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5.21.07 @ 12:01AM

GUT CHECK
Re: Enemy Central's To Your Stealth! :

I nominate the writer who termed Christopher Hitchens a "house drunk" for being too gutless to attach his name to his slanderous article.

As someone who has read Mr. Hitchens and heard him disassemble the dogma of the religiously delusional, it goes without saying that this anonymous writer wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell (if, indeed, such a fantasy existed) against Hitchens in an honest debate -- with or without alcohol factored in.

Shame on you, gutless wonder. You're my enemy of the week.
-- Rich Reigle

Great read on Ron Paul and Gibson. The real problem is what they give is no longer news. How did their personal "gut" feelings override their whole purpose for sitting in that chair, to report the news? And as their market share continues to slip away to their utter dismay and finger pointing, they miss the whole point that what they are doing is a disservice to the public. Just give me the facts. I don't care what any of them think, and the assumption that they need to tell the public what to think is a lot scarier than anything Jerry Falwell ever did.
-- Patrick Harkins
Redondo Beach, California

Oh, so little time and so many deserving enemies of the week. As usual they all deserve the award and censure but I must once again take issue with your final choice. Surely Charlie Gibson is an enemy among enemies. The failure to lead with Jerry Falwell's death and much more importantly the reluctance to praise this noteworthy individual is appalling. Falwell was a good and spiritual man who was an easy and welcome target for the "sophisticates" in the mainline media who never did believe and the religious left who long ago gave up believing in the redeeming virtues of religion. What an awful reflection on our modern culture. Of course if you had not mentioned Gibson's selective "censoring" of the news I would have been blissfully unaware of it since I stopped watching the network news sometime around 1970. So perhaps it is better to give Gibson and his kind no attention at all (after all, if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, was there really any noise?)
-- Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan

McCAIN-AMNESTY
Re: W. James Antle III's No Amnesty for McCain:

Johnny, we knew ye all too well. Bye-bye.
-- C. Vail

Excellent article entitled "No Amnesty for McCain." I'm a Republican. If it's him v. Hillary, I stay home on Election Day.
-- Dr. Lee D. Cary
Mayhill, New Mexico

As far as I am concerned this amnesty bill is just one more nail in the coffin lid of McCain's campaign. How any conservative in good conscience could vote for the man who created "campaign finance reform," voted against tax cuts, advocated doing away with gun shows, killed the nuclear option with his so-called gang of 14, and finally as much as claimed that our troops routinely tortured prisoners with his fabricated legislation...well, I have absolutely no use for him and it will my sincere pleasure to work against him at every opportunity.
-- Jim Karr
Blue Springs, Missouri

Senator Cornyn of Texas will be asking us to send him back to Washington, but let me tell him that if he votes for this bill of McCain/Kennedy he will not get my vote. I will never vote for someone that cares more about illegals in this country that they do American citizens.

The parts of this bill to secure the border is a joke, they have not been able to do it up to now, just what makes them think it will be done now. They have laws on the books about hiring illegals, but very little it done about it.

If this bill passes you can kiss the Republican Party goodbye, all the illegals already here will be signing up and voting for Democrats to keep their welfare going. Already it has been found that hundreds of illegals signed up to vote in the San Antonio area. Since we print ballots in Spanish, it is easy for them. Why do we print them in Spanish if you have to speak English to become a citizen and you are supposed to be a citizen before you can vote? Just another waste of taxpayer dollars.
-- Elaine Kyle

This conservative Republican from Arizona will never be voting for McCain. McCain-Kennedy amnesty and McCain-Feingold speak volumes about McCain, and I for one do not want him as our President let alone our Senator.
-- Kathy
Arizona

Mr. Antle has summed up the McCain presidential bid succinctly: Finito, Morto. I'll spare my fellow readers my McCain mantra, suffice to say, his haughty tin-eared duplicity on immigration is McCain-Feingold redux. Our legislators, sadly with the President's help, have once again played a legislative three-card monte on us. The sham pretenses of McCain-Feingold, at the expense of the Constitution, are repeated with the so called "enforcement triggers" under this bill, which cynically, the Washington elites know full well, have never, and will not now, be implemented by the bureaucracies.

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