Correspondence
Why They Hate CCRI Heather Mac Donald, in her splendid take-no-prisoners article "Why They Hate CCRI" (Oct. 28), got it right: A lot of diversity-industry parasites will have their rice bowls...
...My copy of this book was given to me on my 38th birthday in 1943...
...Better that Kemp should stick with Wanniski and teach Bob Dole about it...
...Are such ideas not the best of Jack Kemp...
...All of us have ideas derived from someone...
...It is a fat blue hardcover book with a picture of the bridge at Mostar on the cover, much worn now by my holding of it for fifty years...
...The Lippo Group, founded by Chinese expatriates and operating in scores of countries, is the quintessential transnational enterprise...
...Richard Doyle Flanders, NJ A Loyal West Fan Thanks and praise to Donald Lyons for his stunningly perfect review of the works of Rebecca West ("Rebecca West's Legacy," Oct...
...Why waste so much time and space identifying Jack Kemp's ideas with those stemming from Jude Wanniski (Scrapbook, Oct...
...Even the discovery of the New World was an outgrowth of the commercial rivalry of Italian merchants looking for a sea route to Asia...
...The newspaper reported the combined results of the two questions on the front page and assigned the results of the two individual questions to the small-type methodology sidebar that always accompanies our poll stories...
...The clash is fundamental...
...Glenn Sheller Pickerington, OH...
...William R Hawkins Washington, DC CCRI and the King Legacy The Weekly Standard is correct to blast the California GOP for its cynical and opportunistic last-minute support for the California Civil Rights Initiative (Scrapbook, Nov...
...Was not Wanniski's The Way the World Works on the right track...
...I overlooked the small note accompanying the September poll that said the names of minor candidates were read to poll respondents...
...Had the GOP laid the groundwork in previous years for the kind of appeal Bob Dole launched in the last month of his campaign, the party would have found both the outrage and the votes it needed...
...What is new is the attempt to drop the "geo" from geo-economics and talk of industry, trade, and finance as if they were autonomous elements divorced from national society and international relations...
...The "thought police" are alive and well in California, with "diversity managers" teaching us who we are and what to think...
...Even as he spoke, Ron Brown, the national chairman of the Democratic party, was one of the foremost wealthy lobbyists in Washington...
...This mindset smacks of the dogma that inebriated the German people decades ago...
...Quota shills are no different, except perhaps in their semantic games ("Goals and timetables aren't quotas"), evasions, hypocrisy, sanctimony, disingenuous-ness, and shameless intellectual dishonesty...
...And as long as their competitors are paying the same tax, hey, why worry...
...King's dream that people be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, is one of the most eloquent pleas for a colorblind society ever uttered...
...I suspect that the CEOs have come to look on this hit to their companies' productivity as just another tax imposed by Washington...
...All other issues were of significantly less importance...
...Vivian Randlev Orrs Island, ME Nothing New When Robert Kagan quotes Martin Walker about "living in an era of geo-economics" where "the new virility symbols are exports and productivity and growth rates," neither is speaking of anything new ("Clinton and Indonesia: The Real Scandal," Nov...
...In contrast, Republicans have the opportunity to act as true conservatives by becoming the defenders of the nation against the new globalist corporate raiders...
...In Clinton's 1992 campaign, he said: "Al Gore and I will get rid of all those wealthy foreign lobbyists that run Washington...
...Warren Wetmore Hazel Crest, IL...
...Jack 'n' Jude: Who Cares...
...My apologies for the error...
...Inevitably, it leads to moral, civic, and national collapse...
...Why did the U. S. Senate confirm Ron Brown as secretary of commerce, knowing that he professionally represented foreign interests...
...Thucydides wrote of how the new commercial economies of Athens and Corinth changed the Pelopon-nesian balance of power in the fifth century B.C...
...Then came the Commercial and Industrial revolutions, which transformed both domestic governments and international affairs into the modern pattern...
...But they talk themselves into feeling righteous about this tax...
...No one likes to speak ill of the dead, but Brown was very much alive when he sold out America, and Mickey Kantor lives on...
...How did Clinton and Gore "get rid" of Brown and Kantor...
...The Clinton administration has embraced and exploited the change in business orientation, as evidenced by the foreign-contributions scandal...
...Phillip A. Aronoff Houston, TX Michael Barone errs when he refers to the "FBI burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office...
...As Richard Nixon wrote in his autobiography: "I wanted someone to light a fire under the FBI in its investigation of Ellsberg and to keep the departments and agencies active in pursuit of leakers...
...Regarding Heather Mac Donald's article: The unholy alliance of big government, corporate America, and New Age philosophy is reminiscent of Nazism...
...Queen Anne, MD Clinton's Fat Promises Congratulations to Christopher Caldwell for his interesting and vitally significant article "Clinton's Fat Lippo" (Oct...
...The vast majority of people live and work, formulate values and loyalties, on a local rather than a global basis...
...The Byzantine Empire used its wealth to back its diplomacy...
...Why didn't anyone in the "watchdog media" ever speak up about that...
...He also incorrectly asserted that the Star Tribune "played up a new question to make Wellstone look strong...
...The election of 1972 was a referendum to support or reject the salvation of a free nation from communism, as Correspondence we had done successfully in Korea twenty years earlier...
...28) overlooked the major reason why the American electorate voted to return the president...
...Actually, the "black-bag job" at Dr...
...28), got it right: A lot of diversity-industry parasites will have their rice bowls broken by Prop...
...one study showed that they cost as much as 4 percent of U.S...
...Decisions affecting the location of factories and the development or transfer of technology across borders are now to be left to business to manage on its own (and for its own ends...
...Those who stand against the new racism of quotas and racial preferences should never surrender King to the neo-racists...
...You are wrong, however, to call the GOP's use of Martin Luther King, Jr...
...Less clear is the motivation of the big Left Coast corporations—PacBell, Southern Cal Edison, PG&E, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, and ARCO were named—to oppose measures to end racial and gender preferences...
...There is now a split between geographically unrooted global business and national governments responsible for the security and prosperity of their citizens in a defined territory rooted in history and culture...
...Bruce CA Desautels Westfield, MA Polling Minnesota Fred Barnes was incorrect in "Feeling Minnesota" (Oct...
...Robert C. Lea, Jr...
...Mary D. May Benton, AR Back to 1973 Michael Barone's article on the reelection of Richard M. Nixon ("It's 1973 All Over Again," Oct...
...Transnational corporations know no borders, are loyal to no flag, and feel no moral obligations to communities or individuals...
...In fact, the September poll's trial-heat question included all eight candidates—major and minor party— who had filed with the Minnesota secretary of state...
...Senate race...
...The preservation of national honor in war outweighed the acceptance of presidential perfidy...
...why not explore the ideas...
...His analysis of the shortcomings of her critics was a delight, as well as his belief in the significance of her ideas and the wondrous beauty of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
...It is established that quotas take a toll on productivity...
...There, we outlined factually and frankly the experiment and its results...
...Lewis Fielding's office was undertaken by the White House Special Investigations Unit (which has gone down in history as the "Plumbers") for the purpose of gaining information to be used in a CIA psychological profile of Ellsberg, the man who had leaked the Pentagon Papers...
...It is the neo-racists who have misappropriated King...
...The Lippo scandal represents what is wrong with this country, particularly this administration: total government corruption...
...Surely those from Wanniski's book are superior to HUD liberalism and Bob Dole's corporate tax "reforms...
...Mickey Kantor was probably number two...
...Robert p. Daves Director of Polling and News Research Minneapolis, MN Fred Barnes responds: I stand corrected...
...People will fight back with methods fair and foul when their livelihoods, however insalubrious, are endangered...
...In fact, one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Plumbers was the perception of the Nixon White House that the FBI, under the guidance of J. Edgar Hoover, was going less than gangbusters in its investigation of the Pentagon Papers leak...
...There was the rise of the Dutch Empire and its fall before the mercantilist policies of England and France...
...Fifty thousand young American men and women lost their lives, and the trauma of voting to say "Sorry, just a mistake" was more than the voters were prepared to accept...
...28) when he wrote that the Star Tribune's September Minnesota Poll didn't ask about minor-party candidates in its trial-heat question about the U.S...
...GDP...
...a "misappropriation...
Vol. 2 • November 1996 • No. 9
