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...naming the iPhone the best invention of 2007, you forgot about Windows-based PDA phones [Nov. 12]. They've been out for years. Touch interface? Big deal. As you noted, it's been done before. A miniaturized operating system? Done. Windows-based phones are everything the iPhone is and more. The phones can text, MMS, e-mail (through POP, IMAP, Exchange), surf the real Web at broadband speed on EVDO networks and open, edit and save documents. The iPhone is for kids. Windows Mobile PDA phones are for adults who need to do real work...
Michael Grunwald's analysis of wasteful farm-commodity programs and farm-bill politics was right on the money, but his assertion that the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (SAC) "dropped its opposition [to the House farm bill] for scraps" was false [Nov. 12]. SAC celebrated the House Agriculture Committee's increased funding for organic and value-added programs mentioned in the story. But we characterized these and related measures as "small steps forward." As a whole, we said the House bill moved in reverse with its substantial weakening of commodity-program payment limitations and the gutting of the landmark Conservation Security Program...
Joel Stein's repeated references to Ron Paul's campaign as "nerdy," especially the idea of a "free-market commodity-based money," indicates how ignorant most Americans are about the monetary system [Nov. 12]. Money affects virtually every interaction we have with other people. When this interaction is in effect controlled by a private cartel (the Federal Reserve) instead of free-market forces, there is room for manipulation. I wish media institutions like TIME would stop dismissing scrutiny of something as important as the monetary system. You do a disservice not only to yourselves but to future generations as well...
Correction Appended: Nov...
Huckabee might want to opt out. On Nov. 6 the Copelands got a saw-toothed, 42 point questionnaire inquiring into their own character from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley wanted to know how Kenneth Copeland--who as a church leader pays no taxes but is expected to plow revenue back into the public welfare--got a private plane and whether flights to Hawaii and Fiji qualified as business trips. Grassley sought credit card receipts and the numbers of the church's offshore bank accounts...