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CORRESPONDENCE Frostie Reception I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Carlson's "Frostie's Revenge" (TAS, September 1993) and hope that TAS will publish more of his writing—perhaps excerpts from his...
...Criticisms aside, I would like to thank everyone at The American Spectator for providing such a thought-provoking and enjoyable magazine...
...Lyons I've found that many people are under the impression that he is Shylock...
...Has the federal government made mistakes in some of these cases...
...Alan R. Huber Lakeside, California The American Spectator November 1993 95...
...Christopher Whalen Washington, D.C...
...Florence Houteff, Victor's widow, prophesied an Elijan return for Victor, set for April 22, 1959...
...I became so irritated with Mr...
...The Democrat-led "managed trade" approach being featured so prominently in the GATT and U.S.-Japan relations is being grafted onto the NAFTA through the "side agreements...
...As a cartoon of the bumbling of ATF law enforcement, it is all very interesting and worthy of attention...
...Is she trying to say that we can look forward to her being a thorn in our sides on this issue at least until 2003...
...The true perpetrators of the "anguish" of the abortion issue are the propagandist media Who refuse to simply display the argument in a factual, unbiased way...
...Peter M. Stein Lorton, Virginia Regardless of who is being questioned, I advocate and implore the use of a truly critical, confrontational, yet deferential mode of questioning by the White House press corps...
...Compare that reality to Dr...
...Harold Theisen Brooklyn, New York Rose Garden Strategies In reading Brit Hume's report on the aftermath of his Rose Garden "showdown" with President Clinton ("My Fall Into Disabuse," TAS, September 1993), I couldn't help thinking that, while juxtaposing the reactions of Clinton-lovers and Clinton-haters to the event was, to be sure, entertaining, a more telling comparison went unmentioned: namely, that of Presidents Clinton and Bush in similar circumstances...
...Their use for self-protection only leads to further violence...
...Schiffren, or any other tax expert, they would tell you that there is no statute of limitations on the crime of tax fraud...
...D. Adair Caracas, Venezuela Burning NAFTA Marshall Breger is absolutely right about Bill Clinton's questionable commitment to passing NAFTA ("Knifing NAFTA," TAS, September 1993...
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...Can anyone imagine furniture stores, appliance stores, retail clothing competing with such disparate, capricious "costs...
...In a gun-controlled society, however, a depressed person has to invest more thought and effort into creating an opportunity for suicide...
...Jersey City has non-partisan The American Spectator November 1993 87 elections, so in neither of Mayor Schundler's victorious elections did his name appear on the ballot with the Republican label...
...I think it is safe to say that had Bret Schundler run as a Republican, he would have lost...
...That's all there is to it...
...William H. Huseman Norman, Oklahoma Hill 1969 May I confer on David Clayton Carrad a "God Bless You" for his report from "Hill 1969" (TAS, August 1993...
...Worse: Lois found herself more and more caught between her son George, who from one side was trying to wrest financial control of the Center away from her, and George's nemesis, a newcomer named Vernon Howell, who from the other side was trying to wrest spiritual control of the Center away from her...
...Walter R. Hunter's well-reasoned letter to the editor (TAS, September 1993...
...Donald G. Corley, J. Lynn, North Carolina Lisa Schiffren's article was fascinating...
...Should Mexico fail to develop a vibrant economy capable of creating jobs for its youthful (median age 19), expanding (an additional 30 million in the next twenty years) population, we will see Mexico's problems increase manyfold, well beyond our capacity to deal with them...
...You see, when Dr...
...But this is the good news...
...Vernon later said that he started the fire...
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...Now whether we regard the new prophet's conduct as seduction or as verging on rape, it is, I submit, a species of abuse...
...John F. Maguire Richmond, California Rethinking AZT Thank you for publishing Tom Bethell's article, "Rethinking AIDS," in your June 1993 issue...
...Shawn R. Dodson Port Orchard, Washington Daniel Wattenberg's article on the Waco tragedy was well researched and shows punctilious attention to detail...
...Wattenberg would have kept his objectivity intact had the raid occurred during a Republican administration...
...However, with respect to the hiring of Chelsea's nanny and listing her as a guard, it seems to me that the Clinton's have engaged in criminal activity besides tax evasion...
...You just can't get over it, can you...
...The artful hand of the Northeast business establishment and the Council on Foreign Relations is easily seen in this "free trade" agreement...
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...If Bret Schundler pulls off an urban renewal, what excuse will politicians across the Hudson have for the continued urban decay of New York City...
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...The California law, in fact, serves as a model for the reproductive freedom bill now being pushed in Congress...
...Vernon said he started the fire...
...John R. Swisher Columbus, Ohio Conservatives are making a big mistake by trying to defend "Jim Jones with a Gun" (David Koresh) against the government...
...To quote Doug Mitchell: "One month later [one month after Lois received her media award] our Administration building was burnt down...
...Whence Branch Davidianism...
...In short, there is no comparable pricing mechanism to direct doctors' fees into some reasonably narrow .channel of expectation...
...It seems Mr...
...that any Adventist who rejected this new light would be "slaughtered" in accord with Ezekiel 9. Houteff's schismatic remnant, confirmed in this new light, came to be known as Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, or The Shepherd's Rod...
...Thomas F. Berner New York, New York Every taxpayer should attach a copy of Lisa Schiffren's article "Bill and Hillary at the Trough" to their next tax return as "general support" for whatever income and deductions the return reports...
...What nonsense...
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...Koresh still has the power to deceive, even from the grave...
...The Clintons' administration, despite its grotesque unpopularity, will reap unimaginable political benefits from anything approaching a solution...
...We can export some jobs to Mexico (in preference to Southeast Asia) or import poverty on a massive scale...
...In fact, estimates place the drug trade as Mexico's largest export, at $16 billion last year twice that of petroleum...
...Will Schiffren's arrows stick...
...As an incentive for subscribing, you offer something called "The Anita Hill Report," which, as expected, is simply another one of David Brock's insane, unprofessional, and slanderous diatribes against a person whom I happen to know, as I have been teaching at the University of Oklahoma since 1979 and can speak from my own personal knowledge...
...In any case, you won't have the honor of seeing me on your subscription list...
...Gross's eagerness to vilify Shakespeare's genius and prove that everyone in the play except Shylock is a bad guy that I felt impelled to write this letter...
...Listening to our current president and the noise and nostrums that emanate from his camp, I am reminded of the wonderful stories that were recounted in my American History classes about the Great White Father in Washington and the wonderful things his representatives promised to (name your favorite tribe) in return for their land...
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...is unwilling to invest in Mexico we can expect just such a result...
...The group was raided, shot at ATF agents, and its members later gave up, pleading guilty to illegal weapons charges...
...Incidentally, my late father, Charles Warburton (first actor/director of the Old Vic Theatre, London), when he played Shylock at the old Copley Theatre in Boston, was acclaimed by the critics as the finest they had ever seen...
...John Romano Indianapolis, Indiana I enjoyed reading "In Memoriam, Christina Reagan" by Edmund Morris up to the final paragraph,, wherein he mentions God and His involvement in abortion...
...Steve and Cheryl Nagel Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Schundler and Republicans As an active New Jersey Republican, I am thrilled by Bret Schundler's election as the mayor of Jersey City...
...I was in the hospital for a total of four days, received around-the-clock care, the full battery of tests and equipment usage, sonograms and X-rays, and was attended to by a team of physicians (it is a teaching hospital...
...The case of the Arkansas cult, the Covenant, Sword & Arm of the Lord, is typical...
...What, exactly, was it...
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...Besides, in 1955, Roden had experienced new light in his own turn...
...Too often, many of the press corps sacrifice questions of integrity in order to secure their relationships (past or present) with the president...
...Considering the way they are proposing to change our tax laws, the latter would seem more likely...
...A June 17 letter co-signed by NEA national president Keith Geiger warns about money being "diverted" to private schools in Jersey City and asks teachers throughout the state to authorize a deduction from their paychecks to elect anti-choice legislators this fall...
...Carlos Salinas de Gortari has bluntly warned that if the U.S...
...I mean, Vernon Howell's abuse of Lois Irene Scott Roden, the late widow of the founder of Branch Davidianism...
...I'm especially proud of the "about face" and ashamed of the media's non-coverage of another heroic action by our American veterans...
...Rex Vardeman Circulation Manager The American Spectator November 1993 89 CLASSIFIEDS PERSONALS ASIAN LADIES DESIRE CORRESPONDENCE...
...I certainly did not expect to see this kind of article in your magazine...
...A gun-owner stressed out by business reverses or family catastrophe nevertheless has the confidence to hang on for at least a few more days: something might turn up and, even if the very worst should happen, his escape remains secure...
...As for the final confrontation, Koresh (and his followers) could have left the compound safely with his lawyer during the truce and standoff...
