Correspondence
Correspondence Botr Dole and the E Street Band As South Carolina's attorney general and Bob Dole's state chairman, I took offense at Andrew Ferguson's unremarkable remarks about the senator's...
...Through the democratic process, we can take back the woods and protect our wildlife from the 6 percent of Americans who still kill wildlife in the name of fun...
...They cut us off from the principles that have made opportunity more widely available here than anywhere else at any time...
...That's entertainment...
...The animal-rights nuts are very aware that the average non-hunting person, being told that these are all examples of "hunting," can be manipulated into advocating outright bans, which effectively eliminate an important wildlife management tool...
...The answer, I think, is that people have both the capacity for the lowest depravity and an incredible capacity for decency, courage, and nobility...
...This, of course, would make Gov...
...Despite the above, though, the parallels between CPAC and Trek fandom are amusing...
...When Lefty Met Righty . . . , Or, Sleepless in Hollywood," Mar...
...After 1066, when William the Conqueror's legitimated offspring established the King's Courts, the lawyers were considered "sergeants of the law...
...Charles Molony Condon Attorney General Charleston, SC Dirty Harry Hunters Kent Bain's column truthfully exposed sport hunters for what they are ("Hunting, Dirty Harry Style," Mar...
...There may be more sport in shooting a caged animal in a zoo...
...Congressional Republicans are following Reagan's lead when they advocate policies that Arthur Schlesinger, Jr...
...Michael Markarian The Fund for Animals Silver Spring, MD What is this, Mother Jones...
...They are complementary...
...However, if Ferguson had been honest in his description of the enthusiastic reception Dole received from huge crowds of cheering South Carolinians, he would have compared Dole's performance in the state to Bruce Springsteen, not Gladys Knight...
...Frederick L. Simmons Los Angeles, CA No Preferences Needed In his fine article "Affirmative Reaction" (Mar...
...Necessarily, they undermine the whole idea of equal opportunity...
...the eons-old male-female hunting game goes on here, too...
...David Beasley, and me as "the Pips behind Gladys Knight...
...Although "Esq...
...I also take exception to the implication that the primary non-convention activities of Trekkers are pretending to fly spaceships, endlessly watching Trek videos, and playing with Trek action figures...
...However, I must point out your error in etymology...
...Fair chase has no more in common with the cougar killing than it has with poaching...
...Reluctance to rely on Security Council resolutions to finance questionable peacekeeping missions may be a robust expression of American responsibility-imperial responsibility, if you will-in the dangerous post-Cold War world...
...Bain falls into the trap of consistently referring to the reprehensible cougar killers as "hunters" and to their drunken-bubba activity as "hunting...
...While both sexes share the classic nerd characteristics (highly intelligent, awkward in social skills, etc...
...The division they build in society stems from the injustice they work...
...The judges of the King's Court were originally all knights, that is to say, officers, while the advocates were squires, so "esquire" was a proper honorific for those who today would be called barristers and solicitors in the United Kingdom...
...He wrongly defines American isolationism as a diminished interest in operating through the United Nations and other international organizations...
...What precisely is an internationalist...
...Minority preferences claim to expand opportunity...
...Once a frightened animal flees to a tree to escape the baying hounds, the "hunter" follows the radio signal to the base of the tree and shoots the animal off a branch...
...Trophy hunters unleash packs of radio-collared dogs to track and chase bears, cougars, raccoons, foxes, bobcats, lynx, and other woodland creatures...
...Thus, a squire in the Middle Ages was "higher than a gentleman (a freeman) but lower than a knight," as Pollock and Maitland write in The History of English Common Law...
...If Speaker Newt Gingrich (whom I supported up to this point) and Sen...
...Hardly...
...The only consistent policy is to support both the removal of preferences and the implementation of policies to encourage self-reliance, prosperity, and self-government among the poorest sections of our society...
...Liberalism (represented well by Hollywood) has been appealing to the baser instincts of the population for the past 30 years, while at the same time ridiculing anything decent and good...
...San Bernardino, CA...
...But slamming him for "cashing in" on his luck and pluck seems, well, downright un-American...
...It is pretentious but permissible, like most of what lawyers make of themselves in this society...
...By definition, whatever they give to one, they take from another...
...It is a shrinking segment of the U.S...
...The empowerment agenda can, on the other hand, actually deliver on the hope of expanded opportunity...
...And yes, it is true that after the senator's overwhelming victory in South Carolina, we put him on a "Midnight Train to Georgia," where he continued to sweep southern primaries...
