Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Question Time Re Robert Novak's review of James Fallows's Breaking the News (TAS, April 1996): Why is it that every time I'm reading the bio of some elitist liberal twit, he turns...
...The answer is, of course, to curtail use, and you don't achieve that by giving users free reign to spread this devastating social infection...
...TERRENCE E. MARTAU Lakewood, Ohio As a new subscriber to TAS I have nothing to compare with your new design and format, but your present presentation looks great...
...Byron York picks from Michael Lewis's campaign account only the worst comments on Dr...
...Stein is at all unhappy with his flight I will personally reimburse him...
...SELIM BINGOL Vienna, Virginia The Keyes to New York For over a year now, I have waited patiently for The American Spectator to write a substantive article on the historic candidacy of Alan Keyes...
...We also have the lowest unrestricted fares in the nation...
...He invented a mouse trap, and is using the patent and copyright laws to prevent the promotion of better mouse traps...
...Even after that first time...I was struck dumb by the force of his eloquence...
...It is encouraging to know that there are some responsible journalists who are willing to speak the truth about this insidious threat...
...Stein: try another carrier...
...We continue to be appalled at how very little the public really knows about marijuana and its many deleterious side effects...
...In this series of lectures, Prof...
...Even more curiously, Ross and Hayes have been connected to several sensitive cases, each time playing a role that is hard to define...
...If there is an inequity, it could be addressed in the following issue...
...Englewood, Colorado Mad About You As a boy I eagerly scanned the supermarket magazine racks in search of the next glorious issue of Mad magazine...
...Now, maybe all Norton and the Post are interested in is helping the locals...
...Camegie's assessment of Turkey as a nation caught between East and West—with an "identity crisis," as it were—is quite accurate...
...It is no wonder that our young people are getting the wrong impression about drugs and that drug use is once again on the rise...
...His themes on trade, immigration, and moral issues are no different from what one would hear on those issues in most of the civilized world where those peoples still have a high regard for rational discourse and national survival...
...LEVENT GUMRUKCU Third Secretary Embassy Spokesperson Turkish Embassy Washington, D.C...
...Now, having fully matured, I await with great anticipation each new issue of The American Spectator...
...Despite your admission to having read the recent National Review symposium on the subject, you don't seem to have profited from it...
...York at The Amer10 July 1996 • The American Spectator Around here, "not in the mainstream" is a compliment...
...If a word-count quota seems unnecessarily complex, I'm sure there's someone in the White House who would be willing to help you set this up...
...Perhaps so...
...Whatever success that Refah, the fundamentalist party, enjoys has come by way of the ballot box in freely held democratic elections...
...If a society goes to war it must expect to suffer adverse consequences...
...What about the second attack, the one focused on the alleged unfairness of Reagan-style fiscal policy...
...Even well-meaning physicians have bought into "what they read in the newspapers" on this topic...
...Perfect" want to fly to their own private Idaho with the least amount of hassle, with friendly wonderful people who still know what customer service is all about, they should fly Southwest...
...You heard it here...
...If we, or our friends, for example, regularly drink one too many before hitting the road, it's time for some personal reformation, and, perhaps, a new set of friends...
...Houston is not the hometown of Lee Brown, just one of the many stops in his career...
...You lament the erosion of personal responsibility in American society, and then turn around and assert that "those who traffic in drugs are killers...
...If this is so then why is not society in the Netherlands falling apart...
...I hate to sound like a commercial, but forget the chicken kiev lunch you might get on American or Alaska and try us already...
...Perhaps a survey could be taken of American conservatives, and it could be determined exactly what percentage of right-leaning people represent each of the major faiths...
...It has forced millions of people to buy new equipment they didn't really need...
...Tyrrell claims that illegal drug use and not the war on drugs is the cause of poor conditions in the inner city...
...it is the standard totalitarian argument...
...If we really need the moral equivalent of war, let us begin by assuming that humans are capable of personal responsibility, and then declare a War on Irresponsibility...
...Irvine, California The American Spectator has become my "Reality Check" against the "media elites" which provide me with my daily news fodder...
...Because the war on drugs is not really a war on drugs, but instead is a war on the people who use illegal drugs...
...Whither Turkey...
...KEVIN MCGEHEE North Pole, Alaska Reality Bytes As a long-time subscriber, I was sorry to see you demean yourselves by taking a gratuitous potshot at Don McCloskey for his decision to undergo a sex change operation (Current Wisdom, TAS, April 1996...
