer's searing heat...
...But most cases will not be so easy...
...August 25, 1995] And Heather Titlestad brags: Editor—While walking to work last Tuesday I was full of pride about San Francisco and the men and women that live here...
...Let the Americans keep their sodomy, bestiality, stupid and foolish ways to themselves," he said in response to a personal letter signed by 70 members of Congress and sent to him last week...
...All his life, he ate in diners, wouldn't take a taxi and voted Republican...
...Anyway, it's nice to know that chivalry isn't dead...
...I resisted the urge to say "Thank you," and consoled myself with the thought that perhaps they'd just moved here from Boston...
...In some countries, citizens are not allowed to vote, speak their minds, assemble freely or exercise their faith without fear of persecution, arrest or even torture...
...Also, President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat told me the schools still use Soviet textbooks...
...To really understand the art and genius of wedge politics, you have to come here, down past Ralph's market and Carl Junior's burgers and the neo-conquistador architecture of the El Dorado Shopping Mall...
...A quarter of a million people each year come to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, and very few of them just to tamp down his grave...
...I was full of this pompous pride as I strode victoriously onto Market Street and, of course, "Nice tits," said a passerby...
...But with the resurgence of wedge politics and the hate-charged atmosphere in the U.S...
...The unfortunates who have not chosen to be broke, jobless and homeless are the ones for whom I feel sympathy...
...No he is not, he is a monster...
...I hate him...
...Hidden behind the counter, only sold by request, they have a T-shirt with a color photo of a leering Nixon giving a thumbs up stenciled on it...
...These are what we commonly think of as violations of human rights...
...O'Rourke, suddenly an agelastic lecture on "humor" from reviewer Rosalynn Carter, writing under the improbable nom de plume "James Ledbetter," supposedly from the Village Voice: The problem is that O'Rourke seems to have ceded control of his humor over to the Rush Limbaugh crowd...
...In a 1994 auto review, O'Rourke lashes out at those who suggest that car-driving should be curtailed: "They're losers, the three-bong-hit saviors of the earth, lava lamp luddites, global warming dolts, ozone boneheads, peace creeps, tofu twinks, Birkenstock buttinskis, and bedwetting vegetarian bicyclists who bother whales on weekends...
...These senators should tell us now if they want to be pregnant," Mr...
...these days, it might not be for long...
...And before we begin to discuss sexual harassment in the past tense, consider that if even an easy case requires 33 months of political pressure and 10,000 pages of testimony to be resolved, the average complainant has little hope for a swift and certain resolution...
...September 4, 11, 18, 25, 1995] The American Spectator November 1995 89...
...MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Miss Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the callipygian editor of the Nation, is queried on the Weekly Standard and whipped into delirium: I think that we need to continue, as Bill Kristol says in his magazine, we will continue to debate many of the issues, not just on the liberal side but many of the issues in the politics of this country, and I think unless this Congress really begins to understand the mistrust so many people in this country feel toward Washington, it's not going to really move ahead...
...And if families don't flourish, communities and nations won't flourish...
...The politics of division nabbed fascist sympathizer Jean Marie Le Pen 15 percent of the vote in France's last presidential election and secured ranting imperialist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's place in the Russian parliament...
...Can he or she afford the 50 cents or 75 cents to wash the sweaty clothes or blanket at a public laundry...
...I think, as I lie in the dark, here I have three closets burgeoning with clothes: for spring, summer or winter...
...lays down the constituent elements of "the rube": [T]hough there was nothing unsophisticated about Hopper intellectually—his taste in literature ran from Emerson to Gide—the rube in him ran deep...
...In my serenity, the thought comes to me that there are homeless people in the cities, some sleeping in blankets on the sidewalks, which is perhaps preferable to being in the overcrowded, stuffy shelters on hot city nights...
...Mugabe said...
...What if I had only a "borrowed" Safeway shopping cart to hold my life's belongings...
...According to Merrill, the Speaker of the House of Representatives will die if he achieves greater power...
...September 5, 1995] 88 The American Spectator November 1995 Massachusetts Daily Collegian (University of Massachusetts) In the semi-literate pages of this campus newspaper, a report of the semi-literate ravings of someone by the name of Charles Merrill at the "Formal Dinner" of "last week's student Leadership Conference": The speech entitled "The Paradox of Democracy" focused on the evils of the ideology of the state by criticizing the Nazi regime in Germany, the former Polish communist state and today's capitalist system...
...And I think that's why The Nation is well positioned, because The Standard is drenched in Washington, and I think there's great mistrust of Washington, particularly a magazine that not only chronicles but celebrates the party in power and is gridlocked and hiplocked to some of the corporate money in this country...
...Where can a cooling shower and clean towel be found...
...I realize, too, that there are others who have chosen this alternate way to exist...
...Dan Murphy, billed as "Mr...
...The perfect candidate for the retro Republic...
...September 18, 1995]Newsweek Whilst appraising the art of the late Edward Hopper, Malcolm Jones, Jr...
...Then stupid liberals like me will dance in the streets singing . . . and meanwhile the real Republicans will quietly institute an 18 percent flat sales tax and eliminate welfare," Merrill said as the crowd, including Chancellor Scott, offered him a standing ovation...
...Incidentally, the San Francisco Examiner identifies her thus—"Hillary Rodham Clinton, an Arkansas attorney, resides in the White House": If women and girls don't flourish, families won't flourish...
...You read often about the homeless in the cold winter: will there be enough room for all in those overcrowded shelters...
...congressmen to ease his anti-homosexuality campaign, saying gays should be dealt with like thieves...
...He is a monster...
...This made her feel uncomfortable and unsure of herself...
...A friend's friend who had visited Boston recently, had complained that it was hard for her to know if a guy liked her or not because the men here didn't stare at her when she walked by them...
...Instead of trying to justify inappropriate behavior, people in positions of power must start to behave responsibly and show restraint...
...Packwood may be leaving, but for many women the dismal reality remains...
...There are five decades worth of Nixon's papers and tapes here, chronicling America's slide into darkness...
...In the two years that I have lived here, no one on the street has ever said those kinds of lewd things to me...
...He's buried here now, according to rumor, with 12 minutes of audio tape safely tucked into one jowl...
...They come to bathe in the afterglow of McCarthy-era red baiting and to see the recreation of the Lincoln Sitting Room...
...They come to happily reminisce about the cluster bombing of Cambodia and see the Pat Nixon gown room...
...Mr...
...A big part of him never left the small-town life of Nyack...
...rainwear, shoes of many styles, drawers full of underwear, jewelry, hosiery, socks, photos and scraps of memories...
...August 7, 1995] The Province (Vancouver, B.C...
...Overkill is an enemy of humor, but O'Rourke can no longer stop himself...
...He will be driving along the Beltway in his new Mercedes Benz at 80 miles an hour when suddenly for no reason the wheel will come flying off and he will be killed...
...Nixon was, after all, the Great Kahuna of wedge politics, and there is enough residual Nixonian juju to keep this place as charged as an Aztec blood trough...
...I look forward to the day when just one woman's word is enough to make the Senate—or any institution—act responsibly...
...The letter protested Mr...
...September 11, 1995] Washington Post Midst a frumpy review of eminent humorist P.J...
...September 6, 1995] Newsweek Anita F. Hill, "professor of law," heralds a new theory of justice, the Dictatorship of One Woman's Word: Even for the Senate, the Packwood call was clear...
...You've got to come here to one of the true pressure points of the American Empire, where you can feel the adrenaline-gorged pulse of the nation...
Vol. 28 • November 1995 • No. 11
