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CORRESPONDENCE Bad News Barnes In the January issue of The American Spectator appears a negative review by Fred Barnes of Geraldine Ferraro's memoir. To illustrate what he considers the...
...Perhaps such improvements in opportunities for people who are ready to take advantage of them, combined with greater willingness to stigmatize irresponsible behavior, will eventually diminish the size of the underclass...
...The man that would "kill his own grandmother" for Richard Nixon pursues his new ministry with the same zeal—a development predicted by G. Gordon Liddy...
...Mr...
...Mississippi Quisling Surely the dreariest and most tiresome of all literary genres is the expatriate's sermon on the evils of his homeland...
...For a while it seemed that (except for the Church, which remained fair game) a better day was dawning...
...And what I further said was that I consider this view to be a self-serving regional fantasy...
...Greenwood, Mississippi James Harkness replies: Merle Temple wishes I'd looked at Greenwood-1986, but I fear what he really wishes is that I'd seen through rose-colored glasses...
...One detail of the story, as told in the Ferraro book, is inaccurate—Medley was not on the stage...
...Yet he cannot quite overcome his legal training...
...I think not, for reasons outlined in the article...
...It's so untidy down there...
...What we should do is study aid programs run by private groups that work, then figure out how other private groups can duplicate them...
...Wooster has a question about my brand of tobacco...
...Well, yes...
...Perhaps the most distasteful trait of such writers is their willingness to convert even our virtues into mere adjuncts to vice...
...BOX 62 BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 47402 TELEPHO^ 332 7251 46 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1986 ne of Frederic Remington's best known and dramatic works — "The Rattlesnake" depicts in vivid detail the classic moment as horse and rider encounter a startled snake, while on the trail...
...I prefer "Sail" and "Amphora...
...Perhaps if we evangelicals are truly concerned about maintaining the fundamentals of the Christian faith, we would do well to follow their example as well...
...Look, I'm sorry...
...in areas susceptible to legal compulsion, the improvement has been marked...
...The question is not the instruments used by the religious right, but whether it possesses, or is in the process of developing, a public philosophy that can engage those who are not true believers, as they define true belief...
...policy—in effect how to get out, or use the threat of getting out—are sensible...
...James Harkness ("Mississippi Foot-prints," TAS, February 1986) that we are in for a new phase of South-baiting...
...Perhaps the worst solution to the welfare mess is to nationalize private charities and church aid merely to satisfy the demands of a few Washington scholars...
...There is some hope that Mr...
...I have a great personal affection for Falwell and though we disagree on the role of Christians in politics, I have enormous respect for what he is doing particularly in some of the ministries of the Thomas Road Baptist Church caring for unwed mothers...
...The liberals bemoan conservative meanness and conservatives complain about waste and the welfare cheats, but no major figure in public office in either party questions the fundamental rightness of using the federal govern-ment to engage in income transfers and social services...
...S7 KTVN CH...
...Harkness still views Greenwood as it was twenty years ago...
...Whether or not he agrees with us, GladwelI gets beyond this issue and goes to the heart of the matter—whether the current political activism of evangelicals will eventually dilute or obscure their primary message, which is the good news of salvation and new life through Jesus Christ...
...Hence no argument of mine is likely to convince Mr...
...What I said, rather, was that Morris has got it into his noggin that the South, where blacks and whites live in the most intimate if still the most overtly discriminatory con-tact, will also turn out to be where the American conundrum of race is at last and most profoundly resolved...
...So she told a half-truth, not the best evidence of unswerving accuracy...
...I simply argue that such modifications won't make much difference...
...I "The Rattlesnake" Limit: one per person New England Collectors Society, 1 62 Eastview Ave...
...But the significant part of the story is true...
...I confess to being a little troubled, however, by the way in which he cites my statements on the subject...
...But even the baldest social narcissism is bound to have primal appeal, that is to say neatly calculated appeal, for someone who can detect nothing worse in today's white racism than "petty behavior," and for whom loyalty to an "admirable heritage" not only outweighs but utterly precludes discussion of its "ugly flaws...
