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...It did, however, cause me to want to respond...
...Iraq stands on the second-largest known oil reserve...
...then I read the many pundits who say that, too, is a bubble about to burst...
...PMB 175) Washington, DC 20007 Tel: 202/659-7922 Fax 202/659-7923 E-mail: tamaltfaaol.com (editorial business) editor&theamericanprowler.org (letters to the editor) Web Sites: www.TheAmericanProwler.org www.Spectator.org THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, LLC a subsidiary of The American Alternative Foundation PETER D. HANNAFORD Publisher BETH HAHN Advertising Sales 413-644-2101 SUBSCRIPTION ENQUIRIES: The American Spectator PO Box 1611, Newburgh, New York 12551 Tel: 800-524-3469 Fax: 845-566-7020 Reprints: 202-659-7922 Back Issues: 800-524-3469 List Rental: 201-567-3200 LEGAL COUNSEL Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish 8 Short thirty-five Years Ago Today The Democrats lost Congress—that was their way of saying to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: "Happy 35th Anniversary...
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...cl THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FOUNDED 1967 R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR...
...And like me, they continue to harbor the irrational dream that, given the right combination of money, hard work, a modicum of talent, and a considerable amount of luck, we will soon all be able to retire from our business pursuits in order to create wonderful new sounds at our leisure...
...It's updated daily—www.TheAmerican-Prowler.org...
...As a long-time SPECTATOR subscriber, I look forward to Mr...
...And don't miss our companion site, The American Prowler...
...I hope this means a return to the old and more readable online format of THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR and the same, very talented stable of writers...
...Failure to apprehend this mystery and respect it betrays a grievous lack of humanity...
...Silly, isn't it...
...Great article...
...One big step in the right direction would be a new, free Iraq...
...Ken Miller via the Internet Eds: We've already started the renovation of our Web site, www.Spectator.org...
...Tyrrell, please stick to what you do best and give the mushy-headed purveyors of liberal speak and their "current wisdom" hell, but really, do yourself (not to mention the rest of us) a favor, and don't embarrass your magazine further by writing about things of which you obviously know absolutely nothing...
...Jacob Mosser Kennebunk, Maine There is something supremely distasteful, and profoundly unconservative about gloating over the death of anyone but a terrible villain...
...So blame rock & roll on Frankie (or my mom and dad...
...Outside the U.S., add $9.95 for surface shipping and handling...
...I hope that you find a Big Maine of your own...
...10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002 I'm so happy that my old friend, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, is back...
...It is an urban legend from the '70s revived and recently added to the other fictitious lawsuits in CONTINUED ON PAGE S, - 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002 CORRESPONDENCE - CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 - the Stella Award pantheon...
...Of course—until one considers the millions of Americans who, until a couple of years ago, had similar hopes for what their 401(k)s and IRAs could do for them...
...How about making the parents pay for the misdeeds of the little monsters they are raising...
...New Energy I always enjoy Michael Ledeen's essays in THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR and will certainly read his new book, The War Against the Terror Masters, which you were kind enough to review ("Inconvenient Facts" by Jed Babbins, TAS Sept./Oct...
...You see, well into my forties, and after spending more than half my life in the business world engaged in never-ceasing efforts to increase my employers' market shares, I have recently taken up with a group of scruffy lads who desired, like me, to form a successful original rock & roll outfit...
...RET has become something of a personal hero of mine in the last several years...
...Could I suggest interviewing some of our era's economic heavyweights such as Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University or Hernando De Soto of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru...
...I'm either not denigrating anybody or I'm denigrating everybody...
...I hope you do keep printing articles and book reviews on science, economics, and investing...
...The combination he offers of military force and support for democratic forces—rather than for totalitarian and religiofascist ones, as has been American policy for decades—would be a refreshing change...
...Norm Morris Salinas, California RET's article reminded me of the best Grateful Dead joke: "What did the first Grateful Dead fan say to the second Grateful Dead fan, at the Grateful Dead concert, after they ran out of dope...
