Categories: Politics, Letters to the Editor

Washington Post against an entitlement???

Re: The Bigger Problem, Washington Post Editorial, Dec. 27th 2004. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28009-2004Dec26.html To the Editors: It is a pleasure to see the Post come out against an entitlement program. After the Bush admin… more »

fighting even more bad arguments against private retirement accounts

re: The GOP's Sabotage of Social Security (LA Times, Robert Scheer, 12/21) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-scheer21dec21,1,5260200.column?coll=la-util-op-ed To the Editors: re: The GOP's Sabotage of Social Security (Robert Scheer, 12/21) M… more »

Don't buy into Krugman

Published in the NY Times on 12/18/04! http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/18/opinion/l18social.html Re: "Buying Into Failure", NY Times (Krugman) 12/17/04 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/opinion/17krugman.html To the Editors: Mr. Krugman is once… more »

More bad arguments from the Left about Social Security

To the Editors: Re: Social Security Reform, With One Big Catch (NY Times, Business, 12/12/04) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/business/yourmoney/12view.html Although the Social Security Trust Fund “is only allowed to hold” Treasury bonds, it d… more »

Misleading the public about Social Security Reform

To the Editors: Re: Borrow, Speculate and Hope (Krugman, 12/10/04) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/10/opinion/10krugman.html Regarding Social Security reform, Paul Krugman says that if the government borrows money and if citizens invest in financi… more »

The Supreme Court hears case on interstate wine sales...finally

To the Editors: Re: Justices Hear Arguments on Laws Limiting Interstate Wine Sales (12/7/04) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/07/politics/08SCOTUScnd.html The longstanding prohibition by New York State of direct import of wine from other states is n… more »

Dealing with Kofi Annan, cleverly

A shorter version of this letter was published in the Washington Times on Dec 4: http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20041203-082522-7642r.htm Today, after the Senator chairing the Senate committee investigating the Oil For Food scandal called for K… more »

Guns, Tobacco, and the Courts (A Return of Sanity?)

PUBLISHED in the Rocky Mountain News, 12/31/04 http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_3435831,00.html Excerpt PUBLISHED in Forbes, 3/14/05 http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2005/0314/028.html For those of us who… more »

Don't Get Too Excited About UN Reform

re:U.N. Staff Union Chides U.N. Management (AP, National, Nov 20) NY Times/AP: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-UN-Staff-Complaints.html AFP: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041119/wl_afp/un_annan_041119181647 To the Ed… more »

Powell's Resignation and Legacy

Re: "Good Soldier Powell", NY Times editorial, Nov 16, 2004 http://nytimes.com/2004/11/16/opinion/16tue1.html To the Editors: Your attack on Colin Powell's character is incomprehensible, and your major arguments are all false. First, Powell h… more »