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CORRESPONDENCE Gentle Ben Ben Stein's article, "Requiem for a Madam," in your January 1994 issue touched me deeply. We live a very confusing and morally tilted world these days, and it is...
...God bless you...
...Just for the record, Attorney General Norton is not male, but rather the first female attorney general in Colorado's history...
...It has been no secret that from day one I have been opposed to the construction of the airport...
...it consists, rather, of Guns 'N' Roses, Madonna, 2 Live Crew, Michael Jackson, Toni Morrison, Joan (continued on page 77) 12 The American Spectator March 1994 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 12) Collins, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jonathan Demme, and John Rawls...
...Aid in the form of free supplies of food has had this effect in India and elsewhere, and has discouraged local food production" (p...
...I suggest that the Yankees in Westchester County try our way...
...Thank you for your continued contributions to informed public debate...
...Perhaps we should include a wider range of enterprises, certainly yours, in our future petitions...
...Koop...
...na Murdoch Hamilton Merion, Pennsylvania God and Man at Stanford I'm rather honored to be among your "assorted jackasses," having perused your magazine (Current Wisdom, TAS, December 1993...
...obert Bailey Weems, Virginia Acid Test In reviewing the December issue's "Current Wisdom," I have come across something that I wish I had caught the night it occurred, October 2, 1993...
...To reassure: We do call upon God regularly at Stanford, seeking the gift of wisdom for our institution and its people...
...Koop's characterization), I found Mr...
...Cunningham's letter in the article entitled "Chicken Koop...
...T. Bauer, a leading critic of foreign aid, missed it...
...What I am keen on being corrected to your readers is portraying me as an enemy of Christianity to the extent of describing it as an illness...
...aul Farley Deputy Attorney General State of Colorado Denver, Colorado We'll Always Have Paris After having my Yuletide considerably cheered by David Brock's scathing portrait of a profligate Clinton, I was made uneasy by David Brooks's position in his anti-France GATT article ("Never for GATT," TAS, January 1994...
...The illness comes when Christians fall short of the standards of Christianity, as manifested perhaps in the Crusades, the Inquisition, state-organized kidnapping and slavery, forced or pressured conversion, colonialism or genocide whether on the shores of America, Australia,' Hitler's Germany, or currently in the former Yugoslavia...
...Edward Norden published an article titled "Allah in L.A.," of which he devoted a large segment to myself...
...On a sunny Sunday afternoon lastJuly my neighbor saw a raccoon in his driveway...
...There is very little he hasn't noticed on either end of the corrupt policy misleadingly called foreign aid...
...I can scarcely ever remember hearing or reading such an arrogant, self-righteous ad hominem attack in my life...
...For example, in Equality, the Third World...
...Even with the anticipated March 1994 opening of DIA, I remain opposed to the airport...
...An efficient young man in uniform appeared the same day to make sure that all of the local dogs had been vaccinated...
...I enjoyed your thorough and well-documented treatment of the Denver International Airport matter...
...I am no Francophile, at least not specifically, but I am not so concerned that the French rock industry is insipid as I am that their general culture (as the German and British) is more intelligent and artistic than ours...
...Outreach Office Islamic Center of Southern California Los Angeles, California DIA: Dead on Arrival In the December 1993 American Spectator, Michael Fumento reported in "Federico's Folly," his article on the Denver International Airport (DIA), that the entire Colorado delegation had lent its support to the proposed project...
...so far off the truth . . ." Where did that come from...
...Steven D. Howard Ocala, Florida The American Spectator March 1994 77...
...In this short passage, we read of young Hillary's first car, and of a "dislike" her battery had for her car...
...Java's wound healed and she became the neighborhood heroine...
...Attorney General Norton's adherence to the rule of law prevented an additional billion taxpayer dollars from being added to...
...He concludes, "You are mean spirited . . ." Good grief, talk about pots calling kettles black (except here the kettle isn't black...
...In my mind, Mr...
...Koop's reply to Mr...
...That book was published in 1981, but the material was first written in the 1970s...
...The reply was prompt, "positive for rabies...
...As a person who devotes his life to building bridges between people, I feel such portrayal to be damaging to my mission and I request publishing this letter in your magazine...
...Bauer is one of the intellectual giants of our time...
...Far from being "mean spirited" (Dr...
...As for now our "culture" . . . does not present an image of man as the highest pinnacle of creation, but one of a confused animal driven by lust and controlled by politicians who supposedly know better than we...
...Hassan Hathout, M.D., Ph.D...
...Fumento noted: The state attorney general found in an investigation that MDC had sold the city 100 acres for the airport...
...Java had been vaccinated against rabies but got a booster shot...
...It is more fun...
...I am sure this seems the most compassionate thing to do, for the poor battery's sake, but had young Hillary the good sense to merely seek professional advice, she would have learned that the car likely had what is known as a "dead short" somewhere in the electrical system...
...It was placed in a plastic bag and next morning sent to the health department...
...She said the battery would run down if left in the vehicle overnight...
...Java was bitten on the face but forced the raccoon to climb a tree...
...and Economic Delusion, he wrote that "another form of specific aid distorts relative prices in the recipient economy and so discourages particular activities...
...M Rodgers Sierra Madre, California Although the January issue included a number of more important and enlightening articles, I wish only to comment on Dr...
...It was subsequently rejected by United, who located their new facility elsewhere...
