Correspondence
The West Wing Crusade In his earnest analysis of James Carville's shameless campaign to discredit independent counsel Kenneth Starr ("James Carville's Crusade," Dec. 16), the normally shrewd Tucker...
...Citizens of high-crime areas such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia are more likely to be victims of violent crime, and as such will be more likely to need a concealed firearm for self-defense...
...In "Springtime for Chi" (Dec...
...If the ready availability of guns influences crimes of violence, the rate of violence among target shooters, deer hunters, gun enthusiasts, and gunsmiths should be far higher than it is among the population of non-gun-owners...
...1291...
...The fact that a person as bright as Miller would think this satirical gem serious only illustrates the wisdom of the late Fred Rodell of Yale...
...The Texas concealed-carry bill was introduced by legislators from Houston, one of the largest cities in the country...
...Sound familiar...
...Is there anyone left who is not susceptible to Carville's wicked charms...
...Clinton these last few months...
...One hopes that Miller, as he progresses in his legal career, will begin to exhibit greater sensitivity to the pervasive gender bias infecting our legal system, of which section 1291 is a tragic example...
...Clearly, if we didn't buy billions of dollars of cheap products made by Chinese slaves, we wouldn't have to sell American technology to the Chinese military in order to reduce the trade deficit...
...Eric Grant Alexandria, VA Mark Miller is right on target in spotlighting the pompous gibberish that increasingly fills student-edited law reviews, including his own Georgetown Law Journal...
...But what about the president's men...
...To say this is gender-biased—incompatible with the flexible and inclusive principles of femininity—is to state the obvious...
...Stephen Parker Jackson Heights, NY Those Zany Lawyers As a practicing lawyer who has published in student-edited law journals, I read with interest Mark Miller's critique of modern legal scholarship's fixation with attention-grabbing theoretical and doctrinal approaches ("My Sokal-ed Life," Dec...
...But in the case of alleged discrimination, being judged requires lawsuits, and here is where Americans should call for more, not less...
...Then there is the "divorce/non-divorce/did he commit adultery or not" question asked of the star defensive back/wide receiver...
...Drugs, sex, and shady financial dealings leave a "very good" team wracked with character problems...
...Is it even conceivable that during the countless hours James Carville presumably spends on the phone the idea of an "independent" campaign to smear Ken Starr never came up in conversation with Stephanopoulos, McCurry, Panetta, Ickes, Emmanuel, or even Mrs...
...16), Michael A. Ledeen accuses President Clinton of "appeasement" for allowing the sale of American technology to the Chinese military...
...He argues, "If the ideal of anti-discrimination means anything, it means being judged as an individual, not as a sterotyped member of a group...
...A clear picture emerges if you replace the phrase "endorsement rules" with "campaign finance laws" in the above paragraph and then make note of the fact that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is an Arkansas product...
...Every November, some 250,000 outdoor enthusiasts (myself included) travel to upper Michigan to hunt deer in the fabled north woods...
...In this way, we also prevent quotas—which can limit the advancement of qualified minori-ties—from functioning as prima facie shields against charges of discrimination...
...Add to the mix a compliant media obscuring real ideological differences...
...16), the normally shrewd Tucker Carlson never even raises the obvious and central question: Did the White House give tacit approval, even encouragement, to this new venture...
...One does not need to be a conspiracy theorist to suspect that Carville's sudden campaign was hatched in the West Wing...
...Daniel Casse Nashville, TN Why Appease the Chinese...
...Jerry Woodruff Raleigh, NC William Tucker's recent article promotes a seriously incorrect assumption: that the presence of firearms makes people prone to violence...
...Citizens were worried about violent crime and disliked being easy prey for illegally armed criminals...
...Each one of them carries a rifle or handgun and is capable of loading and operating the weapon...
...Gideon Kanner Los Angeles, CA Race and Discrimination David Frum's "Undiscriminating Discrimination" (Dec...
...2) was an excellent appraisal of where misguided laws against discrimination, in addition to unscrupulous lawyers and judges, have led us...
...For example, EEOC chairman Casellas was dismayed over the $176.1 million Texaco settlement "done behind closed doors...
...Instead of asking about those conversations, Carlson, with no apparent irony, cites the "fact" that Mary Matalin, Car-ville's most useful publicist, told a friend to write a nasty article about the whole affair...
...But tell citizens that they must accept a designated group at a predetermined value, and they will revolt...
...Today's "Wild Bunch"—Clinton Democrats...
...By Tucker's logic we should similarly deny Internet access to the citizens of those cities because .01 percent of them will misuse that technology to distribute child pornography...
...Ledeen should remember that "appeasement" began when Nixon opened China in 1972 during the Vietnam War...
...I found myself in agreement with Miller—until the final paragraph of his essay, in which he makes light of the "socially constructed, gender-biased assumptions of 28 U.S.C...
