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corresPoNdeNce Positive Pause Bob Tyrrell’s lecture on the overarching virtues of candidate McCain was the single best-written argument I’ve read with respect to voting for this guy...
...Well, you know the drill...
...If nothing else, Bob Tyrrell has given me cause to pause...
...Louis, Missouri Like Jed Babbin, I cannot wait for the Rumsfeld memoirs...
...First was a comment made by a crusty old geologist who complimented me, in the late 1960s, on speaking lucidly...
...This election will count for something...
...TAS, June 2008), particularly his concession at the end of the piece that 2006 Republican gubernatorial nominee J. Kenneth Blackwell, despite striking all the right conservative notes, was swamped by his opponent, Democrat Ted Strickland...
...Throw out the Democratic tidal wave in 2006...
...I would direct Antle, and your readers, to political scientist John Fenton’s 1960s book Midwest Politics, which branded Ohio’s politics as “issueless...
...Why did the Army insist on a World War IIstyle invasion of Iraq when the insurgency model in Afghanistan worked so well, and our conventional military was just a shell of its Cold War strength...
...The worst thing that intellectuals can do—the cardinal sin— is to try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies...
...The Afghan campaign was brilliant up to the Tora Bora operation...
...corresPoNdeNce Positive Pause Bob Tyrrell’s lecture on the overarching virtues of candidate McCain was the single best-written argument I’ve read with respect to voting for this guy (“Captain McCain,” TAS, July/August 2008...
...Keith who borrowed that line...
...Those Army field commanders and State Departmentofficialswhowereresponsible for order in Iraq either were transferred or retired with their reputations largely intact...
...Despite sending two bedrock conservatives, John W. Bricker and Robert Taft, to the Senate in the middle of the last century, the leaders of the Ohio GOP since the 1960s have largely been moderate...
...As with all things, less government regulation and more privatization are the solutions...
...He stated, “Clarity is an intellectual value in itself...
...I am biased, I suppose...
...Politicians who, as legendary Ohio GOP chairman Ray Bliss put it, keep issues out of campaigns...
...He would, in concert with a Reid Senate and Pelosi House, proceed to break this country...
...These are just a few brief questionsIwouldlovetohaveanswered...
...James A. Rhodes loved big bond issues...
...Here are two examples: 1. We must use balanced, management options...
...Senator Obama is as well, but in the style of a preening, supercilious feline...
...EATON Chetek, Wisconsin something borrowed In the article, “What Will Rumsfeld Write...
...My biggest questions lay with the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks up to his resignation in 2006...
...kYLE kONDIk Lakewood, Ohio The art of clarity Two things came to mind when I read “The Legacy of 1968” (Roger Scruton, TAS, September 2008...
...Better a RINO in Ohio, because, here, “true conservative” is a euphemism for “loser...
...Tyrrell wonders how “let the researcher beware” would be translated into Latin...
...JOHN HORNSBY Houston, Texas 8 THe amerIcaN sPecTaTor November 2008 corresPoNdeNce under Investigation In his highly enjoyable “Bill and Me at Georgetown” in the September 2008 issue, the eminent Mr...
...He also has honor...
...On the other hand, Tyrrell’s apologia does make a case for double-clutching on an absolute refusal to vote for McCain...
...Rumsfeld’s memoirs should clear the air a bit...
...2. It had been synchronized, so transitional hardware was not needed...
...JEROME kOCH Indiana Klein’s Prescription This is an absolutely fantastic article on health care and the free market (“Learning to Care About Health Care,” by Philip Klein, TAS, July/August 2008...
...THATCHER HALLOCk St...
...by Jed Babbin, TAS, September 2008) the following is written: “The second borrows a line from the great Toby Keith, converting ‘I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then’ from lyric to prose...
...LOUIS W. FALk Clive, Iowa To the Naked buckeye I appreciated W. James Antle III’s piece on the Ohio Republican Party (“What’s the Matter with Ohio...
...The complementary noun for investigation, or “looking into,” is investigati-o-onis and the verb for “to look into or search after” is investigare...
