SPEAK OUT

Question of morality

TO THE caller who became tired of having to explain things to her children: Rest assured here is one Democrat and his children who plan to be at the polls every time the doors are open. Have you explained to your children how oil and insurance companies buy elections? Probably not, since this isn't a moral question to your thinking.

Punch line for joke

HERE WE go again with the immoral years of the Clinton administration. Bill Clinton may not be perfect like all Republicans think they are, but we sure had a better country while he was working. And where is the outcry about the Bush daughters? Apparently underage drinking and public intoxication don't deserve scrutiny from the right. First the world made fun of us for Republicans attacking the president. Now they can just make fun of the president himself.

Liberal bastion

IT'S TIME to puncture the myth of a predominately liberal, leftist national press. All of the mainstream press have become sycophantic slaves to their corporate masters and are, in a broad sense, quite conservative. The last bastion for the propagation of leftist philosophy may be Speak Out.

Essence destroyed

THAT A reason the South fought the North in the Civil War differed from the Nazi agenda is, in one sense, a distinction without a difference. The Nazis literally destroyed humanity. Southern slave holders destroyed its essence.

Eating the sandwich

PRETEND YOU'RE stranded on a deserted island. Chances are you'll never be saved. The only food you have is a single sandwich, but in a short time the natural food of the island will be ripe for eating. Now, do you eat the whole sandwich the first day and starve, or do you ration it until an abundant supply is available? Apply this scenario to our current energy situation and decide whether or not it's wise for the United States to be eating so much of that sandwich.

New standards

OVER HALF of U.S. oil refineries were estimated to be in violation of federal anti-pollution standards. However, President Bush is presently and presciently taking care of that problem by writing new standards.

Low Spirits

Peter Kinder voted yes

To lower the BAC.

Now my life will be a mess.

No wine with my brie.

Selling you soul

AS A believer in conspiracy theories, I'm convinced there is a cadre of conservative columnists and cackling heads on TV and the radio who somehow collaborate to successfully push right-wing books to the top of the best-seller lists. I have no quarrel with this tactic and think it is a good and acceptable way to help conservative ideas and philosophy permeate the public domain. If there would be some way they could guarantee me entrance to the conservative book pushing club and subsequent success on the best-seller list, I would sell my soul in a heartbeat, convert to conservatism and write a book.

Blame Jimmy Carter

I NOTICED someone wanted to blame the Reagan administration for the energy crisis. Go back one more decade. In California environmentalists and politicians successfully stopped the building of power plants for silly reasons while Texans saw the need in the future. In Washington President Carter sided with them, causing power plants to be put on hold.

Friendly disguise

THROUGH EMINENT domain, President Bush wants to give the federal government power to seize private property for the use of transmission lines. Scary. A young friend of mine has been talking quite loudly that governmental control would come under the guise of seemingly friendly programs.