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...Like his friend the late Paul Wellstone, Brownback is a man of principle—only his principles are better...

...Bravo to Michael Horowitz and The American Spectator for bringing to the attention of readers a statesman who really is almost too good to be true...

...JOHN A. CLARK Ann Arbor, Michigan Chancellor Ben I read Ben Stein's piece on professordom in both the magazine (TAS, August/September 2003) and on your Web site yesterday...

...But for an American university study to concur in an exhaustive, scientific, non-politically correct conclusion, in which truth is not an inconvenient chimera, if not a hazardous carcinogen to one's political health, in today's legislatively puritanical climate, must be some kind of precedent...

...Does TAS have a contingency plan for publishing from an undisclosed foreign location that does not have an extradition treaty with the United States...

...Hubble, discoverer of the red shift, I understand, rejected the Doppler explanation...

...Like you, I knew it all along...

...Where can I sign up for the campaign...

...He understands the ways in which economic freedom and opportunity support prosperity, civil liberties, and human dignity...

...She is an ugly women without any physically redeeming qualities that I can see...

...CORRESPONDENCE Senator Sam People who do not know Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, or who are unfamiliar with his record, will have difficulty crediting Michael Horowitz's fifteen hundred words of unalloyed praise ("The Better World of Sam Brownback," TAS, August/ September 2003...

...Look forunemployment insurance applications to rise, as this is going to throw a lot of cosmologists out of work...

...JOHN S. EVANS Germantown, Tennessee Seeing Red I was intrigued by your Robert Metcalfe interview in the last issue ("More Is More," TAS, August/ September 2003...

...on the front cover of the latest issue...

...As a veteran of 41 years as a college professor, almost all at state universities, I can add a few things to his observations...

...In the old days when intellectuals depended upon rich patrons for support, they were a lot more conservative...

...It is not that "the flap of a butterfly's wing start[s] a hurricane," it is that if a weather prediction model fails to take into account events as seemingly insignificant as the flap of a single butterfly's wing, it will fail to predict hurricanes some weeks and months later...

...As it is, I can attest that Horowitz's portrait of this extraordinary man is completely accurate...

...If you must publish a photo of her just show her as she is...

...The magazine may now enter my home...

...NELSON G. HERNANDEZ, SR...

...Loved it...

...The president could have no worthier successor...

...Also, a lot of academics are rather immature people who, like children, love to bite the hand that feeds them...

...As I learned in statistics class, correlation does not imply causality...

...He is a national treasure...

...Therefore, it is out of chaos that free will arises...

...Imagine that...

...ROBERT P. GEORGE Princeton, New Jersey 10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2003 Her Again Though I am physically convulsed by the concept of a second Clinton presidency, I cannot disagree with Mark W. Davis's canny reading of the political future ("The Once and Future President," TAS, August/September 2003...

...Especially the part where he says "the Big Bang Theory is false—what if the red shift wasn't caused by the Doppler effect...

...One is that the liberalism of most academics is rooted to some extent in the fact that most of them are wards of the state...

...Where can we send contributions to the Vincent S. Foster Memorial Fund...

...He has shown that the red shift is caused by light moving through molecular hydrogen in space...

...Is its subscriber list secure from federal subpoena or unlawful seizure...

...They have the typical Liberal hatred for all things Conservative...

...You will get nowhere if you are trying to make up to the Clintons...

...DON VANDERVELDE Gig Harbor, Washington Flap Like a Butterfly I truly enjoyed Matt Ridley's article "Listen to the Genome" in the June/July issue, but I must take exception to his dismissal of the butterfly effect, which he began by misstating...

...Surely, if he is right, the day she announces her candidacy will be a day roughly equivalent in all its historical implications to the day Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the 2008 election will be our Pharsalus, and January 20, 2009, will witness HRC and the sinister anti-republican forces celebrating a Romanesque triumph...

...It leads one to the conclusion that there still maybe hope for this country, and for freedom...

...He is not selective about which members of the human family merit concern, respect, and the protection of the laws...

...NORMAN HINES Software Developer Ridgecrest, California We Knew It Coincidental to your revelation in "Public Nuisances" (TAS, June/July 2003) that Nicole Kidman, according to the British Medical Journal study, was not endangering anyone with her secondhand smoke, the American Enterprise in its September issue revealed that a UCLA study "found no significant correlation between secondhand smoke and death to due coronary heart disease or lung cancer...

...Now comes Paul Marmet, ex-president of the Canadian Association of Physicists...

...San Francisco, California subscriber since 1979 How dare you put that...

...Can a politician—any politician—really be that admirable...

...Horowitz says that many conservative and religious leaders intend for Brownback to be a serious candidate to succeed President Bush...

...However, I could not help but notice that neither study's findings were broadcast much by the liberal media or press...

...EDWARD CLINE Yorktown, Virginia OCTOBER 2003 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 11...

...Will TAS come in brown paper wrapper after 2009...

...The butterfly effect is not a "myth [invented] to preserve linear causality," but an example illustrating that causality not only isn't linear, or even circular, but multi- and curvilinear...

...To furCORRESPONDENCE ther your massive mistake you have published a much too flattering photo of her on your cover...

...Thank heaven for black spray paint...

...I would have thought so, too, had I not had the opportunity of working with Senator Brownback over several years on issues of bioethics and human rights...

...You, above all people...

...To whom do I send my check...

...Then the fact that their clientele includes many young people who like to rebel against social conventions tempts them to ingratiate themselves by catering to those rebellious tendencies...

...Horowitz surely goes over the top, many readers will suppose, in suggesting that Brownback's "model" is Mother Teresa of Calcutta...

...In short, it will be the VRWC's apocalypse: the crushing realization of all our worst fears...

...He is clearheaded about the social consequences of moral decay—particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable of our fellow citizens...

...This is the identical reaction I had as a kid in the '40s, except I figured it was the same refraction effect that separates colors as light passes through a "foggy" medium, making the light source, itself, appear redder or yellower while the surroundings appear bluer, such as seeing the sun through the atmosphere...

...Never will Mencken's dictum that in a democracy the people get the government they deserve good and hard be more applicable...

...TONY LE ROY Marietta, Georgia As a long-time subscriber, going back to the days of the Alternative published in Indiana in the '60s, I am deeply shocked that you would publish such a stupid article as "Hillary Rising...

...What if it was caused by photons getting tired as they go through space and shifting to the red as they give up energy...

...The chaos theory that arose out of the butterfly effect is even more of a departure from linear causality than Freeman's circular causality...

...They will assume that no one who has done what it takes to achieve high political office can warrant that comparison...