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p> No sooner had your cyber ink dried, Dr. Tyrrell, than the fourth quarter '05 GDP final growth figure only came in at 1.7 percent, with an upwards of a $3 trillion federal budget that kind of growth rate is not even close to superlative. As to inflation rates, unemployment rates, they are always either understated, overstated and finally subject to manipulation by statisticians, and assorted wizards to confound or deceive the average citizen. The consumer confidence index is no better than a yo-yo, it's a measure of feel-goodism, a trope of our materialistic society. That sure takes a lot of reflective and disinterested thought! What's alarming is that the Chinese hold nearly $900 billion of our national debt! What's alarming is the unfunded liabilities of the spurious and specious trust funds, labeled Social Security and Medicare! Our dollar is talked down and kept down by officialdom, not otherwise. An economy must be viewed from its fundamentals, not the perpetual bullishness of Lawrence Kudlow. Other than that, I'm bullish on Boltenism or Boltonism! br> -- unsigned /p> p> BREAKING FREE br> Re: Mark Gauvreau Judge's Thundering Theophobes : /p> p>Excellent article. Years ago when I was involved in the civil unions fight up here in Vermont, I used the writings from First Things and Fr. Neuhaus extensively, especially the article mentioned ("Judicial Oligarchy") by Robert Bork, among other articles. Now, a former editor is attacking this very institution, condemning what they are saying, and trying to put them into the very category that this guy is in. We had lost our freedoms to a tyrannical judiciary but now that is changing, so the liberals are coming out of the woodwork to fight what they know to be their Armageddon. It is interesting to see just where these people have been hiding. Let's smoke out a few more and maybe once that is done, we can really win this battle, since we will have unmasked the enemy for good. br> -- Pete Chagnon

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