[alloysteel]

Without the "culture war", what framework DO we have? All the ills described, the loss of American jobs, the so-called jobless recovery, the deficit, the unfair tax code, the trade deficit, the record levels of debt, a failed public-education system and a screwed-up foreign policy, may be most accurately ascribed to failure to study and apply the culture that has nourished this nation for the past 226 years. True, the framework then is not the framework that changed and grew, adapting to the needs as they arose, but the damaging blows being sent at that framework now are not the least bit constructive. Many things are being challenged, or simply being asserted, in the laws today that were never in the older framework, and work at cross purposes to future growth.

Someday the shining city on the hill, America, may fail. Not because it must, but because so few cared. Charley Reese is one of those who no longer care.

[Theodore R.]

It could be that Reese's "hatred" for G.W. Bush has clouded his judgement in regard to the ever-raging "culture war." Wasn't it Pat Buchanan, who Reese once supported, that coined the term "culture war"?

[mathurine]

I don't know who the "best and brightest" may be, but CR is definitely one of the "worst and dullest." His column appears in our local paper, a low-budget operation, so the column must come cheap. I have never seen a letter to the editor applauding anything CR has written, nor have I ever heard anyone around here talk about what CR says. He's a very peculiar man.