...Whenever someone asks me whether I think that one of their ideas is a good one, I am likely to say yes, because there are so many discrete ways in which a cumbersome and unfair system can be made less cumbersome and less unfair...
...The second and more interestingpoint, then, is how we get there from here...
...The article, as one would expect in treating this kind of issue, makes it appear that Falwell and I are adversaries...
...Gregory A. Fossedal replies: Both of the above writers, in varying tones, raise two important points...
...Chuck Colson is doing a great work in ministering to the prisoners, but he will always be an extremist...
...Every sculpture will be individually cast from a blend of powdered bronze and resins...
...Ross seems to think I said...
...I think Miss Bernard's real problem is that she doesn't like Chuck Colson—which makes me even sorrier that I didn't include a lesson on the consequences of Christian repentance and the importance of forgiveness...
...Six of seven seats held by Blacks and working class Republicans is quite a feat here and is indicative of the change underway...
...He is worried, and rightly so, that the leaders of the religious right may sell their souls for a mess of politics...
...Ross actually dislikes is hearing what he fears may be the truth...
...Works of this type are fungible...
...Christine Roussel — former Director of the Reproduction Studio of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and creator of fine Remington reproductions for The Nelson Rockefeller Collection...
...An outstanding museum quality reproduction in the great tradition of Frederic Remington...
...Rather, we should stop punishing poor people who have been doing everything right...
...I beg leave to inform him, moreover, that his talent is not yet so great as to entitle him to condescend to Mr...
...Is the goal no safety net at all, or rather, a more reasonable one—the kind suggested by William F Buckley once every few years, in recommending that lard, bread, and peanut butter simply be made available for free...
...Seldom has a kettle been rebuked by a blacker pot...
...They will not affect the underlying dynamics that sustain unemployability among large proportions of poor youth and an illegitimacy rate that is running between 60 and 80 percent of all live births in poor black communities...
...In like fashion, the 1981 tax bill, unfortunately loaded down with unnecessary corporate bribes, nevertheless set the country on a supply-side road that has us leading the industrial world, and even the sausage-grinders in Washington are now working on yet another cut in tax rates...
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...Study after study has shown that jobs pro-grams don't benefit poor people, but are instead designed to line the pockets of bureaucrats, social workers, and poverty lobbyists, most of whom try to stay as far away from the ghetto as they can...
...continued on page 46) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1986 9 fairly good vision...
...Gladwell could have tried to find out about the mission that Reverend Falwell has in Sudan where some of his young students sacrifice themselves to feed and clothe Ethiopian refugees...
...If a "high church" Lutheran liberal like Pastor Neuhaus can find something good to say about the fundamentalists in the pages of Commentary, conservatives might be expected to give up throwing stones at their natural allies...
...Harkness is a pretty fair writer, which is but to say that he has prostituted some fine gifts to this squalid undertaking...
...Franck's assessment of the U.N...
...We just wish Mr...
...I didn't say that there has been no improvement in the South's racial climate in the last generation...
...Fossedal wanting to increase their dole...
...Cohen's review of William Donohue's —Charles H. Chandler Politics of the American Civil Liberties Malden, Massachusetts Union (TAS, February 1986...
...Indeed, towards the end Sinclair Lewis is said to have uttered some generous words about Sauk Centre...
...They seem to be under some strange compulsion, continually trying to convince others (and themselves...
...Fossedal's proposals—vouchers and homesteading—will set poor people free, by providing them with choice and opportunity to better their lives...
...Now this Y3 size reproduction is available for the unusual offering price of only $195.00 per sculpture...
...Over the course of his let-ter, my "squalid undertaking" devolves from turncoat loquacity and expatriate South-baiting to renegade bitterness and simple "filth"—language in whose trajectory I see little prospect of profitable exchange...
...The first point has to do with conservative objectives: Do we want to scrap the entire welfare system, or simply trim it back, perhaps marginally, perhaps substantially...
