Correspondence: Brock, Barbour, Siegel &c.
CORRESPONDENCE None Dare Call It... I have just finished reading Kenneth Tim-merman's piece, "While America Sleeps," in your June issue. When are we going to stop pussyfooting around and ask...
...MICHAEL FUMENTO Resident Fellow American Enterprise Institute Washington, D.C...
...Just think, each day from now until the end of Clinton's term could be a different apology day...
...If alternative sources of information are shut down, the influence of newspapers and TV networks will commensurately increase...
...Now it's their kids who can't find jobs in the law firms...
...But five years later, I am beginning to ask: What is the point...
...Proxmire of his free will...
...To many Jews, commitment to liberalism and the Democratic Party is tribal, not theological, an evolved state of naïveté with deep roots in the Great Depression, illusions about Franklin Roosevelt, Israel, and an uncommon perception that appears to value the articulate intellectual fraud in politics, academia and the media over politicians with simple gravitas about sustaining core American values...
...I have stopped giving money to the GOP...
...When will this corruption stop...
...Please write your new address in the space provided...
...Taken as a whole, The Seduction of Hillary Rod-ham proves a hellish indictment...
...Newt Gingrich says that politicians spend only $5 per taxpayer per year on getting elected...
...See Peter Force, Tracts, volume 3.) "[T]here arose such a storm as if Jonas had been flying unto Tarshish: the heavens were obscured and made an Egyptian night of three days perpetual horror...
...The campaign-finance practices that he disapproves of are unknown there, and yet the "government giveaways to special interests" are still enormous...
...Your reference to "Mr...
...They were separatists or protocongregationalists who recognized the importance of freedom of conscience...
...I am in my fifties...
...Bovard is no lackey of the federal government...
...He yelled back, "No, it's John Glenn's...
...Since the people still refer to Ho Chi Minh City as Saigon, the government has zoned it North Saigon, South Saigon, East Saigon, and West Saigon...
...DONALD C. BREWSTER Frederick, Maryland I read David Aikman's "Saigon Serenade" and was amazed that such a biased piece could appear in your magazine...
...Treasury and then siphoned out again to favored recipients (people over 65 years of age, for example...
...by Joseph Shattan...
...But if half of the most important advisers surrounding the president pray daily to the god of Social Justice (what most people would call Theft), we ignore it lest we be blackened as "anti-Semites...
...Maybe a book will be written that will say, "A Withered America: From the ashes of the constitutional republic of United States had risen an oligarchic system in which politics were played according to the economic interests of bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and mafiosi...
...The Democrats are masters of communication...
...If Mr...
...What especially caught my eye was the reference to Sen...
...ROBERT H. REYNOLDS Gettysburg, Pennsylvania All's Well After reading Mark Falcon review of Jon Anderson's biography of Che Guevara (TAS, June 1997), I concluded that Anderson's book wasn't very good...but at least it has a happy ending...
...Now it's their kids who can't compete against Asian kids for the top slots in science and medicine because these kids have become media-drugged and mesmerized dolts...
...No, no, not It's not the gaining of weight per se that is unhealthy, it's simply being overweight...
...Should we be deprived of the information that will help us identify up-and-coming Proxmires...
...Successful candidates will have at least passing familiarity with the "issues of the day," and be able to craft a persuasive sentence or two...
...Meanwhile, I did not point out that Janet Reno had Parkinson's disease...
...But it wasn't much better before Nicholson...
...My parents were diehard Nixon fans and I think Ben must be the only other one...
...A vision as skeptical about the mass marketers of phony compassion as it has been about the dummies in government who hide behind prestigious titles, degrees, and offices bleeding for America but hustling for themselves...
...John Corry stated, "From the beginning the Siegel memo had not passed what might be called the smell test...
...I believe the RNC should use less expensive "tools" for communicating with members and put more emphasis on national radio and TV ads for informing the American people...
...I noticed the U.S...
...The problem is, that $5 comes in large chunks from a few special interests seeking favors...
...The cosseted little world that until recently had insulated so many Jews from the debilitating effects of a nation going to hell is slowly unraveling...
