Cold War
Shattan, Joseph
How Anti Americanism Won the Cold War Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing Little, Brown /438 pages / $39.95 REVIEWED BY Joseph Shattan A lthough Jimmy...
...It will explain why I am not renewing my subscription to The American Spectator...
...In fact, it uses the same fax cover sheets used by several CATIC fronts...
...Our Anglican embarrassment is John Shelby Spong...
...Hawaii, the only state with nearly universal health insurance coverage, is the only state with a federal exemption from the ERISA law...
...Once again, facts that show the United States to have been at least reasonably conciliatory are ignored...
...The acceleration "unit" he refers to is nautical miles per hour...
...Attached to the ad was this note: "Susan Lew was appointed in 1995 or 1996 [as San Diego Port Commissioner] and described as a 'successful real estate developer' in the San Diego Union Tribune...
...The black vote rose from nine percent to to percent since 1994, and grew even more Democratic: 89 percent, up from 81 percent...
...Interestingly, while there isn't a Republican gender gap, there is a marriage gap...
...The most grievous example is the National Fraternal Order of Police's continued endorsement of President Clinton in spite of his total lack of character and integrity, something for which American law enforcement is supposed to stand...
...I think it better to argue that the draft is unfair and inefficient, therefore, exempting some people is good...
...Biblical "inerrancy" demands, requires, a god in ours...
...But Kremlin leaders quickly realized that the war was unwinnable, and began casting about for a face-saving way out...
...ALICE PETTEY THOMAS High Point, North Carolina Surprise, Surprise A few weeks ago I wrote asking you not to extend my subscription because my eyesight now is so poor I can't read the magazine...
...The United States never had any real expectation that Moscow would withdraw...
...Rather, I JOSEPH SHATTAN, a Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, is writing a book tentatively titled Heroes of the Cold War...
...Police unions have gone the way of all unions that started with the intent to protect the labor force and developed intoentities more interested in their self-perpetuation than in employee rights...
...Some of these people are vicious...
...To make their case, Isaacs and Downing ignore a vast body of evidence, and distort the rest...
...others maintain that it didn't go far enough in meeting Stalin's legitimate concerns...
...On August 3, 1998, I spoke by telephone with Ms...
...The liberals thought that when they departed there would be a brain drain and financial bankruptcy but we have managed very well, thank you, and to God we give the glory...
...Now in my 91st year I look back over my career as a Presbyterian pastor (and WWII Navy Chaplain) and recall that I had to devote much time and energy exposing and combating the theological liberalism which was invading and eventually captivating my denomination...
...His mistake was in believing that the unions represent the rank-and-file law enforcement officers...
...FRECH III Professor of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Adjunct Scholar American Enterprise Institute Santa Barbara, California William Tucker replies: The only factual dispute I would raise is with Ted Frech's statement: "ERISA has little effect in states without burdensome mandates and regulations, but no one has noticed dramatically fewer uninsured consumers in those states...
...Consider their treatment of the Berlin Wall...
...Tucker nicely catalogs the nightmare of state health insurance regulations (e.g., forced community rating in New York, "any willing provider" laws in Arkansas) and coverage mandates (e.g., massage therapists in Florida...
...Box 549, Arlington, VA 22216Haverhills Jefferson Coin & Bullion Lear Financial SafeTrek Essentials Sage Publishing Sarkes Tarzian Inc...
...ERISA mostly covers high income employees of large firms who are not in much risk of being uninsured...
...BERNARD SOLAS Riverdale, New York I think a pal at the Spectator should sit down with Ben Stein and find out what's wrong...
...W hich brings us to Ronald Wilson Reagan, the American president most committed to winning the Cold War, and the villain of Cold War...
...Let's hope the "timid" powers that be will jump on your bandwagon, and help get this problem solved, so that I, a small-business owner, can get some insurance for my family...
...In El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, covert U.S...
...Isaacs and Downing claim to have based their narrative on "the latest available knowledge on a range of Cold War issues," yet Sakharov's autobiography, published in 1990, appears to have escaped their notice...
...Your efforts are appreciated...
...Co-authored by Jeremy Isaacs (the British executive producer of the series) and Taylor Downing (another British filmmaker), and based on the scripts for the documentary, it is one of the shoddiest, most intellectually dishonest books I have ever come across...
...Perhaps Mr...
...arrived at this judgment after reading the companion volume to the TV series, also called Cold War...
