Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 5
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Progress - one dad at a time
[Read the article: Kos gets a pass this week]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My dad has three daughters and graduated from the Citadel. Before women were admitted there, a cadet called him up to ask for a contribution. My dad asked if the Citadel had decided to admit women yet. The cadet proudly replied "No, sir!" My dad told him not to call back until they did. When the cadets treated the first female cadet (Shannon Faulkner?) very poorly, resulting in her leaving the school, my dad was so embarassed that he took his diploma off his office wall and put it in our basement.
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Passing the bar; other qualifications
[Read the article: Say it loud: I'm elite and proud!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, a 67% passage rate is really bad. The third tier school I went to has a passage rate of 94%. And the earlier poster is totally correct about the BarBri thing. I paid very little attention in law school, but I sure paid attention during the bar review. And, it worked.
I think the most egregious thing about the appointment of Monica Goodling is not her educational background, but the fact that she had never been a prosecutor! Being a US Attorney is a pretty big deal - why would they be supervised by a novice?
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yay!
[Read the article: Lord of the ruins]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was just browsing the appendices to the Ring trilogy last night, thinking that I might read the Silmarillion again since it's been years. I had no idea a "new" book was forthcoming. Looks like a summer of good reading lies ahead. This was a great review, too. Thanks Salon for assigning a writer who seems to have a genuine interest in and knowledge of thinks Tolkien.
Farnsworth - Just out of curiousity, where in the first movie did you think that Gandalf was made out to be a fool? I'm not being argumentative, I simply can't remember that scene.
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Some frightening language from the opinion
[Read the article: Supreme Court upholds ban on "partial-birth" abortion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns, only after the event, what she once did not know: that she allowed a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast-developing brain of her unborn child, a child assuming the human form." Gonzales v. Carhart, p. 24.
Given this statement, it seems very apparent to me that the Court is just asking some state to pass an outright ban so that it may overturn Roe & Casey.
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tiberius
[Read the article: "The president heard the call"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You allege that Democrats can only fight about the past, because they have no agenda for the future. Your mention of the "agenda for the future" brings to mind the brilliant and carefully crafted "agenda for the future" of Iraq that the administration created before the invasion of Iraq. Wait, what? There wasn't one? Oh...
pot, kettle, black, etc.