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...First, this is now "Clinton's NAFTA," a monstrous abomination that is destined to compete with the European Commission in terms of top-down regulation of business and financial markets...
...I think Barnes, rather than Hunter, should be stopped "before he writes again" on this particular subject...
...My case is quite simply this: that the battle has yet to be waged...
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...In 1955, Victor Houteff died, plunging the crisis-minded Davidians into a real crisis...
...For us, the debate is over, and we are going about our business—the business of being the parents of our fine young daughter...
...Since the medical profession views competition and advertising as unseemly, the public is entirely in the dark as to expected charges...
...It's only fair that all taxpayers be held to the same high standards as their president...
...While writing a letter (one of his Seven Letters to Florence Houteff...
...Get serious: America is plagued by cults, some religious in nature and others neo-Nazi, who trap paranoid people into believing the government is out to get them and that they have to arm themselves with arsenals of weapons for self-protection...
...Does Mr...
...They wanted good visuals to impress the Washington bureaucrats...
...Conservatives, however, should shun such alien arguments in disgust...
...Cate of change: J CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 89) hastily conceived NAFTA, but a broader and more thoughtful framework to help Mexico find its own way to a civil society...
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...You can't tolerate the idea that an African-American woman would actually have the gall to stand up and oppose the choice of your white, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon, millionaire, spoiled brat of a president (ex-president, actually...
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...I am a left-liberal subscriber to your magazine who believes (as anyone should, regardless of ideology) that Brit Hume's line of questioning toward the president was not only appropriate but necessary and that the president's reply was inappropriate and cowardly...
...But for every Weaver case, there are plenty in which federal agents act decisively and correctly...
...Not that Attorney General Reno needed additional reasons not to attack...
...Roden rejected the talk he was hearing all around him that Victor/Elijah, presto change-o, would deposit the Waco remnant onto the Land of Israel...
...Behold the Man whose name is The Branch' [Zech...
...Rudolph MacMillan Los Angeles, California Daniel Wattenberg built a very good case for his contention that the raid on the compound of David Koresh "was undertaken to boost the agency's standing among Washington bureaucrats and legislators who fund it...
...The fire started in the corner of the printing room where all the in-print literature was stored...
...This story sings...
...Ecumenical in appeal, Shekinah won the Religion in Media Award for Excellence in 1983...
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...Wattenberg blindly follows the words of Koresh like many before him...
...On May 31, I underwent emergency surgery for acute appendicitis here in a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela...
...Holly Obernauer New York, New York A Taxing Woman Congratulations on Lisa Schiffren's excellent article on the Clintons' finances ("Bill and Hillary at the Trough," TAS, August 1993...
...Where is the ACLU, usually so feverish in its defense of the unpopular against government intrusion...
...Why then, asks Kleck, does gun-owning America have a much lower suicide rate than many gun-controlled societies...
...These businesses have some reasonable, financially based pricing mechanism...
...In 1930, Victor Tasha Houteff, a Bulgarian émigré and Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School teacher, claimed new light: .that "the harvest" was at hand...
...Hundreds of Davidians gathered outside Waco to await the event, but no show...
...And as a final act of supreme vanity knowingly chose a fiery death for his hypnotized disciples and innocent children, in fulfillment of his apocalyptic vision...
...takes issue with the veracity of the information furnished by Robert Rodriguez, the ATF undercover agent at the compound, who said that Koresh, upon learning of the planned raid, stated, "Neither ATF or the National Guard will ever get me...
...Finding some support for her view in Matronitic Kabbala, late-medieval iconography, and Raphael Patai's The Hebrew Goddess, Lois published a magazine called Shekinah, a forum in which the Holy Spirit/feminine theme was explored from a variety of perspectives...
...From all that I know of him, he will be good for Jersey City and he certainly will be good for the Republican Party, both in New Jersey and nationally...
...No play with this history can be said to be "the most perfectly constructed play in the English language...
...Where are the Hollywood elite, with their myriad conspiracy theories and their endemic suspicion of government, at least of ours...
...Right now Jersey City spends an amazing $9,240 per year per student...
...Greg M. Edwards Hamilton, New Jersey Grover Norquist's article on Bret Schundler helped to focus my thinking on a path that renegade, non-Rockefeller Republicans should follow...
...Frank Cohen Binghamton, New York Campus Sweetheart I recently received a letter inviting me to subscribe to The American Spectator...
...I assume the same would be true in the case of Bill...
