Category: Letters to the Editor
The media and climate change
Apr 21st
re "Growing Number of Americans See Warming as Leading Threat" (Washington Post, 4/20/06)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041902527.html?
To the Editor:
It is hardly surprising that a Washington Post/ABC News… more »
Charity: another example of liberal hypocrisy
Apr 17th
[Note: My short letter to the editor, which you can find at the end of this note, was published in the Denver Post on 4/21/07.]
A lot has been made in the past year or two about statistics showing that blue states are less generous than red states in… more »
Health insurance analysis errors by someone who should know better
Apr 6th
re "Benefits with Risks — Bush's Tax-Based Health Care Proposals" (Robert D. Reischauer, Ph.D. in the New England Journal of Medicine, 4/5/07)
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/356/14/1393.pdf
A shorter version of this was sent to NEJM as a Letter… more »
FDA has bigger problems than conflicts of interest
Mar 31st
re "F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisers Tied to Industry", NY Times, 3/22/07
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/washington/22fda.html?ref=us
To the Editor:
Removing FDA advisers who are paid substantial amounts by companies or their competitors fro… more »
Dems pander for black vote at their peril
Mar 6th
re "Obama and Clinton vie for black vote" (Chicago Tribune, 3/5/07)
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/03/obama_and_clint.html
To the Editor:
The battle for the “black vote” between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is a perilou… more »
Gore misses the real message
Mar 3rd
re "Gore says media miss climate message" (TheTennesean.com 2/28/07)
http://www.dicksonherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070228/NEWS01/702280434/1297/MTCN02
To the Editor:
Al Gore intentionally misses the point of the peer-reviewed science o… more »
Who's the real smearer?
Feb 27th
re "Smearing Like It's 2003" (E.J. Dionne, Washington Post Op/Ed, 2/26/07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022501256.html
E.J. Dionne completely misses the real travesty of the Scooter Libby fiasco: Prosecutor P… more »
Gore to get an honorary doctorate?
Feb 21st
re "Gore may get doctorate" (Minnesota Daily, 2/20/07)
http://www.mndaily.com/algore.htm
The fact that a university would even consider awarding an honorary degree in a science to Al Gore, a man who claimed to have invented the internet and now uses… more »
My rant against the war on drugs
Feb 20th
re "Pointlessly punitive" (Editorial, Boulder Daily Camera, 2/19/07)
http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/feb/19/xpointlessly-punitive/
For the record, I have never tried marijuana or any other illegal drug. And, I am not a Democrat. Nevertheless, I beli… more »
Amendment 41's flaws are no surprise
Feb 15th
re "Ethics fight splits statehouse" (Denver Post, 2/12/07)
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5212564
Amendment 41, officially called “Standards of Conduct in Government”, would have been better titled “Banning Politicians and Government Employees From Hav… more »
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