...But he concludes that ERISA is at fault by protecting many consumers from these wasteful state legislative rip-offs and mistakes...
...As a proud non-member of the San Diego Police Officers Association, I was one of the people who received mailings from that ludicrous organization urging me to vote against the proposition...
...It was the ultimate irony and insult to the members: spending their money to urge them to vote against requiring their permission to spend their money...
...To stanch the human hemorrhage, Khrushchev could do one of two things: Either expel the Americans, British, 72 January 1999 • The American Spectator and French from West Berlin, or build a fence of some sort to block the exodus...
...But the fiercely anticommunist Reagan didn't give a fig for detente, and his determination to achieve "the militarization of outer space" through SDI threatened arms control...
...In the current (November) issue of TAS, he talks about suicide...
...Shocked by losing the House, in 1996 unions spent $35 million of member dues on TV ads attacking Republicans...
...move toward abandoning or suspending work on a thermonuclear weapon would have been perceived either as a cunning, deceitful maneuver or as evidence of stupidity or weakness...
...aid helped arm the death squads that terrorized the countryside...
...Paige Patterson, our current SBC president, is head of the latter institution...
...not to build a superbomb would be immoral, since it would ultimately place the American people at the mercy of the Soviets...
...Cheer up, Ben...
...The money for the mailing came from membership dues, which I stopped paying several years ago...
...like the United States it preferred to see the Soviets tied down in Afghanistan...
...14 Correspondence (Continued from page r2) note that Uniphos uses not only the same address as CATIC, but the same telephone and fax numbers as well...
...Far from "firing the starter's pistol for the ultimate arms race," then, Truman's 195o decision to proceed with the development of an H-bomb simply meant that Washington had finally decided to embark on a course of action to which Moscow was already committed...
...President Roosevelt appreciated Stalin's legitimate security needs, but his successor, Harry Truman, "was largely ignorant of foreign affairs....Truman's tendency was to see things in clearly defined, black-and-white terms...
...So now we know...
...In the end, Mr...
...Well, today I sent in my renewal...
...Unfortunately, despite claiming to have "benefited enormously" from Professor Gaddis's advice, neither the Litvinov interview nor any of the other evidence adduced by Gaddis to demonstrate Stalin's culpability is cited by Isaacs and Downing...
...Thank you for publishing it...
...How Anti Americanism Won the Cold War Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing Little, Brown /438 pages / $39.95 REVIEWED BY Joseph Shattan A lthough Jimmy Carter has praised Ted Turner's "deep and longstanding commitment to easing the tension and disharmony between the two superpowers, world peace, nuclear arms control, environmental quality, and global sharing of news"—proof-positive that Turner is a horse's ass—that is not why I am certain that Cold War, Ted Turner's 24-part, $12-million CNN documentary is an awful waste of time...
...it was McDonnell Douglas...
...By contrast, Eisenhower is accused of attempting "to bully the Communists into a negotiated peace" in Korea by threatening to use nuclear weapons against China in 1953...
...At the time, Ms...
...But whatever his views about the plan, everyone who has written about the Cold War recognizes that it was a historic initiative — everyone, that is, but Isaacs and Downing, who never quite get around to mentioning it...
...Navy...
...Albert Mohler is president of Southern Seminary, not Southeastern...
...In other words, even if Truman had adopted a more conciliatory policy, it wouldn't have made the slightest difference, since the Cold War was Stalin's doing, not his...
...Reaganite issues remain winners—when Republicans run on them...
...Li Xi Rong), who in addition to working at CATIC runs a separate company on its behalf, known as Corasco International, Inc...
...Placing missiles in Cuba was the Soviet David's morally justified attempt to give the American Goliath a taste of his own medicine...
...More important, I feel I owe you an explanation since your publication is essentially highly intelligent, of sound judgment, and greatly needed in today's distorted left-leaning times...
...the other group, led by Edward Teller, argued that for the U.S...
...John Glenn (D-Ohio...
...That night," write Isaacs and Downing, "Truman announced to the world that he was directing that a new 'so-called hydrogen or superbomb' be developed...
...True, even had Republicans presented a unified policy front, they would have had trouble competing for attention with Clinton's August 17 admission of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky...
...The ancients, including the Hebrews who wrote the Old Testament, were looking for truth, not a literal reconstruction of what happened and when...
...And in liberal "Taxachusetts," 83 percent of voters agreed to lower the tax on "unearned" income from 12 percent to 5.95 percent...
...I've heard them...
