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

Although contraception is not murder, the distinction between contraception and rhythm can be clarified by comparing it with the distinction between murdering a hopelessly ill person and withholding extraordinary means of care with the hope and expectation (the "intention" in the weaker senses) that he will die quickly and peacefully.

(Germain G. Grisez, "Reflections on the Contraception Controversy," The American Ecclesiastical Review 152 [May 1965]: 324-32, at 326-7)

George Will is an Ivy League-educated intellectual who has probably never been in a Walmart. He is part of the ruling class. He views ordinary, hard-working, God-fearing people as nothing more (or less) than votes for his preferred candidates, all of whom are drawn from his social class. Bye bye, George. You're not a conservative; you're an insufferable elitist. You no longer speak for conservatives, if you ever did. You speak for yourself only.

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Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as president seven years ago today, which means that our long national nightmare is one year from being over.

To the editor:

Laws are not simply for those who agree with them; they apply to everybody. If you disagree with laws, you should elect representatives who will write or support legislation to change them. That's how it works here in the United States. ("Two weeks in, the Oregon refuge standoff is stuck 'in limbo,'" Jan. 16)

The militiamen occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon are completely delusional, and dangerously so. I believe it is imperative that that [sic] these domestic terrorists are vigorously prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

If their form of “protest” against the federal government is legitimized in any way, all of our federal lands and the laws that govern them are seriously at risk.

Paul Graff, Sherman Oaks

Note from KBJ: Why don't you focus on real criminals, Paul, such as Hillary Clinton?

Bernie Sanders is not fit to be dog catcher. If he is not senile, he is within shouting distance of it. That he is doing so well against Hillary Clinton speaks volumes about her unpopularity within her own party. The Clintons have had their day in the sun. It is time for them to disappear from view. I, for one, am sick to death of them (as I am of the Bushes). Let's move on!

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