CORRESPONDENCE
1 Every subscriber to The American Spectator who did not carefully read all eight pages of "Freedom of Speech Now Illegal" by "Spencer Roane" (TAS, February 2004) should be put on probation unless...
...Babbin is apparently unaware that the French do not make "cabs...
...How is it possible for all federal officials in all branches of government to take solemn oaths "to protect and defend the Constitution" and then turn around and ignore those oaths...
...Babbin seems blissfully ignorant of that fact...
...JUSTIN LOGAN Bethesda, Maryland...
...Since time immemorial, Sauvignon Blanc enthusiasts have cherished the mineral qualities of the grape, most pronounced in a wine from the Loire Valley: Sancerre...
...Our President has my support and appreciation on many fronts, but I find it ironic that, while protecting us from without, he signed a bill that contributes mightily to Republic-endangering corruption from within...
...1 Every subscriber to The American Spectator who did not carefully read all eight pages of "Freedom of Speech Now Illegal" by "Spencer Roane" (TAS, February 2004) should be put on probation unless they immediately rectify this sad situation by making 50 copies and enlightening themselves and 50 fellow citizens (as I have done...
...Without entry-level jobs in decent paying industry, I would have stayed in the grocery and retail store arenas...
...Holding French farmers responsible for their government's position on the Iraq War is just as foolish as, well, as foolish as holding American farmers responsible for having been lied into it...
...But in truth, I really wish Babbin hadn't published such a doltish article—I hate defending the French...
...This is serious...
...How is it possible, as it now is, for a U.S...
...Then send a copy to President Bush...
...ALAN SCHULTZ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania No Swat Jed Babbin's article, "In Vino Veritas" (TAS , March 2004), was pathetic...
...Wait staff, burger flippers, and Wal-Mart greeters are insufficient to lure the indolent from handouts, which I pay for...
...TRENT GAITES Flowery Branch, Georgia Attention Deficit Re: Brian Wesbury's article ("Deficits Don't Matter," TAS, March 2004): When I entered the workforce in 1964, I started at the lowest level in a steel foundry...
...Contra Babbin's preferences, French wines are renowned, even in thinking conservative circles, for their romance, complexity, and intellectual appeal...
...After ten years, I had risen to one of the top three managerial positions (monthly salary paycheck...
...American wines, by contrast, are something of a blunt object...
...They actually founded, with some help from others, a nation of their own, and it seems, despite problems within and without, to be working...
...The Waffle House...
...The awe I felt as a youth for our Supreme Court justices has turned to profound disdain...
...They do not seem to have gotten over that yet, and perhaps never will, which might explain why America seems more hated than the Israelis...
...First, the fact that Babbin is clinging to the idiotic, jingoist notion of a French embargo should discredit the entire article in the first paragraph...
...If you don't like a mineral taste, you aren't going to like Sancerre...
...The problem is not that Americans refuse to do the dirty work, they rightly expect to be justly rewarded to do so...
...Obviously, this is bothersome...
...The Arabs, to a degree Europe's "puppy dogs," seem to be making hash of their efforts too...
...Lastly, do you know Monsieur Kerry's favorite restaurant...
...Real free-marketers, myself included, reply that as particularly offensive jobs are offered, increased compensation must be proffered to lure those reluctant workers to accept these positions...
...Wesbury's enthusiasm to creatively destroy our (once) dynamic economy...
...The First Amendment has been trashed...
...The author does a great job of explaining how incumbents have decided to thwart "unfair and vicious attacks against us [the incumbents]" by abridging freedom of speech...
...it's Le Mepris-era Brigitte Bardot versus Barb Wire-era Pamela Anderson...
...Babbin's lack of wine knowledge is shocking, considering his long tenure in the ranks of the Washington policy elite...
...citizen to be charged with a felony for the effrontery of criticizing an incumbent politician...
...In my stint there, I represented both the United Steelworkers and the corporate sides in contract negotiations...
...Also, Babbin's tasting notes on the wines he sampled aren't exactly—well—intelligible...
...He complains about a "mineral taste" in a Sancerre...
...But the most objectionable part of the article is that Babbin had to rig the contest: he states outright that he likes his red wines "big [and] bold" (not unlike his foreign policy, one might say) and his whites "buttery" (not unlike the rhetoric used to justify said foreign policy...
...Hence, they rationalize that we "need" illegal workers to fill these positions...
...KENNETH A. DESHAIES Laconia, New Hampshire s oF' A Re: the latest rise of anti-Semitism in Europe ("More Hated Than America," by Jeffrey Gedmin, TAS, February 2004), the following might serve to explain it...
...The notion that the French farmer should be punished for the venality of Monsieur Chirac is preposterous, but then, so is the rest of the article...
...More important than that is that despite significant efforts by Nazi Germany, helped along by others, those noble Europeans made hash of solving the Jewish Problem some years back...
...I therefore have a very personal stake in Mr...
...Those pesky Jews just seem unwilling to disappear...
...To many free-market gurus,the pithiest comment involves the supposed rejection by native (born here) Americans to take the agricultural jobs and nanny jobs that are available...
...Too badAmSpec isn't required reading in our nation's classrooms...
...We will never reduce our citizen's dependencies upon daddy government in the absence of entry-level industrial jobs...
...Bordeaux wines containing the Cabernet Sauvignon varietal almost always include other varietals to add complexity and subtlety to the wine...
...Babbin says that in 1976 four American Cabernet Sauvignons were "put up against four French cabs...
...RICHARD E. HALL Palm Bay, Florida "Spencer Roane" has written a marvelous, enlightening piece...
...This included 80 of the 120 man workforce...
...Might I suggest you send a copy to each of the justices that formed the majority in McConnell...
...Babbin's decision to bring his simplistic bias into the field of oenology yielded predictably ugly results...
Vol. 37 • April 2004 • No. 3
