Today I am bothered by fairly opposite opinions of intelligent, well-meaning, and surely smart people! Like this one on getting the economy moving! Democrats and Republicans (maybe I can even say Conservatives and Liberals) seem to be poles apart! All are well-meaning for us I have no doubt ,in spite of political garbage. Maybe either way is not too bad or a least not so bad that corrections in course can't be made. With our system, bless it, no decision is set in concrete. Now it would appear that Republicans have a chance to show their stuff??

On a different subject but certainly the same generically, please read the book "A World Without Islam". Are we on the proper course in dealing with Islam or should a correction in course be made? The author, Graham Fuller, supports his thesis quite well but I think he underestimates the danger of Supreme Religious Authority, the shackles of which western civilization has pretty much shed. I think we are making headway and what is happening in Iraq may prove it. We overthrew a dictator there but can they survive without succumbing to a supreme religious authority?

Happy New Year, anyway! -- Ralph

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