you seem to believe that liberal should be synonymous with patsy, chump, and fool. I’m a liberal, and I believe in accountability, responsibility, and justice. His complicity in the deaths of thousands of people - abroad and in the US - should mark him as guilty of crimes against humanity.

He worked for years against life-saving policies that would provide health care for all Americans. Keep in mind that thousands of Americans die prematurely every year because we choose not to provide basic health care for our citizens. (See research conducted by the CDC, the Kaiser Family Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, just to name a few.) He supported covert wars in Central America and other places, where US-backed death squads murdered thousands of people. He supported a cut off of life-saving birth control and abortion for poor women in Third World countries.

If you drive the getaway car in a bank heist and one of your buddies kills a security guard, you are as guilty of murder as the triggerman. Falwell aided and abetted the worst people in American social and political life, and he played to the basest instincts of the worst kind of American. And he made a lot of money doing it. The man was a monster. The only thing we owe him is the truth.

What’s next, Pepper, the rehabilitation of Pol Pot?

joy, happiness, rejoicing, elation, or any of the dozens of words used here to describe a persons positive feelings about the passing of one Jerry Falwell. Liberal does not mean tolerance. At one time maybe it did, but not in the 21st century.

"Liberal tolerance?

I all these letters of judgment. Amazing to me how people who claim to walk by a higher morality and standard stoop to such low heights. Even more amazing is people who don't believe in hell or in a God who sends people to hell, can act like god and condemn someone who they disagree with to such a place. Absolutely amazing!!!

-- southwest"

Falwell was what I call a "serial apologizer". After acting in an evil, reprehensible manner, this type of person says they are "sorry". It is all the worse when shrouded in his so-called Christian faith. As a human being and as a Christian it offends me completely.

This behavior is in frequent use by abusers and others who have only the goal to belittle, to hurt, to divide for their own psychologically screwed up reasons. I should know, I grew up around it.

And after years of healing I find so much anger in me with the death of this man.

It is very difficult for me to not be more spiritually at peace with his passing... but I am really struggling.

His brand of vitriol and hatred will live on and will act as the justification for repression, division and acts of violence in the name of Jesus. All of which is completely foreign to any Jesus that I have come to know, and to the many Christians who would not take the Falwell low road.

It is so wrong at every level and it will take a lot for me to make peace with this.

It is my personal commitment to not give hate for hate or to return violence with violence. As a progressive Catholic I am deeply attached to peace and non-violence, which is not passive at all. However I have met my match in Falwell's memory.

I have tried to write a nice ending to this letter, but one does not exist for me right now.

APDA national champions

2007 Yale: David Denton and Dylan Gadek

2006 Princeton: Dan Greco and Michael Reilly

2005 Harvard: Alex Blenkinsopp and Alex Potapov

2004 Harvard: Marty Roth and Nico Cornell

2003 Yale: Jay Cox and Tim Willenken

2002 Princeton: Edward Parillon and Yoni Schneller

2001 Yale: Brian Fletcher and Scott Luftglass

2000 Princeton: Jeremiah Gordon and Matt Schwartz

1999 Columbia: Carissa Byrne and John Castelly

1998 Harvard: Eric Albert and Justin Osofsky

1997 Johns Hopkins: Rebecca Justice and David Weiner

1996 UPenn: Liz Rogers and Peter Stris

1995 Swarthmore: Jeremy Mallory and Neal Potischman

1994 Swarthmore: Dave Carney and Neal Potischman

1993 Columbia: Thanos Basdekis and Morty Dubin

1992 Harvard: Chris Harris and David Kennedy

1991 Princeton: Robert Ewing and Christopher Ray

1990 Wesleyan: Andrew Borsanyi and Joel Potischman

1989 Harvard: Nick Alpers and Pat Bannon

1988 Brown: Aaron Belkin and Jason Grumet

1987 Swarthmore: Josh Davis and Reid Neureiter

1986 Harvard: Ben Alpers and Mike Dorf

1985 Brown: Martha Hirschfield and Tim Moore

1984 United States Naval Academy: Chuck Fish and Marshall Parsons

1983 Harvard: Neil Buchanan and Doug Curtis

1982 Princeton: Robert Gilbert and Richard Sommer

1981 Amherst: J.J. Gertler and Tom Massaro

one of the two national intercollegiate parliamentary debate organizations in the United States and the largest college debate organization in the United States

·2007: Tim Kamermeyer and Griffith Vertican (Point Loma Nazarene University)

·2006: Josh Anderson and Rachel Safran (University of Puget Sound)

·2005: Paul Bingham & Meredith Price (Lewis & Clark College)

·2004: Ian Samuel & Marie Tenny (Truman State University)

·2003: Michael Owens & Joshua Wilkerson (University of Wyoming)

·2002: Ben Garcia & Chris Richter (University of Alaska Anchorage)

·2001: Danny Barak & Will Trachman (University of California, Berkeley)

·2000: Ryan Kennedy & Jacob Stutzman (Truman State University)

·1999: Geof Brodak & Bill Herman (Colorado State University)

·1998: Heath Curtis & Rebekah Gilbert (Concordia University, Seward)

·1997: Dan Nelson & Marcus Paroske (Regis University)

·1996: Ryan Levy & Scott Ruthfield (Rice University)

·1995: Meredith Marine & Neal Sample (University of Wyoming)

·1994: Marcus Paroske & Tammy Schultz (Regis University)

the GOP will tell these snake handlers to take a hike when the GOP loses more than they gain from the relationship. We're not there yet, and I doubt we will get there until after the 2008 election. Every seat in the General Assembly in Ol Virginny is up for grabs this year, and even GOP candidates in southwest are worried. If the GOP loses the Virginia General Assembly, it will be a good sign that they are in serious trouble nationally. We can only hope...

3/28/2006-EAST LANSING, Mich. – For the second time in three years, a team from Michigan State University has been crowned national debate champions.