Correspondence
Correspondence Forget the Budget, Defeat Clinton Does the GOP once again deserve its Stupid Party moniker? As William Kristol and David Tell point out ("Why Republicans Must Defeat Bill Clinton"...
...1/Jan...
...The picture emerging is best expressed by Rep...
...My response was a terse letter to my pastor threatening a reduction in my tithe...
...Christmas week, I received the following plea from the DC-based offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church...
...The single best way to clean up American politics is to make it impossible for candidates to spend their money on TV and radio...
...Something truly smells...
...Paul Vetterick Beaverton, OR Two-Parties...
...It was, of course, a form of good-natured school rivalry...
...To date, the only "wrongdoing" attributable to Waldholtz is loving and trusting her husband...
...when heads of other organizations fail, out they go...
...The 60s artists Judge condemns on what are essentially political grounds- the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa-made breathtaking music...
...After Rabkin's article, I now hold the words of that old college song in a different light...
...Having butchered the budget battle, the party is now seen by the average American as cruel rich people who want to "slash Medicare" and "destroy education...
...Steven Kurtz Los Angeles, CA Mark Judge's article was interesting but confused...
...We desperately need a third party that wishes to return us to a stable Republic...
...Alternative music" is simply this: music that someone might listen to instead of-as an alternative to-what is purveyed all day long by MTV and the radio...
...This may be sheer noise to some...
...Republicans need to stop groveling at Clinton's feet and take their case to the people...
...John Gardiner, a respected scholar, writes: "Leaders must offer moral leadership, articulating goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations, carrying them above the conflicts that tear a society apart...
...Send a Christmas message to your Senators and Representative: Vote against the Welfare Reform Bill...
...Don't leave the infant Jesus hungry, homeless, or abused at Christmas...
...15), I find it appalling that this once great institution has degenerated to satisfy a screeching feminist fringe element...
...Judge makes weird, elitist charges against alternative music, by saying that the true music of the working man (did Pat Buchanan ghost this...
...That threat would have been ineffective if my church were supported by tax dollars...
...they simply began to attract a mass audience, doing what they always had...
...REM, Hole, Green Day, and Nirvana are not alternative groups anymore, and they didn't "sell out...
...Glenn Arbuthnot Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Opening Up to Alternative Mark Judge's piece ("No Alternative," Jan...
...In addition, Republicans have no presidential candidate capable of taking on Bill Clinton, who for all his faults remains a superb campaigner...
...When taxpayer-funded political-advocacy reforms were recently proposed, Catholic Charities, USA-which receives 64 percent of its income from the government-was one of the loudest critics...
...Nancy Jancourtz Eastchester, NY Churches Shouldn't Lobby In his criticism of congressional proposals to funnel more tax dollars into religious charities ("I Gave at Church," Jan...
...It is pure theater, of course, but it puts a face on a man who has remained undefined through most of his administration...
...A lot of it is based on old-fashioned themes: love, good times, and pointless fun...
...To shut alternative music out of one's life for non-musical reasons, that's truly a way to get a hole in your soul...
...He looks forward to each budget crisis as an opportunity to play the role of bulwark, holding back a raging tide of greedy, heartless Republicans intent on despoiling the environment while they let the American people freeze in their soon-to-be-foreclosed homes...
...Each of the other members of Grann's list was personally accused of felonious conduct...
...Although this is fully expected from the arrogant liberal establishment that has never been able to gain control of the state, it bothers me that Andrew Ferguson, in a supposedly conservative magazine, would join in as well ("Live Free or Cry," Jan...
...One can characterize Cornell's harassment policies as a frightening hybrid of the witch trials of Salem and the East German secret police...
...David P. Ferriss Cincinnati, OH I'm in agreement with the editorial on the budget ("Don't Get Mad, Get Even...
...In this role, Clinton has failed...
...The best campaign finance reform, as I see it, requires a new amendment...
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...Judge rejects an entire genre of music because he doesn't like the artists' attitude...
...The Dummycrats and Robpublicans have been leading us down the same simple, deceitful path to destruction for over 60 years...
...But even so, it is apparent that he lacks the leadership qualities expected of a chief executive...
...There is a need for feminine intellect in our system of government, irrespective of the innate vulnerability of such intelligence...
...My own church is a good example of how dangerous such an alliance could be...
...They should cut their losses on the budget (which still leaves them better off than in recent years) and concentrate on getting Bob Dole, Steve Forbes, or whoever elected president this November...
