The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS Fly me to the moon; cabinet making; the Bait Shop Junta March entered like a lion and departed like a lioness—at least from the perspective of the White House. Thanks to the...
...In Los Angeles the celebrated Mr...
...Perhaps a bit more than a bit...
...in the summer of 1994 and stayed in a hotel that was hosting an arts and crafts exhibition...
...As we ran into the lobby we quickly discerned that the men and women present were dressed in business clothes except for one man who wore a lumber jacket...
...Hundreds of unbelievably huge women from all over the American Midwest attended this show, not one of them weighing in at less than 350400 pounds...
...Julian Aldarondo filed a complaint with the Oakland Police Review Board against Officer Anthony Toribio...
...As the women kept coming forward the Groper fled the country to Africa...
...Writing from the state with the fattest and biggest in all of the USA...
...Tireless worker that he is, Mr...
...In Niagara Falls, New York, Mr...
...After hospital treatment for his cheek wound I returned him to the precincthouse and placed him in a cell...
...My partner shot him in the cheek, causing a laceration only...
...He also exposed his warped genitalia to her...
...Nearly twenty years of acrimony between Iran and the United States eased slightly after touring teams of American wrestlers and academics visited Teheran...
...At the very end of the month yet another woman, a flight attendant on the Groper's 1992 campaign plane, Miss Cristy Zercher, testified that she was repeatedly groped by the fiend...
...I asked him why he threw his pistol away and he replied, "I don't want to go to the chair for killing a cop...
...Chile's General Augusto Pinochet, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt of his country, retired from the military to become a life senator...
...Yeltsin usually contracts these colds after prolonged periods of solitary work behind closed doors, during which he can be heard singing and occasionally working on his tap dancing routine...
...The robber bent down and skidded the pistol across the marble floor toward us...
...Moreover, Mrs...
...It was beautiful stonework...
...The child survived...
...Thanks to the revelations of a Mrs...
...PRUDENCE HARRINGTON Holland, Michigan P.S...
...Haddad may not be all bad...
...In Oakland, California, Mr...
...He had just robbed a second-floor jeweler when we cut off his escape...
...To find out why, I wouldn't have to drive any farther than the Buffalo airport restaurant, where I, too, could watch a 35-year-old American father and 1zyear-old son each order a tall stack of buttered toast, a big bowl of pure bacon grease, and a chocolate milk shake...
...An unprecedented fifth presidential term was won by Cuba's President Fidel Castro...
...The symptoms invariably include a rosy nose and pungent body odor, strangely reminiscent of stale vodka...
...She explained her actions by proclaiming that she "would rather see her baby dead than to be involved in pomography"—a coy reference, perhaps, to the primetime television shows she has seen since arriving in the U.S...
...8 May 1998 • The American Spectator CORRESPONDENCE Nice and Easy Does It I'm a paid subscriber and will likely continue to be...
...He fired his entire cabinet...
...JOSEPH J. HUBEN Cannel, New York If William Tucker ("Unbroken Windows") is a conservative, one wonders what exactly he is trying to conserve...
...At that point the man reached into his jacket and drew out an automatic pistol...
...While I believe in the "broken windows" premise on crime and appreciate many of the successful crime-fighting measures Tucker lists, I, unlike Tucker, am unwilling to surrender liberty for security...
...Aldarondo for allegedly stealing ginger pecan cookies from Oakland's famed Critics' Corner Café, Officer Toribio forced his prisoner to hear him sing "Escape, the Piña Colada Song," which Mr...
...About 1953 or '54 while on patrol as a NYC patrolman, in downtown Manhattan, we received a message on our one-way radio (we could receive but could not send...
...Aldarondo perceived as a "most degrading" experience...
...Willey's testimony as to what the Boy President did to her in the Oral Office, has revised her estimate of our forty-second president...
...General Pinochet will be remembered as the Chilean president who saved his country's capitalist system from rash reformers and reactionaries...
...An elementary civics lesson for Mr...
...I've had or carried a gun since age 18, first in the Army Air Corps, then as a NYC Police Officer, and since then as an investigator and security director...
...The report was about a "10-30" (holdup) in progress, in a second-floor jewelers at a Broadway address...
...The month was not without other grisly events...
...Next time try the doorknob, meathead...
...Apparently Tucker has forgotten why we had a Bill of Rights in the first place...
...Angty and vindictive writing is highly dismissable...
...These Midwestern, well-to-do family women, true artists, sat around all day doing fine, painstaking work, munching all the while and getting no exercise...
...Cops are pretty conservative...
...Her story does not end there...
...Three days after Mr...
...So foolish was his performance there that one local benign despot, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, adjudged his utterances "rubbish...
...Krisann Haddad broke new ground for abortion- rights activists when she threw her eighteenmonth-old son out of a speeding car...
...During those 54 years I have never shot anyone (except possibly during WWII) and I'm grateful I was never forced to do so...