...On the contrary, we support research involving stem cells obtained from umbilical cord blood, fat, bone marrow, and other adult tissue...
...However, I share your fear of meathead drivers (and, in my neighborhood, raccoons and a red-tailed fox), so Damnyankee is compelled to spend his nights indoors...
...Well, who raised all these rock & roll degenerates spoken of in your article...
...Beyond that, however, it means a Manhattan Project-style effort at capitalizing wind and solar and other clean energy sources and getting them to market ASAP...
...Bernard B. Lynn via the Internet No need to seem apologetic ("Our Renovation," TAS Sept./Oct...
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...2002 issue...
...It doesn't really mat-ter...
...TAS Sept./Oct...
...That is why it was so disturbing, and a cause of much self-reflection, to read "Rock & Roll R.I.P.," though I did so with great interest and relish...
...WELCOME BACK...
...Such stem cells can be obtained without killing or in any way harming the donor...
...Cut it out with the excess exclamation points...
...And if you haven't already done so, your idea of getting a new cat from a shelter is just the ticket...
...I'm no choir boy either...
...I was pleased to see Michael Savage's full-page ad...
...George Gilder, in his interview with Robert Bork, says that "the stem cell issue made conservatives look foolish...
...Some of the recent issues of THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR were the most provocative (though I admit to being a science and economics buff...
...Another part of this equation is South America...
...I think that he would spend all day and night outdoors if permitted...
...Back issues: $7.50 (includes shipping and handling...
...A stem cell is not a human being...
...Unfortunately, the presentadministration is the least likely of any in history to pursue so obvious and necessary a course of action...
...What's next...
...Mark G. Stimson Washington, D.C...
...Those are the manners of punk rockers...
...well, actually, some of the most forgettable pop/rock ever put out there...
...My heartfelt sympathy to you and your family...
...Love you guys...
...2002...
...2002) sums up beautifully the whole sordid mess...
...Your Sept./Oct...
...I hope to see the next issue on newsstands soon...
...Beatrice Smalley San Francisco, California P.S...
...Keep it up...
...Robert P. George Princeton University Member of the President's Council on Bioethics Eds: See "The Age of Genetic Technology Arrives" on page 40...
...But there is a third leg to the only workable response to Islamic fundamentalist terror: we must get America off our oil addiction...
...Like me, these guys come from (and are successful in) the business world...
...George Neumayr is a very perceptive writer and I hope the Republican party pays attention...
...But we will not be able to treat the Saudis as they deserve to be treated until we get an administration, Republican and Democratic, that is not joined at the hip to the oil sheiks...
...I have three cats, one a Maine Coon who (like Artemus) loves to go outside and tries to sneak past anyone entering the door...
...For example, the promoters of the biodiversity scare hardly ever miss an opportunity to warn us that we might forever lose the cure for cancer by allowing some obscure plant to lapse into oblivion...
...To tell a biologist, especially a naturalist, that species are disappearing is like telling a coin collector that the world will convert to a single currency...
...In the Sept./Oct...
...Take a lesson on punctuation from Tom Bethell or Jeremy Rabkin...
...How he managed to spin an obvious personal bias against an established musical art form into over 5,000 words of random drivel (relying mainly on the to-him crucial fact that some rock & roll icons have died young), is beyond me...
...So, what's a budding middle-aged rock star wannabe to do with his hard-earned money now that the capitalists have failed him...
...There is nothing morally questionable about it...
...In fact, many of the biggest names of that generation, names such as Frank and Dino (dare we include Desi...
...Mark E. Slagle Hayward, California Make No Mistake Proof of the adage "anybody can make a mistake" is contained in your July/August 2002 issue...
...It will be interesting to see if the old SPECTATOR is indeed "back...
...Dan MacDougald Atlanta, Georgia It appears that your esteemed editor is guilty of promulgating prime urban legend material...
...Michael Walsh Boston, Massachusetts > A one-year subscription to The American Spectator costs $39 within the United States...