...James E. Gugino Portage, MI Down-Home Raconteur Believe me, I'm no fan of James Carville or the gang he and Ross Perot helped bring to Washington ("James Carville, Populist Plutocrat," Mar...
...Ditto for Rush Limbaugh, Bill Bennett, Dan Quayle, and anyone else from the conservative pantheon...
...Flack, Esq...
...Fortunately, voters in Colorado banned the use of dogs to hunt bears in 1992, and Oregon voters banned the practice for bears and cougars in 1994...
...Queen to Queen's Three, Chicago's Trek club, sponsors discussions on current science fiction and technology-oriented nonfiction books and participates in groups working to promote the space program...
...11) was charming...
...Campbell, Gov...
...18) gives solid advice to Bob Dole, but permit me to take exception to the word "internationalist" to describe what Reagan was and what the Republicans should be...
...population that still finds fun in entering the woods to boldly match wits and test their virility with, say, a mourning dove...
...They descended from the middle class of those who invaded England with William...
...At its best, the empowerment agenda is simply a step toward limited government, self-responsibility, and the industry to which they give rise...
...Marc D. Beauchamp Falls Church, VA American Responsibility Your editorial "It's Foreign Policy, Stupid" (Mar...
...People in Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Washington are pursuing similar campaigns for the 1996 elections...
...Beasley, and me the E Street Band...
...Ferguson apparently doesn't like to let the facts get in the way of a good story...
...Correspondence Botr Dole and the E Street Band As South Carolina's attorney general and Bob Dole's state chairman, I took offense at Andrew Ferguson's unremarkable remarks about the senator's recent visit to Charleston ("Campaigning with Bob Dole and the Pips," Mar...
...the last were men without land or title who nevertheless had escaped from serfdom...
...John Podhoretz's "Mau-Mauing the Flacks" (Mar...
...Bain's poor attempt at humor may not be in vain-no doubt a corner office and a big thank-you hug await him at the offices of PETA...
...I refer to Kent Bain's Casual...
...Thus, it is not inappropriate for lawyers in the common-law system of the United States to refer to themselves as "esquire...
...There were three classes of those invaders: knights, squires, and gentlemen...
...Don Sickles, Jr...
...Carville is down-home, funny, and a good storyteller (Will Rogers, another populist plutocrat, comes to mind...
...11), Matthew Rees describes congressional Republicans' considerable support for, and reluctance about, the effort to end racial and gender preferences...
...Dole, standing with him and echoing his themes of conservative leadership for America...
...But what do the PETA folks care about the deaths of mere humans...
...Cute...
...But not at all accurate...
...In doing so he unwittingly takes a page directly out of the playbook of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which seeks to smear all responsible hunters with the same bloody brush in its ongoing, incremental efforts to ultimately ban all hunting in the United States...
...Surely you meant that Reagan pursued a responsible foreign policy that served American interests and the larger interests of peace and freedom...
...after a lawyer's name is admittedly pretentious, it is an appropriate honorific, even for women lawyers...
...If the National Association of Mohair Farmers wants to pay him 15 grand a performance, so be it...
...Yes, it is true that we, along with many other GOP leaders, toured the state with Sen...
...Some regard that effort as in conflict with the empowerment agenda...
...18) contained a number of flaws...
...In fact, they cannot do so...
...Joann Scofield Nineveh, IN Mr...
...Ross Pavlac Evanston, IL Hollywood's Liberal Appeal Michael Anton asks, "Has Hollywood created a demand for depravity or merely responded to one that already exists in the hearts of people...
...Attacks, often fatal, by cougars on pets and people are now on the rise...
...He referred to former governor Carroll Campbell, Gov...
...Bob Dole are willing to dismiss supply-side, private-enterprise solutions, then maybe it's time for us supply-siders to look elsewhere...
...There are more women involved in Trek fandom than Labash implies...
...Ernest W. Lefever Chevy Chase, MD Nerds on the Offensive Matt Labash's article drawing an analogy between the CPAC convention and the Star Trek convention ("To Boldly Go Where No Conservative Has Gone Before," Mar...
...Witness the recent referendum in California, where the animal-rightists banned all hunting of cougars...
...The high-tech search-and-destroy mission described by Bain is still practiced in many states...
...Larry Arnn Claremont, CA Still in the Kemp Camp Inever thought I would see the day when Jack Kemp, the one unifying Republican, could be dismissed from the Republican party for promoting and supporting a pro-growth agenda ("Trying, As Ever, to Understand Jack Kemp," Scrapbook, Mar.18...
...calls isolationist...
Vol. 1 • April 1996 • No. 28
