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Asking and Telling
Fascination over Palin and Hillary. Gays in the military. Christians and the State Department and more!
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GETTING IT WRONG
Re: Ben Stein’s Free
James O’Keefe:
Why are the liberal media not speaking up about these obvious abuses? Do they not understand that all though they may have an edge now on certain things that this will eventually come back to bite them?
Also, why do certain media groups think they have the only right way?
I have watched for years as the media world (newspapers, radio, and TV) tell a story that is half-truths if not blatant lies.
At the same time they cannot write a story without a lot of grammatical errors.
I do feel sorry for Mr. O’Keefe but America has let the Justice System & ones like Mr. Hoover take away American Rights for years. As a result you have a Mr. O’Keefe problem.
Is this the end? Not by a long shot. America will wake up one day and find its citizens have no rights (period) and it is not too far away unfortunately.
Mr. Obama is not totally to blame — American voters have spoken.
It’s not the first time they have been wrong and it won’t be
last.
— W.Myers
It is certainly a travesty of the United States justice system that these young men were arrested in the first place, but it would seem that all liberals have been placed on “alert” for the man who exposed the ACORN non-profit that got Obama elected.
It is unfortunate that the innocent ones who try to do the right
thing are the ones to be punished, but we as innocent Americans,
and moreover as conservatives and followers of Christ, have much
about which we should be concerned — but we know Who holds the
future, and that is the most calming promise I have.
All of the Obamas, Reids, Pelosis, Holders, Emanuels, etc. in the
world will not stop the hand of God.
— Sharon I. Rideout
BOONDOGLE
Re: Robert M. Goldberg’s Woe Is
AHRQ:
It’s about time someone pointed this out. First of all, Sean Tunis was fired from Medicare for committing fraud…now he has weaseled his way back into decision making positions in government…nobody points out that he is sponsored by private payers.
Secondly, should the research money being spent at AHRQ really being covered by the private health insurance plans?
Finally, with heart disease and cancer killing more Americans under the age of 65 than any other cause of death, why are we looking at eliminating tests and treatments (except to save private payers money!).
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Bob Vogler| 2.12.10 @ 12:33PM
Re Mr. Roy W. Hogue's letter:
Good point, except the nearest star (the tri-star Alpha Centauri system) is 4.3 light-years from our sun, not 30 light years. Either way, though, that's a lot of "are we there yet?"
Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 7:15PM
Does anyone really think Palin will be ready for the presidency in less than three years?
Don't fall for your own chirpiness.
TJ from Texas| 2.12.10 @ 2:38PM
Glad to see Mimi back. Also (Chaplain) Michael Tomlinson. But if TAS only run's this section once a week, we miss out on other voices. I miss ol' Miss Gunn down home wisdom. Kessle, he gets me a head scratching and sometimes laughing.
Am I the only one of you all who miss the Readers Mail two three times a week?
G. Dominican| 2.13.10 @ 1:03AM
Mr. Welsh of Nehalem, Oregon, is sadly misinformed about what the vast majority of Oregon PERS members receive at retirement. See the data posted by the state below:
From PERS by the numbers, November 2009.
Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 7:22PM
still, Welsh got one thing right:
"Of course when the system collapses, as it inevitably will, 110% of nothing won't be much, will it?
-- Jim Welsh"
Whether it is 50 percent or 110 percent of nothing, nothing from nothing equals nothing.
Pecos Pete| 2.13.10 @ 1:02PM
Hey TJ:
I agree with you ... Readers Mail needs to be posted more than once a week.
Pecos Pete| 2.14.10 @ 1:05PM
Pecos Pete,
Hand, that's gotta be a Texas handle. I'm in Bryan, near College Station. You?
Anyway, I enjoy the reader's section as much as the regular columns. I don't see why we don't have it twice or three times a week. Seems a bit lazy not to have it regular like.
I like Bev's stuff. Mimi's poems always worth a smile. Chaps is good too. Kessel (sorry, got the spelling wrong last time) is often wry and on point. Amos has his good days too.
Bottom line, gotta let the cattle run more than once a week or they get cramped up.
TJ from Texas| 2.14.10 @ 1:14PM
The above post is from me, TJ, but TAS done got its lasso tangled and put it as Pecos Pete's.
Alan Brooks| 2.13.10 @ 5:11PM
"It will not be Palin vs Obama in 2012..."
No, Palin wont be ready by then. She has a long row to go before being of Thatcher calibre.
Besides, as the left underestimates Palin, YOU people are underestimating Obama. He WILL be re-elected.
Richard Baker| 2.14.10 @ 11:44AM
Obama will be lucky if his own Party doesn't lead the way to Impeachment.
Alan Brooks| 2.14.10 @ 4:58PM
Impeachment? Clinton was impeached. Lot of good it did you guys here. You guys are inverse of Corleones: you underestimate your enemies vices and overestimate your own virtues.
You don't want to be a false prophet concerning Obama, as you were on Clinton 15 years ago?
Save your GOP Koolaid for friends and family.
PacRim Jim | 2.15.10 @ 4:04AM
The point of having the bases in Europe and Japan is logistical. The equipment needed in distant conflicts is prepositioned to shorten supply lines and to deter those who might doubt Americans ability (and will) to ship equipment thousands of miles. Moreover, the German and Japanese governments pay for much of the costs of the bases. The rationale is more complex than is discussed in the letters.
Puma x Alexander McQueen | 8.12.11 @ 11:11PM
is good