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...The fact that, as Hamilton-Merritt notes, some 150,000 Hmong are now living in the United States, indicates very substantial residual concern in this country for the people who had once soldiered at our sides...
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...If they were betrayed, as contended — fairly, I think—by the author, that betrayal occurred when the U.S., having ignored flagrant North Vietnamese violation of the 1973 ceasefire, departed ignominiously in 1975, leaving our allies to their fate...
...In fact, the Clinton administration has at times suggested that decentralization will increase the costs of government as greater resources will be required for the federal government to investigate alternative environmental management options and monitor local activities...
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...I can not thank you enough for the article on the American betrayal of our Hmong allies...
...Bovard's tactic reminds one of the law enforcement critics of the left—Jesse Jackson, for example, who labeled a New Jersey cop "an assassin" when the officer shot and killed an armed black teenager...
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...In addition to defaming Heath's reputation, you have embarrassed the organization by calling into question the discretion of a man who built the Dallas Cowboy offense...
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...Queenan should either stick to book reviewing or he should become a liberal politician where ad hominem is the weapon of choice...
...To do otherwise is like requiring taxes only from those who voted for the winner in the last election...
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...I share the author's concern at the prospect of brutal treatment for a brave people stigmatized by a Communist government for wartime collaboration with the United States...
...To these ends I read Joe Queenan's review of Bill Gates's The Road Ahead (TAS, February 1996...
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...PETER L. HEINE Little River, California FBI Guy As an avid reader of The American Spectator, as well as a James Bovard fan (I read his excellent book, Lost Rights), I was quite disheartened to read your hatchet job on the FBI ("Hear No Evil," TAS, January 1996...
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...BILL THOMS Gloucester, Massachusetts Byron York paints a devastating picture of Vice President Gore's "reinventing government" initiative...
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...Patsy Thomasson swore under oath before Congress that the cost of the task force totaled $211,000...
...Financial exposure arises if "social investments" produce sub-par returns, or if a whole deal goes south, a real possibility for projects typically financed by ETIs...
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...For instance, the report suggests that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration "deputize" workers in private companies to assist in enforcement activities...
...Memos show the White House used World Wide Travel as early as April 1993 for task force travel...
...Reinventing government should have been about reassessing the proper role of THE COLOR OF DISCRIMINATION IS CHANGING IN AMERICA "The New Color Line has the makings of a forceful and convincing case...
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...SAMUEL HALPERN Alexandria, Virginia Reinventiveness Byron York's article about Al Gore's reinventing government scam ("Big Al's Big Scam," TAS, February 1996) continues your tradition of providing information that the "mainstream" liberal media chooses to ignore—although it could be that the release of misleading and inaccurate information by the Clinton administration is so commonplace that it is no longer considered newsworthy...
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...Nashville, Tennessee Homage to the Hmong Congratulations on Jane Hamilton-Merritt's excellent article on the Hmong ("Another Ally Betrayed," TAS, February 1996...
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...Targeting Social Security James Ring Adams accurately describes the consequences of the misguided government policy that promotes "social investing" of pension funds ("Pension Pincher," TAS, January 1996...
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...Healthgate In light of recent revelations of Hillary Clinton's "deviations from the truth" regarding the White House travel office, it's time to take another look at the boondoggle of the president's failed Health Care Task Force, as first reported by Byron York ("The Health Care Paper Trail,", TAS, March 1995...
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...According to a GAO report, the White House has spent at least $500,000 of taxpayer money to keep information from the public...
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...The author's description of recent developments devolving on the Comprehensive Plan of Action, including mistreatment of the refugees in Thailand and Laos, and bureaucratic malfeasance in both the United Nations and the State Department are, frankly, beyond the range of my personal knowledge...
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...The idea that local communities are capable of designing and implementing their own environmental protection initiatives seems never to have crossed EPA bureaucrats' minds...
...Pleszczynski's Last Call column on Heath Shuler ("Bad Sports," TAS, February 1996...
...Free details: ENGLISH ROSE (Dept...
...NICE SINGLES with Christian values wish to meet others...
...A drum heat of articles such as yours may be a start to awaken Americans to the debt they owe...
...D.L...
...The Washington Times "[The authors'] historical overview...is the book's greatest strength...
