Letters

Published
August 9, 2014

Letter to the editor: Should people sue Congress for failing to do its job?

How remarkable that, since there are not enough votes for impeachment proceedings, House Speaker John Boehner and his Republican colleagues decided to sue President Obama for allegedly overreaching his presidential authority. Does that mean that citizens can sue Congress – individually or as a whole – for not doing what they were constitutionally elected to […]
Published
August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: World War II losses put current conflict in Gaza in perspective

Those of us who were around in the 1940s should remind the U.S. citizenry of how we treated the Japanese and German citizenry in order to terminate the Second World War. During the last week of July 1943, the U.S. Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Force killed 42,600 German civilians and wounded 37,000 […]
Published
August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: Palestinian threat to their own children should be spotlighted

In Kathleen Sutherland’s Aug. 5 guest editorial (“Another View: Threat to Palestinian children demands consideration”), she rightly points out Israel’s threat to Palestinian children but overlooks the Palestinian threat to their own children. So let us focus this conflict to just its effect on children. Ms. Sutherland defends Palestinian tunnels and Palestinian rockets as the […]
Published
August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: Recent letter about ‘Pro-Palestinian’ activists in Portland invites further dialogue

A recent letter (” ‘Pro-Palestinian’ activists in Portland miss their mark,” Aug. 2) presents “facts” to counter “claims.” These invite further dialogue. Hamas fired rockets into Israel, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed little provocation, having leapt to assign blame for the West Bank teens’ disappearance and to call for vengeance against Hamas. Many argue […]
Published
August 8, 2014

Letter to the editor: Media reports cloud, misrepresent Israel’s actions in Gaza

Israel’s current bludgeoning of the open-air prison/Gaza Strip has been clouded by misrepresentation and outright lies in the media. • First, the accusation that Hamas started this all by ordering the senseless murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank. Israeli police have since determined that no evidence exists showing Hamas gave the order to […]

Published
August 7, 2014

Letter to the editor: Bear-referendum backers should make case for letting lobsters live

I’d like to offer some thoughts on the practice of baiting and trapping animals for sport or commerce. Consider how hobbyists or businessmen will go into an animal’s natural habitat and, using baited traps, lure innocent, nonthreatening creatures either to their deaths or to a torturous end after being corralled and kept alive. For lobsters, […]
Published
August 7, 2014

Letter to the editor: Thanks to Maine Sens. Collins, King for work to help veterinarians

On Aug. 1, President Obama signed into law the Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act, which allows veterinarians to transport medicines classified as “controlled substances.” Maine’s veterinarians would like to thank Sen. Angus King for being an original sponsor of this measure, making sure we are not classified as felons when visiting a farm or making a […]
Published
August 7, 2014

Letter to the editor: Try new tacks on workers’ wages, taxes

Mayor Michael Brennan’s goal to increase the minimum wage is a worthy one. It also needs a reality check! The best way to help those at minimum wage would be to adjust the earned income tax credit. Reality says this would raise no tax revenue for our hungry elected ofﬁcials. For each dollar we raise […]
Published
August 7, 2014

Letter to the editor: A deeper look at data alters viewpoint on carbon dioxide

In a recent letter (“Honor Lac- Megantic by reining in use of fossil fuels,” July 28), the author suggests that “over the last century, the fossil fuel-related carbon dioxide content of Earth’s atmosphere has gone from under 300 to more than 400 parts per million.” When discussing climate change, it is to everyone’s advantage to […]
Published
August 6, 2014

Letter to the editor: Senators should put people in U.S. before immigrants

Regarding the article “Maine Sens. King, Collins tour Texas border, differ over where blame lies” (Aug. 2): Sen. Angus King was paraphrased as saying that he concluded that the border is relatively secure and that the immigration courts are overwhelmed. If the border is “relatively” secure, then why do we have a crisis of illegal […]

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