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Fifteen Rounds of Fun

7.22.08 @ 12:01AM

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No, much as it rots my guts to say it, we have no choice, none at all, but to follow the example we've so ignominiously set with North Korea, and bribe the bastards not to take the warpath.

What the hell, it worked for Byzantium. For a little while, anyway.
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, California

A lot of Americans hate being reminded of reality, but this one is immutable: every day we and the Europeans spend "negotiating" with Iran is another day they get to perfect a nuclear device and a delivery system for it.

The MSM has been woefully derelict is describing the Iranian government for what it is: a group of "true believers" willing to allow their country to be completely obliterated as long as the chaotic conditions required for the re-emergence of the Hidden Imam are achieved. Mutually assured destruction (MAD) will not deter these madmen. They are more than willing to commit national suicide -- and they are on the record as saying so, "as long as Islam prospers."

Americans may not wish to remember, but the last time we faced a nation that used suicide to advance their political/military agenda, we nuked them -- twice.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

COMMUNITY OUTSIDER
Re: Erin Wildermuth's In the Garden of Walden:

Great piece, Erin Wildermuth.

The anarcho-syndicalist was made the butt of a wonderfully funny joke in another great piece, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

That group of anarcho-syndicalists was also shoveling [excrement].
-- A. C. Santore

So without "immigrant" labor they would fall apart? It is the same everywhere it seems.
-- Cecil Thorpe

NORMAN EVASION
Re: Reid Collins's Open Blast Furnace:

Greg Norman did what he has always done during his career: he let his ego get in the way of his brain. Comparing his club selections, especially on tee shots, to those of winner Padraig Harrington, reveals that wisdom does not always accrue with advancing age.

Norman's stubbornness has apparently been an asset in his business dealings. In golf, as he demonstrated once again on Sunday, it has been his greatest liability.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

THE HUNDRED DAY WAR
Re: Mike Dooley's letter (under "No End in Sight") in Reader Mail's Bumps on a Blog:

Mr. Dooley, I must refute your assertion that I do not answer my rhetorical question of how to choose between the immorality of abortion and the immorality of using police power to force our ideals onto another. I clearly state in my original posting that we must legally allow the practice while we teach against it from a moral stance. Yes, this is 'my' suggestion, arrived at through the trying to chart a moral course through two positions I find equally abhorrent.

Letter to the Editor

topics:
Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Business, Islam, Abortion, Law, Founding Fathers, Military, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Israel, NATO, North Korea, Libertarianism, Nuclear Weapons