OUR JACK
Re: Quin Hillyer’s We’re
Not OK, Jack:
Hear, hear!
— Angelo Codevilla
I don’t mind your wishes. I do think that your choice of
Pence may prove to be short sighted. This man loves to look
at himself. Note his clothing, hair, attention to personal
splendor, his grooming. Way too radiant! Signals an internal need
going far beyond just being on the conservative bandwagon…for
my tastes.
— RP
Bismarck, North
Dakota
Sure, Jack Kemp understood much. One detraction was his failure
to comprehend the long-term toll of ever-expanding federal debt,
which is something that has concerned fiscal conservatives since
the debt began to accumulate in the 1960’s, ballooning under the
shameless spending of my beloved but stupid Republican Party,
including Bush 43. Mr. Kemp thought that the annual federal
deficit did not matter as long as it remained a small percentage
of the GDP. He should think again. We are just beginning to reap
what we have sown.
— David Shoup
Dublin, Georgia
“What conservatives need right now is another Jack Kemp for a
younger generation”?
Please, don’t write off those of us who actually remember and
lived when there was prayer in so-called public schools and no
Roe v. Wade, and when there was such thing as mostly
civil discourse in America — and were very much alive before
socialist/Marxist/I’m-your-daddy Barack Hussein Obama or Barry
Soetoro or whatever his real name and nationality is, was born.
As for another Jack Kemp? Conservatives of all living generations
in the U.S. could use another Jack Kemp or two or 20 or 1,000 or
so.
— C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia
A fired-up minority is simply that: a minority.
— David Govett
RED, AT LEAST IN THE FACE
Re: James Poulos’s
Black and White and Red All Over:
I suppose it’s not enough for some people that a man who happens
to be black gets elected president — or even if a man who
happens to be black gets to be attorney general. Well, “we have
overcome,” and Eric Holder needs to be reminded that “nobody
likes a sore winner.”
— Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
Should anyone be surprised at this coming from the first black
attorney general appointed by this particular first black
president?
Perhaps, though, self-appointed Moralist-in-Chief and apparent
Associate Lecturer-in-Chief Holder will address a real racist
issue: abortion within the black community. Abortionists in the
U.S. disproportionately kill black babies at a much higher rate
than babies of other skin colors.
Perhaps Holder will address the spiritual, moral and social
perversion of that Roe v. Wade-facilitated issue?
Or the equally perverse issue of
bi-racial-though-fully-identified-with-blacks Obama supporting
abortion and, by default or design, the apparent accelerated
destruction of the very community which supported him and
idolizes him?
Or examine why the black community and some of its voices such as
Jackson, Sharpton, Bond and others sit on their backsides silent
as the infanticide against their community continues?
When Holder does that and gets substantive answers, perhaps then
he will have gained the credibility to begin to lecture America
on race relations between blacks and whites.
Meanwhile, he should just try to enforce fairly to all of us the
laws of the United States if, that is, he has time leftover from
his duties as Moralist-in-Chief and Associate
Lecturer-in-Chief.
— C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia
What does a lawyer do for a living? Talk, talk, and more talk. Is
our government filled with lawyers? Can we still do simple math?
Ok, I’ll ask another question: Why do lawyers think they are so
smart and knowledgeable? Go to Plato for the correct answer, then
finish with a Shakespeare quote as dessert!
No wonder that cold northern wind that came during the election
cycle offered so much concern for these elite thinkers of great
thoughts and ideas!
Cowards always prefer talking, don’t ya know? Whoops, I forgot
Eric be a lawyer too!
— R. Philips
New Mexico
Holder et al. may be playing games, but the challenge need not be
accepted on his terms. The discussion can be broadened to include
class envy, propaganda, hypocrisy, empirical evidence of the
enslavement of blacks by liberals since 1965, or any number of
topics. But they will not engage on those fronts. They want truth
commissions, confessions and money. The real courage will be to
resist. The real courage will be to expose our alma maters. The
real courage will be to resign our memberships in compromised
institutions. The real courage may be not to invite a black
co-worker to a week-end barbecue but to invite the Dean of the
Journalism School to a televised debate and ask him why, when he
sees a picture of a chimpanzee, does he automatically think of
Barack Hussein Obama.