...Radow's family feelings may be admirable, but his misrepresentation of the Dan Burton case is not...
...Who thinks this tripe up...
...What about all the victims of the Spanish Inquisition...
...Our symptoms—tremor and movement difficulty—are a burden, but we often bear them while continuing productive and effective lives, as the AG obviously is doing...
...The canceled purchase of military helicopters only to buy worse machines at a higher total cost is yet another...
...An article that precedes this describes how the Clinton and their minions have thwarted Kenneth Starr's investigation at every turn and whose deceptions are really quite remarkable, with no perceptible consequence...
...But in this case, Congressman Burton clearly overstepped it...
...Was it on his disclosure form...
...The distinction is important, because it was the Pilgrims who brought religious liberty to these shores...
...As a conservative, I have been called a "self-hating" Jew and, believe it or not, an "anti-Semite" often enough to realize that the association of "right-wing" and "anti-Semitic" is more or less instinctive among my (mostly secularized) co-religionists...
...Perhaps Mr...
...It's an anger about ethnic extinction spurred not only by intermarriage, but by the recognition of the failure of the liberal welfare state that many of our numbers championed from the first...
...I am a second generation Spectator subscriber, and I believe my parents were charter subscribers when the magazine originated in Bloomington...
...Okay, it's a lousy analogy, but the point survives...
...On the playground they are typical kids playing games and having fun...
...Lohman's state, William Proxmire, who most of the time did not join in the siphoning operations...
...In the U. S., large sums of money are compulsorily transferred (by the taxing power) to the U.S...
...If Mr...
...Aikman thought that the uniforms were typically communistic, what does he think of Catholic school uniforms...
...JAMES PERRY San Bruno, California Is Liberalism Kosher...
...In any other country they'd call it bribery and payola...
...I now agree with Kenneth Moss who wrote in the May issue that he was letting his subscription expire because he no longer "eagerly await[s]" the arrival of each issue...
...Lohman should factor that in to his tendentious math...
...Telling an obese person he should lose weight and telling him to starve himself are quite different things...
...I was surprised by the insulting parallel between Mr...
...Bovard should certainly be considered for a Pulitzer Prize...
...O Renew my subscription for one year (twelve issues—$34.95) O Payment enclosed 0 Bill me later O At various times TAS rents its subscriber list to other organizations...
...Did campaign finance laws deprive Sen...
...Box 549 Arlington, VA 22216-0549 shows her committing fraud, and perhaps treason, in diverting LSC funds (taxpayer money...
...Name: (Please Print) Address: City: State: Zip: Date of change: L VCAFRM Weight a Second David Moshinsky, in his July letter "Weight a Minute," states that he and I both agree that "most dieters gain back the lost weight" and "weight gain does increase mortality," therefore it "follows logically from those two statements that dieting is a good way to die sooner...
...Moe, who is president of the Washington-based National Trust for Historic Preservation, is not going to bite the hand that feeds him...
...JEFF SOKOL Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Pilgrims' Progress With all due respect to historian Richard Armour, it was not the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Massachusetts, who branded Roger Williams a heretic ("Twelve-Stepping Over the Line," by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., TAS, June 1997...
...But that does not take away from what he did or whether it was right...
...Aikman should have studied the changes that the Vietnamese government has made since 1989...
...American Jews now stand athwart a crystalline vision of their own ethnic suicide...
...The difference between my trips and Mr...
...On visiting the schools I found students far exceed ours in math and learn English from grammar school up...
...First off, let me tell you I'm a Vietnam vet who has just returned from my second trip back to Vietnam since the war...
...My personal opinion is that by making an identity of our religion and the politics that has done so much to destroy this great country, we Jews are setting ourselves up in a very dangerous way...
...Aikman's is that he apparently made his observations from the window of his air-conditioned bus, and I spent my time living, eating, visiting, and talking with the people...
...The highly politicized cancellation of contracts regarding the privatization of Toronto Pearson Airport is another...
...Mulroney...
...TRENT P. GAITES Flowery Branch, Georgia Send Her No Flowers TAS investigative writer David Brock has taken some hard shots for The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, most recently in an eloquently critical letter about his NRA coverage from reader Frank Natoli (Correspondence, TAS, July1997...