...TRACY BIRD Tucson, Arizona Turning Themselves In I am writing to commend you for your editorial, "No to Drug Legalization" (Editorials, TAS, April 1996) in which you boldly challenge William Buckley's pro-legalization position...
...It is refreshing to see a non-religious publication that does not denigrate or ridicule Catholic faith as so many other publications do...
...Rather, Turkey voluntarily and independently decided to pursue this path because it serves the best interests of each of its citizens, safeguarding and guaranteeing their liberties and freedoms as well as social welfare...
...As much as I love Ben Stein's Diary, I am growing weary of his monthly complaints about the poor service he gets on Alaska Airlines...
...You seem to be unable, for example, to recognize that the definition of "drug" is a societal and ideological construct...
...Tyrrell) there are "compulsive people in our society with a low tolerance for alcohol...
...The two principal investigators, IRS criminal agent William C. Duncan and Arkansas state policeman Russell Franklin Welch, later gave sworn depositions to the state attorney general, describing the ambiguous role Ross played as the FBI agent assigned to the joint investigation...
...Kudos and thanks for keeping the tradition alive...
...Distributionist concerns and class-warfare rhetoric continue to animate many Democrats and to frighten a number of Republicans...
...they also agreed to do so while cutting taxes...
...Surely there are more appropriate targets for your barbs...
...While the topic of legalization may make for an interesting debate among the so-called elite, Wit were implemented, it would spell disaster for the rest of society, causing increased drug use and addiction, more crime, and higher health care costs...
...Welch, the state policeman, testified that an FBI agent from Fort Smith even asked him once for an informal briefing on the investigation...
...if you're not satisfied, we'll send you a refund...
...My proposal is that TAS or anyone else of equal integrity employ a Voice Stress Analysis professional of standing to test our Co-Presidency's veracity...
...One such case is the joint federal-state investigation of drugmoney laundering at Mena, Arkansas, which closed down with a curious lack of indictments in 1985...
...may paraphrase Mr...
...Bill me...
...In other words: tax increases...
...We have been working for two years on the construction of our new home, dealing daily with the ineptitude, deceit, carelessness, and capriciousness of those in the building industry...
...Ours is a new democracy in an old land...
...McCloskey is a distinguished economist, a first-rate literary stylist, and, as TAS should know, a staunch defender of free-market principles...
...Regardless and totally irrespective of how the West may view or treat Turkey, our dedication to the ideals of freedom and democratic liberty remains unswerving...
...Which is what we do...
...Ehrenfeld is right on target when she points out there has been significant progress in the War on Drugs, with drug use having declined significantly over the last decade, and when she exposes the specious arguments of the pro-drug crowd...
...Fish's book contains some of the strongest arguments against the positions you have also been attacking...
...I was also saddened to see this loss of professionality from a publication which I have come to respect...
...I guess this shows how visceral are our reactions to computers...
...Give something to the "middle class," "working families," "those who work hard and play by the rules...
...Of course this means that he doesn't have the slightest idea of what he is talking about...
...After the first zo minutes I looked up at Joel (Achenbach) and found that he was looking up at me with the same stunned expression...
...With "friends" like Mr...
...Continued from page 63) visit to the Board of Private Investigators...
...Just as many people use alcohol in moderation without many ill effects, so do many people use illegal drugs without many ill effects...
...Buscu Winston-Salem, North Carolina Word Play In response to Christy Shepard (Correspondence, TAS, February 1996) and Robert J. Robinson (Correspondence, TAS, May 1996), I wonder if we can work something out that's fair and supports a diversity of religious opinion...
...Maybe it would be best if every writer were asked to write a declaration of faith, to appear under his/her byline...
...In nerve, verve, and unsurpassed smart-assery the Spectator rules...
...Why not give us a try...
...R. Limbaugh, Jr...
...Now all the suppliers are on the bandwagon, selling Windows-based applications to everyone, regardless of whether they want them or not...
...Usually when Russell and I were going to conduct some credible interviews," Duncan said, "Tom Ross, from the Hot Springs FBI office, would suddenly appear on the scene...
...You are absolutely right when you say that to legalize drugs would be like signing death warrants for too many people...
...Many in the press seem to be sympathetic toward the pro-drug agenda...
...0* Who Is FBI Agent Tom Ross...
...Patrick Buchanan which were strewn throughout your April and May publications...
...That way we could be certain we weren't somehow being swayed over to someone else's philosophies, and it wouldn't require a lot of thought...
...He does not recognize that (if...