...Dunn checked with his friends at Boeing (which now owns McDonnell Douglas), he would have known this...
...He lacked the patience to weigh up subtleties of argument...
...One could make a principled federalist argument against ERISA, arguing that health insurance should be entirely a state matter...
...Whether it's purchasing their products or simply extending your good will, your positive response rewards these organizations for advertising in one of America's finest magazines, The American Spectator...
...However, when read for its truth in meaning, it remarkably coincides with what scientists have only learned in the twentieth century about the order of creation...
...Cynthia McKinney's district, where 45 percent of the electorate is black, the number of votes cast for her jumped from 71,56o in 1994 to 100,485 in 1998—which helped doom GOP chances at winning the Georgia gubernatorial race...
...Thus, the mainline churches have contributed to the moral decay which now characterizes this once-Christian nation...
...The skewed political economy of state health policy leads to these unfortunate results...
...The problem with ERISA is not that it The American Spectator January 1999 77 covers some people...
...I don't want you wasting money sending renewal notices...
...Fortunately, Andropov's protégé, Mikhail Gorbachev, picked up his fallen sponsor's banner and eventually brought the Cold War to a peaceful end...
...But it is in their attempted whitewash of Soviet aggression in Afghanistan that Isaacs and Downing truly outdo themselves...
...I f Isaacs and Downing go to extreme lengths to convict Washington of Original Sin, they are equally assiduous in their efforts to absolve Moscow of all wrongdoing...
...E. Fame Publishing Forbes Free Press/Reason Page # p. 72 p. 69 P. 3 p. 79 p. 13 p. 53 p. 73 p. 2 P. 9 P. 5 p. 83 p. 19 p. 6 p. 73 p. 17 p. 35 p. 61 p. 74 p. 11 76 January 1999 The American Spectator and most of its influence on contemporary American life...
...When the issue came before President Truman, he quickly decided in favor of Teller...
...support...
...Three and a half million troops belonging to America's allies were garrisoned around the Soviet Union's borders...
...A few of the detailed arguments are off the mark...
...God can do what he chooses to do...
...I never knew that she enjoyed your magazine just as much as I did...
...A stop had to be called, and Gorbachev called it...
...Though it is generally thought of as the structure that best epitomizes the repressive essence of totalitarianism — a word, incidentally, that never appears in Cold War, which prefers to characterize Communist regimes as "authoritarian" or, at worst, "rigidly authoritarian" —for Isaacs and Downing the Wall is a testament to Khrushchev's essential moderation...
...Paul Cellucci, who consistently asked his Democrat opponent Scott Harshbarger why he would not sign the no-tax pledge...
...Commodity Control Items 7Ao5A and 7A25B both refer to GPS receivers operating at altitudes over 6o,000 feet and at pressures greater than 4g...
...technology politics and the U.S...
...Shiflett did make several errors that need correcting...
...Republicans survived this assault in 1996 and 1998—barely...
...It concentrated instead on supplying arms to the Mujahedeen and in letting the Soviet Union 'bleed.' Talks dragged on for year after year, but got nowhere...
...Faith in God acknowledges that God created us in his image...
...L.A.M...
...the Kremlin merely noted that the new team in Washington lacked `political tact and courtesy.— (Actually, Moscow went a good deal further thanthat, regularly comparing Reagan to Hitler and equating the United States with Nazi Germany...
...Among the sponsors was none other than Susan Lew, who listed her profession as "Port Commissioner...
...Even Herodotus, who "invented" history in Greece long after the Old Testament was largely composed, clearly invented speeches and freely used myths and questionable stories in composing his history...
...Exactly why he did so is unclear to Isaacs and Downing, but on one point they are adamant: It had nothing to do with Ronald Reagan's policies: Reagan remained convinced that U.S...
...Sill might be also interested to learn that when Chinese national Yuanyuan Yao (a.k.a...
...Even for a principled opponent of federal action, ERISA should be the last target, not the first...
...In my "California Take-Out" story I mentioned Susan Lew, who runs a real estate firm known as Calac Investments on behalf of the Chinese Aerospace Import-Export Company, CATIC...
...Idaho voters reiterated their support for term limits...
...Voters in Montana passed a constitutional amendment requiring that any and all tax hikes be voted on by the people...
...President Zia of Pakistan made it clear that, even with U.S...
...Tucker, for providing what appears to be such a simple answer...
...Although "no one in the Kremlin liked the idea of fencing off West Berlin...
