The sanctity of bookstores aside, the latest casualty of Kenneth Starr’s jihad is the illusion of impartiality in the media. With the revelation that television talking head and legal analyst Stuart Taylor Jr. was negotiating for a job in Mr. Starr’s apparatus last month–a “patriotic service,” he said, from which he “chickened out” for careerist Read More
Monica Lewinsky won’t have to perjure herself to admit that she’s a Jewish girl. That at least has already been admitted into evidence. The remaining big question: Is this good for the Jews, or bad? In some Jewish circles, Monica is being referred to as Queen Esther, who was the prettiest girl in Persia and Read More
At last report, George T. Conway III-the New York tobacco lawyer and secret Paula Jones adviser-was on the lam. Seeking to evade a subpoena from Robert Bennett, President Bill Clinton’s counsel in the Jones sexual harassment case, Mr. Conway suddenly disappeared on Jan. 26. His secretary at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the powerhouse midtown Read More
Already the story of President Bill Clinton’s alleged “sex scandal” has been framed as a clear-cut case of the sex war, with wronged women who aren’t gonna suffer in silence on one side, and on the other, heartless male scoundrels who are doing their best to clap their slimy hands over the women’s mouths. As Read More
With many Americans wondering how President Clinton suddenly became the target of a sexual inquisition, perhaps the old Watergate query should be turned on the independent counsel himself: What did Kenneth Starr know about the illegal taping of Monica Lewinsky, and when did he know it?
The President’s defense lawyers are not alone in believing Read More
Stuart Taylor Jr., the legal affairs journalist whose support of Paula Jones charges against President Clinton so heavily influenced coverage of that salacious lawsuit, has provided us with a laboratory example of press bias. Having examined only half the available evidenceor lesswhen he published his lengthy pro-Jones essay in The American Lawyer last November, Mr. Read More
The time has come when every American probably should prepare an affidavit denying sexual contact with the President-any President-just in case. Sign the document in triplicate, and have the same done by every member of your family, including pets. If you or they have ever set foot in the White House or crossed the Arkansas Read More
