Posted on April 16 at 3:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I agree there is something grievously wrong when a gang of teenagers jumps a man walking home from work, late at night, and beats the tar out of him apparently just for the fun of it. This is savagery.

Yes, the police should always have a car on Hamilton Hill, not a mile away on Erie Boulevard, especially late at night, but no, you can't have a cop on every corner or on every block. At some point people are responsible for themselves, and parents are responsible for their children.

On Legislature's giveaways

Posted on April 13 at 4:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I think the letter-writer asked a good question: I poke fun at Christians, why not at Jews? Please watch my column in the Daily Gazette for my answer. Coming soon .... CS

On It's Bibleman!

Posted on March 27 at 4:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)

In response to doggbreth: Good question. The answer is the agent provocateur didn't approach them with the idea of laundering money, but of being friends, of talking about Islam, and of helping the pizza-shop-owner with a loan for his business. Only later did he insinuate that he was dealing in arms and that's where his money came from. He buttered them up first. But I agree, when Hossain saw a missile launcher he should have called the police, and if he had been charged with dereliction of his civic duty for not doing so, he should have been found guilty. Alas, that's not what he was charged with. He was charged with laundering money and
providing material support for terrorists. That seems to me grossly unfair, to set up a guy like that and then send him to prison for 15 years for it. ... Carl Strock
P.S. doggbreth???

On Muslim appeal (2)

Posted on March 22 at 10:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Regarding the context of Rev. Wright's comments, I have read the blog entries of Anderson Cooper's at CNN, and they don't seem to me to improve matters at all. Rev. Wright's stated position, in full context, is that America's past evil deeds, with regard to Native Americans, blacks and others, are coming back at us. The chickens are coming home to roost. Which is another way of saying we had it coming. Serves us right. The fact that he referred to something an ambassador said is hardly relevant. I don't know what the ambassador said. I note that Wright didn't quote him, but just referred to him. I doubt very much that any ambassador would say the things Wright said. In any event it's Wright's views that count. The other sermons quoted at greater length than just the snippets are much the same. They don't make things better but simply show more fully that Wright is a Malcolm X-style and Louis Farrakahn-style anti-white, America-hating militant. I continue to believe this shows us a side of Barack Obama greatly at odds with the public persona he presents.

On Obama transcends nothing

Posted on March 20 at 4:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I appreciate hearing from everyone on this subject. As for Iraq, I agree: Obama is the only candidate with a clear view. What a shame that he turns out to have this (to my mind) unseemly connection to a racial demagogue. No, I guess he doesn't have to agree with everything in order to sit in his pew week after week, but I guess he has to feel SOME level of comfort. And that's discomfiting enough.

On Obama transcends nothing