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CORRESPONDENCE Early Returns It has been only a week since I mailed in my voter registration form, in which I changed my party affiliation to "independent" after having been a registered...
...The article doesn't address how the people who would ultimately be living in these houses would acquire them, from whom, and at what price...
...Tyrrell's developing awareness that there are conservatives who have long despaired of this President, I, for one, have actually found myself nostalgic for the Clinton presidency...
...Contrary to Mr...
...This helps explain the coalition that today makes up the Democratic Party...
...ROGER CLEGG President, Center for Equal Opportunity Sterling, Virginia MAY 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 7...
...Hillyer's article "The Battle of New Orleans" and believe that this approach may have a chance of working...
...Please return my deposit and cancel my subscription...
...The Democrats do more than enough of this...
...At least the Democrats retain the saving grace of not pretending to be something they obviously are not...
...If I may say, it cannot be assumed that real estate speculators are always operating with altruistic motives...
...To do so, we suggest, females formed protective relationships with male co-defenders...
...These appointees are currently conservatives-although the previous crew was about as bad...
...Tucker for pointing out, wrote an addendum to Karl Marx's Das Kapital in 1884...
...Dominant (e.g., larger) individuals (typically male) were therefore able to scrounge from subordinate (e.g., smaller) individuals (typically female) instead of relying on their own foraging efforts...
...The April issue in its entirety is greatly welcomed by me...
...This led to the deliberate use of fire to cook tough roots and tubers...
...JOSEPH A. HINES Gilbert, Arizona Please let President Bush know your opposition in ways I don't pay for...
...He likes big government when he is in control of it...
...It was this particular innovation-cookingthat led to pair-bonding...
...Novak, Codevilla, and Hillyer...
...The only sour note I detected was Mr...
...In it, Engels claimed that in the distant past human communities had indiscriminate sexwhere everyone mated with everyone else free of guilt, free of consequences...
...Not surprisingly, it is precisely that linkage that has tended to produce the strongest reactions against the thesis from the academic community...
...THOMAS V. ANDERSON St...
...DAN REAGAN Monument Beach, Massachusetts Your April issue is totally disgusting...
...It came from Frederick Engels who, I thankMr...
...Clearly, the administration's plan is a bureaucratic quagmire which, even if it worked, would take far too long to address the issue...
...However, the finances should be fair for all involved and that fairness must be expressed up front-in the bill...
...The odd man out in the Democratic Party is the African Americans, who ironically provide the votes that keep this ungodly coalition in existence...
...But let me go further...
...As summarized in the abstract (available online), the article notes that "the adoption of cooking required delay of the consumption of food while it was accumulated and/or brought to a processing area, and accumulations of food were valuable and stealable...
...I was especially delighted with the critiques offered by Messrs...
...CORRESPONDENCE Early Returns It has been only a week since I mailed in my voter registration form, in which I changed my party affiliation to "independent" after having been a registered Republican since 1968 (my first opportunity to vote legally...
...Petersburg, Florida I have two comments on the articles in the April 2006 issue...
...Tyrrell's comments on "earmarks...
...The April issue begins the process of telling the truth about this President...
...it's nice to know somewhere there exist critics of Bush's disastrous presidency other than Democrats...
...The article suggests that contrary to traditional interpretations, cooking evolved quite early, not as a means of processing meat, but for the preparation of roots and tubers...
...Full disclosure: I just retired after more than 30 years up to my armpits in the bureaucratic quagmire at the U.S...
...PETER SKURKISS Stow, Ohio William Tucker presents "a plausible scenario" for the transition from the variety of "polymorphous polygamy" found among chimpanzees to monogamy in humans...
...Engels claimed this "paradise" was lost when patriarchy came along, quickly followed by capitalism...
...w. TAYLOR Covina, California Some Like It Hot One of the things I took away from William Tucker's "The Alpha Couple and the Primal Horde" (TAS, March 2006) is the genesis of the left's marriage of anti-capitalism (socialism) to all things related to sexual "liberation"-promiscuity, feminism, homosexual rights, nofault divorce, abortion, and so on...
...Fact is, I intensely dislike Bush because he is a fraud and humbug...
...Obviously, the developers who would be immediately receiving public funds are taking some major risks-it is not yet obvious that they will have a huge, eager market for their redeveloped properties...
...When I first heard the words "compassionate conservatism" I knew Bush would govern as Nixon did-giving the domestic policy shop over to those who have no problem with big government so long as they are running it...
...Another "trash Bush" issue and you can cancel my subscription...
...Second, I completely agree with Mr...
...BRADFORD SMITH Associate Professor o/History Oglethorpe University Atlanta, Georgia Evil's Evolution A quibble with Alfred S. Regnery's Note from the Publisher ("A Failure to Communicate") in your March 2006 issue: While President Reagan did refer to totalitarian states as "evil" in his 1982 speech to the House of Commons, the phrase "evil empire" did not appear until his 1983 speech to the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals...
...Naturally, award of these grants was the highest priority for the grant staff, pushed hard by the political appointees in the agency...
...This issue went in the garbage can...
...Archaeological evidence shows a significant reduction of the chewing complex from Australopithecines to Homo Erectus, a change that precedes clear evidence for hunting...
...Department of Labor, so I know one when I smell one...
...Because female fitness is limited by access to resources (particularly energetic resources), this dynamic would have favored females able to minimize losses to theft...
...What I find particularly attractive about this explanation is that it creates a link between two of the most common definitions ofthe monogamous household-the hearth and the marital bed...
...Who benefits...
...There is, in fact, an evolutionary model first put forward by Richard Wrangham, a student of Jane Goodall, et al., in a 1999 article, "The Raw and the Stolen: Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins...
...I've now hosed myself off, thankfully...
...At least the government was much smaller under Clinton, due largely to the 1994 takeover of the House by Republicans with a down-sizing agenda, and Republicans at least understood their job was to oppose the growth of government and to reform a process whereby reducing the rate of increase was perceived as a form of budget cutting...
...My question about the Baker Plan is this: Cui bono...
...According to the hypothesis, early hominids discovered that tubers dug up after fires or volcanic eruptions were easier to chew...
...As a bureaucratic insider I was appalled at the lack of basic due diligence with regard to earmark grants...
...They should be compensated for those risks...
...Nobody wants to antagonize Congress...
...In it are: economic Marxists, the abortion industry, Hollywood and pornographers, radical feminists, homosexual activists, the Americahaters, and militant secularists...
...It is worth noting that Professor Wrangham's conclusions were based, in part, on the same observations regarding the amorous "safaris" among chimpanzees noted by Tucker...
...Tyrrell's apologetics entitled "A Bush Crack-Up...
...One ofmy colleagues who worked in the grant award process described it as being "as close to working in a criminal enterprise as I've ever come...
...The conclusion that comrade Engels drew from his amateurish stab at anthropology was that capitalism is bad and so is patriarchy and sexual restraint...
...First, I read with great interest Mr...
...HELEN PIEHLER Seattle, Washington 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2006 CORRESPONDENCE I thought I was reading the Nation magazine after trying to read your April mag...
...The author concludes that "cooking was responsible for the evolution of the unusual human social system in which pair bonds are embed ded within multi- fe male, multi-male communities and supported by strong mutual and frequently conflicting sexual interest...
Vol. 39 • May 2006 • No. 4
