The American Spectator

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2.22.08 @ 12:01AM

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It is the conservative insight that tells us the supposed peace and wellbeing for mankind promised by our enlightened advocates of "radical materialism" will prove to be mere dreams. Absent touchstones greater and outside ourselves -- without the recognition there are truths which are true whether we experience them or not -- "reason alone" will turn into a jealous and blood thirsty idol. The horrifying dogs of unquenchable war will be freed.
-- Mike Dooley

I am a physician in the New Orleans Metro Area. It has come to my attention that your magazine has received a letter giving the opinion that "all" physicians are Darwinists.

I will not speak for my physician colleagues and friends but I can assure you that "all" physicians do not fall in that category of "Darwinists." For myself, I have a deep and abiding faith in a creator-God. I find that human bodies are beautifully and fascinatingly made and that the human spirit (soul if you will) is dynamic and capable of such amazing spiritual depth and growth that I see no explanation that satisfies me in the theories of evolution. I am surrounded by the world of medicine where we have the explainable and the unexplainable and I am confident in my belief that Creator-God is wiser and more knowledgeable than all of us.
-- Cynthia L Swart MD FAAFP
Medical Director Tulane-Lakeside Hospital Emergency Department

HAVE SOME GARNISH
Re: Jeff Emanuel's Unfree to Choose:

Jeff Emanuel finds one reason for objecting to HillaryCare II in its scheme to garnish our wages. What the heck! It's happening already! The last time I checked, my paycheck is already being garnished for federal income tax, Social Security tax and Medicare tax and some other niggling taxes I don't remember right now. What's all this fuss about one more garnishment? Bring 'em on! I love being garnished! (Well, actually I don't, but what choice do I have?) So we all better just get used to it because whether Hillary or Obama is elected some flavor of HillaryCare is what Americans are going to get. And that means garnishment, folks!
-- Douglas Skinner
Alexandria, Virginia

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