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CORRESPONDENCE Shell Saddam Tom Bethell's advocacy of non-intervention in the Persian Gulf is the epitome of shortsightedness ("A New World Struggling to be Born," TAS, November 1990). While his...
...Whether Social Security is financed on a partially funded basis with accumulating surpluses, or on a pay-as-you-go basis with income matching expenses (as Senator Moynihan and I have proposed), taxes will have to be raised on the workers of 2025 to finance the Social Security benefits of the elderly in 2025...
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...I have just heard with my own ears corroboration of these statements by an official of the Defense Committee of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR...
...These were summed up in such terms as feudalism, aristocracy, and privilege, against which the idea of common citizenship in a more centralized state, or of common membership in a free political nation, was offered as a more satisfactory basis for the human community...
...Queenan for sullying his reputation for expertise, and to Giants fans for reopening an old wound.need to raise their taxes altogether...
...I know of one...
...It speaks well of the Spectator and its readers...
...Wonder how many subscribers this article has alienated...
...It is based on medical research done by some of the most brilliant doctors and scientists in the world...
...The French, of course, had a revolution in 1789...
...In the absence of consistent paternal influence, the young males are not subject to traditional civilizing and educational constraints...
...And now these people are telling me they are so mad at the National Republican Committee perfidy on October 6 that they will be voting "ABB" (Anybody but Bush) in 1992...
...One may assume using simple arithmetic that this population subset will constitute approximately half of the United States population in another one or two generations...
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...Do not let us allow demagogic politicians, ever out to create personal constituencies, often ethnic or racial, to cause social havoc...
...I disagree with Mr...
...Ever the man of total commitment, Paine was as disappointed as our correspondent with the corruption and fragility of the democratic wave...
...Lambert Ford Yucca Valley, California "A picture is worth 1,000 words," and the drawing of Duke supporters on the cover of the October American Spectator captures exquisitely the contempt of cerebral northeastern conservative intellectuals for the southern, majority working-class whites...
...The Soviets are broke, indeed completely insolvent, and a $40 plus per barrel price of oil may tide them over the winter...
...I refer readers to an article written in 1835 by Alexis de Tocqueville on the English legal pauper systems, as reprinted in the Public Interest, Winter 1983...
...McCarthy's, I still am a friend of his family and I don't appreciate his good character being maligned...
...One might feel more confidence in his prescriptions for the 54 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1990 PAID ADVERTISEMENT present if they rested on a firmer grasp of the past...
...Kasten replies to Mr...
...According to Mr...
...To take last things first, old Tom Paine wasn't quite the reliable agent of influence you might imagine, and in 1802 he wrote back home from Europe as follows: I know of no Republic in the world, except America, which is the only country for such men as you and I...
...46), we refer to "the Giants' 23-17 overtime victory over the Colts in the 1958 championship game...
...While I'll probably continue to read your magazine, there will always be a part of me that will wonder if what I am reading from your pages is the truth or actually just biased conjecture...
...R. D. Bayley's letter (Correspondence, TAS, October 1990): I oppose privatization of Social Security because it would require a massive tax increase on the current generation of workers in order to pay for the benefits of current retirees, and the cost of a new private retirement system for themselves...
...Please read Thomas Sowell's "Affirmative Action: A Worldwide Disaster," in Commentary, December 1989, for an eloquent and reasoned analysis of the corrosive effects of preferential policies based on racial, religious, or ethnic subsets of the population...
...I do not necessarily advocate going to war in the Persian Gulf—one should think long and hard before taking that step...
...What other surprises does The American Spectator have in store for us Southern paleoconservatives...
...Aside from Duke's nasty background, Ferguson believes him to be an uninspiring personality...
...Let us wish Duke good riddance, and the sooner the better...
...As a result, the larger society lives in fear within its homes and public places...
...Moreover, the history of Congress paints a clear picture: large surpluses are always spent, never saved...
...Who cares where it's printed or how he cuts his hair...
...Nonetheless, readers interested in deepening their understanding of the first revolutionary moment in Western history might take a look at that old masterpiece, R. R. Palmer's The Age of the Democratic Revolution, which modestly concludes: These events [can be seen] as a single movement, revolutionary in character, for which the word "democratic" is appropriate and enlightening...