...Yet I see about two such women for each block I walk in downtown D.C...
...In my thirty years of life in Canada, on balance, Mr...
...Natoli, I was confused by the frequency with which Mr...
...What was wrong was that a congressman would blatantly ask a lobbyist for money in order to pursue and support a position on a matter that he was supervising...
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...I didn't know what I was missing...
...That is the real issue, not who Mark knows and how he knows them...
...After any slavery apology, perhaps Clinton could then apologize to the families of all settlers killed by Indians in the 1800's...
...I have read the bouquet in question and, like Mr...
...Questions are being asked...
...Where is the apology to everyone ever injured on a skateboard or skiing...
...JACK E. LOHMAN Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tom Bethell replies: Half the money spent on political campaigns brings a "return on investment" of precisely zero...
...When you took up the cudgel against the Clintons, I was one of the first to cheer...
...The candidate loses...
...That's all there is to it...
...I am a mildly observant Jew, a Republican, a conservative, a man who has lived in the thick of the great Jewish liberal manufacturing center in and around New York for most of my adult life...
...It was eclectic, fun, and always thought-provoking...
...Radow overlooked the sentence...
...Burton is not the chairman of the committee that oversees or supervises U.S.-Pakistan policy...
...Corry does not quote Mark in the first person or indicate he tried to reach him...
...That Mr...
...It's hard to discern these trends just yet because the Jewish experts, politicians, and advocates America generally sees invariably take the liberal view...
...We are not so far from this, n'est ce pas...
...I only said she was "ailing...
...Although it started The American Spectator • August 1997 79 out as a typical Communist government, it soon learned that Communism wouldn't work for the country...
...Cynicism is seeping in...
...Nicholson is headed in this direction, more power to him...
...Being overweight pushes up blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, burdens the heart, burdens the joints, etc...
...Yes, Shakespeare's enchanted isle lies off Tunisia and his play follows a story not experienced by the Virginia VIPs, but the playwright could read in the 1610 booklet how the American colony's weakened condition came from "a greater shipwreck in the continent of Virginia by the tempest of dissension...
...I don't think the RNC's costly, four-color party magazine and equally pricey TV program have had much impact with the party rank and file...
...MICHAEL A. SANDOVAL Grand Prairie, TexasCarmel Candy This is just a long overdue thank you for a great, entertaining magazine...
...Only in America do we call it "political speech protected by the Constitution...
...Take school uniforms...
...Several years ago while visiting Harbortown on Hilton Head Island, I saw a large yacht at the marina...
...As you know, most articles on Vietnam these days not only make linguistic errors, which in this case are rather insignificant, but commit the much larger literary offense of portraying the Communists as what they claim to be rather than what they really are...
...HOWARD J. KLEIN Margate, New Jersey A couple thoughts regarding "Is Liberalism Kosher...
...Corry tried to explore most of it...
...I've known lots of Jews who "earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans" for reasons wholly unrelated to the degree of their religious beliefs...
...Mulroney impressed me as the most decent and able of the prime ministers...
...It also sounds like a cheap shot...
...This is deadly serious business and Mr...
...to FBI-identified Communist-front organizations...
...We now pay these costs in hidden taxes and higher consumer prices...
...But Mr...
...Another small linguistic item would be Tu Do Street which means freedom in Vietnamese, not "independence" as reported by Mr...
...Public financing of campaigns would cost just $5 per taxpayer per year at the state level, and $10 at the federal and presidential levels...
...The Republican Party now has a historic opportunity to catch the wave here by offering not a kinder and gentler right hand to Jewish constituencies, but a more rigorous one...
...Another poses that it seems the Republicans are only primarily interested in their own political futures, the country be damned...
...They are unrelated...
...He believes, but fails to demonstrate, that money redistributed in Washington would no longer be redistributed in a world of publicly financed campaigns...
...Next time you print one of these stories check the facts first...
...As a highly 80 August 2997 • The American Spectator ambitious, even idealistic leader, his greatest weakness was arguably his excessive faith in his compatriots' willingness to tackle head-on the dilemmas facing the country...
