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CORRESPONDENCE April Flowers Congratulations on a superb April edition of TAS. The article on the Clinton Library, "Here Lies the Clinton Library," was badly needed and right on...
...Back when I was single, no kids, and no mortgage I even contributed to your Educational Foundation to assist in bringing your good investigative journalism to light...
...They believe that self-anointed elites (like themselves), rather thandivinely anointed elites or the people, should control production, distribution, and consumption of goods, services and property...
...For even the most egregious fantasies of the last decades of the 20th century, the "polywater" episode and "cold fusion" we had science journal articles in sup-port, sans crazy terminology...
...I haven't seen it pointed out (no pun intended) anywhere else...
...And the Reagan/Kennedy joke is howlingly funny...
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...If he did he would know it was written by The Daily Show staff, not just Stewart...
...Alan Kors would surely agree with her...
...The most obvious, most dreadful non-fiction book, of this year or any of the previous years, would have to be any book by Sean Hannity...
...I can not find any other reference to this Museum except in the works of Mr...
...The article on the Clinton Library, "Here Lies the Clinton Library," was badly needed and right on target...
...Albin...
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...Prior definition of value...
...however, the French Enlightenment, which in it implied atheistic worship of "reason," is the root of both socialism and Marxism...
...By such a ploy we also must be allowed to bring Satan into the picture, as "Intelligent Design" is surely the work of the Devil...
...So who cares what small-minded conservatives believe...
...No one in his right mind would link the Founding Fathers intellectually to Lenin...
...There is none...
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...What makes a winner...
...DEITRA HABICH Villa Park, Illinois You have to be kidding...
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...TOM DUMIT Oak Harbor, Washington Coogleritis I was excited to see your recent cover article about America: The Book and eager to learn why your Editor in Chief thought it was the worst book of the year...
...If it just turns out that a given DNA sequence defines a favorable life outcome, recall all other sequences are equally probable, or improbable, just like Poker...
...The hidden crimes concealed by the Clintons behind the obfuscation and dissembling of the liberal media deserve public attention...
...Louis, Missouri You have got to be kidding...
...There really is a threat, but not to science...
...Where are the "Intelligent Design" equivalents...
...Yet there is a unique set of cards that are winners...
...Hagel is a global thinker in contrast to the provincial minded who have yet to find out there is the rest of the world and one must live in it...
...His characterization of the Senator was insulting, an inaccurate attempt at character [assassination...
...Among the several enigmatic terminologies given us are "irreducibly complex," "contingency, complexity, and specification," "complex specified information," "atheistic material-ism," and "universal probability bound...
...DONALD E. FISHER Stanardsville, Virginia Black's Bush Thank you for Conrad Black's out-standing article on President Bush in the April '05 issue ("George W. Bush, FDR, and History...
...It is to school science classes where the concept of evolution must not be taught, or must be taught with "Intelligent Design" equally prominent...
...So, please either fess up and return to a commitment of unadulterated truth or cancel my subscription (or pro-vide a confirmable proof of existence...
...More-over, countries such as Argentina, Australia, and several other nations have adopted Chile's self-ownership type of program...
...In the card game Poker, certain sets of playing cards are given value...
...To deify our leaders is to mislead students and to create an imaginary past...
...Golly, how complex it all is...
...First of all there would be no United States of America without the Enlightenment (British, American and even French...
...6. The concept of life as information uses exponential arguments that it is just too improbable for life to be result of chance...
...If America is the worst book of the year please let me know why...
...4. Then, God is brought into the argument, as the Intelligent Agent...
...a landmark book about the modern process of finding high court judges...
...what evidence is there not in support, evidence that contradicts or denies, that falsifies the concept...
...I do not have time for, and do not waste my time reading fiction...
...Colonel, United States Army, Retired Pawleys Island, South Carolina Every time I see a picture of the Clinton Library I see the most egregious phallic symbol in architecture ever built...
...He is certainly in tune with Nebraskans...
...And yes they are influenced by the Enlightenment...
...Is Hagel in tune with America...
...And about those Swift Boats for Non-Truth...
...Bush to several of his predecessors are thought provoking and apt...
...TED BRANSTROM Lincoln, Nebraska Closing Time I have subscribed to your excel-lent publication for 10-15 years and stuck with you through sever-al changes of format, publisher, and IRS investigations...
