Correspondence
Correspondence BRAIN GAMES WHILE I ENJOYED Matt Labash's article "What's Wrong with Dodge-ball?" (June 25), I was disappointed that he focused on the physical "wussifica-tion" of America instead...
...The Founding Fathers had a purpose in wording the Second Amendment as they did...
...Democratic party leaders successfully embarked upon the politics of personal destruction, twisting the truth and mischaracterizing our policies and points of view...
...The belief that we ought engage in a mission to change the beliefs of other countries will lead us astray, place our citizens at risk, open the door to corruption, incur financial loss, and foster resentment of America...
...We now give everyone a trophy not only in gym class, but in the regular classroom as well...
...Jeffords,” June 11...
...JENDI REITER New York, NY TOO CLEVER BY HALF NOEMIE EMERY views Senator Jeffords’s departure from the Republican party as a long-term plus for President Bush and the GOP, predicting that Republicans will now forgo taking controversial positions (like pushing for drilling in the Alaska Wilderness Refuge) that could hurt the party’s standing with potential swing voters (“Thank You, Mr...
...By no longer being “out front” arguing for politically incorrect positions, Republicans could increase their likelihood of winning “stable” control of Congress and the presidency, Emery writes...
...In the long run, people—and politicians—gain respect not only by defending and explaining their positions, but by simply standing for something...
...I submit that our Founders were correct: America should avoid foreign entanglements, save when necessary for defense...
...We did not fully engage in responding to these attacks and did not provide the community "our side of the story" with enough force and vigor...
...Modern culture offers girls so few role models for how to become women...
...What’s wrong with standing up for what you believe in...
...At issue is our national purpose...
...Sensitive parents often insist that any laudatory recognition of students' achievements is unfair to the students who have (presumably through no fault of their own) failed to achieve...
...Far more worrisome are the efforts to avoid wounded psyches by eliminating all forms of competition...
...With aggressively challenging and countering the false labels of your critics (and liberal-created “conventional wisdom...
...DAVID STEINBERG Alexandria, VA THE EARTH GOES WOBBLY JAMES K. GLASSMAN and Sallie L. Baliunas’s treatment of global warming (“Bush Is Right on Global Warming,” June 25) has to rank among the better articles exposing the media hysteria on the subject...
...I therefore suggest the following interpretation...
...KUDOS TO GINA DALFONZO for her defense of classic literature for girls (“Where Has Jane Eyre Gone...
...I maintain, however, that this is a coward’s political stance...
...The inclusion efforts of the Republican party of Florida are almost without parallel...
...I was inspired and comforted by its message that true womanliness lies in sincerity, self-sufficiency, kindness, and modesty—not in having boyfriends and being a fashion plate...
...What’s wrong with being consistent and authentic—not tomorrow, when your party might have more strength, but today...
...SETH BROWN East Greenwich, RI SAY YOU, SAY ME THIS LETTER IS IN RESPONSE to the quotes attributed to me in Stephen F. Hayes's article "Will Bush Win Florida Again...
...Governor Bush has an amazingly positive record of accomplishments in the African-American community...
...Theoretically, this includes even the right to ban the private possession of firearms...
...Thus, individuals have a constitutionally protected right to keep arms to the extent that their ability to bear arms when summoned to militia duty depends on their bringing their own arms to such service...
...I shared with the author my belief that we would not allow anyone to make false charges, make untrue inflammatory remarks, or demagogue the record of Florida governor Jeb Bush...
...Kristol's focus, however, is on military strength and political boldness (although he also mentions moral clarity...
...Those who lack the power of their convictions— for example, those too intimidated by scare-mongering environmentalists to argue that more domestic oil production would improve our country’s energy situation (is this really an extremist, radical position...
...In spite of our expanded efforts, the results of the 2000 election cycle in the African-American community were very disappointing to us...
...Had he intended that America do so by setting an example, and by engaging in the war of ideas, I would agree...
...However, banning private gun ownership is something I would oppose as fervently as I advocate licensing for legal gun ownership and holding licensees strictly accountable for keeping their guns away from persons unqualified for such access...
...Many schools across the country have already eliminated the position of valedictorian because it makes the other children feel inferior...
...There are few people who strive to meet their own responsibilities, while virtually all aim at changing others, when they can...
...The way Republicans and conservatives will ultimately win the ideological war is to actually stand for something, and stand for it yesterday, today, and tomorrow...
...The ultimate battle is for the hearts and minds of likely voters...
