Letters to the Editor 12/3

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• Letters to the Editor 12/14

  Letters to the Editor 12/14

  FDR misinterpreted

  In response to Mr. Bevan’s Dec. 3 letter: First of all, I was writing about the “real” FDR. Secondly, I cannot let the misinterpretations in “his” FDR stand.

  FDR did in fact have to “bail out” the banks, first by temporarily shutting them and then by having the federal government (through the new Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.) provide billions and muchneeded new regulation.

• Letters to the Editor 1/14

  Letters to the Editor 1/14

  Not an invader

  Contrary to the letter of Jan. 12 titled “Wolf invader,” gray wolves are indeed native to California. They have roamed here since at least the last ice age tens of thousands of years ago until hunters wiped them out in the 1920s. There is no valid comparison to the invasive zebra mussels threatening local lakes, which were inadvertently imported from Europe within the past few decades.

  What makes a species native is the ecosystem to which it belongs, not political boundaries arbitrarily drawn by humans.

• Letters to the Editor 5/18

  Letters to the Editor 5/18

  Reclaim government

  The Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case caused a colossal distortion in political influence and fairness.

  Multinational corporations — including foreignand state-owned firms with no allegiance whatsoever to America, only a commitment to their own profit — are able to spend freely in our elections. The biggest spenders win. So spending on an election is a business expense, making sure people get elected who will do what is best for the corporations.

• Letters to the Editor 3/8

  Letters to the Editor 3/8

  Rush and McCarthy

  Back in 1954, Sen. Joe McCarthy was carrying on his witch hunts for communists in the government, destroying careers as he went and playing judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator and press agent all in one.

  One day in June, he attacked a young lawyer who at one time had belonged to a leftist organization. The lawyer had nothing to do with the case before McCarthy’s committee. One of the lawyers who was part of the same firm, Joseph Welch, finally had had enough and said, “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”

• Letters to the Editor 3/20

  Letters to the Editor 3/20

  No right to gripe

  Conservatives these days have been blaming President Obama for the spike in prices at the pump. This reminds me of a comedian who once said that blaming any president for why your life’s not working would be like blaming Ronald McDonald for a lousy hamburger.

  Those who make this accusation are probably the same bunch who think that corporate profits are inviolable. Indeed, unregulated big business, where the rich and powerful do whatever they please at the expense of the rest of us, is a core tenet of so-called conservatism.