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CORRESPONDENCE JOY TO THE WORLD I go out for a quiet dinner tonight, alone, since my husband is out of town and I've eaten only a few flakes of canned tuna and two Atkins bars in the last 48...
...His straight talk and common-sense approach to economics is certainly a pleasant change from Greenspan's obfuscation and doublespeak...
...Kudlow was simply grand...
...What do you think my husband will notice first, the missing pages from the Spectator or the additions to our walls...
...Southern whites would continue to suffer enormously, and blacks and white Union sympathizers would pose a constant threat of revealing the location of whatever Confederate military units might be reformed...
...ARTHUR DOWNS, SEVERNA PARK, MARYLAND My own experience of computer engineers and programmers led me to conclude that their support for policies inimical to their business interests is due to an appalling ignorance of ideas, history, even recent history, and economics...
...J. DAVID COLDREN, MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA I just wanted to say bravo on the Lawrence Kudlow interview, and for that matter the whole March 2001 issue...
...Four...
...In the case of promoters of dot-com bubbles that are more hype than substance, an affinity with Liberal Democrats is quite natural.Where the product is tangible, the seemingly ironic relationship may have a precedent in the Eloi and Morlocks imagined by H. G. Wells...
...Here, the service takes a noticeable dive as the guy pegs me for a lonely nanotipper...
...Confederate leaders had promised an easy victory...
...Jefferson Davis had gone so far as to promise to drink all the blood spilled south of Mason and Dixon's line if there should even be a war...
...God grant them good speed...
...Desertion, always a problem in the Confederate Army, was rampant...
...To the good, however, you've added the incomparable Tom Wolfe, and, of course, George Gilder...
...I'm sure the waiter must have thought I was looking at a nude Mel Gibson or George Clooney-egads, I've betrayed my age...
...One can only hope that governmental excesses can drive some of our Modern Eloi into looking out for their future through natural, rather than perverse, political relationships...
...Kinstler's paintings, I did the next best thing...
...Amazing what a stir you can cause with a bunch of words on a page...
...First-rate intelligence was being obtained from slaves fleeing to freedom and the low morale of Confederate troops was known through Confederate correspondence captured by Sheridan...
...Well done...
...Keep them coming...
...Picking it up and flipping the pages I saw a portrait of John Wayne that took my breath away...
...On balance, if you keep James Bowman and his superb film reviews, I'll probably stick around...
...The Southern people would not have supported such a war...
...KAY KAMINGA, RN BSN PORTLAND, MICHIGAN PLUS AND MINUS I'm not quite sure what to make of the thicker, glossier, heavier and decidedly chirpier (i.e., economist Lawrence Kudlow) TAS that arrived in today's mail, but I'll give you credit for being bold, decisive and unapologetic in your makeover...
...Few of the current nouveau riche knew hard times and many appear to have been heavily indoctrinated with "progressive" ideas that permeate our campuses...
...FREDERICK HUMPHREYS MANHATTAN BEACH, CALIFORNIA While dressing for work this morning I noticed an American Spectator that I had not seen yet sitting on my husband's night stand...
...Kudlow as the next Chairman of the Fed...
...You can't buy that kind of advertising...
...KEN BAKER, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA I would like to nominate Mr...
...I hope it is required reading for everyone looking for a good investment-both monetary and spiritual...
...After Sheridan shredded Lee's rear guard at Saylor's Creek on April 6, Confederate Corps Commander Richard S. Ewell considered that "for every man that was killed after this in the war somebody is responsible, and it will be but very little better than murder...
...Therefore, please don't cancel my subscription...
...GERARD JACKSON, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA CADILLAC COUNTRY What a bargain you have in the new Spectator...
...Maintenance of the restrictive regime garners the same results but grants a few more healthy years...
...First mistake...
...Scott King, Rick Storrs, and Randy Dorian are on God's mission...
...So I decide to take on the George Gilder/Richard Vigilante piece ("The Rise of the Techno-Left," TAS, March 2001) before the soup is served.Whoa...
...I hope I never am...
...I'll be there in five minutes...
...BILL YAHN, HAMMONDSPORT, NEW YORK SILICON SURVIVAL There may be two distinct reasons for the lack of long-term survival instincts of many of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs ("Smart Nerds, Foolish Choices" by James K. Glassman, TAS, March 2001...
...SALLY VACI, MARIETTA, GEORGIA The left's tactic of changing domains in search of fertile ground for their collectivist ambitions is brilliantly exposed in George Gilder and Richard Vigilante's article.With a healthy economy and no war brewing (at least for now) socialists go a-hunting for a cause...
...Knowing that I could never afford one of Mr...
...By 1863, the Confederacy had been split in half at Vicksburg and the Army of Northern Virginia shattered at Gettysburg...
...That's what weaves it all together, and Gilder and Vigilante did a superb job of 'splaining it all to me in a very interesting way...
...Kudlow for Secretary of Treasury...
...The myriad conferences, conventions and summits held by these technopests attests to the long-known fact that some people really do just have too much time on their hands...
...Lee exercised the only realistic option left open to him...
...I vaguely remember the Bill joy piece from Wired that caused such a stir...
...Also, inexplicably, you've retained Ben Stein, the name-dropping actor, lawyer, teacher, writer, whiner and celebrity wannabe who lives in Malibu and Hollywood...
