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5.16.03 @ 12:01AM

MILLER TIME
Did anyone else hear Sen. Miller on "Imus in the Morning" (Wednesday, May 14th)? Man, was he great! He is a real Conservative Democrat. He said he's disgusted with the Democratic Party's refusal to allow an up-or-down vote on the nominated judges; he's all for the President's tax cut; he is a full supporter of the war on terror; and he even called those who complained about Dubya's Aircraft Carrier landing "small and petty." Geeze, I wish either one of my two "Republican" Senators from Maine were even half as conservative as Sen. Miller!
-- Scott Wright
Poland Spring, ME

TAKE ME HOME
Re: "Mr. Knick" in Wlady's Corner:

Brings back memories of my senior year at West Virginia University: As a transplanted New Yorker (as many WVU graduates are) studying for finals -- readying physically for the Officer's Basic course at Ft. Benning (3.2% beer couldn't hurt you, right?) watching that game, cheering for Jerry West (WVU's finest), cheering for my "home team," the Knicks, drawing the ire of everyone at the bar in Morgantown, West Virginia (no "Sports Bars" in those days -- just an off campus dive called "Sleepy's" owned by Don Knott's sister Mildred).

Many fans will miss Dave DeBusschere -- those too young will have missed an era, a basketball game that no longer exists and a true gentleman of the sport.

Great tribute.

Thanks, "Wlady."
-- Mike Horn

CASINO ROYALE
Re: "One Last Haymaker" in Wlady's Corner:

Gossip column material, but I just can't help but wonder if Bennett was outed by the "Washington neocondom" after fellow Empower American Jack Kemp fired off a column denouncing Newt Gingrich's attack on Powell and the State Department. Certainly, that quote by David Brooks is rather harsh. I think Bennett is a phony because he passes of the work off ghostwriters as his own, but I never mentioned anything about Satan.
-- C. Bowen

SPICK AND SPAM
Re: Jeremy Lott's Green Eggs and Spam:

If Jeremy thinks that email is getting cumbersome now, wait until the government comes along to help him out with it. :)

BTW -- there are some very simple tricks to dramatically improve filtering of publicly-displayed email addresses: talk to your webmaster about it (if they don't know, replace 'em).
-- Tom Frost

WALK ON THE SUPPLY SIDE
Re: Chris Edwards' Small But Potent:

Chris Edwards missed the biggest reason that the tax cut will not "blow a hole" in the budget. Big tax cuts increase government revenues.
-- Don Lyle

STAR POWER
Re: Jed Babbin's May SGO:

Looking for a one-star to be the new Chief of Staff? Try a guy who isn't even in the Army anymore: LTC Douglas Macgregor, author of Breaking the Phalanx.

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