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Oakland ought to comply with
San Jose on gun management
The information I noticed on the entrance web page Jan. 27, “San Jose OKs gun management mandate,” gave me immense pleasure to learn all the way in which to the tip.
Congratulations to the mayor and Metropolis Council for passing this new ordinance after practically two years of hiccups from either side.
If San Jose can do that for households who misplaced their family members then different cities might comply with to assist stop mass shootings by firearms of their communities.
Enable me to shift gears and communicate on to the favored mayor of Oakland: It's the proper time for you and the Oakland Metropolis Council to comply with within the footsteps of San Jose management.
At this juncture, town of Oakland can’t afford extra physique baggage. Sufficient is sufficient.
Zafar Yousufzai
Fremont
State wants road cred
for well being care help
We are able to all conform to help Assemblyman Ash Kalra’s single-payer well being system as soon as California establishes some road cred.
For instance, implementing high-speed rail as initially touted to taxpayers (Sacramento to San Diego at sustained speeds of 200 mph) and throughout the newest accepted price range; and guaranteeing that every one Californians, significantly all its elected officers, shall be subjected to the identical well being plan they attempt to inflict on bizarre residents.
Larry Yelowitz
Sunnyvale
Media is retaining
the massive lie alive
From Day One among President Biden’s administration onward, the information media have stuffed us with hypothesis about who’s going to run in 2024. Why aren’t the media centered on what this duly-elected administration is doing, as a substitute of instantly seeking to the subsequent election, as if it had been nothing greater than a reputation contest?
Clearly, the intense right-wing media needs to advertise Donald Trump’s lie that he didn’t lose the 2020 election. However whereas regular information media encase it in disclaiming phrases like “unfaithful assertion,” they proceed to repeat that lie.
Our trusted information sources are retaining Trump’s agenda alive within the minds of its viewers, changing into the unwitting device of Trumpist propaganda. We don’t want to invest about who’ll run in 2024 till 2023, however we do have to know what the administration we elected in 2020 is attempting to do now, and who's obstructing its agenda.
Bruce Joffe
Piedmont
Take columns’ infantile
rants for what they're
I've learn many letters from East Bay Instances readers lamenting the contrarian opinion items provided by Victor Davis Hanson or Marc Thiessen.
Way back, I discovered solace in reminding myself that they're merely following the narcissist credo so popularized by their false idol. Particularly, these cultists depend on projection, the act of accusing others of what they're doing or planning on doing. Denial is paramount on this course of, because it permits them to flee accountability for something disagreeable or adverse. Misdirection and blame-shifting have turn into the M.O. of the neo-GOP.
I've found that if I maintain their protection mechanisms in thoughts when listening to tirades or studying articles written by alt-right delusionists, I can smile and dismiss their actions for the child-like behaviors they're.
Jon James
Pleasanton
Trump capitulation set
up Putin aggression
Whereas Marc A. Thiessen’s columns are so often misguided they're unworthy of remark, his accusation that President Biden can’t stand as much as Russian President Putin (“President Biden exhibiting he can’t stand as much as Putin,” Web page A7, Jan. 27) is so laughable it have to be refuted.
Nothing extra must be mentioned aside from Thiessen is an acolyte for Donald Trump who was, and is, a sycophant to Vladimir Putin. If Trump had stood as much as Putin, and never savaged the federal government of Ukraine, we might not be within the mess we're in now. If Trump had not undermined our relationships with Germany and NATO, the present disaster wouldn't be so dire.
Jim Hopkins
Oakland
Courtroom retirement timing
positive appears political
Re. “Justice Breyer to retire from Supreme Courtroom,” Web page A1, Jan. 27:
It's reported that Supreme Courtroom Justice Stephen Breyer “bristled” on the accusation that judges act politically. And Chief Justice John Roberts has mentioned up to now, “We shouldn't have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we've got is a unprecedented group of devoted judges doing their stage greatest to do equal proper to these showing earlier than them.”
One surprise why then do liberal judges retire throughout Democratic presidencies and conservative judges throughout Republican presidencies. It isn’t politics … wink, wink.
Kathryn Tomaino
Los Altos
Scourge of celebration
rancor ID’d way back
Leonard Pitts Jr. tries to make a really outdated downside sound new in his op-ed “No shock: GOP has zero curiosity in bipartisanship.” (Web page A13, Jan. 23).
In his farewell handle, President Washington wrote that the spirit of a political celebration “serves at all times to distract the general public councils and enfeeble the general public administration. It agitates the neighborhood with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of 1 half towards one other, foments sometimes riots and revolt.”
He went on the write that political events “are possible in the midst of time and issues to turn into potent engines, by which crafty, formidable, and unprincipled males shall be enabled to subvert the ability of the individuals and to usurp for themselves the reins of presidency, destroying afterwards the very businesses which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
Feels like a widely known, 223-year-old downside to me.
Robert Varesio
Sunnyvale