Reader Comments

Editor: Excellent editorial on “The Missing Children Problem.”  All of your points are well made. I agree with you 100%. I hope we can get the American people to recognize the stakes you have brought to the table about fertility and depopulation. Chuck White

Editor: Another excellent editorial on population replacement, “The Missing Children Problem.”  I continue to be amazed, however, at the lack of discussion of the role abortion has played in population decline.  I read somewhere, maybe 20 years ago, that the average woman in Russia has had something like eight or ten abortions. That is a serious societal problem for more reasons that one.  There have been more than 45 million abortions in this country since Roe v Wade. That's a lot of missing children.  And to think that some people wonder why there are not enough workers to pay the taxes necessary to keep social security solvent. Bill Sizemore

Editor: Your article about population, “The Missing Children problem,” is definitely a topic of concern.  Taxes are a big part of the problem. I am living through this experience right now. I have 3 kids with one attending Baylor.  My father is a doctor, I am a highly skilled engineer, and my older 2 daughters want to become doctors.  My daughter at Baylor is in the honors program and finished her freshman year with a 3.7 gpa.  I mention this because we come from a line of societal contributors throughout our generations.  Imagine my surprise when I found out that I could only write off $4,000 of the tuition we helped Tamara with this year.  This helps, but I sure wish all could be written off - as I am sure you know, it is incredibly expensive to raise kids.  Finances are the reason we did not have one or two more children.  In the end, if the modernized, non-Muslim world wants to maintain or increase in population, we need to make having kids affordable. Thanks for your article, Chuck Strohm, Tulsa, OK

Editor: I look forward to your regular editions of ConservativeBattleline and your editorials on various subjects, including “The Missing Children Problem” in this edition, and I just wanted to let you know. Sincerely, David W

Editor: In response to Lisa Fabrizio's column: “Bonds And the Babe--WOW! Best regards, Raymond Mangin, Tucson, Arizona

Editor: Regarding Alan Caruba’s article, “Running Out of Oil?” I agree:  We do not have an oil problem.  We have a government problem. That may be harder to solve. Judy Novotny

Editor: Good piece by Alan Caruba but he didn't mention the oil discovered recently in Colorado. Bruce

Editor: One way to solve the oil and ethanol problem is getting rid of the import duty of 54 cents per gallon from ethanol imported from Brazil. Dan Paul

Editor: I whole-heartedly endorse Congressman Mike Pence’s Bill as outlined in your piece on the subject in your recent edition.  I have so stated on at least 3 of the so called surveys that I receive from the various branches of the Republican Party et all. Keep up the pressure!!!! Jack E. Harrier

Editor: I agree with Mike Pence’s plan; can you get support for this fabulous idea?  You have mine! Sharon in Montana

Editor: The Mike Pence plan is the first and only one I have seen that is fair and makes sense.  How can we support it? Ilah E. Maron, Ames IA 

Editor: If Republicans would take Mike Pence’s idea as their plan and run with it, they could hold on to all the seats they now have and add many of the ones now held by Democrats. This has to be the best plan I have read or heard of in this discussion on saying, "First break our immigration laws, and then we will reward you with  citizenship papers."   Have all of our politicians lost sight of common sense on this issue? C. Outlaw, Winter Haven, FL

Editor: I'm not looking to have my comments publicized - I just want Rep Mike Pence to know that his bill is the most sensible bill I've seen about the Immigration system.  I'm praying sensible people in government will put aside their own private agendas, and recognize the merits of this bill. Thanks, P.L

Editor: First, off I just wanted to let you know that I am 16 years old, and I'm an avid reader of ConservativeBattleline, I try to read every article you guys release. I really appreciate everything you are doing for the Conservative movement. But, I just got done reading the "New Orleans in Black and White", and I do agree 100% with what the author was writing about, yet there were certain words he used that I think only encourage the problem of political correctness in this country. He used the term "African-American" to describe blacks in the same phrase which he used the term "white" to describe whites. Now, this may not seem like much, but it represents an undercurrent of p.c. culture. Why is it that he has to be politically correct describing one race of people, while the other race is simply "white"? I just don't think a Conservative website is the place to be encouraging political correctness. It is after all, only an attack on Western culture, and isn't that what the Conservative movement is most trying to preserve? Thanks for your time. Vincent D'Agostino.

Editor: I live in St. Tammany Parish outside of New Orleans and could not vote in  the recent New Orleans election though I have almost as much at  stake as anyone living within the city given how we feel the side effects of  anything  that happens there. I believe Mr. Crouere missed the point of why some whites voted for Nagin. I would have voted for Coulig if I could have but he had NO CHANCE of winning. The fact is that there was no conservative candidate on the ballot who had a chance of winning and Coulig was the only conservative. The sad part that Mr. Crouere nailed dead on is that New Orleans whiffed on its chance to change as much as it needed to. To be fair, however, thus far Nagin, for all else that he has shown to possess or lack, appears to be trying to undo decades of corruption by both black and white administrations. But remember, he had only been in office barely 3 years before Katrina and the  battle to clean up the legacy corruption will outlast his tenure due to term limits. This was the one opportunity to elect a conservative mayor in New Orleans  but no such candidate with a remote chance was on the ballot. The stage was set but no one showed up. Look at the last several Presidential elections in Louisiana to see that it  takes the rest of the state to offset the pro-liberal demographics of Orleans Parish and even then it is too close for comfort. Bill Engle, Slidell