Letters to the Editor
Herb Spencer
Published Letters: 24
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Today's SCOTUS Decision Gives This A New Twist
[Read the article: When Democrats chase Hoosiers and Region Rats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Today, SCOTUS upheld IN's voter ID law, which the ACLU and the usual gang of lefties had attacked as unconstitutional by foisting imagined "burdens" on those eternal objects of their affection, minorities, the elderly and the poor. Those claims got short shrift from JJ Stevens and Scalia, but their stubborn repetition in JJ Souters and Breyer's dissents showed once again their ability to state the thing which is not.
An underreported story from Hammond, IN took its Mayor McDermott, a Clintonite, to task last week for criticizing the Gary public schools for busing HS students to vote early in the IN primary in Crown Point, scene of Billary's Crown Royal moment. (Memo to file: a real Regionette would have had either a Boilermaker or a 7 & 7.) So while Gary's schools continue to flounder in failure - a damn shame for what was once one of the world's pioneering school systems! - instead of teaching their students the mental skills they need to make intelligent and informed choices at the polls and in life, at least they, and the Lake Cty. Registrar of Voters, will get a better handle on exactly who those students are. Maybe someone with a real imagination will run warrant checks too, not an unreasonable proposition given Garyites' tendency towards crime, but that might fan the "Let Felons Vote!" flames higher and really throw a wrench into IN's primary gears.
BTW, anyone who uses "Da" as the article preceding "Region" is not the real article. That affectation smells of something south of the Kankakee.
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What Should Norman Lear Do About Kaplan?
[Read the article: What should Obama do about Rev. Jeremiah Wright?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fire anyone who uses that tired cliche about the "time for healing," and all such rot.
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For the REAL Perry & Della ...
[Read the article: Legal appeal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you need to go back to the Warner Bros. "Clue Club" series of the '30s starring stentorian Warren William as Perry Mason. I forget who played Della (Joan Blondell?; no, Della I was a brunette ...), but she lived up to her Italo-Anglo name: she was a hooker whom Perry rescued from the streets and made his secretary, if not lover. They were MUCH more intimate, even suggestive, in that first series, and they're still a good watch on TCM whenever you can find them there.
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Ut Ego In Vulpes
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kudos to both Billary and Barack for going on FNC and being seriously interviewed with some hardball questions for a - dare I say it? - change. Both did well in the sense that they were appealing and more than held their own. But I'll never vote for either of them.
Billary's refusal to enforce federal immigration law against so-called "sanctuary cities" confirms she's still the railing old '60s radical who palled around with Bill Lan Lee and worked on behalf of Black Panthers accused of murder while she attended Yale Law. She's made a few cosmetic shifts to the center, but abandoning her permissive law and order stance is not one of them. Sorry, Billary; it'll take more than a village chorus mouthing your praises for me to ever support you and your erstwhile husband, who are really one in the same.
Barack's interview with Chris Wallace was a pleasant enough affair, but he's still too untried to get my vote. He, too, refuses to shake off his '60s garb, even though those clothes were hand-me-downs by the time he put them on. No, Barack, you've still got some growing up to do in the good judgment department before I can support you - although I've come close to doing so. Let's see how you handle yourself over the next eight years of the McCain presidency and a Republican Senate.
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You People Wouldn't Want to Over-React Now, Would You?
[Read the article: Iraqi sues U.S. military contractors]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If ANY of you who've preceded my post are as smart as you claim/pose/think you are, a simple re-read of your posts, ensemble, would reveal them to be nothing but a bunch of tired cliches. Surely some of you have a liberal arts degree of some sort? Wait, maybe that's the problem!
My question: what stellar law firm is representing this "poor victim" in LA Federal Ct? Whoever it is, it's NOT my idea of worthy pro bono.
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"Sadly," McCain is right!
[Read the article: McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As a lawyer who's been practicing in state and federal courts for over 25 years, I think I know a bit about the judiciary firsthand. McCain's correct when it comes to the arrogance of judicial power, particularly on the federal bench. Only now are we starting to finally see, in scattered decisions, the judiciary's own recognition of this fact. (The recent SCOTUS decision in the IN Voter ID case is one example.) Judges are there to apply the law, NOT to make it, which is the job of the people, whether directly or thru their legislatures. Anyone who can't understand - and accept - this simple constitutional premise should not be in the position of appointing judges.
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Nice ad hominems, GG!
[Read the article: McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Good, solid marshaling of the facts! Clear and able exposition of your position without rancour! I'm not surprised at your connection with the NYT.
I'd never heard of you until today's article, whose headline - and numerous "I-lines" - tempted me to ignore it. But, as pompous as I may be, I'm also a classically-educated liberal in the former, happier sense of that word, so I spent some eye-time with it. I won't make that mistake again - and will do my best to dissuade others from doing so as well.
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Like it or not, folks ...
[Read the article: Missouri may take voter I.D. laws a step further]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]many of you seem to have missed one of the points in SCOTUS' IN Voter ID decision: a history of voter fraud is NOT a prerequisite to enacting laws like these. The right to vote is so foundational that protecting it need not abide demonstrating damage to it. Think of it as a timely intervention for those who insist the Constitution IS "a suicide pact."
And, I wouldn't put too much faith in a study commissioned by the Democrats from an Anglo-American think tank.