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CORRESPONDENCE Macdeth Watch The creativity of Francis X. Bacon's "The Tragedy of Macdeth" (TAS, August 1994) brought the tears and jaw ache that only the funniest stuff could cause. —Charles W....
...I witnessed Mr...
...But this is just speculation...
...de Francesco Woodruff South Carolina Yale Kramer's article did a good job of recounting the actions at Omaha Beach during the 1944 Normandy invasion...
...The penetration of Germany was thus Casey's brainchild, and his success...
...Obviously, these responses cannot all be true...
...Jack C. Sloan Denver, Colorado Omaha Beach Revisited Yale Kramer's article "Day at the Beach" (TAS, August 1994) made for an excellent read, but accuracy compels me to point out that as numerous writers before him have done, he mistakenly refers to the D-Day amphibious assault at Normandy as "Operation Overlord...
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...The innovations he developed enabled OSS to provide significant tactical intelligence desired by U.S...
...But research soon revealed that the amount of dust injected into the stratosphere in even the worst-case scenarios of a nuclear holocaust was far too small to engender the lethal deep freeze that was popularized by Sagan in 1984...
...The atrophied ultra-right hemisphere of my left-leaning brain was flooded with the pristine light of conservative reason...
...This is certainly the case in Virginia and Texas and has been going on for some time in Pennsylvania courtesy of Senator Arlen Specter and in California due to Governor Pete Wilson...
...Bard of Rome...
...Then I thought about it and realized that I shouldn't take umbrage at the word fringe ("fringe coalition of small moderate and liberal home-schoolers"), since all of us home-schoolers are called that by devotees of the mainstream public school system...
...M. McArdle Gibsonia, Pennsylvania It comes as no surprise to read in Terry Eastland's "Future Limits" that conservatives have concluded that the task of reducing big government is hopeless...
...Is it unreasonable to ask in what way would state governors and legislatures suffer by being the source of funds for Congress instead of the whining supplicants for federal largesse that they are in the present circumstance...
...The architects of the Rebel government also included term limits and gave the president the line veto...
...Our current elected and appointed officials, from the lowest petty bureaucrat to the president himself, have sworn an oath to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States" and violate this oath every time they exercise, or permit others to exercise, powers not granted by the Constitution...
...Kuwae Vice President, General Manager Hitachi America, Ltd...
...from whatever PC University he's hiding in, I hope you can pry him loose occasionally and convince him to let us see more of his genius...
...Metairie, Louisiana In his otherwise excellent piece, Yale Kramer ventures on ground he knows little about, as evidenced by his crassness on the subject of France and the French...
...For only ancient Rome hath depth enow to take full measure of—Caligula Clinton —and his Beltway scumerati...
...It is worth reading at least twice and really should be played at Stratford-on-the-Potomac...
...Eastland notes that Article One of the Constitution clearly enumerates a very few powers held by the Federal government but does not mention that the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights quite explicitly forbids the Federal government from usurping power in other areas...
...he'll talk your ear off...
...In essence, Tyrrell argues that the Democrats should get their own house in order before "selflessly warning Republicans of the danger posed to them by the Christian Right...
...Blair Hunter Bradenton, Florida Quayle Quorum In his review of Standing Firm, Victor Gold rightly characterizes Dan Quayle's service as vice president as most skillful, full of "sound policy and shrewd political counsel" (TAS, July 1994...
...it is time for us to call them on it...
...as having "set off a version of Nuclear Winter...
...He then walked out to the pool and patio area to bask in his self-aggrandizement...
...To Dance...
...If naval bombardment had begun much earlier, the Nazis would have had more time to mobilize their Panzer divisions to the front...
...Mortan Espin Sorefkin is, without a doubt, the greatest living American...
...Referencing the article "Decontrol Freaks" (TAS, June 1994), a reader stated that Hitachi supplied the former Soviet Union with the computer-controlled milling equipment that enabled it to manufacture nearly silent submarine propellers during the Cold War...
