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CORRESPONDENCE Native Sons Readers may wonder why Tom Bethell calls me a "nativist" because I made his point about the incompatibility of mass immigration and the welfare state ("Immigration St,...
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...Cherokee Rebs As the grandson of one of Forrest's troopers (Rucker's Horse), I greatly appreciated Robert Novak's insightful review of Jack Hurst's biography of Nathan B. Forrest (TAS, November 1993...
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...We happened to be lunching with our friend, the distinguished director Peter Glenville, and chatted about this problem and the difficulty of obtaining a British actress of similar importance...
...It is true enough—as I pointed out in my article—that Proposition 174 would have set up procedural hurdles (although not insuperable ones) to regulating private schools...
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...What Israel does have to protect it from Egypt is hundreds of miles of demilitarized Sinai desert—which is not necessarily preferable to what Israel had before giving up the Sinai (such as air force bases and sophisticated warning systems in the Sinai), but still more effective than a few American soldiers with pistols...
...On November 3, California's voters had a chance' to decide whether they thought the state's public schools were indeed the "cesspools" of Mr...
...Peter Brimelow New York, New York Easy to Digest I read John Podhoretz's Hell of a Ride after I submitted my list of recommended books for the December issue ("Books for Christmas," TAS, December 1993...
...On the Golan Heights, however, there is no such expanse of terrain protecting Israel from another Syrian attack...
...Is it sensible for the U.S...
...Before co-founding the Institute for Justice, I defended the constitutionality of the Milwaukee school choice program and represented private schools in a challenge to regulation imposed by the state...
...Bolick's characterization...
...But even if he were correct and the issue were purely one of politics, both Reagan and Bush would have been better off "pro-choice" or, at the very least, "personally opposed" a la Mario Cuomo...
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...troops on the Golan is one of the most significant ways in which the proposed Israel-Syria deal deviates from the Israel-Egypt model...
...In fact, no less a personage than Nancy Reagan tried to woo her husband away from his forthright pro-life stand by arguing—in a politically correct and sensible manner—that pro-life voters "had nowhere else to go" and so the President could back off on the issue to his political benefit...
...a Somalia-like stampede to retreat from the Golan will inevitably ensue, leaving the Golan completely in Syrian hands...
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...For example, he notes a study by the Army's judge advocate general found eight of every ten homosexuals court-martialed for sexual misconduct in the previous four years had been involved in a sexual assault, and adds, "So much for all the witch hunts...
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...The meeting went extremely well, and the result was the film which was highly successful and won international acclaim including two Oscars, one for Simone Signoret and one for the screenwriter, Neil Paterson, as well as nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress...
...Since the reading(s) were during lunch, I must confess to a dessert of double-strength Maalox...
...Indeed, if the "opt-out" remedy we seek had been pursued in the desegregation context instead of busing, our nation's racial and educational landscapes likely would look quite better today...
...Voucher proposals such as the California initiative containexplicit restrictions against regulation—indeed, far greater protection than private schools currently enjoy...
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...Bolick accuses me of error, whereas he merely disagrees with me...
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...These people stated that women were committing suicide because of traumatic pregnancies, and that abortion was essential to prevent the loss of lives—both born and unborn...
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...Brigadier General Stand Watie, CSA, did not surrender his depleted little force of about 400 Cherokee Indian cavalrymen until July 1865...
...It took quite a while for word of Appomattox to reach what is now Oklahoma in those days...
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...John W. Bowling Troy, Alabama Golan Saul Lewis ("To Syria, With Love," TAS, November 1993) predicts that an Israel-Syria peace treaty "would look a lot like the current Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty," and 8 an example mentions that such a treaty would provide for "stationing [American] troops on the Golan [Heights] to serve as a buffer between Syrian and Israeli forces...
...Surely Corry knows that only a few of the thousands of gay men and lesbians investigated and summarily discharged—often because they were spied entering a gay bar, or because other gay soldiers named names when the military threatened to make public their sexual orientation—ever faced a court martial...
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...I for one appreciated the opportunity to share in the rage of "Collective Guilt" and all the while having a good laugh...
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...The Golan is less than fifteen miles wide, meaning that Syrians could cross it in minutes without Israel having sufficient time to mobilize against them...
...However, Reagan would have none of it—not even from Nancy—and maintained his position in spite and not because of political expediency...
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...So the quotation from the book, which I haven't seen, was correct and the review was erroneous in this respect...
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...Naturally, Reagan was appalled and agreed that abortion should be made available to women who could prove that they were suicidal because of a crisis pregnancy...
