To the editor:
This one-upmanship between Kim and Trump reminds me of mock world leaders Charlie Chaplin (as Hitler) and Jack Oakie (as Mussolini) battling each other by pumping their barber chairs higher in the 1940 film "The Great Dictator."
Let's hope the Trump-Kim faceoff turns out to be a comedy as well.
Terry De Wolfe, Monterey Park
My beloved Arizona Wildcats (27-7) are ranked 12th in the latest poll. The Cats won both the regular-season Pac-12 championship (14-4) and the Pac-12 tournament. I have high hopes for the Cats in the upcoming NCAA tournament.
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If schools are mandated to be gun free zones, violence and danger are given an open invitation to enter. Almost all school shootings are in gun free zones. Cowards will only go where there is no deterrent!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 12, 2018
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Here are highlights from Stage 8 of Paris-Nice.
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To the editor:
Are we to hold accountable those people who intentionally try to hurt us with their words? ("We cannot continue to treat all offensive speech acts—intentional or not—as equally blameworthy," Opinion, March 7)
This desire to punish is tacit admission that our offenders have succeeded and that we have, in fact, been offended. No self-respecting person would willingly grant an aggressor such satisfaction. As the aphorism ascribed to Eleanor Roosevelt advises, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
By this logic, we certainly should not punish those whose words are spoken without malice.
President Trump would cheerfully abridge free speech if he could. He said, "It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write." Agreeing with this man is dangerous. He owes his election win in no small part to the contempt held by Middle America for the whimpering of the politically correct community.
Kevin T. Freeman, Huntington Beach
Note from KBJ: President Trump has as much right to bash his critics as they have to bash him. Only in Kevin T. Freeman's fevered mind does this make Trump dangerous.
Rasmussen and others have my approval ratings at around 50%, which is higher than Obama, and yet the political pundits love saying my approval ratings are “somewhat low.” They know they are lying when they say it. Turn off the show – FAKE NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018
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