Peter Schweizer's brilliant new book, Throw Them All Out, exposes how both Republican and Democratic politicians in Washington, D.C., use their elective offices to enrich themselves. Schweizer documents the shady "insider stock tips, land deals and cronyism" members of Congress legally profit from, which he says "would send the rest of us to prison." New…
December 24, 2011
My Turn
Elizabeth Warren is a tenacious advocate for the American people who deserves to be nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This agency is a vital component of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law designed to prevent Wall Street's "too big to fail" banks or other institutions from bilking the government…
July 9, 2011
Letter
Israel's relentless dispossession of the Palestinian people throughout the occupied West Bank including in East Jerusalem is an intolerable injustice which threatens to incite another conflagration in the Middle East. These racist Israeli ethnic cleansing campaigns began in 1947-48, but they can't be covered up anymore by pro-Israel propagandists such as Charles Krauthammer ("Why…
April 7, 2010
Letter
President Obama's admirable attempt to reform the scandal-plagued student loan program is unconscionably languishing in the Senate - but hopefully not for long. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act would, according to the Congressional Budget Office, save $94 billion over the next 10 years by having the government instead of private industry administer student loans. This…
March 18, 2010
Letter
Neo-conservative reactionaries, tea bagger know-nothing fanatics and even some supposedly rational Republicans like Sen. Susan Collins of Maine are all self-righteously outraged because accused terrorists like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab - who's reportedly busy spilling his guts revealing "actionable" intelligence information - received the Miranda warning, were "lawyered up" and…
February 21, 2010
Letter
Katy Burns, an outstanding columnist, wrote an excellent article entitled "Hate and the harm it does" (Sunday Monitor Viewpoints, Jan. 10). However, only a day earlier the Monitor published a silly, stupid and stereotypical editorial cartoon created by someone who should know better which falsely depicted Muslims as either al-Qaida terrorists or their invisible clients. America…
February 4, 2010
Letter
Rep. Paul Hodes's disgraceful support of House Resolution 867, primarily designed to prevent Israelis like Defense Minister Ehud Barak from being held accountable for murdering hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, was morally reprehensible and an affront to justice. Protecting Israeli war criminals was accomplished by using HR 867 to deceitfully discredit the United…
January 17, 2010
Letter
Allison Caldwell's despicable anti-Semitic diatribe against Judaism, Jews and their "Jewishness" (Monitor, Dec. 16) received well-deserved condemnation. America has a tragic history of racism, religious and ethnic prejudice, a dark legacy of intolerance which, though both ethically and morally repugnant, still resonates with far too many people like Caldwell in today's society.…
December 24, 2009
Letter
The brutal murder of 13 people at Fort Hood was immediately condemned by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's own family and by Muslims throughout the United States. This didn't prevent prominent right-wingers like Pat Robertson, Sean Hannity, Jonah Goldberg, Charles Krauthammer and many others from demagoguing the tragedy. Robertson, an unabashed bigot, denies that Islam is even a religion…
November 20, 2009
Letter
The United Nations reports that the lives of the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, over half of whom are children, remain seriously threatened by severe shortages of essential supplies of food, drinkable water and medicine because of Israel's devastating blockade. President Jimmy Carter who recently visited Gaza said that the Israelis are perpetrating a "terrible human rights crime"…
October 12, 2009
Letter
Teddy Kennedy was really America's senator, as the legislation he championed which became law benefits people of every county, city and town in this country.
September 1, 2009
Letter
Amnesty International's report, released on July 2 but largely ignored by the media, regarding Israel's murderous invasion of Gaza last December and January documents the deliberate slaughter of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including some 300 children by the criminal Israeli Defense Force using weaponry provided by the United States. Palestinian civilians "were killed in attacks…
July 15, 2009
Letter
As the former chief of the Concord Fire Department, I recommend Engine 1 be returned to full service. Concord cannot now provide nationally recognized standards for fire protection, advanced life support, EMS, hazardous material and specialized rescue services.
It is not a question of if the need arises but a question of when.
The national standards state that, "On-duty fire suppression…
July 15, 2009
Letter
Charles Krauthammer's column about Israeli settlements ("Obama breaks U.S. deal with Israel," Monitor Forum, June 6) failed to mention that they've all been built illegally on Palestinian land in violation of international law.
This is an inconvenient truth for neo-conservative reactionaries like Krauthammer who persist in spewing propaganda and fabrications regarding Israel's creation…
June 11, 2009
