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CORRESPONDENCE The More Things Change Congratulations on the best magazine redesign I've seen in decades. Spot on. -JAMESON CAMPAIGNE Ottawa, Illinois Just received the January '96 issue of...
...Are you ready to defend faith/works salvation, praying to Mary and Catholic saints, the rosary, the mass and sacraments, the Pope as head of the Church, etc...
...You've got a great magazine...
...P. J. O'Rourke will probably hate me for saying this, but I already own his new book, so couldn't the ad for it have been swapped with the end of James Bovard's "Hear No Evil...
...Perhaps you've heard of the Reformation and Martin Luther...
...3. Ms...
...This country was founded mainly by Protestants who used the Bible rather than the Catholic Church as their guide...
...If you are going to present the Catholic viewpoint, you should give equal time to the Protestant viewpoint...
...TAS Address Changes Made Easy...
...Typefaces are highly legible and good looking...
...posted on the failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan building...
...These are not quaint and harmless traditions...
...Nor is it odd that a multimillionaire, upon learning that his ex-wife had just been slaughtered, would return home without worrying about a little luggage...
...The better question is how could a nut like Fuhrman stay on the force so long...
...The problem for a democracy is: How can the tax law be adminisThe American Spectator • February 199 6 73 tered without infringing the rights of the citizenry...
...The left, however, was successful in only one of their endeavors, the elimination of hero worship...
...Maybe you should give it some thought...
...Yet one of the detectives was a racist, and thus had a motive for planting evidence...
...The American Spectator is too level-headed, honest, and businesslike for that...
...Not so...
...0 Renew my subscription for one year (twelve issues—$35) 7I Payment enclosed Bill me later 0 At various times TAS rents its subscriber list to other organizations...
...What don't I like...
...Stein asks how a conspiracy could be kept secret for so long in an organization as big as the LAPD...
...Bovard's assertions...
...Since the TCMP was designed to dredge up as much information as possible on people, many auditors would have required evidence for every aspect of the citizen's lifestyle...
...As to her wanting to debate in print or anywhere else, good luck to you, Ms...
...I liked the old cover...
...Based on my twenty years as an Internal Revenue Agent, I can state that James Bovard's attack on the IRS is hysterical, hateful, and wrong ("The IRS vs...
...CHRISTY SHEPARD Toledo, Ohio Heroics Clarence Thomas's discussion of heroic virtues ("The Hero in Our Time," TAS, December 1995) demonstrates again why he is well on his way toward being the most clear-thinking and intellectually honest Supreme Court Justice of this century...
...Why dumb it down...
...As with any anecdote there may be another interpretation, and we cannot know if these anecdotes are typical...
...It is up to the discretion of the examiner to determine what constitutes verification...
...I have found after diligent searching a church that still practices the sublime tridentine rite...
...You insult those of us who follow the morality of the Scriptures...
...In remarks made up to impress a would-be scriptwriter, Fuhrman game-planned how a crooked cop would behave...
...SHANE CORCORAN Nashua, New Hampshire I must say that while the overall appearance is better there are several nits left to pick...
...JOHN MANGUSO San Antonio, Texas 74 February 1996 • The American Spectator It's Hard to Keep Track Tell your illustrator not to worry about the comment in last November's Correspondence regarding his illustration in the TAS Amtrak article of September 1995...
...So weak was the State's case that its supporters are reduced to arguments like the ones in Mr...
...6. Mr...
...Admittedly, these are visual creations at first blush only...
...aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy...
...With the masthead that not only listed the legal firm but gave some great historical background as well...
...TAYLOR BECK Sioux Falls, South Dakota I still prefer the "Old style...
...It is explicit libel to call me unethical...
...For example, Fr...
...The power and authority to tax is, after national defense, the most important function of government...
...DONALD L. COOKE Post Falls, Idaho Just a minor quibble with December's Continuing Crisis...
...In between lies, not wisdom, but banality...
...When Time or New York does a complete re-do, I am shocked, and hate the new look —at least for several weeks, at which time I can't remember what the old look was...
...The left itself is now the embodiment of "all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power...
...B.M...
...Keep up the good work...
...Stein cannot name any of the "bogus 'facts"' which I purportedly stated...
...However, the IRS often compounds the problem by writing regulations that starkly contradict the intent of the law, or that greatly exceed the power that Congress intended revenue collectors to have...
...What can we expect from you if the president's Bosnia policy proves to be a success and he wins re-election next fall...
...It has a pinkthemed cover...
...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...Chideya does seem to believe there is a conspiracy against blacks, and that the conspirators include racist whites, and that this conspiracy, not their lawless, violent, destructive, and self-destructive acts, is why so many black men and boys are in prison...
...I take exception to his assertion that I am a nihilist...
...Suffice it to say enlisted personnel were not alone in the loneliness and homesickness departments...
...3. Mr...
...Stein, but most jurors are a little more skeptical...
...Alan stresses that it is up to the discretion of the auditor to determine how much information a taxpayer would have been required to provide to the IRS under the TCMP...
...THOMAS PURCELL Norman, Oklahoma Benjamin J. Stein replies: With Ms...
...Miller, who also has a school named in his honor here in San Antonio, was later killed on 24 November 1943 when the USS Liscome Bay on which he was serving, was torpedoed by Japanese submarine 1-175 near the Gilbert Islands...
...Minneapolis, Minnesota (Continued on page 70) 10 February 1996 • The American Spectator Correspondence (Continued from page io) Fantastic new look...
...This reminded me of a book review by Terry Southern of Nova Express by William Burroughs (1964): "an absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy...
...I have Catholic friends...
...There is no evidence at all that such a conspiracy existed...
...Bovard states that the IRS has attacked churches "in blatant violation of freedom of religion" regarding employment taxes...
...As this is my first new look edition, I'll reserve comment till your next copy...
...As Zachary Taylor said, "Double shot your guns and give'm Hell...
...MAHLER ConFedAm@aol.com The new issue arrived today, and at first I wasn't sure what to think...
...I saw no mention in Shiflett's estimable article, however, of a minority that accounts for 15 percent of the adult population...
...Chideya on TV, I can just wish her well and change the channel...
...Ben Stein's Diary is unctuously guilt-ridden...
...The point, in any case, is now moot...
...Bovard's essay does not help...
...Stein could do was sonorously moan that "some woman cut me off...
...Thanks American Spectator, and Merry Christmas...
...Stein's article...
...The Japanese were still struggling to arise from the ravages of their late war...
...did it...
...Jose Kaimlett founded a new order in India ten years ago...
...Webster Hubbell) peering out from behind prison bars in striped garb...
...Many Catholic traditions contradict the Bible and its teachings...
...Personally, I thought there was nothing wrong with the old...
...I also went on to point out that because of his wealth O.J...
...In 1975 the Japanese condition no doubt was better but, for a sailor far from home at Christmas, no doubt it was the same familiar ordeal many others had endured...
...He had admitted to planting evidence in the past...
...In doing so, he has throughout his career drawn nothing but ridicule and contempt from the so-called black leaders of the civil rights establishment and their ideological masters among the liberal elite...
...Although I am a great fan of Mr...
...PAUL M. VETTERICK Beaverton, Oregon Health Nut Someone left a copy of your January 1996 issue in the magazine rack at my local health club...
...Stein's attempt, on television and in print, to do nothing less than lie by portraying fact as conspiracy theory is close-minded, unethical, and un-journalistic...
...4. Nevertheless, Ms...
...either they are true or they are heresies...
...That he suffered bad experiences with officers, or saw bad behavior, is probable and regrettable...
...Instead of looking sad, he smiled, and when his brother asked him why, he said, "With all this horse manure around, there has to be a pony somewhere...
...had been the killer...
...The foregoing notwithstanding, you may inform your subscription department that I am a lifer...
...But after glancing at my quickly yellowing archive of back issues, it became apparent that glossy was the way to go...
...Use of color in two-color sections is just right...
...If I should come up with additional thoughts prior to the commission of this work of art I shall be happy to share them in subsequent correspondence...
...It took me a while to figure out which magazine your revamped monthly resembles...
...The graphics, the use of color, the art, new fonts, the overall design are truly extraordinary...
...A sturdy lock and coiled chain securing Vince Foster's filing cabinet from prying, curious eyes...
...2. Attach the mailing label from your most recent issue...
...It—unconscionably—has nothing to say about Billy Dale's acquittal...
...It looked as if serious matters and biting satire might be inside...
...Bovard...
...Where are your articles on morality and religious issues written by leading Protestants such as Dr...
...Chideya as rude and confused...
...OUTSTANDING...
...I regret that I have no spare funds to contribute to this endeavor but do have some ideas as to background themes which would help better define her as a person and/or honor some of her many accomplishments...
...True social justice will not be served until illiterates are represented as columnists and members of the editorial board...