...I would expect more special interest regulation and mandates, not less...
...They can expect similar efforts in 2000, knowing that they can never raise as much in voluntary contributions as Democrats can take from union members through dues, from consumers through tobacco-style lawsuit shakedowns, and from taxpayers through laundered government revenues flowing through labor, environmental, and "civic" groups...
...America's share in the international arms trade increased during the Reagan years...
...Unable to recognize that the Soviet Union, having suffered horrendously in World War II, was morally entitled to a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, Truman mulishly insisted that the Russians follow through on their Yalta pledge to hold free elections in the nations they had occupied...
...In the face of Truman's high-handedness, "the Soviets now understood that the era of wartime collaboration was over," and that the Cold War had begun...
...Address: The American Spectator, P.O...
...On other conservative issues, voters signaled that they stand with the Reagan Republicans rather than the old Democrats...
...military never ceases to amaze...
...The American Spectator • January 1999 75 That also happens to be the home of CATIC official Xiong Li (a.k.a...
...Georgia voted down a doubling of the property transfer tax to pay for environmental land purchases...
...During the 1956 Suez Crisis—what Isaacs and Downing call "the Anglo-French-Israeli aggression against Egypt" — Soviet Prime Minister Bulganin sent notes to Britain, France, and Israel threatening them with rocket attacks...
...Viewed in this light, the Berlin Wall emerges as a triumph of creative Soviet statesmanship, a daring effort to save the world from nuclear catastrophe...
...JOHN R. STEELE Santiago, Chile Correction In our December 1998 issue we misstated the titles of two books by Professor Jaroslav Pelikan...
...In his Memoirs, however, the actual architect of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Andrei Sakharov, offered a strikingly different account of the bomb's origins: The dispute over [Teller's and Oppenheimer's] opposing stands continues to this day, but the facts that have come to light about the state of affairs in the late 1940's support Teller's point of view...
...In Nevada, where Democrats held on to a Senate seat by the thinnest of margins, unions claimed to have visited personally with 90 percent of union members...
...Abortion, premarital sex, homosexuality, and other evils which infect our culture are no longer condemned from our pulpits but are tolerated, if not tacitly approved, by misguided liberals and pussy-footing moderates with backbones like wet spaghetti...
...Yao Yuan Yuan) first incorporated Uniphos in California in 1994, he gave as address a condo located at 1456 Forest Glen Drive in Hacienda Heights...
...The GOP can only trump the Democrats' get-out-the-vote money with an agenda worth voting for...
...There were American nuclear warheads in Italy, the United Kingdom and Turkey...
...In the face of Reagan's relentless propaganda barrage, they "had no alternative policy but to reiterate a belief in detente and strategic arms control...
...foreign policy...
...What they do mention is that General Curtis LeMay, who headed up America's Strategic Air Command, once admitted that if the U.S...
...Taking It All Back Thank you for the excellent and informative article by Dave Shiflett about the Southern Baptist Convention and the way the conservatives have taken their great denomination back from the liberals and secular humanists ("Taking Back Their Church," TAS, November 1998...
...Once you turn away from the idol who is confined to the meanings placed on events by twentieth-century Americans, you find that science and religion are in remarkable harmony, and that the desert-dwelling Hebrews of 3,000 years ago really did know something about creation...
...A campaign that made taxes the concern of 15 percent of voters would have led to GOP gains in the House rather than losses...
...Further, by exempting many consumers, it discourages destructive state regulations and clarifies the ill effects of those that do get passed...
...Consider their account of the Cold War's origins...
...Sometimes the authors simply ignore blatant examples of Soviet aggressiveness...
...If they were serious historians, such omissions would be inexplicable...
...Advertiser American Spectator Online Blackstone Audio Books Bose Corporation Classifieds William Campbell Douglass II, M.D...
...LOUISE GOODE SHANNON Yazoo City, Mississippi Don't know who William Spong is, but Dave Shiflett owes him an apology...
...The book's thesis is that the Cold War was almost entirely America's fault...
...With much appreciation for The American Spectator and its light on the dark places in our world today, I am, -REV...
...Andropov, unwell and confined to a kidney-dialysis machine at a clinic outside Moscow, saw all his hopes for peaceful co-existence shattered...
...Needless to say, the democratization of Latin America that occurred during ReaThe American Spectator • January 1999 73 gan's presidency goes unremarked in Cold War...
...Thank you, Mr...
...Sill is not so proud of that arrangement...