...And if anyone chooses, he may find these facts at any medical library...
...David Koresh was not "right-wing," and he doesn't deserve any tears from conservatives, religious or otherwise...
...Walter D. Pope Piney Flats, Tennessee Thank you so much for that wonderful story by Richard Carlson titled "Frostie's Revenge...
...Civil liberties and the rule of law are necessary conditions for "free trade"—and these conditions are absent in Mexico today...
...But why divert the focus of attention from the villain of the piece—the self-centered monster who called himself Koresh, a megalomaniac who conned gullible followers in the name of religion...
...While visibly disappointed, Bush nevertheless acted with poise, treated the reporters with respect, and answered their questions...
...Vernon Howell's most conspicuous habit was to confess to one and all what a sinner he was, not (on reliable accounts) as an expression of sorrow for sin, but rather as a Clemencian device to gain control over others, quite as this same Howell quoted scripture not to rationalize his sexual misconduct but to rationalize his uncontrolled libido dominandi...
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...Let me point out, however, that abortions are performed by men and women and not by God...
...Morris rightly presumes that God "knows what He's about," although this is a rather glib and offhanded way to describe that particular aspect of our Creator...
...Common sense dictates that the statements of Koresh cannot be "given any credibility, yet Mr...
...The front page of July 19's New York Times had an article saying that Clinton had no home but the White House...
...Such disparities can only exist behind a veil of AMA-supported secrecy, in an environment in which most consumers don't actually pay for the services provided...
...Second, Breger, like many on the right side of the U.S...
...With regard to Daniel Wattenberg's article "Gunning for Koresh" (TAS, August 1993), I find it odd that the Feds have yet to come forward to account for the illegal firearms that Koresh was accused of stockpiling...
...Morris, Illinois...
...That article is premised on the need for "a well regulated Militia" of armed citizens, as opposed to a standing army...
...To be sure, Mayor Schundler's victories were of David-versus-Goliath proportions...
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...Toward the end of his article, Mr...
...In the meantime, Benjamin Roden, a Messianic Jew and long-time Davidian, had secured land in northern Israel, as the providential destination of a Davidian emigration out of Waco...
...In a grave oversight, Mr...
...Steven Capra Canton, MassachusettsI am inclined to believe that the various views as to the character of Shylock (Donald Lyons, review of John Gross's Shylock, TAS, June 1993) stem largely from . . . a failure to grasp the essential theme of the play...
...The dangerous incompetence of the assault itself is described in the June and July issues of Soldier of Fortune...
...Tulsa, Oklahoma 88 The American Spectator November 1993 I hope Fred Barnes's reply does stop Dr...
...Earnest's dialogue has, in fact, been praised by a century of Wildean critics...
...The crime would probably be something like misappropriation of government funds or conversion of public funds to personal use...
...The citation of Article II of the Bill of Rights as a guarantee of the right to bear arms is misleading...
...They would also tell you that what the Clintons did in failing to report a substantial amount of their income has in some past cases been classified as tax fraud...
...The description of Izzy Mitrovitch as a man "with furry eyebrows like summer caterpillars," is just one example of an expert writer getting little details down in clear English to convey a picture...
...Jim Halpin USAF Retired King George, Virginia Scout's Honor To update entry No...
...I won't stop listening to Rush Limbaugh —Mark P Petracca Irvine, California (Editors' note: The writer is a professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine...
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...it was reduced to three acts at the request of Oscar Wilde's producer...
...None have applauded its structure...
...Actually, the source for Portia's prayer is precisely what it should be in the Christian context of her appeal: "We do pray for mercy" (forgive us our trespasses), "and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy" (as we forgive those who trespass against us...
...If Koresh's people, who had already been involved in one shoot-out, had struck out again against other religious fanatics, or even their civilian neighbors, the question would have been: Why didn't ATF act sooner...
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...What has been overlooked in the Waco story is not, of course, child abuse (which induced in Attorney General Janet Reno something approaching moral panic...
...When Ben Roden died in 1978, his wife Lois brought yet newer light to the Waco remnant: that the imago of the Holy Spirit is female in gender...
...Yet conservatives should be glad to see this wretched "free trade" agreement, the progeny of George Bush and Clinton both, die a quick and timely death...
...The abuse the FBI missed is Howell's burning down of Lois's Shekinah printing department...
...Were Koresh's weapons illegal...
...Brock's incompetence and lack of interest in the truth...