...After all, New Hampshire is one of the last states still embodying the limited government, low taxes, and citizen legislature that the new conservative establishment desires...
...I was impressed by Waldholtz's ability and sincerity...
...Clinton is cynically exploiting the good nature of the American people by leading them to believe that the survival of the young, the poor, and the elderly is dependent on him...
...Even if this were correct, it's outrageous to attack a genre of music for having the wrong fans...
...They already have...
...Further, Waldholtz's public catharsis probably has saved her sanity, enabling her to continue her life and care for her new baby...
...It's the leader's job to find and inspire common ground so the enterprise can go forward...
...Joanna Waugh Porter, IN Candidates: No More TV David Frum's otherwise thoughtful piece on campaign finance ("An End to Money Grubbing," Jan.15) is marred by his failure to discuss the major reason why candidates have to raise so much money: the purchase of television and radio time...
...Sam Brownback, who said, "It should be clear to the American people that the president does not want a balanced budget...
...Some say its Cayuga's waters But it is Cornell...
...Alan Smith O'Flallon, IL...
...As William Kristol and David Tell point out ("Why Republicans Must Defeat Bill Clinton" and "Don't Get Mad, Get Even," Jan...
...15), Timothy Lamer asks, "Are Christian conservatives prepared for the sight of Christian charities lobbying to keep their place at the federal trough...
...Daniel Oliver, writing for the Capital Research Center, reported that a comprehensive public policy agenda to benefit nonprofits was developed by the Clinton administration and Independent Sector, an umbrella organization of 850 foundations and nonprofit groups...
...Unless it can be proved that she performed any misdeeds against the public, she is the foremost victim of her husband's alleged misdeeds...
...Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The presidency is preeminently a place of moral leadership...
...but it speaks effectively and movingly to others...
...15) seems justified, except for Congresswoman Enid Waldholtz...
...The obvious difficulty with this is the Supreme Court, which has ruled that such advertising is protected by the First Amendment...
...What I suggest is missing from these commentaries, and from others I have seen, is criticism of Clinton's incompetence as chief executive...
...I think this is a better suggestion than Frum's, which will make candidates dependent on fewer contributors, but more heavily...
...Vernon, VA InDefense ofWaldholtz David Grann's list of miscreants ("Oh, Stop Your Whining," Jan...
...it is the rot and decay of a formerly great university...
...Come to think of it, those in the dock at the Salem trials could at least face their hysterical accusers...
...Jon Prescott Patten, ME I have just finished the three cover stories on why we must defeat Clinton ("Why Republicans Must Defeat Bill Clinton," "From 'Big Spin' to 'Big Lie,'" and "For Clinton, A Tough 1996...
...is actually soul, blues, zydeco, and jazz...
...Thomas M. Beattie Mt...
...The alleged criminal in her matter is her estranged husband...
...Republicans should return to the cohesive strategy that served them so well in 1994...
...I'm not sure what his point was, other than disliking the Spin guide-which most of us who know and care about this music don't take seriously anyway...
...Without leadership alert and sensitive to change, we are all bogged down or lose our way...
...Reading Jeremy Rabkin's account of the terror of political correctness now practiced at Cornell ("Briefing for a Descent into Hell: Today's Campus," Jan...
...I suspect that even his most loyal supporters would concede that Bill Clinton is indifferent to moral values...
...The dust kicked up following each government shutdown enables Clinton to define himself politically...
...You're So Vain What incredible arrogance ("The Vanity of Third-Party Politics," Jan...
...One of the virtues of a true alternative band is that, because it doesn't care about mainstream appeal, it can afford to disregard traditional rules-even melody and harmony...
...Leaders of any group-a nation, a business, a university-are all faced with conflicting interests and unreasonable demands...
...15), the Republicans currently suffer from an advanced case of wishful thinking...
...Gargi Patel Brooklyn, NY Don't Bash New Hampshire As the primary season approaches, we are again faced with the ritualistic New Hampshire-bashing that takes place in the media...
...15) shows that when it comes to political correctness, no one beats the right...
...And further, it's not true that alternative rock expresses nothing but anger, fear, alienation, rebelliousness, and other darkness...
...Hal Riedl Baltimore, MD The Stench at Cornell In my college days, circa 1950, we students of Syracuse University used to sing a disparaging song about Cornell: Far above Cayuga's waters There's an awful smell...
Vol. 1 • January 1996 • No. 19
