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CORRESPONDENCE Eyes of March The March issue was simply great. Keep up the good work. DICK McDONALD Chatsworth, California My immediate thought upon viewing the March cover photo of President...

...He merely filmed an accurate version of the "passion" as recorded in scripture...
...Ben Stein's Diary has consistently been the best part of your magazine...
...RussDarrowSenate.com is the website for Sen...
...A lot more dirt could be piled on Strauss, but that is not the point, the double standard is...
...Scripture also tells us that Jesus was not recognizable as a man after he was scourged...
...GEORGE B. BUCEK Spring Mills, Pennsylvania Dirty Harry In Mr...
...I also have little regard for the Bush administration...
...The two culprits of the legislation are up for re-election this year...
...ROBERT W. HUTTON Alexandria, Virginia Get Even Kudos to "Spencer Roane" for a superb expose of the crazed Supreme Court ruling on Campaign Finance Reform ("Freedom of Speech Now Illegal," TAS, February 2004...
...Is Ben joking with us, or is he having a brain cramp...
...Can you imagine how frustrating it was to be told not to do anything about Truman during the late 1940s and early 1950s...
...How much brutality does Mr...
...The two culprits of the legislation are up for re-election this year...
...While Colombian heroin might well be killing a bunch of Americans, they are, it turns out, willing customers for this poison, all too willing...
...It wasn't just FDR...
...However, as a professional making public his opinion, he owes the reader the same straightforward presentation of facts that Gibson presented...
...is where a whole lot of the customers are...
...Leni Riefenstahl was never taken in by the Nazi ideology, while Strauss was, albeit selectively, at least whenever it concerned music...
...The U.S...
...It wasn't just FDR...
...Leni Riefenstahl has been, until her untimely death at the age of 101, abused a lot, while people like Richard Strauss for example get a free ride...
...As an individual, James Bowman is entitled to think anything he wants, after viewing this movie ("Why Not Be Anti-Semiotic...
...Possibly terribly stupid customers too, but more important, willing customers...
...TIMOTHY O'NEILL Marco Island, Florida Drug Reimportation Denizens of Foggy Bottom might well have dropped the ball, to use a polite phrase, re their running what some would call "The War on Drugs, Colombia Section" ("The War Without End," by Bob Barr, TAS, April 2004...
...The U.S...
...CALLIS L CHILDS Conway, Arizona MAY 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 7...
...He was right then, and re the ongoing and seemingly failed drug interdiction program in Colombia, he would still be right...
...FARID EMRANI Woodland Hills, California Anti-Anti-Semioticism Mel Gibson takes no position in The Passion...
...My father was Hugh Hutton, the editorial cartoonist on Annenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer (first Moe and then Walter), and during the days of Harry Truman, he was forbidden to draw any cartoons about Truman, since the tax case was still pending...
...Strauss composed "Festliches Praeludium" for the Nazis, conducted same at the Parteitag in 1938...
...If the publication of this article is any indication, I am not very hopeful that I will remain a member of your readers' family for long...
...is where a whole lot of the customers are...
...Has TAS also forgotten the stewardship of the late Robert Bartley in its renewal to allow the mocking of the WSJ editorialists in its pages...
...I returned after many years, sensing and believing that it would not allow itself to join the ranks of the disgraceful American Conservative and other reactionary rags in singling out the neoconservatives for attack...
...The Spectator's regard for the rights provided by the United States Constitution has steadily diminished since 9/11, and that is why I am asking you to cancel my subscription...
...was where the customers were...
...Bowman's mind made up...
...If the publication of this article is any indication, I am not very hopeful that I will remain a member of your readers' family for long...
...Or is Mr...
...PATRICK WEIR Chatsworth, California Yes and No Ben Stein's March Diary has me confused...
...CALLIS L CHILDS Conway, Arizona MAY 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 7 CORRESPONDENCE Eyes of March The March issue was simply great...
...There are many scriptural references to the scourging of Jesus of Nazareth, but overriding Bowman's assertion that the scourging did not represent "reality" because "scripture only tells us that Jesus was scourged...
...Tyrrell's article "Silent on Rush" (TAS, April 2004), he mentions FDR using the IRS to silence Moses Annenberg, among others...
...But in the very next paragraph he says "government could do a lot more to stop smoking right now...
...Unfortunately, Mr...
...Or is Mr...
...I think I know what parallel you are trying to draw, but I don't think it's a good fit...
...Bowman assert is necessary before a man becomes unrecognizable as a man...
...ELIZABETH QUAINTANCE Downers Grove, Illinois Leni Bruised I don't quite see how you can justify linking Leni Riefenstahl and Michael Moore (The Continuing 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2004 CORRESPONDENCE Crisis, TAS, March 2004...
