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Everlasting Love The American Spectatorhas been and continues to be one of my main avenues of political education, as it has for almost 30 years. The humor of R. Emmett continues unabated,...
...I congratulate you on surviving the obvious Clinton assaults on freedom of expression some decade back...
...They laid bare their guilt for all to see by their vicious attacks on you...
...We need to preserve this great democratic republic through the ideals of responsible liberty, civic virtues, economic prosperity, limited government, and a robust national security...
...poor girl, her loss...
...I voted for Reagan in 1980 over the strenuous objections of almost everyone I knew, including my own family...
...It was either 1992 or ’94...
...There have been two or three hiccups when to my horror I forgot to renew my subscription, but apart from that it’s been a joyous experience...
...And as long as there’s a TAS, the truth will have a channel from which it can go forth...
...that made me guffaw out loud and got me hooked on your journal for life...
...Greg Gutfeld’s columns are quite entertaining, and one can count on Ben Stein to be grateful for American exceptionalism, and the great sacrifices of our military personnel...
...Unfortunately, The American Enterprise, which I had often read alongside TAS, appeared to nosedive after it became The American.From time to time, I pick up and peruse the National Review and the Weekly Standard.However, Alfred Regnery’s TASsets the excellent standard for a magazine that articulates conservative principles...
...Apparently, the jury were variously embarrassed, bewildered, and surprised as they were forced to listen to the soft “whooshing” sounds emanating from beneath his honor’s robes...
...How do you defame a liberal...
...But it was P.J...
...His column was always so enlivening, then the next thing I see is a photo of the twit tied to a tree, bleating to the liberals about how sorry he was for defaming them...
...I thought you’d put the old duck out to pasture, but I see she’s back again...
...Nevertheless, you prevailed, as one would expect, rendering your readers a wonderful service by shining the light of Truth on their malfeasance...
...What ever did happen to David Brock...
...Hopefully, she can control herself in a more ladylike manner...
...But as long as such Robespierres of oversight as Waxman, Reid, and Leahy reside by the legislative political guillotine, I won’t be holding my breath...
...Just save the best for last, and of course that’s Mr...
...I have also heard Jed competently fill in for Hugh Hewitt and Laura Ingraham on their talk radio shows...
...As a targeted member of the opposition to moral degradation, political opportunism, and hypocrisy, you paid a price...
...Keep up the outstanding creative work of TAS for at least another 40 years...
...My word, you really touched their tender spots, holding them up for the crooks they were and are...
...CHRISTIAN P. MILORD Fullerton, California I miss P.J...
...I am certainly relieved that there are alternatives such as Fox and TASto counter the drivel churned out by academia, Hollywood, assorted liberals, and C O R R E S P O N D E N C E 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 continued on page 10 1 0 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2007/JANUARY 2008 the mainstream media...
...The only person who would actively object to my smoking would be Ben Stein, or should I say Benjamin J. Stein, although surely after all these years he wouldn’t object to Ben...
...The humor of R. Emmett continues unabated, the political writing unequaled, the special interest articles undaunted, and of course the writing of Ben Stein, unparalleled...
...I’ll be pushing up daisies (or thistles) long before that, but this gives me the opportunity of thanking you so much for all the pleasure your magazine has afforded me...
...I’m sure he can’t help it, though, and it certainly doesn’t detract from the pleasures of his column...
...O’Rourke and his New Enemies list...
...it so impressed a liberal iconoclast friend that she confessed that it never occurred to her that conservatives had a sense of humor or even normal levels of intelligence...
...The content and design of TAS consistently surpasses other journals and reviews that discuss American culture, economics, foreign affairs, and politics...
...I started reading AmSpec when it was tall and still printed on something like newsprint...
...By 1984 I was a registered Republican with a new set of friends and an estranged family...
...She declined a gift subscription, however, because she didn’t want anyone to suspect her of conservative sympathies...
...If we can’t laugh at the stupidities and vagaries of our fellow humans, we are in trouble...