I am not in a position to extend the invitations or to provide
the arena, but it would be interesting to find out if there are
any out there who would have the courage to do so and even more
interesting to see how many deans and presidents and publishers
heretofore cowardly hiding behind the skirts of political
correctness would jump at the chance to engage.
— Bob Montgomery
Yorktown, Indiana
GOT
MILK?
Re: James Bowman’s
Sean
Penn’s ‘Milk’:
Yippy yahoo! Hollywood somewhat accurately portrays a somewhat
historic figure they think we need to know about. The same
film-makers have no problem knocking moral capitalist geniuses,
politicians they hate, or military types when the plot suits
them. Heck even when the caricature is wholly awful, the plot
inaccurate, and the message an abomination of reality, a large
segment of the press is there to comfort them with free ads as
the flick tanks at the box office.
They lost me on the “historical” figures flicks a long time ago.
Yeah, we got Milk, but we also got Frost-Nixon and Bush-bash ad
nauseam from this same group.
— P. Aaron Jones
Michigan
EXPERT OPINION
Re: The Prowler’s Lone
Wolf:
Along with Immelt, Obama is assembling a rogue’s gallery of
economic advisors. Never mind trading with the
enemy. Never mind tanking your company’s stock. Never
mind abetting tax avoidance for tens of thousands. We need
people who can bring their expertise to the country as a whole,
right?
— Kent Lyon
College Station, Texas
ISN’T IT IRONIC?
Re: Gary Wolfram’s
The Road to Legalized Plunder:
The economic stimulus of the Obama Administration commits
American children and grandchildren to years of labor to pay back
the borrowed principal and interest. Involuntary servitude is
slavery. That slavery should be instituted under a black
president is too painful to be considered ironic.
— David Govett
Davis, California
TALK IS CHEAP
Re: George H. Wittman’s Snake
Oil Diplomacy:
The American Icarus leads us. In one fell swoop the community
activist organizer moved from romper room to the White House. The
American people elected a speech — not a leader — because that
is what the childish juvenile liberal mind does.
America faces dark days ahead — not because its economic and
foreign crises are of biblical proportion which they are — but
because its leadership stock is made of mental pygmies and
midgets. We are now led by people of flatulent words because they
don’t have the smarts to lead otherwise.
Obama marks the emphatic end of the old post war order — about
which he had nothing to do. He inherited his lot from corrupt
failed leadership stretching back generations. Obama and company
will keep flapping their lips while the sharks circle. They know
that a boy was sent to do a man’s job.
Give up hope all ye who enter there.
— David Bonn
IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE
Re: Hal G.P. Colebatch’s Britain’s
Anti-Christian Kulturkampf:
Matthew 5:10-12 (NKJV): “Blessed are those who are persecuted for
righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11:
“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all
kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. 12: “Rejoice and
be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so
they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
The events of this article are sadly highly reflective of the
persecution of Joseph K. from Kafka’s The Trial.
— Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
SOVIET ACORN
There is some $9 billion in the porkulus bill for ACORN and
similar community organizations. These will agitate for “social
justice,” forgiveness for mortgages of “underserved minorities,”
and will conduct the 2010 census under the White House (not the
traditional and constitutionally required census conducted by the
Commerce Department). This will presumably correct for minority
undercount. President Obama’s political career consists of 8
years of the Illinois House and US Senate experience and about 12
years as a community organizer, a lawyer for community
organizers, and a law instructor for future lawyers for community
organizers. Does anyone know the translation from the Russian
“soviet”? Well, it is “community organization.” In the satellite
communist countries “soviets” were also known as “block
committees.” Food for thought, right?
— Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada
