Coorespondence
Coorespondence - Chill Factors Arriving as it did near the eve of Halloween, Grover Norquist's article ("The Coming Clinton Dynasty," TAS, November 1992) was a chilling tale appropriately aimed at conservatives...
...two atomic bombings...
...If the answer is as easy as Mr...
...The sawmill left Soledad, and left ninety people jobless...
...Having been an ardent P.J...
...He may not like Rush Limbaugh, but he can't hide from the fact that liberalism is the direct cause of nearly all of the nation's major problems...
...Jaffa cites a passage from the Speech on the Oregon Bill (June 27, 1848) that exhibits Calhoun "taking Jefferson's words in an utterly mistaken sense...
...Rayburn Watkins Louisville, Kentucky...
...I can make things better...
...The former do not see them as ever haying been there at all...
...Frum's ideology is apparent from his definition of the "legitimate" middle class, which "derives its income . . . from commerce and entrepreneurship, [not] from government employment...
...The Democrats have learned in the years after Watergate how to craftily usurp the powers of the presidency...
...I stand by my theme: California regional air agencies exist to subvert local government in the name of no-growth environmentalism and New Age public health...
...local grocery stores and neighborhood retail bakeries are exempt...
...and¡ªmy personal favorite¡ªa British musical production that combines the works of Stravinsky with the music of the Sex Pistols...
...In five paragraphs of copy he managed eleven of them . . . without ever once touching upon a substantive issue...
...basin breathe the dirtiest air in the nation...
...mass famine...
...The system, now-used successfully in Europe, will be a cost-effective and environmentally safe means of reducing emissions...
...AQMD employees are out in the field helping the business community understand and comply with the rules...
...Harrison's book is not that it banks too much on government, although I admit I think it does...
...area¡ªup to 3 percent between 1988 and 1990, according to the United States General Accounting Office's study¡ªthe majority have stayed...
...Harrison says, the question cannot be very hard...
...The gist of Reel's writing was that safety and stability for ordinary citizens in such neighborhoods as those defined by Arthur Avenue was the provenance of fanoosh...
...Millions of people who are tired of liberals harassing anyone who believes in morality, faith in God, and protecting our children from drugs and pornography...
...The article states that the AQMD has banned bakeries, destroyed L.A.'s furniture industry, and has cost residents billions in revenue...
...True, it will cost each resident to clean the air¡ªless than a dollar a day...
...AQMD has also set up a loan guaranty program to assist small business owners with the purchase and installation of air pollution control equipment...
...This view, moreover, is shared in full by Judge Robert Bork, who has written that "Our constitutional liberties arose out of historical experience...
...Working people care about environmental quality when they draw honest paychecks...
...Carol Chilson Fairfield, California Tom Frangicetto must be the dumbest reader of The American Spectator, judging from his frenetic and irrational letter...
...and the beginning of six years of foreign occupation during which all the basic institutions of society, from landholding to the place of women, would be reordered by the conquerer...
...Michael R. Murray Upper Darby, Pennsylvania New Enemies, A Love Story This letter is to express my sincere appreciation to P.J...
...This word for The Mob appeared some years ago in the New York Daily News, in a column under the byline of Bill Reel...
...Now it has only small businesses and housewives to regulate, the same parties to whom it should have been offering market incentives to discourage pollution twenty years ago...
...Kush's expanded operation in Orange County will employ up to thirty workers...
...He must wear out multitudes of rubber gloves sifting through this garbage in the media, but I and millions of other people are grateful he voluntarily took the job...
...That the safeguards of liberty in our Constitution do not have "any intrinsic worth" and that they have no founda tion whatever in any "idea of natural justice" is positivism of the crudest kind...
...For my money, the most empty-headed, half-baked, politically correct, college-campus-socialism-spewing, bleeding-heart lefties this side of the UC Berkeley English Department can be found on NPR...
...Time and space preclude a detailed description of the perpetually daffy liberalism that pervades NPR's programming, but suffice it to say it is no coincidence that their moronic ravings are carried almost exclusively by college radio stations...
...Mind-boggled, however, best describes my reintroduction to our ultimate destination, the Bronx's Little Italy, centering on Arthur Avenue, and a meeting with an old friend, Frankie, whom I had not seen since' 1945...
...The electric companies pay hundreds of millions to the air districts...
