Letters to the Editor

Long ago (Jan. 29) I called out amateurs who believe their own (faulty, incomplete, speculative) medical advice to be superior to professional consensus. Now another voice (Phil Neiman, Dec. 8)

I am a proud Democrat. I vote Democrat, give money to the Democrats, walk precincts for Democrats. I also worked 17 years in Palmdale for a large aerospace firm (chew

Millions of otherwise sane people were vexed by Donald Trump enough to vote for a corrupt, creepy, incompetent alternative who, in just one month, asked to speak to a dead

So let me get this right. If I am a liberal, after this last election, I believe that people of all ages can’t make a decision whether to vape or

I want to vote. Which side should I vote for? When I sit to compare what Republicans and Democrats “seem” to stand for (aside from the power/control thing) I get

The Republican Party is assembling a team to conduct an “autopsy” of the 2022 election results, to determine how the party can win back voters who Donald Trump has lost.

I read Thomas Otway’s letter (Dec. 4) extolling the virtues of the “COVID misinformation bill.” Because of what he is endorsing, compelled to respond. This bill is so extreme that

The first two Ukrainian settlers arrived in Canada in 1891 followed by tens of thousands until the start of World War I. Most Ukrainian immigrants of this period were identified

There is a saying that “youth is wasted on the young,” but not this time, in the 2022 midterm election when the young people didn’t waste any time and came

Joseph Goebbels would be proud. Santa Clarita’s far left has its own minister of propaganda.  Week after week, Thomas Oatway beats the same tired obsessive drum, really visceral hatred, of

Re: Arthur Saginian, letters, Nov. 18, “A Few Conditions for Returning.”  Arthur, I will take up your points in the order in which you wrote. Since you are perfect and

The Fed is managing inflation about as well as the Centers for Disease Control managed COVID-19. Government “cures” for government-caused ailments. And yet there are people who still look to

Mr. Trump, please don’t run, because not only are you past your prime, but as a nation we need to stop the hate! We need statesmen, not haters. We need

On Jan. 1, a new California law (Assembly Bill 2098) will take effect that makes it illegal to spread medical misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines or anti-pandemic public policy. This law

Re: Diane Zimmerman, letters, Oct. 12. Good morning, Ms. Zimmerman. I would think by now that even you would not be surprised by what I write in my letters, but

More than anyone since J. Edgar Hoover, Hillary Clinton deserves a statue at FBI headquarters.   From homebrew server to homebrew dossier, she’s managed to completely remake the bureau’s public

In re: Thomas Oatway, “Confessions of a Former Moderate,” Nov. 18.  Seeing Mr. Oatway describe himself as a “former moderate” is about like seeing John Boston describe himself as shy

I understand that the city is planning to drop Waste Management in the coming year and hire a new company to take care of our trash needs.  I don’t know

Re: Rick Barker, letters to the editor, Nov. 19. Well, Rick, whoever writes the headlines in the opinion section is trying to fit us into the old “pot calling the

As the FIFA World Cup matchups are underway and each new day seems to bring a new upset, one can’t help but to see the comparison with the game of