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FOUNDED 1967 R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Editor in Chief WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI Executive Editor SPENCER REISS Managing Editor CHARLES BORK Creative Director TOM BETHELL JOHN CORRY MICHAEL...
...The resolution was adopted unanimously by all board members present, including Chairman Tyrell...
...I assume from other implications in the article that this means the corporation must pay taxes, but the shareholders need not...
...Under current law, dividends paid on shares held in both IRAs (non-Roth) and 401Ks will incur the same taxation under both present law and the law as proposed by Brian...
...Where was the outcry...
...Here lies the 5 percent of the article with which I disagree and the wiggle room I will utilize to make an excellent rock record and sell 15 million copies while I am at it (ain't capitalism grand...
...At the May 6, 1998, meeting of THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR board of directors (of which I was then a member), I offered the following resolution: "Resolved, that as a matter of policy, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR will not engage non-journalists for investigative projects and will not engage private investigators in connection with its journalistic mission...
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...Where was the demand that federal goons be fired and brought to trial...
...Generally I would agree with this, but now we must consider a crucial nuance: Not all shareholders are equal...
...But if Eskimos devour a seal, as they and their ancestors have been doing for hundreds of generations—well, that's only a social convention, caused by an inadequate supply of beans, Tostitos, and Wonder Bread...
...J. C...
...Clearly, dominion as given to us by God does not give us a blank check...
...Happy as well to see Bob giving Malcolm Muggeridge his proper due as the great twentieth-century stylist...
...Not only Reagan Democrats are waiting for a reason to vote for a candidate with vision...
...Contact The American Spectator, P.O...
...I read the piece just after putting down Terry Teachout's revealing new Mencken biography, and I felt substantially the same as Bob about the old sourpuss...
...I, too, like George Wiegal, have found myself postulating that the angels surely scooped up our greatest village atheist and secreted him past St...
...Thank God it didn't...
...Delighted to see the old SPECTATOR gang back in great form...
...I work out seven days a week...
...John Blanc Yonkers, New York If the "new" AMERICAN SPECTATOR is an indication of things to come, I'm all for it...
...Right on...
...I will be glad to go with you wonderful guys into battle, anytime, anywhere...
...after the most simplistic propaganda campaign...
...via e-mail Honor and integrity are priceless...
...All the best, Andy O'Meara, Jr...
...The forces arrayed against you have retreated in disgrace and shame...
...Leon Billig Burnet, Texas I ran across the September/October issue—you're back, yippee...
...Most "art" foisted upon us today is horrendous, but I dare say you do not wish to dispense with Rembrandt, Monet, and Van Gogh because of the Warhols of the world...
...Perhaps meat eating, like slavery, may eventually pass from us, once we've all reached the proper stage of enlightenment...
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...Editor in Chief WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI Executive Editor 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 HON...
...I think we might have discovered Muggeridge about the same time, Lord knows how many years ago, when I reviewed the master's memoirs for the SPECTATOR (or was it The Alternative...
...You willnot have to say: "Well I shoveled [manure] on CNN...
...It was this lack of response that makes me believe that our citizenry have lost their passion for freedom and are willing to A one-year subscription to The American Spectator costs $39 within the United States...
...2002...
...And after some instances of youthful exuberance, I have been adult-beverage free since 1996...
...Incidentally, welcome back...
...free-Ranging Chickens In George Neumayr's "The Squirminator" (TAS, Nov./Dec...
...Keep up the spectacular work...
...TAS, Nov./Dec...
...Nancy Ann Holtz Beverly, Massachusetts My compliments on the November/December issue...
...So are Reagan Republicans, who are leaving a party that can't identify a winning issue...
...The above letter arrived three days before this issue of the magazine closed...
...Let us not cede this one to the Democrats...
...For air mail outside North America, add $39 for shipping/handling...
...Lott's only real criticism of Scully is that he's unrealistic—most of us just aren't good enough to live up to his ethical standards...