...COL...
...Thus far there haven’t been any books written “from the top” which discuss the many operational problems both campaigns entailed...
...Thank you for the ammunition to battle the growing liberal war cries...
...the Iraqi invasion was anything but brilliant...
...As an employer, I benefit from providing health care (pre-tax) for my employees, but not much...
...Just study Galveston County’s private retirement plan, in lieu of Social Security...
...He went on to say that the intellectual owes to his fellows his ideas presented as clearly and modestly as he can...
...The line originally comes from the song “Against the Wind,” written by Mr...
...Even discounting Rumsfeld’s years serving Ford or his influence with President Reagan, he is the one man who could probably fairly describe what occurred with our military during the post-Clinton/Bush era...
...The great 20th-century philosopher Karl Popper was a big proponent of clarity and a big opponent of obscurity...
...As you stated, conservatives need to get their heads out of the sand...
...Was Rumsfeld forced to keep quiet about the insurgencies both Syria and Iran supported against our efforts in Iraq...
...He retired with his reputationintatters,takingmostof the blame for the series of bloody insurgenciesthatplaguedIraqfrom 2004 to 2006...
...Rumsfeld is that rarity in our postmodern, Beltway-driven politics: a brilliant civil servant...
...Seger wrote the song in 1980...
...Keith aside, cheers on a great article...
...A brief instruction attached to the list stated all you had to do to sound learned and intelligent was to make up sentences using words from the different columns in the list (see table below...
...I believe him to be bitter and wrong far too often on conservative issues, e.g., immigration, First Amendment...
...Blackwell ran an issues campaign: he talked about a constitutional amendment that would have limited state spending growth— that is, before the state’s sane moderate wing persuaded him to throw it out because it was disastrously worded—and leasing the state turnpike...
...He took his lumps and graciouslyretiredwhenitwasrequired of him to do so...
...McCain is a serious man...
...I would strongly prefer for them to benefit on a personal level, as well as to personally administer the plan...
...I’ve met the senator— and disliked him almost immediately...
...Second is a list of words my brother acquired on the University of Arizona campus, around 1966...
...Mr...
...Keep up the good work...
...He actually brings passion and logic to his convictions...
...Tyrrell is one of those conservative “warriors” I keep trying to locate...
...He penned his song, “Wish I Didn’t Know,” to which the article refers, in 1994...
...Strickland, meanwhile, ran on a platform that supported grandma, apple pie, and the American Way...
...J.C...
...He strikes me as self-important, self-regarding, and self-inflating...
...Fourterm Gov...
...Boston University CLA, X’50 Shreveport, Louisiana Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 0. integrated 0. management 0. options 1. total 1. organizational 1. flexibility 2. systematized 2. monitored 2. capability 3. parallel 3. reciprocal 3. mobility 4. functional 4. digital 4. programming 5. responsive 5. logistical 5. concept 6. optional 6. transitional 6. time-phase 7. synchronized 7. incremental 7. projection 8. compatible 8. third-generation 8. hardware 9. balanced 9. policy 9. contingency November 2008 THe amerIcaN sPecTaTor 9...
...Blackwell never would have won modern Ohio, which, as Fenton noted, likes bland politicians who don’t rock the boat...
...How much backbiting occurred between the Department of Defense, State Department, and the CIA...
...Bob Seger...
...It is, very simply, Caveat investigator...
...He went on to tell me he was unable to carry on a meaningful conversation with his own son, who was about 20 years old at the time...
...Actually, it was Mr...
...MOST REV...
...SCOTT MANSFIELD San Gabriel, California I knew there was a particular reason why I enjoy Roger Scruton’s writings so much...
...George Voinovich and Mike DeWine, Ohio’s two recent GOP senators, were decried as “RINOs”—Republicans In Name Only—by their conservative detractors in Ohio...
...And at least a minor treasure...
...sometimes after listening further to the fellow I wonder why I didn’t dislike him sooner...
...There was also the political aspect...
...ROBERT J. POWERS, USAF (RET...
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