Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 85 Editor's Choice: 2
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What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt Don't Seem To Get...
[Read the article: What Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Fred Hiatt mean by "bipartisanship"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Americans will not Democrats a mandate this fall, if Democrats continue to enable the corruption in Washington. They rolled over like a two dollar hooker for the Republicans once again on this FISA bill. How disappointing - to know that Democrats have no more respect for the Constitution than Republicans.
Obama needs to think long and hard about this law. Supporting it may cost him more dearly than he could ever imagine. I know at least one vote he could lose over it.
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Gore Vidal is so much better than this...
[Read the article: Gore Vidal's inconvenient truths]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While I will agree that Gore Vidal is pompous, vain and sometimes insufferable, much as William F Buckley was, I don't think you give him enough credit. Campy as he may be at times ( and who doesn't secretly love camp?), he truly engages the readers mind on levels most novels or essays never do. You may not like his style, but at the end of the day, his writings linger in one's consciousness, forcing us to think deeper.
To create ideas and characters that linger in the mind, to make us think deeply about things we might otherwise ignore, that is his great talent. The world is richer for his writings, and I for one have thoroughly enjoyed his novels, whatever their critical flaws.
Writers must engage and entertain readers, not critics. Gore Vidal does that on a level which few ever achieve. Certainly the author of this article does not.
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Like Obama, I Agree with the Ruling
[Read the article: Supreme Court gun ruling could backfire]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama said he believes the Supreme Court Ruling was valid, because the Washington DC law was far too broad and took away gun rights from law abiding citizens with no history of criminal or mental problems as well as convicted felons. The right for individuals to keep and bear arms is in the Constitution. Our founding fathers were not morons, and if the Second Amendment just meant for State Militias were to keep and bear arms, that is what it would have said. Dancing around this amendment and trying to recast the intention is wrong.
This nation had just come through a revolution and they did not want to trade one tyranny for another. One of the main goals of the Constitution, if not THE main goal, was to keep the people secure from an overzealous tyrant assuming the Presidency and taking away our civil liberties. The Founding Fathers did not want their weapons taken from them by such a tyrant, because they wanted the ability to wage another revolution if necessary. Certainly, after 7-1/2 years of propaganda, restrictions on the free press, false imprisonment, illegal wiretaps, rendition and suspension of habeas corpus such a scenario cannot seem so far fetched.
I do not own a gun, though I grew up in a family that did. Even so, if I want to own a gun, I do not want to have ask permission from the government to buy one. A one week waiting period, background checks and other measures, if enforced are the right way to go. Banning all gun ownership is a dangerous violation of our civil liberties.
As for John McCain, he is an angry old man and no one listens to angry old men. Just ask them! This race is Obama's to lose. McCain cannot win unless Obama screws up big time.
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IF THE SCIENTISTS ARE WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If the scientists are wrong about anything, its about when awe are likely to reach the tipping point of no return. We are not moving as slowly toward catastrophic events as anticipated, but are instead racing toward disaster.
The last few years have been startling. The North Pole was not supposed to be ice free in the summer until sometime in the 22nd century. It now appears it could be ice free by about 2023. With that comes a much more rapid global warming and the likelihood that Greenland ice sheet could melt in this century - and many of the world's coastal cities will vanish. Not to worry, only 70 percent of the world lives in those coastal cities.
I live in Nashville where average temperatures have increased to a fairly consistent 15 degrees above normal. Winters are much less cold - rarely is there winter snow - and summers are becoming blistering hot. It feels more like Florida.
With weather records being broken nearly every day in each consecutive year, one has to wonder how people can still argue it's all a fairy tale. I just pray we have not already crossed the point of no return.