...I believe he might have identified Hoi An, however, as something other than a "historical village that used to be a major trading port...
...Now it's their kids being rejected from universities with disguised quotas sprung from a philosophy they once believed to be compassionate...
...Barbour had information indicating otherwise...
...I'll be happy to resume, when I see some principled conservative ads promoting individual responsibility and blasting the failed socialism of the Democrats...
...No, say the ACLU Jews, we must be ever-vigilant lest religion be mixed with politics in the form of a creche on a public lawn or the commandments in a courtroom...
...Oxfordians say William Strachey's account as a survivor was not published until 1625, well after the Stratford player's death in 1616...
...Further, it has come to light The American Spectator August 1997 81 that Mr...
...Another describes how Jean Lewis was hounded, fired, and generally mistreated by government powers for blowing the whistle that led to the forced resignations of Roger Altman and Jean Hanson, and providing the base for the prosecution of the McDougals and Jim Guy Tucker...
...The American Spectator is seeking two smart, well-read, conscientious people to become our newest editorial assistants...
...NORMAN J. RADOW Atlanta, Georgia In a June 1997 article on Congressman Dan Burton and the campaign funding controversy, the author refers to "the ailing Janet Reno...
...Mulroney while quietly maintaining most of them...
...So it adopted a capitalistic economy that allows the people to own their own businesses and the farmers to keep 8o percent of their crops and to buy, sell, and inherit their own land...
...WILLIAM THORNDALE Salt Lake City, Utah The View From Billings Richard Moe, who criticizes James Bovard's article "Don't Touch That Style" in the June Correspondence, evidently has not read Bovard's book, Lost Rights...
...He has really captured the total desperation of the captive population at the hands of their Communist leadership...
...He is too much in love with his own cynicism...
...But today I am not so sure...
...Then the CEOs add their political costs to the price of their product and taxpayers pay again at the cash register...
...Joseph Shattan's review of Elliott Abrams's new book, Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, (TAS, June 1997), hits most of the marks in laying out with great clarity the issues raised by Abrams's fine work...
...I think Ms...
...JOAN I. SAMUELSON President Parkinson's Action Network Santa Rosa, California John Cony replies: Mr...
...No, I won't bet on the Jews giving up their chicken chow mein and General Tso's chicken on Sunday nights...
...and identifying candidates, such as the former senator from Mr...
...Box 655, Mt...
...There is a fine line that congressmen and lobbyists have to walk...
...The gallows humor of the Eastern Europeans and the Russians helped them maintain their national equilibrium, so it is not surprising that the Vietnamese have developed similar linguistic strategies...
...The congressman admits to the conversation with Mark, as well as to his meeting with the Pakistani ambassador...
...His ability to pick up on the tongue-in-cheek commentary of the beleaguered civilian population is surpassed only by the sense of irony that seems to exist just below the surface of almost everything in the article...
...He's right...
...Why do you think we put up monuments to all the battles we have won and make shrines out of our old forts and battlefields...
...The author is reported to agree with Solzhenitsyn that "from the ashes of totalitarian Communism had risen an oligarchic system in which politics were played according to the economic interests of bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and mafiosi...
...Why doesn't he include inmates at Dachau and the Donner Party, as well...
...More objectionable should be the congressman's admitted role of chastising the ambassador from Pakistan by complaining that his lobbyist did not pay him off...
...He was right to represent her government...
...Knowing that we were close to Parris Island Marine Base, I asked: "Is this the yacht of the Marine Corps Commander, General Gray...
...Marine flag flying on itsstem and then realized that its name, Seniram, was "Marines" spelled backwards...
...Moshinsky feels the need to cite people like Karen Carpenter and Mario Lanza shows the absurd lengths to which he is compelled to go...
...Keep up the great work and never let Ben Stein go...
...The American Spectator should have been all over this issue...
...That is what caused the economy to take off...
...It's their sons and daughters who want to pursue such worthy occupations as anchoring the news, or producing, directing, and writing rotten movies and television shows...
...Don't think so...
