Correspondence: Dunn deals, &c.
embellished by the author of As Time Goes By with, as he writes, "a few minor historical liberties, additions, and conflations," e.g., pages 353-54: Ilsa looked ravishing. Her shoulder-length hair...
...Round up the usual suspects...
...70, 77 p. 49 P. 9 p. 79 p. 13 p. 83 P. 3 p. 2 p. 19 p. 31 p. 27 p. 21 p. 67 pp...
...I see from Kenneth R. Timmerman's response to my letter (Correspondence, TAS, November 1998) that he does not wish to acknowledge error...
...No one complains about J.D...
...I know what liberals, socialists, hippies, Communists, gurus, and feminists think...
...Please, reconsider your position and don't let your fragile egos and pompous attitudes destroy the Grand Old Party...
...I guess so...
...MICHAEL J. DUNN Auburn, Washington Kenneth R. Timmerman replies: This is Mr...
...I become an agent of the government and have my personal spending controlled by constitutional restraints intended only for the state...
...Salinger's royalty checks, although he hasn't touched a typewriter in years...
...Dunn is also well aware that I am not the only one to warn about the cross-overs between ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles...
...Dodson foresees if the Republicans continue in their constitutionally delineated duties concerning impeachment, who is going to bring the guns...
...Kane, you'll remember, had a young son...
...Did he grow up to become Ted Turner...
...Jane's Space Directory explains that project 111(77, which became the Zenit launch vehicle, was originally proposed by Yuzhnoye to be a derivative of the SS-18, but was directed instead to be developed in concert with the strap on boosters for the Energiya launch vehicle...
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...Dunn just doesn't get it...
...That's why I ran for House Majority Leader and that's why I will expand my efforts to carry our message for lower taxes, retirement security, and better, safer schools across the country...
...JENNIFER DUNN Member of Congress Washington, D.C...
...Ash Gobar's letter in your December issue, I would be more than happy to pay your costs to cancel his subscription...
...Not to make too much of a bad thing, but what does it say about the state of the culture when, at the end of the American century, we find that the best shows now on Broadway are poor revivals and, nothing being sacred, classics become parodies...
...Because...
...They have other outlets...
...Citizen Kane II...
...I wish you would be reasonable before we are all voted out of office...
...A satellite can tolerate kilometers of error upon injection into low-Earth orbit, but a nuclear warhead can tolerate only tens of meters of error at burnout, in order to reach its target with acceptable accuracy...
...company has ever paid for violations of the Arms Export Control Act...
...J. GRIM Winter Park, Florida Fighting Back Regarding the letter from Babson Dodson of Mingo Junction, Ohio (Correspondence, TAS, December 1998): Is this guy for real...
...Tell me, who's at fault...
...Dunn is a Boeing employee...
...The particular program at issue in the Columbia Union College case (which was the main subject of my article) did not involve tax credits but actual cash disbursements, given directly to Catholic (but not Adventist) schools...
...Shame on you and back to grammar school (pay more attention this time in Social Studies...
...How can that possibly be any different from buying a "kosher" education with "education stamps...
...MEGAN BAILEY GERDES Louisville, Kentucky Advertiser Index By patronizing the companies and products posted in this issue, your positive response rewards them for advertising in one of the gems of American publishing, The American Spectator...
...Do you sleep better after kicking loyal readers in the rear...
...I stopped reading "Current Wisdom" and your liberals' letters some time ago, but the thought of just one penny of my money supporting distribution of such stuff is infuriating...
...The religious colleges involved were tax exempt to begin with, so it cannot be said that they were simply getting their own money back...
...It concluded that the two were virtually identical, even interchangeable — except for the payload...
...The two capabilities are virtually identical...
...Even if true (most successful distributors make more money than their sponsors), that is hardly sinister...
...And I speak to this point as a rocket engineer, not as a quarrelsome reader...
...I was astonished and angry to find that some rotten so-and-so among you had seemingly mocked the genial TAS fan by placing a letter right below his from a rabid, brain-dead Clinton groupie...
...I think I know...
...Few ever sit down and write it...
...that depending on circumstances it means different, mutually exclusive things, neither of which it says...
...Yet every dollar of public school teachers' pay comes from that same state fund...
...To write "This publication would not exist without Bill Clinton" is either ignorant of the history (and longevity) of TAS or really wishful thinking (after all, Mr...
...Zenit propellants are liquid oxygen and kerosene—not the nitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine used in the SS-18...
...The country surely has problems, but rising prices are not among them...
