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6.12.03 @ 12:01AM

WHAT'S IN THE DAILY NEWS?
Re: George Neumayr's South Heads East and R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Get Off Stewart's Case:

A brief commentary on today's [Wednesday's] Internet news stories:

Garry South bailing on Gray(out) Davis to join the Lieberman campaign is clearly a case of a rat leaving a sinking ship for one that will soon run aground.

That Martha Stewart, who is merely irritating and greedy, is facing a stretch in the Big House, while Hillary Clinton, who has harmed this nation at every opportunity, sits on her fat butt in the Senate at the taxpayer's expense, may be taken as proof that God really does have a sense of humor.

That President Bush appears to believe that the Palestinians, who are possibly the largest assembly of serial Jew-killers since the Einsatzgruppen, will actually live in peace with Israel, indicates that he might have fallen off the wagon.

Is Mel Brooks now writing news stories under a variety of assumed names? I sure hope so.
-- Tillman L. Jeffrey
Manteca, CA

TAKING STOCK
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Get Off Stewart's Case:

The shares involved in this transaction would have to be 3,900 shares, not 39 shares. No one could save $45,673.00 on a sale of 39 shares unless it was one of the Berkshire Hathaway stocks!! Besides, it's obvious that Ms. Stewart was privy to information that you and I were not aware of! I'm sure this happens often, but Ms. Stewart is a pedigree and with a clamor within the republic to punish greed she will be made an example of! In fact, she may have done what Leona Helmsley did, which in her case involved tax evasion, but she lied to the feds! When her husband offered to pay huge fines etc. to spare her jail, they basically responded, tough situation, Harry! If the petard fits you might be strung up with it.
-- Edward Del Colle

END OF THE ROAD MAP
Re: Jed Babbin's Cannon Fodder, Terror Fatigue:

Once again, Babbin is right on the nose! Everything he said I believe to be exactly right. Abbas has absolutely no stroke. The Arabs will never agree that Israel has the right to exist. Period. And the terrorists will continue to kill Israelis forever, as long as they know they are welcome to do so by Syria, Jordan, Iran and Egypt. We may be the only country who can stop this business, but it will never be stopped by negotiation.
-- Mike Webster
Dallas, Texas

Your commentary about the dangers of that "God awful" road map just exploded in this A.M.'s news as G.W. demonstrated he ain't about to drop his pursuit of the map as he just bashed Sharon across the side of his head for attacking a Hamas terror leader. Blasting the good guys to placate the bad guys' "feelings" as he has just done, the Prez is dangerously eroding his rep as a "peace maker" earned in Iraq as he understood the need and use of force to "make a point." Hitting Sharon for doing the same for his country is incongruous to me.
-- Ken Wyman

TAX DRIVERS
Re: David Hogberg's The Taxing Life of Riley:

Reading your article about some of the Republican governors moving into the "raise taxes" camp causes me to cheer our Missouri legislature. The Democratic Governor Bob Holden has and continues to propose tax increases to balance the state budget and the Republican led legislature (so far, at least) has resisted, pointing out that three times in the last year or so state wide votes on tax increases failed.

Doesn't it still boil down to; the legislative branch writes the law, the executive branch executes the law (i.e., does what the law says to do).

If the Missouri legislature successfully prevents a tax increase in this state, shouldn't your complaint also include the various legislatures in those other states you listed? (Alabama, Alaska, etc.)

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Taxes, Education, Hillary Clinton, Business, Law, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Alaska, Oil