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Happy Days
Ben and Bob at home in America. Confined to quarters in Montana. Further Civil War reenactments. NAFTA, NAFTA. Still more rallying to the president's defense.
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RET is quite right in praising Ben Stein’s articles. I recall having people come up to me at a Lutheran church, saying, “Have you read Ben Stein in The American Spectator?” That was about 1988.
I appreciate Ben’s patriotism and love for our soldiers. I get to teach active duty Marines from time to time. They are deserving of all our praise. In fact, I hand them good cigars whenever I can. I gave one to the wife of a Marine who was due home soon from Iraq. She smiled with tears in her eyes and said “Thank you.” We should have tears in our eyes for what they do for us and for others.
p>That is what Ben Stein’s articles do for so many — help us to be grateful to God for our country, our soldiers, and their brave families. br> — Gregory L. Jackson , Ph.D. br> Glendale, Arizona /p> p> I am a huge fan of Ben Stein’s writing, and also of R. Emmett Tyrrell’s. So don’t take this the wrong way when I say that, to me, the U.S. has a tragic flaw: the abomination that is abortion. As long as we continue to allow an entire class of human beings to be so completely disenfranchised as to have no protectable interest even in their own lives (like we did in
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