The American Spectator

Charlie put up a green, four foot high cut-out in the shape of Florida with a blue circle representing Lake Okeechobee. (The lake was erroneously located at about where Orlando is — the Lake is a hundred miles south, but geography is not something Charlie has mastered.) Charlie strode mightily into the chamber, his carefully dyed silver hair lacquered carefully in place, his George-Hamilton-orange-tan precisely sprayed on with hands high, palms out, signaling silence for the multitudes.

Charlie then pulled out his laser pointer and shot himself in the chest with it. Finally finding the range, he aimed it at Palm Beach (on the other side of the state) and announced that “Florida is green and beautiful. I want it to stay that way. Thank you.” And left.

It was a major speech and the only one Charlie ever gave within my hearing that was intelligible.

If Charlie is the future of the Republican Party, I’m staying with the Libertarians.
— Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

I wish I could move to Florida just so I could vote against Crist in the senate primary. When will Republicans realize we do not need people like him, Specter, et al? When will the Republican National Committee and the senate caucus wake up and withdraw all support and privileges for their like?

It’s better that we should wander in the minority wilderness then to “reach out” across the aisle. This bipartisanship has delivered us a witch hunting socialist administration.

Enough!
— Jim Sherlock
Waldwick, New Jersey

CULTURE OF SUFFERING
Re: Quin Hillyer’s Monstrously Anti-Life:

Thank you so much for your article. My thoughts about President Obama are that when he spoke about abortion he wouldn’t want his daughters to have to “suffer”  through an unwanted pregnancy. He would allow them to abort his own grandchildren. There is definitely death in the White House not only for unborn but for the country.
— C. Handley
Richmond, Illinois

God bless you for writing this wonderful article!
— Betty Cravens
Austin, Texas 

PUTTING IT NICELY
Re: James M. Thunder’s The Destruction of Notre Dame:

You have missed the point. The point is 50,000,000 babies have died in this country and the president chooses the supreme court that decides this issue. Obama is a baby killer and has filled his cabinet with baby killers. Notre Dame (Mother Mary) is horrified. You should be outraged. Where are the campus protests, where are the bishops, where is the clergy? Only a few “old Catholics” seem to mind. God will not stand by, He will, and soon, act. Prepare for the holocaust, there will no fence sitting, you are either with God and His laws or you will perish forever in Hell. There is no nice way to put it.
— William Richter

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
Re: Peter Hannaford’s Mexico’s Half-Reported Drug War:

I grew up in Mexico. This war is no new thing, only the reporting of it. Growing up in the wealthiest colonia, attending school with the wealthiest people in the country, more than once I had to hit the floor to avoid shots from a drive-by. Violence is second nature to Mexicans, whether it be involved with drugs or marriage. Forget it, close the borders and kick the illegals out before they share more than Mexican food with us. (Too late, they already have.)
— D.

Somebody needs to clue in your clueless writer: There are no, repeat no, assault weapons at gun shows. Assault weapons are — manifestly unconstitutionally — heavily regulated, and require a $200 tax stamp, inter alii, to transfer.