...In 1610 you could buy this booklet that says, "These Islands of the Bermudos have ever been accounted as an enchanted pile of rocks, and a desert inhabitation for Devils...
...It's not the amount of money that counts, it's who it comes from, where it goes, and what it buys that is driving the nation's economy into the ground...
...The hasty and unsubstantiated investigation of Brian Mulroney's role in the "Airbus affair" was only one of its expensive blunders...
...Brock's research and reporting in the book prove quite the opposite...
...If you think you're ready for a challenging position with one of America's most talked-about magazines, send a résumé and a short writing sample to: American r. Attn: C. Campbell P.O...
...Taxpayers already are paying for the electoral process...
...As for your Clinton bashers, I find them depressing with no solution in sight, and I am not going to waste my time on those articles...
...As well, we pay about $1,670 per taxpayer in taxes to offset the resulting government giveaways to special interest campaign contributors...
...To cite a single example, his chapter on Mrs...
...He once served in the Carter White House, and against his best interest, resigned in a confrontation with Brzezinski over the bald-faced lies he and others, including the president, were telling about U.S...
...That's a return-oninvestment legitimate businesses can only dream of...
...It was plain to see from the very first line that he had an agenda to get across...
...They use every emotionbased ploy to sell their socialist ideas, while the Republicans take no action, fearful that they'll be labeled as mean-spirited, compassionless money-grubbers...
...I usually told him I would and then didn't...
...I said that he couldn't afford a yacht this big, and the crew member said, "Hell no, it's been loaned to him...
...Aikman had bothered to talk to anyone in any of the government offices, he would of found out that 90 percent of them are run by former South Vietnamese officers...
...Democrats they support have shifted to the right...
...If he were able to understand the Vietnamese language, he would undoubtedly have heard the subtle but ubiquitous criticism that so often becomes the lingua franca of a repressed society...
...It is quite amazing that he could find nothing to smear my uncle...
...As such it was an important military and administrative headquarters to both the Americans and the government of Vietnam, especially to the defense and lines of communication in the southern part of I Corps...
...His book is a masterpiece of careful research fortified with data...
...departed in 1975, Hoi An was the capital of Quang Nam Province, in which is located the autonomous city of Da (Continued on page 79) The American Spectator August r997 13 (Continued from page .r3) Nang...
...Keep up the good work...
...What America doesn't see is what people like me sense in the private precincts of Jewish life in families, in business, in everyday conversation...
...In my opinion, you did not lay a glove on Mark Siegel and only embarrassed your magazine...
...When are we going to stop pussyfooting around and ask ourselves to what lengths a Commander-in-Chief must go before being guilty of treason...
...If you prefer that your name not be rented please check here...
...Sitting around talking to them, I found they have the same dreams as American children...
...Too silly...
...Each of them uses a consistent theme that we do not need government to solve our problems, and they say it in a manner that completely disarms the "compassion" crowd...
...Surely no one who reads TAS...
...The kind of vision of a de-Balkanized America where everyone begins at the same starting line and finishes whenever and wherever his energies, talents, abilities, and commitments to training and hard work take him...
...If Mr...
...Moshinsky has no business providing false assurances to the obese, even if it somehow offends him that "obesity is the last politically correct target for abuse and discrimination...
...Even though I received the edition a month late, I would read it from cover to cover...
...By the way, Mr...
...Comparing the spending on political campaigns to the money spent on potato chips, yogurt, bubble gum, or even the nation's gross domestic product, is ridiculous and detracting...
...Finally, I would call a national party meeting on ways to become more adept at communicating Republican positions on critical issues...
...Corry's article very carefully and tell me if you honestly believe he did justice to the issue...
...Clinton and Mr...
...Don't kid yourself, folks...
...These are entry-level positions, in which you will be responsible for assisting the editors in evaluating manuscripts, handling correspondence, checking facts and figures, proofreading copy from our reporters, and other fascinating tasks too numerous to mention here...
...But something new is in the air in the American Jewish community, and it's still confined to the realm of private conversation...
...At the same time he portrays the dazzling difference between the public pronouncements and the attitudes of the average person trying to survive...
