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11.10.06 @ 12:01AM

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Have a look here. Click on the states of MO and MT to see the actual vote totals.

This same result has happened many times before in western state Senate races (Nevada, Oregon of late) and thus it is a problem that needs addressing by conservatives in the Republican Party.

Surely Libertarians, who value reason, can be persuaded that Republican-appointed federal judges are preferable on issues like property rights, government social engineering, federalism, labor unions, to name just a few.

The GOP needs to commence horse-trading with the LP to stop them electing liberal Democrats to the Senate.

I realize pure libertarians are principled, difficult, and utopian, but handing Senate seats to socialist Democrats is simply not rational behavior.
-- Jameson Campaigne

AMERABIA
Re: Christopher Orlet's Americans Second:

Mr. Orlet touches on a basic problem here in America which will, sooner or later, have to be solved. After my Norwegian grandfather came to America with his five sons, he was asked: "Why don't you teach your sons to speak Norwegian?" He replied, "We are in America now, and we speak American."

But Muslims are a different breed from Norwegians. Ingrained in Muslims, as so cogently pointed out by Mr. Orlet, is a cultural mindset which cannot easily be modified or erased. One is reminded by the question posed in the Bible: "Can the leopard change its spots?"

Regretfully, I fear not.
-- Bob Johnson

Mr. Orlet's Special Report doesn't surprise me regarding Muslims in America. I'm not sure I'd call them American Muslims. If the tenets of their faith are followed to the letter, which is pretty much what is demanded by their mullahs, well, then we will always be their enemy to be either converted by the sword or subjugated to dhimmi status. This hasn't changed in 1,400 years nor do I suspect it will in the future. The conditions of their faith, culture, society and ruling practices are so interwoven in a miasma of illogic and unreason that it resembles a Kafka nightmare from which there is no escape. Unless "light" is allowed to shine in, and a Muslim Reformation of sorts takes place, I don't expect anything but continued trouble. Given the Koran is believed by them to be the literal word of God and Mohammed the last and true prophet, there can be no change to the words therein. Maybe a slight reinterpretation? Don't count on it. And regardless of what they say to non-Muslims to pacify us or convince of their rights to practice their beliefs here, it is allowed by the Koran for Muslims to lie to non-Muslims for the advance of Islam. Sort of reminds me of the blindness of Marxist zealots during the rise of the Reds in the earlier half of the 20th century.

Study enough history on the subject and it will demonstrate how intractable a problem Islam is. I think we'd be better off not allowing Muslim immigration to this country at all, or the West in general, but that would be "un-American," I suppose. Too late for Europe, the cat's out of the bag there.
-- An Anonymous Christian American Living in a Large U.S. city containing a 6-figure Muslim population, and growing.

POX PROOF
Re: William Tucker's The Roots of Democracy:

Is Mr. Tucker advocating a return to pre-WW II isolationism?

Tossing in the towel with a "pox on your house" admonishment to Iraq that will result in the slaughter of untold thousands is not an acceptable or civilized solution to the problem. Our friends, the Kurds, have already experienced our reliability on this score (along with the Vietnamese and Cambodians from earlier ventures). Another exercise of this expedient ought to pretty well remove any lingering doubt around the world about the wisdom of depending on the U.S. when the chips are down.

The problem is the Muslim religion as currently practiced and the solution to the problem is preventing it from metastasizing further while finding means of moderating or eliminating its brutal, medieval aspects. That will take courage, work and sacrifice. If we don't face up to the task now and stay with those who are trying to effect these changes we may very well find ourselves in the position famously described by Winston Churchill as having no remaining alternatives to fighting alone with no hope of victory.

I hope we have what it takes to prevail in this undertaking. I don't think Mr. Tucker would enjoy life as a dhimmi.
-- E. Costello
Bellevue, Washington

UP FOR AIR
Re: Doug Bandow's The Turkey Ballot:

Sorry to come in late on this subject (None Of The Above), but after Tuesday's dismal results, I just couldn't do any web surfing yesterday.

