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9.17.08 @ 12:01AM

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Sally Quinn, and others like her (secular statists and/or atheists), desperately want to minimize the cognitive dissonance (aka "guilt") they feel for their sins. But that is impossible so long as God-fearing people like Sarah Palin take the scriptures seriously and live according to their teachings. Author E. Michael Jones wrote a whole book about this, a fascinating study called Degenerate Moderns: Modernity As Rationalized Sexual Behavior. Among his many brilliant insights, he writes: "People plagued by guilt really have only two choices: they can adjust their behavior to suit their morality, or they can adjust their morality to suit their behavior."

Unrepentant sinners loathe the political agenda of believers -- and the believers themselves -- because anything that takes God seriously is an obstacle to the hoped-for utopia of the secular atheist: a wicked life blessed with happiness. Quinn and others of her ilk can sometimes lull themselves into thinking that their worldly success means that they are good. But then a Sarah Palin comes along and dramatically reminds them that about half the country devoutly believes that they should be ashamed of themselves.
-- Ken Kuykendall
Salt Lake City, Utah

Richard Nixon, who opened up China, who gave us the EPA, who almost won JFK's Vietnam war, campaigned to and was elected by the "Silent Majority."

They are the hardworking Americans too busy earning a living to support their families, their churches, and their communities to protest, to march, to complain about imaginary slights to people they don't even know. They are the people used to making sacrifices for others, they are used to small rewards, they pay their bills and try to save for their futures. They give fair treatment and expect fair treatment in return. They don't make headlines. They are still with us, although they, their values, their belief in the Constitution as the base of our country, and their faith in God which supports their entire world are under assault from the cultural Left, the Fifth Column, and the "green" flotsam and jetsam of the USSR.

Mrs. Palin is the pinnacle of the "Silent Majority"; Senator McCain was cagey enough to see this. The Silent Majority will vote for Governor Palin. The only question: While they are still silent, are they still the majority? If you believe in God, pray, pray, pray that the answer is yes. If you don't, cross your fingers, rub your lucky penny, or squeeze your rabbit's foot for your favorite...

Oh, and another thing: if McCain is defeated in seven weeks, do you think for a NY minute that it won't be Hillary vs. Sarah in '12? For a second? Time's up.
-- Dan Hirsch
Paris, Wisconsin

Just finished Bashing God...and I wish to say this to Jeffrey Lord. Beautiful, just beautiful. A paean to Palin and deservedly so.

This is how pathetic Air America's Miller babe (the one whose dad was a Republican VP candidate once) is. She was positively rhapsodic over Tina Fey's SNL send-up of Palin. Actually believes this will get folks to thinking how unprepared Palin is for vice presidency and voters will re-consider their choice. Like Dana Carvey sunk George (41) Bush? Like the endless, merciless skits on Bill Clinton's leering lechery ended his career!

Dream on, Dems.
-- Diane Smith

This is an excellent article! I have had discussions about it over the phone, read it more than once and aloud to my husband. Amen, amen, amen!
-- Marilyn A.
Maumee, Ohio

ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
Re: Eric Peters's Is 16 Too Young to Drive?:

Out here in flyover country a lot of our kids grow up on the farm and they start driving the tractor, or the truck or whatever at age 10 or 11. By the time they reach 16 they have had five years of driving experience under their belts. The town kids may not have had a like experience.

So it would seem to me that we should allow the states to set the legal driving age. What works in Washington, D.C., does not fly in Grand Island, Nebraska.
-- Jim Karr
Blue Springs, Missouri

The bad news for the nags is that the states that had fourteen year-olds driving were quite successful. The problems are because of experience of the drivers. I went to collage with a bunch of New York subway riders and watching 22 year old grad students trying to learn to drive was funny.

I suggest a 20% tax on insurance companies based in cities with mass transit systems and a 40% tax on all automobile insurance policies by companies that are members of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. These geeks still have not paid for the anti-lock brake fiasco that they perpetrated. Those who do not remember anti-lock brakes were supposed to enhance safety because they would not lock and cause the car wheels to hydroplane on water. What was found was that the anti-lock brakes did exactly as tested on water but they also prevented the wheels from locking and plowing snow or sand and increased the stopping distances by 120 % and increasing the numbers of collisions.
-- Gregory Franke

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