...Rock In A Hard Place "Rock & Roll, R.I.P...
...Second point...
...However, I could never see any redeeming value in the horror that you have so deftly pilloried...
...The Bush administration, like those before it—and, I fear, those that will follow—has never dealt with the Saudi problem as it should be...
...Maria Garcia, certainly, in this important fall election...
...National Review and the other publications to which I sub-scribe are all fine, but the new-old AMERICAN SPECTATOR is unique and in a class of its own—world class...
...I've been a subscriber to TAS for at least ten years, and it has really helped me to laugh instead of crying over the idiocy in Washington...
...It detracts from what is already only mediocre writing...
...All rights reserved...
...Many excellent articles covering a broad spectrum of subjects provide greater food for the mind than several issues of other publications combined...
...That is why we object to such research (in humans), precisely as a violation of the ethical norm against damaging experimentation on human subjects...
...Your July/August 2002 is a splendid issue...
...Terry Deem-Reilly Denver, Colorado NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002 • THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 81...
...But, among many other things, I am a rock & roller...
...Heck, recently in Milwaukee some of the parents of child murderers did not even accompany them to court...
...I especially liked his analogy regarding school attendance...
...Editor in Chief WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI Executive Editor CORRESPONDENCE SPENCER REISS Managing Editor CHARLES BORK Creative Director TOM BETHELL JOHN CORRY MICHAEL LEDEEN BEN STEIN BRIAN S. WESBURY Senior Editors JAMES BOWMAN Movie Critic GEORGE GILDER Editor at Large JOHN TRAIN Contributing Editor MARIE LAVINIO Copy Editing JESSE SCHOEN Art Director ROBIN MENKEN Art Coordinator LAURIE HOFFMAN Circulation Editorial Office: The American Spectator 3220 N Street, N.W...
...This emotional crisis causes them to fabricate reasons why the loss of species is (or at least should be...
...The vaunted "greatest" generation of Bing, Frank, Dino, and Tony, et al., as well as the many fine musicians of the swing and big band era...
...Wayne Harriman via the Internet Thank you for coming back in good form—I appreciate all the regular contributors such as Tom Bethell, Ben Stein, and James Bowman...
...Gallob could be right, but the answer is not solar power...
...The Story of Edwin 0. Kudos to Tom Bethell for his excellent article about Edward O. Wilson ("That's Life," TAS March/April 2002...
...spawned children who were so impressed with their parents' lives and music that they went on to produce what...
...In the short run that means playing ball with Russia and being nice to Mexico to reduce Arab influence...
...A few of my favorites: "Militarize Space Now" and "And Just In Time...
...I have missed TAS and its penetrating commentary and wit...
...Like me, they never outgrew their love for the music (perhaps a testament to our stunted emotional and intellectual development...
...But conservatives, including President Bush, do not object to stem cell research as such...
...So my point is that maybe my silly little music notion won't beat me up as badly as Wall Street and the Fed have...
...GOOD LUCK...
...Thank God, you folks have weathered the trials and tribulations...
...For air mail outside North America, add $39 for shipping/handling...
...Whenever we get those dinnertime fundraising calls from the Washington GOP, I simply say we will choose our own Republican candidates to support...
...Joel Gallob via the Internet Jed Babbin replies: Mr...
...I am also happy with the short, feisty articles—"Bubble Heads" on housing, "Evergreen and the Unions," and especially "A GOP Hispanic Heroine," since we live and vote in California...
...The scaremongering over the extinction of species is a good example of how expert opinion is often based more on the interests and inclinations of the experts than on any objective analysis of what is beneficial to society...
...The American Spectatator is published by The American Spectator, LLC...
...It is true that a stem cell is not a human being...
...a crisis, emotional and other-wise, for the rest of us as well...
...Box 1611, Newburgh, NY 12551, 800-524-3469...
...One would hope for common decency from conservatives, especially since the celebrated end will come to us all in a time not of our choosing, regardless of how well we take care of ourselves...