...Just be sure to allow six weeks for your change to take effect...
...Later, he championed only those causes he believed in and was discriminating in his choice of clients...
...I now tend to skip over your major articles to read your culture pieces: Ben Stein (always...
...It is so rare to hear someone of my generation talk about duty and honesty and about how much they loved Richard Nixon...
...We know that lobbyists contribute money, and we know that they have access...
...And I've become confident that I will see (a) Jewish support for strong Republican candidates rise to a majority over the next ten years...
...Also, I did not quote Mark Siegel (or Burton, either, for that matter) because, as I wrote in TAS, lawyers were speaking for all the principals...
...This is an excellent opportunity to break into journalism (our departing assistants are taking important newspaper jobs...
...A vision of a government that minds its own 12 August 1997 • The American Spectator business...
...Mulroney's...tenure at the public trough" makes you sound akin to the bad liberal press in Canada...
...Perhaps Mr...
...The fact that her hand trembles now and then is irrelevant...
...Siphoning operations require the simultaneous votes of 5o percent of the representatives and the president's signature...
...Captain Glenn I was interested in Byron York's article "The White House Plays Ruff" (TAS, June 1997...
...The choice of words suggests ignorance about Parkinson's disease, the neurological disorder which the Attorney General and a million Americans suffer from...
...HANA SCHOLZ Stirling, Ontario Tempest Times Obviously, re: Joseph Sobran's Alias Shakespeare (Correspondence, TAS, July 1997) the earl of Oxford dead in 1604 never wrote The Tempest inspired by the VIP ship driven by a hurricane onto the Bermuda rocks in 16o49...
...Now I wonder: this loan qualifies as a gift, so did Sen...
...Your comment on Mulroney misinformed your readers and was patently unfair...
...restoring the constitutional restraints, now defunct, on the legitimate activities of the federal government...
...Politics, it's called...
...He was my hero...
...So many times I've wished I could pick up the phone and tell him how much his diary has meant to me or what a great job I think he's doing as a father...
...You should perhaps consider Mr...
...As the National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, set up by the National Institutes of Health, reported in 1994, "There is no convincing evidence that weight cycling in humans has adverse effects on body composition, energy expenditure, risk factors for cardiovascular disMulling Mulroney A friend to whom we pass our TAS pointed out a couple of lines in your March Continuing Crisis column smearing Brian Mulroney...
...Chretien hzs come to power publicly slandering trie policies of Mr...
...I began reading The American Spectator in the early eighties when I shared a subscription with a friend in the local district attomey's office...
...LAWRENCE HENRY Charlestown, Massachusetts Barboury Costs So, rumors are circulating (On the Prowl, TAS, June 1997) that new RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson may be "dismantling the successful communications structure [Haley] Barbour built" Successful...
...A recent Associated Press typo, which identified the president's wife as "Hillary Roddamn Clinton," comes pretty close to the truth...
...A list of the island's bounty even includes the very word berries, shades of Caliban's lament (I:ii...
...and (b) the long overdue political death of the lockstep Jews of the left...
...But the Democratic Party and Bill and Hill, that's gomisht mit gornisht— nothing with nothing...
...I was beginning to think that I alone had become jaded, but from the letters you published in your June edition, I am not the only subscriber who believes that you may be losing your edge...
...Mark Siegel is my uncle...
...It has always amused me, sourly, that you can find a ream of articles anytime the "Christian right-wing extremists" attempt to "take over" a school district in Podunk, Virginia, but nary a word on the religiously leftist Jewish cabal surrounding the president of the United States...
...Brock quotes people who say, "Hillary is a good person...
...My father used to try to get me to read articles out of the Spectator and National Review when I was in my late teens...
...You run the risk of turning into one of those old leftists who was obsessed with proving Alger Hiss's innocence...
...We still have the Vietcong and the North Koreans...
...MAUREEN WILLIAMSON Cannel, Indiana We Have Met the Russians In reading the last issue of The American Spectator, as is my wont, from cover to cover, I was pierced by a statement in the review titled 'Withered Russia" about the new book, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia...
