Yes to Trade With China
Yes to Trade With China Thank you for mentioning my opposition to cutting off trade with China in "No to Appeasement" (June 23). My position, however, is based more on economics and faith in...
...It is no accident that commerce with China puts food on the tables of more than 200,000 working American families...
...Phil Gramm Washington, DC Great in Every Sense Three cheers to David Brooks and The Weekly Standard for putting "Bully for America:What Teddy Roosevelt Teaches" (June 23) on the cover...
...The EPA report naming ETS a Class A carcinogen is a triumph of politics over science, and a symbol of the corruption of science by government...
...It only made your male-heavy staff appear envious, misogynous, and homophobic...
...My position, however, is based more on economics and faith in freedom than "thundering" about shirts...
...The American government's first responsibility is to enact policies that benefit working Americans and their families...
...Roger N. Page Eugene, OR Revolting Rosie Matt Labash deserves a raise...
...J. Cliff McSparran Sanderson, TX...
...Pablo Gersten Washington, DC Iwould be pretty near the end of the line of those inclined to put in a good word for the New York Times Magazine...
...He neglected, however, to mention an area in which Abrams asserts the Jewish establishment could learn from the Orthodox community: the battle over secularism...
...He was part of a tradition—with Pericles and Churchill—of public scholars who could match their critics in intellect and outdo them in style...
...All cultures thrive on some form of belief in the spiritual world in order to unite their society, direct individual energy towards the benefit of all, and provide purpose to life...
...But surely some of our faults enumerated by foreign critics are regrettably on target...
...It is based on an erroneous model, ignores all the rules of epidemiology, and vastly inflates the effects of smoking...
...It also inoculates the Chinese people with a dose of freedom that China's government can never suppress or eject...
...This overlooks Abrams's explicit recognition that the Orthodox community, as represented by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and others, has consistently opposed the Jewish establishment in these cases for over 30 years...
...Of course, it couldn't be as simple as news reports would have people believe, but the simplistic paradigm is usually taken as the last word...
...Every American Jew must ask, "Is it worthwhile for me to preserve my Jewish Correspondence identity...
...There is increasing evidence that smoking reduces the incidence of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases...
...Conservatives must understand that if we promote religion for the wrong reasons or in the wrong ways, we risk killing the goose that produces the golden temporal eggs...
...When I try to conjure up the name of a country that would come in second, I can't even come up with a "next best...
...This habit, perhaps only partly due to journalistic convention, reduces the pontiff to a purely sentimental figure...
...If we seek temporal things first, or seek His Kingdom because it is useful, we will get nothing...
...Smokers are less obese than non-smokers...
...His hammer job on Rosie O'Donnell ("'Nice,' 'Real,' Revolting," June 9) was another in a great series of caustic sarcasms that I always look forward to...
...The lines and droves of immigrants, legal and otherwise, are primarily oriented toward our borders...
...Unfortunately, the whole war on smoking is based on these bogus statistics and defamation of honest scientists who criticized them...
...Miller writes that "Abrams surveys Supreme Court religion jurisprudence and the unwavering support that Jews have provided the secularist side...
...TR was a great man...
...The war on smoking is a disaster, for civil liberties, for science, and for the credibility of the government and its health agencies...
...In other words, "Why be a Jew...
...Since obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, and strokes, the prevention of obesity should count as a benefit...
...But scientists in these fields have a great deal of trouble getting funding because of opposition to any good word for tobacco...
...Miller alludes to this issue in his review, but the question is not being asked by outsiders determining whether the Jewish people is fit for survival...
...Stephen J. Mikesell Lima, OH We're Still Number One Andrew Ferguson ("Those Crazy Americans," June 23) was right on...
...Prayer changes people, and the people do the hard work needed to sustain our society...
...Timothy Lamer Falls Church, VA John J. Dilulio Jr...
...They decided long ago to focus on this world, and the result has been spiritual death and temporal use-lessness...
...Second only to the 400,000 lie is the passive smoking or ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke) lie...
...She's a symptom, a sign, but not important...
...That's exactly the choice we have with China...
...It is now accepted as gospel that 400,000 Americans die from smoking annually...
...Answers to these questions should be sought with an eye towards finding the meaning, depth, and truth of Judaism...
...Rosalind B. Marimont Silver Spring, MD Not a Simple Pope Thanks to Russell Hittinger for his level-headed exposition of the Pope's recent visit to Poland ("The Pope Hits Home," June 23), as compelling an event as there has been in his pontificate...
