Letter to the Editor I sit here in amazement that the Catholic Church thinks it has the right to deny birth control to the rest of us. Who do these people think they are? Women have a fundamental intrinsic right to have access to birth control regardless of the religious bent of the provider who [...]
Letter to the Editor When Obama took office in January of 2009 America was losing 750,000 jobs a month. Now we’re adding 250,000 jobs a month. Although we have a long way to go, the number of jobs is almost 1 million jobs a month increase since the end of the Bush administration. It seems [...]
Letter to the Editor A lot of columnists have been comparing the Romney vs. Gingrich primary battle to the 2008 primary battle between Obama and Clinton. I don’t think they are similar. In 2008 the Democrats had two strong candidates that they liked. People who wanted Hillary to win liked Obama too. People who liked [...]
I have another paradigm which I’d call the rolling yuk factor. The Republicans started with 8 bad choices none of which can beat Obama even though Obama has some serious problems himself. Romney is known and voters don’t like him. That’s why McCain beat him last time. But the elites are behind Romney so he’s [...]
Letter to the Editor They say that every cloud has a silver lining. As we all know Mitt Romney hasn’t wanted to release his tax returns and explain his bank accounts in the Cayman Islands. With Newt’s big win in South Carolina it looks like he may not have to.
Letter to the Editor The news is that the justice department is going after a “pirate” web site called Megaupload and they have shut them down in foreign countries and seized their assets also in a foreign country. And the Justice Department did it without laws like PIPA and SOPA. Looks to me like the [...]
Letter to the Editor It’s kind of interesting that so many Republicans see Mitt Romney as the inevitable candidate and the most likely to beat Obama. In 2008 Romney, who had a virtually unlimited amount of money, managed to lose to John McCain. McCain went on to lose to a previously unknown Democrat named Barack [...]
Letter to the Editor It’s interesting to hear the Republican candidates decry the “war on religion” when it’s pretty clear that none of the Republican candidates actually believe in God. From my point of view as a Realist, who puts reality first, if there actually was a God and people had a personal connection to [...]
Letter to the Editor Presidential candidate Rick Santorum today told a mostly white audience in Iowa that he didn’t want to “make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” Really? I didn’t know that Wall Street investment firms had that many black people.
Letter to the Editor The state of Iowa does a disservice to America in both having a caucus election and insisting on being the first election every presidential election year. Why should this one state always be the one the pre-screens candidates for the rest of us? And if they are going to be the [...]
Letter to the Editor In all the debates and all the interviews of all the Republican candidates running for president I have not yet heard a single question about former president George W. Bush. After all, he’s the one who got America into the mess we are in so I would think the Bush issue [...]
Letter to the Editor With one week to go presidential candidate Rick Perry in a bid to win votes in Iowa declares that if a woman is raped, the government should force her to have the rapists baby. I’m not sure what I find more disgusting; Parry’s pandering, or that there’s actually people in Iowa [...]
Letter to the Editor A lot of people don’t like the idea that their taxes are going up $1000 a year but who’s fault is that. The people voted for Republicans in the last election and when you vote for Republicans that’s what happens. Republicans want tax increases on the 99% so that the 1% [...]
Letter to the Editor Speaker of the House John Boehner sent us working people a message. His message is that we are pawns – bargaining chips – in their game of taking control of America. They destroyed the economy and they made it clear they control our paychecks. They have no problem raising our tax [...]
Letter to the Editor It appears the presidential candidate and Texas Governor Rick Perry retired and is now drawing a retirement annuity of $7698 a month. But wait – he’s also still the governor and he still gets his regular $150,000/year salary too, all this while he’s running for president full time. So – in [...]
Letter to the Editor Evangelicals were pretty happy with some aspects of the Bush administration. Bush was one of them, and he passed out a lot of taxpayer money to their faith based organizations, using Atheist taxpayer money to support God. They were therefore against the idea of separation of church and state. But now [...]
Letter to the Editor People are making a big deal over the issue that Newt Gingrich might of charged as much as $500,000 for jewelery at Tiffany’s, but I think it helps him more than it hurts him. If it were Romney buying jewelry he would have just paid cash. But Newt isn’t as rich [...]
Letter to the Editor President Obama today defended the decision of his administration to override the scientific decision of the FDA to make the contraceptive known as “Plan B” available to girls younger that 17. Obama claims it is common sense that the medication might have an adverse effect on the health of a 10 [...]
Letter to the Editor Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services today blocked the over the counter sale of the emergency contraceptive “Plan B” from being purchased by girls under 17 years old. Because the pill is most effective when used in the first 24 hours Obama is intervening to help ensure that girls 16 [...]
Letter to the Editor Our Congress, in their infinite wisdom, is considering passing the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) which includes a provision making it a felony to upload a video of someone singing a copyrighted song on YouTube, with up to 5 years in prison for doing so. Dr. Conrad Murray, the guy convicted [...]
Letter to the Editor I’m getting tired of the news reports talking about Occupy Wall Street costing cities millions when they don’t talk about the Wall Street crash of 2008 costing the cities billions. I don’t see law enforcement pepper spraying bank executives. If they enforced bank regulation the way they do park rules we [...]
Letter to the Editor It turns out our corporate overlords are worried about Occupy Wall Street. The American Bankers Association paid a Washington lobby firm $850,000 to conduct opposition research to discredit the movement. In their report to the bankers they revealed they are worried that Democrats will embrace the movement and that Republicans might [...]
Letter to the Editor I read today Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachman putting forth her “everyone-pays” tax plan. What is her plan? Raise taxes on the poor. The Republicans seem to feel that the lower 99% need to pay more taxes. That we should be the ones to shoulder the burden of society. All of [...]
Letter to the Editor Tuesday the House of Representatives passed a bill declaring “In God we Trust” as the national motto, apparently to send some sort of message that they are somehow morally superior to us lowly non-believing heathens. But the way I see it, what they did has the opposite effect. From an atheist [...]
Letter to the Editor Congress has only scheduled 109 work days for next year in a time where America is in a crisis. We all know that they don’t care what happens to America because all they care about is their petty partisan squabble. But by scheduling only 109 work days they are rubbing our [...]
Letter to the Editor In the last few months Netflix decided to drastically increase their prices and their customers got angry. They lost 800,000 customers in the last few months. Their stock price dropped from $300/share in July to about $75/share now. Bank of America is doing the same thing with their plan to add [...]
Letter to the Editor It would be interesting to see a flat tax proposal that was really flat. The taxes the Republican candidates are not really flat. All their proposals exempt the capital gains tax setting it to 0. Capital gains is how the rich make most of their money. Payroll tax is also capped [...]
Letter to the Editor Republican candidate Herman Cain has released a new tax plan that he calls the 9-9-9 plan. ( percent federal income tax, 9 percent corporate tax, and a 9 percent national sales tax. But his plan is really a 9-9-9-0 plan because under his plan the capital gains tax drops to 0. [...]
Letter to the Editor A Baptist preacher recently said at a political conference that Mitt Romney wasn’t a Christian and the the Mormon church was a cult. The way I see it if Mormons are not Christian and are a cult then Baptists are the same. Both religions are splinter groups that evolved from the [...]
Letter to the Editor I’m hoping that the Occupy Wall Street movement puts up some candidates and occupies Congress. I think almost all the politicians in Congress are vulnerable and can be easily replaced. America is in trouble and Congress is making it worse. We need to replace them with new people who are focused [...]
