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pollution control, Peter Aranson argues that the Environmental Protection Agency is ill-suited to decide cost-benefit issues for local communities, as it now does. He accuses the EPA of...
...It has highjacked the airplanes of at least eight world airlines...
...Hopefully, farmers and environmentalists/eco freaks will not be stupefied or gulled by economic analysis...
...C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E IQgogegIwiaI~Iia~Q0Ii00UwggI~6aQiI4OBQ0Om00~OQ00Qaii6i0~i0jOggQgQB0g0G~6tOQ0~iIIOIggG9~g0m~66~0a~imoIiO0ggQ~4@biI64~4ii0OQQ~gQQ0qg6QQ~ma~66~UOO0~q00Q~ ~ Lousy Lovers Re: Taki Sex Article ("American Women Make Lousy Lovers," TAS, August 1982...
...It is even suspected of murdering Americans within the United States...
...Only a Professor of Philosophy could deny that the author of these _9 sentiments was a Nazi...
...The civil war it precipitated to gain control of Lebanon left over 10,000 dead...
...The aspirations of all Simon's clients pale in comparison to the objective of keeping this and succeeding generations of Americans well fed, and feeding (at least) those in other lands who can afford American food...
...Agricultural land is converted to non-agricultural use much more slowly than is commonly thought...
...Very well...
...In 1978 it waylaid a Tel Aviv bus and massacred 33 civilians...
...The above criteria may be modified to fit the land use contemplated...
...Because if it's not, you can cancel my subscription and refund the balance of the $18 a year I sent to you to be intellectually stimulated...
...I also reviewed Mr...
...The PLO took refuge in a neutral city, and used civilians as shields...
...Even the balance of payments may benefit...
...So farmers pursue only their own private interest when they seek to have their land assessed at its agricultural value...
...Please limit your comments to 200 words, and include full name, address, and telephone number...
...the ecological functions of the swamps or wetlands are more important...
...and less excusable...
...I have not read Werner Dannhauser's essay on Nietzsche in the May issue, but I am surprised by Professor Alderman's attempt to deny that Nietzsche was a Nazi -(Correspondence, TAS, July 1982...
...Other agencies debunked in this section include the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product and Safety Administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration (in a chapter by editor Poole...
...Nonetheless, influential Americans even in the Reagan Administration urged negotiations...
...The research wing of the NALS concurs--3 million acres annually is an outlandish figure...
...Owing to these principles and to its strategic designs, it rightly perceives us as enemies...
...Though I am terribly insulted by the piece I did learn something: EUROPEAN MEN ARE LOUSY WRITERS...
...In 1972 its henchmen invaded Munich's Olympic Village and slaughtered 11 unarmed Israeli athletes...
...Yet when Israel cornered these dreadful killers, it was diabolized...
...Non-agricultural, assessment becomes the aIly of developers and their customers / constituents...
...Such follies are typified and perpetuated by smart-alecky use of the term "swamp...
...There is a good, common sense basis for the concept...
...It has fired THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1982 41...
...I cannot believe that your editorial staff actually allowed this piece of trash to be printed...
...Are swamps places of incubation, development, refuge, or rest for birds, shellfish, and other creatures...
...Bridge and his son Douglas square off on the matter of a haircut...
...Some economists muddle the discussion by contending that prime land has no stable meaning...
...Their record, reflected in studies compiled by the Council on Environmental Quality, is disquieting--recent desertification in the Western plains and valleys, exhaustion of aquifers, and loss of land through erosion (see the 1980 Annual Report, Chapters 7 and 8...
...White House aides Baker & Darman again ? My spies are watching...
...Their political activity does hinder the advance of mall culture-assorted department, clothing, shoe, sports, novelty shops, and theaters housed in temperature-controlled, architecturally sterile environments 40 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1982 at this or that corner of town...
...Moreover Americans can now see some of their enemies' most wicked deeds on television as they take place...
...This is isolationism more profound than that of the 1930s...
...Dusa Gyllensvard Chevy Chase, Maryland Re: "American Women Make Lousy Lovers" by Taki...
...Let the ingenuity Simon invests in equivocation and irrelevancy be devoted to finding better ways of using our common heritage and trust in the land...
...Bridge when it came out in 1969, and I'm surprised Mr...
...He had wonderful things...
...Names may change...
...It espouses political principles abominable to us...
...He talks of the "gentle and rational" people who devised the proposal: "One draws a breath of relief when coming out of the Christian sick house and dungeon atmosphere into this healthier, higher, wider world...
...Those who diabolize Israel and El Salvador display neither discernment nor resoluteness...
...Cheever...
...I can't recall a more hilarious and poignant vignette...
...Whether one is willing to risk further conversion of land may hinge upon one's assessment of present stewardship of land by American farmers...
...If economic principle demands that central city stores, and those located in older malls give way to new mall stores and franchises, then economic principle is stupid and blind...
...The PLO is a criminal organization...
...How paltry the New Testament is compared with Manu, how ill it smells...
...This middle ground is illusory...
...It has done much more...
...In 1974 the PLO seized a Maalot schoo.lhouse, held over 100 pupils captive, and murdered 20...
...Incredibly, Simon offers economic analysis of hornswheat to illuminate the overall problem...
...Faced with defeat it uttered bloodcurdling oaths...
...The PLO is suspected of murdering the American ambassador to Cyprus (1974) and to Lebanon (1976...
...Philip G. Groth Janesville, l~isconsin SAM missiles at commercial aircraft...
...So far as I know the PLO is the only political organization on earth that as a matter of policy eschews battle with its enemies' soldiers for attacking its enemies' unarmed civilians...