...Who cares how other nations view us...
...But America must be a darn good place to be...
...where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes...
...Sen...
...Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness," he said, "and all these things shall be added to you...
...does not seem to understand the real threats that government funding poses to religion...
...Tim Goeglein Washington, DC David Brooks's article is of particular interest because it attempts to bring Roosevelt into the conservative tradition...
...This shouldn't be a surprise because Jesus was quite clear on the matter...
...Deborah K Greco Weirton, WV The Secular Threat Mark Miller's review ("An Uncertain People," June 23) of Elliott Abrams's new book was a fine one...
...Kent Lemon deserves a raise too for that great pig nose he put on the human version of junk mail...
...The question should not be, "Is it worthwhile to preserve the Jewish people," but, "Is it worthwhile for me to cultivate a Jewish identity...
...This Centers for Disease Control (CDC) number is nothing but a computer-generated estimate...
...Smoking also ameliorates the symptoms of schizophrenia...
...What's worse, anti-smoking policymakers ignore the benefits of smoking...
...Or is it because bureaucrats do not believe that prayer works...
...Historians and others have often debated how to classify TR, and this article is an important contribution to the ongoing debate...
...They are academically poor, excessive in self-esteem, and hell-bent to become the world's most ill clad...
...Whom do they call to solve their problems...
...The critics actually overlooked quite a bit, particularly some unseemly quirks endemic among American youth...
...The mainline Protestant denominations offer a different model...
...Butting heads with America's most popular cultural icon is a losing proposition...
...Is it because the churches will do this work anyway...
...is right on target...
...Government support almost inevitably leads the church into just such a destructive emphasis on this-worldly things...
...And now we have the tobacco settlement, resulting from a barrage of lawsuits brought by 40 states attorneys general...
...Nathan J. Diament New York, NY The question of Jewish continuity skirts around the real issue...
...John a. Gable Theodore Roosevelt Assn...
...There are many problems but the main one is a difference in focus: Government's focus is temporal, while the church's focus must be eternal...
...He proved that an intellectual could also unashamedly be a public man...
...Christopher Fessler Theresa, NY If Matt Labash feels that Rosie O'Donnell epitomizes American culture's moral decay, that is what he should have written, rather than laboring on for five and one-half columns about her personal peccadilloes and harmless talk-show banter...
...Smokers pay heavy cigarette taxes, and their life expectancy is somewhat less than non-smokers' (by three to five years), they collect less in Social Security, pensions, Medicare, and Medicaid...
...Oyster Bay, NY Religion and The state In defending federal funding for Christian churches ("The Coming of the Super-Preachers," June 23), John J. DiIulio Jr...
...A complete report on these economic matters was issued by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress in March 1994...
...If the churches have identified the problem and are out there trying to solve it in the inner city, why shouldn't they get financial help...
...These suits are totally unfounded, since economists, with rare unanimity, have shown that smokers are not a net cost to the government, but a saving...
...If the main goal of the evangelical church in inner cities is to lower crime rates instead of saving souls, it will accomplish neither...
...In his final State of the Union address, President Reagan said that "a creative, competitive America is the answer to a changing world, not trade wars that would close doors, create great barriers, and destroy millions of jobs...
...It is being asked by Jews of themselves...
...Hit-tinger parses out something sensible from the trip in a nicely instructive way...
...Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down...
...Conservatives like evangelical Christianity because it tends to lower crime rates, produce stable marriages, and reduce teen promiscuity, but these are merely pleasant side effects of a much more important eternal matter—the reconciliation between rebellious sinners and an angry God by grace alone, through faith alone...
...Maybe it's what the bureaucrats should be praying for...
...It goes without saying that American news reports about this pope tend toward oversimplification...
...Ferguson did omit one description from "How We See Them": crybabies...
...It is also a disaster for the public health and welfare because it diverts attention and resources from the real problems, such as alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and poverty...
...Adam Singer Washington, DC A Carton of Lies The excellent editorial "Pack of Lies" (June 16) exposed the bogus statistics and general dishonesty of the anti-Joe Camel campaign of the anti-smoking policymakers...
...The revival of the Christian movement is not an effort to just gain individual salvation, but to instill religion, a vital element of any culture...
Vol. 2 • July 1997 • No. 42
