Correspondence: Gambling, the hive, &c.
CORRESPONDENCE Decimated Grover Norquist continues to see GOP conservatism where little evidence of it exists. His belief that Lott and Hastert will push for a to percent tax break for everyone...
...I am the Master of Balliol College And what I don't know, isn't knowledge...
...Kennedy and his ilk perfectly...
...JAMES GRAHAM Author, The Secret History of Alcoholism (1996) Lexington, Virginia It Pays to Renew The satire and absurdity contained in the two pages of March's Continuing Crisis were worth more than the price of a year's subscription...
...Of course there were people who couldn't handle freedom of choice and lacked the self-control necessary to set limits on their own behavior...
...Senate has been going downhill since April 8,1913, when the 17th Amendment was ratified...
...The "moderates," though I consider them extreme, despise social conservatives like myself...
...Most who do will grow addicted to their vices and will defend the Regime that guarantees them (for example, the reporter who said she would gladly service the president out of gratitude for keeping abortion legal...
...This is the second major piece in less than two years on the industry, the first being riddled with inaccuracy, a fact I pointed out in a letter to the editor after that first article appeared...
...Any similarity between the current Senate and that which the Founding Fathers intended is purely coincidental...
...Public Nuisances to this day holds an honored place on my bookshelf...
...After reading this, I am going to renew, get a subscription for my father, and find the time to read your magazine...
...it is the Vichy Republicans...
...Hastert willfully gave the PR victory to the White House...
...Regardless, the Senate will never be reformed until the 17th Amendment is repealed...
...Stalin had a disorder all right...
...My sincere thanks to Mr...
...Hogan has misunderstood my reservations about Elia Kazan's naming of names...
...Thanks so much...
...Fortunately, I stand ready to provide it: I am the great Professor Jowett: What there is to know, I know it...
...The U.S...
...Although I still enjoy and find the magazine useful, I must confess I miss the old Spectator...
...By comparison, the Clinton administration is simply (we hope) a high-water mark in the domestic culture war...
...one more reason for social conservatives to leave the party...
...DR...
...I would go further and suggest that the left has won the Culture War, and the torch has been passed from a generation of heroes to a generation that worships vice and wages war on morality and virtue...
...If Republicans want to go on playing Tweedle Dee to the Democrats' Tweedle Dum, I will move from refusing to contribute to its coffers to refusing to vote for its candidates...
...The American Spectator • NAL 1999 77 Senatorial Courtesy Mark Steyn's article is interesting but not surprising ("The Senate's Footstool Fops," TAS, March 1999...
...The alcoholic James Thurber was remembered by his close friend Robert Coates as a "noctambule," a person who reversed the normal working-sleeping habit...
...Boy, is that team spirit...
...Discovering the joy of Wodehouse alone has been worth the price of my twenty-year subscription...
...But as the names were already known, his being so theatrical about betraying his former friends had the look, rather, of grandstanding and was certainly gratuitous...
...DAVE WITTER Sterling, Virginia Tom Bethell's "The Hum of Hate" is one of the most significant articles I've read in your fine publication...
...The Chinese were the "crown prince" of the Hive from 1949 until the dissolution of the Soviet empire, and I think it's obvious that they have now assumed the throne in no uncertain terms...
...We will be introducing Speaker Gephardt in zoo, if the Republicans don't stop jousting at societal windmills and don't start hitting hard on the issues that will decide whether we live the next decade as masters or serfs...
...PATTI-JO BURTNETT Strongsville, Ohio 78 May 1999 • The American Spectator...
...If he capitulates in (Continued on page 77) know what the basic conflict is, and how to fight for the high ground...
...Bowman should give a bit more thought to this matter...
...Who needs it...
...Don't hold your breath...
...The purpose of six-year terms was to shield that august body from the perils of "public opinion" and to enable it to do its duty without undue pressures...
...Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., TAS, March 1999) who are worrisome...
...Khruschchev, who was not an alcoholic, mentions the terror of Stalin's dinners...
...Brotherhood...
...Olsviandv only the llouse managert, led bc- the redoubtable Henn j dc...
...If his action had been necessary for national security, or to save the life of one of Mr...
...STUART FLINN Lynchburg, Virginia This morning I read your article on gambling interests in the Republican Party...
...The Old Hive in the Kremlin had to rely on force...
...Relatives of mine died in the Soviet Gulag system...
...I don't know, but I'll check out the parties where others who've jumped ship have found refuge...
