Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

President Donald Trump promised to rebuild our national infrastructure. Recently, the Oroville Dam spillway in California developed a massive crater, compromising the integrity of the dam and leading to an emergency evacuation order for 200,000 people. Structural failure is the cause.

The dam was built in 1967. It is part of our failing national infrastructure that Congress has ignored for years.

Trump missed a wonderful opportunity to go to California, a state he did not win, and show his concern for the people there. It’s what a president does. And it would have gone a long way in giving infrastructure legislation a kickstart.

Instead, he put on a spectacle of a news conference that alarmed Americans and our allies abroad. Then he held a campaign-style rally in Florida to make it appear as if he was doing something.

News flash, Mr. President: Executive orders are not laws. Please get to work with Congress and rebuild our roads, bridges, airports and dams, and create some jobs. We’re watching.

Bernadine Kline

Liberty

Note from KBJ: Don't get your panties in a wad, Bernadine. President Trump has been in office for one month. Barack Obama had eight years to do what you want done. How many letters did you write?

Some of you will recall that I'm reading the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophy (second edition) at the rate of two pages per day. I've been at it since 24 April 2007. Today I finished the letter "X." Among the entries I've read are:

I read the two pages first thing in the morning. It takes about 15 minutes.

The respect of influential people will soon be yours.

The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even……

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find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW

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Here.

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Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, says the president’s authority cannot be questioned, while Trump himself declares the news media the enemy of the American people.

Sen. John McCain says that history has shown that without a free press and checks and balances on the executive branch, dictatorships result. I am concerned that our country is heading in that direction.

The pushback from the awakened and energized American people is heartening and encouraging. We must maintain this to preserve our democracy in these perilous times.

LARRY SILVERSTEIN, HOLLYWOOD

Note from KBJ: Buy a clue, Larry. Donald Trump hasn't prosecuted or censored any journalist. The press is free to say what it wants about him and he is free to say what he wants about it. Just because you don't like him fighting back doesn't mean he is a dictator. Many of us are delighted that we have a president who stands up to the oligopolistic, propagandistic media. By the way, where were you when Barack Obama was president? He was the most lawless and thuggish president we have had.

Brenda Russell (1979).

We're back to segregation by race, but this time it's acceptable. Hilarious!