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Toeing the Line

7.9.07 @ 12:01AM

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I still support President Bush, and I don't want to put an ethnic spin on this, but there are two basic facts here: 1) I am Jewish; 2) Bush is the most pro-Israel U.S. President in history.

I am not calling Ms. Vance an anti-Semite, but perhaps, in her anti-Bush tirade, she should have acknowledged Point 2; admittedly there is no way for her to realize Point 1. A simple sentence or two on her part (assuming it wasn't edited out) supporting Jews and Israel would have added some credibility to her response.

Am I being pathologically politically correct? The Southern Poverty Law Center says that hate groups have risen 40 percent in the U.S. since 2000, far outstripping other social indicators such as crime, drug use, welfare dependency, out-of-wedlock births, unemployment, and so forth.

I certainly hope Ms. Vance's anti-Bush stance is not thinly-disguised anti-Semitism. I trust it is not.
-- Daniel K. Weir
Atlanta, Georgia

Conni Vance's incoherent ramblings reminded me of how deranged some of the American electorate have become and why Islamic imperialist stand a good chance of enslaving the U.S. and Western world.

The people threatening the Constitution are Democrats in this Congress who want to subvert the First Amendment by regulating perceived thoughts (S1105 and HR 1592) and reinstating the "Fairness Doctrine" to stifle criticism of Democrats; hope to endow Islamic terrorists with civil liberties while denying Americans the use of secret ballots during labor union votes; and in a direct assault on Article III of the Constitution force Federal judges who they don't like to recuse themselves without merit from hearing cases. Finally, by their rejection of strict construction of the Constitution they brazenly repudiate the Founding Fathers and seek to turn the Constitution into a worthless piece of parchment for their political benefit. These are real examples of Democrat hubris and not hysterical catchphrase or spin.

If the above are not bad enough Democrats in Congress are using their positions to enrich themselves by steering taxpayer's money into their family businesses (Murtha, Feinstein, Reid and Pelosi) and contributor's pockets.

If President Bush can dismantle Democrat political "ideas" like those above before he leaves office more power to him. As far as political acumen Vance is as blind, deaf and dumb as all those who confuse delusional paranoia with reality. The time has come to put all the Democrat party on Prozac.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
Re: Eric Peters's Seppuku for the U.S. Auto Industry:

The Government has finally found a way to tax people for breathing. I can see it now -- since all animals intake oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, using this logic, by the act of living all non-plants on this plant are polluting and therefore must be eliminated or better TAXED!!!!

Let's see how this will work. The typical lung capacity of an adult human is x. An adult human will exhale y times in a year. The negative impact of CO2 to mother earth is z -- therefore each adult human must tax a of x * y * z. Now since we all know that certain 'liberal approved countries', China, Iran etc. will be exempt the only fair thing to do will be have all the citizens* of the United States pay this tax for the entire world. (*After all we cannot burden those who are not in the U.S. legally.)
-- Phil Hoey

"We (or at least our leaders in Congress) seem to have an instinct for national economic suicide when it comes to passing laws that cripple our own manufacturing base while giving huge artificial advantages to foreign competitors."

No, it's we. We the people. We elected the Congressional leaders and those they purportedly lead. We allow them all to serve. We watch as they do whatever they please. We have the power to remove them when they don't serve us. We.

By the way, seppuku implies ritualized suicide. What you've described here is hardly that. It's legislated, involuntary death. Big difference.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

So Justice Stevens has decided that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. Global warming hysteria has peaked and will be a quaint memory ten years from now. By then we might have hydrogen-powered cars. And if we do, I confidently predict that the greenies will discover that water vapor is a pollutant.
-- D.M. Duggan

SPARKLERS
Re: Lawrence Henry's Fireworks:

With a subheading like "Massachusetts takes them very seriously," I fully expected to see a sarcasm-laden tale told of the adventures had in desperately crossing state lines in order to be able to celebrate Independence with -- if you're lucky -- a handful of sparklers, so intent are the Nannies on ensuring your safety. I was quite relieved to find out otherwise.
-- J. M. Lengyel

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