July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
CR edit page leans too far left (8/30/05)
Letters to the Editor
By To the editor:-
I can’t help but wonder if I am getting more conservative or the editorial page of the Commercial Review is leaning even more to the radical left. Unless a conservative reader likes Buckley who is stuffy, wordy, and over the hill there is rarely much worth reading anymore.
Recently we were treated to an editorial by Senator Kennedy pontificating about the need for honest Supreme Court Justices who will protect our Constitutional rights. This from the leader of the filibuster specifically designed to keep honest judges off of our Appellate and Supreme Courts. Honest Justices such as Scalia and Thomas, who actually believe that our laws and our Constitution are supposed to mean what they say, are labeled right wing extremists. One of Kennedy’s favorites, Justice Breyer, recently wrote a book called “Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution.”
In it he concludes that a justice should place more emphasis on the results that a decision produces than on the letter of the law.
This is nothing but a euphemism for the fraud that says judges can twist the Constitution and the law to mean anything they want as long as it produces a politically correct result. If that is true then there is no Constitutional right that is safe from “political correctness.”
“Triple murder and rise of the GOP” by Les Payne last week was one of the most appalling examples of ignorance and bigotry that I have ever read. Mr. Payne concludes that the only reason Republicans have won control of Congress or have won any Presidential elections since Nixon is that all of the Ku Klux Klan members in the South are now voting Republican. Apparently Mr. Payne is himself blind to anything but race as a motivating factor. And that is to me the definition of bigotry.
In fact the Civil rights Act that Mr. Payne attributes to Democrats could not have been passed without significant Republican support. And it was Republican nominated Supreme Court Justices who declared that it was constitutional to ignore the 14th Amendment for another 25 years to promote affirmative action.
Apparently the extreme left wing liberal politics of the Democrat Party have in no way alienated people who believe that abortion is murder or that the “right to bear arms” actually means a right to bear arms.
Some people still believe that “Congress shall make no law” should still apply to religion and political speech instead of just pornography.
Some people still hate the tax and spend philosophy that the left endorses and wishy-washy moderate Republicans in Congress have been copying. And of course the left wing attacks on freedom of religious expression, their support of special privileges for gays and gay marriage, or their current anti-war rhetoric are not factors in the way people vote either.
I would like to see Mr. Payne cite one thing that the Republicans in Congress have done to hurt blacks or one thing that Democrats in Congress have done to help blacks in the last 15-20 years.
Today we were treated to Richard Reeves ranting about President Bush not meeting with Cindy Sheehan.
I feel for Mrs. Sheehan’s loss, but when she became the pawn of George Soros and MoveOn.org, and started calling the President every name in the book she lost all credibility, much less the right to meet with him for a “second time.”
The main stream media, represented by Mr. Reeves, who have ignored pro-Bush families who have lost love ones in the war, have also sacrificed even more of their credibility to their anti-Bush prejudice.
The columns by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift are interesting. They have a definite liberal slant, but they also have an occasional burst of common sense that I agree with.
Most of the other columnists are mediocre to say the least. So why not drop at least some of the left wing extremists and try to find some really good conservative columnists such as Robert Novak, George Will, Thomas Sowell, or Ann Coulter to provide some real balance.
Sincerely,
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
Recently we were treated to an editorial by Senator Kennedy pontificating about the need for honest Supreme Court Justices who will protect our Constitutional rights. This from the leader of the filibuster specifically designed to keep honest judges off of our Appellate and Supreme Courts. Honest Justices such as Scalia and Thomas, who actually believe that our laws and our Constitution are supposed to mean what they say, are labeled right wing extremists. One of Kennedy’s favorites, Justice Breyer, recently wrote a book called “Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution.”
In it he concludes that a justice should place more emphasis on the results that a decision produces than on the letter of the law.
This is nothing but a euphemism for the fraud that says judges can twist the Constitution and the law to mean anything they want as long as it produces a politically correct result. If that is true then there is no Constitutional right that is safe from “political correctness.”
“Triple murder and rise of the GOP” by Les Payne last week was one of the most appalling examples of ignorance and bigotry that I have ever read. Mr. Payne concludes that the only reason Republicans have won control of Congress or have won any Presidential elections since Nixon is that all of the Ku Klux Klan members in the South are now voting Republican. Apparently Mr. Payne is himself blind to anything but race as a motivating factor. And that is to me the definition of bigotry.
In fact the Civil rights Act that Mr. Payne attributes to Democrats could not have been passed without significant Republican support. And it was Republican nominated Supreme Court Justices who declared that it was constitutional to ignore the 14th Amendment for another 25 years to promote affirmative action.
Apparently the extreme left wing liberal politics of the Democrat Party have in no way alienated people who believe that abortion is murder or that the “right to bear arms” actually means a right to bear arms.
Some people still believe that “Congress shall make no law” should still apply to religion and political speech instead of just pornography.
Some people still hate the tax and spend philosophy that the left endorses and wishy-washy moderate Republicans in Congress have been copying. And of course the left wing attacks on freedom of religious expression, their support of special privileges for gays and gay marriage, or their current anti-war rhetoric are not factors in the way people vote either.
I would like to see Mr. Payne cite one thing that the Republicans in Congress have done to hurt blacks or one thing that Democrats in Congress have done to help blacks in the last 15-20 years.
Today we were treated to Richard Reeves ranting about President Bush not meeting with Cindy Sheehan.
I feel for Mrs. Sheehan’s loss, but when she became the pawn of George Soros and MoveOn.org, and started calling the President every name in the book she lost all credibility, much less the right to meet with him for a “second time.”
The main stream media, represented by Mr. Reeves, who have ignored pro-Bush families who have lost love ones in the war, have also sacrificed even more of their credibility to their anti-Bush prejudice.
The columns by Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift are interesting. They have a definite liberal slant, but they also have an occasional burst of common sense that I agree with.
Most of the other columnists are mediocre to say the least. So why not drop at least some of the left wing extremists and try to find some really good conservative columnists such as Robert Novak, George Will, Thomas Sowell, or Ann Coulter to provide some real balance.
Sincerely,
Stephen Erwin
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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