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Looking Straight Ahead

Death on the march. After democracy. Southern borders. Plus more.

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Very prophetic.

Bumper sticker: "When only Christians are having children, then this will be a Conservative Christian Nation."

p>Liberals, take heed. br> -- John McGinnis br> Arlington, Texas /p> p> SLOW MURDER br> Re: Ben Stein's American Death Sentence : /p>

I've been a very big fan of Ben Stein's for years. While I enjoy everything he writes, I think his March 29, 2005, column "American Death Sentence" was the most right-on thing he has ever written. It wasn't funny or charming, like most of his columns, but it was true and very scary. America's culture of death has finally caught up with the Netherlands. I am a "Rock Ribbed Republican," an old-fashioned "John Wayne" pro-American. Yet I am beginning to get a really creepy feeling about this country's growing desire to kill the unwanted young, the sick, and the elderly. Does anyone really think Clint's Million Dollar Baby won Best Picture this year because it was the best picture? I think The Aviator was this year's best picture. Based on ticket sales, so did most Americans. Eastwood hit big this year because Million Dollar Baby had the right message (euthanasia), for the cultural elite, at the right time. We're not just headed for the slippery slope, we're sliding fast!

p>P.S. I actually like Clint Eastwood. Minus the euthanasia twist at the end,
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