...Such an exceedingly unlucky outcome is very close to impossible, because we are moving away from drug discovery, based on trial and error, to drug design, based on human biochemistry and general chemical principles...
...250, Milan, Ohio 44846...
...let you down in the Sept./Oct...
...Did the outgoing administration switch the period on his keyboard with the exclamation point...
...It is their sentimental attachment to their objects of study, more than their professional or financial interests, which causes them to view the loss of these objects with such deep dismay...
...Allen T Hyde Newland, North Carolina I'm looking forward to the revival of THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR print version...
...Not so, however, with embryonic stem cells...
...Copyright 2002...
...Why, of course...
...It has no relation to a blastocyse...
...Far fromhaving "no relation" to a blastocyst (an early-stage human), embryonic stem cells are cells of the blastocyst and cannot be harvested without destroying the embryonic human being...
...If real estate bursts, we're in a deflationary mode for sure—it says so right in your mag...
...A. Horn via the Internet Concerning the Sept./Oct...
...Those hopes now dashed, I was thinking of dumping some of my money into realestate...
...With all due respect to your predecessor and his support, I'm sure glad to have "The New SPECTATOR Now Under Old Management...
...Do try to confine your admittedly humorous accounts to matters of fact in the future in order to avoid luring your loyal readers into the territory of the professional politicians, who routinely use such material for self-aggrandizement and gain...
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...Louis Hatchett Henderson, Kentucky More Happy Returns I heartily agree with those who expressed their pleasure at the return of the "Original Team" to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR...
...Venezuela, now under the Chavez regime, is another Cuba and will continue to destabilize both the region and world oil prices...
...Our national myopia about the extent and financing of the Islamist jihad is perhaps our greatest national weakness—and, I suspect, as apparently does Ledeen, that the Saudis may well be our greatest enemy...
...Long-time subscriber with fond memories of the tabloid, newsprint SPECTATOR out of Indiana...
...2002 issue is one of the best magazines I've ever read...
...Great bunch of articles covering many of the most important issues of the day...
...Boy this music sucks...
...Michael G. Blanchard Cicero, Illinois I just finished your editor in chief's amazingly disjointed diatribe against the "world's worst music...
...Richard R. Heath Little Rock, Arkansas Thank you, Mr...
...See www.snopes.com for more detail on this and other hoaxes...
...Even though my love is classical music, I try to keep an open ear for all kinds...
...2002 issue: What has happened to Junior's writing...
...Five thousand words on why broccoli is the world's worst vegetable...
...One comment on the cover: I'm partial to the illustrations...
...If we can free Iraq, and deal decisively with Chavez, the Saudi problem will be something we can deal with properly, and finally...
...They are the principal source of funding and organization of Islamist terror through-out the world...
...2002...
...They are both among America's best writers...
...Josiah Gray via the Internet Dear Benjamin Stein I read of the sad death of your kitty Artemus last weekend, and my heart ached for you and your family...
...However, your usually keen nose for B.S...
...Tyrrell, for your wonderful sense of humor mixed with truth...
...Tyrrell's trenchant lampoons of the liberal loonies and their media helpmates, but this time he is surely speaking very facilely of things of which he knows not...
...Frank Lepkowski Via the Internet Opening each new issue of TAS is like being a kid opening Christmas presents...
...In "The Continuing Crisis," you fell for the Stella Awards hoax about the Winnebago on cruise control...
...Besides, the Rat Pack was not exactly a religious order either...
...2002 issue, "The Continuing Crisis" credulously repeats the nonsense contending that a jury actually awarded a fellow money and rolling stock for wandering away from the driver's seat in his new Winnebago...
...We're always talking about "parental responsibility...
...You have long been one of my favorite commentators on the follies of a crazy world...
...Contact The American Spectator, P.O...
...A free Iraq, with its oil on the open market, would lower the price of oil substantially and help revive our economy...
...Peter Garahan Great Falls, Virginia Road Kill I've been a subscriber since the early '80s, and I'm really happy to see the old gang back at the helm...
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