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Letter To The Editor

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter To The Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Teddy is laughing over this letter printed in the Times Daily today: Fascinating. Seven years after quoting Theodore Roosevelt here in my vain attempt to alert readers to an abomination of tyranny (i.e. … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis ran today. I fully expect to receive condemnation in the editorial pages as a result. To the Editor: I just read the AP story about Conservapedia.com, the Bible rewriting project proposing to erase … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is the letter the Times Daily fact-checked. It finally ran yesterday. A lot of ink has been wasted on this page regarding the pros and cons of Canadian and British health care systems. … Continue reading →

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Getting Fact-Checked

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Getting Fact-Checked”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail I had just finished berating the LA Times for not source-checking its story when I decided to check my email for the first time since Thursday. Wonder of wonders, for the first time in my … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail From yesterday’s Times Daily: In his forthcoming posthumous memoir, Ted Kennedy describes his actions in the 1969 Chappaquiddick accident as “inexcusable” and says that at the time he was afraid, overwhelmed “and made … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis ran yesterday in the Times Daily. Obama held no moment of silence for Michael Jackson on the floor of Congress. To say that he did is a flat-out lie. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailPrinted in the Times Daily today: There’s a lot of tinfoil-hat nonsense going around about health care reform. Under “gummint” control, they say, bureaucrats will decide when it is too expensive to save your … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe lead story in the Times Daily today? Apparently, free market conditions are killing local health care: White and others in the health care profession locally say they are concerned about mounting debt, an … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailTo the Editor: Any scheme of political control requires an enduring fear. The end of the world need not occur; the point is to continue expecting it, no matter how many centuries pass in … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’m not sure this one will run, so I’m running it now. To the Editor: On Monday, Mrs. Jean White asked why someone in Alabama Shores would fly the American flag upside-down alongside a … Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Letter to the Editor”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis ran today. To the Editor: Recently, the Department of Homeland Security warned that right-wing domestic terrorists are a renewed threat. History would suggest we heed the warning. Timothy McVeigh set off a truckload … Continue reading →