Some things are too tightly regulated, and some not enough. I'd like to be able to buy fresh, raw milk, farm-fresh eggs, and traditional herbal remedies without heavy-handed interference from the USDA and FDA. Full-disclosure should be required, and the well-informed consumer should allowed to choose to assume some individual risk.
On the other hand, it's clear that we need national regulations that result in a clean water and air, stable financial institutions (that don't require taxpayer bailouts!), and more efficient use of fossil fuels.
Re-examination and adjustment of the breadth and scope of regulations really should be a bi-partisan (or non-partisan) issue.
Thank you, Rebecca Rochat, for a thoughtful letter. I hope our state legislators pay attention to citizens like us. Of course, that would require legislators to get their noses out of the lobbyists' feedbags. We can hope. . .
Mr. Cummings, I don't know where you went to school, but your letter convinces me you never learned much about science. It is a distinctly different discipline from the mythology you have chosen to believe.
Science requires rigorous testing of theories; not all scientific theories have been thoroughly proven, but they are constantly being questioned and tested against all available knowledge, and modified when shown to be inadequate. Creationism is a folk tale which some people -- perhaps those who find science too difficult -- take on blind faith. Big difference.
Please don't abuse children by pushing them to believe -- without questioning -- things that are simply myths and folk tales.
Larry Gordy says he has no malice in his heart, but he wants to control the lives of other people. What does freedom mean to you, Larry? You are free to choose, but others aren't?
Irma Stewart, how many more American troops must be killed or maimed for life before you decide it's time to bring them home? What is "the job" you think they are doing in Afghanistan?
I agree with the President, who has wisely concluded that we should get out. After more than a decade of war, we have learned that we cannot convert a Muslim tribal society into our own image, and it's foolish to continue that endless and expensive effort, which is depleting our national treasury and wasting the lives of honorable American troops.
And, by the way, you may recall that G.W. Bush's administration selected Karzai to head up Afghanistan in 2004. Like many misguided policies, that's another one that President Obama inherited from his predecessor.
riverman, you don't know anything about John Bratton, or about Ian C. Smith. You do like resorting to ludicrous stereotypes, though. Do you think that's convincing anyone?
"Mayfield just follows the leader" and other letters to the Editors
Thanks, Anniebelle & Happy with . . ., for setting the record straight and putting the Presidential campaigns in perspective.
Deregulation
Some things are too tightly regulated, and some not enough. I'd like to be able to buy fresh, raw milk, farm-fresh eggs, and traditional herbal remedies without heavy-handed interference from the USDA and FDA. Full-disclosure should be required, and the well-informed consumer should allowed to choose to assume some individual risk.
On the other hand, it's clear that we need national regulations that result in a clean water and air, stable financial institutions (that don't require taxpayer bailouts!), and more efficient use of fossil fuels. Re-examination and adjustment of the breadth and scope of regulations really should be a bi-partisan (or non-partisan) issue.
'Tennessee must focus on concrete issues' and more letters to the editors
Thank you, Rebecca Rochat, for a thoughtful letter. I hope our state legislators pay attention to citizens like us. Of course, that would require legislators to get their noses out of the lobbyists' feedbags. We can hope. . .
Presidential Seal
I think the right-wingnuts failed to consider "E Pluribus Unum." Do they know what that means?
Letters to the Editor
Mr. Cummings, I don't know where you went to school, but your letter convinces me you never learned much about science. It is a distinctly different discipline from the mythology you have chosen to believe.
Science requires rigorous testing of theories; not all scientific theories have been thoroughly proven, but they are constantly being questioned and tested against all available knowledge, and modified when shown to be inadequate. Creationism is a folk tale which some people -- perhaps those who find science too difficult -- take on blind faith. Big difference.
Please don't abuse children by pushing them to believe -- without questioning -- things that are simply myths and folk tales.
USPS payment not a taxpayer burden and other letters to the editors
Larry Gordy says he has no malice in his heart, but he wants to control the lives of other people. What does freedom mean to you, Larry? You are free to choose, but others aren't?
USPS payment not a taxpayer burden and other letters to the editors
Irma Stewart, how many more American troops must be killed or maimed for life before you decide it's time to bring them home? What is "the job" you think they are doing in Afghanistan?
I agree with the President, who has wisely concluded that we should get out. After more than a decade of war, we have learned that we cannot convert a Muslim tribal society into our own image, and it's foolish to continue that endless and expensive effort, which is depleting our national treasury and wasting the lives of honorable American troops.
And, by the way, you may recall that G.W. Bush's administration selected Karzai to head up Afghanistan in 2004. Like many misguided policies, that's another one that President Obama inherited from his predecessor.
'Obama leading U.S. to a socialist state' and more Letters to the Editors
riverman, you don't know anything about John Bratton, or about Ian C. Smith. You do like resorting to ludicrous stereotypes, though. Do you think that's convincing anyone?
The Snake Handler
Thanks, Rickaroo, for pointing out one of the many inconsistencies in the narrow-minded views of the rabid right.
No tax increment financing for Aetna Mountain
I wonder whether these developers are among the people clamoring for lower taxes . . . for themselves.