Category: Letters to the Editor

Of course more money didn't help test results

re "Flat CSAP scores a bad sign for school reform" (Rocky Mountain News, 7/31/07) http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5652714,00.html The lesson which the public school bureaucracy should but almost certainly will not l… more »

Just say no to new CAFE standards

PUBLISHED in the Boulder Daily Camera (8/1/07) http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/aug/01/no-headline---01elet/ re " Mileage standards falter" (Boulder Daily Camera editorial reprint from Washington Post, 7/30/07) http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/… more »

Disagreeing with a political scientist about economics

Following is an email I sent to the author of the opinion piece linked below, and then his response to me. see "Bush also earns low marks for economic policy" (Baltimore Sun, 7/18/07) http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-op.schaller18jul18,0,… more »

Colorado should not move up primaries or caucuses

PUBLISHED in the Denver Post, 7/24/07 http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6444996 re "Colorado Democrats move up presidential caucuses" (Denver Post, 7/21/07) http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_6432885 To the Editor: Although Colorado… more »

I don't believe men speak as much as women

re "A stereotype that's all talk" (Baltimore Sun, 7/6/07) http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.talk06jul06,0,4697892.story? The new study in the journal Science which purports that women do not talk more than men defies standards for well-s… more »

More media idiocy about health care

re "Health-care costs are sickening" (Opinion, Chicago Sun-Times, 7/4/07) http://www.suntimes.com/news/richards/455272,CST-EDT-cindy04.article To the Editor: Cindy Richards’ grousing about health care costs demonstrates a deplorable lack of unders… more »

What's next for McCain?

re "Top McCain Aides Quit Struggling Campaign" (Washington Post, 7/10/07 on web) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000759.html? Although the writing has been on the wall for John McCain for some time now, the im… more »

No shame for Bush in commuting Libby's sentence

re "Scooting out of jail" (Editorial, The (Fredicksburg, Virginia) Free Lance-Star, 7/5/07) http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/072007/07052007/297570 The shame in the Scooter Libby case is not on President Bush for commuting Libby’s sentence, bu… more »

Mosque cleric wants to fight to the death? Perfect!

re "Siege mosque cleric vows to fight to death" (Times UK online, 7/6/07) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2036778.ece If Pakistani cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his radical followers are ready for martyrdom, it is quite tempti… more »

South Carolina legislators learned nothing in 2006

re "GENERAL ASSEMBLY WRAPS UP AMID SPENDING QUESTIONS" (Charlotte Observer, 7/1/07) http://www.charlotte.com/politics/story/180549.html To the Editor: The behavior of the South Carolina General Assembly in the 2007 session is a microcosm of the Re… more »
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