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Ford-ing the Gap

Between liberal charities and their critics. On RET’s reading list. Mimi’s poetic stylings. Plus more.

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CAN’T ASSUME RATIONALITY
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s Israeli Settlements:

You and I might assess Israel’s predicament rationally, but it would be irrational of us to expect Obama or his supporters to do likewise. The primary reason his speeches are so persuasive is that he knows how to say what people want to hear. His glib assurances are virtually all style with little rational content. They are dangerous because they appeal to many voters who tend to believe only what they want to believe.

This all supports my contention that bad policy is based on emotion and good policy on reason. That argument is repeated throughout my book “Reason, Emotion, and Human Error.” It is in your queue, but my intention is not to pester you to deviate from your natural reading order. This will all come together in its own time.
William Best
New Whiteland, Indiana

MODERATELY WEAK
Re: Angelo Codevilla’s Pro-Mexico (from the June issue) and Jonathan Aitken’s Rowan Williams Rebounds:

What the hell? After reading the articles by Codevilla and Aitken in my last issue of TAS, that is my immediate reaction. I found Codevilla’s article about embracing Mexican illegals less than thoughtful, as Regnery suggested in his introduction to the issue. I find it difficult to feel guilty about resenting the many depredations caused by the mass of illegals trespassing on the border ranch lands and overburdening our health care system, our social welfare system and our laws. There was no mention of the high percentage of illegals in our prisons, the Mexican gangs and their violence, the costs placed on our hospitals and local governments that far outweigh anything the illegals contribute with their cheap labor. I have to take the statistics put out by studies done by Heritage, et al., over the earnest supplications of Mr. Codevilla. He also neglected any mention of the sorry and enraging spectacle of the demonstrations by illegals demanding their rights while waving the Mexican flag. But not to worry! Pres. Obama is well on his way to solving the problem of illegals trampling our southwest deserts to come and work. He brilliantly has figured out that by destroying our economy and subsequently the job market, the Mexicans will have a much better chance of finding employment in their own hopelessly corrupt and violent homeland. They might as well not bother wearing out their hauraches coming here.

I had simmered down a little after reading Codevilla until I moved on to Aitken. I generally enjoy his “High Spirits” articles but I didn’t buy his assertions about what a great and brilliant guy, Archbiship Rowan is. He said he was misquoted in his endorsement of some aspects of sharia law but then negelected to clarify on how this was so. Then he went on to say that he has done a great service by turning the church’s concerns from such introverted things as homosexual clergy to the great religious problem and global concerns of environmentalism.  Just at a point when more and more people are waking up from being asleep at the wheel and realizing that the environmentalists are a bunch of lying, hysterical leftist extremists, Aitkin thinks the church should follow these Luddites into the abyss of economic destruction and possibly world starvation if they get their way in destroying the agricultural industry. 

If TAS is going to insert anymore of this “moderate” drivel in what usually is a refuge of brilliance and humor for this conservative/libertarian, please put some kind of warning under the subject line or at the bottom of the first page.
Jill Hiller
Valparaiso, Indiana

BAD COMPANY
Re: Quin Hillyer’s Lib Leadership and Double Standards:

Expecting Democrats to have moral or intellectual integrity is like asking Barack Hussein Obama to produce his long form birth certificate to prove beyond a doubt he is a native born American — it just won’t happen. One could even compare asking Democrats to have moral and intellectual integrity to asking Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin (proto-Obamas) to stop practicing genocide — it isn’t going to happen. The Democratic Party is a morally and intellectually bankrupt group of self-serving egotists bent on milking the system for all they can get out of it, and the country and its hard working people be damned.
Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

TJ PREDICTED IT
Re: Jonathan Witt’s The Mr. Potato Head Constitution:

An excellent article by Dr. Witt. I seem to recall a Mr. Thomas Jefferson opining the following regarding the effects of the Judiciary on the Constitution as something like this:

“The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please.”

I suppose we should be surprised and thankful at the two centuries of relative restraint, all things considered. There does seem to be an alarming rate of wax deformation in the last sixty years, however, consistent with this trenchant analysis by the estimable Dr. Witt.
Thomas Herring III
Mission Viejo, California

A HILL TO DIE ON

From time immemorial, with full knowledge that defeat was the only foreseeable outcome, people have made pledges and taken stances for what they believe is right. In the military these stands are often called “suicide missions.” Sometimes miracles happen and a righteous victory is granted. But even in defeat, honor is persevered.

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (21) |

SLG| 6.15.09 @ 7:16PM

Jill, you're a breath of fresh air. Mimi too, of course, as usual.....
PS/Never found Letterman funny, 'cept for a rare, occasional Top-Ten or stupid pets thing.
His spewing of "jokes" at the expense of Governor Palin are beneath contempt.

Tony| 10.21.09 @ 10:07PM

the complex rapidity of slow, accentuated.
extremely beautiful and inspiring! Thanks.
Generic

For Sale

مركز تحميل | 6.27.09 @ 3:14AM

مركز تحميل

weight | 11.12.09 @ 1:58PM

hi

poptropica | 4.8.10 @ 10:41PM

I’ll have aPoptropica full written walkthrough very soon, but in the meantime, here are some answers to some of the frequently asked questions about Mythology Island. Having trouble? Post a question in the comments and I’ll try to answer it!
Getting Hercules to Help You

Hercules won’t help you until you have all five items from Zeus’ quest. Once you have the five items, bring them to Athena. Zeus will appear and steal them. The big jerk! Once this happens, talk to Athena and she will tell you that Hercules will help you. You’ll need to have the magic mirror from Aphrodite because Hercules doesn’t want to have to walk. He’s so lazy!
Getting the Hydra Scale

You can see how to do this in the videos, but basically you need to jump up when the Hydra is about to strike. He will rear one of his heads back to attack and his eyes will bulge out. When this happens, jump up in the air and then try to land on top of his head. That head will get knocked out. When all five heads get knocked out, the Hydra will be asleep and you can click on him to get one of the scales.Poptropica

دردشة يمنية | 6.10.11 @ 2:48AM

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شات سعودي | 6.12.11 @ 2:35AM

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