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CORRESPONDENCE "A" Stuck' Concerning Mr. Tyrrell's "Lying With Impunity" (TAS, September 2004), I have always believed that Clinton may have benefited from drugs being flown into Mena, Arkansas,...
...Wolk is entirely correct—and Mussolini was not—about Jan Hus...
...Ibn Abdul Wahab will never be the heroic subject of any great music or literature...
...They are non-conciliatory by nature...
...Americans are shocked by Islam's extremist customs, yet try to make their own women more like men in the name of "sex equality and the rights of women" even as entertainment, advertising, and news industries display more and more female anatomy for our supposed edification and inevitable prurience...
...Not only Mr...
...This is why none of these groups shows the slightest interest in actually resolving anything...
...think-tank presidents obsequiously cater to DACOWITS, girl generals, sexy female sports commentators, and pretty interns...
...The answer, of course, ismoney...
...SEAN SMITH Roseburg, Oregon The Seducers Thank you for George Neumayr's incisive article on the co-ed military ("Equality Equals Death," TAS, July-August 2004...
...I have read you for a long time but you are beginning to sound like a neoconservative...
...Literally hundreds of lawyers and activists are able to butter their bread purely because this myth is kept alive...
...It quickly becomes apparent to anyone who's awake that these people cannot be negotiated with...
...Those of us in the timber industry out west, who slug it out with the greens on a daily basis, are acutely aware of this...
...I had abortions in my early 20s—all for selfish reasons...
...I regret what I did every day, especially when I look in the eyes of my wonderful son...
...It's all a symptom 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 2004 CORRESPONDENCE of America's 21st century fundraising, vote-hungry merging of the sexes...
...He is generally seen as an early precursor of the Reformation and not a "wild and crazy" heretic, although some of his followers from the Bohemian town of Tabor, at least for a while, favored a pooling of communal resources while they awaited the Second Coming...
...Jan Hus is considered to be a national hero in Bohemia and Moravia and the Hussite movement has been the subject of great music by Dvorak and Smetana...
...I don't know why I'm shocked, but the pro-choice movement has hit an all-time low...
...Concerned housewives in suburban Illinois would quit writing checks to environmental activist organizations if it ever came to light that these forests are not really endangered and are, in fact, very responsibly managed...
...Tyrrell's "Lying With Impunity" (TAS, September 2004), I have always believed that Clinton may have benefited from drugs being flown into Mena, Arkansas, not because I read it in your magazine (I didn't) but because a Colombian captain, a student in one of my classes at a language school for international military personnel, told me everyone in South America knew drugs were being flown into Arkansas...
...It reminds me of a description of Carter's smile by P.J...
...Purely on that basis, it would seem most reasonably minded people would conclude that they've won...
...Now in my late 40s I know that only God can give me peace about what I'd done and I can rest in knowing my babies are in heaven...
...For those of us trying to make a living producing a highly useful product for which there is strong market demand, the conflict industry is as depressing as it is exasperating...
...Dishonesty rules...
...He, in fact, was burned at the stake in Konstanz in 1415 for doctrinal unorthodoxies...
...Beautiful...
...The guilt women feel is real, a true sign of remorse, and now the prochoicers are taking that away under the guise of healing...
...Benito Angelo M. Codevilla's very interesting article in the May Spectator on Wahabi and other heresies contained one very puzzling statement...
...I don't ever want to forget what I did—it keeps me human and humble...
...W. EDWARD CHYNOWETH Sanger, California The Grim Grinner In his review of The Real Jimmy Carter (TAS, July-August 2004), Mr...
...Bush but most GOP politicians, "leadership" institutes, networks, and D.C...
...When reporting on the Nicaraguan elections, he described Carter as "still grinning like a raccoon eating fish guts out of a wire brush...
...SUE Fremont, California Say It Isn't So You intimate (The Continuing Crisis, TAS, September 2004) that Joe Wilson is wrong and there is evidence President Hussein did in fact try to procure the essentials for nuclear weapons...
...Yates says the book "only goes part way in revealing what a hapless dunce (or 'grinning dunce' as this magazine memorably labeled him) the subject truly was...
...NANCY ANN HOLTZ Beverly, Massachusetts With Apology I just finished reading George Neumayr's "Without Apology" in your September issue...
...We should never forget...
...That Jan Hus was mentioned by Mussolini as a progenitor of national socialism is very strange indeed...
...How they can make the killing of a child something to be proud of I'll never understand...
...ANTHONY BOUTON Gainesville, Florida Jan Hus vs...
...O'Rourke in your magazine years ago...
...Why don't they fold up their tents and move on to more pressing pursuits, rather than file lawsuit after lawsuit and attempt to obstruct virtually every timber sale, however lawful...
...We've even coined a cynical term for the environmental movement—the "conflict industry" Here are the facts, at least with regard to Oregon: Of our 28 million acres of forest land, just under 10 million are permanently off limits to logging thanks to the extremists...
...I think of my other children every day...
...It has never been proved to my satisfaction and is nothing more than a trumped-up accusation by the administration to justify attacking Iraq...
...Later on when I had my only son, and found the Lord, I realized what joy I probably missed out on...
...Confused American males even plan to force un-Tocquevillian "sex equality" on the hapless Muslims, as if national culture were a whim...
...My point was that ambitious politicians are always ready to embrace anything that even looks like religious heresy...
...The phenomenon of the unending environmental crisis is very much akin to the government program that, while possibly serving a purpose when created, lives on in perpetuity in order to keep armies of bureaucrats employed after the problem it sought to redress has long since disappeared...
...HARRY I. WOLK Des Moines, Iowa Angelo M. Codevilla replies: Mr...
...WILLIAM J. GARRITY Cameron, Montana The Conflict Industry Tom Bethell absolutely nails it in "Pombo Versus the Greens" (TAS, September 2004), particularly with his point about the environmental movement needing to constantly drum up non-existent crises in order to keep the donations rolling in...
Vol. 37 • October 2004 • No. 8