...Elements of the last three responses appear in R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s most recent ventilation against the Democratic Party ("Houston Democrats," TAS, August 1994...
...86 The American Spectator October 1994 Twenty-five years later around 3,500 have died (a fraction of the number of U.S...
...and (D) Democrats have their own extremists to worry about...
...a work of art...
...John M. Bloodworth, Jr...
...I submit that we do not need any new parts to the Constitution...
...if you're two steps ahead you're a leader...
...Unfortunately, a bigoted lout like Mr...
...But thy mighty mirth doth question pose, that lies beyond the state or fate —of stubborn orbs in garden hose...
...Blountville, Tennessee I don't know how it is in the Ozarks, but down in the Tidewater we have a saying "If you have to explain yo' gentility, YOU AIN'T...
...Nevertheless, Standing Firm is perched on the best-seller lists, and being read by a whole bunch of people who don't share Mr...
...What the spokespeople for the "fringe coalition" home-schoolers sought was educational freedom, and they saw Farris's attempts to speak on behalf of all home-schoolers as threatening—just as Farris saw the Miller amendment as threatening...
...The citizens of the states retain what the citizens of the United States have lost: that most important vote of all, the right to "vote with their feet" when the policies of a The American Spectator October 1994 85 given locale prove intolerable...
...The global fallout from this cataclysm at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been traced to the enormous (Ohio-sized) impact crater in the Yucatan...
...Robinson's idea of Caribbean heroes...
...I shall always remember the exact spot on the freeway that I heard the words that Peggy wrote and the spine-tingling excitement of hearing a conservative code-word from the lips of a man who couldn't say "Ron-h-ald Reagan" without choking...
...Mallon have encouraged manned exploration of the heavens for decades, despite the increasing sophistication and effectiveness of unmanned probes...
...Sarah G. Hultgren Portland, Oregon "The Tragedy of Macdeth" was worth the price of a year's subscription...
...Burton P. Brodt New Orleans, Louisiana Now, finally, we know who wrote Shakespeare's plays...
...Hail the Sun...
...Irvine, California Miss Peggy Reviewers of Peggy Noonan's books (Thomas Mallon, TAS, July 1994) usually seem disappointed that the goddess of the Normandy beaches and a thousand points of light turns out to be human after all...
...Years ago his odd view of what constitutes human rights became apparent when he failed to speak out against Julius Nyerere's assault on the Indian community in Tanzania, an assault Mr...
...The Clinton imitator heard in Rush's parodies would be a great Macdeth...
...Kenneth Mitchell Citrus Heights, California There is a precedent in this country for the super-majority method proposed by Mr...
...How far off track must wayward media people drift before losing professional courtesy privileges...
...To have myself tested for Venereal Disease...
...How would we pay for all the programs already in place and what could we do about the national debt...
...It was the January 1994 edition and it was simply chockfull of what I later discovered were "sentences" and "paragraphs," etc...
...military forces in the war's closing months...
...b) The religious right is not an extremist group at all...
...Bond cannot see beyond his own Anglophilia...
...The cancelees will be back...
...Has he ever wondered how this country would have fared had it been overrun by a neighbor, not across 3,000 miles of ocean, not across the English Channel, but right on its doorstep, with twice its population, twice its industrial capacity, only one ally able to make only a token contribution, and mere 500 miles of depth of territory in which to make a retreat...
...Eastland for passing spending bills...
...This was not totally true...
...for the present situation...
...Mine, based on having been parachuted into occupied (continued on page 81) 12 The American Spectator October 1994 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 12) France as a member of an OSS team, during those dark days when countless acts of heroism were performed by ordinary people, makes me hope he is a better psychiatrist than he is a historian...
...That plays into the hands of the purveyors of liberal Kultursmog...
...Nor can we expect those who get what is taken to vote against getting more of it...
...Little Rock, Arkansas David Brock replies: Every reference I can find to the Stephens' investment in Worthen Bank refers to a "controlling interest...
...Brock restates in his article an often-repeated falsehood—that Worthen Bank of Little Rock is controlled by the Stephens family...
...Whatever the political motivation behind the demonization of both Casey and the Reagan administration's approach to winning the Cold War, the weight of empirical evidence now available in the U.S...
...Tut, tut, Victor...
...However, it fell short concerning the actions of naval forces...
...homicides per year...
...Most importantly, the taxing power was vested within jurisdictions from which those who disagreed with the actions of the states could readily remove themselves—without becoming expatriates...
...Roger Soiset Lilburn, Georgia Hang Him by the Deep Throat Why was David Brock so gentle in his review of the latest Bob Woodward book (TAS, August 1994...
...Quayle for defending himself against the overheated "gaffe patrol" that tormented him throughout the Bush years...
...However, the Religious Right has been much more successful at colonizing the GOP at the local level...
...Even though I am regarded by most who know me as a logical, sensible person, when the subject of repealing the Sixteenth Amendment is raised the effect is instantaneous: he's gone off his rocker say the incredulous stares...
...Instead, let's make our decisions about the direction of the space program on the basis of the facts and real policy analysis...
...And by the way, the group is vehemently socialist, radically so in U.S...
...We need a few laughs these days...
...Clinical professor of psychiatry" Kramer's assertion that today's preoccupation with multiculturalism, sexual equality, et...
...Only subsequently did Carl Sagan and his colleagues postulate that globe-enshrouding dust and soot clouds could arise from a nuclear war...
...Their actions enabled many troops who were pinned down at Omaha to finally advance in towards the bluffs...
...Bond trots out the usual line about the six counties being "part of the United Kingdom...
...I wonder what his personal experience has been to make him write such enormities...
...Salinger's true character in the late 1960s at a hotel on the island of Nassau, in the Bahamas, where I had the occasion to observe Pierre walk over to the hotel desk and ask that the hotel "page Mr...
...It deserves to be expanded to full length and produced for the stage—or at least the audio tape market...
...what's needed is to enforce the excellent Constitution that we have now...
...Ever since DNC Chairman David Wilhelm and DCCC Chairman Vic Fazio came out swinging against the "Religious Right" back in June, newspapers, magazines, and talk shows of conservative opinion have been responding with creative fervor...
...There are several written accounts validating this...
...not to sit idly by and let moderate Republicans have all the fun...
...Chris Chantrill Seattle, Washington Bloodworth Gall For years Astronomers and Cosmologists have sought the elusive dark matter, that missing 90 percent of total mass required to balance the gravitational equation of the expansion of the universe...
...While he is in Britain his group sets off another explosion in New York...
...George Warren Schiele Orlando, Florida Home School Ties When I read Grover G. Norquist's "Home Rule" in the June Spectator I was, initially, offended...
...The long Winter was over...
...The asteroid impact hypothesis was adduced by Alvarez in 1980...
...Perhaps he was just hung over from swilling too much Bass Ale...
...Though n'er in praise thine anthems ever be Of folly decked in foetid flowers of fame, The foulest deeds of 'Deth and Hillary By contrast to thy wit seem limping, lame...
...I am a member of the "fringe coalition of small moderate and liberal home-schoolers" that opposed Michael Farris's position, but I'm neither a moderate nor a liberal...
...Upon reading it, I was unsure whether I was reading The American Spectator, or some liberal rag in which mere poetry is enough to justify outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars...
...Where the Sixteenth Amendment is concerned, why do we find it virtually impossible to even talk about it...
...And we could have had a permanent satellite orbiting Jupiter to study the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 up close...
...Louis, Missouri "Macdeth" is a classic...
...And we could have a real heavy-lift booster capable of launching an actual ballistic missile defense system...
...The battleships and cruisers with larger drafts were confined to deeper waters, but not so for the smaller, more agile destroyers, or "tin cans," as they were called...
...The funds that have disappeared down those black holes could have been spent on satellites to continuously monitor the Earth's environment, thus debunking a dozen ecomyths about ozone, global warming, and other dementia...
...Future historians must remember that the main key to this invasion was surprise...
