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1.2.07 @ 12:01AM

UNCOMPROMISING
Re: Enemy Central's Enemy of the Year:

Bravo. At least we can end up the year with a satirical chuckle.
-- Pete Chagnon

I got lost in your reverie, but I think I got it in the end.

A certain Gene Nichols is your EOY and I presume for good reason although I never heard of him. I have heard of Jimmy Carter, though, and I think he is the most despicable creature this country has ever produced. Thank you for your attention.
-- Gene Hauber
Meshoppen, Pennsylvania

President Gene Nichols of the College of William & Mary deserves only to be the Intolerant Cowardly Mindless Administrative Liberal of the Year. His compromise on removing the cross of Christ from Wren Chapel? With a plaque, acknowledge the chapel's Christian roots. Except Sundays, store the cross.

William & Mary now should extend this logic elsewhere. Acknowledge its academic roots. Six days weekly, remove the books and other reference materials from its libraries, eliminate professors from its classrooms and mothball the equipment and other instructional materials in its laboratories. Everywhere, use commemorative plaques for missing people and things.

Such actions might pacify those University enrollees and/or staff offended or made uncomfortable by certain courses, professors, requirements, fellow students or staff, other languages, etc.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

The Enemy of the Year award belongs to those Republicans (including George W. Bush) who are bent on turning Ronald Reagans's "Shining city on a hill" into a barrio.
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois

THAT TIME OF NEW YEAR
Re: Jed Babbin's Oh, My Goodness: It's Almost 2007:

Good morning, and a Happy New Year to you all! I just finished reading Jed Babbin's column, and he has given me hope for 2008! I couldn't think of anyone to even vote for (for president) in '08 and was thinking about just not voting for the first time in my voting history of 41 years. Please forward this note to him along with my gratitude for thinking outside the box. (Rumsfeld-Bolton in 2008!)
-- Janet Turner

Thanks for the Call to Arms.

Make no mistake, everyone. What is at stake in the next two years is the welfare of the country as we know it. Amnesty for illegal aliens, coddling of Muslims, etc., is all the liberals dream of. Somehow, we have to throw a monkey wrench into their well-oiled MSM-Political machinery.

I plan to write even more letters to newspaper editors, pointing out the absurdity of liberal politicos and their apologists, in 2007 and 2008.
-- R. Goodson
Vero Beach, Florida

Happy New Year!

May this be a year in which we become less morally fatigued, complacent and confused -- and you're compelled to write things like the following that still appear to be unknown to or misunderstood by the about-to-be-official majority in Congress, liberals and far too many other Americans, the mainstream media in all forms and the president: "Many young Americans gave their lives for us, and among the debts we owe them is to neither forgive the enemy nor forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice. . . Peace is not about processes. It's about winners and losers, and until each belligerent is in one category or the other, the war ain't over."
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

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