...Fred Goldman announced that he will host a national television show, an announcement that can only give encouragement to Miss Monica Lewinsky's gaseous lawyer, William Ginsburg...
...Nikolai Budarin, broke three wrenches trying to get out...
...Yeltsin to his usual good spirits...
...Boris Yeltsin joshed with reporters about his health, chiding them for their curiosity about it, another of his weird "colds" forced the Russian president to cancel meetings...
...At my health club there was a Weight Watchers...
...And in West Palm Beach, Florida, Mrs...
...It was indeed to protect all citizens against "the awesome powers of government...
...Mark Steyn, too busy badmouthing Canada for some reason and otherwise trying to be funny in the March issue's "Obestiality," failed entirely to convey the seriousness of your situation...
...After arresting Mr...
...The law, which allows the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders to be made public, could, if widely adopted, make travel for the president difficult even with the Secret Service...
...The cold abated by the end of the month, returning Mr...
...For this reason I'm somewhat curious whenever the topic of obesity in the U.S...
...I had remained quiet over the years waiting for a letter or an article by an "old time cop" on his experience concerning the death penalty...
...In France, Miss Brigitte Bardot, once a world-renowned sex symbol and now an accomplished animal-rights proponent, Please return your hand to a full upright position Anybody here seen my old friend Franklin...
...Near Death Experience The arguments continue over the effectiveness of the Death Penalty ("Unbroken Windows: The Good News on Crime," by William Tucker, TAS, March 1998...
...We seized him and recovered his pistol...
...Sometimes this translates to letting some criminals go, but it is not the "lone criminal" but the lone citizen who needs protec10 May 1998 • The American Spectator...
...She now seems ready to agree with the editors of this family magazine that William Jefferson Clinton, husband to Hillary Milhous Clinton, really is the Groper and perhaps guilty of a sex crime...
...The simultaneity of the visits did cause some confusion among Iranian intellectuals, who tended to find the American wrestlers more intellectual than the academics, and the academics more barbarous than the wrestlers...
...Kathleen Willey on "6o Minutes," a constituency even more loyal to the Clintons than the poofters is turning sour, to wit, the feminists...
...As the women kept coming forward with tales of his prehensile fingers, ABC News broadcast a picture of the Groper at work running his prehensile fingers up the left leg of yet another flight attendant, Debra Schiff—note the leer on his face...
...The White House suffered another setback when the Supreme Court held New Jersey's so-called "Megan's Law" constitutional...
...The lobby was about 6o feet deep and walled with granite...
...I mentioned this to friends when I got back to Toronto, adding tny opinion that the obesity I saw was probably an occupational hazard...
...We drove to the location and entered an office building...
...Bill of Rights, Amendment IV, emphasis added...
...John Bully, a newlywed, strangled his pregnant wife and leapt into the famous Falls as a crowd of bemused honeymooners looked on...
...Tucker: "...no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized...
...The fear of the death penalty probably saved our lives...
...CARL E. ODOM via the Internet Fatty Issue I was in the U.S...
...Your writings would be more effective if you toned it down a bit...
...Unfortunately it is true...
...RICHARD MALLETTE Toronto, Ontario I enjoyed Mark Steyn's tell it how it is article Obestiality in your March issue...
...He tried to enter an elevator but the doors were closed...
...comes up, and except for your federal health official denouncing obesity as a bad thing, I've read or heard precious little outside of women's magazines that might actually deal with the problem...
...Tucker thinks that it was some loony liberal judges who decided that search and seizure laws require that "police have to describe exactly what they are going to find before they find it...
...I had a good laugh...
...The clients would walk through the doors, pass the treadmill, the bicycles, and free-weights, and go into a room to weigh-in, listen to a pep talk, and head on out right on past all the exercise equipment to hop into their cars and go to the nearest fast-food feast...
...By the way—I'm a combat veteran of 30 missions as a gunner with the 8th AAF and am a 20-year veteran of the NYC Police...
...Hello...
...The usual elation felt among American progressives dampened, however, when their bearded hero declared opposition to abortion—even partial-birth abortion...
...Naturally, Cuban feminists were particularly displeased, though their criticism was understandably muted...
...None has come forward so I'll offer my experience in an effort to show the practical effectiveness of that law...
...Feminist leader Miss Patricia Ireland, having heard of Mrs...
...The government was supposed to be at a disadvantage in jailing citizens...
...We sent you an admittedly pudgy John Candy and you sent him back grotesquely huge and dead a dozen years later...
...Many were much larger, and some so big I couldn't believe my eyes...
...My friends disagreed, telling me that obesity on this level can be seen everywhere in the U.S...
...The Dow Jones average hit record highs, and in outer space two Mir cosmonauts canceled a spacewalk after one of them, Mr...
...I think the war experience prompted us to seek other solutions than the gun...
...I, for one, wish to conserve (and return to) the Constitution...
...My partner and I shouted "Halt" and ran toward him...
Vol. 31 • May 1998 • No. 5