...Finally, Mr...
...The only way to accomplish great good rapidly—to drastically reduce the number of fatherless children and drastically increase the integration of poor youth into the labor market—is to dismantle the federal social welfare system for the working-aged...
...What it does have to do with is Morris's belief in the South's place on the leading edge of progress in matters of race...
...We should provide them with safety, which means law enforcement that is as strict in the inner city as it is in the suburbs, and with decent education, which means providing the same options to poor parents (through vouchers or tuition tax credits) that affluent people use by sending their children to private schools or by moving to the suburbs...
...I happen to think that Mario Cuomo is advancing a very dangerous proposition from the left, that is, the privatization of our faith, and that there is a great danger on the right that the Christian faith will become politicized, that is, dependent upon political means for the achievement of its goals...
...Cecil S.H...
...Bodin and Puffendorf are great fun...
...Having said that, however, I do compliment Mr...
...Two of Mr...
...It is that, rather than any number of Faulknerisms, to which Mr...
...The fact is, if one were to judge the accuracy of her memory on the basis of this single story, one would have to conclude that her memory is indeed accurate...
...that what they have abandoned is of no real value...
...My Commentary article suggesting that the agenda of the religious right is generally within the limits of legitimate democratic debate is de-scribed by Mr...
...Harkness can condemn them...
...Barnes is wrong...
...He casts about for instances of petty behavior, and for evidence that white racists still exist in Mississippi...
...Under the Gun Second Amendment is conspicuously My compliments on Robert Stuart absent...
...Nor did I say that racial discrimination has been obdurate in the South alone...
...Upon reading his strictures on that writer, I felt as though I had just heard a quonset hut speak patronizingly of the architecture of Chartres and Salisbury...
...Colson thinks that I falsely painted a picture of personal animosity between himself and Jerry Falwell...
...Cohen shows clearly just how selective the ACLU's approach to the Bill of Rights The American Spectator welcomes coris...
...We were both there...
...Charles Murray Washington, D.C...
...There is in his letter almost nothing to reply to, any more than you can usefully rebut the spitting wail of an outraged tabby upon whose tail you have stomped with an insufficiently reverent heel...
...Please In particular, let me add that the limit your comments to 200 words and ACLU's working version of the Bill of include full name, address and Rights seems to be one from which the telephone number...
...Whether an emerging black middle class will "eventually" make common cause with Reaganite Republicans I won't try to predict...
...I share his interest in international law, to the point of barely restraining myself from teaching it...
...his virulent loathing of the cultural "quisling...
...8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1986 I was somewhat disappointed, I must confess, that Mr...
...I suspect Mr...
...I am referring to the article entitled "Chuck Colson vs...
...The course set by Mr...
...Harkness graduated from high school in 1965, which means he has not yet seen forty...
...I would like my four equal payments of $49.50* charged to my: ^ MasterCard ^ VISA ^ American Express or call TOLL FREE 1-800-334-0854, Ext...
...Like myself, Morris left the South and sojourned long in supposedly more enlightened precincts, only to conclude (again, like me) that the old country wasn't a total loss after all and that he would be hap-pier if he came home...
...Charles W Colson Washington, D.C...
...Invariably, secular writers get sidetracked, making not-too-subtly derisive comments about those of us who believe that the Bible is a book to be believed as the Word of God to man...
...At least one may hope...
...Try some, Mr...
...Fleming, who goes to the extraordinary length of using G. Gordon Liddy as a stick to beat Chuck Colson with...
...In the absence of radical reform, I wish the best of luck to Pat Moynihan or Michael Novak or anyone else who can think of sensible modifications in the current system...
...This is a political fact of life...
...Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile...
...In fact, my disagreement with the former editor of Harper's pertains to neither his acknowledgement of ancestral ties nor any other element of his paradigmatic Homegoing...
...When Jerry speaks for himself, on the other hand, we hear the voice of a democratic pluralist playing the politics of consensus...
...Still, in fairness, it must be said that Mr...
