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"Your Voice" features longer and distinctively personal commentary from readers on topics that don't seem to fit in a letter to the editor. Try to limit submissions to about 600 words.
Send proposed articles to chief editorial writer Patrick O'Callahan, The News Tribune, PO Box 11000, Tacoma, Wash. 98411 (or e-mail Patrick O'Callahan). Articles may be edited and republished in any format by The News Tribune.
“We (should) wrap him in bacon and deep fry him at a state fair while Lee Greenwood stabs him in the face.”
They killed a killer last week.
A sampling from the Web: “Why are these Muslim invaders allowed to carry on freely in this country ... protected by outreach, Obama, and PC mental illness?” “Simply put, most Muslims in non-Islamic countries have an evil axe to grind and a scurrilous hidden agenda.” “Muslims should be deported from this country! They offer nothing to Americans!”
An open letter to African-American women:
You figure the White House is probably feeling pretty good about itself right now.
So we may soon have ourselves a conservative Bible. Besides Fox News, I mean.
So I guess now he’s a socialist-terrorist-secret-Muslim-radical-Christian-Hitler-clone and Nobel Prize winner?
Christmas is probably unconstitutional.
Perhaps you are familiar with an old saying: Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I’ve found that maxim valuable as I wade through the recent hand-wringing and recrimination among journalists and their critics over the fact that most mainstream media were slow to pick up on the story of corruption at ACORN.
“Do you love me, now that I can dance?”
“Thou shalt not bear false witness ...”
I blame Elvis.
I don’t know who coined the term “culture war” to describe our political divisions, but I’m reasonably sure he or she intended it only as a figure of speech.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
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