...As fledgling writers, we all ape our favorites, then we evolve into our own styles...
...Outside the U.S., add $9.95 for surface shipping and handling...
...Peter, but I'm now less sure about leaving that decision to Mystery, if you get my drift...
...To my mind the watershed event was the Elian Gonzalez affair, a frightening and illegal use of federal police power...
...Tyrrell and Pleszczynski converted to veggyism...
...The sounds they produce can hardly be called music...
...I also plan to live a long and healthy life, thereby enjoying the conservative's best revenge...
...I purchased the book and I think Scully really hits the nail on the head in his analysis of -our society's ethical blind spot towards animals...
...When Republicans fearfully dropped any discussion of illegal immigration's impact on our state, they lost and will continue to lose until they find the courage to speak for the people...
...The saddest part of the whole affair was the public's reaction—or rather, lack of reaction—to this lawlessness by our government...
...Where were the calls for Clinton's impeachment...
...2002...
...2002...
...My best wishes for your continued success...
...Our Brooklyn ghettoish neighborhood was a breeding ground for old-style labor leftists and my father's sentiments were well known...
...I would venture to state that you will like what I do...
...History will record your valiant struggle and your vindication...
...When fur farmers pile mink into gas chambers, so they can be skinned for silly looking garments, that can't possibly be considered responsible stewardship...
...Kent Rebman Brownsburg, Indiana Brooder Lott America's favorite gadfly, RET, was more prescient than he knew when he wrote: "Doubtless in the dank holes where the racists of yesterday brood, many still believe a colorblind society is Gomorrah" ("Public Nuisances," TAS, Nov./Dec...
...I can't argue with 95 percent of what you proffered—the vast majority of my brethren (and I hesitatingly, begrudgingly use that term) are drugged out, liberal wastes of space, both on the record store shelves and in the world in general...
...I hope not...
...My songs consist ofintelligent lyrics and melodious sounds...
...Since he seems to accept the premise that humans can thrive on a vegetarian diet, Lott is apparently ready to accept the ideology that humans, unlike all other species, are exempt from the constraints of their evolutionary inheritance...
...He was an unabashed patriot...
...Robert D. Novak Washington, D.C...
...John Van Laer Scranton, Pennsylvania...
...Years later when Igraduated NYU and promptly embraced my own military obligation—including a platoon officer's duty in Vietnam—I heard from some friends who said, "How could a bright guy like you not see this war for what it is...
...Rock & roll, like anything in any field, can be done properly and should not be summarily dumped, even if the vast majority of it is tripe...
...2002...
...On the way out I recall him saying, "We thank God and we thank America—never forget to thank America...
...using heavily armed troopers who gratuitously destroyed the citizen's home and personal property...
...For 10,000 generations, Chinese autocrats—whether royal occupants of lavish palaces, blood thirsty warlords, or commie thugs—have known that rebellion is less likely when the rice bowls are full...
...Copyright 2003...
...John Combellick Oshkosh, Wisconsin Wladyslaw Pleszczynski replies: Readers can rest assured that I'm not yet into veggyism, but I do want universal health care for my dog and cats...
...So please do not write off all us rock & rollers...
...But your revived SPECTATOR will have me renewing again and again...
...If a cow dines on a bale of hay or a pack of African wild dogs disembowels a still-conscious gazelle, they're only fulfilling their biological needs...
...I've gleefully renewed my subscription...
...Frankly, some of your authors in previous issues had come across as sophomoric smartasses, and I had decided to let my subscription lapse when it ran out...
...Back issues: $7.50 (includes shipping and handling...
...Thank God the old SPECTATOR crew is here once again, both on the newsstands and online...
...It seems they even stooped so low as to pressure Rep...
...It raised my hopes that history might deal with the Clinton criminals as they should be...