...Biggs, Jr...
...Intra-party squabbling has been particularly severe in Orange County, California, where Republicans reign supreme, but where moderate local elected officials and party activists have been fighting a rear-guard action against the Christianization of the county's GOP constabulatory...
...Just don't ask him about it...
...However, when he explained to me why it was encrusted with sesame seeds, I had to believe him...
...There will always be a special place in my heart for Peggy Noonan...
...In fact, I met several veterans at the 50th anniversary celebrations in France who told of how their ships maneuvered in harm's way, sometimes in only nine feet of water, and rattled the enemy along the coastline (and without spotters ashore...
...Cheddi Jagan, Fidel Castro, Maurice Bishop, and the Sandinistas have all won his praise and support, and Rwanda is but the latest African trouble spot he has ignored...
...The tin cans came in close to the beach during the Omaha part of the invasion and delivered accurate gunfire on a wide range of targets...
...John S. Morgan House of Delegates Annapolis, Maryland Paging Pierre I thoroughly enjoyed Christopher Byron's recent article on Pierre Salinger ("Who'll Start the Rain...
...Tyrrell could well have a point...
...When it is suggested that a repeal act entitling the federal government to a share of state and local taxes initially equivalent to its current share of total taxes, then reducing that share by, say, one percent a year down to some minimum required to cover such agreed national burdens as defense, would provide a sufficiently elastic segue back to state-centric taxation, they say "Congress will never pass an amendment giving up their power...
...His historical approach is fine as long as he stays with the events of June, 1944, but when he attributes cultural changes and the loss of individual characteristics (courage, honor, duty, loyalty and comradeship) to our less than spectacular foreign policy in Korea, Vietnam and Somalia he goes too far...
...Read the book again and see how those "political friends" treated Mr...
...Two pounds in a one pound bag would seem to describe this self-serving rascal very nicely...
...The question barely needs asking...
...Of course not...
...Second, Kramer says that "from 6,000 yards offshore it was difficult to fire accurately through the mist, dust and smoke...
...It was assumed that the principal taxing powers would remain whether they are most accessible to voters, with the communities and-the states...
...Nevertheless, this hasn't stopped pols and pundits from using as many of them as can be squeezed into a single rebuke of Wilhelm and Fazio's clarion call to electoral arms...
...As we learned with that other well-intentioned amendment, for Prohibition, sometimes there is no solution but to admit our error and correct the mistake with repeal...
...Having given our nationally elected officials the means to buy the favor of their constituents, we cannot realistically expect them to be consistent about anything except buying as many favors as they need to be elected...
...The government takes the latter course...
...The group commences to bomb shopping malls and the like, blowing people to bloody ribbons...
...However, he later falls prey to a common journalistic misconception when he disparages Mr...
...I read with interest the letters printed from two Irish, oh excuse me, American readers...
...That would have been consistent with Casey's accomplishments during the Second World War...
...Not only did they fire effectively, but drew enemy fire on themselves...
...Unmanned spacecraft are cheaper than their manned counterparts by orders of magnitude, yet the megalomaniacs are obsessed with the grandeur of the Apollo years...
...was never "forced to sell" World Wide Travel because it never owned World Wide Travel...
...Quayle...
...His idiotic statement that the people of the six counties need "protection" from the IRA is made even more so by the fact that the people in Northern Ireland most in need of protection are the Nationalist Irish, who for the crime of wanting to be Irish in Ireland have been subject to a decades-long terror campaign of discrimination, intimidation, and fiendish murder from both the British "security forces" and their Hezbollah-like proxies, the UDA, UVE, Red Hand Commandos, and others...
...c) The Republican Party is not dominated or unduly influenced by the religious right, it's a diverse and tolerant party...
...The fact is, Quayle will be the best Republican Presidential candidate in 1996...
...Nelson MacPherson Calgary, Alberta The Shelling Continues As a regular reader of your British companion magazine, I picked up your July issue out of curiosity...
...Additionally, it is my understanding that Worthen Bank sold its travel affiliate years before we made our investment in the bank...