...I am also sorry, for the sake of Miss Gladys Bernard, that I did not include a tribute to Rev...
...1 understand I need send no money now...
...But I will say that if rococo sentence structure and florid diction are stylistic faults, it is hard to see with what face Mr...
...filths savour but themselves...
...But why does that give him the right to chastise the path followed by other Christian ministers, who are not former convicts like he is...
...Thanks to TAS and to Malcolm Gladwell for his well-thought-out article...
...In neither case was he a force for good in American political life, and Gladwell does this passionate and in-valuable evangelist a disservice by highlighting his minor squabbles with the fundamentalists...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 9) I am now warned, courtesy of Mr...
...Harkness's indignation at our failure to adopt the manners of the urban subway...
...Colson himself has said, to wit: "The quiet, often unnoticed actions of ordinary Christians who believe and obey speak far more loudly than all the bombast of so-called religious leaders...
...Good riddance, one is tempted to say...
...Readers might wish to consult my article on "The Art of Additive Compromise," which I wrote for last October's American Spectator...
...Or about his program to save unborn children, through which mothers who would otherwise have had an abortion, can find care, love, and an adoption alternative...
...This would be far more effective than demanding that all private aid be chained to the yoke of dead or dying Great Society programs to appease the aging creators of those programs...
...By not talking to Colson, apparently, I robbed him of the chance to contradict himself...
...I am willing to believe that he may have changed and is now dedicated to doing good works...
...defer the problem of whether Willie Morris got his narrative style by robbing graves in Yoknapatawpha County, or whether Mr...
...And then he gets back into his car and drives back to his fastness in upstate New York, where he can be immured with Rilke or Rimbaud or whomever he translates, and where he can encounter black people slightly more often than he would in Norway...
...Murray seems to agree, we are left with the task of planning a more conventional assault...
...Morris hardly needs my help to deal with this cardboard Coriolanus...
...I would have liked to have simply clarified my relationship with Jerry Falwell...
...I didn't mean to...
...Pleasantville...
...But in the meantime, I hope he will be kind enough to stop carping at people who are trying, without romantic illusions and in the face of discouraging obstacles, to preserve an admirable heritage while purging it of its ugly flaws—trying, with no help from the likes of him, to build a better life down here...
...137C A51...
...It isn't clear from the article that I did not participate in its preparation...
...The /Yew England Collectors Society is a subsidiary of Reed & Barton Sitoersmiths...
...Gladys Bernard Dallas, Texas Malcolm Gladwell's perceptive article on Charles Colson's cautions about politicized fundamentalism rings true on most every score...
...It is all of a piece...
...Harkness had looked at Greenwood-1986...
...Wooster...
...That is what I tried to do in my original article...
...The Fundamentalists," TAS, February 1986) fascinating reading, very insightful, and on the whole, a very fair presentation of the issues...
...Why discuss the details of the final march on Berlin when we haven't even yet landed in France...
...His own style is not exactly a model of terseness and Attic simplicity...
...One can hardly visit the bookstore or the library without coming across the spoor of one of these loquacious turncoats...
...and what he hates most of all is hearing it from someone whose claim on knowing the lay of the land is at least as provable as his own...
...John Frederick Martin Robert D. Luskin Washington, D.C...
...The meaningful reforms politically open to us have little to do with the teenage parent or the unemployed street youth...
...Now, certainly one way to get rid of the rickety system is through a massive, pre-emptive first strike...
...While his essay—and the accompanying illustration—suggest Jerry Falwell as the primary target, Gladwell does not take the trouble to make a single substantial criticism against Falwell, whom he accuses of "international ambulance chasing...
...Even so, I will suggest that a less hysterical reading of "Mississippi Footprints" will turn up scant traces of defecation, ritual or otherwise...
...Cecil S.H...
...This is the first time I have read an intelligent article in the secular press on issues of concern to those of us who are called Fundamentalists...
...RJ0006 on unquestioning adherence to a regional party line...