...If the American people were ever given the opportunity to see with their own eyes the "residue" of every abortion,- if they were able to hear and read the positions of the pro-life leadership without it being presented as fanatical fodder, the debate could commence...
...Norquist failed to note that Bret Schundler did not run as a Republican...
...After stops at four bookstores I finally made a purchase...
...Howard Hunt Miami Shores, Florida I'm sure there was a point to Mr...
...Supermarkets...
...Hunter's comparison of doctors and the "health-care system" to "nonmedical businesses such as supermarkets, appliance stores, furniture stores, retail clothing [et all" is nothing short of absurd and insulting...
...Guy Favicchio Rhinebeck, New York I believe that if you would ask former IRS Commissioner Donald Alexander, quoted by Ms...
...Reviewer Jeremy A. Rabkin suggests "it may be gun ownership is steadying to the -nerves," but does not elaborate...
...As noted in the article, the ATF brought television news crews along on the raid...
...at which time he heard a voice say, "Sign it The Branch" (cf...
...But moving control from one political bureaucracy to another hasn't improved matters...
...I cannot help but think that Mr...
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...It was only through a similar article, also written by Tom Bethell, that we became aware of Peter Duesberg, one of the world's leading retrovirologists...
...Contrary to what Morris claims, abortion is mainly a political and not a moral issue...
...Unfortunately, Dr...
...Carlson's interminable "Frostie's Revenge...
...As you should know by now, a number of review articles by serious journalists have demonstrated Mr...
...It surely might...
...Gross doesn't even know that the "Jewish sage" who wrote the Liber Ecclesiasticus was the "Son of Sirach...
...Wattenberg questions the credibility of the ATF agent because it would not make sense for Koresh to say such a thing in light of other circumstances...
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...this, in the hope that a great Davidian assembly of Jews and Gentiles, now reconciled in Sabbatarian Adventism, would rule from Jerusalem...
...Joan E. Liebler Moab, Utah So Who's Counting...
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...Carrad's article made me proud again to be a veteran...
...They have the wholesale costs of products sold, utilities, labor costs, etc., to which they add a markup consistent with the competitive environment...
...Like its counterparts in Russia, Brazil and Argentina, the ruling elite in Mexico has become increasingly adept at separatingforeign investors from their hard-earned dollars...
...My bet is that a residence will miraculously crop up in Little Rock...
...Effective September 20, 1993, the new American Spectator customer service number will be 1-800-524-3469...
...Where are the liberal media, usually so critical of any use of force by our government...
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...Daniel Wattenberg, I only hope you fine gentlemen and gentlewomen at The American Spectator have spotless records and apostolic references...
...As the debate about what causes AIDS continues, we are finding out how few media people are minding the business of reporting the truth...
...President Salinas has silenced the anti-American rhetoric of previous administrations, opened his country to foreign investment, reduced the government's stranglehold on the domestic economy, and is leading Mexico "out of the Third World...
...Wattenberg doesn't mention that ATF regarded the charges as questionable and erroneous and that Accuracy in Media in its February-A 1993 AIM Report debunked most of them...
...During the period of time it took us to make up our minds to remove our daughter from AZT, we simply studied the facts at hand...
...Howell used this text to impose himself on Mrs...
...He suggests that the ATF decided to take out Koresh in part to The American Spectator November 1993 85 divert attention from sexual harassment charges against the agency made by the CBS "60 Minutes" program...
...They got mq once, and they will never get me again...
...We are on the side of exposing the truth regarding AIDS, HIV, and AZT, as our young daughter is HIV-positive...
...Any implication otherwise is disgraceful...
...but it is not the element of abuse the FBI missed...
...Brit Hume combines well the poise and, objectivity to report the news and the capacity and perspective to analyze it...
...Thomas E. Ryan San Rafael, California As Grover G. Norquist points out, the recent spate of Republican victories bodes well for the Republican Party and poorly for Bill Clinton's presidency...
...Rabkin's reference to freedom of choice on abortion as analogous to the right to bear arms strains at a gnat...
...Where is the independent counsel, who spent years and tens of millions to obtain a few petty convictions...
...Its hours of operation will be 7:30 AM to 10:30 PM, Central Time...
...Hunter refers to as "costs" are in many instances merely charges...
...Local sheriff's departments are no match for these heavily armed fanatics...
...The Yale professor who taught Hillary tax law either did a poor job, orelse what he taught simply did not take...
