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CORRESPONDENCE Squish Twists as remarkable as Col. Regan proclaims. regularly deflating those dangerous a sleepy but happy country, under the Readers might have wondered about an My reaction to it,...

...It how comfortable the citizens of the about EPA's claim that second-hand is sad Mr...
...ple's Revolutionary party in residence the major difference is that by degrees voting to override "Reagan's veto of a I read Mr...
...When I first citizens...
...moved to D.C...
...They are dangerous to the common government was given power, giving List Republicans" (TAS, July 1990...
...It's the old winged messenger...
...regularly deflating those dangerous a sleepy but happy country, under the Readers might have wondered about an My reaction to it, however, was just the pretensions by the best counteroffen- tutelage of the United States govern-incongruity between the text and the opposite of his...
...Terzian's words about there recently butted heads with the the People's Republic of Benin has highway pork bill...
...For that matter, about what is a hazard, regardless of if you want to subsequently amputate the evidence...
...finally) little Mary Jo...
...The The American Spectator note about Henry Fairlie—s`vile and ing in his assumed superiority, some- young woman who took my call hadn't bottomlessly malicious literary as- times marked in Brits...
...ment of power...
...himself...
...It is a very straightfor- ning trifecta in the elder Spectator...
...their pockets with city money through leadership post, whereas his five-year point of what the public conversation Mr...
...2020 N. 14th Street, Suite 750 ghoulish . . . deeply insulting . . . ni- One of the greatest weapons in the 549 Box O. South Pasadena, California P. hilism . . . dishonorable . . . black hands of those who would be great in g heart...
...Fairlie...
...You state that since shady maneuver by Senator Potato some of the studies you have seen have Head...
...Epidemiological studies of wives and children of Teddy Tease smokers show elevated risk of disease Your issue of June 1990, page 20, car-and mortality...
...Fairlie did not know that in People's Republic of Benin must feel in smoke is a threat to the Republic, Terzian's Triumph rejecting, condemning, and dismissing the Emerging People's Republic of the motherhood, and all God-fearing "Driven" is not too melodramatic a Muggeridge, he was speaking about District of Columbia...
...He was most annoy- apprised them of your article...
...Edward Raffetto histoires des femmes cropping up conthe GOP House average of 64 on our service with insight and style...
...For Mr...
...The members of the Peo- withhold federal income taxes...
...Was it your intention to raise our negative findings, it somehow nullifies hopes and then dash them...
...Saint Thomas's Parish stantly in allegations and stories about free-market scale...
...Explanation: in 1989, What word would I use to describe Upper Marlbora Maryland the top man in our government...
...Just another in your thinking...
...climated to Washington's terrible summanent repeal of the 55 MPH limit was That character is related intimately to mer weather...
...The things you special interest group coercion, to stop said in this article were simply wrong...
...Fairlie is every bit tator serves an important role in (continued on page 40) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1990 7 40 people happen across a duck in the road...
...The American Spec- remains: (703) 243-3733...
...The concluding para- their house...
...viciousness . . . pathological in its mer- from which Mr...
...It is well established that ried the headline "Teddy Kennedy on exposure to the measured concentra- Death Row"—immediate euphoria...
...and I find grief to be appropriately ex- interesting to me in several respects...
...If you wish to smoke, to override another person's judgment by all means, smoke...
...I've been skeptical for a long time Boston, Massachusetts on Malcolm Muggeridge, say it all...
...It is with me that I could not legitimately somewhat akin to trying to teach a pig walk up to you and hit you, nor could to sing...
...incompetence, and hints of corruption, —Tim W. Ferguson pressed in the face of such a death...
...But Col...
...nimbly leap to the wrong conclusions...
...for framing, that certifies us as capable zian's tribute to Mr...
...That particular bill Henry Fairlie as grieving for his wasted neighborhood by attempting to erect a begun to turn away from the ideals of also contained repeal of the 55 MPH life, grieving for the self-degradation huge microwave tower on their proper- socialism...
...sider me a "friendly," on to the In fact, you would probably not grant problem...
...You seem to make one crucial error Then disillusionment...
...At bassy, a large detached residence on curtail services, raise taxes, raise propthe end he offered Henry Fairlie a great Cathedral Avenue in Northwest Wash- erty assessments, and cajole the United Tim W. Ferguson and Tom Miller in gift, a personal and sparkling expres- ington, D.C., is only a block from my States for more money, or threaten to "Squish List Republicans" are too sion of an insight into the man and his apartment...
...most intrusive, obnoxious, and low- regularly, and so depressingly displayed momentous dispatches directly...
...word to describe my response to Col...
...However, in are exposed to in the way of physical the most recent issue, you repeat or agents...
...Rest in peace impose a risk of cancer to anyone...
...All that most reasonable non-and using an EPA document (notori- smokers ask is that you not engage in ously obsolete upon publication), you your habit in public...
...himself a writer), and I've had several Does this mean you cannot declare it pieces of short fiction published, along to be a duck...
...Martin E. Mullen, Jr...
...My program ters had kept me from reading the last edge, their morality, etc...
...Before getting ride your own judgment, you cannot into details, let me say that I am not morally assert that you have the right a prohibitionist...
...I'm sure that only a sive possible: laughing at their absurd- ment...
...Auberon Waugh the juiciest Brit target My first complaint is with your state- you can find...
...I am also pigeon, and two of them look only at a writer (I know, everybody considers the bill and declare it to be a platypus...
...Four of them look only at the lems, without beginning a new religion feathers, and proclaim it to be a based on the Earth Goddess...
...Weber Mr...
...Terzian's tone...
...In approximately 1975 another accompanying numbers in our "Squish good-hearted man could write what ity...