...And-this is where the measures listed in the article might be quite useful: from Kemp's homesteading and zones to Novak's distribution system to Butler's privatizing to Bennett's vouchers—most of which Murray and Wooster favor...
...The main function of minor modifications in the welfare system will be to make white middle class folks feel good, because at least we're trying...
...is, as a whole, realistic, and that his proposals for U.S...
...Falwell's Sudan mission in my article...
...No one wants to do so...
...854 l Credit Card # Exp...
...To illustrate what he considers the unreliability of Ferraro's account, Barnes writes that a story told in the book about a Ferraro speechwriter being overcome by emotion on a certain occasion "never happened...
...What was Gregory A. Fossedal smoking when he decided that a $10 billion public works boondoggle—sorry, a "modest infrastructure bill"—was a "solution" for joblessness in the ghetto...
...The edition will be limited to 9500 pieces and after that, all molds will be destroyed forever...
...This will be more time-consuming, but also in some sense more conservative—taking what is there and trying at least to move in the right direction...
...his shrill insistence THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR APRIL 1986 47...
...Also upset, apparently, is Mr...
...Given all this, if enacting such a far-ranging experiment requires a jobs boondoggle or a little tax-free account for Chrysler workers, the price seems worth it to me...
...Classical Christian orthodoxies argue that the responsible position for the Christian is to influence the state with Christian values, to hold it morally accountable to its stated purpose, and to see that it fulfills the biblical purpose of government to preserve order, justice, and as Cicero put it, concord in society...
...Am I thus suggesting something of a bribe...
...Richard John Neuhaus, Director Center on Religion and Society New York, New York Malcolm Gladwell uses Chuck Colson as a stick to beat the fundamentalists with...
...That doesn't mean it isn't a good idea...
...Harkness will someday put his considerable talents to a better use...
...Enough said...
...Martin Morse Wooster Washington Editor, Harper's Washington, D.C...
...I hope and believe the article makes a responsible contribution in that sense...
...But that would undoubtedly be too severe...
...I can see merit in both positions, but Colson seems to be following the ex-ample set by Jesus Christ as well as the writers of the New Testament, who lived in a society much more immoral than ours...
...I believe eventually a "common good" working coalition will be formed between activist Blacks and "Reagan-Kemp" Republicans to the economic advantage of all...
...Three city council seats are held by conservative Republicans...
...I' WITS 923 rM BLOCM.N TON, INDIN WGTC...
...Marilyn A. 7hrnbow Southfield, Michigan The appeal of joining a lynching mob is always strong...
...Willie Morris...
...Being called an extremist by G. Gordon Liddy is like being called ugly by a frog...
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...Nasty, nasty...
...It helps to relax the muscles and relieve irritability...
...That is not the case...
...When my sculpture is ready for shipment, I will be billed for my deposit of $49.50* and after shipment, for the balance in three monthly installments of $49.50* each...
...Why seductive...
...But set aside for now the issue of quonset huts and rococo cathedrals...
...The fine reproduction was produced under the direct supervision of Ms...
...Witness Mr...
...10570 l Please accept my reservation for "The Rattlesnake", to be crafted for me in cold-cast bronze at $195.00* plus $3.00 for shipping and handling...
...At least that's the position I've advocated and believe needs to be heard in the national debate...
...The few original bronzes, made by Remington in 1905, are rare and have sold at auction for over $135,000...
...Because, he says, "there is simply too much eagerness in fundamentalist political activity—the exploitation of direct mail, the proliferation of PACs, the slick and lavish promotional efforts...
...Teddy Kennedy's endorsement of this slush fund should make conservatives queasy—for good reason...
...Each Rattlesnake replica will be created in cold-cast bronze — a medium that enables the casting of finer detail than the traditional hot-cast method...
...Gladwell on a very well-done piece and I especially appreciate the perspective which he has given to this very difficult issue...
...I can only assume that Mr...
...Anyhow, the development of aquaculture in Greenwood is an interesting datum, if not the only fishy item in Mr...
