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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 9, 2008

Descent Into Insanity

Watching Frances Earl's descent into insanity in your newspaper is fascinating. She comes up with facts that I can find nowhere else.

She watches her TV and sees the same St. Paul police that I see arresting lawbreakers (I believe throwing boards through windows and kicking cops are still crimes), yet believes they're Republican goons beating innocent protestors. For a while, Obama wouldn't wear a flag pin or put his hand over his heart or say the Pledge of Allegiance, but somehow she thinks he's a true patriot and John McCain is Darth Vader.

If she gets her way, my taxes will soon enough help pay for her "free" hospitalization.

Richard Tellejohn

Brooksville

Both Barrels

The Sept. 5 editorial page was a disaster with Rall and Earl dominating the equivalent of a whole page. Fortunately, on Sept. 6 you gave Nash, Myers and Stathis equal coverage to counter what two way-outs again wrote out of context and also tweaked numbers for gross exaggeration.

Considering there were published rebuttals by the three and the e-mail reply you sent me in late June, I will renew my subscription. Thursday, I thought you totally went the way of your competitor, which I and many I know do not subscribe to anymore because of excessive Rall- and Earl-type editorials and letters to editor with few if any rebuttals.

Today, I received an e-mail that referred to a "walking eagle" honorary title. It would be appropriate for Rall and Earl. The walking eagle is a bird that is so full of crap it can't fly. In the future, please have pity on some of us readers. Don't use both barrels of the shotgun at once.

Walter H. Neumann

Spring Hill

Quote To Remember

For the edification of parents who may have missed Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech, you would perform an important public service by re-printing the following quote from it.

"Education is the civil rights issue of this century. Equal access to public education has been gained. But what is the value of access to a failing school? We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers and help bad teachers find another line of work.

"When a public school fails to meet its obligations to students, parents deserve a choice in the education of their children. And I intend to give it to them. Some may choose a better public school. Some may choose a private one. Many will choose a charter school. But they will have that choice and their children will have that opportunity. Senator Obama wants our schools to answer to unions and entrenched bureaucracies. I want schools to answer to parents and students. And when I'm president, they will."

Jack Jensen

Ridge Manor

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