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Here is what frightens us about injustice
To The Eagle: Mr Bouchard, here is what “frightens us” about “social justice”: "Social Justice" as practiced is a political nightmare that pursues stupidity for the sake of their own agenda. Allowing men to compete as women has destroyed...
German Club to explore Bavaria
To The Eagle: As you're reading this, four students at Wahkiakum High School are on their way to Germany, where they'll be spending their Spring Break exploring northern Bavaria and the castles along the Rhine River. That they're able to experience...
Republican conservatives see obscenity everywhere
To The Eagle: A Florida school principal was recently forced to resign after a parent complained that students were “exposed to pornography” during a Renaissance art lesson featuring Michelangelo's iconic statue of the biblical “David.” Like...
Who's shaking the jar?
To The Eagle: I ran across this analogy the other day about ant behavior and thought it asked a question that maybe we should all be asking ourselves when we watch TV, listen to the radio or read our favorite newspaper or political magazine. If you...
There are 4800 other adjectives to use
To The Eagle: Whaddaya call a chicken that quacks? Bilingual! We have a parrot with a male name, Zacharia. She lays eggs. No, she’s not a cross-gender bird. She was just named before her gender became fully apparent. It happens. She has an...
Video offered as truth
To The Eagle: There is a video available on the internet about Sandy Hook that everyone should see. I would describe it as “The truth in 30 minutes.” There are very few times nowadays that you can find the truth in 30 minutes. So enjoy it when...
Be skeptical never cynical
To The Eagle: Did I provide false information, maybe not. Always fact-check at the actual source, ignore false Snoops weasel wording. I’m told in an Eagle letter “From the outset and ever since, FICA taxes have never been tax deductible.” That...
Government's role is not to solve society's problems
To The Eagle: State and Federal legislators need to focus on helping citizens by “reducing the burden” of unethical government regulations and oppressive taxation. Government’s role is not to solve society’s problems, but to “prevent...
Conservative extremists slander gender support
To The Eagle: Republicans are talking a lot about pedophilia. Over the past year, GOP candidates, elected officials, and media influencers have been increasingly obsessed with conversations about children’s sexuality. Republican conservative...
No single gene is responsible for sexual orientation
To The Eagle: A Genome Association Study involving 500,000 participants from the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden, studying genes associated with sexual orientation, has confirmed that sexual preferences and behaviors are polygenic:...
Republican elephant should be retired
To The Eagle: It’s my opinion that the Republican party’s emblematic elephant needs to be retired. That poor pachyderm is collapsing under the weight of its party’s last straw, denialism. A suitable new logo would be a sketch of Edvard...
CRT is actual history
To The Eagle: To say I was shocked by Fox News being for entertainment only would do a disservice to my integrity. When they finally admitted it was when I was shocked, but only for a moment. When it was revealed that the powers that own and run the...
Liars, lies and people that believe them
To The Eagle: If you wondered why FOX News promoted Trump’s unfounded assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen these last two years, the answer was recently made public by the Delaware Superior Court from evidence gathered during...
The truth for a change
To The Eagle: A letter in last week’s Eagle written by the liberal Town Crier loaded with a ton of personal beliefs purported to be facts can not go unchallenged. I grew up in New York City in integrated neighborhoods, went to school where I was th...
Ignore arguments devoid of nuance
To The Eagle: A writer’s list submitted last week emphatically stated it contained the “facts” about social security. With respect to the writer, an easy, quick fact-check shows that everything on the list is either demonstrably false or a...
Not education, but political indoctrination
To The Eagle: The expression ‘stay woke’ has been used by Black folks since the 1920's, urging people of color to stay aware and vigilant against racial discrimination. The subsequent Civil Rights movement fostered cross-cultural awareness of...
Shut down all CCP operations in the US
To The Eage: Has the Longview TDN or CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC reported that LA and NYC permit CCP (Chinese Communist Party) police stations into their cities? Why on earth would LA and NYC allow CCP police stations on USA soil? If they exist in LA and...
Don't fall victim to cyber crime
To The Eagle: Cyber crime, is for the most part, tricking someone, or someone’s computer, into doing what the criminal wants it to do, without you knowing. I was a victim of that last week, and would like to let the community know, that they are he...
Black history should be studied in school
To The Eagle: Sports’ greats Jack Robinson, Hank Aaron, Jim Thorpe, and Roberto Clemente, as well as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, civil rights heroine Rosa Parks, and Nelson Mandela, Africa’s former president and apartheid’s...
Social Security facts are facts
To The Eagle: SS Cards until 1980s stated SS number was “not to be used for Identification.” FDR planned federal Social Security and promised participation would be 100% voluntary. Today SS (FICA) withholding is no longer voluntary. FDR said SS...
How can everyone be wrong?
To The Eagle: A couple of things to rant and rave about. First: the state of the union speech was lauded as the absolute, bar none, best speech EVER by the NPR crowd. A friend, aged as myself, sent me a link to Glenn Beck which I listened to. He...
What I miss most about Howard Brawn
To The Eagle: I was reading a letter to the editor where the writer said that another writer the week before had expressed missing Howard Brawn’s letters. So do I. In fact I miss the person of Howard. And, I myself, sometimes strongly disagreed wit...
Half full, or half empty?
To The Eagle: Why are there so many half-full, in the USA? The country has made it through a worldwide pandemic in much better shape than most of the rest of the world. Inflation, would not have been or be as bad, had not all oil companies kept price...
Deceptions are as American as apple pie
To The Eagle: How on earth did our country get to the sorry state it seems to be in? The answer requires a deep reach back into pseudo-history before ‘the fall.’ It may seem strange, but it explains much. It began with two amateurish mistakes....
Does Inslee think we're stupid?
To The Eagle: Regarding the January 26 article in The Eagle “Inslee: Homeless programs need more money,” does Inslee think we’re stupid? To say that the homeless consist of people with chemical addiction and mental problems is an insult. The...