...Alfred Regnery of the piece as a "respectful disagreement...
...was where the customers were...
...Leni Riefenstahl was never taken in by the Nazi ideology, while Strauss was, albeit selectively, at least whenever it concerned music...
...How much brutality does Mr...
...GEORGE B. BUCEK Spring Mills, Pennsylvania Dirty Harry In Mr...
...he was the president of RMK (Reichsmusikkammer) and was in daily contact with Goebbels, and so on and so on...
...Scripture also tells us that Jesus was not recognizable as a man after he was scourged...
...When I consider the publication of this piece along with the sudden removal of Michael Ledeen's name from your senior editors list, I cannot help but wonder if TAS has set out on the path of joining the neocon bashers and therefore alienating a sizable portion of its readership...
...A lot more dirt could be piled on Strauss, but that is not the point, the double standard is...
...Tyrrell's article "Silent on Rush" (TAS, April 2004), he mentions FDR using the IRS to silence Moses Annenberg, among others...
...Unfortunately, Mr...
...TEX FORISTER Chambersburg, Pennsylvania No Party Line I write to express my disappointment—not to mention my surprise—at the publication of the article "Neoconservatism Is not Reaganism" (by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke) in your April '04 issue...
...Barr is missing a very important point...
...ROBERT W. HUTTON Alexandria, Virginia Get Even Kudos to "Spencer Roane" for a superb expose of the crazed Supreme Court ruling on Campaign Finance Reform ("Freedom of Speech Now Illegal," TAS, February 2004...
...Has TAS also forgotten the stewardship of the late Robert Bartley in its renewal to allow the mocking of the WSJ editorialists in its pages...
...I had little regard for the Clintons and greatly enjoyed every issue of the Spectator during the Clinton presidency...
...He merely filmed an accurate version of the "passion" as recorded in scripture...
...I am a new—and once very hopeful—subscriber to TAS...
...Feingold's replacement...
...A former president of Mexico, when chided by President Reagan, about Mexico's role in the smuggling of drugs into the U.S., allowed that Mexico had problems regarding drug trafficking...
...ALAN SCHULTZ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Rights Stuff It is with heavy heart that I request you to cancel my subscription to The American Spectator and to remove me from any and all mailing lists...
...I will miss him mightily...
...I had little regard for the Clintons and greatly enjoyed every issue of the Spectator during the Clinton presidency...
...Possibly terribly stupid customers too, but more important, willing customers...
...To fulfill Hamilton's "popular revolt," I urge groups to fund ads saying "John McCain is a Pompous Ass" within 30 days of his primary...
...He admits that the government can do nothing to help him with his overeating and overspending, since such matters "cannot really be controlled by government, but only by my own sadly lacking self-discipline...
...There are many scriptural references to the scourging of Jesus of Nazareth, but overriding Bowman's assertion that the scourging did not represent "reality" because "scripture only tells us that Jesus was scourged...
...For the authors of this article to end their attack on neoconservatism with the lines that "The neo-Reaganite foreign policy drawn up by Kristol and Kagan is vastly more `neo' than it is `Reaganite: And certainly no service to the cause of conservatism," is a far cry from the mild characterization by Mr...
...For the authors of this article to end their attack on neoconservatism with the lines that "The neo-Reaganite foreign policy drawn up by Kristol and Kagan is vastly more `neo' than it is `Reaganite: And certainly no service to the cause of conservatism," is a far cry from the mild characterization by Mr...
...I am a new—and once very hopeful—subscriber to TAS...
...When I consider the publication of this piece along with the sudden removal of Michael Ledeen's name from your senior editors list, I cannot help but wonder if TAS has set out on the path of joining the neocon bashers and therefore alienating a sizable portion of its readership...
...I returned after many years, sensing and believing that it would not allow itself to join the ranks of the disgraceful American Conservative and other reactionary rags in singling out the neoconservatives for attack...
...When all is said and done, no matter who it is that runs or, as it were, perhaps misruns any drug interdiction program, the fact that there are a whole lot of willing customers for this garbage remains, and that, Virginia, is the heart of the problem...
...Can you imagine how frustrating it was to be told not to do anything about Truman during the late 1940s and early 1950s...
...Barr is missing a very important point...
...Any court that thinks our Constitution protects sodomy while being indifferent to political speech is one in search of a planet...
...Military men might know little about diplomacy, and one suspects that the "vice is versa...
...When all is said and done, no matter who it is that runs or, as it were, perhaps misruns any drug interdiction program, the fact that there are a whole lot of willing customers for this garbage remains, and that, Virginia, is the heart of the problem...