...Hunter says, "I haven't seen any patient fork over the $40,000 from his or her private bank account for coronary artery bypass surgery," without realizing it, he is talking as though that "cost" is a firmly grounded, self-establishing, factual, and actual cost (and not a charge)—as though it did not include a heart surgeon's desire to buy a new BMW, or an anesthesiologist's plan to purchase a $400,000 home, or a hospital administrator's pressure to show yet another quarter of 11 percent growth in net profits...
...and is a monument to statism and big government...
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...Hunter keep their heads buried in the sand, the worse the eventual solution, or catastrophe, will be...
...O'Rourke's "100 Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President Than Bill Clinton" (TAS, September 1993): COMPARE AND CONTRAST Carter Administration: Boycott of Moscow Olympics Clinton Administration: Boycott of National Boy Scout Jamboree —Ted Edin Edina, Minnesota Christina Reagan I must take exception to Edmund Morris's statement ("In Memoriam Christina Reagan" TAS, August 1993): "Let us admit it . . . the battle against (continued on page 85) 12 The American Spectator November 1993 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 12) legalized abortion is lost...
...Hugo S. Cunningham Somerville, Massachusetts Politically Koresh (cont...
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...This is the same thing that Democrats have been promising to their many diverse constituencies (including the amorphous middle class) since the days of the Great White Father Franklin...
...The "free market" Salinas program features a pegged currency to attract new money, wage and price controls, and other statist expedients to suppress (but not eliminate) inflation, and an odious government–big business alliance that rivals the best examples of corporatist behavior in France and Argentina...
...Ronald Reagan was no doubt touched by the tragedy of his stillborn child in 1947, but not enough to keep him from signing, as governor of California, the most liberal abortion law ever passed by a legislative body in this country...
...Its organization and teaching turn on the belief that the remnant church will always be led by one—but never more than one—living prophet...
...But all was not well at Mount Carmel Center...
...In addition, it is refreshing to see TV news correspondents with the intelligence, forthrightness, and enterprise to publish their opinion and analysis...
...Instead of formal reservations, we now have gerrymandered election districts where the Great White Father's representative has a lock on the job because that is how the Great White Father's "promise" will be kept...
...The choice issue tops a list of "Battles to Come" published by the NEA's New Jersey affiliate...
...The real issue of gun control is not whether it is wrong to take an innocent life, but whether some effort should be made to reduce the random, irresponsible use of guns in acts of violence...
...Regarding the allowances, this is taxable income, and in my opinion, the Clintons are tax evaders...
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...Case in point: Howell used Isaiah 8:3 (for Christians, a Marian text) to biblicize his mistreatment of Mrs...
...Give me your vote (land) and I will take care of you forever...
...This same anti-competitive, collusive business cabal welcomes all of Clinton's federal initiatives on trade, taxes, and health-care reform...
...What Dr...
...Thayer Smith M D. Downey, California After reading "Gunning for Koresh" by Mr...
...Although school choice is popular in Jersey City and polls taken before May'smayoral election showed 7 out of 10 voters favored the idea, the National Education Association wants to crush school choice...
...Unfortunately, Grover G. Norquist's article on Mayor Schundler's elections ("Rainbow Republican," TAS, September 1993) joihs the childlike oohing and aahing of conservative political pundits who are making superficial claims of success for their cause without bothering to understand the dynamics of those two elections...
...that as the antitypical Elijah his mission was to deliver the pre-millennial kingdom of David over to Christ...
...I ask this humbly as a veteran who did not leave the confines of the United States during the Nam conflict, but did help provide target and damage updates on a timely basis (1969-70...
...Should Salinas fail it would be a tragedy for Mexico, and a social and demographic nightmare for the U.S...
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...Hunter's second letter forces me to take the time to write you...
...The text reads: "And I went unto the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son...
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...Lance W. Alexander Lindenwold, New Jersey What recommends Daniel Wattenberg's investigative reporting on the deaths of more than eighty members of the Mount Carmel Center (Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Association) is Wattenberg's refusal to forget the principle of proportionate response that governs law enforcement...
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...We all need to get off the reservation...
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...Edward D. Lewis New Britain, Connecticut The Guns of August The review by Jeremy A. Rabkin of Gary Kleck's and David B. Kopel's books on gun control (TAS, August 1993) is an unconvincing apologia for the unregulated possession of firearms...
...doesn't have the will to stem this population hemorrhaging we can be sure they will come north if opportunity is lacking south of the border...
...Conservatives should not fool themselves as to why people like Gephardt will eventually support this deal...