In a science fiction book called The Probability Broach, by L. Neil Smith, he presents an "alternate" United States much more libertarian than anything we have today. In the story, he tells about the alternate U.S. presidents in a discussion between two characters (one from "our world," one from the alternate world) as they view some past presidential portraits. I may have the details incorrect, but I believe they come up to a blank portrait and the person from the alternate world points out that their ballots have None Of The Above as a choice, and if "elected," None Of The Above HAS to serve out the term.

I like your NOTA suggestion, but ONLY if NOTA is forced to serve out the term. Just think if we elected an entire Congress, House and Senate, full of NOTAs. Sounds like Heaven.
-- Karl F. Auerbach
Eden, Utah

CLEAN SHEETZ
Re: Diane Smith's, Andrew Macfadyen's, Steve Fernandez's and Beverly Gunn's letters (under "The Big Hurt") in Reader Mail'sSore Losing:

While letter writer Diane Smith is jotting down statistics on the state of the nation and economy, I hope she'll include a line item for the price of a gallon of gasoline. I've read a number of snarky comments from various columnists in TAS disparaging the notion that the recent decline in gas prices was in any way engineered to benefit Republican candidates. I've read Ben Stein's several columns claiming that gas prices are the mere result of "global forces" rather than any government policy or quiet influence.

I've remained unconvinced that there is not some unholy relationship, if not alliance, between the oil companies and the President. I must be suspicious that by February we'll see energy prices and corporate profits rise rather sharply, for all that I hope that prices, at least, don't. If they do, however, I'll be scrolling through TAS for explanations from the same columnists who pooh-poohed the possibility of any connection. I anticipate that they'll lay any such increase at the feet of the incoming Democratic Congress, probably because they're soft on terror, thus alarming the global players and yada yada.

By the way, the price of a gallon of regular unleaded at the local Sheetz was $2.11 on Tuesday.
-- Mark Fallert
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Because I agree with your correspondent, Dr. Macfadyen, that the Mohammedan fascists are beneficiaries of this electorate's temper tantrum -- to borrow a metaphor from another time -- I must disagree with another correspondent, Mr. Fernandez, who predicts "renewed terror attacks on Israel and the United States."

Attacks on the U.S. leading up to the 2004 election were widely predicted, but as I repeatedly suggested, there would be none: our enemy hoped to lull us into the perception that we were not really at war so that we would elect the government they desired. That plan failed, and President Bush's tenure was renewed. Heightened U.S. casualties in Iraq in the weeks leading up to the 2006 election served to reinforce the anti-Coalition mantra of quagmire. The desired result in this case was achieved. The American people will now be rewarded by their future masters for having done the correct thing, just as a dog is rewarded once it ceases its defiance and assumes the submissive position. Since we will soon be handing them victory on a silver platter, it would not be in their interest to devote their energies to antagonizing us lest (1) we correct our error at the next opportunity or (2) a sufficient number of the Dhimmicrats be awakened from their torpor and come around to the defense of Western Civilization for a change.

Just as the Chinese restrained the urge to retaliate against the withdrawing Japanese in 1945, so will the Mohammedan "insurgents" feign compliance with our wishes so long as we act to consummate their desired end: our retreat, which, no matter how cleanly it is effected, will be spun relentlessly by John Murtha fans at Al-Jazeera as our historically humiliating defeat.
-- Stephen Foulard
Houston, Texas

Beverly: All Great Nations have rotted from the inside out and fallen accordingly. No Nation has ever become great by killing its unborn children in mass and thus its future, embracing perversion of any kind, relative morality in its laws, destruction of the nuclear family, taxed itself into prosperity or survived an external threat it refused to acknowledged in advance. My 30-40 something friends are coming home from Iraq to prepare...
-- Thom Bateman
Newport News, Virginia

LAST WORD
Re: Philip Klein's Renewing the Contract:

Now that the Republican Party has had its hindquarters handed to it, perhaps it will stop acting like the horse's patoot that is has been for years and start seeing and listening to what conservatives and most other Americans want -- that is, if they have the guts and humility to do so.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

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