Correspondence
Correspondence Keep Our Troops Out of Bosnia Iwas deeply disturbed by your editorial, "Bosnia: Support the President" (Dec. 4). This is hardly the kind of editorial one would expect from a...
...The GOP is right to question the president's actions...
...as the only candidate for the Republican nomination who has not promised to do his best to outlaw abortion...
...Nevertheless, Labash is to be commended for enduring so much Brunch with the Living Dead and staying awake long enough to write about it in such witty fashion...
...The timetable is suspicious (the one-year deadline occurs right around election night...
...The Serbs already hate the U.S...
...He had simply expressed concern that the social and cultural issues so important to millions of Americans were being ignored by Republicans...
...J. Teryle Pearson Columbia, TN Dobson, Not for President Iam writing to object to the Scrap-book item "Dobson for President...
...Rich Bond Alexandria, VA Wisdom and Niagara...
...Tucker gives the impression that the suppression of evidence due to the exclusionary rule is an ever-growing monster that threatens to devour the criminal justice system...
...Currently, after much waffling, Alexander seems to have settled for devolution, giving abortion back to the states...
...And it may have slipped Tucker's notice, but in the Simpson case, the evidence from the warrantless search of Simpson's estate was not excluded, despite the obvious dishonesty of the detectives who conducted the search...
...Gerard F. Einhaus Philadelphia, PA Keep the Exclusionary Rule In the course of telling us "Why We Should Decriminalize Crime" (Nov...
...Belle should spend less time making notes about pitchers and more time with people carrying other notebooks, microphones, and cameras...
...James Dobson neither "made a stink" after a meeting with Senator Phil Gramm nor "divided [Gramm's] base" of political support...
...Bacevich's article "Commentary Gets Religion" (Dec...
...Lawrence River over Niagara...
...There are no defined lines between the combatants...
...Caldwell conveniently ignored Belle's tirade at NBC's Hannah Storm during the World Series...
...What about Lamar Alexander...
...Alexander's position on abortion seems to depend on whom you ask...
...Matt Labash's send-up of Washington media panels ("Wooden Panels in Washington," Nov...
...4), I think Dole campaign manager Scott Reed is doing an outstanding job and deserves a continued vote of confidence from all Dole supporters...
...because of the intense bombing...
...He needs to look further than November 1996...
...If he substantively answers the questions above, then we owe him our support...
...In Nashville later, I met a Baptist deacon who was breathless with excitement over a pro-life candidate, also Alexander...
...He also failed to mention Belle's alleged attempt to run down kids who threw eggs at his house on Halloween...
...Even this rate exaggerates the impact of the rule, since the suppression rate is far lower in murder and robbery cases...
...Bill Clinton should not expect support from the Congress or the American people in some fruitless attempt to end a brutal civil war...
...This conflict between Muslims, Croats, and Serbs has gone on for centuries and will continue to go on long after we have left...
...Without Albert Belle, the Cleveland Indians would have clinched the American League Central Division title by mid-August, instead of the Fourth of July weekend...
...The people who voted for the AL MVP did the game a great service...
...27) is marred by a glaring geographical error in his parting shot at Carl Rowan: "Who better to lead them than Carl Rowan, from whom pearls of conventional wisdom drop like the waters of the St...
...And I have no interest whatsoever in political office...
...And, finally, what is the exit strategy...
...Strange for a conservative like Caldwell to assume that character doesn't count...
...They spared it the embarrassment of honoring a player who is now Exhibit C- next to Bud Selig and Don Fehr-of baseball's greatest headaches...
...He is now a beloved figure in the city that has not taken kindly to African-American sports stars...
...I wouldn't want it if I had it, and my wife would leave me if I did it...
...Thus, the Republican opposition amounts to mere political pandering...
...E. Scott Johnson Alpharetta, GA I'm Not Irving Kristol Whatever other merits may be claimed for A.J...
...It is regrettable that The Weekly Standard' s anti-Dole coverage includes attempts at sowing dissension among our ranks...
...I don't dispute that, in some quarters at least, a serious religious revival is underway in this country, but my own contribution to the symposium was about something else...
...Nov...
...Certainly there are those on the right who will oppose the president simply to gain political ground...
...What are the rules of engagement...
...For the great Niagara Falls are on the Niagara River, between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario-roughly 200 miles west of the St...
...What is the mission, beyond peacekeeping...
...The terrain is mountainous with narrow roads and blown-up bridges, perfect for ambushes by combatants who are familiar with the territory...
...Evidence is suppressed in only a handful of all criminal cases-less than 2 percent...
...Virtually all of these overused claims are long overdue to be put down, none more so than the endless carping about the exclusionary rule...
...Nowhere in my contribution to "The National Prospect" symposium in the November issue of Commentary did I write that "a serious religious revival is underway in this country...
...Conservatives need to grow up and learn to live with the exclusionary rule, the Miranda rule, and other procedural guarantees given to criminal defendants...
...Last spring, I watched a local Los Angeles television station profile Alexander, a pro-choice Republican candidate...
...Tucker also misleads his readers by failing to inform them that the Supreme Court has significantly narrowed the protections of the exclusionary rule in the past 10-15 years, in cases like U.S...
...The introduction of American troops into the civil and ethnic war in Bosnia-Herzegovina is doomed to lead to one of the most dangerous quagmires since Vietnam...
...When and how will it be completed...
...Nothing could be farther from the truth...
...While this may qualify him as one of Frum's anti-abortion Republicans, it is a far cry from a "promise to outlaw abortion...
...Baseball Didn't Blow It No, Christopher Caldwell, baseball didn't blow it again ("Baseball Blows It Again," Dec...
...There are others, however, who look at the situation more rationally (see Matthew Rees's article, "The Hill, Balkanized," Dec...
...Paul Hetrick Colorado Springs, CO In Defense of Dole Contrary to the Scrapbook item "Bob Dole's Powell Problem" (Dec...
...Lawrence headwaters...
...The GOP is concerned, for the right reasons, and the president needs to answer several questions before we gallop into the valley of death...
...There are 6 million land mines cluttering the landscape...
...Frederick W. Guardabassi Fort Lauderdale, FL Your editorial "Bosnia: Support the President" alleges that, notwithstanding the wisdom of the troop commitment, we are entangled in the quagmire and have too much at stake to back down now...
...As recently as a September interview with John Hockenberry of ABC News, Dobson again expressed his lack of interest in public office in no uncertain terms: "Let me say something to you that will make sure I never do [consider running for president...
...I love what I'm doing here [at Focus on the Family...
...In this case you failed, and you will fail also in your quest to deny Dole the GOP presidential nomination...
...Gramm has demonstrated an increasing awareness of this blind spot since he was encouraged by Dobson and others to reconsider his approach last spring...
...To say that our crime problems result from the simple fairness extended by these guarantees flies in the face of both logic and evidence...
...The editors apologize for their error...
...Without Mo Vaughn, the Boston Red Sox would have been face down in the water by Independence Day...
...Further, the agreement comes at a time when the president desperately needs to increase his domestic standing in time for the election season...
...I wondered whether the former governor was competing with President Clinton for the "Slick Willie" disingen-uousness award rather than the presidency...
...It was as inaccurate as it was sophomoric...
...27), William Tucker trots out almost every tired warhorse in the stable of conservative arguments about criminal law...
...The most insupportable and silly point in your item was the assertion that Dobson is "considering a third-party run himself...
...More importantly for his wounded sport, Vaughn understands the importance of acting like a true "role model...
...Mark Wylie Los Angeles, CA...
...Frum states that the withdrawal of Arlen Specter from the presidential race "leaves Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr...
...I couldn't get elected...
...Both the British and Canadian United Nations commanders pointed out in a 60 Minutes segment that this puts U.S...
...There is no strategy here, except a reelection strategy...
...First, and contrary to one of your assertions, Dr...
...For three years, Clinton's policy has floundered...
...I'm not qualified...
...4), accuracy is not one of them...
...As for Belle, he lost the American League Most Valuable Player award because of too many corked bats-in his belfry...
...Many remain undetected for years, until someone's legs are blown off...
...troops in harm's way in an untenable situation...
...Since that point, he has worked to craft an agreement predicated on troop commitment...
...Tom Holt Portland, OR The Editors respond : The geographical mistake was not the fault of Matt Labash...
...This is hardly the kind of editorial one would expect from a conservative magazine...
...Hilton Kramer New York, NY Pro-Choice Alexander Iwas puzzled by David Frum's recent article "Why Pro-Choice Failed" (Dec...
...Vaughn's as skilled at salesmanship (of his game) and citizenship as in hammering baseballs...
...Bacevich seems to have me confused with Irving Kristol, which is flattering to me, but stupid of Bacevich...
...Rowan must not dispense any conventional wisdom whatsoever...
...Leon...
...A few months ago, the president mentioned, in an offhand remark, that he will commit 25,000 troops to help NATO and the UN extricate themselves from the mess...
Vol. 1 • December 1995 • No. 14