...With all the scholarly probes underway, there must be someone who can make the connection between (local) beneficial warming and disastrous ice-age cycles vis-à-vis the periodicity of this aberration...
...ROBERT J. ANGSTEN Sun Lakes, AZ YOU GO, GIRL...
...Though I am a married woman of 28, I sometimes feel young and immature next to today’s teens because I prefer more modest dress and traditional sexual mores...
...AL CARDENAS Chairman Republican Party of Florida Tallahassee, FL LEADING BY EXAMPLE WILLIAM KRISTOL ("Democracy in China," June 25) does a fine job of analyzing the New York Times editorial that would subordinate U.S...
...Yet as an alternative he writes that "surely the goal of American foreign policy should be to help bring about the peaceful transformation of Beijing's dictatorship into a democracy like Taipei's...
...Yet in this and similar thoughtful, well-reasoned arguments on this subject, it’s odd that no one ever refers to the earth’s wobbling on its axis...
...ALLEN WEINGARTEN Morristown, NJ THE ANACHRONISTIC RIGHT LIKE MOST OF THE OTHER VIEWS I have seen on the Second Amendment, neither Terry Eastland's article ("John Ashcroft's Constitution," June 25) nor any of the individuals he mentioned contributes to a correct interpretation of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms...
...As a frequent reader of your magazine, I am baffled by Hayes's article...
...This is because the attempt to impose values works the same in foreign policy as it does in domestic policy...
...How else to explain why warming currently noted in the northern hemisphere coincides with the cooling noted in the southern half...
...There is at least a legitimate excuse for schools (whose purposes are ostensibly academic) to attempt to reduce high risk of physical injury...
...Give me Jo March’s strength over Lara Croft’s any day...
...But modern culture too often teaches us only how to be sex objects...
...Feminists denounce such books because they trained young women to be good wives (and, not incidentally, taught boys how to be good husbands...
...I arrived in America at the age of 12 and have worked hard ever since to make a better life for my family and myself...
...Thus, government today has a right to establish any form of gun control it considers advisable in the public interest...
...With passionately making your case to the American people...
...Expanding our message to the African-American community and others is at the very top of our priority list...
...Both parts of the Second Amendment need to be carefully consid-ered—not isolated from each other, nor one part subordinated to the other—but in tandem...
...Hooey...
...will never persuade undecided voters that their governmental philosophy is the superior option...
...Also, Republicans may have lost the Jeffords battle, but they’ll win the ideological war at some point in the future, Emery theorizes...
...By not fighting for conservative principles today, Emery argues, more potential (so-called) conservatives will be elected in the future, which will finally allow Republicans to do the things they’ve always wanted to do...
...Speaking of whom, would there even have been a Reagan-led conservative uprising if Barry Goldwater had adopted the “moderate,” wait-for-tomorrow-to-reveal-your-realcolors strategy that Emery seems to favor...
...I have never forgotten the personal indignities suffered for being different, which is why I'm so adamant that the Republican party of Florida is inclusive...
...Yes, the Second Amendment guarantees a personal right to have guns, but only to the extent that such a right is essential to the ability of a state government to have a viable, well-regulated militia...
...Picking it up again last year (on e-book, ironically...
...When academic institutions are not permitted to acknowledge academic excellence, it should be a clear sign that we have dropped the ball...
...Growing up is thought to mean becoming more sexual, rather than developing emotional maturity and self-restraint— exactly what these books teach...
...Such a radical approach seemed to work for Ronald Reagan...
...Let the Democrats perpetually embrace political correctness, repetitively playing the “scare game” by telling Americans what they should be against...
...June 25), I was disappointed that he focused on the physical "wussifica-tion" of America instead of the more damaging mental trends...
...These were described in detail to the author of the story but were not reported...
...BILL RICE JR...
...Like the feminists Dalfonzo criticizes, I scorned Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl when I was a teenager because I thought it was telling girls to be passive and plain...
...Troy, AL...
...This was the flavor of the full message delivered to the author during my interview, which has been mischaracterized and taken out of context...
...Since militia duty these days (in fact, for a century or more) totally involves government-issued guns, whatever personal right was originally sanctioned by the Second Amendment is today an anachronism...
...If it is to protect the inalienable rights of our citizens, then a mission to change the world will detract from it...
...foreign policy "to the goal of making the Chinese dictators blissfully happy...
...Wouldn't it set a fine example to have one nation that aimed at self-improvement, rather than just another that tries to "improve" the behavior of the rest...
...Now there’s a losing strategy for you...
Vol. 6 • July 2001 • No. 41