...Witter were given a desk, phone, computer, and license at a brokerage firm, but only showed up occasionally to check his messages and use the executive washroom, would he accuse the company of swindling him if he didn't make any money...
...I would recommend that if Mr...
...Witter would like to broaden his understanding of what constitutes a pyramid, he look in his encyclopedia under the heading "FICA...
...But personal and corporate interest aside, Mr...
...Amway bases its compensation on the construction of a network of independent distributors, each of whom starts at the same level...
...Meanwhile, if Mr...
...Three questions go begging: 1. Are space launch vehicles interchangeable with ballistic missiles...
...When every major technical feature of the Zenit-3 is grossly different from the corresponding feature of the SS-18, it is simply incredible for Mr...
...It is ludicrous to suggest that I would ever consider abandoning the GOP...
...I have one major problem with TAS that causes considerable indecision every year when subscription renewal time comes around...
...Kelly thinks there are serious constitutional problems with state aid to education, he should take up the argument with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, co-founders of the University of Virginia, a state institution...
...I understand that once a false premise is widely accepted it takes on the stature of dogma, and may no longer be questioned...
...The Zenit-3 incorporates a Block DM third stage that has never been used as a ballistic missile component...
...So Germany's possible "evolution into a more U.S.-style politics" is a fate that now seems a bit toosevere for merely having tried to conquer the world...
...Many of us love America, but not the direction she is being dragged by her global-inevitablist elites...
...I would suggest to Babson Dodson that they already work the streets...
...Guys, you better lighten up...
...Yep, sounds pretty Amerikanisch to me...
...While it is true that ballistic missiles have been used as launch vehicles, there are no examples of purpose-designed launch vehicles being used as missiles...
...Address: The American Spectator, P.O...
...Even if we can never return the debate to an honest level, let's not allow it to sink any further...
...Might I also add...Good riddance...
...that it does not mean what it says...
...David W. Witter's smack at Amway co-founder Jay Van Andel (Correspondence, TAS, December 1998) is explicable only if motivated by pure ignorance or pure malevolence...
...Do you really feel the need to be nice and fair and print junk from those that despise what the people that buy your rag stand for...
...76 February r 9 9 9 • The American Spectator Strong Opinion I have been a subscriber for a few years and a "conservative" for many years and I read TAS for all of the obvious reasons...
...Dodson, I'm not even a Republican and your letter offended me...
...In an earlier letter, he acknowledged that he had also worked on the Sea Launch project, which was the subject of our article...
...What is "wrong" about bringing Russian rockets to Long Beach is very simple: it is illegal...
...In my state of Colorado the same argument was used, primarily by the teachers' union, to defeat an education tax credit...
...3. Should the public be outraged at the prospect of "Russian ICBMs" arriving in Long Beach...
...One finds from Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems (1998) and Jane's Space Directory, 13th edition (1997) that the Zenit-2 (used as the first two stages of the Zenit-3) is 115 percent more massive than the SS-18, is 6o percent longer, is 3o percent larger in diameter, and has 75 percent greater engine thrust in the first stage...
...For instance, I don't even accept the basic premise that education is a legitimate function of government under our system, and defy anyone to demonstrate that it can be done without constitutional conflicts...
...It came as a great surprise to find that the site is being sponsored by none other than Lexus and Lincoln automobiles, the favorite steeds of well-to-do Republicans...
...Timmerman to describe it as a "version" of the latter...
...Amway has been around since 1959 and oddly our zealous regulators have never noticed it is a pyramid...
...So much for what happens to a classic absent the spirit: We end up with Springtime for Reinhard...
...PAUL KELLY Boulder, Colorado Jeremy Rabkin replies: I don't belong in the space between Paul Kelly's fusillade and his main target, the teachers unions...
...When money goes from my hand to the government's it automatically becomes "state funds," yet when the same money is returned as a voucher, it remains "state funds" forever, even if less is returned than was taken...
...On that occasion, the CIA's national intelligence officer for strategic programs, Robert D. Walpole, acknowledged that if North Korea could launch a satellite, it could also hit the U.S...
...Her shoulder-length hair brushed her bare shoulders, and around her throat she wore a spectacular diamond pendant, which Heydrich had given her for the occasion...
...So it is with some Amway distributors...
...If not, what could conceivably be the reason...
...To preempt the sophistic response to that question, is it unconstitutional to buy kosher food with food stamps...
...We have incrementally accepted that the Constitution means things it doesn't say...
