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I wear a hands free device and talk on my cell phone while driving.

p>I find it less distracting than when my three small children were squabbling while I drove. I find it less distracting than talk radio. I find it less distracting than talking to a front seat passenger who is an interesting conversationalist. I find it less distracting than drinking a soda while I drive. br> -- Yaakov "Jim" Watkins /p> p> PARTYING WITH REAGAN br> Re: Jeffrey Lord's Why I Am a Reaganite : /p>

Ahhh, Mr. Lord, thank you. As I see Huckabee and McCain lead in Iowa and New Hampshire, I keep wondering what happened to conservatives. I heard David Frum on Laura Ingraham's show yesterday talking about how conservatives had to change to meet the country where it is rather than moving the country toward conservatism, and I got depressed. Your article is a reminder of first principles.

The over-the-top spending of the Republican Congress under Bush has threatened the conservative movement -- that old "compassionate conservatism" is anything but and will lead to the ant heap of totalitarianism Reagan so eloquently and bravely described.

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