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November 20, 2009

Letter: Not another bum!

The problem here is simple: We have an aspiring politician standing on an issue only when it suits him. This was not an issue until the issue itself became news.

Letter: Reagan helped bring down Berlin Wall

Mikhail Gorbachev got credit, and even President John F. Kennedy got a mention, but nothing for former President Reagan. How soon we forget!

Let’s not allow the revisionists to reverse true history.

November 19, 2009

Letter: ‘Open your eyes; gambling has been here for years’

I am not an advocate of gambling. Everyone knows that the house wins more than it pays to winners, and some gamblers lose control and lose more than they can afford.

Letter: Etiquette rules for cell phones in public

You should not talk on a cell phone when you are in a check-out line; it is rude to cashier and the people around you.

November 18, 2009

Letter: On bullies and schools

Well, in the words of a famous American, Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” Your paper finally says something about a problem with bullies.

Letter: Just wondering about terrorism

Why was Timothy McVeigh a terrorist and Maj. Nidal Hasan is not?

Letter: Amazed by Gov. Riley’s opposition to bingo

Maybe the developers of Country Crossing didn’t grease the right palms when they started.

November 08, 2009

Letter: Electronic bingo and the law

Believe it or not, a lot of respect for the law and government officials will be lost or won on this bingo issue.

Letter: Warm memories of a time-worn peanut harvest

In my mind’s eye I can still see my daddy now, with his plow behind the mule, carefully plowing up the peanuts.

Letter: Gambling is bad for the community

Our legislators are willing to sit on their hands as gambling proliferates.

November 05, 2009

Letter: Sadly, football is king

I’m afraid the game most of us in the South love has become a god. That’s right — a “god.”

Letter: End your wicked ways

God is fed up with all the sinful ways we in America are living.

Letter: Taking aim at the ACLU

Emmanuel Christian School has a good dress code and no problem with rough gang activities. Make a comparison with the schools in Chicago, where the president of the United States calls home. In recent weeks, several youths lost their lives. One was simply walking home from school, his path taking him between the location of two gangs.

November 04, 2009

Letter: ‘Who is looking out for us old folks?‘

Our great country is very much in need of “all” Americans getting involved in daily prayer for our leaders.

Letter: It began with the original sin

I feel I must respond to Karen Spears Zacharias’s Oct. 23 column. If she thinks God did not love his mother, then she has some serious problems.

Letter: Unwelcome serenade in parking lot

What is with everyone who thinks it is so cool to leave their car running and the music screaming while they go into the convenience store?

November 03, 2009

Letter: Uneasy about easements

I feel that it is time the City of Dothan steps up to the bar and begin the implementation of proper easements and proper storm drainage for our community.

Letter: ‘What am I missing?‘

Gov. “Bob Almighty” Riley sends a message to the Legislature that all expenditures must be made by bid only, just before or right after granting a no-bid, $13 million extension to a computer company with no Web site, no e-mail address and no listed telephone.

Letter: The problem with porn

These news items are on the heels of recent reports of teenage gang rapes and sexual assault on children. Establishments such as Secrets provide fuel to a growing fire that is consuming not just men, but destroying women, families and innocents.

November 01, 2009

Letter: Raise awareness of diabetes

According to the American Diabetes Association, the cost of diabetes for the state of Alabama in 2006 was almost $2.5 billion. In 2007, the national cost exceeded $174 billion.

Letter: Touched by Honor Flight

When I marched home 63 years ago, I went as one to the open arms of my mother, father, sister, brother, aunt and great-grandfather. Recently I have come home again to many. What wonderful homecomings!

Letter: ‘Gentlemen don’t go to strip clubs’

So, this gentlemen’s club is really a gentlemen’s strip club — women are stripping —which I think is the ultimate oxymoron.

October 29, 2009

Letter: ‘How will we react?‘

The first year after graduation is the “honeymoon phase,” where getting a paycheck is equivalent to finding the golden ticket. Then, after an amount of time, the second year consists of sayings like, “What was I thinking when I took this job?”

Letter: Midland City’s small-town drama

Mayor Virgil Skipper needs to get off his high horse and give Chief Keith Rinehardt back his job. He’s being silly and embarrassing the town.

Letter: Offended by denial of shaken baby syndrome

The reported statement made by Dr. Ronald H. Uscinski “that through his work as a neurosurgeon he no longer believes in Shaken Baby Syndrome” is a direct insult to all of the children who are no longer with us due to abusive head injury and to those caregivers and children who are the survivors.

October 28, 2009

Letter: On privilege and pools

If (Dothan District 2 Commissioner Amos) Newsome can, in good conscience, vote to spend $40 million for a new park in a more affluent district, surely he can vote to spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars to build a swimming pool for the underprivileged children in his own district.

Letter: Keeping up with Congress

Has anyone else noticed how often Sens. Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions split their vote?

Letter: Vet’s daughter remembers Korea, the forgotten war

I am looking for letters written to and from military personnel who served during the Korean War.

Letter: Don’t forget about Gen. Douglas McArthur

There is a need to rewrite the rewritten history books in our country.

October 22, 2009

Letter: ‘Problem solved’

I firmly believe that once the information was extracted from these terrorists and their usefulness to us was over, they should be made to kneel down, pray to Allah or whomever they pray to and tell him to get their virgins ready, then chop their heads off.

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