...I'm glad to see that the legal team remains intact, but I miss the wit & wisdom of Baron Von Kannon—the SPECTATOR just ain't the SPECTATOR without 'im...
...With much built-up anger I replied, "How can you have gone so far and remained so stupid...
...Unencumbering China's economy from Marxist central planning is hardly the move of a great capitalist, but rather a move to consolidate Communist power...
...He drove a truck for a living, and those clueless hordes were always puzzled how a working man could hold the views he did...
...I aim for Michelangelo, not Mapplethorpe, and I am able to differentiate between the two (remember when being "discriminating" was a good thing...
...But no one has yet explained what (except stolen funds) is responsible for the election of H. Clinton to a senatorial rank or what in God's name justifies any supposition that she might become the first female president of this country...
...We never paid a source for a story—and so far all our Clinton stories have stood the test of time...
...When some of those "problems" that we wouldn't have, had if 01' Strom had been elected in 1948 start coming home in body bags, we can count on the ineffable Trent to pronounce the smarmiest of eulogies...
...What gives...
...I assume Bob's haste is also what prevented him from addressing in his letter my correction of his far more serious assertion made in his May 2001 column, namely, that the magazine paid sources for stories...
...But he forgot "cowardly...
...Rocky Roads As a conservative rock & roll musician, I feel compelled to respond to "Rock & Roll, R.I.P...
...2002), he identifies "small-minded, power-seeking, quick-fix, messageless" leaders as reasons why the California Republican party proved that it can't fight its way out of a paper bag...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR CORRESPONDENCE 1 0 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 see their fellow citizens hauled away (literally...
...That encephalic, invertebrate slug with the ghastly grin whom we all knew and loved as the Senate majority leader slithered out from under his rock where we could all see him for what he is...
...But if you can find some merit in the genre (as you have), then the genre has merit...
...Bill Rau Dacula, Georgia R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s candid and chilling description of the Clintonistas' attack on THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR in particular and our First Amendment freedoms in general brought back disturbing memories...
...Howard Klein via the Internet Wm Mania Bravo to Bob Tyrrell for reconsidering his (and my) old idol, H. L. Mencken ("The Dark Sage;' TAS, Nov./Dec...
...Animal protection is a great issue for capturing votes as well...
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...Richard D. Courtney Muncie, Indiana Tired of hearing welcome,back yet...
...In other words, nothing will change...
...Director National Journalism Center Washington, D.C...
...The one shortcoming with Jeremy Lott's review was Lis "throw up his hands" attitude...
...Bernie Smith Troy, Michigan Eds: See "We Want Ours" and "Less is More': pages 16 & 17...
...Mary Ann Bosnos Fountain Hills, Arizona Sound of the free Reading Ben Stein's column makes me proud to be an American and a Jew...
...I do not scream...
...Florida just outlawed the gestation crate, which confines pigs in such a way that they cannot even turn around for months at a time...
...May it be said that Bob Tyrrell has mounted the pantheon as one of our most mature thinkers, and, Mencken blessedly behind him, funniest writers...
...The practice of employing investigative experts is common among news organizations, and any investigator I worked with had prior experience with such organizations as ABC, CBS, Esquire and Vanity Fair...
...Doug Bomar Silver Spring, Maryland I never thought I would be writing to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR to defend meat eating...
...There is hope through legislative reform...
...Barb Vickroy Escondido, California Animal Protection I enjoyed your review of Matthew Scully's Dominion ("Where's the Beef...
...I especially enjoyed your account of the fight against William Jefferson Clinton's attempts to shut down your operations...
...I plan on utilizing the liberal leadership hierarchy—where liberal entertainers rate higher than any conservative politician—by succeeding in their realm...
...writes in the November/December issue ("The Government Is Going to Get You") that I was "in error" saying that "our board disapproved of hiring investigators to aid us in reporting [the Clinton scandals...
