Letters to the Editor
Fraud Guy
Published Letters: 337
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In local news
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In Chicago, in the current mob trial, a 71 yr old witness was remended into federal custody for refusing to testify against the defendants in the case, even though he had been offered immunity for testifying.
The judge told him: "You can end your confinement simply by notifying authorities that you are willing to testify."*
I guess he's working for the wrong family.
*Story link in my signature.
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Article V
[Read the article: Lewis Libby owes his freedom to our corrupt political elite]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Weaknesses:
2/3 of state legislatures have to call for the convention.
Congress still has to call for the convention.
3/4 of legislatures or conventions (however they are defined).
Strengths:
Any amendment can be proposed, to anything.
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Threat level
[Read the article: Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]calbears:
Hezbollah and Hamas are not threats to U.S. security. Al-Qaeda is.
Actually, I would argue that Al-Qaeda is less of a threat to US Security than the current administration; the current admin has caused the deaths of more Americans, undermined our personal liberties, and weakened our national ability to respond to threats to levels not seen since before WWII.
Now, Al-Qaeda would like to be an existential threat, but it isn't unless we build it into one through hysteria and fear.
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Oh, really?
[Read the article: The tragic collapse of America's standing in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, I recall France hating us during the Revolutionary War, and the Napoleonic Era, and the Civil War, and around our centennial, and WWI, and WWII, and the late 50's, in 2000-2002, and so many other times that I cannot mention them all.
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@ Michael Harold
[Read the article: The tragic collapse of America's standing in the world]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And it just sits there like some sort of beacon of hope at the gateway to our country. What were they thinking of to give it to us as a gift for our centennial? If they had just sent cash, we could have bought what we really wanted, and used the island for something useful.
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El Cid
[Read the article: Sen. David Vitter, a leading Christian social conservative]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They are fantastically, impossibly, astoundingly, numbingly consistent!
Consistently inconsistent, you mean. That's how I catch most fraudsters--they can't keep their stories straight. However, for these guys, it doesn't matter if they're right, so long as they believe that they're right and accepted as all right by the Right, right?
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If we only had an attack...
[Read the article: Various matters]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Steve W.
An extremely cynical take on the Cherthoff et al comments is that they are veiled ways to tell al-Qaeda to "bring it on".
And the reasons are that by doing so, al-Qaeda can keep us in Iraq so that they can continue their recruiting drive, and we can keep up our fundraising drive for our military-industrial complex. A win-win, as it were.
I hope that the next reporter who hears a politician "hope" that we will get attacked so that the threat is proven asks: "So you want Americans to die?"
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Those darned polls....
[Read the article: The political fringe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]See, those polls include the opinions of flyover country, and the Left Coast. Since they don't really know what's best for them, we'll have to exclude those numbers and just count the opinions of those who matter; i.e., those who live on Versailles on the Potomac.
Thank you Paul R.
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I hate to say it also...
[Read the article: Little outbursts of journalism -- what causes them?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Garlu,
Yes; we broke it, we fix it. However, there is nothing wrong with holding those who broke it accountable, and stopping them from breaking anything else.
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Taking the 25th
[Read the article: David Brooks' field trip to the White House]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yellow Dog,
Unfortunately, the VP has to make the decision to invoke the 25th, with the concurrence of over half the cabinet.
Dick, will you invoke the 25th....
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It unfortunately doesn't help with the VP, either.
After seeing how they act when attacked and backed into the corner, maybe taking impeachment off the table is good. What would W do when backed into that corner if he feels he is "right"?