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br> Chicago, Illinois /p> p> Hunter Baker replies: br> I've seen a statement from the Keyes campaign on this issue and have to admit I'm puzzled. Giving tax freedom to descendants of slavery for a period is an innovative notion, but I can't see it as part of a campaign for the U.S. Senate. Maybe it makes sense as an idea to be developed further by think tanks, but even then I suspect there are major issues with the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. /p>

The essays I've written in favor of a Keyes run for Senate in Illinois have been predicated upon his record of conservative thinking and outstanding ability to articulate the ideas that animated the founding of the nation. I believe if Keyes will re-focus his campaign on those simple values, he'll be able to mount a campaign worth following.

p> KERRY CREEP br> Re: Thomas Lipscomb's Swimming From Cambodia : /p>

Having read your recent "Swimming from Cambodia" article I can state that you are doing a great service to both Vietnam veterans and the American public by researching and documenting the extent of the lies that John Kerry has presented to the public over the last 35 years. Many of us were aware that his charges of war crimes against all Vietnam veterans were false, that his support for a withdrawal from Vietnam, under his terms, would have resulted in the sacrifice of our POWs, and that his support and leadership of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War group made our disengagement more costly and complicated than was necessary.

When a military man serves honorably with others, it is very disturbing that 35 years later, 90% of the men in his unit will question his honor and integrity. Many sources in the news are dismissing John Kerry's fellow veterans as partisan attack agents, bought and paid for by the current administration, but my own investigation has convinced me that they are what they claim to be: sailors that served honorably in the same unit with John Kerry (before, during and after his curtailed tour), and their agenda has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with preventing John Kerry from becoming the next President.

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