...The cornerstone of big government is no mystery: it was the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment...
...Picture this: a group in New York State declares it represents people who, undisputed fact, held power long ago and have had a raw deal since because of "colonialism...
...I've had enough of spacey advocates who want a return to manned exploration of the heavens, all in the name of "reaching out" to our planetary neighbors—as if they were some galactic minority group...
...He nevertheless refrained from claiming full credit in his posthumous memoir, The Secret War Against Hitler, instead paying homage to his wartime hero, OSS founder William J. Donovan...
...It's the old if you're ten steps ahead you're a lunatic...
...Bacon, on Macdeth In all the chronicle of wasted time No antique pen more pointed could express What thou with thy computer didst make Rhyme And Reason of—most grim and ghastly mess...
...Gold's disdain...
...Eric Beheim Lakeside, California Simply marvelous...
...Hitachi did not supply this equipment...
...Mortan Sorefkin, who owns a deli-bakery in Spokane, Washington, once showed me what he claimed was a Congressional Medal of Honor, but which looked more like hot pastrami on rye...
...J.A...
...Jim Zeigler Lemon Grove, California "The Tragedy of Macdeth" by Francis X. Bacon is priceless...
...IRA violence is in response to this violence, not the cause of it...
...Mark Phillips LCDR, U.S...
...The Founders wisely chose not to provide in the Constitution for many national taxes save those, such as customs duties, clearly involving the nation's external dealings...
...In doing so, Gold sounds like all those blue-blooded Republicans who denigrated Quayle while looking down their noses at his unfashionable conservative positions...
...Likewise, when Sagan postulated that catastrophic cooling might lead to famine in Asia in the aftermath of the sooty oil fires touched off by Saddam Hussein's forces in 1991, natural history swiftly falsified his hypothesis...
...A member of the "political wing" of the group flies to Britain, where he says nothing of any substance whatsoever but that naturally it is the government that is obstructing peace...
...Russell Seitz Cambridge, Massachusetts Thomas Mallon's strained paean to the manned space program confused me a great deal...
...I especially enjoyed John Corry's exposition on the radical Gay Left's practice of outing suspected wisenheimers...
...Please extend my subscription lifetime, and send me the bill...
...Robinson's African idol and mentor said was "designed to cut them off at their knees...
...Saying that the pre-invasion bombardment lasted just "47 minutes" makes the reader wonder, "Why only 47 minutes...
...Everyone was impressed with the race to the Moon, of course, but we (continued on page 84) The American Spectator October 1994 81 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 81) haven't gone back because there exists no compelling, economically viable reason to do so...
...First, his only mention of naval bombardment is contained in a short paragraph that leaves the reader to believe that naval guns were virtually non-existent throughout the invasion...
...Neil G. Howland Saugus, Massachusetts Whoever wrote "Macdeth" (Francis X. Bacon of the Vatican indeed...
...Warren A. Stephens President, Stephens Inc...
...From the standpoint of Federalists, both old and new, this document was and is an improvement over the original 1787 model, minus the indefensible protections of slavery...
...Astonishingly, gratifyingly marvelous...
...To this day the loss of population or commerce serves as the most effective check on foolish governance, as exemplified several years ago by the instant total departure of truck sales from New Jersey in response to Governor Florio's ill-conceived truck sales tax...
...Samantha Liberalboots Young Milwaukee, Wisconsin Latest Recruit For months, people have been whining in your Correspondence column about the exposure you've been giving the Clintons...
...Despite failing at the last election (1992) to muster enough support from those it purports to represent to gain even one seat, the group nevertheless demands, with no mandate at all, that the New York State government should give it power...
...I disagree with you only on one matter: your assertion that Rush Limbaugh is the greatest living American...
...This shabby record prompted one Ugandan observer to note last year that Trans-Africa could more appropriately be named Trans-Soweto...
...As a minor administrative functionary of the Office of Strategic Services mission in London during autumn 1944, Casey rapidly grasped that his leaders were spinning their wheels in vain attempts at launching an espionage campaign against Germany following the Normandy campaign...
