The American Spectator

/p> p> Christopher Orlet replies: br> I do not believe you can “require” a person to assimilate. Anyway what does Mr. Bashinski mean by assimilation? Accept Judeo-Christian values and refute, say, Islamic values? How does he suggest the government enforce this? In the few places where Islam and Christianity live peacefully side by side (say Albania) it is because the Islamic majority is largely secular with a strong national identity and a high degree of religious tolerance. /p> p> SLEEPING DURING HUMOR CLASS br> Re: Larry Thornberry’s McCain Peaks : /p> p>I just read Larry Thornberry’s article in The American Spectator titled “McCain Peaks.” I don’t know Mr. Thornberry’s age but I suspect he’s not from my generation (first wave of the post war baby boom — 1946). We may not have had the best educational system in the world back then but at least we learned how to spell. If you are Larry Thornberrry’s editor please advise him when he wishes to write about “a lot of television cameras,” he should spell it “beaucoup” television cameras, not “bo-koo.” This is a French word which was heavily used in Vietnam by American GIs since French was a language used “beaucoup” by the Vietnamese. This may seem like a minor point, however, bad spelling only lessens the credibility of the rest of the article. Perhaps Mr. Thornberry was doing beaucoup sleeping during spelling class. br> — Joseph A. Yturralde /p>