Letters to the Editor Archive

After watching the beautiful opening ceremonies for the winter Olympics, I was annoyed by Vice President Mike Pence’s refusal to stand when the combined Korea team entered the stadium.

My life started in 1926 while Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States. In 1929 Wall Street crashed causing America to plunge into a severe economic crisis. Then came the beginning of the Great Depression.

Already 18 school shootings this year. Sad indeed! How many guns were found at schools; how many arrests were there?

Should immigration serve the host country and its citizens or should it serve foreign countries and their citizens? The United States is no longer a frontier with a need for people to fill the void. Should immigrants fill empty jobs or take jobs from citizens? Our government has allowed immigration to explode, changing the character of our country for the purpose of political power or greed.

It’s 3:00 am. I can’t sleep. During visitation preceding a funeral recently, a pastor asked if I was still preaching the Gospel. My response: “At every opportunity God gives me.”  Three days later God gave me a whammy!

President Trump’s great medical report was no surprise to me. God’s giving him supernatural energy to execute his goings and comings, an unreal schedule.

We are blessed with two excellent weekly newspapers in Santa Rosa County: Gulf Breeze News and Navarre Press. Each keeps the readers informed of local news. It turns out that Letters to the Editor (LTE) are the most widely read section of any newspaper after the front page. I can tell you how best to write a “letter to the editor” but I must tell you that my success of getting them published is not good. All LTE’s are published at the discretion of the paper’s editors.

Good science exists after full and rigorous peer review. When science is subverted by politics it is no longer science but science fiction. The global warming or climate change claims are attributed to one variable and has excluded the effect of the sun and other variables. Of course there is climate change because the climate is driven by many variables.

The Florida House recently passed a bill that would ban the use of cameras at traffic lights in the state beginning in July 2021. The legislation now heads to the Florida Senate. I totally disagree with the 83-18 decision. I think additional cameras are needed at busy intersections throughout the state, and they should be implemented July 4, 2018. That would save hundreds of lives annually.

At the beginning our nation was formed as 13 independent states with a limited sovereignty from the federal government outlined and guided by the words of our Constitution of which each state ratified. This limited state sovereignty is also guided by the limitations placed on the federal government by the words of the same Constitution that limits the type and thus amount of sovereignty the States were willing to give away in forming our federal government to form the United States.