...to pressure Israel into making risky territorial concessions on the Golan in exchange for "security guarantees" that are unlikely to be fulfilled if the fat hits the fire...
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...However, the impulse to regulate that would have inevitably accompanied a flow of state funds into the private educational sector does not exist either right now...
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...Marines' barracks in Lebanon in 1983 (killing 241), and they will surely regard every American on the Golan as a legitimate tar(continued on page 65) 10 The American Spectator January 1994 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 10) get...
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...In fact, gays in the military and gay cops, two groups Cony seems to particularly disdain, represent the type of homosexual which the right should be supporting—those who embrace bedrock American values of hard work and personal decorum and just want the right to go about their business without being hassled by the government over their sexual orientation...
...Bolick's letter is pure rhetoric...
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...Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Editor-in-Chief Reader's Digest Pleasantville, New York Here We Go Again It's unfortunate that John Cony, in "Off the Straight and Narrow" (TAS, September 1993), can't distinguish between homosexuality, people who are homosexual, and militant gay radicals with left-wing agendas...
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...O'Rourke's roast of "The Worst Enemies Ever" was delightful...
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...School choice would effectuate the greatest transfer of power from government to individuals since the abolition of slavery...
...As for the Milwaukee school-choice system, the court did indeed strike down certain efforts by state education regulators to micromanage participating private schools but left the student-rights rules virtually intact (as I pointed out ), including the one I quoted...
...What happened was that my brother and I had wanted to cast Vivien Leigh in the film, but she was unavailable due to other commitments...
...Dick Cheney, as secretary of defense, came down hard against witch hunts...
...P. J. O'Rourke's article settled the matter...
...So I would have to call Proposition 174's failure a draw on the regulatory issue...
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...Thus will Israel be left without the Golan, and without American "protection...
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...Contrary to Allen's baseless assertion, we do not seek in any way to disturb local control over public schools or to inject the judiciary into school governance...
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...Sir John Woolf London, UK We've Met the Enemy Just finished reading P. J. O'Rourke's "Collective Guilt...
...We the people are enraged by the Clintonites and their extreme arrogance toward the citizens of this once-great nation...
...Our school-choice lawsuits in Chicago and Los Angeles seek to apply simple consumer rules to the school marketplace...
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...Herbert Zweibon, Chairman Americans for a Safe Israel New York, New York What Happened at the Top As producer with my late brother of Room at the Top, I refer to the reference to our film in your interesting article in your magazine dated October (John Simon's review of Catherine David's Simone Signoret, TAS, October 1993...
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...Again contrary to Allen's assertion, the court struck down virtually all the regulations, reasoning correctly that the program was designed to preserve the private character of the participating schools...
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...The Choice Is Ours Charlotte Allen's anti-school choice essay is filled with errors ("Choice: A Burkean Dissent," TAS, November 1993), of which I'll address the most egregious...
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...We considered several of the French and Italian actresses who were then so popular, and decided to send the script to Simone Signoret...
...Allen's concerns about regulation of private schools in a voucher system are valid but misplaced...
...On the other hand, Reagan stood tall for the unborn at a time when—supposedly—the majority of Americans, their government, and their cultural institutions favored abortion...
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...CORRESPONDENCE Native Sons Readers may wonder why Tom Bethell calls me a "nativist" because I made his point about the incompatibility of mass immigration and the welfare state ("Immigration St, Welfare No," TAS, November 1993) some 18 months earlier in National Review...
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...Whatever token force the Clinton administration would place on the Golan (and we can safely assume that neither this administration nor this Congress would agree to a force large enough and well equipped enough to fight a war with Syria) would be helpless in the face of a Syrian assault...
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...To make matters even more complicated, the Golan is literally just a few miles down the road from southern Lebanon, haven for Hezbollah Islamic terrorists who have vowed to drive every non-Muslim out of the Middle East...
...Bolick now want the federal courts to cram vouchers down Californians' throats...
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...If Israel surrenders the Golan to Syria in exchange for American "protection," it will be assuming a great risk indeed...
...Reagan and Abortion Letter writer John Romano is wrong in his interpretation of Ronald Reagan's position on abortion (Correspondence, TAS, November 1993...
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...It is true that while governor of California Reagan signed a liberalized abortion law, but that was because some nefarious individuals took advantage of his well-known compassion...
...In fact, Ronald Reagan was the first and strongest pro-life president in the abortion-on-demand era and we sorely miss him for that and, of course, other reasons...
...I find it quite ironic that early in that editorial you display the audacity to refer to "boob journalists," colleagues you harshly criticize for taking a perspective that differs from your own...
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