...arated from it...
...Fits in pute the idea that ETS is hazardous to nicely with Bernard & Taki as a win-non-smokers...
...A deleterious nature of ETS...
...Ter- gnostic shell game...
...They flaunt being bet- closer to the nation's capital, federal and Engineering at UCLA, but I am I'm sorry that the press of other mat- ter than others, better in their knowl- grants may now be sent over by not an environmentalist...
...tions of toxins is hazardous, and does Justice done at last...
...speed limit, perhaps the decade's single and self-betrayal so flamboyantly, so ty so they could apparently receive their What a country...
...being a hypocrite and reserving the You obviously do not have a grasp right of air pollution coercion unto of the science behind ETS research, yourself...
...Four of them look at the whole CORRESPONDENCE bird, see that it looks like a duck, walks (continued from page 7) like a duck, quacks like a duck, and they finally say that it is most probably of dealing with environmental prob- a duck...
...emissions from cigarette smokers show —Francis Gannon high levels of known toxic compounds Milton, Massachusetts in the local atmosphere...
...Terzian's masterpiece gives contracting improprieties and other score of 63 was below others men- of this nation should be about...
...corrupt practices...
...The article by Jean-Paul Mier "Benin Columbia continues to fade, and in the bill votes, his performance was less I would choose the word "grieving," Growth" in your May 1990 issue was face of the unwieldy bureaucracy, the laudable...
...Telephone leads to a professional degree, suitable half of your May issue...
...In earlier or malicious except to convey some- Benin on the Potomac People's Republic of the District of years, particularly when casting farm thing important about Mr...
...Who would not weep for a person Philip Morris on their 800 hotline and His characterization of Philip Terzian's like Henry Fairlie...
...Just as you would not let my recycle a piece about Environmental opinion of what was hazardous over-Tobacco Smoke (ETS...
...Now that you hopefully con- I walk up to you and toss acid at you...
...Ken Green I wish to point out that as a journalist Los Angeles California you have some obligation to attempt to avoid misleading people, which is pret- Auberon Society ty much what your article does...
...This is —David MacCulloch akin to the following argument: ten Milicani, Hawaii THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1990...
...Many by him...
...Ter- Henry Fairlie a fond farewell...
...libertarian conservatives felt that per- the public life and issues of our world...
...with a few opinion pieces in UCLA's Now my final argument is from the Daily Bruin, trying to preach non- idea of natural rights...
...Measurements of You are forgiven this one nod...
...Vin Weber was credited with ex- that he was so wounded by Terzian's taken seriously, and dangerous to those people apparently have worked to line ceeding the party mean while in a words...
...in the 1960s, it was also Earlier this morning, I telephoned B. P. Regan's letter in your July issue...
...the ones with positive findings...
...ward issue, really...
...It would not matter to you articles regarding smoking, since to be if I happened to like the smell, or like candid, I've always assumed that you being hit, or like the feel of acid on my are simply trying to rationalize away own flesh...
...company stooges, and some scientists Week in, week out—year in, year who smoke and use amazingly poor out—I find Auberon Waugh a percepmethodology, very few scientists dis- tive political and social critic...
...Science" in the July American Spec-Hugo S. Cunningham graphs, showing Mr...
...Tyrrell, I ask you, your own limbs, go ahead, I won't stop one who bemoans governmental coeryou...
...Regan did, and of course I'm sad weal in that they have so often been rise to a powerful leader whose top Rep...
...In the first instance, the Benin em- the government is continually forced to Tom Miller Terzian was humane and generous...
...Muggeridge has Perhaps you'll hear from them...
...Regan has missed the who affect them as well...
...heard of it (she hadn't heard of George sault . . . despicable . . . defamed . . . tremendous benefactor of America All correspondence, manuscripts, Jean Nathan or H. L. Mencken either, repulsive and indefensible moral cow- Henry Fairlie might have been if he had threatening letters, subscriptions, alas), but she seemed grateful for the ardice . . . incessant and unrestrained allowed himself to drink from the water and so forth should now be sent to: information...
...How the hell did you dig scientist, I think I can assure you that up the quote from Waugh pere...
...me the right to light foul smelling inI have been receiving TAS for a cou- cense at the adjacent table to you at a ple of years, and have overlooked your restaurant...
...Perhaps quick to condemn Republicans for work...
...So, Mr...
...First, as a hair across it...
...An Anti-American Poment that "there is no consensus" in seur," by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., TAS, the scientific community about the June 1990...
...It is not supercilious while, the economy of the Emerging scored a very respectable 75...
...But, enough chitchat, let's get cion, and individual coercion, and down to brass tacks...
...More with the exception of some tobacco than two decades old...
...they have at least seven Bull's Eye well worth a marginal one-year extra his public posture and cannot be sep- window air conditioners installed in You hit the target with "Zealots Against serving of pork...
...But what a has moved...
...Fairlie's judgment Perhaps more importantly, I realized tator...
...Arlington, VA 22216-0549 . journalistic barbarism"—left this world is their wielding of supe- . . . I am a doctoral student in (hold me driven to read whatever had educed riority—real or assumed—as an instru- (Since the magazine is one mile on to your hat) Environmental Science such passion...
...Meanafter joining the leadership, Mr...
...A rainy day column...
...Here also, there are tioned less favorably and in fact below zian has performed a proper public —Fr...
...His character was involved in same members have also become ac- Washington, D.C...
...You would feel that you your own inner dislike of your own have the right to determine what you somewhat revolting habit...
...You would agree coercion to the liberal masses...
...The American Spectator cilessness . . . odious and indeed drunk...
...Those —C K 7}ler return social engineering project...

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