...Ken Rogers Jamestown, North Carolina Lost in Space "Crash Course," Thomas Mallon's otherwise lucid reflection on the cataclysmic impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter (TAS, July 1994), is marred by an observation that is both antihistorical and quantitatively unscientific...
...Should the government surrender power to these people, or seek to prosecute them...
...Etc...
...I. Lengel Honesdale, Pennsylvania "The Tragedy of Macdeth" is absolutely priceless—WS didn't do any better...
...Thou skeweredest with piercing, mordant words, Shade of Immortal Bard, 0 Francis X, And hoisted high upon their own petards Such scoundrels as do even angels vex...
...actually, that is my private life but I only do it to amuse my neighbors...
...Who would have guessed, for instance, that Quayle would come in fourth in the June 24, 1994 Iowa state Republican convention straw poll, after Bob Dole, Lamar Alexander, and Phil Gramm, but ahead of everyone else, including Jack Kemp, Pat Buchanan, Lynn Martin, Tom Kean, Arlen Specter, and others...
...That's odd...
...We continue to waste money unnecessarily on frequent Space Shuttle missions and the Space Station...
...For that he deserves to be applauded...
...But with the South African drama receding from center stage, I suspect that Mr...
...Paul F. Kennedy London, England I was wondering how long it would be before some rabid Anglophile would write in and attack those readers who had the intelligence to see through and criticize the British propaganda appearing in your magazine about Northern Ireland...
...However, although I took no offense, I would like to clear up a factual matter...
...Mark P. Petracca...
...Kevin Michaels Trenton, New Jersey On the Program I was understandably alarmed when a conservative friend of mine excreted a copy of your review and suggested that I learn to read it...
...This conflict erupts regularly, brought on by Republicans themselves, not "selfless" Democratic critics...
...But the states can initiate the amendment process, and assuming that anyone remembers that we are still a federation of states they have every incentive to so do...
...So for at least part of its history, in part of its borders, this country was governed by fiscal restraint...
...terms...
...is the first reaction...
...But given the perjurability of videotape—Nuclear Winter has been immortalized as both icon and neologism in an episode of "Star Trek"—it seems unlikely that some billions and billions of television viewers will ever suspect that the end of the world isn't what it used to be...
...Charles W. McGuire Willard, Missouri To Mr...
...It should come as no surprise that a government given essentially unlimited access to the national pocketbook chooses to spend from it...
...Like Ed Koch, I now refuse to discuss my private life, because every time I do, someone dials 911 and the fire marshal shows up and douses me with flame retardant foam...
...Christian Right," "Radical Right," or "Extreme Right") by Democrats have evidently struck a deep nerve among conservative and Republican politicos and pundits...
...Thou art colossus of word and wit, for a million sides, thou hath split...
...In each of these cases, the lack of military success was the direct result of artificial restraints imposed by political considerations...
...Why, they are even canceling their subscriptions...
...And of course, if we allow anyone into this country from the North who works to see Ireland united and free of British misrule, Gerry Adams in this case, we are "cozying up to a vicious terrorist...
...Bond...
...By December, he was elevated to the post of Chief, Secret Intelligence branch, and given authority over OSS/ London's resuscitated espionage penetration of Germany...
...This is false...
...But it's not just Democrats who have serious concerns about the "Religious Right" or who worry about the sanity of the Republican Party for embracing the right...
...Gold complains that Quayle is guilty of the sin of "blindsiding your political friends...
...by war's end, SI had launched 102 agent insertions, over three times that managed by the more established British clandestine services, MI6 and the Special Operations Executive...
...Naval Reserve Parma, Ohio Yale Kramer's article, "Day at the Beach," suggests that Americans today do not possess the requisite will and ruthlessness that carried the day at Normandy fifty years ago...
...As a former combat infantryman in Vietnam when unit morale was non-existent and support "back home" was reflected in the media coverage given to daily anti-war demonstrations, I can assure you that the superfluous issues of race, poverty, and anything else are promptly put into perspective when your survival is interdependent with that of your fellow soldiers...