...I certainly expect Lord Black's predictions regarding the president's ultimate place in history to be closer to the mark than the cur-rent judgments of his political and media opponents...
...Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc...
...I don't think many of our liberal Founding Fathers would appreciate Bethell's implication that the great intellects of the Enlightenment, which includes Locke and themselves, would be associated with either Marxism or socialism...
...If I want to read fiction, I could subscribe to the New York Times...
...Serious people, including people who consider themselves journalists, challenge and debate ideas...
...it must be by "Intelligent Design...
...ANDREW P. O'MEARA, JR...
...Tyrrell and the "committee" that they missed it by a mile...
...Talk about a faker and a poser, Sean is your man...
...The irresponsible, intolerant, and empty-headed attack people...
...Are our past presidents such hallowed figures that we cannot poke fun at their deification...
...That is going to change if I find out that you are publishing fiction...
...Serious scientists question every aspect of their thoughts...
...I was no fan of Stewart's Crossfire appearance either, but that appearance has little to nothing to do with America: The Book...
...To do any less is a disservice to your readers and dishonest...
...They now announce that Darwinian evolution is "on the defensive...
...We are not told how to calculate chances of an event...
...It is time Bush understands that instead of bowing to lunatic exiles in Miami...
...Am I the only one who notices this...
...Hagel is also right to say that the Cuban embargo has been a fat flop...
...So we must ask what does "Intelligent Design" offer us...
...Tell Mr...
...5. Unnecessary unfathomable complex terms are used, for which no meaning is evident...
...Also, the odds of drawing every other possible combination of cards that are not winners are the same as for the winner...
...The scientist confronted with a problem, conjecture, hypothesis, theory, or argument asks questions...
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...Employees can choose how much they contribute into their savings plan beyond the initial 10 percent of earnings...
...A Marxist-lite (the post-Vietnam war "progressive") wants most of the evils of full-fledged Bolshevism but does not want the stigma of committing mass murder or violent revolution to get there...
...More unnamed scientists...
...Like their French counterparts of the late 18th century, today's Democrats are also quite willing to control such "outmoded" Natural Rights as free speech, press, religion, and self-defense...
...That is why they succeeded in producing free societies rather than the "Reign of Terror...
...The Founding Fathers were "Classical Liberals," as are today's conservatives...
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...C O R R E S P O N D E N C E April Flowers Congratulations on a superb April edition of TAS...
...I would argue most strongly that today's American socialists, masquerading once as "liberals" and now as "progressives" have become secular feudalists...
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...They presume to seek evidence on the matter, by observation, and by experimentation...
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...Where is one science journal article, peer reviewed, that offers any experimental evidence for or against "Intelligent Design...
...Being highly intelligent, Hagel realizes Bush administration policies are not perfect...
...Tyrrell also lets the criticism fly against Stewart...
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...This article seems a bit incredible, especially the operating hours of 5-4...
...Another argument about DNA information can be cited as misleading...
...If the chances are less than 10's...
...John Kerry and the Democratic Party could not run away from a 93 ADA rating...
...And damn good ones...
...The piece spends substantial space explaining the Coogler award...
...Drawing a favorable orwinning hand is improbable, as the odds are against it...
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...Several veterans spoke up for Kerry in contrast to those grunt brain character assassins who scribbled that rag book...
...Twentieth-century liberal-ism is failing because it morphed into full-fledged socialism...
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...One wonders if Tyrrell read the book...
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...JFK, LBJ, and HHH were patriots but always wanted it bothways...
...However, John Kerry and most DNC leaders, who really do not like what the United States stands for, have no problem sup-porting or ignoring such things when they happen in Third World countries like Vietnam, Cambodia...
...America is a hilarious work, as well as being timely...
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...For other topics of real science, experiments are designed and conducted, results described, and interpretations provided...
...Jon Stewart is witty, funny, and insightful, while Hannity is boring, repetitive (like a robot), and downright dumb...
...Neumayr's problem is that Senator Hagel does not swear faith and unwavering allegiance to an extreme conservative ideology that does not tolerate independent thinking...
...That ideology is not what has made America the shining City on the Hill or what has made our Constitution one of the greatest documents ever penned by man...
...People can be conservative about one subject but be liberal with another...
...Bethell might have made sense had he argued that pre-Vietnam war era "liberals" were merely socialists-lite, while today's "liberals" have graduated to full-fledged socialists (Marxists-lite...
...He wins by a huge margin...
