CORRESPONDENCE

...Correspondence STANDING TO GAIN ON CAPITAL GAINS You state that Republicans should shy away from pushing a cut in the capital gains tax to 15 percent on the grounds that “it will be hard to convince the electorate that America’s capital- holders have not been doing well in recent years” (“Toward November,” July 6/July 13...

...It’s time for THE WEEKLY STANDARD to shed its late-1980s-style class-warfare mentality and consider the following facts about today’s investors: According to a recent Nasdaq survey, 43 percent of Americans own stocks...

...But neither Sen...

...Not quite the same rhetorical bite of Arnett’s quote, but Southerland did quote a legitimate source...

...An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 51 percent of Americans own at least $5,000 in stocks, mutual funds, or other retirement saving vehicles...

...We now know that she didn’t have any reliable sources saying that nerve gas was used...

...STEPHEN B. YOUNG ST...

...Nearly two-thirds of investor families have incomes under $50,000...

...MATT KAUFMAN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO...

...SPENCER ABRAHAM WASHINGTON, DC NOT MIXED UP An article in your magazine stated that I am 87 and living in a nursing home and that, according to a friend of mine, I am “mixed up” (Eric Felten, “CNN and Time’s Poisonous Smear,” June 29...

...THOMAS H. MOORER BETHESDA, MD ARNETT’S SUPREME FICTIONS Now that Peter Arnett’s unscrupulous manipulation of facts regarding Operation Tailwind has been exposed and he has been reprimanded, Arnett should be called to account for another “loosely sourced” Vietnam war story of his...

...The quote—used exclusively to prove the callousness and barbarity of the government’s military efforts—did much to turn Americans against the war...

...Both groups have annual incomes of $75,000 or less...

...Abrams concluded that my interviews did not provide confirmation of the two serious charges made by CNN...

...John McCain is, by all accounts, a man of sterling character—just the sort of man who may appeal to Americans after Clinton (Andrew Ferguson, “The Media’s Favorite Republican,” July 6/July 13...

...The Abrams report shows that I responded, “But I don’t have the information to confirm what they said...

...This quote quickly grew at the hands of the anti-war movement into a fusillade of effective rhetorical attacks on the war against communism in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia...

...Today’s investors are hard-working, middleclass Americans: 49 percent of investors are women, and 38 percent are non-professional salaried workers...

...That same day, from Ben Tre, Dan Southerland reported for UPI the following quote, attributed to Air Force Sergeant John M. Todd: “The Vietcong were holed up in a lot of buildings and there was no way to get them out but to shell and bomb them out...

...As economist Lawrence Kudlow points out, “Today’s investor class could total as many as 125 million people...

...McCain nor any other major political figure is pursuing that sort of government...

...The major said that “it had become necessary to destroy the town to save it...

...This is why she was so persistent in trying to get me to say something they could interpret as confirmation— even though I had made it clear that I could not give her what she was trying to get...

...Now, after the deceitful use of quotes attacking U.S...

...Yet for all the political consequences that flowed from his reporting, Arnett never revealed his source...

...She said she had done so...

...The report by Floyd Abrams has made it clear that I told April Oliver I knew nothing about the use of nerve gas in Operation Tailwind...

...CESAR V. CONDA LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR OFFICE OF SEN...

...The implication was that I am both physically and mentally impaired and that this explains my alleged confirmation of the false charges CNN made about Operation Tailwind...

...A government that truly adheres to principle would adhere to the Constitution, performing only those functions within its authority...

...Please let your readers know that I am well and leading a very active life, physically and mentally...

...I never saw any battle plan or after-action reports on the operation...

...Cutting the capital gains tax would greatly benefit America’s middle-class families...

...Small-business owners, non-professional employees, and blue-collar workers with retirement plans are America’s capital holders...

...PAUL, MN MCCAIN’S LEVIATHAN Sen...

...But I’m afraid that his proposed “government that adheres to principle” isn’t that at all...

...The most disturbing thing isn’t that some of his causes (tobacco, campaignfinance “reform”) align closely with liberalism’s priorities...

...She claimed to have interviewed reliable sources who told her that nerve gas was used, and I told her she should get them on camera and have them say that...

...Rather, it’s that McCain shows little grasp of constitutional limits on government...

...And the American Savings Education Council reports that nearly half of American workers contribute an average of 5 percent of their gross income to 401(k) individual retirement plans...

...policy in Vietnam in Arnett’s CNN/Time interviews, we may ask whether Arnett ever had a source...

...What McCain seems to want is a government that will just, well, do good...

...In Ben Tre, South Vietnam, Arnett quoted an unnamed U.S...

...major in a story dated February 7, 1968...