I think you would have developed enough wisdom to understand that not everyone thinks that the Second Amendment means what you think it means. It seems ironic to me that Morris seems to imply the Lt. Col. is a traitor and then goes on to glorify other traitors. It is unclear to me what makes […]
John R. Junger III
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Kern doesn’t get it
He also admits that there is strong evidence for “micro” evolution. There is a pretty simple equation that he doesn’t seem to get, though: Micro-evolution plus enough time equals macro-evolution. Kern brings up two examples, which he thinks qualify as topics to be discussed in high-school curricula. This is a simple misunderstanding on the nature […]
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‘Shameful and untrue’
The first is that the question being debated by just about everyone who has written a letter on this topic recently is “Should we teach creation science (I just threw up in my mouth a little) in high school science classes?” You are correct that the origins of life and the universe are shrouded in […]
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‘Quit writing like a crank’
In regards to “Battle: Los Angeles,” there is a class of films that are violent fantasies, including such film masterpieces as “Battle: LA,” “300,” “Alien vs. Predator” and every film ever made by the governor of the state you love to hate. These movies do not enlighten us, instruct us on moral values, or generally […]
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Reader wants on blacklist
Jenni White’s letter “Just following orders” in the Aug. 4 Gazette is a withering critique of Saul Alinsky’s views. By putting Alinsky’s words into my mouth and then attacking them as if I had said them is a logical fallacy called a straw-man argument. It isn’t that “truth really isn’t relevant to (me),” it’s just […]
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‘Social discourse’
On the July 13 episode of the “Oklahoma News Report,” the president of Sooner Tea Party, Al Gerhart, when responding to the NAACP’s charges of racism asked the question “Whatever happened to social discourse?” Here’s what has happened to our discourse: Let’s put aside the racism that is obvious from not only the “fringe participants” […]