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CAN'T VOUCH
Re: Neal McCluskey's A Puny Step Forward:

McCluskey is right about what's wrong with public schools but wrong about the solution. When private schools get enough of their financing from vouchers, the establishment will take them over, just like they have taken over our private colleges and France's Catholic elementary and high schools. Parishes will stop subsidizing parochial schools and the teachers will unionize. It will be as hard to find your kid a kindergarten that shares your values as it is to send your daughter to a college free of the Vagina Monologues.
-- D.M. Duggan

DEAR FRED
Re: The Prowler's Run, Fred, Run:

Below is the text I recently sent Senator Thompson. It is not remarkable and unfortunately I received no answer from him. But I now say it again.

Dear Senator Thompson:

I know you have retired from political office. I know the costs both monetary and personal of running for election to office.

However, I implore you to run for the Presidency. Our party needs you and more important our nation needs you.

I suppose you may get many communications like this. I am neither a political operative or consultant just another citizen.

Please consider or reconsider the matter. There is a great hole in the party which I feel you can ably and nobly fill. I am reminded of another individual who was a radio political commentator during 1974-1976 after he left office as Governor of California. I see and I think our party will see a great resemblance between the two of you.

Yours very truly,

FORCE POLITICS
Re: Mark Tooley's William Wilberforce Forced Left:

What the religious left fails to realize is that they are aligned with the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and appeasers of Godless tyranny and genocide around the world. Republicans on the other hand liberated the slaves, insured the passage of America's civil rights laws, rallied to FDR (they could have easily impeached him for Pearl Harbor) to defeat fascism, under Reagan brought down the Evil Empire and today while DemocRATS seek to appease Muslim terrorists and wrongly confer civil liberties on terrorists George W. Bush and the GOP are standing firm in defense of the values of freedom and democracy. If William Wilberforce were alive today he'd be a conservative politician and member of the religious right just as he was in the 19th century.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

NEVER MIND
Re: Jim Bono's and Bob Foster's letters (under "Betrayal") and Rolland Miller's letter (under "Selling Rope") in Reader Mail's Wish List Woes:

Jim Bono and Bob Foster (not the former Light Heavyweight Champ, are you?) nailed it, absolutely. Then, there were others with Morality Police attitudes and, methinks, misplaced priorities -- those who care more about the extreme religious right's evangelistic agenda than (1) WINNING wars, (2) shutting borders, (3) cutting government and spending, and (4) getting a real leader with some guts in there, one not afraid to actually shoot some bad guys and maybe even break some things in the process of making this world a safer place.

'N then there was Mr. Miller's wimpy approach, expressly designed to flush our country down the toilet even faster than Dubya and his inept bunch in Washington are presently doing?

Still shaking my head in wonderment...

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