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4.30.07 @ 12:01AM

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It's starting to look a lot like the seventies all over again. The Democrats once again want to cut funding for a war they don't like.

I remember than when the funding for supporting South Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia was cut, millions died. Would the result be any different this time?
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

NARCO NANCY
Re: The Washington Prowler's Nancy Plays Hard to Get:

During the Cold War conservatives were often mystified at the empathy Democrats showed for communists. Today, some seem surprised that they demand civil rights for terrorists and prefer murderous tyrants to American allies -- why the surprise? Don't forget this is the party that opened relations with the Soviet Union, abandoned China to Mao, secured victory for communist Vietnam, condoned communism in Central America, compelled the Reagan to enthrone homicidal maniac Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and has supported genocide around the world (Indochina, the Sudan, Rwanda and potentially Iraq). Tyrants, despots and madmen are preferred by oligarchic Democrats to the vulgarity and uncertainty of the democratic process. That's why it's imperative we defeat them in the 2008 elections across the board.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

Nancy Pelosi should be respected for her honesty, being the most vocal elected Liberal to express her admiration for the Socialist movements of the world. She, along with slightly less expressive accomplices Harry Reid, Teddy Kennedy, Al Gore, Hillary, et. al. as disciples of the Socialist dogma, are precluded from any positive association with anyone who has actively sought to obstruct the spread of socialist movements anywhere on the globe.

They, and their repulsive ilk, are contemptuous of anyone who served in the administrations of Nixon, Reagan, or the Bushes. They have supported, and continue their support of Marxists in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Grenada, Cuba, and elsewhere in Latin America. They are on the fence with respect to Mexico -- until they learn how the Mexican/American vote will go.

It appears that Nancy is the first who believes that the U.S. may finally have a majority of voters, ready to impose Socialist dogma across the Western Hemisphere.

Wake up America -- or get ready to say goodbye to this country as we have known it for the past 225 years.
-- Bennett Bishop
Baldwinsville, New York

Your Prowler article about Nancy (Mosquito) Pelosi says it all -- or most of it. The fact that Uribe is an opponent of Communism is enough to account for Pelosi's unwillingness to meet with him. As for her trip to Syria, that was her Billy Carter moment. You remember how the First Brother of President Peanut went to Libya as an unofficial representative of the United States. Brother Jimmy learned much from this, it seems. Nancy's renown is similarly now in the bag.
-- Roy Barkley

She is a dingbat. But a dangerous one.
-- Sarah Hereford

IN DEMAND
Re: David Hogberg's Student Deindoctrination:

The filmmaker, and reviewer, make a number of valid points. Unfortunately the points are irrelevant, if only because complaining about the supply aspects of education doesn't matter when the problems are mainly of demand. PC may indeed be bad, but it is a symptom, not the disease.

From kindergarten through grad school, We The People are receiving exactly what we want from the American education system. As students and parents we want good jobs and careers with minimal effort and risk of failure (and, of course, maximum fun and self-esteem); as employers we want candidates who are trained in some narrow area of specialization (and nothing more; that would bring certain rejection as "overqualified"); better that the college trains them than that the employers would have to do so. So students who want to succeed end up with bare competency in a very narrow core subject and a lot of fluffy "gut" courses that boost GPA without imposing any real requirements. As students are looking for easy A's rather than learning, they find that the simplest way to succeed is to take trendy, fun, easy courses, and agree with the prof's opinions, however crackpot. After all, who wants to get stuck in a low-prospect job because of receiving too many C's in electives? And the colleges encourage this in order to attract students (and their money); the better the job prospects for graduates, the more applicants they get, hence the more they can charge.

Indoctrination will continue as long as the vast majority of education consumers, especially large employers, are happy with what the system produces, which is in effect a lot of "trained monkeys," with or without lefty indoctrination. All signs indicate that they are entirely satisfied, however much they gripe, since they keep producing and/or hiring the results.
-- David S.

I look forward to seeing Mr. Maloney's movie. In the meanwhile, people interested in the bizarre goings-on at our schools of higher learning should visit the website dedicated to preserving the works of the late Richard Mitchell, Ph.D.

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