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CORRESPONDENCE THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FOUNDED 1967 R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Editor in Chief WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI Executive Editor SPENCER REISS Managing Editor CHARLES BORK Creative...
...2003...
...During the conference, the teacher blurted out, "I was just assigned to teach this class...
...Kent D. Johnson, Lt...
...Captain Rick Scudder, USN via e-mail I was of two minds about investing my time and money in Gods and Generals, having read some reviews that praised the film and some that reviled it...
...Maybe we can create an entire uneducated class of African Americans, Mexican Americans, Anybody-but-White Americans...
...economy is built on debt, a vulnerability our enemies understand very well...
...The Chinese advise their citizens to accumulate gold...
...2002 issue...
...I bet your magazine doesn't have too many curse words in it, though, because that would be "improper!' The hypocrisy of liberal magazines is only outdone bythe hypocrisy of conservatives...
...Life is just too short for long, bad movies...
...The American Spectatator is published by The American Spectator, LLC...
...Melinda Bowman Brier Hill, Pennsylvania Prairie Home Companion So...
...however, it is also important to examine why so many more families today require two wage earners than they did fifty or seventy years ago...
...If you don't, you have not a clue, and photos of you should be put next to the encyclopedia entry on why the Right (and thus Republicans) will never gain large amounts of the minority vote...
...After reading some of his economic opinions, I wonder if he really understands the biblical allusion that is the title of his book...
...Why is everyone in such a hurry to get to the end of his life...
...Stein displayed excellent taste in recommending A Shock to the System, which is truly a gem...
...If you follow this and other moral principles taught in the Scriptures, then you will inherit the long list of blessings enumerated in Deuteronomy 28 including, "You shall lend to many nations and shall not borrow?' The U.S...
...Tsk, tsk...
...Greg Schultz via e-mail Our Lean Currency In your interview with Robert L. Bartley, the long-time editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page ("American Thunderer," TAS, Mar./Apr...
...That would have been a shock to Lincoln, who could have cared less about the slaves...
...2003...
...I demand, I repeat, demand, an apology...
...On behalf of my fellow aviators, we appreciate Ben's steadfast support for what we do and his continued debunking of the oxymoronic violent peace demonstrators...
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...This was accomplished by his eminence, President Lincoln, recently replaced in one "Greatest Prez" poll by another White House resident law breaker, whose name escapes me...
...He completely neglects to mention that genetically engineered crops do not have a diverse gene pool and that a single disease can therefore wipe out the entire yield...
...Outside the U.S., add $9.95 for surface shipping and handling...
...letters to the editor) Web Site: www.spectator.org THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, LLC a subsidiary of The American Alternative Foundation ALFRED S. REGNERY Publisher BETH HAHN Advertising Sales 413-644-2101 adsaspectator.org SUBSCRIPTION ENQUIRIES: The American Spectator PO Box 1611, Newburgh, New York 12551 Tel: Boo-524-3469 Fax: 845-566-7020 Reprints: 703-807-2011 Back Issues: 80o-524-3469 List Rental: 201-567-320o LEGAL COUNSEL Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short Cover Charge Everyone at THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR should be ashamed of your "Diversity" cover (TAS, Mar./Apr...
...If any significant fraction of the American public began to practice traditional economic virtues—reduce spending, get out of debt, and accumulate savings—that would plunge this economy into a deep and prolonged recession...
...In his article "Diversity" (TAS, Mar./Apr...
...Martosko's technological determinism purports that science is always progressing, that individuals cannot shape this progress, and that this progress is always good...
...Individual rights apply to all Americans...
...George Gilder complains that tight money has destroyed the capital value of his stock holdings...
...Their manufacturer, Morton-Thiokol, decided to discontinue use of asbestos, a popular target among environmentalists and a magnet for class-action lawsuits (which continue to this day...
...Thanks for the warning and keep up the good work...
...Comparing the loving relationship of—to choose just one example—Mary Cheney (daughter of the vice president) and her companion to an act of necrophilia is sickening...
...Nuff said...
...Perhaps it's time you all grow up...
...2003): when our younger son was having trouble with Algebra I, I arranged a conference with his counselor and his algebra teacher to try to find a solution to his problems...
...Back issues: $7.50 (includes shipping and handling...
...Those who practice the traditional virtues look like fools and losers...
...All rights reserved...
...What changed...
...Col., USAF (Retired) Prowling Spectator.org I would just like to thank you for your wonderful Web site, www.spectator.org...
...In fact, you might find yourself having to undergo some court-ordered "diversity training?' Which brings us to an interesting question: what happens if you complete your "diversity training" and still don't conform...
...It is true that I am listed as black—my mother is black and my father is white—so I cannot see it from the CauJUNE/JULY 2003 • THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 11 casian point of view...
...That's our point (and author Peter Wood's): that so-called racial differences are literally skin deep...