...Had Neptune not succeeded, there would have been no Overlord...
...Well, I happen to like the work you're doing on the Slicksters, so I'm subscribing...
...Dan V. Jackson Dallas, Texas It's sad to see Victor Gold fall for the media line on Dan Quayle...
...Liberals even call me conservative—although I'm not a fundamentalist Christian—and I, like many others in the "coalition," did write protest letters to my congressmen...
...Indeed, Casey had a habit of understanding his superiors' strategic needs, and fashioning effective ways to realize them...
...Robinson realized that he was going to have to come up with a new emotional issue to pull at the heart and purse strings of his radical-chic supporters, and I don't imagine it took too long to realize that Rwanda wasn't going to cut it...
...Term limits, balanced budget amendments, sunset legislation, and the like are all worthy band aids but none are a likely cure for the cancer of national taxation...
...In her reply to David Brock's article on Travelgate (Correspondence, TAS, August 1994), Linda Bloodworth-Thomason has revealed its manifestation: Her Ego...
...These responses generally fall into four categories: (a) There is no such thing as the religious right, it's just a figment of Wilhelm and Fazio's desperate imaginations...
...The global effects of nuclear war on climate have thus retreated to what John von Neumann reckoned them to be a generation ago—de minimis, considering the carnage required to engender them...
...It is interesting to consider that the difficulty this posed to future Treasury looters may have caused the ancestors of the likes of Senator Byrd to put their fiddles down and rush to Wheeling to vote for the Union...
...Republicans have been every bit as active in sounding the alarm against the Religious Right in their party as have certain Democrats...
...He failed to attend any of the congressional hearings on Somalia, and the devastating civil wars in Liberia and Sudan seem to have escaped any serious attention...
...National Archives' OSS collection clearly shows that Casey was particularly well equipped to fashion workable solutions to strategic problems, including that of putting the boot into Communist Russia...
...Equally significant was the ability to see what had to be done, and getting on with it (El Presidents, take note...
...Adams has never been convicted of any terrorist activity, though he certainly has been on the receiving end of it, from being interned without trial in the seventies, to an attempt on his life by a pro-British death squad (no doubt "patriots" in Mr...
...Timothy Condon Tampa, Florida Outer Limits I am a little disturbed to read in Terry Eastland's "Future Limits" column (TAS, August 1994) that he believes that a constitutional amendment is needed to shrink the size of the federal government...
...Pierre Salinger...
...Bond's view) in the eighties...
...I wanted to Sing...
...The British, some of whom suffer strange mental illness causing them to perceive themselves in fact to be Indian, receive him with drooling adulation guaranteeing funds, and thus bombs, for the group and condemning the U.S...
...But I recall driving home one evening back in the early eighties and hearing Dan Rather talk about "the virtues" on his daily radio commentary...
...technically, however, it would have been more correct to say that Worthen, not Stephens, sold off World Wide Travel...
...You mean the same way those thirteen upstart colonies back in 1776 were part of the British Empire, Mr...
...Your sales people shouldn't worry...
...Changing the constitution is an inherently risky act...
...Where else are they going to read about the ins and the outs of Billy Boy's resignation in disgrace . . . ? —Pete Skurkiss Chester, New Jersey Hitachi and the Cold War I'd like to correct a point made in a letter to the editor in the August 1994 issue...
...At first, I was lost in a miasma of liberal confusion, especially when I saw that your magazine was lacking in connect-the-dot puzzles and picture outlines upon which I exercise my favorite red crayon...
...For a Democrat living behind the Orange Curtain, it's a joy to witness and reason enough for Wilhelm, et al...
...Esther Summerson St...
...Caroline S. Chase Alexandria, Virginia Beyond Macdeth Hail Bacon...
...to identify what the boss needed, and making it so...
...Your correspondents would instantly rally to the cause, I don't think...
...This was a Casey trademark—loyalty to his boss (Clintonistas, take note...
