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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.

Letter: What is patriotism?

Is it possible for a socialist to be patriotic? How can we tell if one is patriotic?

Letter: Urging organ donation

Organ donation is desperately needed in these times. You should try to tell anyone you know about organ donation, which would hopefully affect the amount of organ donors.

October 21, 2009

Letter: Hyperbole in health care debate

Far too often, opinion becomes fact, mostly through repeated voicing from talking heads. Both Democrats and Republicans claim a monopoly on the truth, but, as Einstein said, “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

Letter: Appalled by Congressional health care plan

I am convinced it is blatant discrimination to exempt themselves of the position they are attempting to foist on the populace, as this action is placing themselves in an elite class above all others under them, which is discriminatory.

October 20, 2009

Letter: Why Helen Keller?

The problem with Helen Keller is that her work to help the disabled was just one aspect of her adult life. Much of her life was devoted to promoting ideals and principles that put her more on par with Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, and Chairman Mao than the typical Alabamian.

October 15, 2009

Letter: Can you do better?

From the scoffing the Republican-based group Americans For Prosperity made regarding Chicago losing the bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics in hopes to discredit President and First Lady Obama, to Republicans in general fuming over the President becoming the third sitting U.S. President (fourth after former President Jimmy Carter) to become a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

Letter: Free to make my own decision

One of the most fundamental concepts in life is that for every decision there is a cost and a benefit. There are no choices in life that are “cost-free.” Yet when government proposals are sold to the public they are only done so in ways that illustrate the benefits and ignore the cost.

Letter: Can you read?

It is obvious that geography is not very important to the Eagle publishers since the paper is filled with “news” from Decatur, Ala., (Decatur, Ga., is nearer and a much more interesting place, and Decatur County, Ga., is only an hour away).

Letter: Addressing many issues

To the first question about the name change to “Scarlett Letterman” suggested by Thomas James Alford of Dothan, the ratings from this past Tuesday’s show is proof that despite the hole Dave’s dug for himself both personally and legally, his career is salvageable.

Letter: Put it to a vote

I am sick and tired of the U.S. Congress passing bills against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of citizens. They violate the law of representative government.

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