Reader Comments
Issue 96 - November 21, 2007

Editor: Wow what an issue!! Particularly the article on "Conservative Restoration:” this is a powerful and thorough review without the "crushing" investment of personal time researching these pivotal philosophers that would be necessary without this thorough analysis. Well done! Edward Feser. Well done! Donald Devine and well done "Conservative Battleline"!! Bob Langelius

Editor: This did it! “What’s With Nobel” by Dennis Avery is right. Giving the prize to Al Gore convinces me that the Nobel Prize is no longer what it was set up to be. Giving this award to Arafat, Jimmy Carter and now Al Gore, none of who are noted for their peace making abilities proves the Prize is a lot of bunk. It's the same as the Oscars, Emmys and other awards given to "special" people because they played the right politics. The fact the prize was given to Gore rather than Rush Limbaugh is a big plus for Limbaugh for he truly is a man of the people who is a peace maker. The Nobel isn't anything to be proud of any longer considering those who have been chosen recently to receive it. Carolyn A. Widmer, Jefferson, Georgia

Editor: Regarding “What’s With Nobel” by Dennis Avery about the awards to Al Gore, Yasser Arafat and Kofi Annan, it is very obvious as to what is going on. Arafat had suckered Israel and America over and over again, killed thousands of people, broke every agreement he ever made with us and Israel, and stole millions of dollars given to him by us. Annan's head swelled until he thought that he was king of the world. He enriched himself, his family, and all his buddies--the way he and his minions stole money and pilfered in other ways from the "oil for food" debacle. Al Gore is their hero and the smartest politician around. Other than demonizing Bush, his administration, and Republicans in general the Dems had nothing to counter the Republicans with. They needed more and Al was the man to deliver. Al came up with the perfect boogieman, "Global Warming". To the lay person it makes sense that with all the cars, trains, planes, power plants, and coal mines the world might be heating up. The number of other factors that need to be considered never are--never mind that the latter part of the 1800s was much warmer that today and that less than fifty years ago, this same type of odd-ball logic was scaring people with an "Ice Age". The world is full of little people and some times these little people get into positions that make them believe that they can and should run the world. So it is with the American-hating folks handing out the Nobel Prizes. Best Personal Regards, Vladimir Val Cymbal

Editor: Amen, not much more to be said after Alan Caruba’s “Science of the Climate Act.” I wrote an article for our local paper (attached) that said pretty much the same thing. Lowell A. Nielsen

Editor: Regarding Alan Caruba’s “Science of the Climate Act,” cosmologists believe the sun is in a higher radiation period and all the planets and moons are warming. That includes Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Pluto. In the Cretaceous period the earth was actually so warm that there were no polar ice caps, seas were 400 feet higher, and there was no ozone layer (National Geographic). Obviously, the earth warms and cools itself on its own schedule, maybe according to space dust as we swing around the galaxy or varying sun radiation cycles. Renny Hartmann

Editor: Thanks to Alan Caruba and his “Science of the Climate Act” and to you for printing the truth! Blessings, Anne Menaldo

Editor: Regarding Carey Robert's article "AIDS Failure", the problem 25 years ago was that we didn't isolate those first dozens or hundreds with AIDS. It works with TB. William F. Smith III

Editor: Well done article by S.T. Karnick on “TV More Moral?” Moralistic, perhaps; moral---well, that may remain a stretch. Network TV panders to a relatively narrow group of people, and they respond to the same pandering hot buttons that they did 10, 20 or 40 years ago. One of the best marketing tools ever devised by the networks is the "Some scenes or subjects may be inappropriate for younger viewers"----which, translated means "Hey, kids: this is a GREAT show! Just don't tell Mom that you're watching, OK?" Occasional shows are exceptional in teaching/illustrating important moral and social points; these unfortunately only serve to show the exceptional dearth of value in the other 95%. 'Extreme Home Makeovers' and 'Dancing with the Stars' are pleasant and, in their own way appealing; they continue to be swamped however by 'The View', 'CBS News with Katie Couric', and every precursor & successor to 'Sex and the City'. Would that it were otherwise, sincerely, Michael Lyster, Riverwoods IL

Editor: Regarding Rich Noyes’ “Media Praises Soviets,” I read of how Sam Jaffee-- Gunga Din, Ben Casey's mentor and communist party member--was head of a secret cell which ensured that anti-communists were blacklisted and didn't get jobs of any kind. John Ford's Irish-American crew was the one group of anti-communists that got work. My problem is that I can't remember in which book I read this. I've been searching for years. In Ayn Rand's “Journals,” she has the pamphlet she wrote about how communists tried to insert a few anti-capitalist lines in every film. Today, they're doing it with the Iraq war. When Rand's anti-Soviet novel, “We The Living,” was published it got no or bad reviews but began to sell via word of mouth. Then the Manhattan Marxist Mafia urged Macmillan to burn the plates of the book, consigning her to several more years of suppression. They're the true blacklisters not us. Thanks for your essay. Sandra Mendoza, Tiburon, California

Editor: Spencer Warren's description in “Biased Hollywood Ten Tales” is dead on. See also "The Hollywood Writers' Wars" by Nancy Lynn Schwartz, whose father was a member of the Writers Guild. She explains how in the late 1930s the Communists used nefarious means to take over the Guild and make it a voice of Communism. And in his book "Elia Kazan: A Biography", Richard Schickel, former movie reviewer for TIME, and certainly no right winger, describes how the Ten and many others in Hollywood were not only Communists but were, in fact, Stalinists, who knew the evils of Stalin and the Communist Party in Russia, yet supported him and aspired to duplicate Russian Communism in America. It is often said that blatant Communist ideas were rarely seen in movies written by the Ten and other Communists. Of course! Their mission was to shape the view without it being obvious. A. P. St. John

Editor: I've been missing Spencer Warren’s reviews due to my own time constraints, much to my chagrin. I just read his “Letters From Iwo Jima” review in ConservativeBattleline.com and it is perfect. I tried to convince my wife from my knowledge after seeing the movie and the distorted movie review in the Flint Journal, by a fellow who is an inveterate part of the far left loonscape, but to little avail in either case. Now I'll try his review and hope that it has a far greater impact than my impoverished attempts did on her. I also read his review of the PBS Ken Burns' film "The War" and especially appreciate his treatment of Michelle Malkins, “The Internment" of the Japanese, Italians, and Germans (but not the relocation of the Japanese), and how Burns dismissed Roosevelt for his decision regarding the relocation, which one can disagree with, but which was not a racist decision, made in a vacuum, or made without a fair amount of consideration of all viewpoints and knowledge of the day. Regards, Fredrick P. Wilson, Grand Blanc, MI

Editor: Having just read and enjoyed S.T. Karnick's article, "Boys Will Be Girls", I wanted to applaud Mr. Karnick for noting and taking on the anti-male trends in modern entertainment and connecting them to a larger cultural war against masculinity. Other commentators have noted an increased tendency to pathologize male behavior or minimize male contributions to family and culture, and I am grateful that Mr. Karnick and The American Conservative Union Foundation are aware of the harm that this could do to our society. Sincerely, Malia Blom, Director, Boys and Schools www.boysandschools.com

Editor: George Liebmann’s “Clinton Coronation?” is precisely what Americans need to know about this woman. Keep up the spreading of this information. American citizens desperately need to wake up. Burnie Vaughn