Here
are letters to the editor of the Austin American Statesman
and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle
and City Newspaper Letters
1/2010
Letter
to the Editor 1/28/10 in D+C. Maybe a touch testy. I was still pissed
about our corporate lapdog supreme court when I wrote it.
Progressives
ought to fear high court
To every
liberal geek who wants Obama to do more for their cause, remember one
thing: It's the Supreme Court, stupid. If you have an ounce of progressive
bone in your body, you should be afraid of this young, activist conservative
Supreme Court.
Be very afraid and
stop whining about your immediate needs. Yes, the country would be better
off with gays openly serving in the military, justice for immigrants
and health care for all, but 30 percent of the country doesn't want
it and they know how to convince those that call themselves independents
to vote against progress when it conflicts or distracts from their immediate
gratification.
The election
of another reactionary president in 2012 will cement in a larger conservative
majority on the court determined to empower a right-wing corporate and
religious state. Put the country's future first for once. Think long
term and let Obama be Obama. He's probably smarter and certainly knows
better than you how to make things happen in government. He got elected
president (for crying out loud*).
—STAN MAIN
BRIGHTON
*they cut the "for
crying out loud" out of the original. Curious, I thought.
5/2009
2/25/09
12/05/08
July
30, 2008
March
20, 2008
November
22, 2007
Unpublished
First Letter to
D+C June 2006
Re:
Saturday’s O’Reilly, “Estate Tax is lefts way”
and Ramirez Cartoon Monday 6/12/06.
A common theme has run over the weekend and Monday in the D+C
that somehow the estate tax is unfair to rich people. O’Reilly
says paying taxes while we live “isn’t enough for
the far left. They want half our stuff after we die.” The
Ramirez cartoon Monday implies the estate tax is tantamount to
taking the t-shirt off a guy’s back
So let me get this straight, a normal worker pays taxes on every
dollar of what is likely a million or two of income over a lifetime
to pay for interstate highways, security, and other necessary
public services (a bit more than a “lousy t-shirt”)
while a member of the lucky genetic club never has to work a day,
pays not a penny in tax for his or her inheritance windfall but
receives the same pubic service as free lunch compliments of O’Reilly-Ramirez
and company.
Repealing
the estate tax permanently is grossly unfair to middle class working
families. If believing that makes me a “far leftist”
as Mr. O’Reilly states, I wear the leftist badge proudly.
Unpublished
(I think) in
Wall Street Journal| December
2005
Re
Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Counting Castro’s Victims
Ms.
O’Grady does an interesting job exploring the underbelly
of the Castro regime’s five plus decades of abuses and victims
citing mostly stats from a presumably objective study by “The
Cuba Archive project.” I wonder if she ever considered what
a similar foreign study of the various US governments during the
same period might look like from “The USA Archive”
documenting any and all crimes committed in the name of protecting
the homeland and its various political and business interests.
Let me remind Ms. O’Grady we were still hanging 15 year
old black boys in the 50s for whistling at white women and have
done a pretty good job ourselves with revolutionary and counterrevolutionary
adventures abroad over the last 50 years.
