Correspondence
Correspondence Perot: Strange and Scary I read with interest Tucker Carlson’s article “Ross Perot and His Very Strange Party” (Aug. 12). Ross Perot is not a fit candidate for the presidency....
...People make the mistake of thinking that homosexuality must be genetic since so many homosexuals claim they have no choice...
...And since these governments are unstable and their citizens want political and economic change, we should help them...
...5): Why wouldn’t we have a high illegitimacy rate when we encourage illegitimacy (with permissive liberal sex education...
...5), I came to the conclusion that Zalmay Khalilzad needs to seriously consider returning to reality...
...There’s a lot they didn’t know about...
...This country was founded on a few basic principles and concepts, not the least of which were freedom (self-determination) and justice...
...Then, for no known reason, at the age of thirty he wrote to his lover Duncan Grant from abroad that, for the first time, he had “had a woman...
...I have been voting since 1940, and not once have I voted for a Democrat for president...
...Newt Gingrich supports animal-protection groups...
...If Ross Perot were so “anti-democratic,” would he have told Richard Lamm that he could use the Reform party mailing company to send out letters...
...Joan Pruitt Edinburgh, IN Stepping In It In “Gourmet Dung for a Happy America” (Aug...
...A dozen men planting a bomb and hiding in a country friendly to their cause is not justification enough to launch a “campaign by missiles and attack aircraft” that will destroy a country...
...Some scientists seem to be bending over backwards to try to show that homosexuality is genetic, because research has indicated that people will accept it more readily if it can be shown to be a God-made, naturally occurring phenomenon...
...But this was hardly a good idea, as many fair-minded Democrats and Republicans signed Reform party petitions in order to have another option on the ballot—that doesn’t make them Reformers...
...They then get married and settle down to a stable family life...
...Manatee naturally live in Atlantic waters...
...All this is to say that the claim of a gay gene is premature...
...Those countries that sponsor terrorists are economically and militarily weak...
...Now the media favor their work and, as a result, their studies are the only ones discussed...
...I have yet to see any made from sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, and feta cheese, or arugula-cappuccino with orzo sprinkles...
...James Madison Barr Hot Springs Village, AK Bad News...
...But I have sought, all my life, to curtail the suffering of animals...
...And parents of boys who suffer from Gender Identity Disorder or severe effeminacy should not be advised to accept this condition as genetically determined and immutable without first seeking a second opinion...
...Brooks places the Masai tribe in Ethiopia, even though it actually lives in Kenya and Tanzania...
...Nor, for that matter, have I voted for any liberal GOP candidate...
...He told a Las Vegas audience there would be a “constitutional revolution” if he were elected...
...Our dedication to these principles will not allow us to get air time on Fulani...
...New York, NY Having been involved in my own research on the cause of homosexuality, I read Jeffrey Marsh’s review with interest...
...There have been examples of nonmedical conversions of sexual orientation...
...Barbara Gradisher Cuyahoga Falls, OH Two Eyes for a Tooth...
...Furthermore, I’d like to know how he proposes to secure our “information infrastructure—computers and phones and the like...
...5), Stephen Moore writes, “Doris Day’s League for the Protection of Animals and other liberal animal rights groups . . . ” In what way is the Doris Day League liberal...
...Is he also a liberal...
...After reading “Six Steps Against Terror” (Aug...
...The most famous case of spontaneous sexual conversion (without the help of religion) is that of John Maynard Keynes...
...In any case, he is a dangerous force in American politics...
...Ray F. Dively Baden, PA Tucker Carlson’s article was absolutely wonderful...
...Does Moore consider all animalprotection groups liberal...
...the names would have come from petitions...
...Buller Bethesda, MD Tucker Carlson has issued another anti-Perot tirade—at least his spin is consistent...
...Robert Sindeli Miami, FL...
...The gene discovered and named by Hamer is now listed in the geneticists’ directory as GAY-1, locus Xq28...
...From the time he was a student at Eton he was an unregenerate “sodomite”—a word he used to describe himself and his homosexual friends...
...Michael Anton Claremont, CA If one undertakes to write a patronizing article like David Brooks’s, the facts should be correct...
...As a Libertarian and an avid reader of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, I want to know, when will you get to us...
...12), David Brooks seems to have run into what Tom Wolfe calls Muggeridge’s Law: “There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not be promptly enacted before your very eyes...
...Keep in mind our Constitution predates the industrial revolution...
...What would make Khalilzad think this is a viable approach...
...and glorify it (by taking away stigmas attached to it...
...Almost half of Burr’s book—which is a clever and interesting attempt to institutionalize the immutability of homosexuality and the existence of a gay gene—is devoted to the story of Dean Hamer’s “discovery” of the gay gene...
...5) contributes to the creation and perpetuation of two myths: the existence of a “gay gene” and the belief that “homosexual orientation is fixed by nature...
...Yale Kramer, M.D...
...Gay men who are conflicted about their homosexuality should not have to bear the burden of this myth...
...The facts suggest that for certain individuals homosexuality is not immutable...
...Neither is the case...
...For one thing, Perot has contempt for the Constitution...
...Jerr L. Leonard Sumner, MI No Gay Gene Unfortunately, Jeffrey Marsh’s review of A Separate Creation by Chandler Burr (“Debating the Gay Gene,” Aug...
...To change is hard psychological work, and no one will volunteer to do such hard work unless circumstances compel him, and he has the psychological strength to do so...
...In Tampa, he said, “You’ve got to change the system...
...A magazine willing to print information about a political party that believes in reducing the powers of the federal government could win a lifetime subscription from me...
...But let us hope that Brooks’s prophecy about dung will turn out to be an exception to the rule...
...For some reason, I find in my favorite publications—THE WEEKLY STANDARD, National Review, the American Spectator—a bias against animalrights groups...
...Through nationalization, which is a polite way of saying let the federal government run them...
...A case in point: There already is such a thing as a gourmet slurpee, although most vendors call them “smoothies...
...Lamm then wanted voter lists to set up phone banks...
...When the Lamm camp said it didn’t have the money for such letters, Perot responded that he wouldn’t send any either, in fairness...
...I’d like to know how...
...They have taken southern California by storm and are slowly but surely making their way into the rest of the country...
...There is only one point with which I agree: We do need a “different approach in how we perceive the terrorist threat and what we do about it...
...Others, though, have...
...At the time, Lamm said, “Perot has been more than fair...
...When he was forty he married Lydia Lopokova, one of Diaghilev’s prima ballerinas, and remained happily married until he died at the age of sixtytwo...
...Mostly they are made from exotic fruits like mangos or kiwi, and can cost upwards of $5.15 a pop...
...Didn’t we get enough of this in Central America...
...subsidize it (with welfare programs...
...The idea of taking two eyes for a tooth is not justice...
...As with all forms of personality configuration, the degree of the motivation to change determines whether the individual can change the patterns of his emotional life...
...Subsequently he appeared to lose interest in homosexual relationships and turn instead to the companionship of women...
...The Libertarians have managed to avoid mainstream media attention, even though we are the original cranks who advocated getting the government out of Social Security, getting our servicemen out of NATO, and ending the income tax...
...It can be explained environmentally...
...Or maybe through invasion ? la the Soviet Union in Afghanistan...
...According to him, we are the only military superpower left...
...But homosexuality does not have to be explained genetically...
...Joann Scofield Nineveh, IN Animals: Not Just for Libs In “Welfare for Agri-Giants” (Aug...
...Yes, we do need a different approach when it comes to combating terrorism, but come up with an objective and realitybased list, please...
...Is he thinking of political liberalism...
...Ross Perot may well be an American Caesar, a populist with a fascist streak...
...Since they are no real threat, we don’t have to “tread lightly in our effort to domesticate and defang them...
...But Khalilzad’s approach is certainly not the answer...
...W.T...
...In the past, homosexuals who researched or wrote on this subject had their work discounted because they had a vested interest in the outcome, and rightly so...
...Marsh raises no questions about this “discovery...
...Alas, for now, I can only dream about Leon Panetta’s calling us extremists on national television...
...Such men may be unambiguously homosexual for many years and then do a complete about-face, sometimes accompanied by a religious conversion...
...I even saw them in New York on the menu at a Second Avenue Greek diner, and, with the exception of fast-food chains, such diners tend to be the most conservative and predictable eating establishments in the world...
...That will be the end result when you target that country’s “security forces, its economic infrastructure, its communications, and other sources of support...
...We should be compassionate toward people who find themselves in this dilemma, but I do not believe truth should be compromised to make it more acceptable...
...In fact, he is a very scary candidate...
...No Surprise Regarding Charles Murray’s “Bad News About Illegitimacy” (Aug...
...To implement this list of actions is to make Us no better than Them...
...Just keeping it frozen in time won’t hack it...
...By sponsoring terrorists and “revolutionaries” of our own...
...His “Ukranian wild boar droppings” are suspect, but I draw the line at “Pacific manatee dung...
...Unfortunately, Marsh seems to have fallen for the story hook, line, and sinker...
Vol. 1 • August 1996 • No. 48
