The American Spectator

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p> The real problem is not the safety Nazis, but out-of-control litigation. Cities that ban sledding, like manufacturers who put warning labels on knives and restaurants that put warning labels on coffee cups, are responding rationally to out-of-control litigation. In a rational world, lawsuits by people who run into poles and benches when they are sledding would be thrown out of court. Instead, the lawsuits are admitted and juries of peers award $6 million to pinheads. Individual cities and corporations can't bring rationality to the courts, so they each make rational, loss-minimizing decisions. Mr. Orlet is right that those decisions collectively make life less free and less fun. The cure is to bring the courts under control, not to ridicule the cities and corporations trying to cope with insane forces outside their control. br> -- Ben Neuhausen br> Highland Park, Illinois /p> p> THE GOOD BOOK br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Wolfe Man : /p>

Read your article on President Bush's habit of reading books without flaunting it in our face reminded me of President Clinton.

p>Can you tell me when Clinton had the operation to remove the Bible from his left hand after 8 years? I heard it had permanently bonded to his left hand since he read it daily. Since he left office I have never seen the Bible again. br> -- Kenneth Parady

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