Monday, August 10

In the news:


Bush wrong to wed religion, politics

LUBBOCK, Texas “”mdash; With all the foreign policy straight out of the neo-imperialist handbook, President Bush seems to have found time somewhere between working out and ignoring cries for help to try to keep homosexual marriages illegal. Read more...


Taylor debacle puts Liberians in danger

The first in a series of submissions on the crisis in Liberia. I would not say that Charles MacArthur Taylor, president of Liberia, is a political creation of the United States even though in 1985 he mysteriously escaped from a high security prison in Massachusetts, where he had been incarcerated for 15 months pending extradition to Liberia for having stolen a considerable sum of money from an agency in the Liberian government. Read more...


Recall undemocratic, detrimental to state

History is being made in California ““ soon the people will face their first recall election. A special election is taking place in October to allow the people to decide whether or not to keep Gray Davis as governor. Read more...


Letters to the editor

Regarding your editorial on the recall effort (“Recall effort only distracts state leaders,” July 28), though you are correct in your characterization of Darrell Issa as engaging in political opportunism, there are many leaps of logic in your condemnation of the Davis recall that must be brought into question. Read more...