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3.27.08 @ 12:01AM

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I'll be surprised if Hillary is NOT the nominee.
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

What goes with Allan Greenspan's worse half Andrea Mitchell repeatedly changing her story on events to favor her Democrat buds? Recall her first public statement that "everyone" knew that Valerie Plame was employed at the CIA in Washington before the outing by Bob Novak and others. Then she reversed field and said she did not know what moved her to say that because it was incorrect. These selective memories by not only her but other news people let to the selective prosecution of Scooter Libby. Now all of a sudden now Andrea Mitchell remembers sniper fire in Bosnia although no one else does rather than Miss Hillary and even she has recanted the story. Will the network powers who ever they are retire Ms Mitchell so she can join her husband in his well paid senility?
-- Jack Wheatley
Royal, Michigan

GO PLAY IN TRAFFIC
Re: Elizabeth Terrell's Question Authority:

Elizabeth Terrell writes about the trouble she is having getting the city of Alexandria to approve a convex mirror outside her parking lot. How this is connected in any way to the Northern Virginia Transit Authority is something that completely escapes me.
-- Glen Hoffing
Shamong, New Jersey

I live in Northern Virginia and it's appalling how little the traffic authority does to make obvious basic changes that would cost little, but improve traffic flow while reducing emissions.

I sit at red light after red light after red light during my short trip from Arlington to Falls Church.

How much time and expense does it really take to adjust traffic lights so we don't all sit at two traffic lights within a few hundred yards of one another, for minutes at a time? For no apparent reason?

How much time and expense does it really take to figure out that a good number of traffic lights are completely unnecessary or are far too long? I regularly sit at traffic lights located at little used side streets, for 30 or more seconds when no cars come or go due to the light. If these traffic authority bureaucrats would get out of their offices once in a decade or so, they'd see this for themselves.

The Traffic Authority in Northern Virginia does not do the quick, easy, low-hanging fruit type of things it would take to move traffic along and reduce auto emissions. Why should I trust that they can handle the larger problems?
-- Brian Schafer
Arlington, Virginia

I hope you get a lot of emails that essentially say, Just do it. Put up the mirror for safety reasons before somebody gets hurt. If the authorities complain say sorry we had to act before somebody gets killed.
-- Robert Ashton
Fort Myers, Florida

THE ONLY GOOD COMMUNIST
Re: Doug Bandow's China's Long March on Human Rights:

When someone of my age talks about Communism we are looked upon as if we are from another planet, followed with a perplexed and questioned look, "Communism??"

How Westerners look at Communism today is not even remotely close to the way that Americans viewed Communism twenty to thirty years ago. From grade school into adulthood we had it constantly hammered into our heads that Communism was evil and directly responsible for the deaths of millions that we know about and the multiple millions that we don't.

I remember having drills in public schools of getting under a desk as if that meager piece of tin and wood could afford protection from a nuclear blast. Large public structures were designated with placards at the entranceway with a nuclear symbol as a fallout shelter.

There was this sense of urgency and extreme deadly seriousness of, "Hey, these Communists really do want to wipe us off the face of the planet!" And this seriousness and urgency was shared by all that didn't believe in that Marxist ideology. Americans joined with others around the globe that felt the same way that we did, and we formed a virtual wall opposite the Berlin Wall of containment and then triumph under President Reagan.

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