...Yep, I remember having read that Keating had been lending yachts to influence people...
...In truth, the only thing that smells is Congressman Burton's insidious conduct...
...STEVE COTTON via the Internet 82 August 1997 • The American Spectator...
...Mark Steyn's "Everybody Out...
...While I have learned in your magazine about the immoral personal life of Mr...
...They forget, or choose to ignore, the Virginia Company's published account of the shipwreck in its A True Declaration ofthe Estate of the Colonie in Virginia (London, 161o...
...John Glenn and his relations with Charles Ruff, who represented him in the Charles Keating matter...
...JOHN F. BRINSON Allentown, Pennsylvania Crying Uncle I have been a subscriber to The American Spectator since the "Wonder Boy" days over twenty years ago...
...Not in my mind...
...We're paying through the back door, and at hundreds of times more than if we simply paid for it up front...
...What Moshinsky is really arguing is one of the myths I deal with at great length in my forthcoming book, The Fat of the Land, which is that so-called "weight-cycling" or "yo-yoing" is harmful...
...The Republicans, meanwhile, have no agenda and no leader...
...How about all the soldiers at the Battle of Troy, the Civil War, the War of 1812...
...You see, I feel my apology will do about as much good for future harmony in these United States as his apology will...
...When the U.S...
...Gaining weight is just incidental to being overweight...
...My favorite is Ben Stein...
...10 August r9 9 7 • The American Spectator Don't you agree that a congressman chairing a committee overseeing a matter of such sensitivity should not ask or demand a donation from the group lobbying him...
...LIBBY RICHTER Hillsdale, Michigan What Is the Point...
...but all the Fairies of the rocks were but flocks of birds, and all the Devils that haunted the woods were but herds of swine...
...I went to the tunnels at Cu Chi and found them fascinating...
...Although it takes me a month to get through the whole thing, it's always there to look forward to...
...More women die of stroke than of breast cancer...
...If Mr...
...Ask the average Republican in this part of Ohio about Rising Tide and you'll likely hear concerns about the water level of Lake Erie...
...JEFF L. REED Norwalk, Ohio Yes, it appears that the RNC under Jim Nicholson's "leadership" will remain adrift...
...2. Attach the mailing label from your most recent issue...
...Restricting the flow of information to the American people about the range of candidates and the positions they support will not achieve the desired effect...
...Glenn declare it on his income tax...
...Even his Uncle Mark never suggested that Burton ever changed his vote or altered his position because of money...
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...The Democrats have brains enough to pay for TV ads—or have the AFL-CIO do it for them...
...We can no longer allow money to pass hands between those who want laws written and those who write them...
...The current government of Mr...
...If he had he would not insult Bovard as someone who "views all popular movement solely through an ideological prism...
...Clinton, his unethical financial transactions and unscrupulous political machinations, I fail to see why he should rejoice when the maligned Mr...
...Is that what you call journalism, or is The American Spectator simply the Star of political magazines...
...We are not going to drive the Clintons out of the White House as the left did to Nixon...
...Natoli called his book a "damnable fragrant bouquet to Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Lohman disapproves of the scale of these redistributionist operations, as I do, then possible remedies include: supporting tax cuts (thereby reducing the cash-flow into the common pool...
...Benazir Bhutto's government, for example, was the first and unfortunately perhaps the last Western-style democratic government that Pakistan will enjoy...
...My wife's family is Vietnamese and we stayed with them, and I got a far different view of the country than he did...
...Writers can be contradictory folks...
...Aikman may get upset at seeing monuments to the Communists' victory, but he should get a grip...
...Chinese food may be a tough opponent, to be sure, but I'm not quite so certain about the Democratic Party and the great liberal factories in Academia that feed it and the media...
...I will continue to read The American Spectator, and I will specifically seek out the articles that keep me energized...
...The redistributionist activities of such non-democratic entities as the European Community in Brussels, with its so-called "parliament," might The American Spectator • August 1997 11 disabuse him of this notion...
...Ask yourself: Is the term applied carefully and rigorously to a select group of deserving people—or is it simply a catch-all smear for anyone on the right...