...Both the alcoholic Dorothy Parker and the alcoholic Tallulah Bankhead were famous for hosting hours-long "dinner parties" which were nothing more than thinly disguised binges...
...Assured a fair hearing before minds closed by opportunism...
...Loyalty...
...My latest issue of TAS came with a cardboard jacket letting me know that it would be my last issue...
...I lived for a time in Biloxi, Mississippi, and found the gambling industry to be a fantastic economic aid to the area...
...For example, I first was introduced to P.G...
...Stalin had the same problem...
...Once they divide the pie, will there be anything left of me that I can govern myself...
...However, I must quibble with his thesis that the "queen" of the socialist hive now resides in the White House...
...JACK R. KINCADE Mason, Ohio Kissing Kazan Re: James Bowman's remarks in the March 1999 TAS: While discussing the award given to Elia Kazan, Mr...
...I suggest nothing radical, just a slightly different mix of the old and new...
...Sauve qui pent...
...Then I read a Drudge Report article about the Weyrich letter, borrowed from the Washington Post...
...This was a self-fulfilling prophecy as I will be letting my subscription run out...
...That is a necessary price of freedom...
...Wodehouse from a cover piece you did on him sometime in the early eighties...
...Yet how long can I associate my name with a party that (a) despises folk like me as thoroughly as do the Democrats and (b) seems to be abandoning the moral conscience that brought me in zo years ago...
...Shame on the nanny state mentality that believes that I need its stewardship of my life...
...A loyal reader of twenty years and counting, -RICHARD COTHREN Blacksburg, VirginiaI Couldn't Sleep at All Last Night In March's Last Call, "In the Wee Small Hours," Joseph Shattan mentions Stalin's habitual late night drinking and carousing and attributes it to "a serious sleep disorder...
...Please make it available on your web site...
...Bowman says conservatives should think twice about being approving of betrayal...
...And until the RNC reinforces its current ho-hum leadership with the strength of Hyde and his constitutionally well-trained disciples, the war will continue to be lost...
...China is the world center of population "control" by any and all means...
...Saturate the culture with sex and most will succumb...
...Would he have had the same reaction if Kazan were a former member of the old Nazi-American Bund, and had fingered ex-Nazis...
...Paul, Minnesota Poker Faced I have written two letters to this editorial board, and both addressed the same issue: gambling...
...Both liberals and conservatives seem to want control over different parts of our lives...
...TAS is A-OK...
...I earned my money, I have a right to spend it in just about any way I choose...
...Chief among the collaborators is Dennis Hastert, who took it upon himself, without consulting other Republicans, to hand over Bill Clinton's most-favored forum for addressing Congress and the nation: his State-of-the-Union TV spectacular...
...Where do I find shelter...
...Yet, how would they get along in elections without us...
...I rest my case...
...E.g., on national TV, Mitch McConnell, RNSC chairman, complained that the Senate was reluctant to hold the impeachment trial but was forced to do so because "it was brought over to us by the House...
...Brave New World was a better paradigm of the future than 1984...
...HAROLD M. MOLTER via the Internet Professor Jowett The well-known satirical quatrain about Professor Jowett is not at all improved by David Frum's memory (review of Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends, TAS, March 1999...
...I impatiently await each issue...
...Of course, this is not to diminish the pleasures received over the years from your work...
...The responsibility is mine as are the consequences...
...Something Old, Something New I began subscribing to the Spectator sometime in the spring of '79...
...I have a hard time understanding why TAS has taken such a dedicated stand against gambling ("Gambling and Its Discontents," by Dave Shiflett, TAS, March 1999...
...The conservative Republican banner truly is dragging the ground...
...Hogan's relations in the Gulag, no one could reasonably have objected to it...
...The New Hive, defined by Manhattan, Hollywood, academia, and the Clinton White House, has triumphed and now rules by seduction...
...Kazan wasn't betraying anyone...
...There was nothing then on the market, and needless to say, there is nothing now, close to what the old Spectator was doing...
...Let's hope they remember that the enemy is liberal policy, not freedom of choice...
...It is not the "Vichy Democrats" (R...
...It's called alcoholism and one of its symptoms is an inability to sleep until very high blood-alcohol levels are reached...
...Also, there was a pretty fierce Cold War going on...
...Promised, and then compromised...
...He describes Mr...