...The new regime rapidly degenerated into a totalitarian dictatorship that slaughtered hundreds of thousands of its citizens, foreshadowing the genocidal regimes of the twentieth century...
...It should read, ". . . Updike has understood it better...
...Although my political views are much more conservative than Mr...
...Robert C Whitten Navy League of the United States Cupertino, California Sen...
...Just as the last quarter of the eighteenth century saw democracy sweep across Western Europe, laying waste to monarchies, duchies, and principalities, so today anti-democratic regimes are falling in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa" (emphasis added...
...Perhaps all this will cause Mr...
...economy is a sure-fire prescription for low savings and economic stagnation...
...Bayley In response to Mr...
...We apologize to Mr...
...Even England only adopted universal manhood suffrage at that time...
...Is Bethell trying to emulate Chamberlain...
...Pretty damn stupid...
...I saw respectable, well-dressed middle class people and white college students—you know (or no, you forgot), the sort who voted for Ronald Reagan...
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...Are we to treat him with the bovine disinterestedness that Bethell proposes...
...Unfortunately, the issues he espouses [sic], e.g., welfarism and affirmative action, are critically important to United States internal peace, prosperity, and progress, both for the beneficiaries of the system and society at large...
...Ledeen: "We have entered the Age of the Second Democratic Revolution...
...The writer snidely implied that Colman McCarthy had written a piece under the influence of "a few drinks . . . some of those little pink pills .. . and a sprig or two of marijuana...
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...Ellen M Willson Washington, D.C...
...I only hope that the current generation of students will be able to overcome the ignorance and ideology of its mentors to keep the curiosity and balance necessary for understanding...
...The AFDC Program, whose beneficiaries number in the tens of millions, is a program ripe for investigative reporting...
...It very simply has never been the case...
...The Soviets have trained the Iraqi army, still maintain 1,000 to 2,000 "advisers" there and are still training officers of Iraq's army within the Soviet Union...
...Saddam Hussein covets not just the Persian Gulf but the entire Middle East and beyond...
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...The rest of Europe remained solidly monarchic, aristocratic, and theocratic...
...The only thing resembling a democracy in Europe around this time was the Swiss confederation, which had existed since the Middle Ages...
...Like all liberal imbeciles, they invariably resort to petty personal attacks like David Duke's haircut and the snide comment that his publication NAAWP News is printed in his basement...
...Nicholas Davidson New York, New York Michael Ledeen replies: I don't like the terror either (and anyone who has read my books on fascism knows that), but to deny that there was a democratic revolution in the eighteenth century verges on dementia...
...Ledeen to reconsider his unbounded enthusiasm for Thomas Paine, whose Walter Duranty-style apologetics for the French Revolution make him the forerunner of the modern apologists for totalitarianism whom Mr...
...I have done with Europe and its slavish politics...
...Ledeen so rightly critiques...
...This subset of women and children, in the main supported by government welfare, is reproducing at well over the general birthrate and the rate of increase is essentially exponential...
...Furthermore, the generational gap appears to have been compressed to about fifteen years...
...Accumulating huge surpluses and adding $3.2 billion in taxes to the U.S...
...In France itself, democracy did not catch on until the last quarter of the nineteenth century...
...This dictatorship was subsequently replaced by the milder despotism of the Emperor Napoleon, who went on to conquer most of Europe by force of arms, installing members of his own family as petty kings in Italy and elsewhere...
...But to ignore the mania of a man like Saddam Hussein is irresponsible...
...For instance, the presence of a male head-of-household disqualifies the beneficiary...
...While some people might call Colman McCarthy eccentric, nobody could call him a drug or alcohol user...
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...Returning Social Security to pay-as-you-go would reduce the tax burden on workers and businesses for the next twenty-five years, thus increasing the rate of savings and economic growth...
...You all are always bellyaching about not having had control of the House for thirty-five years, or of losing the Senate yet again...
...It was not "democracy" that swept Western Europe but Napoleon's imperial armies...
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...G. Cardwell Austin, Texas Andrew Ferguson's report on David Duke was well written and perceptive...
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...The bedsheeted Klansmen, the "truck-drivin' man," the rednecks, the rubes, these were not the people Isaw on film clips attending the Duke rallies...