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...Hunter's very revealing statement: "A 40-minute office visit in an internist's office might be $135...
...Hunter from writing again...
...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...Doc Barnes I almost completely changed my mind about Fred Barnes after reading his response to Dr...
...Joseph K. Cox Pottstown, Pennsylvania Historian Edmund Morris failed to do his homework...
...Opposition to abortion by Reagan and Bush (who used to be on the national board of Planned Parenthood) is of a more recent vintage, as is the conversion to the "pro-choice" side by Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, and Richard Gephardt...
...The health-care system's problems represent a crisis of confidence among the American people...
...He was a nut and pervert...
...The case of Randy Weaver in Idaho appears to have been badly mishandled...
...But I wouldn't expect you to mention that in your cover letter...
...After almost two years, we took our daughter off AZT because she was suffering severe side-effects which are common in many AZT users...
...Then, in an act of pure hypocrisy, Mr...
...Cliff Kincaid Owings, Maryland Daniel Wattenberg clearly delineates the legal and ethical ambiguities of the government's assault on the Waco compound...
...Or someday I may be reading about another stand-off between ATF agents and "dangerous, right-wing fanatics," but this time in Arlington, Virginia...
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...Considering the flak President Bush received for listing a Houston hotel room as his residence for tax purposes, it will be worth taking a peek at the Clinton tax returns for 1993...
...This new NAFTA structure is fashioned by closet socialists such as House Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo...
...Roden...
...Where is the congressional committee that pried into every detail of Iran-contra, including how Oliver North paid for his wife's pantyhose...
...Mysteriously, Lois's printing facility burned down...
...Wattenberg is right: "The ATF raiding party and the FBI gas attack placed Davidian children in far greater and more immediate danger than any they had previously faced...
...Morris, Illinois 61054 (Please attach address label here...
...Although I don't own a "boonie hat," I would have acted the same way during Bill Clinton's appearance at the Vietnam Memorial...
...men builded the Jewish temple...
...Two hundred and twenty-five years later, some military leaders argue that gays are incompatible with military service...
...Liberals argue that we should subject Mexico to the same conditions as those which the EC imposed on Greece and Portugal (and still holds over Turkey), before approving NAFTA...
...Would he also have us believe that the news media, who had cameras rolling, did not think this initial part of the raid was worthy of the evening news...
...Wattenberg suggesting that the ATF thought such a display would impress the folks in Washington...
...Given the deadly outcome, I would have expected, by now, a tarnished Department of Justice stumbling over itself in releasing such damning evidence to a gun-hating media—unless, heaven forbid, Koresh's guns were legal...
...CORRESPONDENCE Frostie Reception I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Carlson's "Frostie's Revenge" (TAS, September 1993) and hope that TAS will publish more of his writing—perhaps excerpts from his forthcoming memoir New Tales of the Barbary Coast, or anything else he chooses to write...
...and (2) that William Miller, for all his old prophetic light, got the normative day of worship wrong, blind as he was to the Roman "mark of the beast": Sunday worship...
...Get real...
...Query: Should not Attorney General Janet Reno have known that Howell had already burned down part of Mount Carmel Center in assessing the risk that,under a gas attack, he would burn down all of it...
...In the first place, the title is unambiguous: The Merchant of Venice, and that Merchant is none other than Antonio (though like Mr...
...Clinton, on the other hand, threw a temper tantrum, picked up his ball, and went home, thus proving once again that last November, 43 percent of us sent a boy to do a man's job...
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...But the fact remains that one sure way to win in highly urban areas is not to run as a Republican...
...The total cost of everything—surgery, hospitalization, doctors' fees, etc.—was $470...
...Yet Mr...
...This, too, was followed by questions of a political nature by reporters who, presumably, are paid to ask such questions...
...Unfortunately, career Republican politicians have made a practice of differentiating themselves from their Democratic counterparts only by reducing the size of the promise...
...Yet only 40 percent of its high school students graduate, and many who do are functionally illiterate...
...Ergo, if you confiscate all guns, the number ,of suicides will be reduced accordingly (whoa...
...Rather than letting an opportunity slide and risk being trapped in a hateful situation, he will go through with it while he is sure he can...
...Our support for the First and Second Amendments should not be translated into a defense of a former drug-using rock guitarist who abused girls and guns...
...rather, what has been overlooked is elder abuse...
...Wattenberg believe that Koresh, who claimed to be the Son of God and who ordered his male followers to become celibate so he could bed down with their wives, is one who has established a track record for making sense...
