Steven L. Goldstein The Sun Sentinel

October 14, 2012
Steven L. Goldstein
The Sun Sentinel
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394

RE: “Shining City” and how Nixon lives on to torment us still. Some comments on how, just when you think things can’t get worse, they do, they do. Some comments on your typical column today on why the letters GOP should be struck from the alphabet starting in Broward County.

My dear Professor,

You call the wascally Wepublicans “conspirators”. You say it is “a strong term but accurate”.

Such is the number that I get some conspiracies confused.

Is it the one that says, despite being approved by 3/4rs of Congress, Bush invaded Iraq so that his family could get control of the gas pipe line through Kafiristan?

Is it the one that says the Tea Party was really born when they blew up the levees in New Orleans in 2005? Talk about putting minority voter suppression on the fast track!

Is it the one that says Ronald Reagan started the AIDS “epidemic” because he didn’t like Clifton Webb?

Is it the one that says Franklin Roosevelt, in thralldom to Great Britain, knew about Pearl Harbor on Labor Day, 1941 but did nothing to interfere with it?

Which conspiracy have you pledged your fealty to?

“Birthers”? Bad.

“Truthers”? Good.

Or is it the opposite.

I get confused. Enlighten me.

In re Citizens United I am searching in vain for a synonym for “stupid” or “Homerically dumb”. Failiong to find any IO must settle for the lowest common denominator: modern American Liberal is spot on.

“Corporations are people” is an legal concept that has been around since the second half of the 19th century. The Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust acts had to go after someone, not something.

IN the 1930s the Roosevelt administration frequently used it to advance their political agenda by judicial means. When the Supreme Court turned away his power grab – Remember, Mussolini was the poster boy of progressive modern American Liberals in that “low, dishonest decade” – he tried to pack it.

Can I ask which other parts of the First Amendment do you want to “reform”>