...These mainline churches have lost millions of members during the last few decades on account of their rejection of historic Christian doctrine and their caving in to anti-supernaturalism which has resulted in the rejection of the Bible as the only infallible rule of faith and practice...
...Patty Murray and increased Democratic numbers in both chambers of the legislature, they voted 59 to 41 percent to abolish racial and gender preferences...
...An analysis of certain candidacies and initiatives on the November 1998 ballot suggests the answer is yes...
...The United States, committed to winning the Cold War, was not about to let the Soviets off the hook...
...grand jury or by the U.S...
...NATHALIO M. CAPLAN El Cajon, California Make My Month As long as Florence King lives and is able and willing to write for you, please see that no issue of your magazine is published without one of her reviews or essays...
...Every month, he's sounding sadder and sadder...
...To suggest otherwise is to leave open the possibility that American statecraft had something to do with the Soviet turn-about, vet the whole point of Cold War is to demonstrate the futility, fatuousness, and utter foolishness of U.S...
...To compound the warped nature of anti-abortionists was the recent murder of another doctor...
...Texas Gov...
...Also, ERISA has little effect in states without burdensome mandates and regulations, but no one has noticed dramatically fewer uninsured consumers in those states...
...I would recommend expanding ERISA protections, not eliminating them...
...The Bible was never intended to be a history of creation as we understand it inthe modern sense...
...What he never fully recognized in Gorbachev, despite the warm rapport that grew up between the two men, was that here was a Soviet leader with a new line of thinking who no longer fitted the mold of the past...
...By contrast, in 1998 most Republicans in the House and Senate from their leaders on down voted for the budget compromise with Clinton, and the Senate refused even to vote on the House's small tax cut of $8o billion over five years...
...I have been wondering for about five years why health premiums were so high...
...Isaacs and Downing offer a similarly pro-Soviet reading of the Cuban Missile Crisis...
...Whether our understanding was confused by God at Babel, or whether it comes simply from our own inferiority to God, we can all agree that we will never have perfect understanding of God or his works, no matter how inspired we may be nor how many times we read and re-read Scripture...
...If one views federal intervention as a dark cloud, ERISA coverage of health insurance is the silver lining...
...Turning now to Michael Dunn's latest letter (his first ran in the November 1998 Correspondence): Rockwell International has never been under investigation by a Washington, D.C...
...If literalness did not lead to the whole truth, it was irrelevant...
...The authors maintain that the principal goal of Stalin's foreign policy after World War II was to establish a buffer zone along the Soviet Union's western borders, so as to ensure that his country would never be invaded from Europe again...
...The only genuinely interesting question posed by this wretched book is why serious historians like Gaddis, Lawrence Freedman, and Vladislav Zubock — all cited in the hook's preface—allowed themselves to be associated with it...
...She confirmed to me that the fax she sent referred to "rubber boots, oil seals," and other automotive parts, which International Sources purchases from China and then resells to auto parts remanufacturers...
...He cites an interview given by the former Soviet foreign minister, Maxim Litvinov, to CBS correspondent Richard C. Hottelet early in 1946, in which Litvinov attributed Soviet-American tensions to "the ideological conception prevailing here that the conflict between the Communist and capitalist worlds is inevitable...
...But Isaacs and Downing are prosecutors, not scholars, and their objective isn't to establish the truth, but to build up a case against the United States...
...George W. Bush campaigned successfully on his Si-billion property-tax cut and his promise to cut taxes another $2.7 billion over the next two years...
...The Genesis account of creation, when read for its inerrancy, defies understanding, because there are clearly two contradictory sequences of events set forth...
...Phone: 703-243-3733, ext...
...The Soviet government (or, more properly, those in power: Stalin, Beria, and company) already understood the potential of the new weapon, and nothing would have dissuaded them from going forward with its development...
...But of course there are many massive federal interventions, e.g., Medicare and Medicaid, and the tax subsidy of health insurance...
...Khrushchev felt surrounded...
...With this announcement, he fired the starter's pistol for the ultimate arms race...
...The VNS exit poll shows that Republicans won the vote of 65 percent of those who considered taxes their number-one concern...
...When Hottelet asked him what would happen if the West should suddenly grant all of Stalin's demands, Litvinov replied that "It would lead to the West's being faced, after a more or less short time, with the next series of demands...
...Could a Republican campaign for tax cuts and other Reaganite proposals have worked in spite of all that...
...WILLIAM T. STRONG, D.D...