...JONATHAN G. CLOUSE Southern Pines, North Carolina The person (I couldn't guess the sex by the name) Babson Dodson, who had the formula for saving TAS in your December 1998 Correspondence pages, is probably wrong that supporters of Bill Clinton would take to the streets...
...Why is nobody arguing that it's unconstitutional for public school teachers to spend "state funds" for religious reasons, including sending their own children to parochial schools...
...To answer the second question affirmatively, the Zenit-3 should exhibit commonality in structure, propulsion, and configuration in order to be considered a "version" of the SS-18...
...Finally, to answer the third question, the public should be provided accurate information about the Zenit-3 and not be agitated by specious alarms of "Russian ICBMs" in our midst...
...It is possible he is confusing the Zenit launcher with the Dnieper launch vehicle, or SS-18K, a direct derivative of the SS-18 ICBM...
...Liberal-leftists, unfazed by the giant-block-letters-in-the-sky lessons of the Soviet collapse, continue marching their way through the institutions of the West...
...Further, I would be glad to pay his expenses so that he might move to our "more progressive and humane neighbor...
...Even so, I think there is no persuasive objection to this policy and if there is, it surely cannot be an objection that applies to more "sectarian" Adventist colleges but not to the ostensibly less religious Catholic colleges (as Maryland has claimed...
...Let's see: A soothing mediagenic leader who seems to be saying important things without saying much of anything at all...
...Mr...
...DAVID WINCH Geneva, Switzerland Don't Vouch for Me Why do conservatives always allow liberals to define the terms and set the rules for all policy debates...
...But with his constant lapses of memory, one wonders if he will be able to recall on whose leg he left it on...
...government or the Constitution...
...He bases his "Zenit-3 equals SS-18" claim on unsourced pronouncements of former Communist regimes...
...Same concept...
...The space launcher carries satellites, whereas the nuclear missile carries nuclear warheads...
...Mainstream "conservatives" responding to the whole mess with all the courage, intelligence, and political agility of mollusks preserved in resin...
...TOM ANDRES Santa Barbara, California While Germany may in fact be metamorphosing in ways that remind Christopher Caldwell of the 1970's, TAS editors are wrong to cite "inflation" in the story sub-headline, along with "disco, divorce and immigration," as signs of German flaccidity...
...But for a vast number, it has been a means to financial freedom...
...Boeing Once, Boeing Twice...
...Just wondering —JOHN FRASER Sausalito, California Who Elected Us...
...Your own contributing author, Jeremy Rabkin, refers to vouchers as paying for non-public elementary schools, "including parochial or religious schools, with state funds" ["Let Us Study (And Pray)," TAS, December 1998...
...Timmerman answers the first question affirmatively, yet offers no supporting evidence...
...Moreover, they actually are agents of the state and will claim so any time it benefits them...
...there is nothingquite so offensive as another American with a word processor and no concept of U.S...
...Just as my article appeared, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, (Continued on page 76) 12 February 1999 • The American Spectator...
...It is grueling at first, but at a certain level, you step back and watch the residuals come in...
...But Michael Walsh's unintended humor aside, given the spirit of these times, what sequel can we next expect...
...HARRY YEATES San Antonio, Texas In response to Professor Dr...
...The point has not been entirely lost on the judiciary...
...DAVID HAMMOND Studio City, California The American Spectator • February 1999 77 ICORRESPONDENCE One Leg Up Our perpetual teen-age president is wondering what if anything will be left of his legacy...
...I know I have never worked anywhere where my superiors, no matter how shiftless, made less than I. If Mr...
...The CIA could just as easily have used the Zenit and the SS-18...
...Do you think Salon got these two new devotees because of its pro-Clinton coverage...
...In the future, let's demand that every premise be proved before we move on to debating how it should be implemented...
...I Did It Amway Mr...
...On second thought, don't tell me...
...By this logic, we should declare a 747 to be a "version" of a B-52 nuclear bomber...
...5, 11, 17 p. 6 To learn more about the benefits of advertising in The American Spectator, contact: John Funk, Associate Publisher—Advertising...
...Moreover, missiles must be designed to incorporate long-term readiness and robustness against attack, whereas such features are unnecessary for a launch vehicle (and therefore undesirable...
...Because of that, in October the Justice Department hit Boeing with a $'o million fine, the largest penalty a U.S...
...Timmerman is obliged to reconsider his inflammatory characterization of these launch vehicles...
...He was standing very close to her, and she could feel his breath on her shoulder...
...He does not substantiate his original claim, but argues instead that mere technological similarity establishes such an identification...
...You want me to look my best, don't you...
