Opinion: Mailbag: Terror, talkers, tax and trade, etc.

Dennis Kucinich is one of a very few members of Congress who is an member of the AFL-CIO. It would be highly unlikely that he would cross a labor picket line. My advice to UC Berkeley would be to resolve its labor issues with its employees first, then go looking for commencement speakers.

One reason many Americans may be ambivalent about enforcing immigration laws is because lots of Americans broke Mexican immigration laws by sneaking over the border into Texas, California, New Mexico, etc in the 1840s. And before that the Spanish violated the borders of the Comanche, Apache, Ute, etc. If you go back far enough, everyone comes from somewhere else.

I was amazed to read Sonni Efron’s concluding editorial claims that stated: “the bigger battle against Islamist fanaticism” has “data that suggests we have already lost”. Following the Efron logic, where do we pragmatic American’s now surrender? What country or Islamic government will be the location for us to sign our official surrender documents? Efron’s suggested no mas fighting of “Islamist fanaticism” is so remarkable that I wonder if Efron now believes American Christians and Jews need to convert to Islam immediately to save ourselves? Is our certain defeat (as seen by Efron) the end of our Western civilization? Please, now that Sonni Efron has declared us the loser to our Islamic radical enemies in this battle of cultures, when will Efron be so kind as to illuminate all of us on what our children’s future will look like under Islamic law? Is the L.A. Times soon to write a number of feature stories by Efron on how we should plan on living our lives under Islamic law? Inquiring minds want to know! Hey, Sonni Efron, when passing out the white flags of surrender, skip sending one to me!

The writer, Sonni Efron, seems to imply that most Americans care about what the rest of the world, Muslims in particular, think about the United States. They are wrong. Most Americans are like me and couldn’t care one iota what the rest of the world think about us. This all goes back to the liberal mantra of: Why doesn’t everyone in the world like me? You see, it is the liberal who cares what the rest of the world thinks about the U.S. In fact, the more they hate me, the better off I am. As for all those countries that pretend to be our allies, lets see how much they support us after we cut-off our aid to them. Let them get their money from al-Qaeda. Think al-Qaeda has the money this country has and could support the entire world? I think not. Bet they change their opinion of us then. The fact that Muslims think the U.S. is exporting Christianity isn’t surprising. Muslims have been exporting Islam to this country for years. But, once again, it’s OK for them to bring their religion to America but not OK for America to bring religion to them. Double standard? They want to reject Western values? Fine, just as long as this country can reject Eastern values. I think that’s a fair trade. We were hated by the Muslim world before 9/11; before we went into Iraq and we will be hated after we leave Iraq. No matter what we do, we can’t win with them. So, why bother trying to get them to like us?

Ronald Brownstein’s excellent article on reducing carbon emissions did miss one point. It is possible to employ revenue neutral carbon taxes so that overall taxes don’t increase. Instead the taxes on carbon are offset by a reduction in the income tax. In this manner you can reduce carbon emissions without raising taxes. Moreover, by eliminating the billions of dollars of subsidies that the fossil fuel industry gets each year you could achieve additional reductions and save money.

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