...The list is not an arbitrary one created by the IRS as implied by Mr...
...I suspect that Mr...
...Mess Attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller, who was awarded the Navy Cross for valor during the attack on Pearl Harbor, had a warship named in his honor (USS Miller, FF-1091, a Knox-class frigate) in 1972...
...There are many reasons for this discrepancy, ranging from socioeconomics to race...
...Examples of Mr...
...The caricature of Kinsley helped immensely to persuade me...
...You're a discussion show wannabe...
...1. Please write your new address in the space provided...
...Where is the pony...
...This question assumes blood was really found there, and that the blood was tested on the spot...
...However, was it a conscious or subliminal choice to emulate the Economist's cover...
...Typically, Congress writes vague and general tax laws and then instructs the IRS to issue regulations "as required...
...The new photo of RET is terrific and sexy...
...Petty Officer Robert Stethem was not the first Navy enlisted man to have a warship named after him, though this was reported in the press...
...It is much easier to read and the look is very appealing...
...By the way, it's not libel for me to describe Ms...
...The situation is made even better by the fact that the celebrant of the mass is a young priest almost certainly ordained post—Vatican II...
...I discard the possibility that your ligature is simply gratuitous...
...Southern and Burroughs were definitely the cultural elite Thomas referred to...
...It was also wildly wrong to admit "ThoughtCrime evidence" about Fuhrman's feelings about nonwhites...
...Colors and cartoons...
...This is exactly the case in my experience in spite of Mr...
...I would remind him that a lack of evidence is a weakness in the prosecution's case, not proof of guilt...
...It is not the conservative way...
...The previously classified self-employed individual may file a claim, or the examiner may issue a refund, for the share of the social security (self-employment tax) he paid in excess of the share he should have paid had he been considered an employee...
...Sproul, Pat Robertson, or Dr...
...Bovard does not want the IRS agent in this instance to find the correct tax liability...
...I asked myself, "What kind of magazine puts a journalist on the cover...
...Was it truly important to them because they thought to gain a shadow of immortality by their own personal radiance overawing the discredited individuals of the heroic past...
...72 February 199 6 • The American Spectator While Thomas's judicial opinions may save the Supreme Court from its 6o-year liberal folly, his defense of traditional heroic virtues is what may ultimately save the country from ruin...
...Thus did our good bishop brand not only the Republican members of Congress as enemies of the poor, but all those who agree with them, including members of his own flock who happen to disagree with him on what is an economic-political issue...
...As a long-of-tooth graphic designer, I know that fun little ligatures are always nice things to toss into wordmarks, and are one of many ways to justify the designer's high hourly rates...
...The LAPD kept him on the force after he told them he had planted evidence...
...Rather then being a cause of concern, the O.J...
...Well, the cover, for one...
...Alan claims my article is "a distressing example of the dialectical degeneracy of the conservative movement into extremism, demagoguery, and nihilism...
...I was shocked and repelled at first sight, but I've grown used to it in just under 24 hours...
...The damage done by this case is to make adherence to PC standards about race the new test of who will be convicted and who will go free in even the most heinous crimes...
...is black...
...SALLY VACI Marietta, Georgia Please return your magazine to its previous format...
...And dammit, I want my old AmSpec back...
...The conspiracy to plant evidence is just a theory...
...This number was corroborated in interviews with several lawyers who have specialized in IRS independent contractor cases...
...I don't find it necessary to mischaracterize my opponents in order to make my point...
...that African-Americans receive 5o percent more jail time for drug and weapons offenses as white Americans who've committed the same crime, a discrepancy which has risen over time...
...however, some could be selectively integrated into the painting with good effect...
...Should all of my ideas be used, it might well result in undue clutter and detract from the principal character's portrait...
...This quibble aside, your December issue came at just the right time...
...DAVID L. ALLEN Newcastle, Washington Please answer my question and allow me to sleep again: What does your new ligature mean...
...Do you really want to take "sides" in this debate...
...4. Mr...
...It's too bad we just can't fire the ones responsible and return...
...To toss in a ligature just for the ligature's sake is a liberal thing to do, not unlike tacking shameless pork onto an otherwise needed appropriations bill...
...Yokosuka indeed was a very depressing place for U.S...
...The Northwestern Railroad did not have a monopoly on left-hand running...
...Chideya was her rude interruption of me repeatedly...
...You'd never do that...
...DAVE BOELIO Maplewood, New Jersey MOVING...
...The evidence itself supported the defense claim...
...A lone cattle carcass multiplying itself a thousand fold at some miraculous cattle market in the sky...
...Chideya it's hard to know where to begin, but I guess I should remember a great line by Ronald Reagan about the boy who awakened on Christmas morning surrounded by a huge pile of manure...
...I very much respected our Lieutenant Frank E. Johnson, because of his invaluable example of faithfulness to his wife and children throughout the long absence from our San Diego home port...
...BILL GRIFFITH Keizer, Oregon Diocesan Blues Tom Bethell ("Priests and Conservatives," TAS, December 1995) can add the diocese of Richmond to the list of liberal bishoprics in the Catholic church...
...The one that was two feet wide and three feet high (or so I seem to recall it...
...There are those who argue that Catholicism is not even Christian...
...You," TAS, November 1995...
...I picked it up when I noticed the caricature of Michael Kinsley...
...But let me offer a defense of the officers Mr...
...My book, Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans, is a media critique and compendium of facts about black issues...
...LORENZO QUIJANO lqm@aol Normally, I hate magazine makeovers...
...Surely adult illiterates could do no worse as columnists than publisher Larry Strut-ton does as policy maker...
...Aiten Subscriber Service P.O...
...Of course I haven't had time to read the articles, but my favorite departments and columnists are still there, so I expect this month's edition to be as excellent as all of the preceding issues...
...With the budget of a medium-size American diocese, the Vatican is self-supporting...
...I spent many occasions with this gentleman at the Yokosuka base officers club, no doubt the same place where Mr...
...This point was corroborated in testimony of several expert witnesses before the House Ways and Means Committee last July...
...The source of the IRS finding misclassification in 97 percent of the cases is from the testimony of Utah CPA Craig Willet before the House Small Business Committee last year...
...Alan denies that the IRS hasattacked churches —yet the agency has invested so much of its resources going after Methodist ministers, even though a U.S...
...Oswald Spengleradvised: "Let a man be either a hero or a saint...
...Turning now to Mr...
...We "old Catholics" know this is the way to celebrate the mass and we in this Church are fortunate beyond words to have this opportunity...
...Now Read This Anent Dave Shiflett's revelation of "diversity" and the white man's burden at Denver's Rocky Mountain News ("Rocky Mountain Hire," TAS, December 1995): It is all well and good to hire women, blacks, and Hispanics to meet affirmative action goals...
...In the case of your new wordmark, such meaning or symbolism eludes, and it's bugging me...
...Furthermore, a lower rate of tax is imposed on the employer in such cases if the employer had incorrectly treated the employees as self-employed but had done so consistently and in good faith...
...I agree with Mr...
...Alan's claim that the "idiotic attack on the self-employed" derives from a 1978 congressional law, he is putting the cart before the horse...
...and send missionaries to New Guinea...
...Further, it is just not true that Fuhrman admitted planting evidence and that the LAPD laughed it off...
...One small request from a weary reader: Why can't all articles start and end in the same section of the magazine...
...Both African-Americans and white Americans, liberals and conservatives, usually find something to disagree with in the book...
...Bovard's screed is the recital of anecdotes of IRS abuse...
...McGrorty saw officers with their "hair down" (putting it kindly), helping each other while away idle time far from home...
...The Santa Fe Railroad ran all its passenger and freight trains on the left hand side, when I was in train service on the Albuquerque Division of that railroad, from 1938 to 1958...
...There is no evidence at all that he actually did any of those things...
...His reporting is Pulitzer Prize material...
...19, 1995 Hillary Rodham Clinton Portrait Committee Yale School Alumni New Haven, CT Dear Ms...
...And "irresistible new department illustrations...
...Bovard states...
...And no, Rome doesn't need our money, as Americans believe...
...If you want to examine Catholic influence and morality, go to Mexico, France, Spain, or Italy...
...I turned first to Florence King, who never disappoints, and I must tell you that whether your magazine was printed on Kleenex, the backside of recycled White-water subpoenas, or on Crane's finest wedding stock, I would rush to read it every single month...
...That's all there is to it...
...He adds that I was "furiously angry" and full of "bogus arguments" and "bogus 'facts...
...BIANCHETTA Bellevue, Nebraska Tom Bethell's "Priests and Conservatives" was right on the mark...
...If you prefer that your name not be rented please check here...
...REILLY JONES Portland, Oregon An IRS Conservative Just as some liberals have an irrational antipathy of the police and the military, so do some conservatives have an irrational antipathy of the IRS...
...A ten-month Far East tour included Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1956...
