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Letters: August 15, 2008
- Story on Iraq contractors was biased
Fenty jobs program taught wrong lessons
- A summer job is supposed to teach youngsters useful life lessons — like the value of work, being prompt and taking responsibility for one’s efforts — but D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s disastrously mismanaged summer jobs programs wound up teaching them all the wrong things.
Don’t trust apparatchiks on energy prices for oil
- S oviet apparatchiks spent more than seven decades creating five-year plans based on their predictions about the most microscopic details of the communist USSR’s economy.
Stop using SWAT teams on civilians
- The violent assault on Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo’s home late last month was certainly not the first bungled raid by a government SWAT team, but the bad publicity it generated should make it the last time these trigger-happy squads target innocent civilians.
Climate study should be independently verified
- Donald Boesch is president of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science. He’s also chairman of the Scientific and Technical Working Group for the Maryland Commission on Climate Change. With these positions of prominence and political influence, it is no surprise that Boesch and UMCES have received more than $65 million in federal grants and contracts since 2000, as well as an unknown amount of state money. Judging by the secrecy surrounding a critically important report Boesch edited for Maryland officials, however, taxpayers should start demanding some answers about what they are getting from Boesch in return for their hard-earned money.
Pelosi is out of touch on energy
- Nancy Pelosi was vigorously lauded in this space when she became the first woman in American history to serve as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. We have mostly disagreed with her philosophically, but her management of the House has for the most part been efficient and effective on behalf of her agenda. Her party won the last election, so that’s as it should be. But Pelosi has stumbled badly on the energy issue by refusing to even allow a vote on whether to lift the congressional ban on drilling for new oil and natural gas resources in America’s outer continental shelf and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Wine-and-cheese thuggery
- T om Matzzie is mailing threatening letters this week to nearly 10,000 people with whom the liberal political operative vigorously disagrees.
Bush should be a bull in China
- President Bush should not be at the Chinese Olympic opening ceremonies — there is no tradition of presidents traveling to the Olympics.
Dollars for junkets, not for HIV/AIDS
- Members of Congress aren’t the only federal employees on vacation in August. At least 116 Washington bureaucrats are junketing to the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City this week, representing the National Institutes for Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Resources and Services Administration, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Department of Defense, Census Bureau, and the Peace Corps.
Paycheck fairness — or plaintiffs’ payoff?
- Empowering class-action plaintiffs’ lawyers to set wages for every business in these United States is the last thing a shaky economy needs. But that’s clearly a high priority for the officials running the U.S. House of Representatives. The lawmakers couldn’t find time before their August recess to pass spending bills or lift the congressional ban on increasing U.S. energy production, but they did pass a sop to the trial bar — the cleverly misnamed the Paycheck Fairness Act. The bill is before the Senate.
May God rest heroic Solzhenitsyn’s soul
- O n June 8, 1978, a 69-year-old exile from Russia delivered commencement remarks at Harvard University, the very hub of American leftist intellectualism, at a time when many of America’s “best and brightest” still believed socialism was an as-yet-unrealized but attainable vision.
Iraq surge critics should admit they were wrong
- I t’s been nearly a week since The Associated Press published a news analysis with the provocative title “U.S. now winning Iraq war that seemed lost.”
Ethanol is killing the Gulf of Mexico
- Environmental zealots can be tireless in pursuing measures to combat a global warming crisis of doubtful legitimacy. Their efforts can also cause human misery and dreadful ecological problems that are all too real in places like the Gulf of Mexico’s infamous “dead zone.”
Melanie Heywood
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