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...Reagan, safe in retirement, announced his support for the Brady Bill...

...Eric R. K. Oines Minneapolis, MN Diversityonthe Internet There are thousands upon thousands of usenet newsgroups...

...groups, many of which are supposed to offend...

...30) mean-spirited and a total distortion of the truth...

...2) polls showing disapproval for Republican policies are misleading because they include in that disapproval those who believe Republicans are no longer doing enough to downsize government...

...I guess it's just not sufficient that, for 25 years, Kemp led the movement to lower marginal tax rates, roll back communism, and make the GOP the majority party...

...It is the advocacy of that caste which has brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction several times since the Second World War, for example, in the Korean and Vietnam wars and the Cuban missile crisis...

...I use as examples Ronald Reagan, Barry Gold-water, George Wallace (a very conservative Democrat), and even George Bush...

...Kemp-bashing has long been a parlor game for some conservatives who find fault with his optimism, lack of anger, and disinclination to demonize the opposition...

...Cambridge, MA Pro-Abstinence Powell...

...Not true of See, I Told You So, on which I had the honor of assisting The Great One...

...Similarly, Farrakhan's charge that Jews owned 75 percent of the slaves in the American South is absurd...

...Indeed, in 1830, the year on which Farrakhan's tract on the subject dwells, black slaveholders outnumbered Jewish ones by 15 to 1. Eunice G. Pollack Oklahoma City, OK Keep Libertarian Ideas It is unfortunate, as David Brooks notes, that the Republican party is moving further and further away from the libertarian ideas which characterized the early months of the 104th Congress ("Coats of Many Colors," Oct...

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...The poll found that 73 percent of the participants had at least some college education, but astonishingly, also found that 87 percent of the participants had "a favorable impression" of Farrakhan, and 88 percent "a favorable view" of the Nation of Islam...

...30) take issue with 20 alt...

...They were entirely aware of the political constraints and surveillance under which East Europeans had to act...

...L. Brent Bozell, III Alexandria, VA Term Limits Haven't Won Charles Kesler severely underestimates the strength and breadth of the term limits movement ("Term Limits: Declare Victory and Go Home," Oct...

...16) setting the record straight on who wrote Newt Gingrich's book and how...

...That so many who have gone to college have so positive a view of this disseminator of preposterous lies is surely a testament to the failure of colleges to educate at least a significant number of students...

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...The Powell I could support would promote abstinence...

...Madison designed the "convention route" to amend the Constitution in Article V precisely because he knew that Congress would not act against its own interests, so the states and the people would need a mechanism to make changes in the face of congressional opposition...

...President Bush even sent a message to the 39th Pugwash conference, which said in part, "By fostering the international exchange of ideas and opinions on the key science and public policy issues of the day, Pugwash has made a valuable contribution to world peace and understanding...

...What has happened to Kemp is what happens to many long-time conservatives once they are able to step back from the political mire of Washington...

...It is unfortunate because a libertarian platform is a winning platform for Republicans...

...It seems that, like our president, Republicans now spend most of their time holding their fingers to the wind...

...It does, however, echo the absurd accusation that Pugwash was a dupe of Soviet propaganda...

...Joseph Farah Sacramento, CA Peace At Pugwash As a U.S...

...That is their intended purpose, childish though it may be...

...The main points of the contract-a balanced budget, regulatory reform, term limits, a tax cut, and welfare reform-all point to smaller, less intrusive government...

...and 3) the Republican majority and revolution will end in 1996...

...citizen and former secretary general of Pugwash from 1976-1988, I find Eric Breindel's article ("Pugwashing the Truth," Oct...

...Sure, there's dross, sex, and juvenile junk on the Internet, but your authors should have told us about the religious, the medical, the scientific, the sociological, the historical, the regional, and so many other types of newsgroups...

...That canard is grossly insulting to many outstanding scientists, military authorities, and politicians of the West and East who have attended Pugwash meetings...

...Call it repentance or atonement...

...It was a libertarian contract which achieved the Republican majority in Congress...

...And it's so mysterious, too, because "there's no pragmatic explanation for Kemp's interest in race, either: His district was 1 percent black...

...One figure I have seen puts the total number slightly above 30,000 newsgroups worldwide...

...I Know...

...Colin Powell has now joined their ranks and it is disingenuous for those who call themselves pro-life to treat him any differently...

...Kremlin dupes...

...Unfortunately, in relating his story about the collaboration project he was involved in, he inadvertently misrepresented the facts concerning at least one of Rush Limbaugh's best-sellers...

...As a statement published by the American Historical Association has shown, Jews had an extremely marginal role in the slave system...

...and that Patrick Henry was impelled to lead the fight against ratification in part because there was no term limits provision...

...This, indeed, is the mechanism term limits activists are now using to advance their cause...