...PMB 175) Washington, DC 20007 Tel: 202/659-7922 Fax 202/659-7923 E-mail: tamaltfaaol.com (editorial business) editoratheamericanprowletorg (letters to the editor) Web Sites: www.TheAmericanProwler.org www.Spectatotorg 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: Roo-524-3469 List Rental: 201-367-3200 LEGAL COUNSEL Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish 6 Short Resolved R. Emmett Tyrell [sic] Jr...
...You are an example for us all...
...Seton Motley Singer/Songwriter, Voice of Reason A Nuance of Wisdom I wish to take issue with a position presented by Brian Wes-bury in "From Low to High" (TAS, Nov./Dec...
...Musically, I sing...
...2002...
...Of course the world is filled with sinners, not saints, but that is no excuse for ignoring problems of immense cruelty...
...While skeptical, Lott sounds like a very mildly anti-abolitionist citizen of the eighteenth century defending slavery...
...Wesbury states that all dividends should be delivered tax-free to all shareholders...
...This needs to be corrected and, while there are better ways, the simplest and fastest is to make dividends tax-free to the corporation...
...All rights reserved...
...Keep the torch of freedom burning...
...The board wanted to be informed when next we undertook similar investigations...
...That took some fortitude and clarity, especially given the long association the SPECTATOR has had with Menckeniana...
...Have Messrs...
...All the board said was that it wanted to know about such hirings when they occurred...
...Tell George Gilder thanks for the life support, but thank Emmett for the "coup" to retake it...
...Piss Christ does nothing to lessen the value of the Mona Lisa...
...However, once again he apparently writes in haste, misspelling my name not once but three times and, while accurately quoting his board resolution, failing to take into account that the majority on the board, including me, passed the resolution fully aware that it would not run unto eternity but only until we brought to the board further investigative plans...
...If we are possibly the most investigated magazine in American history, we are also the most vindicated...
...Predictably, the Republican leadership, from the White House on down, circled the wagons in the vain hope that it would all blow over...
...Congratulations upon your victory in the long battle to sustain THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR...
...Judging from Lott's description, Scully believes that the time has now come for universal vegetarianism...
...They ran away from an issue that energized 60 percent of California voters, of every race and ideology...
...All the elements of a Vichy attack were there—breaking into a private citizen's home in the middle of the night after obtaining a warrant from a kangaroo court...
...In fact, it is my good friend Bob Tyrell who is in error...
...On a personal note, I am a musician who has never done any drugs, and I have never had a cigarette...
...replies: I was wondering when I would hear from my good friend Bob Novak regarding my correction of two of his hastily written references to the journalism practiced at THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR...
...Preposterous...
...Patrick Barron West Chester, Pennsylvania I have given a late reading to Bob Tyrrell's introductory piece in your November/December issue...
...But Jeremy Lott's commentary on Matthew Scully's book Dominion indicates such deep ignorance of the subject that I must respond...
...in the September/October issue of THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...I find evidence daily that God has a sense of humor simply by turning on the radio and hearing who is being played whilst I (as of yet) am not...
...We're Going to Roy You I just finished reading "The Government Is Going to Get You" in the November/December issue...
...K. E. Grubbs, Jr...
...The East Is Bloody Jiang Zemin, "the single greatest capitalist leader of the late twentieth century" ("The East Is Green" by George Gilder, TAS, Nov./Dec...
...Thirty years from now, when you are sitting around your fire with your grandson on your knee, and he asks: "What did you do in the great Clinton Impeachment Fight...
...The sentiments in his November/December column triggered memories of my being led into the shul as a five-year-old, when my late dad returned from WW II, having fought under Patton in Europe...
...All I hope for at this point is that sooner rather than later the woman will suffer the humiliation she richly deserves...
...Our young people desperately need heroes today and you are one...
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...Watts into issuing a mealymouthed defense of the inde7 fensible...
...then whisking the child away to a secluded fortress-like estate where he was turned over to the agents of a communist dictator...
...You have both...
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