...Do you not think that many African Americans will find it offensive...
...I would argue—No...
...But in the end I think perhaps you all do it for the same reason: to shock people into buying your tripe...
...My tactic is pure and simple: no apology forthcoming in next issue—no more renewals of the SPECTATOR...
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...J. M. Brown Tulsa, Oklahoma Upon Closer Inspection I renewed my subscription when you came back under old management...
...Walter Cole via e-mail Your choice of a cover picture of a man in blackface is indicative that your editorial staff will do pretty much anything to make a buck...
...Martosko also bashes organic foods without addressing why people eat them: to avoid chemical/synthetic pesticides and fertilizers...
...No place in the Bible does it say man was created equal...
...Tom Gregg Mishawaka, Indiana Ben Stein begins his blistering review of Gods and Generals by claiming to be an expert on the Civil War...
...In the past, nannies supplemented a mother's care for her children...
...What changed...
...Where is the harm...
...Now he knows how I feel when easy money causes my savings to evaporate...
...I am a subscriber to your magazine and will continue to be so...
...Peter L. Davis via e-mail Con Kid I have read some of the articles in THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR, and I am to some degree shocked...
...The whole point of the passage (from Genesis 41) is that we should lay up goods during the seven fat years, so that we will be prepared for the seven lean years...
...We will leave it to more advanced minds than ours to understand how that makes us "racist," while affirmative action—deliberately sorting people into categories by skin color and family history—is not...
...2003), so I suppose I am revealed...
...Has anyone besides me noticed the tragic common element...
...Michael Boyd via e-mail Nanny States Judd Magilnick has focused on a crucial issue that deserves a great deal more attention ("A Spoonful of Self-Delusion;' TAS, Jan./Feb...
...About the only thing that rattled my cage more than night-flight operations from a carrier was going up against Ben in the lightning round as a contestant on Win Ben Stein's Money...
...BOB BARR HERBERT LONDON JOHN TRAIN Contributing Editors MARIE LAVINIO Copy Editor JESSE SCHOEN Art Director ROBIN MENKEN Art Coordinator LAURIE HOFMANN Circulation Editorial Office: The American Spectator 161i North Kent Street Suite 901 Arlington, Virginia 22209 Tel: 703/807-20u Fax: 703/807-2013 E-mail: tamaltfaaol.com (editorial business) editors spectator...
...Copyright 2003...
...Your readership deserves better...
...Then two sentences later he reveals his utter ignorance of that conflict by averring that the purpose of the war was to end slavery...
...Navy flyer, I was flattered by Ben Stein's appraisal of military pilots as "calm and serene" ("Ben Stein's Diary," TAS, Mar./Apr...
...My copy is already relegated to the trash heap...
...2003...
...Peter Wood's article on "Diversity" was well thought out, well written, and rational...
...I am referring to his bashing of "greedy" seniors in your Nov.-Dec...
...Lawrence Chisholm via e-mail first Warrior Robert Sorenson is wrong for insulting George W. Bush's service as a fighter pilot ("Correspondence," TAS, Mar./Apr...
...Thanks again and keep up the great work...
...2003) Peter Wood compares gay Americans to necrophiles...
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...Harold Hruska Still ticked off in Grand Island, Nebraska To Our Readers To reflect our current publishing schedule, we've dated this issue June-July 2003...
...For air mail outside North America, add $39 for shipping/handling...
...It remains Number 3 of this year's TAS Volume 36 and follows in sequence our previous March-April issue (Vol...
...Perhaps I am on a different thought process than your columnists, but I do not see how affirmative action is wrong...
...My degree is in education!' At the end of that year, we took our soon out of the public high school and enrolled him in the Catholic high school...
...Diverse we are and should be treated individually...
...Investigations into the disintegration of the Columbia implicate chunks of foam insulation, which tore off and struck the craft...
...Still, I need the answers...
...Althea White Winnemucca, Nevada Now I see why I don't make the big bucks...
...2003) demonstrates his inability to conceptualize a complex issue...
...To me "multicultural diversity" is a roomful of liberal Democrats thinking and speaking exactly alike, but wearing the cute little ethnic costumes of their choice while doing it...
...1. West Virginia was/is not a border state...
...Don Bright via e-mail Eds: For the record, our March/ April cover shows actor Al Jolson, who is white—Jewish, in fact, born in Lithuania—in the celebrated movie The Jazz Singer...
...now they largely replace it...
...Stein can avoid embarrassing himself in the future by blathering on topics about which he knows something...
...One question, though: are you aware that the bikini-clad woman behind Ben Stein's caricature has a torso that is approximately 30 percent longer than that of the average female, relative to her height...
...The long-term solution to the nanny problem is lower, flatter taxes and leaner, more efficient governments...
...A degree in education is a B.S...
...This insulation had previously performed admirably...
...however, a significantly higher percentage of middle-income earners in the past could raise a family on one income...
