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...But the icing on the cake was being reminded of other true nonentities, Oakes, Reich, J.K...

...KEITH ACKER Cromwell, Connecticut My Country Thank you for the Ben Stein pieces on us, Americans...

...Let's face it, George W. Bush is a dangerous idiot, and he represents all that is bad about the USA...

...MACIEJ SOBCZYSZYN Melbourne, Australia 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2004...

...He proposed a chief executive picked by electors chosenby the people, who would serve, like a Supreme Court Justice, "during good behavior...

...MARK SIEGEL Fresno, California Old Cowboy Country Once again RET (The Continuing Crisis, July/August 2004) reminds us of the long-term bankruptcy of the left by providing us with a list of the "usual suspects," including the New York Times editorial gang and several of its enablers, to a person, one and all, known recidivists...

...GLORIA POSTEL Oxnard California Mixed Reviews RET, you are such a terrific writer...

...JOE TAYLOR Fort Myers, Florida I have just recently come across the existence of your disgusting magazine...

...VERNON MILLER Atlanta, Georgia About Face Amidst all the paeans in TAS's July/August issue to the late Ronald Reagan's sunny optimism and unquenchable belief in the greatness of the human spirit in general and of the American spirit in particular, George Neumayr's article on women in combat ("Equality Equals Death") provided an ironic and presumably unintended cold dose of reality This country has been suffering the effects of a number of negative social indicators for some time—indicators which were not ameliorated during the Reagan years and which have continued to accelerate afterward...

...All I can say (with the tears still running down my cheeks) is: thankyou, thankyou, and thankyou...

...DAN CALABRIA South Pasadena, Florida a~ tiers Your brilliant expose on left-wing attack journalist, Seymour Hersh, was long overdue ("The Cult of Seymour Hersh," by Rael Jean Isaac, TAS, July/August 2004...

...What a treat to pull your magazine up and read one of your pieces—with wit, perception, grace and humor, something we all wish we had more of...

...But whatever else Hamilton may have done wrong, he never suggested that the presidency be hereditary...

...The truth is, not a one of them would qualify to muck out the Old Cowboy's stable, much less groom his horse...

...I just can't wait to see him being kicked out of the presidency in November...

...I have family in Iowa and Pennsylvania, and I live in Oxnard, California, just north of Mr...

...Stein...

...To see the names of Lewis, Reston, and Wicker calls to mind the current gang members, including the stay-at-home prom girl Dowd, Kristof, and the embarrassing, over-the-top, former Enron adviser, Krugman...

...Thank you...

...I'm glad someone who feels as I do about the people of our great land can put it into words and share it...

...I am in agreement with Douglas Wilson of the Internet publication Credenda.org that a nation defended by women is not a nation worth defending...

...Seriously, you guys are sick and disturbed...

...No wonder so many people hate America, when such ignorance and hypocrisy is the basis for your ambitions of Empire...

...He anticipated that opponents of the idea would use loaded terms like "elective monarch" to describe it, but he used the word "governor...

...Galbraith, A. Schlesinger, and Pete Hamill...

...The prevalence of women in combat-related positions in the military might rank among the foremost of these negative indicators...

...That the integration of women into combat positions proceeds apace, presumably with the acquiescence of the American people, tells me that the American spirit has been corrupted and degraded beyond repair and that Reaganian ebulhence about this country's future isn't justified at all...

...On the subject of Alexander Hamilton: Steve Chapman ("Duel Loyalty") is right to say that Hamilton had a talent for self-destruction...