...DANIEL DAVIS, ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA CHAIRMAN SECRETARY KUDLOW Larry Kudlow in the March 2001 TAS ("The Spectator Interview...
...No idea where it's going for the first two or three pages but I am compelled to continue...
...On the minus side, you've chopped the Letters section by twothirds and purged Wladyslaw Pleszczynski's upliftingly sarcastic column...
...There would have been little left to fight for and supporting a partisan force would have been problematic...
...TOMMI MILEY, LARGO, FLORIDA GUERRILLA THEATER I respectfully disagree with Jay Winik, ("Between Honor and Glory," TAS, March 2001) that resorting to a guerrilla war was a realistic option to surrender for Gen...
...It's fairly common knowledge that Bush Sr., while still a very young man, lost his small daughter to leukemia...
...I would like to commend Tom Bethell for explaining the complicated disease of diabetes in simple terms and for highlighting one man's passion to find a cure ("Hunting for a Cure," TAS, March 2001).This article will be required reading for all of my nursing students...
...CORRESPONDENCE JOY TO THE WORLD I go out for a quiet dinner tonight, alone, since my husband is out of town and I've eaten only a few flakes of canned tuna and two Atkins bars in the last 48 hours...
...Failure to do so results in kidney disease, blindness, loss of sensation, impotence, ulcers, and limb loss...
...compares George Bush senior unfavorably with his son in terms of who has "suffered" more...
...Second mistake...
...RICHARD ACKERMAN, BOULDER, COLORADO 26 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR May 2001 Daily Deliverance from Liberal...
...The Shenandoah Valley, Lee's breadbasket, had been burned...
...Diabetics must adhere to a restrictive diet, maintain an exercise program, monitor their blood sugar and administer insulin four times a day, examine their feet daily, and perform any number of other tasks just to function...
...How many copies of TAS do you have on hand...
...There is much to digest in "The Rise of the Techno-Left...
...CHARLES W. YOUNG, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA Your interview with Mr...
...Kudlow's less than flattering opinion of the presidency of George Sr., I was extremely taken aback by that remark...
...I hope the people in the Bush Administration and the Congress pay attention to his well-reasoned arguments...
...Please tell George Gilder I love the new direction of the magazine and he is a wonderful, clear writer...
...S. COLE, ROANOKE, INDIANA The TAS interview with Larry Kudlow was as brilliant as your new look...
...Time suspended, I sat on the bed "one shoe on and one shoe off" and read the article...
...At the last second, I grab my March 2001 issue of TAS...
...In contrast to the starving and dwindling Confederate army in 1865, the Union forces were well supplied and well fed...
...Slavery was, for all intents and purposes, already dead...
...I have rarely met a more narrowly read group of professionals...
...It should be required reading in college econ courses...
...In the height of snobbery they have anointed William E Joy their spokesman...
...At least until the Dow hits and surpasses 35,000...
...Grant's forces had cut Lee off from joining up with Johnston or from heading to the Blue Ridge Mountains...
...I want them...
...Yet the new Eloi can never satiate the hunger of the modern Morlocks who seek one more trip to the twin troughs of statism and redistribution...
...The most popular among them, militant environmentalism, may fall somewhat out of favor as once endangered animals thrive and managed forests are replenished at astonishing rates, so it only stands to reason that technology, with its growing presence in our lives, would be in the crosshairs of the weapons wielded by the new (and old) left...
...TAS (as always) is making the world a better, smarter, more common-sensical place...
...The will to fight of the South was gone...
...Anyway, long story short...
...I pay the bill (and overtip) and screech over to Borders in my white ghetto-sled, while dialing the store at the same time...
...Equally important, for those of us who once knew Larry as "Kuddles" and anguished from afar when word reached us of his struggles with addictions, the interview reassured us that he has rediscovered his moral compass and will remain a strong voice for the economics of the free market...
...Why haven't the Bushies put this enormous talent to work...
...Pretty soon we're into nanotechnology and nanobots and now I'm trying to explain to the waiter why I'm practically jumping out of my skin with excitement and anticipation...
...I feel as though I bought a Chevy and received a Cadillac...
...So at this hour, I am writing a note to the four friends who will receive a copy from me by mail, in a couple days...
...In just a few pages, Kudlow made the case for economic freedom and identified the bipartisan foes of economic growth and productivity...
...For 10 years as a burn/wound nurse who has ministered to diabetics, I have witnessed the piecemeal death of my diabetic patients...
...Only from the cluttered corners of his mind could such nonsense spring, the only real, true gray goo...
...Most disdain survival skills that seem irrelevant...
...Some may hope that 24 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR May 2001 ess-Critical Information Available alliances with self-styled "progressives" will assure a prosperous future, but vegetarians who dine with cannibals cannot escape the inevitable...
...While I for the most part share Mr...
...Any Confederates making it to the mountains would have to travel through hostile territory...
...I am not a techno-weenie by any means, but I understood all of it, and most important, the philosophical/ideological links...
...Those beautiful people whose wealth came so easily are a different breed from most of the entrepreneurs of old...
...I vote Mr...
...BRUCE RHEINSTEIN, WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA REQUIRED READING I am not a diabetic...
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