LETTERS/OPINIONS
Sticks, stones and the first to cast
To the Editor: It seems we hear the same things over and over, “tone down the rhetoric” or “words, both spoken and written have consequences,” but somehow nothing changes. There was a period after 9/11 when people were very kind and considerate of each other, but that was then and …
Lakeland Times: Our View
For those of you who belong to the Boomer generation, or maybe just a little younger, you probably remember Robert Palmer and his great song, “Simply Irresistible.” One line from the chorus goes: “She’s so fine, there’s no tellin’ where the money went.”
How I learned to stop worrying and love the zipper merge
Let me pose a situation we’re all too familiar with: You’re driving down a highway and you come across a single lane of traffic that stretches, seemingly, into infinity. The other lane is open, but temporary signs indicate that lane will end soon and merge with the backed up lane.
Jimmy Kimmel enabled censorship
First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t ... a lameass? No. In this Niemoller scenario, the deplatforming of the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comes at the end of the slippery slope, not the beginning. ABC canned Bill Maher 23 years ago for …
Out the door in two — thanks to four
To the Editor: It is hard to believe that four towns could get together and accomplish what they did for the benefit of their respective residents. But they did and I am very thankful. Our new EMS is excellent, out the door in less than 2 minutes and on scene …
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The ‘good government’ crowd
I used to be a real do-gooder. National Board of Common Cause under Archie Cox and Fred Wertheimer; chair of the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission; professor of election law. I did these things after working in the trenches because I really believed in the possibility of cleaning up the system. …
The assassination of Charlie Kirk and the violent movements we must denounce
This week, my friend Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University. He was assassinated while debating with students — something Charlie did frequently, and with aplomb — by a radicalized leftist with a trans boyfriend.
Unity or division
To the Editor: On April 4, 1968, about five years after his brother, President John F. Kennedy, was killed, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was standing in front of a crowd of mostly African Americans in Indianapolis. In 1963, news was not instantaneous, so most people in the crowd were expecting …
Why Americans love political violence
“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” Voltaire said. But not really. Stephen G. Tallentyre wrote it in his 1906 book about Voltaire, as a paraphrase of his attitude toward free speech. Actually, that’s not true either: “Tallentyre” was …
Blaming Charlie Kirk’s killing on someone other than the killer
From the get-go, President Donald Trump blamed the “radical left” for Charlie Kirk’s death, even though the shooter’s identity and motive were not yet known. Trump called for “all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom …
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Lakeland Times: Our View
Spread the word far and wide: Iron County circuit judge Anthony Stella must resign, immediately. Yes, Stella must resign — as U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany has also demanded — and, if he doesn’t, we implore the people of Iron County to perform the resignation for him in next spring’s election, …
The Supreme Court upholds racial profiling
They couldn’t even be bothered to write an opinion. The Supreme Court’s six right-wing Trumpers issued a summary opinion staying a district court order, which had been upheld by the Court of Appeals, prohibiting “roving patrols” of ICE agents from stopping and seizing people based on their race and ethnicity.
A society paralyzed by the presence of evil
This week, most Americans were shocked by the images of Decarlos Brown Jr., a violent schizophrenic with a 14-count rap sheet, stabbing a young Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, to death on a Charlotte light rail commuter train.
Will New York’s woke utopia turn nationwide disaster?
To the Editor: In the knowledge that over the course of the last say, 60 years the raison d’etre of the left has been to undermine history, undermine the study of things that happened, and distort the ideas of our founding, I write this. For those of us imbued with …
The Mamdani effect
In his classic 1954 treatise on his human comparison theory, the social psychologist Leon Festinger stipulated that human beings assess their social standing by comparing themselves to those around them and how those other people are evaluated and received.
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