...Finally somebody recognizes that the acquittal of the "Commander-in-Heat" is the result of more than just media fatigue, scandal overload, the terminal ineptitude of "The Stupid Party," or the unwillingness of the public to rock the boat amid peace and prosperity...
...Kazan's actions were absolutely justified...
...BRIAN HOGAN Dearborn, Michigan James Bowman replies: Mr...
...It succinctly explains, via the image of The Hive, what I have struggled to understand about the culture war and those who wage it against us...
...This is a piece that needs to be read as widely as possible...
...My job as a Republican is to get as many conservatives elected to office as possible and to defeat as many Democrats as possible...
...Ted Kennedy and his ilk are simply the "cream of a bad crop...
...He was pointing out people who were adherents to a pseudo-religion that inspired murder on a vast scale, and who were not loyal to the United States...
...Maybe they're right: for them there will be more money in corruption...
...otherwise] you might get sleepy at the table, and those who got sleepy at Stalin's table could come to a bad end...
...In the immortal words of Walt Kelly: "We have met the enemy and he is us...
...The White House at this point is simply a field element of the real center of the Hive, namely Peking...
...How does this rank among your subscribers...
...If you want to know who's in charge, ask one simple question: Is President Clinton on China's payroll or is President Jiang Zemin on ours...
...The Senate produced men such as Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, and others who were not afraid to put their duty ahead of self-interest and politics...
...These dinners were frightful....during the day I usually tried to take a nap...
...Those who turn against the Regime (Hyde, Barr, or Livingston, for example) will be neutralized by blackmail and exposure...
...EVAN M. DUNCAN Alexandria, Virginia 10 May 1999 • The American Spectator My compliments to Tom Bethell...
...BARBARA W. ELLIOTT Columbia City, Indiana Correspondence (Con tint.tedfrom page mono mote encounters with Democrats and follows the ignominious Senate retreal, adopt- ng that doubtfully august body's suer:211de,- to the Rodney King mantra, "Can t we all •lust get along," then the COP may lust as fold up its tent and quietly steal away...
...You owe your readers the crisp, clear, most nearly authorized version of the quatrain...
...KATE PITRONE Chardon, Ohio Humming Along Congratulations to Tom Bethell for "The Hum of Hate" (TAS, March 1999...
...The next day Pat Robertson vigorously excoriated this gross tactical error, proclaiming the impeachment battle "over," because a Republican operative had granted Clinton exclusive national exposure rather than thwarting a personal appearance by requiring the speech be submitted in writing...
...More to the point, Professor Jowett never went anywhere without his title, and rightly so...
...And until proven leaders are enabled to hoist it aloft for us again, our Republic will be eating the dust of this trampled standard far into the future...
...I've had people trying to get me to join the Libertarian Party, some of whose members seem to have crawled from under rocks, or the American Taxpayers Party, with whom I have no serious argument, and yet there is no power there...
...Benjamin Franklin gave a good description of career politicians in his speech to the Constitutional Convention on the subject of salaries back in 1787...
...The conservatives have apparently not learned much as the majority...
...Nor is this to diminish the benefits received from the ever insightful Tom Bethell...
...And I thought, how perfect...
...His belief that Lott and Hastert will push for a to percent tax break for everyone has already been proved wishful thinking ("The Ten Percent Solution," TAS, March 1999...
...What is there to stay for...
...The point of the satire is that it is narrated in Jowett's voice, and the able translator of Plato's "novels" (as we Aristotelian-Thomists call them) would never have uttered so awkward a locution as Frum gives for the first line...
...THOMAS G. DEMARCHI Cannel, New York Thanks Just a simple note to express my gratitude at all the wonderful research, investigation, writing, analysis, commentary and personalities found in each issue of TAS...
...It is the world center of anti-religion and the type of humanism supported by barely-concealed weapons...
...Quantities of alcohol that sedate normal drinkers cause tension and agitation in alcoholics...
...SETH C. HAWKINS St...
...Because of time constraints, I was going to let my subscription lapse...
...CRAIG GOOD via the Internet Vichy Democrats...
...Since 1913 the Senate has deteriorated into a vipers' nest of pork barrel politicians that corrupts even the most honorable members such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan and demands that the party's interest come before God and country...
...The Founders had in mind a Senate appointed by the state legislatures that would safeguard the independent and sovereign states against federal encroachments...
...Bethell...
...But nonetheless, how about it, is there a chance of seeing at least a few feature pieces in the manner of the old style—something less immediately "topical...
...The divide becomes ever more clear...
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