...In such ways are unwise laws removed...
...ALAN SCHULTZ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Rights Stuff It is with heavy heart that I request you to cancel my subscription to The American Spectator and to remove me from any and all mailing lists...
...I also have little regard for the Bush administration...
...Feingold's replacement...
...However, as a professional making public his opinion, he owes the reader the same straightforward presentation of facts that Gibson presented...
...DICK McDONALD Chatsworth, California My immediate thought upon viewing the March cover photo of President Bush's obviously jovial laughter at the signing of the Medicare Prescription Drug bill was of one of the attending pol's having said, "Boy, did we stick it to the American taxpayer this time...
...FARID EMRANI Woodland Hills, California Anti-Anti-Semioticism Mel Gibson takes no position in The Passion...
...He admits that the government can do nothing to help him with his overeating and overspending, since such matters "cannot really be controlled by government, but only by my own sadly lacking self-discipline...
...So, how much we eat and how much we spend are matters of self-discipline, but smoking calls for government intervention...
...He also, correctly, pointed out that the U.S...
...Any court that thinks our Constitution protects sodomy while being indifferent to political speech is one in search of a planet...
...The Spectator's regard for the rights provided by the United States Constitution has steadily diminished since 9/11, and that is why I am asking you to cancel my subscription...
...Alfred Regnery of the piece as a "respectful disagreement...
...TAS, April 2004...
...But in the very next paragraph he says "government could do a lot more to stop smoking right now...
...Ben Stein's Diary has consistently been the best part of your magazine...
...In such ways are unwise laws removed...
...Military men might know little about diplomacy, and one suspects that the "vice is versa...
...TAS, April 2004...
...While Colombian heroin might well be killing a bunch of Americans, they are, it turns out, willing customers for this poison, all too willing...
...Bowman assert is necessary before a man becomes unrecognizable as a man...
...I will miss him mightily...
...A former president of Mexico, when chided by President Reagan, about Mexico's role in the smuggling of drugs into the U.S., allowed that Mexico had problems regarding drug trafficking...
...He also, correctly, pointed out that the U.S...
...DICK McDONALD Chatsworth, California My immediate thought upon viewing the March cover photo of President Bush's obviously jovial laughter at the signing of the Medicare Prescription Drug bill was of one of the attending pol's having said, "Boy, did we stick it to the American taxpayer this time...
...Bowman's mind made up...
...As an individual, James Bowman is entitled to think anything he wants, after viewing this movie ("Why Not Be Anti-Semiotic...
...PATRICK WEIR Chatsworth, California Yes and No Ben Stein's March Diary has me confused...
...Is Ben joking with us, or is he having a brain cramp...
...TEX FORISTER Chambersburg, Pennsylvania No Party Line I write to express my disappointment—not to mention my surprise—at the publication of the article "Neoconservatism Is not Reaganism" (by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke) in your April '04 issue...
...Strauss composed "Festliches Praeludium" for the Nazis, conducted same at the Parteitag in 1938...
...TIMOTHY O'NEILL Marco Island, Florida Drug Reimportation Denizens of Foggy Bottom might well have dropped the ball, to use a polite phrase, re their running what some would call "The War on Drugs, Colombia Section" ("The War Without End," by Bob Barr, TAS, April 2004...
...I think I know what parallel you are trying to draw, but I don't think it's a good fit...
...I suppose that this is what happens when a bunch of bureaucrats comes to control what is, or should be, a military operation...
...So, how much we eat and how much we spend are matters of self-discipline, but smoking calls for government intervention...
...Leni Riefenstahl has been, until her untimely death at the age of 101, abused a lot, while people like Richard Strauss for example get a free ride...
...he was the president of RMK (Reichsmusikkammer) and was in daily contact with Goebbels, and so on and so on...
...To fulfill Hamilton's "popular revolt," I urge groups to fund ads saying "John McCain is a Pompous Ass" within 30 days of his primary...
...I suppose that this is what happens when a bunch of bureaucrats comes to control what is, or should be, a military operation...
...RussDarrowSenate.com is the website for Sen...
...He was right then, and re the ongoing and seemingly failed drug interdiction program in Colombia, he would still be right...
...ELIZABETH QUAINTANCE Downers Grove, Illinois Leni Bruised I don't quite see how you can justify linking Leni Riefenstahl and Michael Moore (The Continuing 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2004 CORRESPONDENCE Crisis, TAS, March 2004...
...My father was Hugh Hutton, the editorial cartoonist on Annenberg's Philadelphia Inquirer (first Moe and then Walter), and during the days of Harry Truman, he was forbidden to draw any cartoons about Truman, since the tax case was still pending...

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