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

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To the Editor:

Re “Why We Ask to See Tax Returns” (Op-Ed, Aug. 6):

I agree with Mitchell Zuckoff that presidential candidates should release their tax returns so that the public can know if that candidate is a crook. I believe that a candidate should also release the text of speeches so the public can know if the candidate is truthful. It seems that many candidates may have something to hide.

LARRY HALPERIN

Altamonte Springs, Fla.

Lakota people do not like Mount Rushmore and have often seen the monument as an expression of the dominant culture's arrogance toward them. John Lame Deer, a Lakota medicine man, put it this way: whites, he said, "could just as well have carved this mountain into a huge cavalry boot standing on a dead Indian." But despite the apparent permanence of Mount Rushmore, Lakotas do not see the United States' ownership of the Black Hills as a settled fact. Indeed, most Lakotas hope to someday regain [sic] at least some of the land they have lost.

(Jeffrey Ostler, The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground, The Penguin Library of American Indian History, ed. Colin G. Calloway [New York: Viking, 2010], xiv [endnote omitted])

My latest bike crash, on 28 August 2013, in which I broke my left collarbone (for the second time in 14 months), my back, and a rib was just like this cyclist's crash today in the Olympics. I hit my brakes hard to avoid striking a motor vehicle that was turning in front of me. (For what it's worth, I had the right of way.) This catapulted me forward, over the handlebars. I landed hard on my left shoulder and back. The only difference is that I didn't hit a curb. To this day, I cringe when I see a cyclist without a helmet.

Addendum: If you watch the video closely, you'll see that the cyclist's rear wheel was sliding to the left on the wet pavement. She probably panicked and hit the front brake hard (trying to slow the bike down), which threw her over the handlebars onto her head and shoulders. Been there, done that. By the way, 24 days after my accident, I did a 41-mile bike rally in Greenville (against doctor's orders). Have I mentioned that cycling is addictive?

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This imbecile just hates it that CNN isn't anti-Trump, all the time.

She's corrupt, incompetent, and disabled. This picture will elect Donald Trump.