Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 56 Editor's Choice: 7
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@RealName: The Conservatives Do NOT Have a Plan
[Read the article: GOP 2 MSM: TTYL]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Republicans have a plan
The Liberals have hate mail, Joan Walsh and snarling. Maybe they need a better plan too. The whole approach of "You're a doodiehead doodiehead doodiehead!!" is maybe not the best approach they could mount.
A review of Al Gore's new book was linked on Free Republic yesterday. The commenters quickly dismissed the content of the book. Why? Because Al Gore is fat.
Free Republic is a fairly high-profile right-wing blog. I've seen some stupid comments on lefty blogs, but not that stupid.
Macs Mind and Stratosphere are frequently linked from the Blog Report. Both blogs are consistently wrong about almost everything.
Leaving the marginally centrist Huffington Post out of the picture, we see that the top-20 Site Meter sites lists The Daily Kos at #4 with an average of 443,877 daily visits. The only right-wing site in the top 20 is Instapundit with 182,507.
The left currently owns the web and we own it with good content. We also have a plan: keep it up.
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India Times
[Read the article: Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Disturbingly, the virus appears to be spreading to international media. The Times of India recently ran a headline "90 Qaida Militants Killed by US Forces."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/90_Qaida_militants_killed_by_US_forces/articleshow/2145819.cms
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Another Difference Between Vitter and Craig
[Read the article: Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I went over to Free Republic to see what the rabid right has to say, and they're all for throwing Craig under a bus. I couldn't find any mention of the outing from last October.
I had also read the Freeper response to the information about Vitter and it was rife with "let's stay out of his personal life" hypocrisy (not uniformly, but there was a strong showing of that opinion).
One of the differentiating factors cited by the Freepers (implicitly) is that Vitter opposed the "amnesty bill" (immigration reform) and Craig supported it.
Frankly, I think they'd support Charles Manson as a GOP Senator, as long as he voted against that bill.
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Which is it?
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, if I expect women to cavort around the beach dressed (or undressed) like sex kittens then I'm oppressing them by demanding that they be sex objects.
But if they go to the beach wearing too much covering, then they are being oppressed because they're not being... sex kitteny enough... or something?
I don't get this.
Hey, why don't we let women behave like fully functioning human beings and let them wear whatever the hell they want to the beach? What any particular women wears to the beach should be subject to my agenda. If Lola decides she wants to wear a burquini, why is that anyone else's business?
That's what I got from this comic.
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@Elephantman
[Read the article: My questions for President Ahmadinejad]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"What about Iran's role in attacks on U.S. troops?"
You mean the role for which no credible proof exists? Haven't we had enough of charges for which no credible proof exists, or are you still waiting for them to find WMD in Iraq?
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Be Practical, then Ideological
[Read the article: Should I come out as an atheist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You didn't go into too much detail about your school situation, but I'm siding with the comments urging you to consider your options. If it's really best to graduate from the school you're in, stay in. I've always been particular about my beliefs, and if I signed a "statement of faith" under false pretenses, I would have done so after a lot of consideration as to what would be worth betraying myself by signing it. Galileo recanted his (accurate) Copernican model of the solar system because he decided it was better than living with the wrath of the Vatican. That's an extreme example, but I hope you get the point.
Once you've sorted out the practical logistics of your next few years, then Cary has a good point.
Is this about what you are not? Are you someone who has rejected belief because it is neither convincing nor appealing? If you would just like to be honest about what you aren't, then you could take a "don't ask, don't tell," approach.
On the other hand, is this about what you are? Are you someone who has chosen to be an atheist because you see a secular world view as a defining aspect of your identity? In that case, you should let people know who you are; you owe it to yourself, if nothing else.
Whatever you do, do not read books like "The End of Faith" or "The God Delusion." These books will turn you into a bitter, angry, and insufferably preachy evangelical atheist. Like all evangelicals, your beliefs will be founded on narrow, twisted and ignorant interpretations of history and religion, and you will only be able to be true friends with other like-minded evangelicals.
My wife is a Catholic Chaplain and she approved this message.
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If Col. Boylan didn't write this...
[Read the article: Col. Boylan's denial]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...someone with access to his .mil network did. This is a serious violation of policy. The fact that Boylan seems relatively unconcerned that someone is supposedly impersonating him -- someone with access to his network -- is proof to me that he is lying.
If a "fake" email came from someone in my company, there'd be an inquiry, and we're a pretty laid back workplace -- not the military in Iraq!
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Time Capsule: Huckabee's Horton was Clinton's Crime
[Read the article: Huckabee on DuMond: It's Clinton's fault]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As many people have pointed out, once upon a time, Clinton's error was being too hard on Wayne DuMond. In 1999-2001, DuMond's name was a staple in the torrent of "Clinton Crime family" dramas being spun by bloggers and "journalists" alike.
Here is a link to a Free Republic post that archived a New York Post story on the subject. Read the story and the comments and you'll see that Huckabee had DuMond freed to embarrass Clinton.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38d06cee1158.htm
On February 21st, 2001, the same New York Post writer published a column demanding DuMond be pardoned (not just paroled). Huckabee had, one month earlier, played with his band at the Free Republic inaugural ball where many Freepers asked him in person to pardon DuMond.
Four months later, they got awfully quiet on the subject...