...Haven’t stopped chortling since, particularly at R. Emmett’s amusing take on our current societal madness in the November issue’s “Continuing Crises...
...MIKE BOND Garrett, Kentucky I first heard about The American Spectator in Brock Yates’s column in Car and Driver sometime in the dismal ’70s...
...Keep up the great work...
...Hopefully we will not see a repeat of that political assault on freedom of the press if another Clinton assumes the presidency...
...I have been reading TAS for about three years now, and the high quality remains the same...
...The only piece that wasn’t so clever was Florrie King’s appalling critique of Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation...
...In most cases, I’ve enjoyed the columns, essays, features, and book reviews because they are thought provoking, but not too deep...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...I have since stuck with theSpectator through all its trials and tribulations, and through it all, The American Spectator hasn’tlostanyof its zestand continues to entertain and educate its readers with monthly enlightenment...
...TOM WILLIAMS Las Cruces, New Mexico What’s not to like about The American Spectator...
...I can imagine myself seated in a corner, surrounded by great men of letters and lighting my pipe while I listen to the elevated conversations and exchange of ideas and opinions...
...Mr...
...Everlasting Love The American Spectatorhas been and continues to be one of my main avenues of political education, as it has for almost 30 years...
...I became a TAS subscriber in 1989...
...More than a magazine, I feel as though I’ve been graciously admitted to an exclusive club...
...And it is supposed to be a letter, not an essay...
...I find him most entertaining, but I do wish he wasn’t so lachrymose...
...I’m sorry that Mark Steyn is no longer a contributor...
...BOYD SMITH Mabank, Texas Irecently re-subscribed after drifting away from your excellent magazine...
...America was in decline and I knew something had to change...
...In fact, I miss Jed Babbin’s pieces on defense policies and foreign challenges...
...So here’s to another 40 years of success...
...Humorous writing begins with a description of the magazine’s Legal Counsel, and runs seamlessly through “The Continuing Crisis,” “Public Nuisances,” and “Current Wisdom...
...I found him to be most erudite and amusing...
...Did he come unhinged, or was it just a case of “follow the money...
...Where does one stop in a letter such as this...
...I have all his books, but his “Continuing Crisis” must reign supreme of all the columns...
...The heroism of our fine young men and woman who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan is breathtaking...
...Apparently, the old dear had some ongoing squabble with him over something or other, and she took it out on him by berating his book...
...Moreover, I immensely enjoy the articles penned by Jonathan Aitken, Jed Babbin, Tom Bethell, John Fund, Quin Hillyer, Grover Norquist, Roger Scruton, and John Train regarding domestic and foreign policy issues...
...I do miss the old pulppaged oversized version which gave the magazine a certain flair and distinction, which I think fit the demeanor of R. Emmett himself...
...Babbin earlier this year became editor of Human Events—Ed.] Sometimes I wonder if a magazine or newspaper published during the times of our Founding Fathers might have had similar ideas as those contained in TAS...
...MARK NAHMIAS Queen Creek, Arizona C O R R E S P O N D E N C E...
...MATT STUART Altoona, Iowa I can’t remember exactly when I was first delighted by receipt of my copy of The American Spectator...
...I know he has written a book about the UN and another on the emerging threats of the PRC, so I suppose he is busy...
...The shaking of the Clinton cage was superb...
...Besides this, I will never forget “The Longest Morning,” which appears in your very last issue (November 2007...
...The piece that sticks in my mind, if only because I fell out of my chair laughing, was the one about the judge who was gaily (and I use that word in its broadest sense) abusing himself with some form of masturbatory pump while listening to the cases brought before him...
...What I remember most is Mark Steyn’s “Culture Vultures” column...
...Thank you, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., for editing such a professional magazine which incorporates values that are close to my heart...
...As long as there are Americans of this caliber, America will have a future and will remain a great nation...
...I think the former...
...He reminds me of Hilaire Belloc’s Lord Lundy, “…who, from his earliest years, was far too freely moved to tears...
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