...The reason...
...The charge that Starr is a Republican out to get Clinton was made explicitly by the president himself during his "won't-rule-out-a-pardon" interview with Jim Lehrer...
...Unfortunately, this column appeared during a week when their star defensive player was suspended for a year because of drug violations...
...It may be unlikely that Bill Clinton directly ordered Carville to carry out this mission...
...Karl Rehn Austin, TX The Cowboys Are Bad Boys In "Liberal Sports: An Update" (Dec...
...Just how do inanimate objects directly influence the brains and muscles of conscious, rational people...
...Yesterday's Cowboys like Landry and Staubach—conservative...
...Businesses can operate more efficiently than can the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...Racism generally does not rear its head when individuals are able to evaluate their peers on a one-to-one basis...
...On the field, this is a year when the Cowboys' star running back now regularly runs out of bounds rather than "go the extra yard...
...At night the hunters flood into local taverns and restaurants to eat, drink, smoke, and maybe watch sports on TV before the next day's hunt...
...Let us once and for all throw away the notion that laws should aim to remedy past discrimination, return to our traditional understanding of the courtroom as the redresser of wrongs, and leave the laws to protect the civil equality of all Americans under a colorblind Constitution...
...Surely the little tyrants at the Violence Policy Center by now would have widely publicized the damning statistics...
...A judge and jury can determine any actual harm, victim, and perpetrator in each specific case...
...He supports this claim not with scientific data, but with an anecdotal example...
...Finally, this is a team whose "star" owner violates the spirit, if not the letter, of league-wide endorsement rules that he readily agreed to when he entered the league...
...That access to guns causes violence is quite an amusing idea...
...In solidarity with my woman clients, I have experienced the tyranny of this provision, which imposes on our legal system the masculinist concept of "finality," with all its rectilinear and restrictive implications...
...But for some strange reason, the tens of thousands of congregated hunters never shoot their competitors with the weapons and ammunition so accessible...
...Section 1291 is the federal statute that permits litigants to appeal the ruling of a federal trial court only if the ruling is a "final decision...
...While he cried, "We were excluded from the process," major corporations were busy calling board meetings to review their employment procedures...
...LUCAS MOREL SlLOAM SPRINGS, AR access to ammo William Tucker is "sure" that an altercation between his neighbors over a double-parked car would have escalated into bloodshed "if either had had ready access to a gun" ("Maybe You Should Carry A Handgun," Dec...
...Instead of affirmative-action policies that assign guilt to whites and injury to blacks without evidence presented in court, why not encourage real victims of discrimination to take their cases to court...
...In a classic article, Rodell explained that young people who run law-school journals take themselves much too seriously...
...Frum legitimately calls for state and federal statutes that do not consider Americans bigots, as affirmative action does, but he mistakes the legal system for the problem rather than the solution to our discrimination ills...
...Virtually all of Carville's charges against Starr (tobacco lawyer, conservative ideologue, Bradley Foundation associate) were first road-tested by the administration during its own, more subtle, crusade against Starr earlier this year...
...Since the opening of China, millions of American workers have lost their jobs to Chinese slaves, and the trade deficit with China grows larger each month...
...Should we deny them the means to defend themselves on the grounds that they might misuse it...
...That much at least has not changed...
...Private lawsuits have made significant headway against discriminatory employment practices...
...9) Fred Barnes makes the case that the Dallas Cowboys—"America's Team"—are hated because they are "conservative...
...But in proposing that anti-discrimination statutes apply "to race and race alone," Frum fails to address the root prob-lem—the policy presumption of guilt on the basis of skin color...
...There is one corollary conclusion that he omitted: These very laws and their implementation actually foster discrimination...
...That's why he says the Pennsylvania legislature "acted wisely" when it exempted Philadelphia from a statewide law allowing peaceful people to carry concealed guns...
...Unfortunately, one of the submissions he derides, "The Jurisprudence of Yogi Berra," is a spoof written by some of my colleagues here at Loyola Law School and accepted for publication at another law review whose editors evidently have a better sense of humor than the inside-the-Beltway Georgetown types...
...Let us replace presumptions of discrimination with a truly colorblind process wherein no one is presumed a discriminator or victim...
...The column also appeared during a year when their star wide receiver was suspended for five games as a result of drug violations (following a trial in which he pleaded "no contest" to cocaine possession during an escapade with several females— none of them his wife...
...Robert A. George Washington, DC...
...Richard I. Fowler Penobscot, ME David Frum laments the spiraling costs of an affirmative-action regime that rewards the legal profession for extending discrimination lawsuits to include age, disability, sexual orientation, and gender...
...With any luck, the Pandora's Box that Nixon opened can be closed...
Vol. 2 • December 1996 • No. 16