...But the daily return of $1.10 to each investor, compounded by the benefits that simply can't be quantified¡ªimproved health and clean, clear skies¡ªare worth the investment...
...As fate would have it, I received my first issue of TAS on the evening of the recent presidential election, and had I not been cheered by O'Rourke's "1992 New Enemies List" (TAS, November 1992), I undoubtedly would have driven my pickup truck (Bush-Quayle bumper sticker and all) directly over the nearest cliff...
...Culture does change, as an increasingly democratic Spain, a declining Britain, and a substantial¡ªand growing¡ªblack American middle class demonstrate...
...The begged question, of course, is how this microcosm of The Bronx I knew as a kid still exists, and it is quite easy for me to credit fanoosh...
...I keep praying that someday P.J...
...Japan's transformation in the late nineteenth century under the Meiji leadership is a case in point...
...my complaint is that if "culture" is as profound a force in human affairs as he says, it deserves a less blithe analysis...
...He goes on to say, however, that this contempt "is most acutely observed in the practice of progressive jurisprudence...
...Limbaugh points the way to future converts and illustrates how attractive conservatism can be...
...The SCAQMD and the other air districts are sensitive to some businesses, usually the biggest ones, which can afford expensive air district permits...
...Concerning the proposition "that all men are created equal," Calhoun wrote: All men are not created...
...Robert J. Powers, Col., USAF (Ret...
...Those manufacturers surveyed stated "high costs for worker's compensation insurance and wages" as the most significant factor in the companies' decisions to relocate to Mexico or other parts of the U.S...
...Instead, with clean air rules, the basin is breathing the cleanest air on record...
...However, in the same speech, as Jaffa knows, Calhoun demonstrates that he understood nearly full well, at least in principle, what was meant by the Declaration's "All men are created equal" clause...
...area...
...At first I only believed Amway distributors thought like I did...
...Thirty years of work in foreign aid have taught me how intractable the problems of poverty, authoritarianism, and extreme social inequality can be...
...Mike Ryan Oklahoma City, Oklahoma My Enemies List: HUD NLRB EPA SBA FHA OSHA UMTA AFL-CIO FDIC USDA RTC ¡ªJoseph Moss Atlanta, Georgia Hot Under the Choler David Frum's reactionary choler blinds him to the message of my book, Who Prospers?, which he reviews in the November issue...
...A few years back, I, a former Webster Avenue Bronx boy, took a car tour with an old crony (residing then in Queens, since decamped to Florida) from 149th and Melrose due north to Webster Avenue and Fordham Road, the area unseen by me for perhaps four decades...
...Welsh justly condemns Garry Wills for his "contempt for the sanctity of the Founders' Constitution...
...Frum's bile to flow, there is convincing evidence that political leadership can play a crucial role in cultural change and progress...
...As an attorney working in the law enforcement field, I am even more queasy at the thought of someday reading the words: "Writing for the majority, Justice Cuomo asserted...
...and that David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed is on the mark in tracing American regional characteristics back through our colonial period to regions of pre-colonial Britain...
...Harry V. Jaffa Professor Emeritus Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School Senior Fellow, the Claremont Institute Claremont, California Peter L. Welsh replies: I now know firsthand what William F. Buckley, Jr...
...As a former Army officer, who volunteered to serve this country, I am more than a little nauseated by the thought of "The Oxford Commando" as Commander-in-Chief...
...We all knew the media was lying to us, but we were so busy trying to protect our loved ones that no one was out there checking this garbage out until Rush Limbaugh came along...
...the conquest and loss of a colonial empire...
...forced industrialization...
...Any serious reader of Who Prospers...
...There is a very big job to do here if we want to breathe clean air...
...He showed us around the old neighborhood, with its vibrant street life, luscious fruit stands, wonderful bakeries, and, most importantly, a sense of community and safety, an enclave among near-ruins not far away in any direction...
...Now I realize there are millions of us...
...But the AQMD is not so one-sided in its commitment that it is insensitive to the recession's impacts on Southern California's businesses...
...According to Calhoun, Jefferson took an utterly false view of the subordinate relation of the black to the white race in the South, and [held] in consequence, that the former, though utterly unqualified to possess liberty, were as fully entitled to both liberty and equality as the latter...
...They assume a general social acceptance neither because of any intrinsic worth nor because of any unique origins in someone's idea of natural justice but instead simply because they have been incorporated in a constitution by a people...