...JAMES H. SCORSE Dana Point, California Salon Suckers While wandering around the Web today I came upon Salon's site...
...He ran his hands over the bare skin of her back„ „ "Please, Reinhard," she said, squirming gracefully away from him...
...In this case I'm thinking of school vouchers...
...That is, o.o percent—as measured by the OECD, private financial institutions, and German national agencies...
...Cheap-labor mass immigration propping up a national economic "Ponzi scheme" (with the press demonizing anyone who questions it...
...For starters, TAS has existed long before the shadow of Bill Clinton sullied the American political landscape...
...Believe it or not, after writing the above I had a snack and got around to finishing my copy of the August x998 TAS...
...This denies that there are any significant differences between missiles and space launchers, or between the SS-18 and the Zenit-3...
...Correspondence (Continueclfrom page 12) acknowledging the force of Columbia Union's complaint, ordered the district court (which had earlier approved this discrimination) to document actual sectarian entanglement in the college's programs...
...The armed masses of left-wing militias...
...You don't own it...we do...
...JEANETTE FRYBARGER Sequoia, Washington Silly and Ludicrous The anonymous reference in your January edition to my reaction after the House Leadership elections in November is one of the sillier things I've ever read (On the Prowl, TAS, January 1999...
...No amount of 10 February 1999 The American Spectator technicalities or legal hair-splitting can disguise that simple fact...
...Phone: 703-2433733, ext...
...One reason for this is that launch vehicles are designed for only moderate accuracy at burnout...
...Dunn's third letter about a story that appeared in our September issue ("Long Beach Missile Transfers...
...You are giving the words Conservative, Republican, and Christian a bad name in America...
...Everyone has a novel in them...
...2. Is the Zenit-3 a "version" of the SS-18...
...a clear absurdity...
...Anybody who's served as a state party chair, as I did for eleven years, is clearly invested in their Party under the best or the most difficult circumstances...
...It is a sad day when the Clinton ethos spills over to America's scientific community Bye, Bye, Miss American Strudel "Germany Goes Amerikanisch" (by Christopher Caldwell, TAS, December 1998...
...Timmerman's depth of research is illustrated by his statement that "the Russians have successfully fired the Zenit only twice...
...I'm curious how the demographics of Salon's viewership, combined with its extreme partisanship, makes it such an advertising mecca for Lexus and Lincoln, two very rich sources of potential revenue for Salon...
...with an ICBM...
...I do not buy TAS to read what some idiot, left-wing buffoon(s) got printed in the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle...
...No matter, that's dogma now, and the only debate allowed is how many constitutional rights must be disposed of to avoid those constant conflicts...
...Because a group of radicals don't know when to compromise, we look like mean-spirited anti-social misfits...
...As for the coming revolution Mr...
...When was the last time Lexus or Lincoln offered its advertising to TAS...
...The case may be in litigation for quite some time as courts try to sort out the proper standards in this area...
...Box 549, Arlington, VA 22216-05.49...
...But given the new corporate ethos that has emerged during the Clinton years, Boeing apparently considered that to be a minor technicality...
...Inflation in Germany today is zero...
...So minor, in fact, that Boeing lawyers at one point admitted to violating the law not just once, but 387 times...
...We should be challenging, in fact, ridiculing, that premise, but we allow it to stand as the basis of the debate by default...
...and that the sole criterion for interpreting it is whether the interpretation benefits the teachers' union...
...This is contradicted by the flight record given in Jane's Space Directory, of 28 launches from 1985 through 1997 (23 were successful...
...You crazy so-and-so's...
...Everyone who knows me knows that I am deeply committed to the Republican Party—its values and its leaders—because I believe we are the Party that has the most to offer to every American from every background...
...I would remind readers that his original article ("Long Beach Missile Transfers," TAS, September 1998) identified the Zenit-3 launch vehicle (used in the Sea Launch program) as "a larger, commercial version of Russia's ten-warhead SS-I8 `Satan' ICBM...
...Witter dopily asserts that the top bananas in Amway make all the money while the peons do the work...
...This was demonstrated yet again in August, when North Korea test-launched a so-called "satellite launch" vehicle over the heads of the Japanese...
...And what did I see on page 78—a letter (titled "Purist") complaining of TAS printing its hate mail...
...Clinton won't provide good copy for your magazine after the rest of us forget him...
...On May 21, 1998, before a Senate subcommittee chaired by Thad Cochran, the CIA presented a detailed analysis of the Chinese CSS-4 nuclear missile, and China's commercial Long March space launcher...
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