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...He states that the fiduciary provisions mandated for pension plans under ERISA were a congressional response to corporate "pension plundering...
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...A local news item on TV this morning mentioned that some locals took a dim view of his latest idea—that of curbing violence on transit buses by having local gang members ride regular patrol on them...
...Regardless of its focus on Clinton and Arkansas, Adams's article records what happens when government gets a license to mess around with real money, in the form of pension plan capital...
...While many may argue about whether his products are the best available technologically, he has unquestionably been the most successful in getting his product to dominate the market in spite of his competitor's use of government coercion against him...
...Here I sat, having just resubscribed, aquiver at the prospect of RET Jr...
...I like the idea of a young Southern man getting the best of a bunch of old Yankees like Jack Kent Cooke and people with funny alien names like you...
...As a former business magazine publisher, I particularly enjoy your use of color, and, of course, the eye-catching new covers which should spark newsstand sales...
...Queenan presented the reader with a list of his irrational, ad hominem thoughts about a filthy rich capitalist who has dared to collaborate with others in writing a book...
...Established 1947 An Eagle Publishing Company NCL-AS Mail to: Regnery Publishing, Inc...
...2. Attach the mailing label from your most recent issue...
...As your article on Travelgate said, "Now that Congress's own investigators have failed to get the story of Travelgate, [a subpoena] seems the only way to find out...
...Queenan accuses Gates of being a "fake populist" among other sins, apparently because the fellow has abandoned his reclusive billionaire style, engaging recently in all kinds of public appearances and now the book...
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...Clinton has clouded my judgment...
...Social Security will collapse unless substantially restructured...
...You seemed upset that he was getting, in your words, "a multiyear contract for a gazillion dollars, including a $5 million bonus...
...You won't find such a high calibre single in the nightclubs or bars...
...officials are lying," "diplomatic cowardice...
...Your obvious hatred for this president appears to cloud your judgment...
...This is nonsense...
...1. Please write your new address in the space provided...
...how dare he create wealth...
...Congratulations to The American Spectator for providing Joe Queenan such a step in his attack on Bill Gates, software magnate and author of The Road Ahead...
...Vive la laissez-faire Capitalism...
...Does producing TV shows qualify Byron York to comment on government downsizing...
...As disappointing as your new layout...
...Banning their export would mean the end of some chemicals now in use...
...Yet despite the pleasant rhetoric, this is something the Environmental Protection Agency has been unable to do...
...In any event, I never said I read The American Spectator for its sports coverage...
...Stein if he is ever in Healdsburg, he has a friend...
...The tools he provides make it possible for many more millions of people to earn a living every day...
...It is clear Congress must act to ensure U.S...
...Meanwhile, it is reassuring to know that key members of the U.S...
...We buy it exclusively for Ben Stein's Diary...
...Of course he mounted a counter PR campaign...
...I can only assume from the numerous quotes of The Washington Post (a liberal paper) you have adopted their opinion as your own...
...for Operations Central Intelligence Agency Glen Echo, Maryland For many years Jane Hamilton-Merritt has been an eloquent spokesman for the Hmong people of Laos...
...CHIEF JAMES J. KOURI, CPP First Vice President National Association of Chiefs of Police Washington, D.C...
...The resulting potential for politicized investment decisions would simply make thebad idea of ETIs a lot bigger...
...Put your malicious viewpoints aside and allow Heath a moment of solace...
...Color photos...
...James Bovard replies: I thank Mr...
...For an account of rape and pillage institutionalized, a saga familiar to the Congress that wrote ERISA, see U.S...
...The criminal underworld...
...Queenan should suppress his hatred and envy for, in the words of Ayn Rand, "the good for being the good" and fix-ate on acquiring a rational mind that will propel him to be the best he can be...
...I thought that a book with that name, written by a young man who has used his mind to accumulate the largest fortune in the U.S., would give me some insight into the future...
...Their basic complaint is hard to argue with...
...Whether we did enough is arguable...
...In recent years these speakers have addressed thousands of students, bringing balance to hundreds of campuses all over the U. S. Free...
...Too bad...
...Now that Dixie is GOP turf please don't demand our loyalty while you put one of our sons down in the dirt...
...not the Clinton administration's hold on the FBI...
...Singles, Box 310-AMS, Allardt, TN 38504...
...This is not the first time I have seen MWC disparaged in the conservative press...
...And Ben Stein is right: MWC is funny...
...in fact, my rhetoric was considerably milder than President Clinton's (who claimed last year that the Davidians had murdered members of the BATF, despite the jury's "not guilty" verdict on that charge) or FBI Director Louis Freeh's (who persists in calling Kevin Harris a murderer, even though a jury found otherwise...
...Why is this...
...The "Travelgate" purge followed...
...The author does not exaggerate in her description of Hmong heroism during the war, and I have no reason to question her account of the sufferings of Hmong refugees during the ensuing years...
...you're supposed to skim what a ridiculously successful person is willing to write about his business, and of course you wouldn't bother unless you could play the included CD-ROM...
...Instead of a rational, scholarly analysis, Mr...
...The reasons for the coming crisis are complicated, but result fundamentally from a demographic shift: Too many baby-boomer retirees, and too few generation-Xers to foot the bill...
...In addition, a matter on the political horizon could give Uncle Sam a new job as the largest portfolio manager in the country and thereby raise a new set of ETI concerns...
...She refused, instead allowing the executive branch to investigate its own conduct...
...Al has a job he hates, which pays a pittance, but he slogs away gamely at it to support his family...
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...But many questions remain unanswered...
...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...If Heath is indeed the future, deal with it...
...Armored "urban" assault vehicles are tactically utilized on city streets...
...Look closer and you'll find a highly politicized, nepotistic, featherbedded management bureaucracy slavishly sucking up to the 535 prima donnas in Congress and the Executive overburden...
...And fat cats like Ted Kennedy reward them by blocking delayering and downsizing...
...Perhaps in a later issue of The American Spectator we might hear what sonic of those officials have to say in their own defense...
...I'm sure Gates would've happily remained in obscurity...
...and Mark Sanford (R-S.C...
...In a sharply worded opinion, he called the administration's stonewalling "improper" and "evasive," and said it had produced "dribbles and drabs of information at its convenience...
...When faced with a trial in September 1994 that might have required the first lady to testify, the administration grudgingly produced what it said were the complete records of the task force...
...Troy Aikman CONSERVATIVELY SINGLE Conservatives are decent hardworking people...
...MWC is great TV...
...Hiding behind the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the task force claimed the secret deliberations were legal because all members were full-time government employees "just doing their jobs...
...Now we offer the "Campus Activist Package," a selection of Foundation publications that can give you the know-how and information to promote your ideas on campus...
...I mention this only to show you how seriously we take this down here...
...How do you like it...
...Why must you slander Heath's character in a national magazine...
...All attorneys involved, including the first lady, may be required to attend mandatory ethics classes...
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...Accordingly, investment control assumes critical significance...
...THEODORE G. SHACKLEY Former Associate Deputy Dir...
...Love and Marriage Your reader Forrest Mims (Correspondence, TAS, January 1996) seems to chide Ben Stein for appearing on Fox TV's "Married With Children...
...Bethell's mutterings notwithstanding, unions are neither plush nor arc they violent...
...These posters have decorated thousands of dorm rooms on campuses all over the U. S. Free to students...
...The only oversight most of these managers provide is oversight of their own gravy train...
...With less tax revenue presently available for discretionary misapplication, ETIs fill a sort of political opportunity gap, by allowing patronage to parade as "enlightened" investment...
...Who in the White House directed Pasty Thomasson to lie to Congress, and the Department of Justice to "misrepresent" the task force membership...
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...As the debate over reforming Social Security proceeds, the question of government control of portfolios ought to be among the primary matters for consideration...
...MARK EIBEN North Attleboro, Massachusetts The Sacking of Troy The Dallas Cowboys lost the Super Bowl...
...I did not label FBI agents as "assassins...
...Our investigation of the hidden presidential task force records proves it "misrepresented" the membership, which included Rose Law firm clients...
...you can't find this kind of stuff just anywhere...
...You are impugning the agents of a fine law enforcement agency...
...Saxton's anti-ETI bill in September...
...For a man who has dedicated his life to the opposition of the liberal media, you seem to have succumbed to their opinion...
...I will be just as cruel to you in this letter as you were to Heath in your column...
...It is true that nobody in MWC goes to church (who on TV does...
Vol. 29 • April 1996 • No. 4
