BORKING BLAME
JR, H. THOMAS WELLS
Correspondence BORKING BLAME CHARLOTTE ALLEN’S September 29 article, “Justice For All,” mischaracterizes the role of the American Bar Association in the U.S. Senate’s failure to confi rm the...
...It is educators’ reluctance to accept the underlying intellectual ability of the students they are educating...
...WALT HARVEY Honolulu, Hawaii UNDERACHIEVERS LIAM JULIAN’S REVIEW of Real Education (“Murray’s Truths,” September 22) fails to appreciate the fundamental basis for Charles Murray’s criticism of public schools in this country...
...One of my good friends says that you really learn about someone when you fi sh with him, and if you could not spend a day fi shing with him in one boat you should never hire him...
...The failure to confi rm Judge Bork occurred in the Senate, not in the ABA—another important fact not to be dismissed or misrepresented...
...Senate’s failure to confi rm the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork...
...Unlike in Washington, D.C., one does not need to remain vigilant for snakes when angling, as the altitude in Jackson Hole is too great to support that species...
...She is pleasant, cares about her appearance, wears skirts, loves her husband and kids, and values a strong marriage...
...It’s too bad more people don’t get the opportunity to fi sh with Cheney...
...In fact, the Standing Committee gave him its highest rating of “well qualifi ed” to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States...
...He is loyal, smart, experienced, and above all, professionally selfl ess...
...H. THOMAS WELLS JR...
...When I lived on the mainland, I would drive to Montana and Idaho every year to fi sh the Madison River and the South Fork of the Boise River...
...They would have a whole different perspective on the man...
...GONE FISHING THANK YOU FOR Matt Labash’s “The Passion of Dick Cheney” (September 22...
...This vote by a substantial majority of the committee was the offi cial vote communicated to the United States Senate...
...Correspondence BORKING BLAME CHARLOTTE ALLEN’S September 29 article, “Justice For All,” mischaracterizes the role of the American Bar Association in the U.S...
...MIKE JABLON Atlanta, Ga...
...Allen perpetuates an oft-repeated but erroneous myth that the split vote of the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary produced an unfavorable rating of Judge Bork...
...The natural variation in intellectual ability has an enormous effect on what even the best teachers and schools can do...
...As a former Jackson Hole dude ranch wrangler and now only a sporadic fl y-fi sherman living in Atlanta, I found the article compelling as it revealed the personality of an otherwise private fi gure...
...I would hire Dick Cheney in a heartbeat...
...CHARLOTTE ALLEN RESPONDS: I did not say that the American Bar Association failed to rate Robert Bork as “well qualifi ed,” but merely called attention to the split vote on that issue, in which four members of the evaluation committee deemed the distinguished federal appellate judge and former Yale law professor merely “qualifi ed” and a fi fth member voted the equivalent of “present...
...Though maybe the aside about the bear alluded to different dangers in uncharted areas...
...PALIN’S FEMININE SIDE NOEMIE EMERY’S “The Palin Effect” (September 29) is spot on...
...BEVERLY LYALL Fountain Valley, Calif...
...It seems like these traits apply to his fi shing style as well...
...MARK MENDENHALL North Platte, Neb...
...WALT GARDNER Los Angeles, Calif...
...With Cheney straining the water in the front of the boat, Labash was lucky to catch two fi sh...
...Even if the performance of the 50 percent of students who will always be below average can somehow be improved, the shift will be neither signifi cant nor permanent...
...He is just the sort of guy I would want as a vice president if I were the president...
...MATT LABASH confi rms why I have always really liked Cheney...
...CONNIE PATTERSON Saratoga, Wyo...
...As an avid fl y-fi sherman and a strong supporter of Vice President Cheney, I’ve dreamed of fi shing with him...
...Legal journalists observed at the time that the ABA’s highly unusual non-unanimous vote helped sink Bork’s confi rmation by the Senate...
...I believe the left also dislikes Governor Palin because she is a strong, prominent woman who has not sold out her feminine side...
...This is not true...
...I agree with Cheney’s friend Jack Dennis...
...I admire Vice President Dick Cheney and what I consider to be his deliberate and adept approach to politics and governance...
...BECAUSE I HAVE ALWAYS admired Dick Cheney, I found Matt Labash’s article to be a fascinating look at the man who is vilifi ed by many people...
...I AM VERY JEALOUS of Matt Labash...
...President, American Bar Association Birmingham, Ala...
...But as John Adams reminds us, “facts are stubborn things...
Vol. 14 • October 2008 • No. 5
