The American Spectator

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Republican Plame Out

3.20.07 @ 12:01AM

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Yes, linguists tend to have a higher percentage of homosexuals than other career fields. An old USAF joke used to go "What's a 406? Two 203s in a dark room." (AFSC 203 used to be the code for linguist 35 years ago.) We were generally saddled with the epithet "Monterey Marys" (the Presidio of Monterey is home to the Defense Language Institute) for that reason, and even if not a homosexual many DLI grad were prima donnas...

By and large, however, the military runs better without them.
-- Cookie Sewell
Democratic Peoples' Republic of Maryland

THERE THEY GO AGAIN
Re: The Washington Prowler's Fred Thompson item in The Clinton Portfolio:

Fred Thompson for President is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of except the election of Ronald Reagan.
-- MM

ECON 101
Re: Thomas Bateman's letter (under "Inside the Class War") in Reader Mail's The Clinton Portfolio:

Oh if we could just get some politicians that had the thinking of Mr. Thom Bateman, we would really be better off. He is so right, the more you hand out to the poor, without asking something in return, the more hands are
out. And the "education" system we have stinks.
-- Elaine Kyle

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Education, Bill Clinton, Mainstream Media, Islam, Books, Law, Military, Iraq, Nuclear Weapons, Energy