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8.11.08 @ 12:01AM

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The Evans and Novak columns after that election dispelled much of my euphoria as they wrote a series of columns exposing the hosing Reagan loyalists were taking in the personnel process that was to fill the key posts in the administration. I found one of those columns recently. It seems that the country club Repubs had lost to Reagan but the great communicator was lax in sticky political details. The Bushies were not. A lot of the gory details would have been buried but for Novak's digging. Imagine, if one were to wish to write a detailed tome on REAL POLITICS, over the years, an encyclopedia with Evans and Novak and later Novak articles, in chronological order, would be all one needed.

Much has been said and written about Bob's article about the blond CIA bimbo and her airhead husband. The furor created by this piece was b.s. manufactured by a leftist press aided and abetted by the typically vicious Democrat pols. Conservatives can remember Bob's writings fondly, for many reasons. One I will select is his forward to a recent reprint of a masterpiece of Conservative literature -- Whittaker Chambers's Witness.
-- MJ Turkelson
Lebanon, Ohio

UDON'T SAY
Re: David Mark's After Allard:

Article is right on but most important is the average voter in Colorado actually thinks Udall is middle of the road, not a liberal. All his commercials indicate a middle of the road guy and most voters stop there and don't look at his record which is very left.
-- Rick Muldoon

METEORIC
Re: Lawrence Henry's My Glorious Career:

Please forward my prayers and best wishes to Lawrence Henry as he embarks on the path to a new kidney. I am always happy to read what he has to say...seldom, if ever, disagree with him. He is a great articulator and way too hard on himself.
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky

Please pass on my very best wishes to Lawrence. I read his articles with anticipation of something good happening for his health.

May he be blessed with the desires of his heart. God loves him and wants to continue using him here on earth. We who have been given a new lease on life are to use this second, (or third) chance to glorify God as we were not able to do with the first life.

Colossians 1:18 "...so that in everything he might have the supremacy."
-- Sallie Kay Stodghill

Gee, Mr. Henry, I thought you already had a successful career writing for TAS, bird in the hand and all that. Congratulations on the kidney transplant.
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

I had completely accepted my death from liver cancer in 2006 when the transplant came through on October 31st. The first group of transplant doctors I went to said I didn't meet the criteria and that there was nothing they could do for me. I decided a second opinion was in order. Eighteen months later I got a transplant from the University of Miami. During recovery, which took me about a year, one of the hardest things to come to grips with was the fact that I had to now go back to the world and start living again. I made the transition and again have a full life.

Funny though accepting the "new beginning" was almost as difficult as accepting the ending.
-- Cecil Thorpe

WALK AWAY
Re: Jonathon M. Seidl's The King Returns... and Departs:

By continuing to play football, regardless of for whom he is playing, Brett Favre is risking what may have been his greatest accomplishment. That is, leaving the game after 17 years with a good chance of being able to walk normally when he's 50. No amount of additional money is worth the risk of debilitating injury yet those closest to Favre seem to be more interested in riding the Favre financial and fame gravy train. That is the true tragedy.
-- Tom Vandenberg

CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH
Re: Ben Stein's Porn Star for Obama:

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