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A Convenient Excuse
Asking and telling about Kagan. Getting MADDER. GLAAD about you. Mighty Quin. Ben Stein. Plus more.
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I appreciate your integrity and grit to needle the right people on these issues of greed and corruption, not that they are listening, at the moment.
I pray every day that God will clean up America and make it once
again a place we can be proud of, show us the folly of trusting
in anything but Him.
— Nancy Beutel
Charlotte, North Carolina
Ben Stein wants to know why they do it? That’s easy: the American
left’s fifty-year love affair with both moral relativism
and secularism has reached full flower. Religious advisors
have been supplanted by lawyers and therapists. As a
result, “right and wrong” have been replaced by either
“legal and illegal,” or “well and unwell.” When a fundamental
understanding of good and evil becomes “negotiable,” all things
are possible.
— Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida
INVESTING IN REDUCTION
Re: James Bowman’s review of The
Cartel:
Since there exists a negative correlation between teach salary
and student achievement, reduce teacher salaries incrementally
until students perform at a high level.
— David Govett
Davis, California
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IMKessel| 5.14.10 @ 7:57AM
Mr. Govett,
When criticizing teachers, you will make a better arguement if you choose the correct noun and not depend on spell check.
Appleby| 5.14.10 @ 11:39AM
Mr. Kessel, you have misspelled ARGUMENT, and should have used the word [i]do[/i] bfore the word[/i]not[/i].
IMKessel| 5.14.10 @ 2:11PM
Appleby,
I stand corrected. I thought I had corrected it myself, but as the good book states, remove the blank from your own eye before lifting the mote from your neighbors. Thank you for the reminder.
Jeff Perren | 5.14.10 @ 3:04PM
"Ms. Kagan will no doubt be confirmed, because the ambitious elites know that there are no consequences to shunning us.
--Mike Harris
MAJ, United States Army "
Good point, sir. Therefore, time to create some, and not just in politics but throughout the entire culture.
Progressives, like pedophiles, should not be tolerated in polite company.
David| 5.14.10 @ 3:34PM
David| 5.13.10 @ 3:13PM
Now is the time for repubs to start opposing liberal judge nominees: at the district court and appellate court levels. They make a huge mistake by waiting until libs are nominated to the Supreme Court.
First, the dems always claim that the repubs voted for them for the district or appellate court and now oppose them for the supreme court. If they are not supreme court material, then repubs had no business voting to confirm them to the lower courts.
Second, the vast majority of cases never make it to the supreme court, or to the appellate courts for that matter. Liberal judges wreak havoc at the district court and appellate court levels.
Federal judges at all levels serve for life, just like the justices on the supreme court.
It is time for repubs to start stopping them from ever becoming federal judges - like the dems did to Miguel Estrada and several other extremely well- qualified Bush nominees.
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