...But because of the special bonds of confidence that existed between these persons of all political persuasions, they took these constraints in stride and maintained an informed awareness of the perils of the arms race for their own countries and for humanity in general...

...Farrakhan's claim that Jews had "monumental culpability" for slavery and the slave trade is, of course, a monumental lie...

...The scientists of West and East were not naive...

...Martin M. Kaplan Collonge, Switzerland...

...I fear that 1) they are misperceiving the wind direction...

...Stephen Bates and Edwin Diamond ("The Truth about Cyberhype," Oct...

...Olasky suggests that pro-lifers are wrong to condemn Powell for being pro-choice...

...Arlington, VA Marching in Ignorance The profile of the participants in the Million Man March, discussed by Matt Labash ("The March: What Was Said," Oct...

...Tucker claims Limbaugh's two books were essentially rewritten transcriptions of conversations...

...Wallace apologized for his opposition to segregation...

...Brooks correctly notes that "when government tries to influence private decisions, the effects are usually perverse...

...They all embrace the "personally opposed, but...

...Marvin Olasky is a man of great eloquence and vision, but on the subject of Colin Powell, Olasky is exercising the art of wishful thinking ("The Right Colin Powell," Oct...

...Every poll on term limits shows broad-based public support for reform-always in the range of 70 to 80 percent-which differs little among voters characterized by gender, race, age, or party affiliation...

...position, but only as a political tactic designed to diffuse opposition from the right-to-life movement...

...Correspondence A Kinder, Gentler Conservative Gosh, isn't it just awful that Jack Kemp "was one of the few white Republicans to attend (as the guest of Rangel) the annual soiree of the Congressional Black Caucus" ("What Happened to Jack Kemp...

...This racism has led to decades of multigenerational inner-city poverty...

...Iappreciated William Tucker's essay ("Newt Wrote It...

...No one dares declare himself supportive of abortion today, not Bill Clinton, not Al Gore, not even their abortionist surgeon general nominee Henry Foster, who publicly claimed to "abhor" the profession he used to practice...

...If the colleges had succeeded in their mission to disseminate knowledge, these "educated" blacks would readily dismiss Farrakhan (and his clones) as falsifiers of the historical record...

...Laurence T. May, Jr...

...The Coats response, that the "underclass is by now a by-product of cultural decay," begs the question of what has caused the cultural decay...

...Accepting this premise, Kemp has also seen that government has for the most part been ineffective at changing this behavior and business has shown little willingness to try...

...The article made not the slightest reference to the many accomplishments of Pugwash since its inception in 1957, which no doubt were the basis of the Nobel Prize...

...As easy and attractive as government-created (or -sponsored) civil society may sound, the above statement about perverse effects is no less valid for conservative social engineering than for liberal social engineering...

...The term limits movement is made up of more than conservative Republicans...

...Kevin Sachs Getzville, NY Rush Wrote It...

...Olasky is asking us not to believe Powell's official pro-choice declaration, to think that somehow all along Powell has held passionate pro-life beliefs, and once elected-presto!-will lead the way via the presidential pulpit...

...30), has some distressing implications...

...Brooks correctly states the libertarian case that the "perverse incentives of the welfare state reward illegitimacy and joblessness...

...Cultural decay is 100 percent the result of the growth of government...

...The move away from libertarian ideas is unfortunate also because it is based on incorrect thinking about cultural decay...

...It would appear that Breindel belongs to the cold warrior caste, joining Pierre Lellouche and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr...

...Term limits supporters include independent Ross Perot and former Virginia governor Doug Wilder, a Democrat...

...To a great extent, the sweeping victories of 1994 took place because the Contract with America is largely (but by no means completely) a libertarian document...

...Richard E. Sincere, Jr...

...Most recently, George Bush resigned his membership in the NRA...

...Just what has Powell ever done that shows a commitment to abstinence...

...Further, the conservative agenda of family caps, reductions in assistance, and devolution to the states, will only replace bad policies with worse...

...He would use the bully pulpit in a credible way and he would push to substitute abstinence programs . . . this Powell would strongly support adoption...

...John Buckley Washington, DC Christopher Caldwell asks "What Happened to Jack Kemp...

...I mean, at least not when compared with such sins as his actually liking, and caring what happens to, black Americans...

...The great thing about newsgroups is that anyone may start one, even Bates or Diamond...

...that George Mason refused to sign the Constitution for the same reason...

...He does not mention that at the same time, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison that he was troubled by the new Constitution's failure to include term limits for Congress...

...What Jack Kemp seems to realize (particularly since his HUD experiences) is that we live in a nation of institutionalized racism in both government (federal, state, and local at one time or another) and business (large and small...

...All of these men, including Kemp, have stepped outside the center ring of the political circus, and have had an insight into the moral fallacy of some facet of their particular conservative policies...

...I Should Know...

...Kesler cites The Federalist's argument against term limits...