LETTERS 03/25/08

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Please, put an end to this scam and honor our military veterans who have done their time. This is a national disgrace.

Cindy Miller

Lenexa

In his column of March 20 (Opinion, “No audacity: Speech was just liberal call to arms”), Jonah Goldberg damned Barack Obama with strong praise.

He called Obama’s speech in response to Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory comments, “lovely,” “far better than I expected,” “a historic achievement,” “in short, there was wonderful stuff to be found in Obama’s address.”

Then he berates Obama for suggesting solutions such as “investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations.”

Goldberg sees this as “actually nothing new” and says that “his hope for something better proved too audacious in the end.”

Evidently Goldberg is against better schools, enforcing our laws and providing ladders of opportunity to our younger citizens.

Goldberg praises Obama’s speech, and then criticizes his solutions. I’d like to know, what solutions does Goldberg offer?

R. Vance Hall

Overland Park

Congratulations to The Star once again. You have succeeded in spreading hate and divisiveness by printing another vitriolic cartoon by the classless, moronic and completely unfunny Glenn McCoy (3/21, Opinion, “What — Me Worry?”)

Congrats on ignoring Sen. Obama’s message of unity and printing and disseminating the exact hate-filled rhetoric and cynicism he was speaking out against.

Bill Gordon

Topeka

More than 105,000 metro-area citizens live with diabetes. Many more have diabetes but are unaware of it.

Diabetes affects people without regard to age, ethnicity, body type or social status. Often, Type 2 diabetes symptoms do not appear until it’s too late. Left untreated, diabetes can lead to serious and life-threatening complications, including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness and amputation.

Today is the 20th annual American Diabetes Alert Day. I strongly urge anyone who has not been diagnosed with diabetes to act before it is too late.

Take the American Diabetes Association’s online Diabetes Risk Test to find out if you are at risk for this serious, but manageable, disease. The simple, seven-question assessment is available at diabetes.org/alert or by calling 1-800-DIABETES for more information.

Bradd Silver, M.D.

President, Greater Kansas City Board

of Trustees

American Diabetes Association

Since Hammurabi (go look him up), laws have had unintended consequences. If the smoking ordinance passes in Kansas City, bars and restaurants will lose revenue. Independence provides an empirical example. Less revenue means less paid in taxes.

Some people will quit smoking; others will vote with their feet and buy cigarettes outside city limits. Either way, tobacco tax revenue will fall. Result? City revenues will diminish.

Now, do you really believe the city — already strapped for revenue — will accept the shortfall? Guess who the Gang of Fifteen will turn to, to refill their coffers. You, neighbor. You.

I’ll vote for it when they guarantee, in writing, on pain of resignation, that there will be no corresponding tax increase. And remember: The rights you lose don’t come back.

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