...That is why public education lobbyists fight vouchers so furiously—even when focused on the poor...
...The South, along with the rural Midwest and the Catholic Church, has long been an approved target for such cultural quislings...
...respondence from its readers...
...Ross shows himself a Southerner of a mold we've seen before: soaring up with flaming sword from the lost schoolhouse steps to the pages of The American Spectator, a classic- Dixie mandarin in high dudgeon...
...Let me state as explicitly as possible the position I took toward reform of social welfare policy in Losing Ground and have continued to take since then: The Congress and the Administration have shown no interest in radical change in the social welfare system...
...all of them feature a writer engaging in ritual defecation upon that Awful Place, those Horrid People, and their Contemptible Customs...
...In fact, I was very careful to place my statement that they were "hardly close friends" in the context of an intellectual and theological disagreement...
...Messrs...
...Chuck Colson is a rather enigmatic character who has not held much credibility in the past...
...Harkness objects...
...But even if they had a minor impact on measured poverty, their political impact might be substantial...
...Ross—or I daresay certain others, some of whom may even share with him the effete psychic training wheel of a spare initial...
...Murray notes that the policy impact of these ideas, even in combination, might be small...
...Gladwell as a "seductive argument...
...They know the power of a good example...
...Willie Morris went through a similar phase and outgrew it...
...the Fundamentalists," by Malcolm Glad-well...
...What we see in him is nothing more complicated than the renegade's irritation towards the man who acknowledges the force of ancestral loyalties...
...For years we have been hearing slurs against Jerry's bigotry, intolerance, lust for power, and his desire to impose fundamentalist morality upon an unwilling nation...
...Ross Jackson, Mississippi The recent article on life in Greenwood, Mississippi left us perplexed...
...But it also seems to me this question is moot...
...That fascination is noticeable in all the media products (now, sadly, including yours) where so many of the writers are rushing to at-tack Jerry Falwell...
...No payment need accompany your order at this time...
...While writing the article, however, I was quaffing a bottle of Molson's Brador Malt Liquor from Canada...
...and his final arrogant demand simply to be left alone—Mr...
...This one apparently will consist of variations on the theme "Those Bastards Haven't Really Changed...
...Fossedal's remaining proposals keep the poor chained to the ghosts of Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt—two men who are hardly conservative champions...
...In any case, one suspects that his grievance with Mr...
...But surely, for better and for worse, the Jacksonian revolution happened a long time ago and, unless one thinks it possible to return to the gentlemanly discourse of Jefferson and Madison, there is no reason the fundamentalists should eschew the means employed by others in our inescapably raucous democratic politics...
...I should have-known better...
...When describing the plight of Blacks here, he failed to mention that Blacks now occupy three of seven city council seats in Greenwood, a significant Black university exists in this county, and there is an emerging Black Middle Class...
...To reserve this important Remington reproduction, simply return the application...
...Ross, for whom I haven't, strictly speaking, much reply...
...Once the casting is completed, it will be finished with a rich patina, similar to the original...
...Who knows...
...Will Colson survive...
...Frankly, my own preference is for some federal safety net, much smaller and leaner than it is now...
...If there was any personal bite to this at all, it came from the instances when I quoted what Mr...
...If Southerners treat one another with courtesy, why, that is only a pose, or even a manipulative stratagem...
...Temple's letter...
...Underclass Wars It is hard to know how to respond to allegations that one has become more reasonable, as in Greg Fossedal's fine article ("The Second War on Poverty: Up from Murrayism," TAS, February 1986...
...In that—as in his urbanophobic distaste for "subway manners...
...Merle Temple, Jr...
...But then, considering the snide references to the lack of credibility in Colson's past and his status as an ex-con, I'm not sure that would have made any difference...
...Instead of variations on the theme "Those Bastards Haven't Really Changed," the essay tries to chart some of the subtler ways in which the South, or one small town in one part of the South, has changed—along with the divergence between the reality of those changes and the lingering mystic jingoism of the region's self-representations...