...Well, I let my subscription to TAS lapse years ago and I can see the wisdom in that now...
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...However, this revolution did not establish a democracy but a constitutional monarchy...
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...He already possesses chemical weapons of several varieties, probably possesses biological weapons including toxins, and appears to be well on the way to acquiring nuclear weaponry...
...Slightly over fifty years ago we heard statements like "peace in our time" and (about the Czechs) "a strange people in a far away country of whom we know little...
...I suppose we can look forward to some Pat Buchanan-bashing next—or have I missed it already...
...Similarly, in Joe Queenan's review of Tom Landry: An Autobiography (p...
...Ferguson's statement that the average birth rate in this group is about the same as the United States average (about 1.8 offspring per mother...
...But I was quite disappointed to read your unjust insinuations against Professor Colman McCarthy on your "Current Wisdom" page (October 1990...
...While his analysis of petroleum economics may or may not be correct, that aspect is minor compared to the fact that Iraq is an aggressor nation "governed" by a megalomaniac of the Hitler type...
...It will help deflate yet another demagogue on the American scene...
...My opinion of you as great journalists has taken a few steps down...
...In fact, the Colts won, on an Alan Ameche touchdown...
...I can read this kind of crap in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, or the Washington Post...
...Second is the issue of affirmative action and its variations...
...Obviously this social monster must be stopped cold, and reasonable alternatives instituted...
...But recognize these evils as important to all residents of our country—and fight to contain, change, and improve upon them...
...43) that reads, "The Rabbit books, when held against the fiction of their author's contemporaries, show that by loving his country more than they, Updike is understood better" was misprinted...
...The same destructive effects on English society of legally established (continued on page 54) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1990 11 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 11) pauperism as have resulted from the present United States welfare system are described...
...Robert W. Kasten United States Senate Washington, D.C...
...What had happened by 1800, even in countries where it was temporarily suppressed, was the assertion of "equality" as a prime social desideratum .. . Let me say, however, that I'm encouraged to see that historical debates are still objects of passion in this country...
...His troops have already indiscriminately slain countless Kuwaitis and foreign workers, raping the women before doing so...
...But is it really the case that "the last quarter of the eighteenth century saw democracy sweep across Western Europe...
...The Republican party really shot itself in the foot on this one...
...The Defiant Ones The American Spectator has made a grave tactical error in printing the amateurish hatchet job by Andrew Ferguson on David Duke ("The Wizardry of David Duke," TAS, October 1990...
...This is not a racist issue, rather one of human nature, i.e., economically and biologically motivated persons responding to perverse incentives...
...Witness India today in mass revolt against a preferential policy for civil service jobs...
...Colman's Cool I always enjoy TAS because it's so refreshing to read a political magazine that is informative and yet also humorous...
...The year 1800 came and went without a single functioning democracy in Europe...
...Canfield Miami, Florida Democracy and Its Apologists Michael Ledeen presents us with an article on "The Second Democratic Revolution" (TAS, October 1990) which will finish, he says, what a first democratic revolution began...
...Bethell also ignores the role of the Soviets in perpetrating the invasion of Kuwait...
...Payroll tax cuts combined with pro-savings, pro-investment tax incentives like tax-deferred Individual Retirement Accounts will expand the economic base enough to reduce the tax burden on the workers of 2025 —and quite possibly eliminate the Errata Due to an editorial error, the sentence in Thomas Mallon's review last month of Rabbit at Rest (p...
...a movement which, however different in different countries, was everywhere aimed against closed elites, self-selecting power groups, hereditary castes, and forms of special advantage or discrimination that no longer served any useful purpose...
...Well, I can assure you that you will NEVER have it so long as Republicans endorse Democrats and drive derelicts and winos to the polls to vote for liberal Democrats as happened in New Orleans on October 6! Lee Atwater of Willie Horton fame tried to get five percent of the blackvote and in the process will be losing more than fifty percent of the white vote...
...Please check the exact figures with the responsible United States agencies, if they will provide them to you...
...This type of biased journalism is out of place in TAS...
...Moreover, by effecting such a price rise, Gorbachev and his military henchmen can stick it to the United States as punishment for winning the Cold War...
Vol. 23 • December 1990 • No. 12