...Edgewater, Maryland Lord Bauer Rules Tom Bethell's superb column on how food aid harms recipients contained one inaccuracy that should be corrected ("Exporting Famine," TAS, December 1993...
...The proposal was then rewritten, most notably by making it subject to anndal appropriations...
...Instead of building a separate 53-square mile facility some twenty-five miles east of downtown Denver, Stapleton International, just five miles outside the city, could easily have been expanded...
...James G. McFadden AUS (Ret...
...On page 48, Mr...
...Rocky Raccoon Geoffrey Norman's "Stop Me Before I Don't Shoot...
...It appeared clumsy, confused...
...Also, I have enclosed a copy of a formal legal opinion this office rendered regarding a DIA matter not reported in the article...
...heldon Richman Cato Institute Washington, D.C...
...Perhaps, if our country returned to teaching real values and real subjects in our classrooms, a newer, more positive American culture would emerge...
...One shot from a .22 dispatched the sick animal...
...Cunningham's criticisms stand unchallenged...
...obert C. Gregg Dean of the Chapel Stanford University Stanford, California Muslim Outreach In your issue of December 1993, Mr...
...I have not checked his earlier work, but the point is surely to be found there as well...
...Brooks contends that French "hysteria" has more to do with national identity than economics, and in that he is entirely right...
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...I hope you find this information useful...
...Such a problem will cause exactly what she described, and fixing it would have solved all of young Hillary's battery woes...
...Jim Bell Woodland Hills, California Did Koop read the same letter I did...
...I have never seen much of an identity, other than a negative one, in the products of our entertainment industry...
...Today's American culture has no place for Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Ernest Hemingway, Tom Wolfe, Andrew Wyeth, John Huston, or Ayn Rand...
...I assure you that as a Muslim I fully respect Christianity and believe in it and in the true teachings of Jesus whom the Quran describes as the Spirit of God and His word that He bestowed on Mary...
...They get coopted by the liberals and become hostile to their one-time allies...
...It's a public works project, not a public necessity...
...I am referring to Larry King's weekend with H. Rodham Clinton...
...In making the largely valid observation that the left has noticed the perniciousness of aid more often than "conservatives" have, he stated that "P...
...Cunningham's letter a sincere attempt to express concerns (which I share) and seek clarification...
...I would like to forego some inaccuracies and amputated quotations that Mr...
...He also found that "MDC Holdings and its officials committed numerous criminal violations...
...As one who was deeply influenced by Dr...
...It is yet another example of a wasteful and unnecessary spending project that Colorado could easily have done without...
...We are not pioneers, rather city people, retired, and now living in a delightful rural area...
...She has bravely set about trying to fix this "tragic" problem I cannot help but wonder, if her solution to a dead short was to remove the battery and keep it warm, how far out will her solution be to our current "crisis...
...jobs...
...the DIA price tag...
...However, I would like to note one misstatement of fact...
...He is a fine, fine writer...
...Java, the family dog, saw it also and attacked...
...We threw a party for her, presented her with a citation, a purple heart (wounded in action against the enemy), and a supply of goodies...
...Is it really my vapidity in the interview passage you quoted (specifically, the absence of an explicit acknowledgement of God) that galls, or is it the presence of attention to religious and other kinds of diversity that are part of Stanford, of my work, and of our society...
...Is this what happens to "conservatives" who get D.C...
...But Bauer has pointed out that harm many times...
...tephen M. Stroff Editor, The Music Box Cincinnati, Ohio Koop KO'ed I was deeply disappointed by the petty non-response by C. Everett Koop to the letter from Gregg L. Cunningham ("Chicken Koop," TAS, January 1994...
...Joel Hefley Member of Congress (Coloradoifth District) Washington, D.C...
...Numerous cost overruns, lower passenger traffic estimates, and the instability of the airline industry lead me to believe the airport is destined to be a white elephant that will have to be bailed out by taxpayers and airline passengers...
...The rest of us had Bourbon...
...While the construction project created a number of temporary jobs, in the end it's the taxpayers and the travelers who will bear the brunt of its high cost...
...I am deeply disappointed in Dr...
...In response to Cunningham's polite and mildly worded criticism and encouragement, Koop snaps: "It surprises me you were a state legislator...
...Her solution was to remove said battery every night and take it with her to her room and keep it warm...
...While I admit that the French—arrogant, rude, isolationist, and chauvinistic—make an easy target for ridicule, I do not see the ascendance of American "culture," in the sense that it exists today, as a positive thing for Europe or Asia...
...It concludes that a proposed plan to provide special tax treatment to United Airlines for establishing an aircraft maintenance facility at DIA violated the state constitution...
...We live a very confusing and morally tilted world these days, and it is refreshing to see someone point it out as honestly and clearly as Mr...
...It is artistic and personal "freedom" at the level of a voyeur watching rutting pigs: unprincipled, antihuman, unartistic, socialist, and anti-mind...
...Enter 1993: A now middle-aged Hillary says that our great nation has a whole host of problems, among them a "collapse" of our health care system...
...in the December issue prompts me to tell how we do it in Virginia...
...But the thought of a larger, more modern airport was too good for the mayor and governor to pass up...
...Koop's book (co-authored with Francis Schaeffer), Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, it is very disheartening to see the former Surgeon General stooping to this level...
...Norden reported, although I acknowledge his editorial artistry...
...Christianity is a religion of love and peace, and it would be a better world if its followers lived it and abided by its noble message...
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