...In any event, I have written to Jerry with the hope of healing any wounds that might have been opened as a result of the article...
...They cannot make such a difference because of built-in perverse incentives, both economic and social, that I tried to describe in Losing Ground...
...Morris is notstylistic but substantive...
...Date Signature Name Address City I State Zip 1n1Y.= idn--d—for=l=stax...
...and that what I actually said bears practically no likeness to what m^w SARKES TARZIAN INC WRCB Ck rI E L CF NOOGA 17131...
...And now we come to Mr...
...That gives him plenty of time to wise up...
...One is inevitably reminded of the words of Albany in King Lear...
...Ross may have a tin ear for prose...
...On the simple, brute, depressingly forthright evidence of the last twenty years, not to mention the last hundred and twenty years, what I'll call Willie's Paradox is as absurd in its depths as on its face—like picking the Golan Heights as the most likely spot for Jews and Arabs to work out a common destiny...
...In fact, Gladwell helped me under-stand, in a way that our own evangelical publications have not, thedichotomy between Colson's approach of changing society through changing individual hearts versus the Falwell/La-Haye approach of changing individual behavior by exercising political clout...
...Aquaculture is thriving alongside agriculture and industry, and interestingly enough, the emergence of Black political power has been accompanied by the demise of the patronizing white Democrat and the "old money" liberal GOP and has coincided with the arrival in the Delta of the Reagan Republican...
...This error by Barnes would not be worth mentioning if it were not for the fact that Barnes retells the Medley story in order to impugn the accuracy of Ferraro's entire book...
...If that isn't plausible, as Mr...
...Their enactment would at least begin the reform of a poverty relief system that stinks...
...Harkness is by now so familiar as to be banal...
...At least Mr...
...Fred Barnes replies: Sorry, but even this revisionist version of the story doesn't give Ferraro a claim on accuracy...
...Christians should not need to be reminded, but always have needed to be reminded, that there is perduring tension and frequent contradiction between the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world...
...Colson are undoubtedly correct in urging that the same cautions must now be directed also to the religious right...
...I think so...
...Mirabile dictu, he finds what he is looking for, and takes it as confirming his diagnosis of our continuing depravity...
...But the habits of a lawyer are hard to shake...
...Read one, and you have read them all...
...Thomas Fleming, Editor Chronicles of Culture Rockford, Illinois Malcolm Gladwell replies: It's a shame that Mr...
...He and Mr...
...Buckley and our great leader, Ronald Reagan, seem to agree...
...stranger things have happened...
...There are other, more pointed, comments of his that I did not quote...
...Colson's main point, as I understand it, has to do with the integrity of religious faith...
...The homeland can be territorial, political, or religious...
...Franck is not altogether unaware of this...
...Gladwell quotes my cautions to the religious left on the dangers inherent in equating spiritual salvation with temporal politics...
...speechwriters rarely are...
...One aspect of 1986 I did look at in my article was what appears to be, in matters of race, the compatibility of strategic stubbornness with tactical compromise...
...Hasn't the National Urban League gotten enough tax dollars without Mr...
...But more than the "fungibility" of overdone genres, what Mr...
...all applications are subject to acceptance Mr...
...But I do not bring international law (or Italian opera which I like just as well) into discussions of foreign policy, or even of the U.N., because it is not relevant...
...Well, he wasn't...
...Evangelical Examples I found Malcolm Gladwell's article ("Chuck Colson vs...
...Barnes evidently misunderstood the story as it was related to him by Medley or someone else...
...And Richard Medley, along with other members of the Ferraro staff and of the Ferraro traveling press corps, was in-deed moved to tears by her speech at Van Nuys, California...
...He makes his visitation, painfully conscious of its high moral significance...
...BLOOM'NGTON, NDi7 NA WAJI...
...In a county where blacks have had an absolute majority for a century or more, three council seats out of seven sure looks like it might fall under that heading...
...Gladwell did not con-tact me...
...She said Medley, who sheepishly admits to having been misty-eyed, was near her on stage...
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