Correspondence
Correspondence YELLOW NO MORE KUDOS TO TOD LINDBERG for his wellwritten and insightful essay “Rebirth of a Nation” (March 4). As a now middle-aged man, I remember all too well the awful days of...
...None of those men would shed a tear over the civilians who died on September 11...
...It was shocking...
...The Nov...
...But it’s even worse than Glassman describes...
...Several years then passed without my listening to or reading Moyers...
...However, they did not have access to eyeglasses...
...This is why rifles often do not show up in probate records...
...It was not a tragedy, as tragedy implies some defect in the subject of the tragedy that contributes to his or her fate...
...In chastising the Left for bashing America, Shuman manages to offend the 40 percent of Americans who label themselves “conservative...
...As expected, a letter of protest was rejected for publication...
...NICHOLAS DUJMOVIC Vienna, VA FOR YEARS I admired Bill Moyers as a thoughtful, open-minded individual...
...Note that this editorial appeared shortly after Sept...
...VMI grads are known— at least, were known—for resolve in the face of the enemy...
...It was coldblooded murder, plain and simple...
...11 shows a remarkable lack of empathy for the victims— not an admirable quality in a physician, the author of the piece...
...GIBSON III Rancho Palos Verdes, CA MY FELLOW AMERICANS I APPRECIATED Michael H. Shuman’s article on America-bashing (“My Fellow Lefties . . . ,” Feb...
...KEN TOPPING Houston, TX AS A HISTORIAN, I found David Skinner’s article on the Michael Bellesiles controversy a good summary of what has gone on so far...
...I would argue that there are several “progressive” causes shared by liberals and conservatives alike, such as improving education...
...Moyers is one of the most sanctimonious folk around, but putting him in the garb of an Eastern Orthodox saint seems over the top...
...Parody is good fun, but this time THE WEEKLY STANDARD went too far...
...The editorialist recommends international agreements to limit global warming, but who is to say that activist readers will not conclude that more aggressive measures are needed...
...As their vision deteriorated in mid-life, they handed their weapons down to sons and grandsons, who could see clearly enough to shoot accurately...
...25) about Wafa Idris, the female Palestinian suicide bomber, failed to address the most important religious question regarding her martyrdom: Is Wafa entitled to seventy- two virgins...
...Most Americans I talk to are dismayed, disappointed, and outright angry at the Left’s reaction to September 11 and ensuing events, and the mainstream media have certainly lost a degree of credibility with the American public...
...Americans should not forget that these al Qaeda/Taliban fighters are completely committed to our deaths and the destruction of our culture...
...citizen is a bioterrorist...
...That is, each U.S...
...HAROLDWITKOV Downers Grove, IL...
...ROGER FRANTZ San Diego, CA EQUAL WORK, EQUAL PAY...
...I would happily go back to the warm Caribbean and the unique “Gitmo” atmosphere in an instant...
...It would seem that a number of people were prepared to let their ideological convictions override the skepticism that every good historian ought to have...
...Such a move by the cadets should come naturally...
...When a leading scientific journal uses such inflammatory language, one should not be surprised if the flames of violence erupt...
...A more compelling alternative would have been to invite the press to lunch in the mess hall and to lead the cadets in the lunch prayer, defying the federal judge’s ruling against free speech...
...CATE BRIZZELL Saratoga Springs, NY BELLESILES’S FOGGY VISION ILAUGHED HEARTILY at David Skinner’s account of the debate between historical scholars on whether or not our forefathers owned guns (“The Historian Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight,” Feb...
...ALEX CHOMPFF Livermore, CA GREEN FURY JAMES K. GLASSMAN has it right (“Green with Rage,” Feb...
...DAVID C. STOLINSKY Los Angeles, CA BLASPHEMOUS COVERAGE WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY for THE WEEKLY STANDARD to deface Christian art with Stephen F. Hayes’s cover story on Bill Moyers (“PBS’s Televangelist,” Feb...
...Retiring superintendent Major General Bunting registered his dismay with the injunction by penning an editorial in the Wall Street Journal...
...it also carries the seeds of violence...
...While this fact was not mentioned, readers might conclude that SUV drivers are no better than those who crash airliners into office buildings, and that therefore the attack of Sept...
...At the very least, its publication so soon after Sept...
...DINARDO Stafford, VA LUCKY CAMPERS MATT LABASH’s characterization of the clime and conditions at Camp X-Ray is right on target (“Guantanamo’s Unhappy Campers,” Feb...
...Radical environmentalism is not only a pseudo-religion...
...military picked up out of the ocean in 1994...
...I must, however, take issue with Shuman on one point: his use of the term “progressive” to describe leftist media and policies...
...The original art the cover artist defaced almost certainly was an icon of Jesus Christ: The left hand holds the Holy Gospel—on which was implanted the PBS corporate logo...
...Many Americans would have been satisfied with a summary court-martial and execution in the field for every last one of them...
...In the larger picture, however, the article reveals more about the state of the historical profession in the United States than it does about the Bellesiles case in particular...
...He is so intent on considering all viewpoints as valid that he doesn’t appear to be able to take a stand on most things...
...He correctly notes that leftist America-bashers “have sullied more worthy progressive causes for years to come...
...11 was deserved...
...17, 2001, issue of Lancet, one of the leading medical journals in the world, carries an editorial titled “Climate Change—the New Bioterrorism...
...In the process, they would be defending our constitutional right to free speech in general and prayer in particular...
...The environmental movement not only has radical elements, but it is itself inherently radical, and potentially violent as well...
...Kudos to Labash for reporting the truth, instead of jumping on the hysterical human rights bandwagon...
...As a now middle-aged man, I remember all too well the awful days of the Iranian hostage ordeal and the anger I felt at that time over the orgy of yellow ribbons and other feckless displays of victimhood...
...BILL HARRISON Arlington, VA QUIETED VESPERS THE RADICAL LEFT-WING INJUNCTION against prayer before meals at the Virginia Military Institute marks an affront to Christianity and to our Constitution (“How to Ruin an Institution,” Woody West, March 4...
...Cadets and their leaders should engage in civil disobedience by continuing their prayers...
...Consider the Battle of New Market in 1864...
...These perfectly reflected the attitudes of the pious incompetent occupying the White House, but the mullahs knew, however, that no victim was coming into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 1981...
...In calling the Left “progressive,” Shuman obviously implies that those who do not subscribe to the same belief system are, in fact, “regressive...
...The right hand is lifted in blessing, with the fingers, by the convention of Orthodox iconography and pastoral practice, shaped into the letters ICXC, the Greek initials for Jesus Christ...
...Consider the sobering number of Medal of Honor winners among the alumni...
...As an enlisted Marine grunt from 1991-95, I spent nearly a year on Guantanamo caring for and guarding Haitian, then Cuban, “detainees” the U.S...
...I find it incomprehensible that a book whose errors were exposed relatively easily could win something as prestigious as the Bancroft Prize...
...Moreover, they would be providing a symbolic reminder to their counterparts on active duty of their sworn obligation to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
...Moyers is so open-minded that he doesn’t seem to believe in anything, other than in the virtue of open-mindedness...
...The environmentalist fanatics are seething over Bj?rn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist, which debunks many of the exaggerations these fanatics find useful...
...By defying this radical and unconstitutional injunction, they would be reaffirming their reputation for fearlessness and good...
...As a student of history and genealogy, I can assure you that virtually every pioneer owned a rifle to protect his family, and to put meat on the table...
...As an aside, if I hear September 11 described as a “tragedy” one more time on television I am going to lose it...
...Then I saw him on his new show NOW with Bill Moyers a few weeks ago...
...Correspondence YELLOW NO MORE KUDOS TO TOD LINDBERG for his wellwritten and insightful essay “Rebirth of a Nation” (March 4...
...The editorial asserts, “Each U.S...
...citizen emitted 20 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 1998, compared with two tonnes for each person in all the developing countries,” and concludes, “Climate change is bio-political terrorism...
...By my reckoning, the sworn followers of Osama bin Laden in Guantanamo Bay are fortunate...
...After all, such measures are justified in combating other forms of bioterrorism— such as the release of anthrax spores...
...THE SCRAPBOOK item “New Frontiers in Feminism” (Feb...
Vol. 7 • March 2002 • No. 26
