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Editor: Thank you for Conserative Battleline Online. Serveral of your articles have helped me reduce my anger over the way the war in Iraq is being waged with better understanding. I am still hugely conflicted over the domestic policies of the Bush Administration. Realizing Senator Kerry would be a disaster for America I may vote Independent in November anyway. I remember my college polisci class. People tend to vote against not for! One thing we probably could agree on. GWB is stubborn and he is not listening. Seems like Bush 1 had the same problem. Read my lips.

JJW
San Bernardino, CA.

There are bills now being considered in the House and Senate which will achieve just that if they are passed. Rather than mounting the enormously time-consuming effort which would be required to pass a Marriage Amendment, which could, and probably would, then be reinterpreted by the Activist Federal Judiciary (the real root of the problem) the judiciary must be brought under constitutionally mandated control of Congress. That solution would achieve the goals of the Marriage Amendment and FAR more.
James R. Uhl
Silverdale, WA

Editor: Movies are fantasy, frequently bad fantasy created by people with strange minds, and hardly worth spending time on. However, the new version of "The Alamo," appears to be another in a long line of slurs, slams and degradations against our American heritage and its heroes. I am not asking you to do anything - just expressing my own right to free speech, in telling you that, for myself alone, I fully intend to boycott this "politically correct," film with it's attempt at "revisionist deconstruction" and degradation of still more of our great American heroes, in this case Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and Col. William Travis.

I have lost whatever respect I may have had, especially for Dennis Quaid but also for Billy Bob Thornton, for not only accepting their parts, but also in the case of Quaid for his lame comments that Mexicans back then were "just trying to hold on to their country." Historical accuracy is not the issue here. There are just as many historians that have come forward to uphold the traditional American version of the Alamo as those who choose the revisionist view. It is, clearly a matter of choice and Quaid and Disney Studios have, once again made the "hostile to America" choice.

It makes me wonder why any patriotic American bothers to go to the movies or buy or rent videos or DVDs and feed still more money into the pockets of those Whollyweird stars who appear to hate our Country and our way of life and worship. Bhagavan Friend

Editor: Your article is correct. Are we experiencing a warming trend? Absolutely. Are we humans responsible? Negative.

Lets look at Alaska to understand the cyclic trends. We don't need any studies or huge cash donations to see what is right before our eyes. Everybody understands that Alaska has huge deposits of coal, oil and gas. According to my encyclopedia, these commodities are the result of immense quantities of lush tropical plant life buried under tremendous pressure for very long periods of time. Due to this formerly large area of vegetation, prehistoric animals also flourished during the tropical event. That the formative years of hydrocarbon fuel and large prehistoric animals went hand in hand would be hard to ignore. From the beginning of mining operations in Alaska and even today, the remains of these animals are stillbeing dug up.

I remember in the 1940's and 50's studying about the "Ice Age" of long ago. The theory is that the Red River Valley in Western Minnesota was created by a massive glacier, which has long since melted. I have lived in Alaska for 59 years. Fifty years ago winter temperatures of minus 60 and 70 degrees in the Interior were routine, however they are rather rare today. Four glaciers along our meager road system have noticeably retreated and two of them, known as the Galloping Glacier and Portage Glacier, are no longer visible from the road.

It doesn't take much imagination to realize that once upon a time, before humans populated the earth, areas that were once tropical, went into a long deep freeze and are now warming up again. All without the help or hindrance of man. This is a natural long term cyclic pattern which man did not cause nor can he control it.

Doug Millard
Wasilla, AK

Editor: There are many Churches, therefore separation of church and state is a must. But there is only one God, our Creator. If we want to keep what He has given us, we must recognize Him. It is up to the Supreme Court to interpret the Bill of Rights correctly, and the Federal and the State legislatures that oversee our nation will adhere to the Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers. Eino Salminen, Lancaster NY

Editor: I propose an end to the drug war that does not violate the tradition of protecting a neighbor's life, liberty, or property. Vigilant citizens are the best line of defense against immoral and reckless intrusions into their communities. By questioning the nature of force, I put the tools in the hands of the individual. Degree and aim determine if such action is appropriate. There are many more fronts in the war against lawlessness, which is big government and socialism. Fusionism is the bridge between libertarianism and conservatism. It is capitalism that unites us under the banners of economic freedom, justice, and property rights.

Sincerely, Rob Jones

Editor: Great newsletter! Just read it. Wouldn't it be easier to buy loyalty from Iraq? There's a book written by two ex-generals, forgot the title. They say: All those billions of taxpayer dollars ought to be used to put unemployed (heard it's like 60% rate) Iraqi folks to work. Until most of them are seeing money, food, on their tables, these Iraqis will have little enthusiasm to participate with America. Fact of life; anyway, I'm not in charge.

Art, Conservative in Texas

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