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...Pakistan did not want peace...
...As with the origins of the Cold War, so with the thermonuclear arms race: The Soviets merely reacted to ill-considered American initiatives...
...In 1998, Big Labor, trial lawyers, and large Democratic donors spent tens of millions on largely unreported and untraceable getout-the-vote efforts...
...Turnout by voters with a union member in the household increased, from 14 percent of the total in1994 to 22 percent this year...
...More recently, most of the police unions along with the California Teachers Association and other socialist organizations threw their weight behind the defeat of the proposition that would have required members' permission to spend the union dues on political campaigning...
...The Glenlivet/House Of Seagram Pulliam Journalism Fellowships Quotesmith Corporation T Rowe Price Washington Times National Weekly Edition pp...
...While not officially sanctioned, the mentality is there no matter how rationalized...
...All this came as a terrible blow to the Kremlin, and especially to its leader, Yuri Andropov...
...Arkansans reaffirmed, by 60-40, a constitutional requirement for a three-fourths vote in the state legislature to raise all state-wide taxes...
...Customs Service for having sold B-1 bomber machine-tools to CATIC...
...he saw things in simple terms of right and wrong, with the Communists as the bad guys and the West leading a 'crusade for freedom...
...Tucker's logic reminds me of the 1970's argument for expanding the military draft to everyone on the grounds of fairness...
...he was a friend of tyrants everywhere: Right-wing military juntas, despite their despicable treatment of opponents, received U.S...
...McDonnell Douglas, not Rockwell, was the sole owner of the machinery in the Columbus, Ohio plant at the time it was sold to the Chinese...
...The Kremlin was alarmed by the militant Islamic regimes of Southwest Asia and feared that [Afghan dictator Hafizullah] Amin would make an alliance with Pakistan and then with China...
...As Henry Kissinger has observed, this was "the first explicit Soviet threat of rocket attacks against a Western ally" — yet it goes entirely unmentioned in Cold War...
...GEORGE W. MACDONALD Bay Village, Ohio For ERISA—and Against Special kudos to William Tucker for his article on health insurance ("ERISA: A Prescription for Health Care Inequity," TAS, November 1998...
...Andsuch countries could, at the present time, refrain from sending naval or air forces to the shores of Britain and use other means—for instance, rocket weapons...
...to build a "superbomb" would be immoral, since it would inevitably ignite a thermonuclear arms race that would endanger all of mankind...
...J. POWERS Shreveport, Louisiana The problem with those arguing "Biblical inerrancy" among the Southern Baptists is that they insist on confining God within human limitations, i.e., they have created a god in their own image...
...There were listening posts and USAF facilities in Iran and Pakistan, and an electronic monitoring station in Ethiopia...
...Although Harry Truman started the Cold War, and Ronald Reagan exacerbated it, it was Mikhail Gorbachev, the reforming Soviet idealist, who finally ended it...
...ERISA is hardly to blame for people choosing to be uninsured, a problem that long pre-dates ERISA...
...The bloodletting continued...
...But Democrats did not hold back the Republican tide simply because Republicans faltered on an agenda...
...The Democratic Party engaged in an unprecedented get-out-the-vote effort targeted at union members and blacks...
...In Alabama, GOP Governor Fob James defeated his well-funded primary opponent by highlighting several taxes his opponent had supported, and James himself was defeated in the general election by the only Democrat gubernatorial candidate in the country to sign the no-tax pledge...
...soldiers were stationed in more than two hundred foreign bases, all threatening the Soviet Union, from Greenland to Turkey, from Portugal to the Philippines...
...The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, they argue, was undertaken purely for defensive reasons...
...Poor Kremlinites...
...The correct titles are Mary Through the Centuries and Jesus Through the Centuries...
...William Land, is head of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and Dr...
...In short, Washington, not Moscow, was responsible for prolonging the carnage in Afghanistan...
...Back in 1994, Republican senatorial "old bulls" might not have liked the Contract With America, but at least they did not undermine it...
...The problem is that it doesn't cover all people...
...Some scholars have praised the Baruch Plan for its unprecedented generosity...
...PATRICE ROBERTIE Arlington, Massachusetts Union Cops If Dan Lungren was expecting major support from California law enforcement (On the Prowl, TAS, November 1998), he can rest assured he probably had it...
...I know it appears simple only because of your exhaustive pursuit of the relevant information...
...Also, the portability of health insurance benefits is a general problem, often worsened by state regulation...
...What's Wrong With Ben...
...I do not, however, wish to stomach any longer Stein's "right-to-life" ideology...
...You don't have to be told about that...
...Dunn had studied elementary physics he would know that acceleration creates pressure, which is measured as a multiple of the Earth's gravity...
...An organization called the Presbyterian Lay Committee has been endeavoring to call the church back to the Bible and to historic Presbyterian doctrine, with some success, but there is a long way to go before the denomination can be restored to its former greatness and power...
...Even a thousand years later Jesus was teaching in parables...
...In 1998, the Senate's refusal to consider a tax cut made it hard for House Republicans to argue that the GOP stood for lower taxes...
...Enclosed is a copy of a letter I sent to Ben Stein...
...They also point out that LeMay's successor, General Thomas Power, was such a hard-liner that even LeMay questioned his mental stability...
...Four years earlier, they captured the House running on the Contract With America, a ten-point agenda for lower taxes, less regulation, welfare reform, and a strong defense...
...However, only 11 percent of voters voted on taxes...
...And he did so, apparently, out of the sheer goodness of his heart...
...In what situation would Britain find herself," Bulganin asked Britain's Anthony Eden, "if she were attacked by stronger states, possessing all types of modern destructive weapons...
...He has bought into a euphemism just as the lefties have their euphemisms...
...A Kingless month leaves me moping...
...H.E...
...But it was a lucky accident for the political economy of American health insurance...
...Any conflict, anywhere in the world, was liable to be overlaid with this simplistic vision of an ideological crusade against communism...
...This strikes me as backwards...
...In his 1997 book We Now Know, John Lewis Gaddis, widely considered the dean of American Cold War historians, argues that it would not...
...As if such villainy weren't enough, Reagan compounded his sins by "accusing Moscow of lying, cheating, and using any means to achieve the objective of 'world revolution...
...First: Republicans should have campaigned on a Reaganite platform in 1998...
...had lost World War II, the Japanese would have tried him as a war criminal for his raids against their cities...
...Had Mr...
...My guess is that billionaire 'led offered them a consultant's fee too generous to refuse —but perhaps I'm overly cynical...
...He was teaching moral lessons, moral truths, not real stories...
...History, as we understand it, is a modern concept...
...RON SIMS Orlando, Florida William Tucker's interesting article has many of the details right, but, in my view, draws exactly the wrong conclusions...
...SAR4S TARZIAN INC Sarke' Tarzian Television Sark s Tarzian Radio Broadcasters Making a Difference 74 fan nary 1999 The American Spectator Politics/Norquist (Continued from page 6i) over Democrat, they reflect the overwhelming Democratic vote among blacks...
...Exempting everyone is better still...
...It would have made absolutely no sense to the ancient Hebrews nor to anyone else in the ancient world...
...The Bible was written by humans, to be read by humans, and has been translated by humans...
...and with the also-interestingly timed space voyage by Sen...
...If Mr...
...Since 1965 when the doctrinal stance of the denomination was officially changed in favor of what is called "inclusivism," the Presbyterian Church USA has lost a million members Advertiser Index You can make a difference for The American Spectator by patronizing its advertisers...
...A particularly telling example of the authors' cavalier approach is their treatment (or rather, non-treatment) of the Baruch Plan—the Truman administraThe American Spectator • January 1999 71 www.spectatonorg, tion's 1946 initiative, rejected by Moscow, to bring atomic power under international control...
...Isaacs and Downing find him entirely devoid of redeeming characteristics...
...ERISA functions as a constitution protecting covered consumers from state health insurance mandates and regulations...
...In discussing America's decision to build a hydrogen bomb, for example, the authors describe a debate that took place between two groups of scientists...
...confrontation was simply not a stable basis for peace, he argued...
...Compromise, mutual trust, and co-operation would be the way forward...
...Shasta, California As a conservative Southern Baptist who is proud to have had a small part in the conservative resurgence by voting for conservative nominees for president at the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention every year for many years and by being privileged to serve on the Committee on Committees in 1997, I enjoyed and was very pleased with "Taking Back Their Church" by Dave Shiflett...
...You probably cannot afford to present contrary opinions and offend your constituents, although you did pass along Barry Goldwater's belief, "It's no one's business...
...But Reagan was worse than a simpleton...
...Dunn could have consulted with his Boeing friends in Auburn (a suburb of Seattle) if he had been interested in the export control criteria for GPS receivers...