...I'm interested in hearing the opinion of current Bronx denizen Edward Conlon...
...are great¡ªbut it's people who are not exposed to conservative values who need to be reached...
...The fringe nature of Mr...
...The Southern California Baker's Air Quality Association worked closely with AQMD in developing the rule and area bakers have willingly worked to comply...
...Ironically, that icon of conservatism, President Reagan, had it in his purview to challenge the office of special prosecutor in the Iran-contra hearings but found it expedient, instead, to throw those who ably served him into the maws of a politically vindictive, self-accountable machine...
...To date, the team has identified several hybrid coatings that¡ªcoupled with new application technology¡ªwould emit few or no VOCs and exceed conventional coating's performance standards...
...Harrison says, I somehow doubt that his sunny prescriptions for patching up America's¡ªnotably, more Head Start and a blue-ribbon commission to recommend ways to make television more moral¡ªwill do the trick...
...But I repeatedly make the point that cultural change is difficult and slow¡ªfar from "malleable"¡ªand better measured in decades than years...
...The latter at least sees the original principles as evolving...
...A complacent electorate, leftist educators, and a liberal media have all abetted Congress in their drive to arrogate power to the legislative branch...
...If culture is as important and persistent as Mr...
...His social Darwinism and disdain of-government apparently extend to education¡ªthe principal tool of the Meiji leadership's modernization of Japan...
...only electric cars qualify for low emission registration credits...
...and that to deprive them of it was unjust and immoral...
...He could not be wronger...
...Lawrence E. Harrison Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts David Frum replies: Between 1868 and 1945, Meiji Japan endured, among other things: ¡¤ a coup d'etat dethroning the dynasty of shoguns that had ruled the country for 250 years...
...and my first book, Underdevelopment Is a State of Mind, will know that I view culture as deeply rooted and persistent...
...He now credits the AQMD with helping to keep his business in the L.A...
...But it is not as far removed as that of Mr...
...Frankie, a retired streetcar motorman and bus driver, lives with his wife in the same apartment they first rented in 1941, in a clean, decent, and obviously safe building...
...it scars our lungs and worsens the condition of those suffering with serious respiratory diseases...
...Although the word "government" may cause Mr...
...But at the root of human progress is a world-view that says, "I can change things...
...why more people now believe Anita Hill...
...What gall...
...Until then, please accept my late addition to the Enemies List, and my thanks for helping me through the first part of what promise to be four truly horrific years...
...I felt it was one enemy short, however, without the inclusion of my current nemesis: National Public Radio...
...the forced imposition of a primary education system based on that religion...
...meant when he said, "If you think Harry Jaffa is hard to argue with, try agreeing with him...
...Unlike the smog-free days enjoyed in Salinas, residents living and working in the L.A...
...Air conditioning shops must jump through SCAQMD hoops, while volcanoes put tons of ozone depleters into the stratosphere_ Why didn't the SCAQMD save the furniture industry when it had the chance...
...The reason the man is popular is that he doesn't lie, that the truth rings like a crystal bell in a sea of brass bells...
...O'Rourke fan for several years, I truly enjoyed the Enemies List...
...I fail to see how the recipients of government largesse can be exploited by the rich, yet this nonsense goes unchallenged altogether too often...
...Mr...
...By the time this letter appears, either Bush will have squeaked by the hideous apparition of a Clinton presidency, or the monstrosity of a Democratically controlled presidency and Congress will be slavering to Gore the taxpayers...
...Frum accuses me of being motivated by "a striking faith in the power of social engineering...
...Taking Jefferson's words in an utterly mistaken sense, Calhoun denied that they had any importance whatever, either in establishing American independence, or in forming the basis of our constitutions, either state or federal...
...Between now and 1996, when (it is hoped) a very articulate and combative Jack Kemp will be the party's nominee, the following goals must be vigorously pursued: ¡¤ Work diligently to find a replacement for the moribund Rich Bond as Chairman of the RNC...
...deficit spending, the welfare state, taxes, regulations, pornography, ADDS . . . and yes, the liberal policies that have stalled the economy...
...According to the Bible, only two, a man and a woman, ever were, and of these one was pronounced subordinate to the other...
...When they speak of "original intent," it is Calhoun's version, not Jefferson's or Madison's or Lincoln's...
