The Damascus damsel earns top honors. Also: Hot air. The vital Reagan center. The hipsters' last performance. Plus more.
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ENEMY OF THE CENTURY
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Re: Enemy Central’s
The Air Up
There
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p>It is always hard to disagree with the final decision
determining the EOW because all of the nominees actually deserve
the award, or rather merit the dishonor, and certainly our
wonderful U.S. Supreme Court one could argue long ago earned a
career Enemy of the Century in two centuries. However, the behavior
of millionairess Nancy Pelosi, the world traveler and tourist,
would seem more deserving of the award this week. The total concept
of this woefully misguided attempt to undermine the elected and
constitutional executive branch of our government is certainly bad
enough, but her lying about a message from the Israeli government
to the butchers in Syria should gag any American. Further it should
end Jewish Americans’ electoral commitment to a Democratic Party
that abuses them at every step but alas it probably will not. It
took over a hundred years for the South to break their ties to the
Democrats.
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Jack Wheatley
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Royal Oak, Michigan
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The recent Supreme Court ruling on global warming is just one more
example of why elections are important. One wonders if Ronald Regan
had had a Republican Senate would he have made the abysmal
appointment of Justice Kennedy? George W. Bush knowing he had a
solid Republican Senate was able to appoint two stellar justices.
Roberts and Alito working with Reagan’s Scalia and Bush 41’s Thomas
have brought balance and sense to what could easily be a bigger
joke than the courts of Eurabia. In 2008 conservatives need to
think beyond punishing Republicans and think about the future or
plan to see Justice Stevens replaced with someone that makes
Kennedy look reasonable.
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Michael Tomlinson
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Jacksonville, North Carolina
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause
and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress
impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist
surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our
culture.
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it,
makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so
many people seem to be hostile to it?