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...2008...
...Over the hill and what have you...
...Not simply for the argument he makes about the demographic shift that has occurred in Europe vis-à-vis population growth, which is a piece of genius, but also when he says that age 55 is “the age when [people] are most useful to the economy...
...Tyrrell’s editorial broadside soon upon its propitious arrival by mail, while his magnanimous laughter Destroying the myths about who is protecting us . . . and who is endangering us...
...Investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman pulls back the curtain on the partisan operatives at the CIA and the State Department—and the Democratic politicians— who are secretly sabotaging our national security...
...crisis in america As a young teen, I was happily disabused of adolescent torpor through periodic recitation of “The Continuing Crisis...
...You say the things I want to say, but you do it so much better than I would...
...I pretty much devoured my newly arrived American Spectator magazine last night (40th An ni versary Issue, Dec...
...I love this country...
...Wow...
...I am make educated assessments in on many issues, and free to to study the various viewpoints lockstep with any entity, free free to choose not to march in position...
...Try putting your snout in the trough of liberal slop found in most publications today...
...I honor and pray for our military...
...Not being a liberal, I am agreed with every article or writer’s write while not always agreeing with them...
...again and of our extraordinary efforts to stop those plots...
...ROBERT K. LATTURE Rollinsford, New Hampshire being ben Thank you, Ben Stein, for insulting the editors at the New York Times (and Charles Darwin) (“Better Than We Deserve,” TAS, Dec...
...So I say, God Bless You, America—and God Bless Ben Stein for reminding us of what we have and what we should be, and just for being Ben Stein...
...c o R R e s P o n d e n c e cheap Whine We’re all entitled to our opinions but for the love of Pete let those opinions be accompanied by something other than childish rant and impulsive threats...
...I have subscribed to The American Spectator for many years and find it to be one of the most honest, consistent, and groundbreaking publications available today...
...Never grace an incivility with the pronoun of courtesy...
...JENNIE COx Cynthiana, Kentucky Life’s Journey Whenever my Spectator comes it is always one of the highlights of my month...
...The Tattler lives on...
...DAVE MILLS Rolla, Missouri...
...NANCY ANN HOLTz Beverly, Massachusetts brought uproarious comic irony to Tyrrell’s brilliantly sardonic satire...
...Angry about an article...
...Let not the slick façade of a monthly gloss-rag fool anyone: Just as in its mythic days of quarterly iconoclasm, TAS still refracts crystalline conservative brilliance behind a guise of bilious bombast and blatantly barbarian advertisements, yet maintains its pure vision of a dystopian society, and faithfully fulfills its vocation to preach profound pieties of Powerful Goodness to Poor Richard’s spiritual descendants...
...Now as in the ’70s, I await with pathological euphoria the trenchant tirades of Tyrrell...
...One day he told me jokingly to “Shut up...
...Thanks, The American Spectator, for all these years of top notch journalism and entertainment, even if I do occasionally disagree 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R f e b R U a R Y 2 0 0 8 with some of your writers...
...It blew me away...
...I wish you many more years of publication, not an easy task in a country that actually believes that Hillary Clinton is qualified to be President...
...2008...
...Johnson, Carlyle, Shaw, Chesterton, Mencken, and P.J...
...Scruton for the reaffirmation, unintended though it may be, and thanks again to all you folks at AmSpec for bringing a vibrant and entertaining intellectual journey into my home each month...
...Thank you for your prayers for the young men and women who willingly risk their lives for our safety—and for reminding us that they do...
...that is, “Tais toi...
...Thank you for your unfailing support of what is right in our country...
...He frowned and reproved me...
...2007-Jan...
...MIKE BLANCHARD Cicero, Illinois at sea I am coming rather late to Joseph A. Harriss’s delightful November piece, “To Tu or Not To Tu,” and I am reminded of a long ago embarrassing moment...
...Louis Post-Dispatch website in their Current Events Forum and have already received some really stupid liberal responses...
...I haven’t studied a candidate for office that I have agreed with 100 percent nor have I read a magazine wherein I have also free to respect what others forming my own opinions...
...An alarming but necessary book that reads like a thriller...
...So can you imagine my joy at learning I haven’t even hit my prime yet...
...whereupon I switched my French pronoun in our next exchange to “Tu...
...My thanks to Mr...
...And this month (TAS, November 2007), with Roger Scruton writing in “Where Are the Kids,” was especially delectable...
...You see, at age 51, I have been wondering ever since I turned the big FIVEOH if my presence here on this earth has become, shall we say, less than useful...
...An unprecedented inside look at how the FBI and CIA go about the tough task of defeating terrorism and preserving our freedom...
...No coincidence that as a college English major, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Dr...
...You’ll be running back to The American Spectator, in no time, having concluded that it is one of the few remaining beacons of truth...
...This morning, I have started a congratulatory thread on the St...
...I refer to the many boorish “Cancel my subscription” and “I’ll never pick up another copy of your magazine” declarations made by those who are angered by some article they have read...
...Headed for France, on shipboard I met a French youth with whom I formed a comfortable though not intimate friendship...
...He c o R R e s P o n d e n c e explained that, when insulting someone, be consistent...
...I have lived in places where the people were so much less fortunate than we are...
...O’Rourke were my muses, having blessedly been bequeathed a regular regimen of Tyrrell’s irreverently irrefragable truculence...
...My beloved stepfather, a Second World War pilot and classical pianist, who has read every issue of National Review for 52 years, and who rescued my single mom and me from destitution in the late ’60s, would habitually orate the entire text of Mr...
...William H.Webster, former director of Central Intelligence and former director of the FBI CrownForum.com f e b R U a R Y 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 9 STEVE SQUIER Carmel, California forty More Years Congratulations on 40 years...
...Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host Bestselling author Ronald Kessler presents the chilling story of terrorists’ relentless efforts to attack the U.S...
...But you used the familiar form with me,” I said...
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