...A plan of action, not planned inaction, can correct the deficiencies of the conservative movement...
...Without clean air rules, our pollution would rival Mexico City and Santiago, Chile, where the economy shut down recently to prevent widespread poisoning from pollution...
...The air districts should not target bakeries when there are no trains to ride...
...What I did say was that Calhoun interpreted the Declaration as Lincoln did...
...Chill Factors Arriving as it did near the eve of Halloween, Grover Norquist's article ("The Coming Clinton Dynasty," TAS, November 1992) was a chilling tale appropriately aimed at conservatives like me, who are thoroughly disgusted with George Bush...
...Rubout Edward Conlon's "Mob Stories" (TAS, November 1992) is an excellent read, but I'm curious that his only mention of Little Italies comes in an aside concerning their "disappearance...
...the forced imposition of a new religion, emperor worship...
...Frum would apparently have us do, be passive witnesses to the carnage of the survival of the fittest...
...Dr...
...My complaint against Mr...
...Air Bag "Clean Air's Dirty Politics" (by Robert J. Ernst III, TAS, October 1992) mentions the South Coast Air Quality Management District...
...rebellions against the coup that amounted to civil war...
...public misconceptions about the writings of Hillary Clinton...
...Rule 1153, which regulates bakery emissions, affects only the large, commercial wholesale bakeries...
...Justice Brennan, that The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is now dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principle to cope with current problems and needs...
...the good news is that it is equally malleable...
...Irrespective of the contempt for natural law, however, my point was that the liberal jurisprudes, unlike their conservative counterparts, contemn the notion of an enduring meaning to the various provisions of the Constitution and that this latter contempt necessarily undermines the rule of law...
...Mr...
...Create more avenues of communication that will allow the expression of con servative values and economic theory to be encountered by the populace at large even if this means buying blocks of television or starting new cable stations nationwide...
...will train his sights on NPR...
...His fundamental misreading is captured in his observation, "The bad news is that culture is infinitely important...
...As is amply demonstrated in this fine article by Mr...
...Thanks to agencies like the SCAQMD, the only real growth industries from Los Angeles to Soledad are looting and bureaucracy...
...The American Spectator, National Review, Insight, the Conservative Chronicle, etc...
...Nevertheless, if Jaffa doubts that there exists a contempt for such principles at least equally severe on the part of liberals, I need only refer him to the latest public consideration of natural law, the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings...
...The SCAQMD conducts warrantless searches of unfriendly businesses...
...the razing, once by earthquake and once by enemy bombing, of the capital city...
...Harrison says, then that list of events should suffice to alter it, at least somewhat (although many wise observers of Japan wonder how much the country has in fact changed since feudal times...
...The former does not render moot the thesis of the article...
...While a handful of furniture manufacturers have left the L.A...
...Margil W. Wadley Methods Research Manager South Coast Air Quality Management District Diamond Bar, California Robert J. Ernst III replies: Years ago the SCAQMD made its deal with major polluters...
...In a partnership project, the California Furniture Manufacturer's Association, Southern California Edison, and the AQMD are working to develop low volatile organic compound furniture coatings that will rival today's commercial coatings...
...O'Rourke (and all of the unsung heroes at The American Spectator) for preventing my untimely death...
...and their cooperative efforts not only kept the 13-year-old business in the area, but made it possible for Kushwood Manufacturing to expand...
...I have never heard it before or since...
...Even the place where I had my first pizza at age eight still functions under its old name, although considerably gussied up from sixty years ago...
...I'll never forgive George Bush for ignoring our principles and assuming our vote, but thanks to Grover Norquist, I'll do my part to keep the monster in the basement for another four years...
...Shreveport, Louisiana The Rushians Are Coming I would like to respond to Tom Frangicetto's letter in the November issue re Rush Limbaugh...
...Is it any wonder, then, that George "Get Along, Go Along" Bush did nothing during his term to cut these extralegal harpies off at the knees...
...Unfortunately, within that mention, the facts are untrue...
...If the SCAQMD were accountable to those it supposedly protects, it would not offer disingenuous propaganda about improving public health by killing jobs...
...we still enjoy the scent of cinnamon...
...Justice Brennan's jurisprudence is certainly far removed from the unchanging principles of "the laws of nature and of nature's God" to which Jefferson and Madison and Lincoln subscribed...