...But Mr...
...every issue of that magazine has had an article that I believe would successfully pass the scrutiny of your editorial staff...
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...You duck the main arguments for legalization therein presented in favor of subtle ad hominem put-downs of your adversaries as casuists—the familiar cheap trick of the intellectually inadequate...
...If my neighbor snorts cocaine to excess, or regularly drinks himself into a stupor, or pumps a quick bullet into his brain, it may or may not be lamentable, but it is none of my business, unless his behavior eventuates in other-directed violence, and most such mental basket cases, it seems, are pretty inert on that score, provided they can afford their regular fix...
...Gates's success is not due to his having invented a better mouse trap...
...Either way, you'll get some of the most contrary-minded analysis on Wall Street, and at the best possible time: before everyone else...
...MARK BELFORD San Diego, California Warm Turkey I read with great interest M. D. Camegie's recent article "Between East and West" (TAS, May 1996) and certainly noted his perceptive, balanced, and insightful observations...
...Turkey in no way views its strong commitment to these ideals as a bargaining chip for certain concessions or rewards from the West...
...Clinton had campaigned in 1992 on a middle-class tax cut of the kind subsequently embraced in the GOP's Contract...
...Perhaps what's most remarkable about Ross's apparent interest in TAS's researcher is that he's no ordinary FBI agent...
...It may come as a surprise to most so-called journalists that Mr...
...DENNIS BRENNEN Chairman, Department of Economics William Rainey Harper College Palatine, Illinois I was surprised to note the adverse comment in April's Current Wisdom on Stanley Fish's latest book, Professional Correctness...
...As has been said, the American people will get the president they deserve and if the vote is for Dole or Clinton they will most certainly get a continuation of the current national insanity and a continued rush towards national suicide...
...Thus it was no surprise to learn through TAS that his travels widened to global proportions when he got to D.C...
...Which is to say that the Rohatyn-Norton tendency is certainly not widespread among Washington Democrats...
...But if you are going to balance the budget and cut taxes, it's only a small step to re-thinking which taxes to cut...
...Indeed, the Turkish Republic is Western because it freely chose those ideals and values long associated with the West and subsequently universalized them...
...ROBERT PFEFFER, M.D...
...This industry is said to have the greatest percentage of substance users and from our experience there is no doubt that it is true...
...Gates also represents a philosophy that you decry: the passive absorption of information ("user friendly with pictures and colors...
...Then, in 1994, he returned to it...
...Were (Continued on page 77) 12 July 199 6 • The American Spectator Correspondence (Continued from page 12) drugs to be legalized this problem would only escalate in all circles of society...
...McCartney observes, "Perhaps there was something in the Victorian climate...
...Despite the undisputed statistics which show that alcohol, one of the "good" (socially approved) drugs, creates far more social pathology and general mayhem in American society than the whole basket of proscribed drugs combined, you seek to blame the condition of the inner cities on the latter, shed a few croc tears, and use that as a warrant for erecting what amounts to a totalitarian state...
...As such he is able to ignore all the people who drink themselves into an early grave...
...As Atatiirk once told an American visitor, "America is an old democracy in a new land...
...We citizens of Houston came to know the new chief, not because of his highly touted ideas of community policing, but due to his frequent absence from office which soon earned him the appellation of "Outta Town Brown...
...GENE HOPP Bellevue, Washington North by Southwest I just can't take it any longer...
...As our predominantly defense-oriented relationship increasingly diversifies into economic, business, trade, cultural, and social dimensions, the bonds of cooperation between our two nations will naturally intensify...
...If Mr...
...This, too, is information that needs to be brought to the public's attention...
...So not only did the major players agree to balance the budget by cutting spending...
...along with his colleague Floyd Hayes, he raises eyebrows in law enforcement circles throughout the state...
...have enjoyed a healthy and dynamic alliance for nearly half a century...
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...When he finally proposed his seven-year balanced budget, it included a (modest) tax cut...
...You have been receiving faxed copies of the Marijuana Research Review, a publication put out quarterly by Drug Watch Oregon...
...I refer specifically to the barrage of ad hominem attacks on the presidential candidacy of Mr...
...They allow the open sale and consumption of marijuana...
...My suggestion is he try the number one most efficient domestic carrier today, and it is not as he wrote in the May issue, American, it is Southwest...
...It's some of the best writing on Wall Street, and can give you a big investment advantage...
...As McCartney concludes, "Dodgson was a hero of deliberate repression...
