That behavior earns a spot within the top 20 percent of wage earners in America. Presenting data indicating the largest percentage of income taxes is derived from the 20 percent club, Mr. Connolly aims his rage at those 80 percent peons beneath. He should direct his gaze upward. Let’s reassign that income club to the […]
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Paul’s rule’
Fellow Gazettite Paul Wesselhöft proposes that he is allowed to disgorge bigoted, demonizing, islamophobic hatred (Letters, “A call for nonviolent civil disobedience,” Aug. 25), but we are not allowed to observe that he is doing so. Mr. Wesselhöft’s screed could serve as a Mad Lib exercise for hate-speechifying. “Wesselhöft” sounds like a German surname. Are […]
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Turn and face the strain
Jenni White (Letters, “Just following orders,” Aug. 4, Gazette) contends that having non-white friends associated with the Tea Party and children in her family from Africa somehow absolves the Tea Party of its racist elements. While John R. Junger III (Letters, “Social discourse,” July 28, Gazette) wanted to “put aside the racism that is obvious […]
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‘Do us the favor’
In his letter (“Propping up a weak argument,” July 21, Oklahoma Gazette), Richard Hicks plays with math for three-fourths of his essay to paint Kurt Hochenauer’s desire for increased education funding (Commentary “At what price?” July 7) as silly. He then pines for rational and informed public discourse. In the rational and informed final fourth […]