This is simply not the case with regard to our federal debt situation or our economic situation at the time that President Obama took office, and it does not hold now. The long-term effects of 30 years of government deregulation of economic markets; privatization of public services; de-investment in our nation’s infrastructure; easing of tax […]
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‘Poverty is the worst form of violence’
Then, you can assuage your own guilt about the fact that your fat face is buried in fast food and takeout seven nights a week by claiming that the big J-Man upstairs wasn’t talking about public assistance, just private charity. Regarding the Aug. 31 letter “Welfare recipients denied work ‘blessing,’” K.A. Straughn must not be […]
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Labor pains
How Marty Morelli (Letters, “Reader: ‘Hitler was a progressive’”) can reconcile his claims that liberals and progressives are Nazis and Fascists with the fact that Jewish leaders have played a prominent role in liberal and progressive causes is laughable. This is not to say that Jews are only liberals and progressives. There are just as […]
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Nice to find ‘intelligent life’ on planet Earth
It’s nice to know there is still intelligent life on earth. If I were to compare their writings with those of the opposition, I would, of course, be compelled to side with those who uphold actual scientific theory and practice, as opposed to someone who probably got their “_______” caught in a diploma mill. —Glen […]
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Questions for Kern
If we take the good pastor at his word, this means that the institution of slavery, already well-established within the colonies at the time of the Constitution’s ratification, would have been an integral part of this “Christian social order” he praises so highly. I want to know just what precisely is so “Christian” about the […]
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Tone it down
In response to John D. Carlson in his letter “When worlds (almost) collide” (Oct. 13, Oklahoma Gazette), let me respond first by saying that you don’t win people over to your argument by referring to them as “road geese” or “The Bicycle Bozohood,” or by implying that bicyclists are lazy and don’t work. I am […]
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Lawmaker’s logic is flawed
I read with interest the letter from Rep. Wesselhöft (“A call for nonviolent civil disobedience”) in your Aug. 25 issue. I weighed his arguments as carefully as I could, and re-read the letter to be certain of its intent. Unfortunately, Rep. Wesselhöft’s logic is flawed in several key areas, but let’s focus on one: If […]