...I find myself obliged nonetheless to correct him on certain points...
...Norquist, we are running out of room and options when our lives are proscribed by the opposition party...
...The success of Rush...
...I believe, for example, that Latin America's problems reflect a value and attitude system that has persisted for more than five centuries...
...that Japanese, Korean, and overseas Chinese achievement is rooted in the Confucian ethos, formulated 2,500 years ago, much as Jewish achievement has a lot to do with an ages-old value system...
...They do not rest upon any general theory...
...On the second question, I did not attempt to defend the contempt certain conservative scholars have exhibited toward the natural law principles underlying the Constitution...
...He then cites the words of Mr...
...If Frangicetto doesn't win title to "dumbest" he certainly qualifies as the champion name-caller...
...Justice Rehnquist who, in "The Notion of a Living Constitution," writes that if a society adopts a constitution and incorporates in that constitution safeguards for individual liberty, these safeguards do indeed take on a generalized moral rightness or goodness...
...I never asserted that Calhoun affirmed the truth of the Founders' declaration "All men are created equal," nor did I assert that Calhoun affirmed the constitutional status of the Declaration...
...Air pollution decreases our children's lung capacity up to 15 percent...
...In-house we are streamlining paperwork requirements to speed up permit processing for new or expanding firms...
...But our collaborative efforts haven't stopped with the rule...
...These examples prove AQMD's commitment to protecting both the economic and the natural environments of this region...
...I have only listened to Rush since this past August, originally only to keep my husband up to date, as his job had taken him to Oman, where Rush has never been heard (but ought to be...
...All I could think through the weeks I listened to him was, My God, I'm not the only one...
...It is not true that John C. Calhoun "shared Lincoln's interpretation of the Declaration...
...By contrast, most poor people¡ªin the United States, in the Third World, and elsewhere¡ªsee life as something that happens to them...
...Their jurisprudence represents a much more complete rejection of the Founding principles than does Justice Brennan's...
...He is the only person I've seen in print who sneers at Head Start programs...
...They are part of the AQMD's overall plan to make life better for everyone...
...We¡ªgovernment, business, the media, educators, clergy¡ªcan either try to help people understand that progress is, possible and what it takes to make progress happen, or we can, as Mr...
...When not blaming every conceivable evil on "The Bush Administration," NPR features stories on such important topics as: an American opera based on the kidnapping of Patty Hearst...
...Salinas's McCormick-Schilling spice plant and Soledad's Redwood Empire sawmill were blasted for putting, respectively, spice vapors and sawdust into the air...
...It has gone so far as to place levies on small business payroll accounts for malfunctioning laser printer ozone filters, while trees contribute much of the ozone in the South Coast basin...
...It means, moreover, that the safe guards of individual liberty and the safeguards of slavery, in the Constitution of 1787, stand upon the (continued on page 96) CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 12) identical moral foundation...
...Appalled is the best word I can come up with for the experience...
...Roaring Calhoun I greatly appreciated the kind things that Peter L. Welsh said about my writings on Abraham Lincoln and the American Founding in his review of Garry Wills's Lincoln at Gettysburg (TAS, November 1992...
...But if culture is as important and persistent as Mr...
...Food-4-Less Bakery, of La Habra, California, and the AQMD are conducting a pilot study of a new air pollution control system called biofiltration...
...We are educating business owners and offering them free, on-site consultation services...
...It is easy to see that Rehnquist's and Bork's rejection of any constitutional standing to natural rights or natural law is a direct inheritance from John C. Calhoun...
...The rules established to reduce pollutants emitted from furniture manufacturers, commercial bakeries, and other businesses are strict¡ªthey have to be, given our situation¡ªbut they are not created to drive hard-working citizens out of business, or Los Angeles...
...Anyone who says he's a liar has never heard the man speak or read his book, or is just jealous of his popularity and is talking sour grapes...
...Don Kush, owner of a furniture manufacturing company, once questioned his ability to comply with AQMD's regulations and considered relocating his business to Mexico...
...four wars, the last of them involving total mobilization of the society and ending in abject defeat...
...AQMD staff members worked with him to resolve his problem...
...Discredit all reports and sources of reports often and emphatically which seek to portray the Reagan economic juggernaut as a freak aberration, fueled by funny money and profiting at the expense of the middle class and the poor...
Vol. 26 • January 1993 • No. 1