...Wilson and other moderate Republicans have successfully managed to fend off (and survive) the influence of the Religious Right...
...My own experience is that any serious attempt to reduce government in a fundamental way is beyond even the conservative imagination...
...I spoke in tongues of ecstasy known only to Peter Mark Roget and William F. Buckley...
...He refers to the asteroid impact that occurred at the end of the age of the dinosaurs (ca...
...This is not true...
...Alone among OSS/ London's staff, Casey identified the outpost's debilitating shortcomings, and developed a workable operational plan...
...I have to conclude that Kramer has no personal experience in this area...
...Overlord was actually the master Allied strategic plan for the offensive military operations designed to liberate Europe from German occupation and the eventual conquest of Germany herself...
...It is now well established that Woodward has at least one major fabrication in every book he has ever written...
...Casey then wrote a persuasive memo to outpost chief David Bruce in September 1944 outlining the pressing need to utilize OSS/London's as yet dormant capacity for pooling its fragmented intelligence assets in coordinated espionage against the Reich...
...Tarrytown, New York Encore David Brock's piece, "The Travelgate Cover-Up" (TAS, June 1994) shows how innocent bystanders are too often caught in the media wake created by the zeal to prosecute the Clinton administration in the press...
...Starstruck space mavens like Mr...
...While Stephens family members own Worthen stock, their collective investments represent only a minority position, and the family does not now, nor has it ever, "controlled" Worthen Bank...
...Stephens Inc...
...H.F...
...al., has in effect emasculated our armed forces is theoretical psycho-babble...
...Perhaps we could call them, let's see now, Indians...
...Such probes will soon be able to return samples from comets, asteroids, the Moon, and Mars...
...Bond's vicious anti-Irish bigotry is clear by his referring to the critics of the anti-Adams article as "leprechauns" hung over on "Irish whiskey...
...All honors to Francis X...
...Far from yearning to "be understood," in his memoirs Dan Quayle adopts the tone of the proud warrior fighting for restoration of the reputation that had been so unfairly taken from him...
...The proper designation of the landing phase itself, what has since come to be known as "D-Day," was code-named Operation Neptune...
...Our government is a government of perjurers and oath-breakers...
...65 million B.C...
...My question be simply this: wouldst thou, Sir, 0 pray wouldst thou soon take thy talent's task beyond Macdeth —to Rome's ancient naughty...
...This demand is not accommodated...
...Has he ever heard of Verdun, for instance...
...Quayle's only real enemies reside among liberal Democrats and their lapdogs in the national media who reserve their special contempt for him in the same manner as they did for Richard Nixon...
...MS, Gill Minneapolis, Minnesota The Great Bill Casey Fred Barnes concludes his review of Peter Schweizer's Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union (TAS, August 1994) with the observation that William Casey was perhaps more responsible for Reagan's successful anti-Soviet policy than Reagan himself...
...It considered the cosmic dust-up arising from an event a million times more energetic thanthe explosive force of all the world's nuclear arsenals...
...And we who now bemoan these present times Applaud our sharpest chronicler of crimes...
...He has never put in an appearance at any of the National Press Club gatherings of Non-Governmental 84 The American Spectator October 1994 Organizations operating in Africa, nor did he seem to notice last January when sixty unfortunate political prisoners suffocated to death in one of Omar Bongo's ghastly Gabonese jails...
...The future archive of the Reagan years may well confirm that Casey ran true to form as DCI, and that he was not merely a prop in Bob Woodward's ventriloquist act...
...Ben Gardner Hull, Massachusetts Rascal Randall Chris Caldwell's suggestion ("Aristide Development," TAS, July 1994) that Randall Robinson was primarily interested in restoring Aristide to power should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Mr...
...Donald R. LoreIli Wilton, Connecticut Behind the Orange Curtain Recent attacks on the "Religious Right" (a.k.a...
...The Confederate Constitution contained a provision that required a two-thirds majority of both houses to ,pass major appropriations legislation...
Vol. 27 • October 1994 • No. 10