...GPS receivers under 7Ao5A and 7A25B were limited to speeds of less than i,000 nm/hour...
...China's reach into the nexus of U.S...
...Every Republican voted against the Clinton budget...
...Gay marriages were voted down in Alaska and Hawaii, by 58 percent in each case...
...Instead, they argue that Khrushchev's action was a perfectly understandable response to an intolerable provocation: By 1962 a million U.S...
...it reflected badly on the Communist way of life," Khrushchev decided to erect the Wall because "building it was a way of avoiding direct military conflict...
...In any case, the Soviet reaction would have been the same: to avoid a possible trap, and to exploit the adversary's folly at the earliest opportunity...
...The article clearly states that the Galen Institute found the number of uninsured consumers in 16 heavily regulated states to be rising eight times as fast as in the 34 states without burdensome mandates and regulations...
...All this came as a consequence of Reagan's "noble cause" of fighting communism...
...Massachusetts voters also re-elected Republican Gov...
...strength and determination had caused the Soviets to give in and had forced them to the negotiating table...
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...aid, he still wanted to develop his own nuclear weapons...
...But if Truman, following FDR's lead, had adopted a kinder, gentler approach to Stalin, might the Cold War have been averted...
...However, the talks were premature...
...Married people voted 54-44 Republican over Democrat and unmarried people voted 61-36 Democrat over Republican...
...Lew was being sued for failure to make payment on several million dollars in loans extended by the Northeast Savings FA and the East-West Bank on property she was developing in the San Diego area...
...That question prompted my ire when Hillary started her solution fiasco without any public hearings on why there was a crisis in the first place...
...It is probably worse, not better, for small group insurance that isn't covered by ERISA...
...Reagan's world was like an old Hollywood movie...
...Even as Washington state voters reelected liberal Sen...
...As they see it, the constant stream of Germans from East to West Berlin threatened the stability of the East German state...
...Before the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina in 1982, the United States supported the Argentine generals, with their cruel record on human rights, because of their anti-Communist stance, as well as the support they gave the Contras...
...Richard Land, not Dr...
...This was an even stronger vote than the 54 percent that Prop...
...Tucker is probably right that ERISA's coverage of health care "self-insurance" by employers and unions was an accident...
...Kaliszewski...
...However, my wife insists that I renew my subscription so that she can read it...
...Any U.S...
...Similarly, Mr...
...But any attempt to eject the Western powers from Berlin carried the risk of nuclear war...
...W bile ignoring the siren song of "stop investigating Clinton and move to the left," it is critical that conservatives learn two real lessons from 1998...
...Even when the facts belie their assertions, Isaacs and Downing still charge foolishly ahead...
...If ERISA were repealed, there would be greater gains to interest group lobbying at the state level...
...Those who say that he could not have created life in a way they do not understand are denying his almighty nature, and are substituting for the all-powerful creator, a god of their own making, whom they can define and limit, and who does only what they can understand...
...Republicans opposed Clinton's grab for national health care, his gun control proposals, and his 1993 budget that raised taxes and spending...
...Gorbachev, in countless speeches, stressed his commitment to arms reduction and his unwillingness to play the games of his predecessors...
...Southern Baptists are very blessed that God has given us these and other spiritual and intellectual giants...
...An anonymous reader mailed us a full-page ad from the San Diego Union Tribune, dated Sunday, October 11,1998, listing sponsors of "Fleet Week 1999" in honor of the U.S...
...Likewise, the theological view that holds that God could not have employed evolution as his means of creating new species and new forms of life is sheer blasphemy...
...We all love you...
...Whatever the reason, it is abundantly clear that anti-Americanism, not a desire to get at the truth of things, is the animating passion behind Cold War...
...facts suggesting that American officials were a bunch of psychos and war criminals are highlighted...
...One group, led by Robert Oppenheimer, argued that for the U.S...
...209 won in California two years earlier...
...But perhaps all this is just a coincidence, and the moon really is made of blue cheese...
...From the archives in Moscow, we now know that the Soviets were trying to disengage honorably, leaving behind a friendly regime in Kabul...
...This is what is desperately needed in the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Episcopal churches also...
...with the conveniently timed Middle East "peace" discussions...
...Although most Cold War historians believe that a principal motive behind the Kremlin's decision to place nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba was to force a renegotiation of the Berlin issue on terms more favorable to Moscow, Isaacs and Downing fail even to consider this possibility...
...In Georgia Rep...
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