...2003) is a fine indictment of the Senate's all-time hypocrite...
...It was admitted to the Union on the condition that it be slave-free...
...I am seventeen years old, and I probably lack the background, information, or whatever else is necessary to see the problem...
...You are racists...
...We're nearly eighty years removed from that type of sickening stereotypical view of blacks...
...Kenneth Harris California State University Fresno, California flagged "Byrd Most Foul" (TAS, Jan./Feb...
...In a day when most magazines charge you access to their archived articles, you freely offer them to the public...
...This was created after First Manassas, because of confusion of the Stars and Stripes with the Stars and Bars...
...Our leaders urge us to "all join hands and buy an SUV...
...Of course, if you spend some time on a modern college campus, you will discover that some forms of diversity are more enthusiastically embraced than A one-year subscription to The American Spectator costs $39 within the United States...
...Moore's tactic is the same old worn-out tactic left-wing liberals try to use to pit one generation against another, to hide their own greed...
...I would have thought you knew the distinction...
...Good to see everything back to normal...
...Ray Shelton Glendale, California Professor Peter Wood has it right about "diversity...
...10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • JUNE/JULY 2003 others and that not all forms of intolerance are equally intolerable...
...If you are defending yourself with freedom of speech, jolly good...
...Man is quite good enough, but not equal...
...That was intense...
...2. The flag flying over southern state capitols (capitols as in buildings, as opposed to the capital cities) and causing all the controversy is, for goodness sakes, not the Stars and Bars, but the Confederate battle flag...
...But a thumbs-down from "Ben Stein's Diary" clinched my decision, the more so as Mr...
...Now What...
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...Connections may open the door, but if you don't have the right stuff, politics carries no weight and you are culled without mercy from the pack...
...The Challenger exploded in 1986...
...but your public college education has failed you again...
...It is time for THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR to stop its obscene attacks on gay people...
...Gargoyle greenies and legal parasites—nonproducers who sit in wait to leech off the efforts of those who are trying to build...
...2).—Eds...
...Jarrett Gonzales Corvallis Oregon Do you really think your "Diversity" cover is appropriate...
...The latter was the official Confederate States of America national flag, which the history revisionists and other whiners would not recognize if their victimized lives depended on it...
...Contact: The American Spectator, P.O...
...The 0-rings that failed and caused the accident had performed admirably until that time...
...Stephen Moore in the SPECTATOR...
...But given all the hundreds of years of racial strife and slavery, how can it be said that all racism is gone and the field is level...
...It is true that people at the very bottom of the income scale are better off today than their counterparts were seventy years ago...
...Another Liberal via e-mail Enyiros and the Shuttle Bob Barr's article on the space program and the tradition of Americans being willing to take risks recalled an unnoticed connection between the Challenger and Columbia tragedies ("Nothing Ventured," TAS, Jan./Feb...
...Civil War border states were those that bordered the Confederacy: Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland (the latter only kept in the Union by the illegal arrest of Maryland legislators who favored secession...
...Equal justice and equal protection apply to all Americans...
...West Virginia broke from Virginia in 1863...
...The president served in the National Guard as a fighter pilot, one of the most dangerous and challenging professions one can imagine...
...Is the world better off because of nuclear weapons...
...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...
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...It would not hurt to help a struggling race out of its economic and educational vacuum...
...I know why she is depicted that way, but in a journal that is right about so many things, perhaps she should be reproportioned...
...There is an old saying, "If you ain't a fighter pilot, you ain't...
...One of them was "Harpooning a Liberal" by Dinesh D'Souza (TAS, Jan./Feb...
...How do you think African Americans feel as they walk past the magazine racks and look at that garbage...
...Don Beach Falls Church, Virginia Continuing Education Re: Tom Bethell's "Why the Teachers Can't Be Trusted" (TAS, Mar./Apr...
...Mostly, however, it was reasonable and calm, something I just can't seem to manage...
...The answer is that as mass production and technology created greater wealth, governments, in lockstep fashion, continued to commandeer an incrementally higher portion of the fruits...
...Paul Kelly Boulder, Colorado Fly Right As a U.S...
...Sorenson isn't qualified to carry President Bush's piddle-pack, let alone pass judgment on a man who is a member of an elite warrior class...
...The future will come in its own time and in its own way...
...W DuPree Moore Mineral Bluff, Georgia Kung-Food Fighter David Martosko's "Food Fetish" (TAS, Jan./Feb...
...we seniors get no RESPECT from Mr...
...Finding ways to attract nannies who can inspire children with better values is certainly worth pursuing...
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...degree—and I don't mean Bachelor of Science...
...Your Web site has proved an invaluable resource in my research on various subjects and could not have been more helpful...
...The earlier, more dependable insulation had been manufactured using Freon, another remarkably efficient material targeted by environmentalists who succeeded in having it banned...
...2003), you mention that he has written a book entitled The Seven Fat Years...
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