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Re: “The Battle for House Speaker”

Conservatives do not want another RINO, like some we have endured previously. McCarthy seems to be a good guy, but the reign of terror by Pelosi demands a very strong correction. McConnell in the Senate is bad enough. We don’t need two congressional leaders who forget the lying and duplicity of the other party. The compromises we have allowed in the past have not worked out well for traditional, constitutional Americans. —Alabama

Many see the inability to elect a House speaker as a sign of weakness, indecision, divisiveness, or incompetence within the GOP. We can acknowledge some of those attributes are present and may be influencing the process without abandoning the integrity of the principle of GOP independence. Recall the Democrat Party House members, with very few exceptions, voted like sawdust-for-brains dummies responding to the capricious whims of Nancy Pelosi. In refreshing and promising contrast, the GOP is honoring the independence of its members while it demonstrates integrity and struggles to achieve principled cooperation instead of meek compliance. —Missouri

You can say one thing for Democrats: They unite, 100%, for anything. Here we have a bunch of petty, self-serving Republicans preventing the election of a speaker. What outcome do these holdouts expect to get? They want it their petty way or nothing, when the majority is okay with McCarthy. Why can’t they unite? The Republican Party has those identified as RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), yet one never reads about Democrats being called DINOs. They unify, and that is sorely lacking with Republicans. These holdouts are wasting valuable legislative time in their selfishness. —Washington

Re: “A Government Woke and Broken”

In the end, success in war requires boots on the ground. We have all sorts of high-tech weaponry, but every war has had high-tech weaponry: long bow, cannon, rifle, Gatling gun, machine gun, radar, nukes, smart bombs, etc. We may have the best war toys in the world, but flip-flops on the ground won’t cut it. —New Hampshire

I don’t care how you cut the cake: So-called gender dysphoria is an illness, whether physical, in the case of the rare few who are born with ambiguous or dysfunctional genitalia, or in the case of the suspiciously large number of young people who seem inexplicably uncomfortable in their own skins. Illness is an intrinsic reality of life in and of itself, but it’s compounded by the woke leftists who willfully try to convince our youth that they’re being victimized by those who “assign” children’s genders at birth. As if conservatives are in control of human biology and genetics. In reality, the Left is conducting an assault on our institutions, and child abuse against our children, in the form of depraved indoctrination. —Illinois

Re: “Human Fossil Warns of Extinction”

As a gullible university science student in the 1960s and 1970s, I was seriously negatively intellectually affected by the declarations of Paul Ehrlich and Carl Sagan and their ilk that we would all starve and freeze to death in the dark before or certainly by the turn of the last century. It took years of review and analysis to slowly discard those dire but provably false predictions. I am sure that today’s youth from children through young adults are similarly falsely concerned and depressed by the current plethora of doom and gloom regarding issues such as climate change and energy availability. It will take years, if ever, to repair the damage from this kind of helplessness-inducing fearmongering. —California

Re: “Tell Us Meaningful Stories”

It’s true there are so many bad movies, especially compared to 70 or 80 years ago. Those were the days! But now, bad writing, bad characters, and bad morals do seem to drown our stories — when we have stories at all. In some respects, we have only ourselves to blame. Conservatives by nature rely on logic, on a reasonable assessment of the good. And libertarians by definition are loners. Both groups have too often given up on the community. We are reaping the fruits of our neglect. —California

Re: “About That ‘Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier’”

The last sentence in Alexander’s column says it all: “Biden is fond of calling his detractors a ‘lying dog-faced pony soldier.’ He leads the cavalry!” —Tennessee