...Windows requires enormous amounts of disk space, memory, and speed to do the same things PCs did just fine for years...
...I am a libertarian, and I, and other responsible people, use drugs only in moderation...
...His trips continued and encompassed New York City, where he became the new Dinkins administration's police commissioner...
...For four years running now we have been number one in on time performance, customer satisfaction, and baggage handling, the triple crown of airline awards...
...Payment enclosed...
...STEPHANIE HAYNES President, Drug Watch International Alpine, Texas So Mr...
...The Republic of Turkey has been, is,and will remain a Western country, not so much in terms of geography but rather in terms of mentality...
...To legalize alcohol is to sign these people's death warrants...
...You keep calling yourself a "libertarian" when the defining credo of libertarianism is to abjure the initiation of force (or fraud) against one's neighbors...
...M. D. Carnegie has captured the Turkish zeitgeist as very few others have, but the better question is "What direction will the West go...
...And that was the end of the link between cutting taxes and higher deficits—the end, in other words, of the first major attack on Reaganomics...
...In the cases of Rohatyn, Norton, and the Post, we have indications that for some Democrats, very real distributionist concerns —the top agenda item of so many Democrats for so long—are yielding pride of place to growth economics...
...In the past few years (since Clinton...
...Tyrrell is a drinker of alcohol...
...and write a thoughtful piece on, if nothing else, his very intelligent platform on every single issue of the day...
...We claim to be the land of the free, and the home of the brave, but we are neither free or brave, because we are afraid of a few plants...
...I look forward to more articles from your magazine, and if I may be so bold as to suggest a topic, I would like to see TAS focus on the dissenting factions such as Call to Action and Catholics for a Free Choice...
...As an airline pilot myself and frequent traveler, I can certainly sympathize with his premise that quality has taken a back seat lately...
...My reading time for our local liberal mouthpiece, the San Jose Mercury News, is now a quick scan of the headlines and straight to the business section...
...10010 LTAS0796 ican Spectator taking vicarious swipes at Dr...
...What a nightmare...
...But perhaps the biggest cost of our drug war is the damage it does to our soul...
...Ironically, Refah is credited with using decidedly Western tactics in its campaign strategy...
...Hot Springs is the home town of Bill Clinton...
...One year (17 issues), $220...
...DENNIS MAHON Brighton, Massachusetts 78 July 1996 • The American Spectator Just an idea for you: Suggest, or kindly request, that the remarkable Ben Stein do a Whitewater recap along the lines of his excellent few paragraphs of your issue of March 1994...
...The coincidence was too obvious to miss...
...Of course, writing that was not explicitly religious might still be influencing us on a less than conscious level...
...It is in this respect a highly conservative work...
...I have a very simple solution for Mr...
...You are right, society does have an obligation to move the citizenry in the right direction and to uphold standards of good health and responsible citizenship...
...If you really believe the latter proposition and care about real crime you should have found the arguments in NR sufficiently convincing...
...SHARON GORDON Midland Park, New Jersey Just one slight correction to Byron York's excellent article on the misbegotten Clinton drug policy ("Bill's Four-Star General," TAS, May 1996...
...Your comments about Rachel Ehrenfeld are most appropriate...
...First...
...The format reminds me of the only other magazine I read from cover to cover, the New Yorker...
...Then a word count could be taken as you send each issue off to the press: how many Catholic words, how many Baptist words, how many Methodist, Buddhist, Hindu, or Jewish words appeared in the magazine...
...There is still much to be done but the answer is not to surrender to drug legalization and the drug permissive policies and attitudes of the 1960's...
...It appears the two FBI outposts communicated very little...
...I submit that for some people that may always be the right way to go, regardless of the mores of the day...
...His new job teaching at a Houston college is sure to pall before long, and we will find him in another police job where a city budget can support his peripatetic urges...
...Keyes, I guess I'll have to depend on those "bums" at the New Republic for any intelligent coverage of his campaign and hold my breath for the same in your magazine...
...Please cancel my subscription...
...In view of the recent convictions and the Clintons' recent payment of back taxes, it could be a cruncher...
...JOHN B. ROBB Concord, California Go Ask Alice After reading George McCartney's review of Morton N. Cohen's biography of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in May's TAS, I can't help but be struck by the apparent difference between what became of Charles Dodgson in the Victorian age, and what inevitably seems to become of men who have similar tastes today...
...While IBM and Apple shot themselves in the foot by requiring large fees for their operating systems, Microsoft started a stampede by making Windows available to anyone who wished to write applications for it...
