Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 237 Editor's Choice: 16
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Good Interview
[Read the article: How would Barack Obama handle foreign policy?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was a very helpful interview, and I appreciate it. It makes me feel very positively about Obama and his ideas about foreign policy.
I certainly think that repairing damage done to perceptions of the US in the rest of the world is very important. The best way to do that is to publicly purge the people responsible for the disaster, along with all of the other people this administration has put in office whose fidelity is to the manifesto of the crazy right wing, rather than to the rule of law.
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More please
[Read the article: The snowman cometh, again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]More please?
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I love the monkey poo system
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would easily beat arm-wrestling on ESPN-2 for entertainment value.
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Center for American Progress
[Read the article: Lining up for the mortgage rescue plan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These guys just don't get it. They want a Family Foreclosure Rescue Corporation, according to the Progress Report. Tax-free bonds for mortgages. Bail out the rich. Whose side are they on?
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Greenspan with Jon Stewart
[Read the article: Alan Greenspan on the mortgage crisis: "I didn't do it!"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love this interview of Greenspan by Jon Stewart:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=102970&title=alan-greenspan
Eventually Stewart gets Greenspan to admit that his actions favored investors over savers, but "you're not supposed to think of it that way." Stewart then comes pretty close to getting Greenspan to admit that we favor investing over work, but he can't quite make it happen. This part starts at about the 4 minute mark, but the whole thing is worth watching.
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Speaking of rotted corpses
[Read the article: Dogma days ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What does this even mean: "I substitute art and nature for God -- the grandeur of man and the vast mystery of the universe."
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To: Jim White
[Read the article: Anatomy and significance of Monday's FISA victory]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The world's most valuable Hat Tip.
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Try southern France
[Read the article: The population neutron bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was in Provence, near Mont Ventoux, and there were plenty of people in small towns. The same is true in Perigord, near Montignac and Tarrason, and Le Buge. Plenty of older people, but in every one of those towns I saw shops for kids clothes. Just another reason to emulate the French.
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HRC isn't the corporatist candidate
[Read the article: Media hostility toward anti-establishment candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First, the chart you linked in support of this shows the largest 20 contributors. There are 7 corporate law firms, 6 financial firms, 4 entertainment companies (treating News Corp and Time Warner as entertainment companies, they certainly aren't in the news business), an accounting firm, a lobbyist, and Emily's List.
These people tend to be moderate democrats. They formed the nucleus of the financing arm of the first Clinton. I don't think this proves that HRC is a corporatist.
There is a detailed discussion by the excellent eRiposte here: http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/Election2008/TLC-eriposte_Dem_primary_support.htm
We need to be really careful about this issue, as it may poison either Clinton or Obama in the next election.
PS, why not allow hyperlinks in comments?
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@ Glenn Greenwald
[Read the article: Media hostility toward anti-establishment candidates]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see your point. HRC's 20 largest contributors in fact are part of the establishment, merely the less grotesque part. I do think that there is some reason to believe that HRC and Obama will not be corporate toadies, though I doubt that either would be the progressive that I hope John Edwards is.
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Pariser?
[Read the article: The recording industry isn't attacking iPods. Yet]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The head of Move-On is Eli Pariser. Any relation?
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Rooting out Republicans
[Read the article: Let the voting begin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For my vote, a candidate has to show me (they can't tell me) that she understands the importance of investigating the past and rooting out all of the rot and filth this administration has inflicted on us, and holding accountable all of the people who did it. Right now, that makes the order Dodd and Clinton (about even for different reasons), then Edwards, and Obama well in the rear.
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How about some foreign opinion?
[Read the article: America needs realists, not William Kristol]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The real problem to me is the lack of any prominent foreign writers. We are force-fed a diet of people who only talk to one another, our overfed and overpaid pundit class. We need to hear from intellectuals in other countries, and a good spread of them. Who better to replace the arrogantly certain kristol than a slap in the face from the French left, a bracing dash of British Tory, a word from South Africa, someone from the Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund, a representative from the BHP in India, and so on.
Bill Kristol and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr, have something in common: they are both sons of someone else. They both make me think of Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, the classic tale of the rise and fall of family in three generations.
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Clutter is the first thing
[Read the article: Our house is so messy my husband's threatening to leave]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You have to get rid of the clutter. Each person has to decide what is to be done with stuff. The default is throw it away. If someone wants it, they have to put it away.
Once you declutter, hire a cleaner. Life is too short to clean house. Your motto should be: Woman's work is never done, at least by us. There are people trying to survive by cleaning other people's houses. Your problem is their solution.
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Liar, Liar
[Read the article: "Where are what?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pants on fire.
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Read Widely
[Read the article: I'm a doubting teenager]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was raised in a very religious environment, but I was a big reader. As I got into my teens, I began to question the religion of my family, and I found it very helpful to read a wide variety of books. I read several of C.S. Lewis' lesser known works, like Perelandra and Out of the Silent Planet. I read a huge range of science fiction. And when I was about 15 or 16, I started reading Kafka and Camus. It helped. It didn't change any of my moral values or my beliefs about the good life, but it provided an alternative basis for those values, one with which I was more comfortable.
You might try The Golden Compass trilogy, which was reviewed in Salon recently, and whatever it leads you to read.
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Foreign News
[Read the article: Egypt's Gaza nightmare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I really appreciate the article, not least because it comes from Germany.
We need a blog, like BuzzFlash that links to this kind of stuff in Foreign papers.
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Media domination
[Read the article: McCain tees off on Romney]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if the Ron Paul supporters on this post can see how supporters of John Edwards feel. I, for one, feel that he was marginalized by the MSM in exactly the same way Paul is. Edwards and Paul are excellent in this format, clearly expressing themselves on the rare occasions when they got a chance. But since media types don't like them, off with their heads.