Re “GOP drive to impeach president kicks off” (Sept. 29):
When Watergate started, no one on Earth thought it would lead to the president of the United States resigning from office. There was no evidence linking Nixon to the break-in at the Watergate until a dogged and unrelenting effort by investigative reporters uncovered the whole sordid detail of the illegal operation and cover-up.
Just like Nixon, Biden is using every instrument of his governmental power to deflect and obstruct an honest and thorough investigation of the facts of the case.
If he was innocent, he would cooperate by turning over all relevant documents, including bank records, to the House Oversight Committee.
— William David Stone, Irvine
Assembly Bill 1228
Re “Newsom OKs new Fast Food Council, worker pay boost” (Sept. 29):
Newsom signed a $20-an-hour pay raise for fast food workers of national franchises to prove he is nothing but a national progressive socialist. Despite the fact that these national companies don’t sign the paychecks, for the pay comes from small franchise owners. Janice Hahn wants to implement the same type of control and raise medical workers minimum to $25 per hour. Are they going to cherry-pick industry after industry until they destroy our free capital market society? A constitutional republic and democracy with individual liberty is absolutely incompatible with socialism. Is this legally constitutional or is it Newsom’s desire to destroy this state and country?
— Winston Marshall, Lomita
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s record of achievement
To suggest in your editorial on Oct. 3 that Senator Feinstein’s record was a “mixed bag” is to suggest that her greatest strengths did not clearly outweigh her few weaknesses.
She was the most prepared senator on any issue before her. She was kind and very popular. She knew more about terrorism than any other member of the Senate.
In San Francisco she provided comfort and acceptance to AIDS victims when other politicians were turning a blind eye. She did not support Clinton’s Defense of Marriage Act, and eventually supported same-sex marriage and parenthood. She made mistakes for sure, but if more senators were like her, things in Washington might be better.
— Mary Dickinson, Alta Loma
![Re “Fiscal policy still matters” (Nov. 5): The United States of America’s national debt is $33 trillion. Without figuring the interest and paying the debt off at a thousand dollars a second it would take over a thousand years to pay off the debt. We hear from the running politicians that we are strapping our children and grandchildren with the debt. There aren’t enough generations in the future of America’s history to pay off the debt we now owe. The credit card debt in America is $1 trillion. The credit card debt interest at 18% per year is $180 […]](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2018_1008_generic_mailbox_letters_to_the_editor3-5.jpg?w=513 "Re “Fiscal policy still matters” (Nov. 5): The United States of America’s national debt is $33 trillion. Without figuring the interest and paying the debt off at a thousand dollars a second it would take over a thousand years to pay off the debt. We hear from the running politicians that we are strapping our children and grandchildren with the debt. There aren’t enough generations in the future of America’s history to pay off the debt we now owe. The credit card debt in America is $1 trillion. The credit card debt interest at 18% per year is $180 […]")
![Re “So there’s no way to prevent shootings?” (Nov. 5): While columnist Larry Wilson is correct about the scarcity of mass shootings in other countries, the real problem in the U.S. is that we resort to violence far more often than other countries. The possession or absence of guns isn’t the only cause of violence; Utah has relatively lax gun laws compared to California, yet its murder rate and violent crime rates are about half of that of California and firearms are used in a smaller percentage of its murders. If we subtract the murders committed with guns from […]](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2018_1008_generic_mailbox_letters_to_the_editor3-4.jpg?w=513 "Re “So there’s no way to prevent shootings?” (Nov. 5): While columnist Larry Wilson is correct about the scarcity of mass shootings in other countries, the real problem in the U.S. is that we resort to violence far more often than other countries. The possession or absence of guns isn’t the only cause of violence; Utah has relatively lax gun laws compared to California, yet its murder rate and violent crime rates are about half of that of California and firearms are used in a smaller percentage of its murders. If we subtract the murders committed with guns from […]")
![It is real on our campuses Oh, campus antisemitism is real all right. It’s being shown nightly on the news mostly by the right-leaning Fox News. I am somewhat flummoxed personally because most all modern civilized societies have rejected the tenets of Nazism with its fascist underpinnings. The barbarism exhibited by the terrorist group Hamas justifies Israel’s quest for retribution. It is a terrible shame that they hide behind civilians and expect a pass for their reprehensible actions on Oct. 7. College campuses across our nation now have on full display the poisonous antisemitism of progressive thought. That thinking […]](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2018_1008_generic_mailbox_letters_to_the_editor3-3.jpg?w=513 "It is real on our campuses Oh, campus antisemitism is real all right. It’s being shown nightly on the news mostly by the right-leaning Fox News. I am somewhat flummoxed personally because most all modern civilized societies have rejected the tenets of Nazism with its fascist underpinnings. The barbarism exhibited by the terrorist group Hamas justifies Israel’s quest for retribution. It is a terrible shame that they hide behind civilians and expect a pass for their reprehensible actions on Oct. 7. College campuses across our nation now have on full display the poisonous antisemitism of progressive thought. That thinking […]")
![Re “HB goes ahead with library censors” (Nov. 2): Well it’s good to know, not surprising, but still disappointing all the same, that your editorial board is another liberally biased media outlet in this state. There used to be a fair amount of conservatives in Orange County. I’m not sure of the percentage anymore but I can assure you we are underrepresented in the media. The column today, “Huntington Beach goes ahead with dystopian library censors,” is a clear attack on conservatives and conservative values. God forbid there are many (if not most) of us who don’t want our […]](https://www.ocregister.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2018_1008_generic_mailbox_letters_to_the_editor3-2.jpg?w=513 "Re “HB goes ahead with library censors” (Nov. 2): Well it’s good to know, not surprising, but still disappointing all the same, that your editorial board is another liberally biased media outlet in this state. There used to be a fair amount of conservatives in Orange County. I’m not sure of the percentage anymore but I can assure you we are underrepresented in the media. The column today, “Huntington Beach goes ahead with dystopian library censors,” is a clear attack on conservatives and conservative values. God forbid there are many (if not most) of us who don’t want our […]")