Letters to the Editor
Million-Year Picnic
Published Letters: 142 Editor's Choice: 10
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CNN has a liberal bias?
[Read the article: The "Dark Genius" of Fox News]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have people not watched Glenn Beck?
Have people not watched Lou Dobbs? (Who claims to be a moderate, yet constantly rails against obama?)
Where, besides Olbermann, are the liberal commentators?
As far as news coverage goes, Fox does tend to be rather balanced. Anyone who believes that Fox and CNN are on opposite ends of the spectrum, however, is an idiot.
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Quit whining..
[Read the article: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].. and do something about it.
Run for office, or convince your friends to run for office.
The percentage of women in national public office is deplorable. Women need to quit blaming men for that. After all, they are more than 50% of the vote.
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Olbermann is worst person...
[Read the article: Keith Olbermann: Then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I watch Keith because he seemed to be the only one out there supporting Obama. Problem is, he's not objective. He's fun to watch sometimes, as a counterpoint to Fox.
If they were catching bad guys with this wiretapping stuff, then I'd give them the practical argument. I've seen nothing on that front.
Its ridiculous to say that Obama did this out of political necessity. He actually believes he needs to shred the constitution to get elected? Maybe he's hoping to wiretap some people if he gets elected.
Disturbing. Lets all chase terrorists. Don't worry about the economy, energy, global warming, SS, Medicare, the national debt, nuclear proliferation, etc., etc.
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You must accept global warming on faith.
[Read the article: Anti-science conservatives must be stopped]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me explain.
Unless you are a climate scientist, and unless you understand the research, and the science behind it (thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, climatology, chemistry), you basically are relying on your faith in scientists, and the integrity of the scientific process.
Any semi-random weather events that you may point to COULD support the theory. Or they could be random weather events.
As time goes on, there are likely to be more and more consistent evidence that supports the theory.
But I can't blame someone too much who doesn't have a background in science to doubt it. They do have an obligation to keep an open mind.
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Its a natural event
[Read the article: A deluge waiting to happen]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Flooding is, same as brush fires.
When we were down at South Padre National Seashore last week, they were doing controlled burns. Annoying, for us. We had to wait an hour. But apparently better to do that than have an uncontrolled event.
We still are learning how nature works.
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A man who questions things
[Read the article: Barack by the books]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thats what I want.
I've got no problem with compromises, as long as everyone admits it is a compromise.
Its not the principles of the Republicans that is bad (smaller government, free market). Its the way they apply them without thinking.
Having a huge military and debt is not smaller government. Having corporations manipulate the system is not a free market.
Yup, Obama is moving towards the center. Guess I'll live with it.
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The empire must feed itself
[Read the article: The FBI's plan to "profile" Muslims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People like Cole should not be questioning what is going on. Don't listen to him.
As long as people obey the law, they have nothing to worry about.
Now, move along.
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Rally round the bomb
[Read the article: The dangerous hostility game with Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An attack on Iran is the last, best hope for the neocons to remain in power. It will allow us to focus on something else besides the economy. It will also radicalize an entire country, something we've had trouble doing so far.
Problem is, Bush is not dumb enough to do it.
Really, he's not.
But, you know, accidents do happen. So keep your fingers crossed, neocons. You may still get your wish.
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Reading these columns..
[Read the article: Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here].. is like watching a surgeon point to tumors in an infected person and say:
"Here is where your problem lies, and here, and here"
And every tumor bristles with hypocrisy, and self-importance, and hubris, and self-righteousness, that has become endemic in U.S. thought today.
Friedman is good at feeding pablum to the masses. It tastes good. Like candy.
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Agreed.
[Read the article: Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I can only speculate that Obama is making these kinds of bellicose statements for political purposes. (To show that he is "tough on terror" etc.)
But the situation at the border is at least as gnarly as Iraq, and unlike Iraq, the U.S. presence is not needed to keep the (internal) peace.
Like it or not, the only way to achieve gains in Afghan-Paki region is with certain quid pro quos. The U.S. waging war on the Taliban is just going to backfire in unanticipated ways.
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Don't be too sure..
[Read the article: No, let sleeping "Blue Dogs" lie]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..that the political will isn't there.
Why do you think Obama is the Dem nominee? Because he has resisted the red tide, however feebly. And voters have sent a message that they want more of that.
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The problem with Dems in Congress..
[Read the article: Let's give "Blue Dogs" the boot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is not the way they vote. Its how they criticize Bush at every turn and then vote with him on everything.
Don't vote for war funding again and again and again, and then say you are against the war.
That is why a lot of people are pissed.
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The cancer no one talks about
[Read the article: When war goes corporate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No politician, whether republican or democrat, is allowed to question in any way the functioning and cost of the intelligence agencies and the military.
To do so would be unpatriotic.
Yet it is the biggest social program, by far, in the U.S.
Supposedly it is needed "to keep us safe".
How safe is safe enough?
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The austin bats
[Read the article: Dark night for bats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Almost everyone in Austin, Tx, is familiar with the bats that live in the Congress avenue bridge. About 6 million of them pour out of the concrete understructure every summer evening.
Its quite something to see. From midtown, it looks like a tendril of smoke that fades into the distance.
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"If this guy disagrees with up to 70% of Obama's policies.."
[Read the article: The word from an "Obamacon"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]".. why vote obama?"
Maybe because the remaining 30% are much more important.
People don't worry so much about policing the world, growing the military, and railing against the gays, when they can't put food on the table.
By the way, our economic problems have only just begun. Where California is today, we will be tomorrow. Out of money.
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Good writer
[Read the article: Fear and loafing in the Green Zone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]i was surprised when i got to the end and saw it was a translation.