Letters to the Editor
Silenced
Published Letters: 1358 Editor's Choice: 75
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Hillary should fire someone in particular
[Read the article: Changes for the Clinton campaign?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whoever it was who told the national press that opposition to mandatory minimums marked Obama as too liberal. Hillary should fire that person.
By the way, I just realized that two of the reasons I'd vote for Obama have been neutralized.
He wants to end the crack/powder cocaine disparity and get rid of mandatory minimums.
But those decisions have already been made. The US Sentencing Commission ended the crack/powder disparity and the Supreme Court decided that mandatory minimum sentences are now to be interpreted as guidelines only.
So while it's nice that Obama takes those two positions, that's conquered territory and nobody needs to elect him to fight those battles.
I care deeply about justice and racism but I also care deeply about health care and basic scientific research, and Hillary still stands a chance with me on those two issues.
Part of our stature in the world has come from our leadership in science.
Obama seems to be all about technology. I don't even see a science policy on his website.
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You're definitely not alone
[Read the article: My molester financed my college education]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's good to talk to other people to see just how "not alone" you really are.
A lot of people have had to heal from this kind of injury, so there's a big knowledge base out there you'll be able to tap into when you're ready.
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I want to see some real science policy on Obama's website
[Read the article: For Clinton, a "voice" and a victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has a technology wish list. Hooray. But Hillary's website shows that she understands the kind of funding commitments you need to make to basic science to keep that new technology coming.
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What's ironic about this campaign
[Read the article: Gloria Steinem on Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's the woman who has by far the best science policy.
Hillary really seems to understand what American science needs to recover from the Bush years.
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Hillary would be the best candidate for the future of science
[Read the article: The witch ain't dead, and Chris Matthews is a ding-dong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now look at Salon -- an economics reporter, a technology reporter, and no science reporter.
That's just like Obama's website -- technology, economics and no information whatsoever on how he would fund science.
Then look at Hillary's website -- she wants to increase the NSF and DOE budgets by 50%, and return American physics to its former glory.
And she wants to double funding for the NIH.
What do all these men want? I don't see that the male candidates have any ideas about what kind of funding we need to bring American science out of its tragic decline under Bush.
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He needs to fire up some ideas on funding basic science
[Read the article: Obama: "I am still fired up and ready to go"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Put them on his website next to his technology wish list.
Where do people think new technology comes from?
A science policy has to consist of more than just a stand on stem cells and global warming.
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Going online got me off prednisone
[Read the article: Is there a doctor in the mouse?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have chronic autoimmune problems and I was on prednisone for four years. It was awful. Prednisone made me fat, crazy and stupid and other bad things as well. It's a horrible medicine but I wasn't able to live without it.
Then I researched online and discovered a lot of interesting things that my doctor hadn't had time to discover on his own.
At that time I was drinking a lot of tea and eating a lot of soy and flax and bathing in lavender and getting manicures with nail polish that contained phthalates.
Turns out that my particular illness is estrogen-sensitive, as many seem to be. And there I was, saturating myself with plant and chemical sources of estrogen.
I figured out that the soy, flax, lavender and phthalates were triggering flareups. The tea also, because as it turns out, ordinary black or green tea contains an enzyme that makes your T cells produce more interferon than normal. It's not good to overproduce interferon if you have an autoimmune problem.
I was able to go off steroids and take a much milder, safer medicine once I changed my diet and my bath products and stopped wearing nail polish.
I wrote up all my findings for my doctor. He's impressed, not angry, because now I'm off prednisone and that's a good thing.
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Well I have a real complaint not a silly one
[Read the article: How bashing Hillary backfired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It was appalling to hear her campaign quoted on national TV trying to make out that Obama was too liberal because he wanted to abolish mandatory minimum sentencing.
The people speaking for Hillary really should have known better. They should have known that mandatory minimums are now only guidelines, thanks to an 8-1 decision by the Supreme Court.
So Obama doesn't need to abolish anything. He doesn't need to get rid of the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity, either, because the US Sentencing Commission has already done it.
Her campaign should know these things. Why don't they?
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Well, I am genuinely torn
[Read the article: Why I'm still not for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps Kissling might count Hillary's interest in increasing the funding for basic scientific research as something else that marks her as a "stereotypical male."
But if you want to increase the representation of women and minorities in science, then you have to increase the number of jobs available, which means you have to increase the funding
Obama is extremely appealing. But I don't get a feeling that he's really into funding basic science.
I like his support for abolishing mandatory minimum sentencing and getting rid of the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity.
But those issues have recently been settled by the Supreme Court and the Sentencing Commission, so his position on them has been rendered moot.
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Why Hillary should be Salon's favorite candidate
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is a publication that censors the War on Drugs even when there is a legitimate news story and even when candidates have definite and even adamant positions on the subject.
Salon expresses the Clinton zeitgeist through and through.
Salon didn't see fit to analyze the Supreme Court's attack on mandatory minimum sentencing, and hasn't printed one article on Kucinich where his position on marijuana is mentioned.
I don't see why you people aren't voting for Bush, in fact.
I mean really -- the Bush administration would probably run Salon the same way.
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Nobody in this election shares Gore's position from 2000
[Read the article: Kerry to endorse Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Al said he believes in a Drug Free America.
If Bush were running now, not even he would dare mouth such an idiotic slogan.
We can't even keep our prisons drug free.