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For me, Fox News

is Radio Free America

Is the Obama administration's attack on Fox News shear stupidity or something more sinister - a deliberate distraction?

Hoping that while we are focused on such trivia, dedicated liberals plan to sneak in government-controlled health care and keep our minds off things like the failure of the stimulus package and rising unemployment.

Thankfully, we have the Fox News channel, our Radio Free America, to explain why President Barack Obama's distorted concepts of economic freedom and the distribution of wealth are incompatible.

ETTORE CATTANEO

Cape May

Bring troops home,

then bomb Iran

I agree with the writer of the Oct. 26 letter, "Stop talking and attack Iran," who suggested bombing Iran's known nuclear facilities before they are used on us or sold to another enemy to use on us.

Iranian leaders want to kill Christians, Jews and all Americans. Get all the troops out of there, bring them home to their families, and get the jets fueled up. Do the necessary strikes from the air to stop the nuclear threat and come on home. Case closed.

FRANK MURPHINE III

Bridgeton

New overdraft rules

are bad for consumers

Regarding the Oct. 24 story, "Overdraft bank fees fall under scrutiny":

The battle over overdraft charges highlights what has become a growing concern - government's involvement in private business and its choosing of winners and losers. While many of the proposed changes - such as allowing consumers to opt out of the overdraft program and requiring approval for covering an overdraft - appear reasonable, the reality is quite different.

Overdraft fees are a primary revenue source for most banks, and with growing investment losses, the new fees are well-suited to fill the profit gap. The credit these banks provide is risky, and requiring these services to be regulated will completely push the service out of the market. The cost of the added risk will be shifted to other fees elsewhere, and prudent customers will pay higher fees to subsidize the risky.

The endless quest by government to regulate away personal responsibility is alarming. Regulators should work with banks to make overdraft programs more transparent and let the customer decide whether the service is worth having.

MATTHEW GLANS

The Heartland Institute

Chicago

Problems are real

in Atlantic City

Regarding the Oct. 24 article, "Atlantic City split on whether casinos, city work together":

Revel Entertainment CEO Kevin DeSanctis summed up Atlantic City quite well. As is, I would never recommend Atlantic City to anyone. It is a filthy trash-strewn slum. A prime example of what is wrong is the cab driver's statement, "It is not our job to make the town look nicer."

Pretty pathetic, as he does not care about what his passengers see in the city. In other words, a pass-the-buck mentality.

DOUGLAS CAMERON

Bass River Township

Obama deserves

Nobel Peace Prize

President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a cause for national pride. Since he took office, he is setting a different and positive course for America. He's trying to resolve important problems with other nations by showing respect for their cultures and beliefs.

Obama talked to Iran about its nuclear activity, and Iran agreed to talks in Geneva. Obama told the Islamic world that we see them as allies and friends, not enemies. He talked to the world about climate change, which is an urgent priority for all countries.

The United States was headed to financial disaster. With the stimulus package, the banking and auto industries are on a steady course, slow but better.

Obama hasn't been in office one year, cut him some slack.

JUANITA HOOPER

Atlantic City

Commercial pilots

scare me (and I'm a pilot)

Regarding the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles:

There always exists this feeling of dread within me every time I fly commercially. Some think this is unusual since I've been a general aviation pilot for 34 years and have more than 3,000 hours flying time. I explain that this uneasiness stems not from concerns about the equipment but from a well-documented fear about whether the pilots know just what the hell they're doing.

We all would like to believe that the guys and gals up front are real professional, and for the most part they are. But, every once in a while, some are unlucky enough to have a crew who are so far removed from the task at hand that they need a flight attendant to call the cockpit to ask why they're not preparing to land at their destination.

How fortunate these poor passengers were, in this post-9/11 environment, not to have been on the end of an air-to-air missile.

DAVID KALTER

Linwood

12 comments:

• abcTAFIADTOdef (17) posts 6:22 pm

  litpkeusnimtrls. R U happy now? :((

• KURTZ4Mayor (145) posts 2:44 pm

  The VICTORY party for the KURTZ FOR MAYOR TEAM will be at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church located at 13 S Mount Vernon Ave Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609) 348-3495 beginning at 8 p.m. Come out, enjoy a FREE bite to eat and something to drink and say hello to Atlantic City's Newest MAYOR!

• Firebird7478 (113) posts 12:12 pm

  Ed Cattaneo had no problem with Bush using abortion and gay marriage to distract us from the war in Iraq, and Frank Murphine is full of $h!t. Those reactors are for nuclear ENERGY. Iran has complied fully with the non-Proliferation treaty. Israel, however, has not. You want to blow up a Middle East nuclear threat, start with Dimona.

• Lew Carroll (410) posts 11:03 am

  When AIDS first was discovered, a major survey showed 26% of Americans believed it was "divine retribution". Makes sense to me. The virus is intelligent, mutates to avoid new drugs, and has never stopped gaining momentum. Pederasty has consequences, especially when done with green monkeys. Who knew???? &&&&& NYTIMES.com // AIDS: Panel Warns That Without New Direction, Epidemic Will Remain Out of Control at 50 ///// "Unless there is a drastic change in approach, the AIDS epidemic will still be out of control on its 50th anniversary in 2031, a panel of AIDS experts predicted....by that time, poor countries would need $35 billion a year — three times what is spent now — to treat AIDS patients, care for orphans and do prevention work.//// Even under the best case foreseen by the panel, more than one million people would be newly infected each year. (About 2.3 million were infected in 2007.) Achieving that outcome would cost $722 billion over 22 years, or nearly $8,000 for each infection prevented......"

• moverightalong (195) posts 9:35 am

  Hello cut me a break the post on obama is a laugh. What in GODS name has he done thus far but blow hot air He spent less then 150 days as a junior senator. Was his name on any legislation I do nopt believe so! The only reason he is in office is because of the nuts (ACORN) ; along with big (O) an the NAACP What a laugh' People should do research about Mr Obama. A Kenya father &^ a white prostitute mother under British rule when he went to Aloah. Such a bunch of nonsense transparency yea ok make me laugh!!

• njdlmkr (428) posts 9:30 am

  That's the problem with Barry O ... he just talks. There's no substance, just bull. And for that he gets a "prize"? Once he stops lying, once he gets rid of his czars, once he gets off his high black horse and moves the country in the right direction, then you might want to talk about the good he's done. Today ... he's done nothing but spend my money, my kids money, and their kids money.

• Lew Carroll (410) posts 9:30 am

  The Swedes are fascintated by black-skinned peoples, like Britt Eklund was with the black freak Sammy Davis Jewnior. Such a contrast for the Swede Ice People up in the Arctic Circle. One way to get a black man, a President no less, to visit cowardly Sweden - "10,000 Swedes ran thru the weeds, chased by 1 Norwegian" - is to give him one of their discredited Nobel "prizes." Same cheap trophy they gave to ALGORE (Internet Dad), Jimmy (Mr. Hostage) Carter, and Yasser Arafat, the bisexual freak and murderer of the Munich Olympics and dozens of other mass murders. To a half-black corner boy from Chicago, this was a near-death experience, no doubt. Thru the tunnel and into a vast white space with tall pinkish-white blond Nordic cowards on skis, and a shiny trophy. No mention of his 2 1/2 wars, and the looming nuclear war, to our newfound "Peace President." A mere oversight. P.S.: After Bush showed up the Swedes as the historical cowards they've always been, Bush's successor could've been Howdy Doody (or "Reverend" Wright) and the Swedes would've pushed the crackerjack-box prize on him, or it, just as rapidly. Obama was too stupid to turn down the albatross of a prize, which will haunt him as the wars continue, and expand. That's some "Peace," huh? P.S.: Will someone please tell starstruck Juanita that the wacko Iranians have REJECTED every aspect of every proposal made at Geneva a few weeks back -- to no one's surprise, except black Democrats. Did you really think that more "talk" would bring the Iranians around??????? LMAO!! Talk? to the same crowd that kept the American hostages for a year or so in 1979, paving the way for Reagan's TWO PRESIDENCIES? Obama loves to make speeches, tis true, but that's all they are -- SPEECHES. The only question now is, not when or if Israel will attack, but whether Israel will use a small nuke or 3 to really wipe out the Iranian facilities, and send the world a wake-up call in the bargain.

• Lew Carroll (410) posts 9:09 am

  What is Juanita Hooper smoking? can I get some? is it better than my M-16, or Train Wreck, or Bubble Kush? Will such drugs be included - like teen abortions without their parent(s)' consent - in ObamaCare?

• blacknwhite (446) posts 9:03 am

  There is noting to say, those two idiots said it all. Faux Blues and Blow up Iran, how can you top that pile of crap. Why don't we blow up everyone else that has a nuclear program, we can start with Israel. Not such a great idea now ? How about Russia, they have the biggest nuclear program ? China, their missiles are pointed at US, let's blow them up too. India, Pakistan, .... Let's blow them all up, once and for all? Case Closed, you are found to be Idiots.

• geraldpw (21) posts 7:45 am

  I agree!

• stick236 (96) posts 7:31 am

  Once again Blacknwhite attacks the writers without anything to back it up. Typical, why not explain why you disagree with the writers instead of attacking them personally.

• blacknwhite (446) posts 7:17 am

  I think we need to lock Ettore and Frank in Gitmo. Pipe in some NPR Radio for a few years and then bomb them. Case closed , ha, ha, ha, that's funny.

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