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CORRESPONDENCE Money Back There may be a more deliciously written, note-perfect assessment of the egregious stupidity of the literary left than Ted Olson's piece on Larry McMurtry ("Hats Off to...
...Who is your editor, Dick Cheney...
...This is great, I thought...
...DONALD E. FISHER, M.D...
...Like your parents, most Americans are more mature and much more disciplined than Goldie...
...signing his name: "and the POWs who remember this perfect ass of a man...
...If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, it really doesn't make any noise...
...Goldie—not so much...
...At that moment, I put down your magazine, knowing that I didn't want to receive subsequent issues...
...CHARLES NEWMAN Salem, Massachusetts Senatorial Courtesy Regarding Senator Lugar's response to Shawn Macomber's "Cooperative Threat Reductio Ad Absurdum" September article (Correspondence, TAS, November 2004): I realize that Senator Lugar has been a politician for years, a condition that seems to be detrimental to common sense even among Republicans...
...WAYNE PICKARD Brandon, Florida Finding Peace Thank you...
...November 2004 issue, page 6, "The Continuing Crisis," with no less a personage that R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Do you guys actually think, or are you simply stenographers for the Bush party line...
...I'd like you to know why...
...Aitken mentioned God's will and I would like to address this with a personal story...
...As a Christian I am often asked why I can believe in a God who allows horrible things to happen...
...You should be ashamed of yourself...
...Tyrrell discovers gratuitous, outrageous, easily-provable-as-lies lies in the Clintons' autobiographies and wonders why...
...PATRICE ROBERTIE Arlington, Massachusetts Postmod Squad In "Lying With Impunity" (TAS, November 2004), Mr...
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...Such is the guiding philosophy of leftists, and it explains a lot of their nonsense...
...Whatever I desire God will give me...
...Take heart, Ben...
...MICHAEL SUGDEN Citrus Heights, California 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2004/JANUARY 2005 CORRESPONDENCE Getting By So Ben Stein's 76-year-old pal Goldie ("Off Golden Pond," TAS, October 2004) knew he was in financial trouble yet he blew through $380,000 in 18 months—that's $5,277 every single week for a year and a half!—"leased a Jag and bought new clothes" and deceived his wife, and we're supposed to feel bad for him...
...but 3) when there is peace it is from God...
...But Jesus said, "A rich man should give away all of his assets...
...I can honestly say that through even the worst of times I can find peace and joy in knowing God is "backing" me up...
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...We're going to be just fine...
...That, and Ben Stein's beautifully crafted and heartfelt requiem to Colonel Denman, guarantees my subscription renewal...
...If a whole group of people are around and they all hear it, it still didn't make any noise if they say it didn't...
...Moral values...
...That is what prayer is all about...
...George, and canceled his subscription to the un-American Spectator...
...SUE VAN VLIET Fremont, California New to the Cause I recently read your magazine for the first time...
...Someone once told me that when making a decision I should be aware of three things: 1) if there is fear, it is of the enemy...
...The wash basin was dirty and the shower smelled sweaty and musty...
...His wife I feel bad for...
...I told my cardiologist about this and requested a transfer to a clean room...
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...WALTER D. POPE Piney Flats, Tennessee Room Service Regarding Betsy McCaughey's "Doctors Must Wash Hands" (TAS, November 2004): The author raises questions: If hospital administrators can reduce MRSA infections among hospital patients by spending money for this purpose as in the Shadyside Hospital experience, why don't they do it...
...What I find repellent is your offensive and superior tone, your disgusting metonymy masquerading as discourse—"this perfect ass of a man...
...However, I have an offer that might help him understand at least one of Macomber's points...
...Assignment of "scarce resources having alternative uses" is an administrator's job...
...Umm, I ask the same thing of the Democrats I know who voted for Kerry...
...Furthermore, I am willing to spend each $20 bill on whatever program he cares to designate, provided I can account for 50 percent of the expenditures as miscellaneous unitemized overhead and other expenses...
...When I first began battling my inner demons I had a favorite scripture: "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart" (Psalm 374...
...The floor was dirty and there was dirt in the corners...
...It is because of this obedience that we begin to realize that our prayers are a gift...
...He said all the rooms were dirty because the hospital was suddenly unable to meet the wage demands of the maintenance workers who were responding to a sudden improvement in the local job market...
...After my emergency coronary bypass procedure five years ago, I was moved to a private room...
...Stanardsville, Virginia What Kind of Man...
...Boy was I wrong...
...Though I am a new subscriber, your latest issue convinced me that I no longer care to read your magazine...
...CORRESPONDENCE Money Back There may be a more deliciously written, note-perfect assessment of the egregious stupidity of the literary left than Ted Olson's piece on Larry McMurtry ("Hats Off to Larry," TAS, November 2004), but I doubt it...
...Hospital infections are economics problems as well as matters of human behavior...
...I love The American Spectator more each month and was particularly thrilled with Jonathan Aitken's article "Let Us Pray" (TAS, November 2004...
...I wait with bated breath for Senator Lugar's call...
...How are assignment priorities determined...
...2) if there is confusion, it is our own will taking control...
...Every Bush lie on Iraq goes unchallenged...
...Not only does He give us a desire but He gives usthe strength and confidence to go forward with what He asks, even through fear...
...According to you, Jesus sent in his absentee ballot for Bush...
...The answer can be found in an understanding of postmodernism: Since postmodernism rejects an objective, provable truth and allows everyone his own individual truth, truth is simply a matter of what is chanted and repeated the most persistently...
...It had nothing to do with your unfavorable opinions of Senator Kerry: obviously, I would expect these in a conservative publication...
...God help us...
...Directed by lirlady nd (Rd w-ha the Ww.hington Prom ler h See what daily insight from George Neumnyr gets gutted hy the %, ho's who in Washington and talk radio...
...I am willing to trade my $2 bills for an equal number of Lugar's personal $20 bills as long as he wishes to continue trading...
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...So Jesus opposed the tax scheme for the rich, voted against G.I...
...What I have learned is that when we put God first—when our relationship with Him is foremost on our mind, when we strive to do His goodness on earth, when we truly pray unselfishly— God puts desires in our heart for things and to do deeds we may have never thought of...
Vol. 37 • December 2004 • No. 10
