MEET THE LOONEYS
ROGGENSACK, ROD
Correspondence Meet the Looneys REGARDING Matthew Continetti’s “The Full Schumer” (Feb. 19): Senator Charles Schumer should not count on his imaginary friends, the “Baileys,” to show up at...
...IGNOMINIOUS INCUMBENTS WILLIAM KRISTOL is exactly right concerning the ignominy of several supposedly Republican senators who appear determined to undermine any chance to win in Iraq (“A Terrible Ignominy,” Feb...
...It is, rather, their neighbors, Mr...
...Chuck can check this out with his colleague Joe Lieberman, who is no longer a Democrat thanks to the Looney clan...
...So infl uential are my thoughts and phrasings that a great number are actually pre-stolen—taken by other writers before I can even get around to thinking or saying them,” he writes...
...ISAAC SHAPIRO New York, N.Y...
...They would once again savagely attack a true conservative, such as Stephen Laffey in Rhode Island...
...In the years when I attended the school I lived in Pearl Harbor, some seven miles away, and I don’t remember ever setting foot on Waikiki beach...
...19), an entertaining commentary on the problem of other writers plagiarizing his thoughts before he actually puts them on paper...
...BILL BROCKMAN Atlanta, Ga...
...Looney, and their zealous political friends, all holding views abhorrent to the Baileys, who regularly vote in Democratic primaries...
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...I, too, hope that a “victory-oriented” challenger will step forward to oppose Warner, Smith, Collins, Snowe, Hagel, and any others who choose to quit the fi ght...
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...Other than these concerns, Ferguson’s review was beyond criticism...
...I attended Punahou as one of a contingent of “military brats,” children of people serving at various military posts on the island of Oahu, and we were bused in to Honolulu...
...While it is true that today Punahou prepares students for college, to label it “a fancy prep school” sends a completely false message...
...It is almost three miles inland in the Manoa Valley...
...The oldest private school west of the Rockies, Punahou was founded in 1841 by Christian missionaries to provide schooling for their children in what was then the Kingdom of Hawaii, an essentially nonEnglish speaking society...
...Another case of “pre-stolen” plagiarism...
...Over a decade ago, Kris Kristofferson recorded Robert Earl Keen’s “Corpus Christi Bay,” which is a sort of unoffi cial Texas collegiate anthem...
...and Mrs...
...Upon recording Keen’s work, Kristofferson remarked that he had intended to write the same song, but Keen had written it before Kris could do the same...
...ROD ROGGENSACK Lancaster, Wisc...
...The GOP’s senatorial campaign committee would dutifully back the incumbent, just as they blithely supported Lincoln Chafee and Arlen Specter...
...I fear, alas, that I already know what would happen in such a case...
...MY OLD SCHOOL AS A 1948 GRADUATE of Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, I take issue with Andrew Ferguson’s characterization of the school that Barack Obama attended as “a fancy prep school in Waikiki” (“The Literary Obama,” Feb...
...THEFT OF THOUGHTS I ENJOYED Joseph Bottum’s “To Borrow a Phrase” (Feb...
...19): Senator Charles Schumer should not count on his imaginary friends, the “Baileys,” to show up at primary elections...
...By the way, Punahou is not “in Waikiki...
...GREGG GEIL Austin, Tex...
Vol. 12 • February 2007 • No. 24
