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Jackie's Audacity

9.25.06 @ 12:01AM

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Theirs is my sentiment exactly. Any attack on me will be met with a violence that will make their heads swim in blood. Muslims, for the most part, are vermin. We just don't realize that yet, even with all of the evidence, every day....what's wrong with us?
-- Gene
Pennsylvania

AT LAST! Someone has the audacity to tell the truth!
Thank you for publishing the article!
-- Michelle

WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOM
Re: Philip Klein's America, Don't Leave Us:

Here's the deal folks. The only way we can lose in Iraq is if the Cutandrunocrats get control of the congress and senate in November. And if that happens, America as we know it is lost forever. There will be a terrorist behind every tree blessed by the Cutandrunocrats. Short of that, my money is on the US military.
-- Jim L
East Sandwich, Massachusetts

American citizens would be very much heartened if the Iraqis would talk about sharing their oil revenue with all their people, rather than figuring out, in typical Arab fashion, how the elected representatives of the people can steal it, or parcel it out to their relatives and constituents. Then, the 60% unemployment he talks so much about in Iraq wouldn't hurt so much, and people might not be so willing to join militias.

Additionally, the young people in Iraq should be drafted into a couple of years of national service, no exceptions. Such service could be with the police, security forces, Army, or a national corps for rebuilding Iraq.

I don't see those elected representatives in Iraq really being serious about solving their problems. They pat the Americans on the back when it's daylight, then bring out the guns at night, to kill Americans, or their religious foes down the street.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

LID ON COFFIN
Re: Mark Tooley's The Coffin Legacy:

First, I "tune in" to the 9/22 edition of TAS online, when, jumpin' Jehosaphat, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but the bellowing William Sloane Coffin beckoning me from the grave to come hither, grovel before the feet of the great seer, and beg forgiveness for the sin of being alive. Then, I read Mr. Tooley's account of this grand wizard of American Protestantism.

Perhaps, Mr. Tooley, you should be arrested for "disturbing the peace" per RET's "Their Sound and Their Fury"! Did we really have to resurrect this phony priest of "peace," even for educational purposes? But, since we can't put the genie back in his bottle, we'll just confront him.

Coffin's myopic spiritual vision, the source of his good intentions, "Coffin was inspired to go into the ministry, with an understanding that 'social justice is at the heart of the Gospel,'" was not only his guiding light, but his fatal flaw. He abetted the enemy of us all, by slavishly adhering to this false gospel, and one must wonder whose ministry Sloane Coffin's inspiration ultimately led him into. He seemed not to understand or care that one doesn't use the hammer and sickle to bring in the harvest. But then, to those who believe in "making the world a better place," the world is all there is.

Still, I suppose we can forgive the religious left to a certain extent. How nice it would be, we are tempted to believe, if we could remake the world, only this time do it right. But, we can't. It was never intended to be so. Coffin never learned this from his experience. He only grew more bitter. He was the great P.T. Barnum of the American left, utter hubris, responsible for suckering a generation, who along with him, are ultimately responsible for the deaths, both physical and spiritual, of millions worldwide. He fully lived up to his name.

Your last comments, Mr. Tooley, "May he rest in peace, and may his errors be forgiven," almost belie a certain fondness for Coffin, a warm cockle in your heart. Noble thoughts, but you cannot save him now. Prayers and grief are wasted on him who chose his own destiny. Just as he was unreachable in life, so he is in death, overpowered by the trademark of the liberal mind, all consuming guilt, which he so proudly nurtured, and which in the end, defeated the truth that would have set him free. We may all, at some time in our life, face the temptation to become a William Sloane Coffin, but thankfully, most of us outgrow it.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

Your article on Coffin omits much. For the wife-beating (yes, really!), etc....
-- Eric Rasmusen

WHAT'S COOKING
Re: Lawrence Henry's Home Cooking:

Letter to the Editor

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