...political and business community, is mistaken about the true nature of the Mexican government, particularly its devotion to "reform...
...Clearly, he wanted to meet his maker in the apocalypse he was predicting...
...Glenn Critton St...
...Or possibly neither one took any courses in taxation...
...The bad news is the deafening silence that has greeted this exercise in mass murder...
...Seeing himself as living the Bible "antitypically," Howell went unto his prophetess and, as he later claimed, conceived a son by her...
...Government bureaucrats and paramilitary units can hardly be expected to demonstrate sensitivity to the rights of citizens, even their right to life...
...Donald Haverstrom Putnam, Connecticut High Drama Since The American Spectator has chosen to focus on dramatic criticism, Yale Kramer would do well to note ("Angels on Broadway," TAS, July 1993) that The Importance of Being Earnest was originally written as a four-act play...
...When Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court, he too made a touching statement about his childhood in the deep South, and "the nuns" that insisted he make something of his life...
...The question here is not about free markets, but about the higher moral principle of freedom...
...The author was obviously not concerned with structure as anything more than a frame for dialogue...
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...Pat Schroeder wrote (in the form letter you quoted in Current Wisdom, TAS, September 1993): Harry Williams said that "thanks to [von Steuben], the American army took the field in 1778 prepared to fight...
...If they are unable to answer your question, they will take your name and address and get back to you as soon as the transition is complete...
...Even in Orange County, California, the Spectator isn't too easy to locate, but persistence paid off...
...he found that he could not sign it, overwhelmed by the sense that the words were not his...
...but the sanctuary above, of which the earthly sanctuary was a type, was by no human architect...
...It also might be $90, $55, $108.50 or $225...
...Stephen Goth Wichita, Kansas Eager to learn "the truth" about Bill and Hillary Clinton's personal finances, I took Rush Limbaugh's advice and set out in search of the August issue of The American Spectator...
...While Hunter's contribution made a great deal of sense—right from the horse's mouth—Barnes's did not: his was at best a shallow dip into a bunch of half-truths, not unlike a foot doctor trying to do brain surgery...
...The Salinas government oppresses its people, steals elections, and at least acquiesces in the production and shipment of narcotics...
...Be assured that this process will not delay delivery of your November issue...
...In 1989, the city's schools were so bad that the state seized control...
...The answer to our "Mexican problem" is not the (continued on page 95) ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS: The American Spectator is transferring its subscription and customer service operations to Kable Fulfillment Services in Mt...
...To give a full explanation (Howell's motive for abusing Lois Roden becomes clear only in context): Davidian Adventism is "advanced" or "new light" Adventism...
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...Wattenberg fails to apply his "make sense" standard to the ATF...
...As we used to say in the sixties...
...Ellen White, Adventism's nineteenth-century founder, was the living prophet of her day...
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...That is a measure of just how badly the AMA, doctors, HMOs, medical-supply companies, pharmaceutical giants, and all the other ostrich-like organizations have done...
...We appreciate your patience...
...Up yours...
...I am, however, pleased to see that this courageous colleague of mine has succeeded in driving you fascistic, red-neck, KKKhristian KKKonservatives straightup the wall...
...Until then, in the free market of ideas, the pro-abortion position is media-subsidized, a false indicator of the state of the "moral economy...
...Paul, Minnesota I was fascinated by Gary Kleck's debunking of a favorite gun-control argument: Guns are used in many American suicides (true...
...What a terrific writer...
...If only one-third of the information in the ATF search warrant was true, Koresh was guilty as charged...
...Wattenberg implies that there is some truth to Koresh's contention that the ATF raided the compound "screaming, yelling, like Marines storming the beach," then began shooting at an unarmed Koresh who just came outside to talk...
...Failure to investigate this abuse apparently caused the FBI to miss a clue as to how Howell would respond to a gas attack...
...However minor its effect may be on criminal activity, it is hard to see how regulations on the sale and possession of guns can be objected to by those who use guns for recreation...
...Shakespeare achieved what he set out to do: he demonstrated that a man is prepared to at least put his life in jeopardy for his friend...
...Gun ownership "steadies the nerves" because it provides control...
...Unfortunately, this same criticism could apply to every other federal law enforcement agency...
...Ellen White, The Desire of Ages: "Men reared the Jewish tabernacle...
...Wattenberg's theory for the raid is very unique...
...Gross is way off-base in writing that "the very source for Portia's remarks on mercy is the Jewish sage known as Ecclesiasticus...
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