...American women doubtless have been sitting and " l i s t e n i n g " politely for fear of being rude: See what sparing the pride of a "lousy lover" does...
...ambassador to the Sudan and his deputy...
...Such Americans live in blissful iso...
...The PLO aids, trains, and applauds every anti-American force on earth from North Koreans to North Vietnamese, to Libya, to Cuba, to Nicaragua, to the thugs of the Salvadoran bush...
...Paul Rowlandson The National Institute for Hig her Education Limerick, Ireland Save Our Farms Most of "The Farmer and the M a l l . . . " (by Julian Simon, TAS, August 1982) belongs in Current Wisdom...
...Emord DePaul College of Law Chicago, Illinois The Delightful Mr...
...Much like our right-wing extremists who see Communists under every bed, these melioristic Americanos see potential friends of America everywhere...
...and there are aides around President Reagan who agree...
...They have provided neither intelligent indicators nor a compelling rationale for their claims . . . . Continuing his wordplay, Simon substitutes "swamps" for "wetlands...
...lation...
...In section 3 of "The Improvers of Mankind" in his Twilight of the Idols (generally regarded as the nearest he came to an ordered summary of his "philosophy") Nietzsche expounds on the virtues of the breeding of definite races and species and applauds the ancient Indian proposal in the Law of Manu to breed four races simultaneously...
...Section 4 finds him describing "Aryan humanity" as "quite pure, quite primordial...
...propriety--sorely lacking components in my generation (I am 21) which degrades itself with fleeting, selfish satisfactions imbued with superficiality at the expense of single, long-term spiritual commitments that lead to holy unions of minds and bodies (necessarily in that order...
...Taki finds American women disagreeable, he must ask himself how they find--found--him...
...Buckley Camden, South Carolina The Aryan Humanist As a new reader and subscriber (the July issue was my first) I have come late to the Nietzsche controversy...
...If Mr...
...For anyone with teenage sons in the '60s and '70s, it is a memory of long-ago battles to look up and cherish...
...Nolte didn't call to the attention of your readers the chapter in which Mr...
...These involve pH level, evapo-transpiration rates, mean soil temperatures, ease of drainirig the land, and coarseness of soil particles, for example...
...He continues: "It becomes c l e a r . . , in which people the Chandala hatred for Aryan humanity has been immortalized, where it has become genius . . . Christianity growing from Jewish roots and comprehensible only as a product of this soil, represents the reaction against the morality of breeding, of race, of privilege--it is the antiAryan religion par excellence...
...F,R...
...Having found Taki's own emphasis on physical rather than spiritual lovemaking as unfortunate as that of the feminists he decries, I am reminded of Goethe's wisdom: "Alle menschliche Gebrechen s~hnet reine Menscblicbkeit" (i.e., Pure humanity atones for all human crimes and weaknesses ) . Taki fails to rise above the feminist sexism he assails by missing an opportunity to call for a recommitment to traditional virtues of chastity and The American Spectator welcomes correspondence from its readers...
...Maureen K. Gawler R oc kville , Maryland I found Taki's article "American Women Make Lousy Lovers" an unfortunate departure from the usually scintillating reportage of The American Spectator...
...Jonathan V...
...Bridge novels are sheer delight...
...Yet the e.nemies of Western democracy are today more violent, blatant, and ubiquitous than were the pre-war Fascists and Nazis...
...Here is one of those desperately embarrassing situations bringing to mind the "diva" of the Tabor Opera House...
...Evan Connell surpasses him...
...The above referenced article is a joke, right...
...But is it comforting to know that only 500,000 acres annually, near cities, are converted, plus the acreage changed through the flush of interest in exurban and rural living...
...Connell Greatly enjoyed William H. Nolte's piece on Evan ConneU (TAS, August 1982), whose Mr...
...He accuses the EPA of expanding its jurisdiction into areas where community needs directly conflict with the EPA edicts...
...Simon toys with the term prime farmland, as if there is no such land to conserve...
...As we have seen during the first year-and-a-half of Ronatd Reagan's presidency, federal regulatory agencies are harder to exterminate than a houseful of cockroaches...
...Reading Instead ofReg ulation would be an excellent way to begin...
...I n foreign policy one must first practice discernment and then face the music...
...Humans may prove too ignorant or too arrogant to appreciate such functions, and consequently destroy them and the wildlife and recreation they sustain...
...1 7 6 1 7 6 1 7 6 1 7 6 1 7 6 1 7 6 . . . . . . . o o o . . . . . o o ~ 1 7 6 . . . . . . o~ EDITORIAL (continued from page 6) Latin American Marxists do not love us, nor do the members of the PLO...
...Specialists have developed intelligent criteria of land quality...
...Yet men like John Chancellor and Paul Tsongas find it very difficult to accept the depth of PLO animosity...
...If Simon seeks pure market determination of land use, he should support tax policies that have a more neutral effect...
...Thus, Aransofi recommends dismantling the EPA at the federal level, leaving communities to decide for themselves what action to take with polluters...
...If President Reagan is to have any impact on the regulatory morass, he must develop a strategy far more effective than any he has employed thus far...
...Cushioned by vast oceans and by friendly nations north and south, insulated by American affluence, they do not appreciate the depth of the enmities that exist in this world...
...In 1973 a PLO arm murdered the U.S...
...Pray tell, how could they have a purer interest in the process ? If the value of land for mall/ housing/park/road use is $10,000 per acre and up, while the agricultural value is $3,000, property taxes based on non-agricultural assessments will pressure farmers to quit the land...
...and Mrs...
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