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DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
Re: W. James Antle, III's Hide the Amendments :

Slowly. Sadly. Disturbingly. Disgustingly. American is becoming more like The People's Republic of China. Liberal (oh, excuse me, Progressive) policy has put America on the slippery slope towards nationalizing banks and a socialist business model. If the Hyde Amendment falls and all tax payers are forced (and since taxes are compulsory, the term forced is the correct one) to pay for elective abortions, this adopts another Chinese policy, the one where the government charges the family for the bullet used to execute a family member. Sad, disturbing and disgusting indeed.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

BELIEF NYET
Re: Nicole Russell's Have Faith:

Anybody -- anybody -- who believes what pretend-Christian Barack Obama is doing is deceiving himself or herself. Especially if Obama has the support of the "religious left."

And shame on any church or denomination that allows this secular Chicago wolf in religious sheep's clothing to attach any strings to it. They'll get what they deserve if they put their faith and trust in this particular prince of the earth.

And that will happen because they will have intentionally chosen to be deceived or they will have forgotten that, as many have observed and written in the past and currently, everything that Barack Obama says comes with an expiration date.

Everything.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

GOOD ADVICE
Re: William Yeatman & Jeremy Lott's The Doomsday Bias: 

Any adviser of Obama’s giving him "impartial" advice? Please.

Me, I don’t hope for a junk scientist of Holdren’s stripe and Al Gore's wacko-doomsaying-eco-religionist tribe as Obama’s or anyone else’s science adviser, in or out of government.

America deserves better. Someone who may actually understand what "center of gravity" means. And what it means to be wrong and have the humility to admit as much.

Someone understands what the late and brilliant physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman once said: "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it [your theory] doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."

That's the kind of impartial and intellectually honest science adviser for whom I hope in government and elsewhere.

But not Holdren.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

It is worse than just Dr. Holdren’s views. See the "Second Review Draft of the Unified Synthesis Produce Global Climate Change in the United States" aka "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States." Some of the supporting charts indicate that before the late 1800s the temperature never exceeded 100 F in Phoenix, AZ, and that the ice coverage in the Great Lakes will soon be less than zero percent. The former strains credulity and the latter is plain silly. The "science" in too many instances is non-science or, more bluntly, nonsense. An incredibly complex issue has been trivialized to a problem with a simple (probably wrong) solution -- reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Ideology trumps science -- but only in the short run. Remember Lysenko.
-- Glenn Niblock