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Well folks, I was truly a skeptic when it comes to the reality of global warming. But, alas, the more I read the news, the more I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that indeed the earth is warming. And folks, as much as I hate to break the news to you, it is indeed because of humans. You see folks, it's like this! Every time the doomer, gloomer, anti-capitalist nut bag alarmist leftists open their collective mouths, nothing but hot air comes out. And lately, there has been so much hot air coming out of the left that the earth has got to be warming.

p>It would be interesting if we could only get a government grant to spend money on a good heat transfer analysis model just to see how much hot air it takes to raise the temperature of this planet by one degree as a result of all that nut bag leftist hot air being spewed into the atmosphere. I'll bet the results would frighten any brainwashed little kid confined to the failing public school system! br> -- Jim L br> East Sandwich, Massachusetts /p> p> WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? br> Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III's Missing the Rational Center : /p>

How can anybody write an article about the dangers of big ideas without mentioning the successes of Ronald Reagan? For crying out loud, Ronald Reagan was the classic politician with a big idea -- he was going to win the Cold War and the Russians were going to lose. Ideas don't come any bigger than that -- he said it and he did it. What's more, I can well remember the derision Ronald Reagan received from both the foreign policy and economic policy aristocracy -- the "experts" we are supposed to trust now. They have forgotten how much crow they choked on during the Reagan presidency. According to them, Reagan was a simpleton and an amiable fool. Remember George H W Bush talking about "voodoo economics" during the 2000 primaries? I would like to see him repeat that now. In foreign policy, Reagan ignored the defeatism of "experts" like Henry Kissinger to live with the Soviet Union and he bought it to its knees instead. Compared to Reagan winning the equivalent of the World Series all by himself, Kissinger is a cheap bum and a sore loser who never hit a home run in his life. Reagan was dead right to keep him off his team.

p>Ronald Reagan is the most successful President since World War 2 precisely because he had enough confidence in himself to make his own agenda and ignore the fashionable groupthink of establishment opinion. That is what great men do, they are leaders and not followers - anybody can parrot the party line but it takes much more than that to lead and inspire people to achieve things that nobody else thinks possible. Ronald Reagan believed that America was a great nation because it had big ideas and principles and the courage to make them happen. When Americans base their actions on this, as they did in World War 2, they win. When they rely on cheap, cynical opportunism, appeasement and compromise, which is invariably what establishment politics are about, rather than conviction, principles and commitment, they fail every time. George W. Bush is an establishment politician with few ideas or convictions worth mentioning and he has repeatedly failed because of that. All the experts in Christendom won't help him, he is an empty shell. That is the real lesson of the Reagan revolution and it is the lesson that far too many people have forgotten, to their great cost. It is a big worry to see that many conservatives appear to have forgotten this lesson as well and I see that as a very bad indicator of moral failure and weakness that does not bode well for the future.

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