...A ghost-like rendition of Ira Magaziner and his secret host with a bony, overextended grasp for one-seventh of the U. S. economy...
...The prosecution simply failed to present any reliable evidence of his guilt...
...Tax Court has ruled that the ministers had a right to be classified as self-employed...
...The hat and gloves did not fit...
...Regarding Mr...
...An IRS agent cannot determine if the gross income the taxpayer reports is correct if he limits his audit only to the tax return...
...No fun anymore...
...It is now subject to the same glare as National Review...
...Better yet, don't do either...
...It was just a lever to make non-PC thoughts, instead of the evidence, the crux of the case...
...Therefore, neither Fuhrman nor the LAPD had any credibility with the jury...
...Thomas strongly rejects the virtue-through-victimhood philosophy that has come to pervade every segment of our society, in business, academia, law, and politics...
...McHugh: I recently became aware of your effort to grace the corridors ofYale Law School with a portrait offirst lady Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Shiny paper and light printing—hard to read and boring to plow through...
...In Silk the Supreme Court stated the "arcane" twenty common law factors used to determine whether a compensated individual is an employee or is self-employed...
...I applaud Clarence Thomas for pursuing the revival of heroism...
...Bovard does not want the IRS to collect any tax at all...
...It was wildly wrong for Judge Ito to admit Fuhrman's musings and ramblings into evidence, unconnected with any evidence of tampering with evidence...
...The older black-onwhite logo had a severity entirely appropriate to the subjects commonly dealt with, while this new white-on-hot pink thing seems more frivolous even as it aggravates one's eyestrain...
...To rne, finding the victim's blood on the defendant's socks, on his car, in his car, on his bedroom carpet—all of this is devastating and it is real...
...Evidently, it co-opted all these from the right...
...But there is no return...
...I was a less than perfect officer myself some twenty years earlier, as executive officer and navigator of the USS Kent County LST 855, a surviving World War II tank landing ship...
...I refer, of course, to adult illiterates...
...he also showed the open path back to heroism: "In a democracy where men already think they are weak, they are too open to theories that teach that they are weak, which, by making individuals think that controlling action is impossible, have the effect of weakening them further...
...And even in America we're not without hope...
...Bovard does, to interpret the First Amendment to mean that employees of religious organizations should be exempted from Social Security, worker's compensation, and unemployment insurance purposes...
...If not, you should be careful how you use the Catholic Church in discussing the moral issue in our country...
...Thomas, though a strident critic of racial preferences, correctly comes down equally hard on white men who seek to use affirmative action to secure their own victim status...
...However, when you see the Catholic Church and the Pope as the "keeper" of Christian morality and promote it as mainstream Christianity, you have crossed over into religious issues and doctrines...
...Rolled up it was great for training dogs and chastising Liberals...
...Bovard commiserates with the taxpaying public by noting "the tens of thousands of often arbitrary and sometimes contradictory regulations and rulings...
...I have always preferred the incremental approach (which, for instance, the Digest has taken over the past twenty years...
...5. Much of the rest of Mr...
...Yet the blood was not tested on the spot...
...2. The "idiotic attack on the self-employed" derives from the confusing Public Law 53o legislated in, I believe, 1978, and the Supreme Court decision, Silk Coal Company v. U.S...
...Sorry, liked the old style better...
...First, I can't say that I like the new cover logo very much...
...With that in mind, try to imagine an artist's renditions ofthe following possibilities: A deed to a tract of land issued by the Whitewater Development Corp...
...Morris, IL 610548084 1-800-524-3469 ATTACH ADDRESS LABEL HERE IMPORTANT: Allow six weeks for address change...
...Walter F. Sullivan, who just celebrated twenty-five years as a bishop, views anything smacking of conservatism as sinful, as reflected in the following statement printed in the diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Virginian, shortly after the Republican takeover of Congress: "The real ugliness in society today is not only that the poor are disliked but that they are unwanted...
...It had a tonic effect following the antics of ex-president Clinton...
...This evidence was suspicious from the beginning, as it had not been found during the initial investigation...
...personnel far from home...
...There must be meaning here...
...he is a hero in my book already...
...Chideya...
...This month's issue has no Great American Saloon column...
...that, by the admission of the Supreme Court, African-Americans are four times as likely to receive the death penalty as whites...
...This argument, that the black criminals are the victims and the white victims and whites generally are the criminals, is sickeningly perverse and contrary to fact...
...It is true that Congress often writes hazy or contradictory tax laws, and then calls in the IRS to make sense of its monster tax bills...
...But what really matters is the content within...
...Why was the left successful only in eliminating hero worship...
...While awaiting testing, O.J.'s blood could easily have been plant70 February 1996 • The American Spectator ed on the swabs, or swabs with his blood switched with those actually found...
...ALAN THOMAS Needham, Massachusetts Your new look certainly took me by surprise...
...In the meantime I wish you every success in raising funds from what must be the gullible graduates of Yale...
...The worst thing about it all is the appalling lack of good judgment shown...
...There are foundational reasons why Protestants reject Catholicism and its doctrines...
...Nahh, why bother...
...Or were they successful simply because of the tendency towards mediocrity inherent in egalitarian societies...
...The amount of blood found in the Bronco and driveway was less then would be expected if O.J...
...MUIR MUTTON Orleans, Massachusetts Primetime Stein In his article "Rooked" (TAS, December 1995), which describes a CNN forum on the Simpson verdict on which we both appeared, Benjamin J. Stein states that I said "the reason that so many black men were in jail was a conspiracy by white people...
...This year 25o young men entered The Heralds of Good News, and sixty-five young women entered his recently founded order for sisters...
...Once the defense presented the crime scene photographs of the gate, which showed no blood, the jury knew that evidence had been planted against O.J...
...But if ya' gotta emulate, you could do worse...
...Public Law 53o states that employee/self-employed issues are to be interpreted in favor of the employer if at all possible...
...It is absurd, as Mr...
...In Africa, where the Pope completed his eleventh visit shortly before his recent fourth visit to the United States, the Church has grown from two million to 13o million in this century, and Africa (which may very well furnish our next pope) now sends priests to the United States...
...What defect prevents the liberal mind from comprehending the simple fact that one can have a genuine desire to help the poor while at the same time disagreeing with liberal theories on how best to achieve that worthy goal...
...Stein also asks where 0.J.'s black bag and gloves are...
...Current Wisdom is the weakest I've seen in the one-and-a-half years I've been subscribing...
...KEVIN TRAINOR, JR...
...James D. Kennedy, R.C...
...More than any reporter that I have read, he can follow the paper trail, the cash transactions, the hidden bank accounts, whether it be Whitewater, Indonesia, or pension fund scams...
...A close Hillary confidant from the Rose Law Firm (e.g...
...Bovard complains that "economic reality" audits are too intrusive...
...Here's what isn't: Your magazine is no longer easy to read in artificial light...
...Stein, I would suggest that there is another explanation for the verdict...
...The discovery that three c.c.'s of O.J.'s blood was missing from the police lab only confirmed the obvious...
...L. HYNES Las Vegas, Nevada Portrait of a Lady Thank you for bringing to my attention the effort by the Yale Law School to raise funds for the Hillary Rodham Clinton Portrait including an appropriate mailing address (Current Wisdom, TAS, December 1995...
...I also find it telling that Mr...
...I hope you sell a lot of books, but I am not going to help...
...JAMESON CAMPAIGNE Ottawa, Illinois Just received the January '96 issue of TAS...
...God smiled on me and graced me with an assignment (MSgt USAF) to Omaha, Nebraska...
...Maybe someone at the "MTV News" department where she works could explain that to her...
...Hope the content doesn't become like "all the others...
...2. There is no such thing as a "Bureau of Justice...
...And what's with this froufrou loop betwixt the "c" and "t...
...That may work with Mr...
...Please understand that I do not hate Catholics...
...His denial that the IRS forcibly and illegally collects a tax twice in its employment audits is contradicted by GAO experts, private attorneys, and the report of the House Government Operations committee...
...TUCKER ALFORD Atlanta, Georgia Clarence Thomas attributes the death of heroes to the rise of radical egalitarianism in the 196os amongst our cultural elite...
...Simpson is the worst possible poster boy for exploring legitimate racial issues in the criminal justice system — a statement which Mr...
...JOSEPH COLLISON Danielson, Connecticut Your July issue promoting the Pope and Catholicism and now your December issue with the article, "Priests and Conservatives," and the pro-Catholic advertisement on page 49, have created such a negative reaction within me that I no longer desire to receive your magazine...
...Yet the IRS has practically completely disregarded the law...
...Congress took action in 1978 because the IRS was widely perceived to have been grossly violating the right of self-employed people to work for themselves...
...But as a general rule, I've always striven for some sort of meaning or symbolism in the ligature design, shying away from gratuitous ornamentation for ornamentation's sake...
...And American dioceses with more traditional bishops have full seminaries...
...Officers weren't immune, aren't made of stone, and were aware what their crews endured, as Lieutenant Vander of the USS Packer wisely and responsibly demonstrated to one of "his men," Michael McGrorty...
...The next time I see Ms...
...3.Return this form to us at the address listed below...
...You're opening a pandora's box if you do...
...Even the letters to the editor about the Pope article were all positive except one about birth control (which, to my mind, is irrelevant compared to crucial areas of disagreement...
...Another old standard bites the dust...
...Discuss the need for morality —Christian Christian morality—but not as it's proclaimed by the Catholic Church...
...The statement that the IRS has found misclassification of employees in 97 percent of its audits is absurd —where did the author get that figure...
...It is just not true that Fuhrman was in enough places to plant the blood everywhere it was found...
...Otherwise prosecutors will have to continue to argue that "we lied to you yesterday, but today we are telling you the truth...
...I don't think TAS really is the best forum in which to debate religious issues and Christian doctrine...
...Stein was setting up a straw man—a black conspiracy theorist—which I am not and will not be portrayed to be...
...Bovard's errors include: 1. Regarding TCMP audits, the author states that "taxpayers will be required to provide documentation and sworn affidavits" for all return items and "married taxpayers will be required to show the IRS auditor a copy of their marriage certificate...
...TIM KIRKBRIDE Duluth, Georgia You've lost all your distinction and character—the new form is awful...
...The use of process color sparingly is a nice improvement, but I hope you'll never be tempted to overdo it—and end up looking like one of Limbaugh's ties...
...Do you really want to promote Catholicism...
...Not the previous style, I mean the "old, old style...
...The GAO also subtly noted that "Congress has given no indication that it believes the distinction between self-employed worker and employee should be eliminated...
...Overall, the publication still maintains its stoic, even prosaic appearance, which I've come to love and appreciate...
...Stein, on television, radio, or in print...
...Whom may the Church ordain...
...The most outrageous evidence was the blood found on the gate...
...They now operate a leprosy center, two general health centers, three minor seminaries, two major seminaries, and five schools...
...The antidote is again the classic, the heroic—Homer, Plutarch...
...Simpson because O.J...
...To remedy that, I am more than willing to discuss race and the criminal justice system, or any other issue, one-on-one with Mr...
...I also think it is good to join with them when promoting conservative causes...
...This reversed the current of traffic, and right-hand running then took place, from there into California...
...In fact, the one point at which I explicitly interrupted Mr...
...ROBERT R. JACOBSON bobtherep@aol.com To change a successful product is madness...
...The poor are the new enemy, the scapegoat...
...But though the hope and promise of Vatican II degenerated into a Gnostic "Spirit of Vatican II," and ordinations in this country decreased by seventy percent, it should be emphasized that these figures apply only to North America and Western Europe...
...Stein conveniently forgot...
...Purcell's devilish letter: Conviction in a criminal case rests on a finding of "guilt beyond a reasonable doubt," not guilt beyond any doubt at all...
...Now it looks like "all the others...
...How arrogant of Americans, who have only five percent of the world's Catholic population, to think we can dictate to Rome...
...instead, I pointed out that, according to the FBI and the Bureau of Justice statistics, African-Americans are incarcerated at rates exceeding their commission of crimes...
...The track crossed over at that point via an overpass...
...But if you persist in elevating the Catholic Church and the Pope as the spokesman on conservative tradition and morality, you need to give differing viewpoints a chance to respond...
...The Legionaries of Christ, founded in Mexico during the persecution, recently doubled their seminary in Connecticut and purchased seminaries in New York and Canada to serve the two thousand seminarians now studying...
...Box 655, Mt...
...FARAI CHIDEYA New York, New York In your December issue, Benjamin Stein claims the jury acquitted O.J...
...He seemed sufficiently startled by my refusal to be misrepresented that, when the host returned to him to give him a chance to expound at length on his opinions, all Mr...
...Leave such discussions to those who know what they're talking about...
...You're self-promoter enough for both of us...
...R.K...
...If only more Americans would make such a choice, the smothering banality of public discussion today would dissipate...
...Bovard's essay is a distressing example of the dialectical degeneracy of the conservative movement into extremism, demagoguery, and nihilism...
...Kudos...
...Re January '96 issue, here's what's good: Your e-mail address...
...You see this very clearly in the so-called reforms under consideration...