...HARVEY LORD South Paris, Maine Vietnam Views I enjoyed David Aikman's "Saigon Serenade" in your June edition...
...They usually get it in the form of tax breaks, federal grants, subsidies, and numerous other forms of corporate welfare...
...Tom Bethell (almost always...
...Samuelson is stretching the definition of "cheap shot," and promoting a very dubious political correctness...
...It was the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay colony at Boston who drove Roger Williams out into the snows of a New England winter...
...A young deckhand was wiping down the decks, so I yelled up at him...
...You have every right, and in fact a duty, to compare what Congressman Burton did with what members of the administration did...
...It triggers a sense of betrayal, interwoven with good old Jewish guilt and no small dose of a sense of being suckered by an ethnic weakness for political Elmer Gantrys such as Carter the nuclear sub genius, Dukakis the tank commander, and Clinton, the George S. Patton of the bedroom...
...Mulroney receives a public apology by his accusers...
...Cheapness Pays After his "Politics Comes Cheap" (TAS, June 1997), Tom Bethell should slowly withdraw head from sand...
...was fun and on point...
...They won...
...Aikman...
...Anyone who knows us, understands that would be far too much to ask...
...If it instead came in little chunks from many taxpayers, we'd eliminate the $400 ROI it's currently costing us, and we'd balance the budget virtually overnight...
...And if Jews define their religion by their politics—what Shattan calls "secular liberalism," but what the rest of the world knows as socialism—then conservatism is by definition "anti-Semitic...
...Radow's accusation of "insidious conduct" seems to me to be a little hysterical...
...Middle East policy...
...I'd also encourage every national GOP spokesperson to reproach, politely but firmly, mainstream media representatives for biased or shoddy reporting...
...I only wish Mark and people like him with more backbone were running the country...
...First, if anti-Semitism is the "socialism of fools," then, per Abrams, we can say that socialism is the Judaism of fools...
...It was much larger than others moored nearby...
...he is the chairman of the House committee that is investigating White House fundraising practices, and Mr...
...Tell that to the folks in Italy and Mexico...
...Too, there are all the dead British during the American Revolution...
...However, Shattan's skeptical conclusion that it "will take a mighty faith indeed to win the Jews away from Chinese food and the Democratic Party" may be premature...
...JAMES R. BAKER Mitchelville, Maryland ease, or the effectiveness of future efforts at weight loss...
...Mark has a 25-year history in Washington and Mr...
...Brock even quotes a letter from one such front thanking her for the money and pointing out how unusual it was for her to have taken the risk to provide it...
...At a time when he was finally having his name cleared, you perpetuate the impression that he may have been guilty of some wrongdoing by linking him to Bill Clinton, of all people...
...That is why the press corps in Washington has been so unconcerned about this bold new assault on our First Amendment right to freedom of political speech...
...When special interests pay $800 million in an election cycle to get their favorite lawmakers elected, they expect something in return...
...A study that just came out in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women 44 pounds overweight or more have 2.5 times the chance of the most common type of stroke than women at the proper weight...
...For every dollar they invest in politicians, they get $400 back from the taxpayers...
...There is just one solution: American elections should be financed by the people to whom politicians owe, or should owe, their allegiance: the taxpayers...
...In this issue, with "Smeary Dan" on the cover, my last remaining pride in a once noble magazine was shattered ["Burton in the Snake Pit," by John Cony, TAS, June 1997...
...Al Gore and the administration via the Democratic Party have perhaps taken monies from the airlines to perpetuate what seems to be an obfuscation of the truth, with the participation of the FBI, of the terrorist bombing of TWA Flight 800...
...They have a right to boast...
...MOVING...
...It was a gut-wrenching decision, but Mark rightly chose principle over self-interest...
...Clinton's two-decades-old leadership of the Legal Services Corporation decisively WE WANT YOU...
...ROSALIE URSULA BRADD Billings, Montana Reading TAS Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry Permit me to say that if Bill Clinton apologizes for slavery, then I want to be the first to apologize for his being elected twice...
...Besides, we should be looking at what students are learning and if they're happy...
...Read Mr...
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