...What new experimentation is being conducted to test the proposition...
...WILLIAM O'KEEFE Providence Forge, Virginia Why should conservatives vote for Senator Hagel...
...A socialist-lite (the pre-Vietnam war "liberal") was a 20th-century politician who wanted many of the economic evils of socialism but needed a capitalist to pay for them...
...Gertrude Himmelfarb in her Roads to Modernity made a powerful case that the Enlightenment was not an intellectual, secular, or amoral monolith...
...CHRISTIAN P. MILORD Fullerton, California Ground Chuckles I have occasionally read The American Spectator in the past but I will never waste my time reading it in the future...
...Locke had a far more tangible influence on the Found8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2005 R E S P O N D E N C E ing Fathers than on Helvetius...
...Those involved with over-hauling Social Security should also take a good look at the Chilean model of retirement planning...
...Hagel doesn't need those Republican midgets...
...Would the Founding Fathers recognize the modern nomination process...
...Since we are dealing with definitions, I should explain socialism- and Marxism-lite...
...If America takes refuge in America and The Daily Show, it is only because we find cable and main-stream news at times too laughable or too disheartening...
...Kermit Hall, President, SUNY at Albany "When the next Supreme Court vacancy occurs, Richard Davis' insightful book will remind us how contentious judicial nominations have become, and will serve as a roadmap for the confirmation battle ahead...
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...Linking John Locke to Bolshevism ("Russian Marxism") is a dubious stretch, to say the least...
...Everyone should, that's who...
...Surely you owed it to your readers to explain this since it was the premise of America: The Book...
...OLAF HENDRICKSON Rochester, Minnesota Enlightened Despot Tom Bethell's definitions of "liberalism" and the "Enlightenment" in "The Decline of the Liberal Faith" (TAS, March 2005) are either confused or hide some kind of odd agenda...
...I doubt that he actually knowsthe Senator or did his homework by reading the booklet that Senator Hagel wrote when he first ran—"What I Stand For...
...He and his staff are satirists...
...The favorable comparisons of Mr...
...And George Neumayr's article, "Senate Deadhead," exposing the hubris of an irresponsible bully in the Senate, who tramples the constitutional rights of all Americans as he abuses judicial nominees, deserves special praise...
...That master of hack, the master of stupidity, which actually borders on moronic, cannot be overlooked...
...After reading Tyrrell's piece ("Coogler Laureate 2004"), I am still wondering...
...Both articles capture important insights and are overdue corrections to blatantly biased accounts of events at the highest level of government...
...Tyrrell, the reason the book is full of pictures, and the reason it succeeds so marvelously, is because it is a parody of school textbooks...
...One wonders if Tyrrell has much familiarity with The Daily Show, either...
...The True Believer says there is no need to test the concept, as Darwinian evolution has failed to explain everything definitively to satisfaction...
...no references cited to peer reviewed journal articles...
...Since 1981, Chile has utilized a pension program that gives workers a choice among competing plans and more responsibility for monitoring their investments...
...Science is the rational inquiry into our Universe...
...The authors rip both 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2005 C O R R E S P O N D E N C E igent Design...
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...Stewart does not claim to be Jennings, Rather, or even, to a far lesser extent, Hannity...
...George Neumayr's recent article on Senator Chuck Hagel was one of the worst examples of journalism that I have ever read ("Chuck McHagel," TAS, February 2005...
...Chile's futuristic pro-gram was partially inspired by the University of Chicago's economic vision regarding free-market enterprise...
...RANDY YELVERTON St...
...Can you devise an experiment that would falsify the concept...
...Earners can take the plan from job to job and the system doesn't punish self-employed business folks...
...Which of course perfectly suits our teenage/arrested development former president...
...The Daily Show offers a wry oasis...
...Not one...
...I read "Touring the Al Gore Presidential Library and Museum," by Leonard Albin (TAS, March 2005...
...She also contends that the British and American enlightenments were heavily influenced by, and in fact permeated with...
...Christian (Protestant) values...
...DALE R. HARBER Yoder, Indiana The Clinton "Taj" displayed on the cover of your April '05 issue accurately represents the Clintons' administration: a huge phallic symbol poised over the trashy bank of a muddy creek...
...They also would be offended at being divorced from the Enlightenment, as Bethell implies...
...Your dislike of John Stewart is not reason enough...
...I therefore am led to the conclusion that Mr...
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