The American Spectator

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Anyway, a small bone to pick with Mr. Tyrrell's column in which he states that the media are making Sarah Palin a celebrity by following her and interviewing her and all of that.

She has made herself a celebrity by speaking the truth with no fear of the media and her people don't give a damn about the media either...they also have the courage of their convections. So the media aren't doing diddly to make her a celebrity, she is one and will stay one no matter what they do, she is a force unto herself. They are trying to tear her and her supporters down by "exposing" them as idiots and rubes while they catch ratings...the ratings are working the other part isn't.

Time for a little re-think on this point.
-- Brandon Lachner

STOP IT NOW
Re: Philip Klein's HarryCare Is a Rotten Deal:

This bill must die. The motion to bring this bill to the floor of the Senate must fail. This has nothing to do with healthcare, at this point it is simply a matter of saving face. Pelosi, Reid, and President Obama will not listen to the American people. They will not listen to common sense solutions. Stop the madness. Stop the spending. Stop it now. This Bill must die.
-- S. Jackson
Fredericksburg, Virginia

NOT FREEDOM AT ALL
Re: Christopher Orlet's No Class:

In George Gilder's mid-1970s book, Sexual Suicide, he clearly proved that men look to women to civilize them. One need not recite proofs of this theory; one only needs to casually glance at a kindergarten class to see boys behaving and playing singularly and then glance at the girls creating order, priorities and conversation. This type of separation by maturity and the long-term concept of delayed gratification for the good of the group as grasped early by girls are what distinguish mammals from lower forms of life.

What happens between that female biologically determined behavior in childhood where propriety and behavior constraints rule and then women behaving as wildly as immature boys is indicative of a society that refuses to acknowledge the value of women behaving responsibly. Freedom to behave badly is no freedom at all.

As the envelope is pushed ever farther toward social chaos by media outlets and the entertainment industries, ever in search of the outrageous to capture market share, young women are encouraged to deny their biology in favor of fifteen minutes of fame, but and up attaching a stain to their names forever.

One wonders what generation of parents have permitted their daughters to destroy themselves. In the end, a society gets what it raises, and parental neglect does not always come in the form of denying food and shelter. It is abuse of children when the rules of decorum and self-protection are not taught early and continually.
-- Laney Bormel
Parkton, Maryland

LIGHTING THE RAGE
Re: Jay D. Homnick's State Verses Khalid Sheik Muhammad:

It was very cleverly done. Attorney General Holder is the designated lightening rod to attract the very justifiable rage of those whose loved ones were murdered on 9/11, while the president is off on the other side of the world -- kowtowing to the Mikado!
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

Has it occurred to President Obama that an international terror organization with the reach of Al Qaeda might be able to intimidate a jury?
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh

EQUAL RIGHTS AS MAN
Max Schulz's Emptying Reservoirs in the Middle of a Drought:

This is not a question of man versus environment, but rather the needs of the few and now versus the many and the future. If you agree that man needs that which mother earth provides, then is it prudent to let someone else destroy that so that we are left without it? Who gets to destroy my resources?