...I'll bet Messrs...
...Turkey's devotion to Western principles will ultimately see the nation through its current challenges, and it will do so even faster with the continued support and cooperation of its American and European allies...
...I am unsure of his New York job history, but am willing to bet that his trips to lectures, seminars, and the like around the country continued at city expense...
...It was never clear why the Hot Springs office even handled the case, since Mena lies in the jurisdiction of the FBI's Fort Smith office...
...Continued on page 82) The American Spectator • July r 9 9 6 79...
...Why subject myself to liberal polls, biased editorials, and global warming announcements...
...And if distributionist concerns can be overcome in relation to residents of the District, why should such concerns stand in the way of higher economic growth for all Americans...
...I was saddened from the standpoint of witnessing your transformation from a fact-oriented publication to a less professional entity engaging in name-calling and pejorative remarks against one who shares many of your supposed values...
...The burned out cities, and the expense of apprehending and incarcerating drug users, are just some of the expenses of our war on drugs...
...In my teens I graduated to the more sophisticated National Lampoon...
...I wonder that you do not notice that Fish is busy defending the importance of the works of John Milton, a notable DWEM of the literary canon...
...As you may be aware there is an active media campaign being waged by pro-drug advocates and a proliferation of misinformation about drugs making headlines these days...
...Joy M. WHITTEMORE Glendale, California Wish List For some months now, there's been discourse as to whether our First Couple are congenital liars or merely congenital lawyers...
...GABRIEL AUSTIN New York, New York I was surprised to read the ad hominem attacks on Joe Queenan for his ad hominem attacks on Bill Gates...
...Fish sets out to demonstrate the incoherence of the arguments for "political correctness" as a substitute for professional discipline...
...You willfully ignore the massive evidence that it is the War on Drugs itself which creates most of the drug associated crime in America (about half of all the real crime—the kind that has victims—by most estimates), then illogically cite the War on Crime as an example of a war we should continue to fight whatever the odds...
...At least 5o percent of those who worked on this job had substance abuse problems which interfered with their work...
...Those of us on the "front lines" of the War on Drugs thank you for speaking up against drug legalization...
...Tyrrell is a teetotaler of illegal drugs...
...Ross came calling two days later, apparently renewing his inquiries of the previous April...
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...Herzog and Waldron would probably say Gates is merely enjoying the fruits of a shrewd business decision, but isn't the fact that we can have any new software we like—so long as we send Microsoft $100 first— a working definition of monopoly capitalism...
...Those who traffic in alcohol are killers" etc...
...Tally it up...
...Just sign up for our no-risk, three-month trial offer...
...The ideological ground that leaves you, I forbear to name...
...You cannot underestimate the alienation from society produced in people who use illegal drugs by the war on drugs...
...JOHN C. LEMON, M.D...
...Well, I was correct that you would not recycle the media myths, but I was indeed disappointed when all your readers got was a back-handed attempt to insult a godly man ("Bum of the Month," TAS, April 1996...
...Such testing purportedly exceeds tactile lie detection in scientific reliability and, in addition to providing voters a roadmap through Clintonia, may divine to the curious the true source of the Lie—in the heart or the head...
...Surely, I thought, these brainy, cutting-edge journalists would reject the media mantra of "He's unknown, he doesn't have any money, any organization, any endorsements...
...Conservatives have mostly learned from the disastrous experiment of Prohibition what libertarians abjure in principle — remember Barry Goldwater's "you can't legislate morality...
...has evinced how our Boy President's eyebrows rise noticeably when uncorking a whopper while R. Tyrrell, Jr...
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...If the next time he and "little Mr...
...Whereas in a time notorious for sexual repression, Dodgson went on to become an accomplished writer and photographer, today such a man would be doomed to express his tastes through acts of cruelty and violence...
...I do not believe, however, that Mr...
...I particularly enjoy Ben Stein's Diary, Last Call, and the legal opinions of Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short (shades of W.C...
...You are right when you refer to the drug legalization debate being dominated by intellectual sophisticates...
...I think that when you do, you will recognize them as a common adversary of us all...
...The two men have held long-time positions in the Hot Springs office, even though the FBI usually rotates its field agents frequently...
...And this from two liberal reporters...
...Maybe so...
...Reread, or read carefully, the excerpt quoted The American Spectator • July 19 9 6 77 It says nothing more complicated than that a practitioner of Lit Grit should stay in the library...
...The West must remain equally committed to the 73-year-old Republic of Turkey...
...It is within this framework of respect and equal partnership, based on commonly held and mutually beneficial values and ideals, that Turkey and the U.S...
...TIMOTHY P. O'NEIL Marco, Florida As an avid reader of TAS and a Catholic, I would like to thank your magazine for its fair and unslanted coverage of the Catholic Church...
...It is also the only secular democracy in the Moslem world, and gateway to the vast economic potential of Central Asia...
...Buckley and his colleagues wrongly assume, but a war of the people: parents, teachers, youth, clergy, law enforcement and health officials, civic and business leaders working together against the harmful and illegal use of mind-altering drugs...
...I don't know about you," he said, "but I'm about to go to work for the guy...
...You've got to start somewhere—and proponents of growth economics could do a lot worse than having Felix Rohatyn, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and the Washington Post editorial page supporting their agenda...
...The newspapers tend to ignore the real science and print only anecdotal stuff which they masquerade as "facts...
...On another matter, your April correspondents who complained of Joe Queenan's excellent review of Bill Gates's book missed the main point...
...I had the pleasure of many hours of conversation with him at a Ludwig von Mises Seminar at Hillsdale College —had you had that pleasure I think you would have refrained from mocking a personal decision that was no doubt arrived at after long and painful deliberation...
...ANDREW S. KNIGHT Morgan Hill, CaliforniaGrowth Democrats (Continued from page 65) unacceptable deficit, its solution was no longer to be sought in fiscal policies inimical to growth...
...If the Spectator went to a weekly news format with a business section, "media elite" circulation and news broadcast percentages would take a real hit...
...Those who wish to get into politics must learn the practice of politics and be prepared for the rough and tumble...
...And we are still not through...
...JAMES GRANT SPONSLER Humeston, Iowa Your editorial "No to Drug Legalization" is outstanding and carries the much needed message that legalization, in any degree, is not the answer to America's drug problems...
...The events occurring in Turkey are the direct result of Turkey's commitment to Western principles...
...The real root of evil in modern society is indeed the erosion of personal responsibility...
...We claim to be the country of individual liberty, but we do not allow the individual to grow or consume certain plants...
...To be sure, most Democrats hammered Republicans throughout 1994-95 for cutting spending on the poor to pay for unfair tax cuts on the rich...
...The drug war is not a war of governments, as Mr...
...At The Capitalist's Companion, our job is to stay ahead of the mainstream, and to provide unconventional insights that can help you make more money in the financial markets...
...SANDRA S. BENNETT Director, Drug Watch Oregon Portland, Oregon Your lead editorial in the April TAS, purporting to be an argument against drug legalization, is merely an embarrassing farrago...
...CORRESPONDENCE Question Time Re Robert Novak's review of James Fallows's Breaking the News (TAS, April 1996): Why is it that every time I'm reading the bio of some elitist liberal twit, he turns out to be a "Rhodes Scholar...
...Turkey's mindset is fundamentally predicated on the principles of democracy, secularism, the rule of law, human rights and economic liberalization...
...I've heard that one before pari passu from the gun control nuts...
...Buchanan's theme is neither conservative nor "extremist," but merely a rational response to the disastrous policies of the current administration...
...Still, it's not easy to escape the implications of the arguments they are advancing: If the Norton plan would indeed promote economic growth in the District, wouldn't its provisions, applied nationally, also promote growth...
...is a question asked with increasing frequency by Western observers concerned about the influence of forces tugging at Turkish society...
...Keyes, and leaves out Lewis's often complimentary assessment of Keyes, as in the following: What he says, however, is overwhelmed by how he says it...
...Fields...
...Brown was hired by Houston's girl mayor to fill the position of police chief in the early eighties, having come from Atlanta and the botched investigation of the serial murder case that had brought that city into national prominence...
...has noted how Bubba and the First Lefty feign lawyerly amnesia...
...Herzog and Waldron began their computer educations with Windows, and found that even they could run PCs...
...But he abandoned that promise for the sake of "deficit reduction" in his first budget on taking office...
...KEITH A. MOUNT Martinsville, New Jersey Stop the Insanity I was saddened and disappointed to see The American Spectator join the ranks of yellow journalism now dominating the left-wing media...
...Ostracism is a far more powerful weapon for social control than any regimen the police state can put in the field...
...And that shouldn't be a problem, given that the costs of producing a daily dose of, say, crack, legally, are of about the same order as that for hooch...
...In fact, you were right the first time...
...But maybe also provide tax cuts targeted at economic growth...
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