Correspondence
Correspondence CULTURAL CONSERVATIVES IN "THE SECRET OF GORE'S SUCCESS," Tucker Carlson addresses the matter of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman suggesting Federal Trade commission action against studio...
...Unfortunately, Bush's promised central message of expanding and more widely distributing ownership of the nation's wealth has yet to emerge from his barrage of tax, budget, and privatization proposals, all of which are compatible with the expanded ownership theme...
...The only young men in the group who said they were circumcised had the surgery performed for medical reasons...
...Correspondence CULTURAL CONSERVATIVES IN "THE SECRET OF GORE'S SUCCESS," Tucker Carlson addresses the matter of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman suggesting Federal Trade commission action against studio heads if they don't "shape up" (Sept...
...It was also interesting that Klinghof-fer did his informal study in a gymnasium...
...But he missed one reason why Greeks and Romans regarded circumcision with horror...
...11) presents a Catholic bishop laboring mightily to ensure that a diploma from his high schools will be worthless in the eyes of any rational college admissions official or prospective employer...
...Sure, working families want choice and opportunity, but what they want most is ownership—ownership of a home, an asset account, and often a personal business...
...And that is exactly what my campaign is going to talk about...
...Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure...
...Most conservatives actually oppose government regulation, believe in the First Amendment, and generally support the view that most problems are better resolved outside of government...
...It's about time Bush got this message straight...
...JOHN MCCLAUGHRY Kirby, VT IT'S HIGH TIME Republicans start making it clear that their core principles are not elitist or "mean-spirited" or "risky" or preferential to the rich at the expense of the rest...
...I'm sure there are others like me, who, if given the chance to hear the true conservative message, and not what gets filtered and demonized by the Democrats, would find that message resonant...
...To my shock and amazement I went even further and began listening to conservative voices—including The Weekly Standard, Rush Limbaugh, and Norman Podhoretz—and I found that these voices made the most sense of all...
...ROSS Nashville, TN A REAL HATCHET JOB DAVID KLINGHOFFER did nice research on a very touchy subject for American society ("From Abraham to America," Sept...
...They also see it as a form of mutilation...
...Republicans figured this out in the Reagan platform of 1980: "The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty...
...It's a winner...
...REV...
...In addition, controlled studies consistently show that children in properly organized bilingual classes acquire at least as much English as those in all-English classes and usually acquire more...
...But according to a recent report, Vista erroneously lumped a large number of high scoring limited-English students with its fluent-English-speaking population...
...The answer...
...C.H...
...STEPHEN KRASHEN Professor of Education University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA OWN A PIECE OF AMERICA WILLIAM TUCKER'S proposed "Declaration of Independence" for working families hits all around the mark, but never the bull's-eye ("A Declaration of Independence," Sept...
...I wonder whether the luckless fellow who teaches history at opelousas Catholic will be allowed to mention the Black Death...
...But oceanside had a poorly conceived bilingual program, one in which instruction was in Spanish alone until grade six...
...unz has also pointed out that test scores in neighboring Vista, a district that kept bilingual education, were not as impressive...
...He writes, "Does [Bill Bennett] think the Federal Trade commission ought to go after studio heads...
...Whenever I get to the details of the covenant with Abraham, the males recoil in horror that the sign of the covenant was circumcision...
...LARRY BAILEY New York, NY...
...Test scores increased throughout california over the last two years, a phenomenon that typically occurs when new tests are introduced, and there is no evidence linking this increase to dropping bilingual education...
...Greene concluded that the use of the native language in instructing limited-English-proficient children has "moderate beneficial effects" and that "efforts to eliminate the use of the native language in instruction . . . harm children by denying them access to beneficial approaches...
...is 'no.' In other words, phony or not, Al Gore has officially taken a stand on the entertainment industry that is to the right of Bill Bennett...
...ROSE MARIE MIKOLJAK Addison, IL SPEAKING OF CALIFORNIA CONTRARY TO THE SCRAPBOOK'S assertion, rising test scores in California do not demonstrate that dismantling bilingual education was a good idea ("Don't Knock Unz," Sept...
...Ron unz has limited his analysis of the california test scores to a few districts, and has not examined the details closely enough...
...Now I credit him with helping to save my sanity when the Democrats I thought I knew and loved turned into moral midgets...
...For the first time I got past the spin to hear the philosophy, and it made sense...
...When one considers a larger number of districts and examines the published research, one sees impressive evidence supporting bilingual education...
...Jay Greene of the University of Texas at Austin, using statistical tools far more precise than those used in previous reviews...
...The Roman gymnasium in Jerusalem was a cause for scandal, and Jews, at least observant ones, would have nothing to do with full, semi-public nudity and never entered...
...He has pointed out that scores for limited-English-proficient children increased quite a bit in Ocean-side, a district that dropped bilingual education...
...Stanford professor Kenji Hakuta found that test scores rose in districts in california that kept bilingual education, as well as in districts that never had bilingual education...
...We] will not only protect the cherished human right of property ownership, but will also work to help millions of Americans—particularly those from disadvantaged groups—to share in the ownership of the wealth of their nation...
...DEL MENDEZ Ann Arbor, MI PAROCHIAL EDUCATION FOR YEARS NOW, we Roman Catholics have been observing (if not gloating) that in most areas of the country the Catholic schools are markedly superior to their public counterparts...
...George W. Bush told the Congress of Racial Equality this summer, "We want everybody to own a piece of the future in this country...
...To them, it was a form of mutilation, disfiguring a perfect body...
...It is the liberal left that endorses the use of the government as a blunt instrument to force a particular result, and in this case incredibly believes that pointy-headed Washington bureaucrats have better "taste" and parenting skills than the great unwashed...
...I only hope the Bush camp and the candidate himself read their words...
...ROYAL S. DELLINGER Rockville, MD WELCOME TO THE CLUB I COULDN'T AGREE MORE with William Kristol and David Brooks's "The High Road to High Office" (Sept...
...It is indeed a situation worthy of the pen of an o'Connor or a Waugh...
...As someone who comes from that very $30-$50,000 bracket William Tucker discusses, a member of a working family in every sense, I truly appreciate his work...
...Not so...
...But Rod Dreher's "Banning Flannery" (Sept...
...Ten years ago I thought Rush Limbaugh was insane...
...Properly organized bilingual programs introduce English on the first day, and begin subject matter teaching in English as soon as it can be made comprehensible...
...I teach in a Lutheran high school in the Bronx...
...This had the effect of artificially lowering the average for limited-English-proficient children...
...It is also of interest that for the last three years, limited-English-proficient students in Arizona who were in bilingual education have outscored those in all-English programs on tests of English reading...
...The most recent review of this research was done by Prof...
...The Lewinsky incident—especially the trashing of the rule of law—so turned me off President Clinton that I started looking at Republicans with new eyes...
...I am new to conservatism, a 51-year-old married woman who grew up in New York and have voted Democratic in every presidential election except my first one...
Vol. 6 • October 2000 • No. 4