...The answer, a magazine that takes pundits as seriously as it takes itself, came to me when I read just two items: your McLaughlinesque opener lambasting President Clinton, and the list of your editorial board members...
...Hats Off There is, fortunately, one last thinking American left that is truly an investigative reporter, and that is James Ring Adams...
...In my mind, that's a good thing...
...the IRS announced an indefinite delay of the program a few days after my article appeared on the newsstand...
...And complementing the striking (but reader friendly) design is some of the best reportage and commentary you have provided in a long time...
...None of it has anything to do with whether O.J...
...And I suspect that Mr...
...Since they are quite good and appropriate for artistic license, I enclose a copy of my letter for your enjoyment and that of your readers should you choose to publish it...
...James Dobson...
...Re-classifications of self-employedindividuals to employees do not result in double taxation as Mr...
...For instance, he asks how O.J.'s blood got on Nicole's front step before Fuhrman arrived there...
...BETTY LINS Houston, Texas I just received your January 1996 issue with the new layout...
...WILLIAM SCHULZ Managing Editor, Reader's Digest Washington, D.C...
...They even employed him as a detective, where he would have a great deal of contact with evidence...
...trial should be seen as sending an important message to the LAPD—if you want a conviction, don't plant evidence or commit perjury...
...Although I am short on funds and thus am unable to contribute to this endeavor, I did have some thoughts on various themes that might be incorporated into this inspired commission which I forwarded to the point of contact at Yale...
...Appealing to whom...
...I'm sure that if he had been calm enough to worry about such a trivial piece of property, his opponents would have argued that this was also proof of guilt...
...Nov...
...Alan is correct in stating that Public Law 53o declares that the issue should be interpreted in favor of the employer if at all possible...
...Stein on one issue...
...A forum like the one we both participated inwill not allow for an in-depth airing of the issues...
...Libel laws are also probably a conspiracy against her...
...Examiners in most instances would likely verify simple items like filing status by accepting the taxpayer's "oral testimony...
...Double track extended from Dalies, New Mexico, twenty-seven miles west of Albuquerque, to Mile Post 412 west of Ashfork, Arizona...
...That is because there were none...
...What a wonderful list, from thirty years ago, of all the bad things that the American left wanted to eliminate from the American right...
...It is spectacular...
...That said, the exception to my rule is your new issue...
...RICHARD W. GRAF South Salem, New York I received the January '96 "new look" issue yesterday...
...It had dignity...
...Allan Bloom thought the latter to be true...
...This is fact and was obvious to anyone who saw the show...
...TCMP audits require that the examiner verify each item on the return...
...Our ship's captain was a former Naval aviator, grounded for less than perfect vision...
...RICHARD ALAN Manderson, Wyoming James Bovard replies: Mr...
...Name: (Please Print) Address: City: State: Zip: Date of change: L VCAFRM The American Spectator • February 1996 75...
...Worldwide, ordinations are increasing faster than new seminaries can be built...
...The solution is for congressional demagogues like David Pryor to write tax laws as they are supposed to instead of forcing the IRS to do so...
...McGrorty said he hated...
...Chideya's quotes about the conspiracy are quoting me, not her, as she failed to notice...
...The General Accounting Office reported in 1977 that the IRS "tends to classify as many people as possible as employees, thereby subjecting their earnings to (tax) withholding...
...The prosecution's case was totally dependent upon the jury's belief that the evidence was not planted...
...WILLIAM F. FUCHS Bena, Virginia The American Spectator February 1996 71 Thank you very much for Tom Bethell's wonderful article on Catholicism...
...Yet the evidence in this case could have been planted by a single detective...
...Stein was because he had jumped the line from truth to deceit and characterized my views as "conspiracy...
...You have truly pulled it off...
...It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one's virtue and advancing one's wellbeing that has led us into a society in which welfare and quotas are "civil rights," government handouts are "entitlements," and payments to girls having babies out of wedlock are "compassionate," while hardworking, ambitious people are "greedy," punishment of crime is "oppression," and an independent thinker who stands for courage and self-reliance is dismissed as an "Uncle Tom...
...I cannot begin to tell you how appreciative I have been to be able to read his in-depth reporting over the last two years and also amazed that he has not received more notoriety for his efforts...
...LEON MCKENZIE Indianapolis, Indiana Gone Navy Michael J. McGrorty's "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" (TAS, December 1995) refreshed memories of my own 1956-57 Navy experiences in Yokosuka, Japan...
...It was collected, probably on cotton swabs, and stored in an evidence locker...
...1. My main complaint with Ms...
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