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GOOD WORKS
Daniel J. Flynn's Liberal Lion in Winter:

If we were to choose one family to represent white trash in America it would be the Kennedys. Keep up the good work!
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois

It won't be long... Justice would be Mary Jo at the Pearly Gates denying his entry.
-- Houston E. Ball
Knoxville, Tennessee

JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS
Re:  Bill Croke's Don't Jump:

This e-mail is regarding the stomach churning article written by Bill Croke on June 29th 2009.

To use the suicide of a 20 year old human being for the basis of a pathetic conservative argument is not only horrific journalism, but shows how low and insensitive the majority of the conservative population is. Mr. Croke, it's great to know that if you had a son or daughter lost in a National Park you wouldn't want your precious tax dollars "wasted" on recovering/searching for the body. Clearly, Mr. Croke, you've never gone through the agonizing pain and sleepless nights of losing a loved one to suicide. Clearly, your soulless body has no feeling of love towards another human being, if you honestly think that there are better things for your tax dollars to be spent on rather than the recovery of a suicide victim's body. For you to say that "liberals can't kill themselves without costing tax payers a lot of money," is not only the most insensitive piece of writing I have ever seen in my 17 years of existence, but it also shows how blind, arrogant and ignorant you are as a person.  Because conservatives, with their high and mighty moral standards, would never kill themselves would they?  Only liberals, those bastards who think people who should be able to marry who they want, save the planet, and cut down green house gas emissions. Us liberals really are pretty selfish beings, aren't we?  How dare a liberal kill him/herself and not consider you and your money, Mr. Croke! At least we have the ability to be comfortable with who we are as people, rather than writing articles like this, articles that scream insecurity, pessimism, and all around cowardice. Shame on you, Bill Croke.
-- Christopher Borgione

INDOCTRINATION
Re: Ben Van Horrick's Lessons Learned:

While it has become a bromide, it's still worth repeating that public education was invented (at least, in the West) by the Spartans. Education in the Socratic sense of "Know thyself" is not a part of that plan. More to the point is the observation by the late Richard Mitchell (The Underground Grammarian) that the purpose of all schools is indoctrination, socialization, and training. Education is the enemy of those purposes.
-- William L. Roughton, Jr.
Fairfax Station, Virginia

MOON RIVER
Paul Beston's Many Moons Ago:

Big government has gotten us into a lot of messes -- but at least they pulled off putting men on the moon. I suppose we owe them that much consideration...
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida