* Re Martin Gottlieb's June 21 column, Columbus pulling people toright: Gottlieb is projecting. The purpose of the Dayton Daily Newsis to pull people to the left, after all.
* Dayton Daily News Sports Editor Frank Corsoe had a beautifulJune 16 column (`Time to remember this day') about his father andFather's Day. It was absolutely an excellent column about his dad andfathers in general.
* Re the June 14 article 'Williamson bashes foe Husted': Ourstate representative has a worthy opponent. Jon Husted replaced DonMottley, a vigorous spokesman for our community. The area aroundWoody's closed supermarket reflects a shoddy Republican leadership.
* Wow, what a busy Tuesday! A bomb scare at the Federal Reserveand an air-raid alert at the White House. It's almost as if somebodywanted to divert attention away from the massive GOP corporate fundraiser that happened the same day.
* It appears to me that the debate about 'Intelligent Design' isjust another attempt by the religious right to impose its beliefs onthe community at large.
* Re the June 17 editorial 'School board must side with realscience': I'm a scientist and academic, but please do not lump me inwith those who chose to support the DDN's opinions. There are holesin many theories. Let's not proclaim evolution the law of nature morequickly than presenting intelligent design as a theory.
* Scientists who believe in evolution admit that their theorycannot explain everything in the fossil record or the origin of life.Creationism and `Intelligent Design' theory can provide a reason foreverything. That is proof to me that evolutionists should not beallowed to have an educational monopoly.
* The next big scandal: the health-insurance industry and its big-business enablers, often with the passive permission of unions.Health-insurance rates are becoming excessive. What good is insuranceif no one can afford it? You go broke with it or without it.
* If Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and John Edwards, D-N.C., are theonly presidential candidates the Democrats can put up againstPresident George W. Bush, they are in real trouble.
* Grocery scam No. 1: Something costs 89 cents. The store wantsto raise the price but wants to hide the fact. So the item goes onsale for 79 cents, with the tag, 'Save 20 cents.' Sure enough, afterthe sale the price is raised 20 cents, to 99 cents.
* Since the legislature wants to mandate the Pledge of Allegiancein our schools, the DDN should get a copy of Red Skelton'sexplanation of the pledge and publish it.
* Why doesn't the Bush camp come clean and rename the 'War onTerror'? I think the 'War of Terror' is much more accurate.
