Letters to the Editor
macgupta
Published Letters: 697
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@L.W.M.
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm quite sure the entire post was taken down; for a while I thought I had gone crazy and imagined the whole thing, but google proved to me that I had not.
That was just one incident; I continue to hold Col Lang in high esteem, too. I hope he is consulted to sanity-check the logistical plans to withdraw from Iraq.
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@herur-ur
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]History records that the South was willing to fight a brutal war to do away with the tariff. It was all about money just like it almost always is. No oil back then, but money.
Congratulations! You are a more dishonest and stupid poster than shooter242, and that is an extremely difficult feat to achieve.
You can read the South Carolina articles of secession here - or click on my signature.
http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/decl-sc.htm
Nothing about tariffs. All about slavery.
p24:
We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.
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Rachel Maddow on FISA story
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]On MSNBC Countdown today, Rachel Maddow did a great job in reporting on the story.
Here is the video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25594262
(or click on my signature)
while I search for a transcript.
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Re: Rachel Maddow on FISA
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, MSNBC says transcripts within 24 hours linked from somewhere (scroll down) on this page:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3719710/
(or click on signature).
Maddow interviews Jonathan Turley who adds one more reason for why the Democrats want to sweep under the felony committed by the President, not once, but more than thirty times - they fear the confrontation.
It is a very well-done six and half minutes - I don't think it can be made simpler - and Maddow asks all the right questions, and points out the right things. She even addresses Keith Olberman's idea of a future criminal investigation by President Obama.
I dunno how to do it, but I think it is one of those that can become a viral video. Perhaps excerpts from it can be used in a future strangebedfellows campaign.
Like today's WaPo ad., there is a beautiful clarity to the piece.
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@GG - WNYC, Brian Lehrer
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm hoping Brian Lehrer will ask : Wherefrom does Nancy Soderberg derive her understanding of HR 6304? Has she read and understood the bill for herself? Who is she relying on?
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Constitutional Fundamentalism
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just for the record, I'm not a Bill of Rights Fundamentalist - in the sense that the original words and original intent of the Bill of Rights has to be respected unconditionally.
What I am is a Constitutional Process fundamentalist. A Constitutional statement has accumulated a meaning, an interpretation over the years, but at any time we may decide that it no longer suits our circumstances. Then there is a Constitutional process to amend the Constitution, which is a version of the process that gave the Constitution itself its authority in the first place, and I insist that that be followed.
In this regard, I'm a process fundamentalist.
There are many reasons for insisting on this; the simplest reason is that the alternative is chaos.
If 9/11 and new technology makes the Fourth Amendment in some way obsolete, then let us amend the Constitution. Let us not pass laws of dubious constitutionality or let one branch or other usurp powers that do not properly belong to it.
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@GG - great job on WNYC
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GG, great job on WNYC!
I expect the podcast will eventually be available on this page:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/07/09
(click on signature).
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Maddow-Turley transcript
[Read the article: Today's coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The transcript of Countdown, including Maddow's interview of Turley is available from MSNBC here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25605793/
(or click on signature)
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@heru-ur
[Read the article: Aug. 8, 1974 vs. July 9, 2008]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Starting with the Reconstruction, everyone is playing polite trying to let the Southerners believe that their stand was civilized. This in the name of some higher good. This went to the extent of delaying full civil rights for non-whites for a hundred years.
Your stuff on tariffs, and other extraneous issues, is like saying that the Holocaust was an incidental part of Nazi rule.
Nothing you say can change these facts.
This kind of whitewash is not historically unique either. A falsehood is perpetuated to allow a faction to reenter the fold with "dignity" intact.
The FISA bill the Senate is voting on and all the rationalizations issued by the Democrats is something like that too. Except the Democrats never beat the President.
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Obama is the most unique of candidates
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I doubt there is any Presidential candidate in American history who broke a campaign promise as quickly as Obama.
Let us all celebrate his uniqueness!
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It passed?
[Read the article: Today's coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No bolt of lightning from a cloudless sky?
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An appeal
[Read the article: Today's coverup of surveillance crimes and Barack Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think the Obama camp is feeling some embarrassment that the Obama-vote-right-on-FISA group is by far the largest group on my.barackobama.com. The Action Wire group which was more or less stagnant for the last two weeks at around 13500 members has now rapidly climbed to 15000+; seems to me an effort is being made to lessen the embarrassment.
The appeal is to sign on to the FISA group if you haven't already, and keep it the largest group.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/SenatorObama-PleaseVoteAgainstFISA
or click on sig.